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Sports History Oddities On This Day06/04/2026, 09:25:44 PM

The man who hadn't lost in 9 years, 9 months, and 9 days just lost

On June 4, 1987, Danny Harris ended Edwin Moses' 122-race win streak in Madrid — the longest in track history.

Sports History Oddities On This Day06/03/2026, 09:36:11 PM

June 3, 2018 — Stephen Curry shot 9 threes in an NBA Finals game and Kevin Love called the last one a "moon ball"

On June 3, 2018, Stephen Curry made 9 three-pointers in a single NBA Finals game — breaking Ray Allen's 8-year-old record — including an off-balance 28-footer that Kevin Love described as a "moon ball." The record still stands eight years later.

Sports History Oddities On This Day06/02/2026, 09:26:12 PM

June 2, 1901: a lawyer wore a red jacket, hit a golf ball on a Sunday, and got arrested on purpose

On June 2, 1901, New York attorney Benjamin Adams deliberately played golf on a Sunday at a Yonkers country club — and got himself arrested. He was testing a 245-year-old Dutch blue law that nobody had ever actually enforced. Five days later, a judge acquitted him under a headline that read: "CAN PLAY SUNDAY GOLF."

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