On this day in:

• 1875Modern Snooker invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain, a bored British officer in Jabalpur, India

• 1911 15th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar in race record 2:21:39.6; first of 7 race victories

• 1939 Joe Louis KOs Jack Roper in 1 for heavyweight boxing title

• 1947 Jackie Robinson bunts for his 1st major league hit

• 1951 NY Yankee Mickey Mantle's 1st game, he goes 1 for 4

• 1953Mickey Mantle hits a 565' (172 m) HR in Washington, D.C.'s Griffith Stadium

• 1966100th international soccer match between Netherlands and Belgium (3-1)

• 1967Italian boxer Nino Benvenuti beats American Emile Griffith in a 15 round points decision to win world middleweight crown at Madison Square Garden; start of famous trilogy of fights between the pair

• 1976 NL greatest comeback, trailing 12-1 Phils win 18-16 in 10, Mike Schmidt hits 4 consecutive HRs

• 1976 Australian tennis star Evonne Goolagong Cawley wins her second WTA Tour Championship at the Los Angeles Sports Arena; beats Chris Evert6-3, 5-7, 6-3

• 1983 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 3,500th batter

• 1987 Julius Erving becomes 3rd NBA (and ABA) player to score 30,000 points

• 1997 NJ Devil Martin Brodeur is 2nd NHL goalie to score in a playoff game

• 1999NFL Draft: University of Kentucky quarterback Tim Couch first pick by Cleveland Browns

• 2015James Anderson becomes the highest wicket-taking bowler in England's test cricket history

Ed Cowlishaw discusses the impact the NHL has in cities without a team during the NHL Playoffs with Vince Guerrieri US Sports writer

Ed Cowlishaw catches up with US Sports Correspondant Dave Alcaro to discuss all thing sport NEW YORK style.

Happy Birthday to Former nba star Baron Davis.

On this day in:

• 1942 9th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Byron Nelson wins an 18-hole playoff by 1 stroke over runner-up Ben Hogan

• 1949Basketball Association of America Finals: Minneapolis Lakers beat Washington Capitols, 77-56 to take series, 4 games to 2; BAA and National Basketball League merge later that year to create the NBA

• 1954 Milwaukee Braves' Hank Aaron's 1st game

• 195711th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3

• 196933rd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: George Archer wins his only major title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Billy Casper, George Knudson, and Tom Weiskopf

• 197034th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Billy Casper defeats Gene Littler, 69 to 74 in a Monday 18-hole playoff to win his 3rd major title; last 18-hole playoff at the Masters

• 19721st baseball players' strike ends after 13 days

• 1975 39th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Jack Nicklaus wins his 5th Masters title, 1 stroke ahead of Johnny Miller and Tom Weiskopf; Lee Elder, first African-American to compete in the tournament

• 19761st NBA playoff game for Cleve Cavliers, they lose 100-95 to Wash

• 1978NY Yanks defeat White Sox 4-2 in home opener on Reggie Candy Bar Day

• 1980 44th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: 23 year old Spaniard Seve Ballesteros wins his first Masters, 4 strokes ahead of Jack Newton and Gibby Gilbert

• 1980US and its allies boycott the Summer Olympics in Moscow in protest against Russia's invasion of Afghanistan

• 1986Boston Celtics end season with a 40-1 home win record

• 1986Spanish Grand Prix decided by 0.014 of a second

• 1997 61st US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Tiger Woods wins his first major title, a record 12 strokes ahead of Tom Kite; 4-round total 270 (−18) is tournament record

• 2004 Barry Bonds hits his 661st career home run, passing his godfather Willie Mays on the MLB all-time list

• 2014 Manny Pacquiao defeats Timothy Bradley to regain his WBO welterweight boxing title

Happy Birthday to Billy Bowden, New Zealand cricket umpire, born in Auckland, New Zealand

On this day in 1965 29th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Jack Nicklaus wins the 2nd of his 6 Masters titles with a tournament record 271 (−17); beats Gary Player and Arnold Palmer by a record 9 strokes

Today we remember the late and great Victorian and Australian batsman Bill Ponsford.

On this day in:

• 18961st modern Olympic games open in Athens, Greece. America's James Connolly wins 1st Olympic gold in modern history, is awarded a silver medal and an olive branch [3/25 OS]

• 1900 James J. Jeffries KOs Jack Finnegan in 1 for heavyweight boxing title

• 1935H Levitt sinks 499 basketball free throws, misses & sinks 371 more

• 1952 16th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Sam Snead wins his second green jacket by 4 strokes over Jack Burke Jr

• 1958 22nd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Arnold Palmer wins the first of his 4 Masters titles, 1 stroke ahead of Doug Ford and Fred Hawkins; first of his 7 major titles

• 1973 Roberto Clemente Day, Pirates retire his #

• 1980 Gordie Howe completes a record 26th season

• 1991 Argentine soocer star Diego Maradonasuspended for 15 month by Italian League for testing positive for cocaine use

• 2014ICC Women's Cricket T20 World Cup, Dhaka: captain Meg Lanning's 44 from 30 balls leads Australia to 106/4; beat England 105/8 to win by 6 wickets (with 29 balls remaining); 3rd consecutive T20 WC

Ed Cowlishaw wraps another big week in the NBA with Leigh Ellis Co Host The Starters NBA TV.