Unheralded Buster Douglas turns the boxing world upside down by knocking out previously unbeaten heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. Alabama's Shoal Creek golf club yields to public pressure and admits a black member, avoiding a threatened protest at the PGA Championship. Former Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry is inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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February 11, 1990
Buster Douglas hands champ Mike Tyson his first loss
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James "Buster" Douglas goes into his heavyweight bout with unbeaten Mike Tyson in Tokyo a reported 35-1 underdog. He comes out the new heavyweight champion. In one of the biggest upsets in boxing history, Douglas, 29, leads throughout the fight, then knocks out Tyson in the 10th round. Douglas later loses the title to Evander Holyfield, but Tyson's life is even more tumultuous -- he spends three years in prison for rape before returning to reclaim the heavyweight crown.
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August 1, 1990
Alabama country club admits black member, avoids PGA Championship protest
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In an effort to avoid a planned protest by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at the PGA Championship, Shoal Creek, an exclusive, private country club in Birmingham, Alabama, agrees to change its longstanding all-white policy and admit a black member. Some advertisers had withdrawn from TV sponsorship of the major championship because of the controversy. Two days after Shoal Creek's change of heart, the PGA says it will no longer hold tour events at clubs with exclusionary policies.
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August 4, 1990
Ex-Cowboys coach Tom Landry enters Pro Football Hall of Fame
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Only two coaches won more games in the National Football League than Tom Landry, who turned the Dallas Cowboys from a 1960 expansion team into a perennial Super Bowl contender. In 29 seasons before his dismissal by new Cowboys owner Jerry Jones in 1989, the Cowboys rolled up a 270-178-6 record and won two of their five Super Bowl appearances.
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