High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1972–73 NBA season was the 27th season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the New York Knicks winning the NBA Championship, beating the Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 1 in the NBA Finals.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, the 43rd such game, was played on July 25, 1972. The all-stars from the American League and the National League faced each other at Atlanta Stadium, home of the Atlanta Braves. The National League came away with a 4-3 win in 10 innings.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1972 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association`s 1971–72 season. The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers defeating the Eastern Conference champion New York Knicks, four games to one in the NBA Finals. Wilt Chamberlain was named NBA Finals MVP.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1972 NBA Finals was played at the conclusion of the 1971–72 NBA season. The Western Conference Champion Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Eastern Conference Champion New York Knicks in five games. The Los Angeles Lakers got their first NBA championship since the Lakers moved to Los Angeles from Minneapolis. This season`s edition of the Los Angeles Lakers had won a NBA-record 69 regular season games, including 33 wins in a row. They were led by Wilt Chamberlain, the NBA`s top rebounder and shot blocker that season. Guards Gail Goodrich and Jerry West were each among the NBA`s top ten scorers that season, spearheading the NBA`s top offense at 121 points per game. West also led the NBA in...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2nd World Championship Victory Race, formally the John Player Challenge Trophy, was a motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 22 October 1972 at Brands Hatch, Kent. The race was run over 40 laps of the circuit. Jean-Pierre Beltoise won in his BRM P180. The entry included several Formula 5000 cars.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1972 Los Angeles Dodgers finished the season 10 games back in second place in the western division of the National League.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1972 Baltimore Orioles season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Orioles finishing third in the American League East with a record of 80 wins and 74 losses.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1972 NFL season was the 53rd regular season of the National Football League. The Miami Dolphins became the first NFL team to finish a championship season undefeated and untied when they beat the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1972 Dallas Cowboys season was their 13th in the league. The team failed to improve their previous output of 11–3, winning only ten games. They qualified for the playoffs for the seventh consecutive season but settled for the wildcard spot. A pre-season injury to quarterback Roger Staubach and the trade of Duane Thomas (both had been integral figures in the 1971 championship team) hindered the offense (mitigated somewhat since their replacements, Craig Morton and Calvin Hill, were former starters). In the divisional playoff round, Staubach came off the bench to engineer an improbable 30–28 comeback win over the 49ers (Dallas had trailed by 28–16 with less than 2 minutes to play). The...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1972 New York Mets season was the 11th regular season for the Mets, who played home games at Shea Stadium. Led by manager Yogi Berra, the team had a 83-73 record yielding a third place finish in the National League`s Eastern Division.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1972 College World Series was played at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, NE from June 9 to June 16. The twenty-sixth tournament`s champion was the University of Southern California, coached by Rod Dedeaux. The Most Outstanding Player was Russ McQueen of the University of Southern California.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1972 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on October 8, 1972 at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1972 All England Championships was a badminton tournament held at Wembley Arena, London, England from 23–26 March 1972.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1972 American League Championship Series took place between October 7 and October 12 of 1972. The Oakland A`s (93–62 on the season) played the Detroit Tigers (86–70 on the season) for the right to go to the 1972 World Series, with the A`s coming out on top in the five-game series, 3–2. Games 1 and 2 took place at the Oakland Coliseum, and 3 through 5 took place at Tiger Stadium. The two teams would meet again in the 2006 American League Championship Series.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Texas Rangers 1972 season involved the Rangers finishing sixth in the American League West with a record of 54 wins and 100 losses. This was the Rangers` first season in Texas, as well as the club`s first year in the AL West, after playing their first 11 seasons in Washington, D.C., and from 1969–1971 in the AL East.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1972 Davis Cup was the 61st edition of the most important tournament between national teams in men`s tennis. This year would mark the abolishment of the Challenge Round. The previous year`s champion would now play in all matches, rather than advance directly to the Challenge Round. The winner of the Inter-Zonal Zone would be declared the champion. 56 teams would enter the competition, 34 in the Europe Zone, 11 in the Americas Zone, and 11 in the Eastern Zone.