This date in sports history: May 25
1948 — Ben Hogan wins the PGA championship, beating Mike Turnesa in the final round, 7 and 6.
1965 — Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston a minute into the first round in the controversial rematch for Ali’s heavyweight title. Listed as the fastest knockout in a heavyweight title bout, Liston goes down on a short right-hand punch.
1975 — The Golden State Warriors become the third team to sweep the NBA finals, beating the Washington Bullets, 96-95, on Butch Beard’s foul shot with 9 seconds remaining.
1978 — The Montreal Canadiens defeat the Boston Bruins, 4-1, in Game 6 for their third straight Stanley Cup.
1980 — Johnny Rutherford wins his third Indianapolis 500 in seven years and becomes the first driver to win twice from the pole position.
1987 — Herve Filion becomes the first harness racing driver to win 10,000 races. Filion reaches the milestone driving Commander Bond to victory in the third race at Yonkers Raceway.
1991 — The Pittsburgh Penguins, led by Mario Lemieux, win the Stanley Cup for the first time with an 8-0 rout of the Minnesota North Stars.
1998 — Princeton punctuates its claim as one of college lacrosse’s great programs by beating Maryland, 15-5, for its third straight NCAA Division I title and fifth in seven years.
2002 — Boston sets an NBA record, overcoming a 21-point fourth-quarter deficit in a 94-90 win over New Jersey. The Celtics outscore the Nets, 41-16, in the quarter.
2003 — Juli Inkster shoots a 10-under-par 62 — tying the lowest final-round score by a winner in LPGA Tour history — to beat Lorie Kane by four strokes in the LPGA Corning Classic.
2007 — Bjarne Riis is the first Tour de France winner to admit using performance-enhancing drugs to win the sport’s premier race, further eroding cycling’s credibility after a series of doping confessions. His admission means the top three finishers in the 1996 Tour are linked to doping — with two admitting to cheating.
2008 — Seven crashes and spinouts mar the first Indianapolis 500 since the two warring open-wheel series (CART and IRL) came together under the IndyCar banner. Scott Dixon stays ahead of the trouble to win the race.
2009 — Syracuse rallies from a three-goal deficit in the final 3 minutes, 37 seconds of regulation to beat Cornell, 10-9, and win its second straight and unprecedented 11th NCAA lacrosse title.
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