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In December 1891, Canadian-born James Naismith, a physical education teacher at the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) training school, took a soccer ball and a peach basket into the gym and invented basketball
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The first celebration of the modern Olympic Games took place in its ancient birthplace of Athens. The Games attracted athletes from 14 nations, with the largest delegations coming from Greece, Germany, France and Great Britain.
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On April 19, 1897, John J. McDermott of New York won the first Boston Marathon with a time of 2:55:10. The Boston Marathon was the brainchild of Boston Athletic Association member and inaugural U.S. Olympic team manager John Graham, who was inspired by the marathon at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896.
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The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) is established.
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is formed
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The National Hockey League (NHL) is established. Top-10 Goals of All Time
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In response to the Black Sox Scandal, Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as the first commissioner of Major League Baseball (MLB)
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In 1921, they called it “the largest audience in history,” the 300,000 or so people estimated to have heard one of the first radio broadcasts of a special event — the outdoor heavyweight championship boxing match between American Jack Dempsey and French challenger, Georges Carpentier.
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At the Berlin 1936 Olympics, Hitler planned to show the world that the Aryan people were the dominant race, Jesse Owens proved him wrong and sealed his place in Olympic history by becoming the most successful athlete of the 1936 Games. Owens also became the first american to win four track and field gold medals at a single Olympics (100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and long jump), a record that stood unbroken for 48 years.
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NBC airs the first broadcast of Major League Baseball and professional football.
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Walter Byers is named the first executive director of the NCAA. He served in his position from 1951-1987.
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Althea Gibson wins Wimbledon title and becomes the first African American woman to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated
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Congress passes the Sports Broadcasting Act, thus permitting National Football League (NFL) commissioner Pete Rozelle to negotiate with television networks on behalf of all teams in the league.
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On June 23, 1972, President Nixon signed Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. §1681 et seq., into law. Title IX is a comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity.
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Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes to become the first Triple Crown winner since Citation in 1948. Secretariat ran the mile-and-a-half race in 2:24, a world record that many believe will never be broken
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The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) is launched
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On February 22, 1980, the United States Olympic hockey team pulled off one of the greatest upsets in sports history, defeating the Soviet Union, 4-3.
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The North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) is established
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The Journal of Sport Management (JSM) is launched
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Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson led the Dream Team to gold at the Summer Olympics in Barcelona
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The European Association for Sport Management (EASM) was established in 1993 as an independent association of people involved or interested in the management of sport in the broadest sense. EASM membership is composed of academics and professionals from the public, voluntary and commercial sectors.
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The Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ) is founded
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In 1999, Asian Association for Sport Management (hereafter called as AASM) was organizing by some enthusiastic scholars from Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, China, Japan, and Korea. In September of 2002, AASM was formally established in Korea and hosted its historically first annual conference at National Korean Sports University, Seoul, Korea.
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The African Sport Management Association (ASMA) was founded on 8th June 2010 during the 17th Biennial International Conference of the International Society for Comparative Physical Education and Sport held at Kenyatta University, Nairobi (Kenya). The decision to establish ASMA was unanimously agreed upon by the delegates as one of the resolutions of the conference.
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The World Association of Sport Management (WASM) is founded.
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Germany's Mario Goetze scored in the 113th minute to give Germany its fourth World Cup title with a 1-0 win over Argentina at the Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. World Cup 2014 Highlights
