Sports Quiz: Mexican boxing legend

By Ryan A. Berenz

1. In January 1994, boxer Frankie Randall won a split decision and handed which Mexican boxing legend his first professional loss?

2. Which Phoenix Suns player, nicknamed the "High-Ayatollah of Slamola," won the NBA Slam Dunk Contest in 1984?

3. In 1953, which Catholic fraternal organization purchased the land underneath Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York, for $2.5 million?

4. The Oscar Mathisen Award, first presented in 1959, honors the season's most outstanding performance in which sport?

5. The Secretaries' Cup is an NCAA Division III football rivalry game played by which two U.S. service academies?

6. Before he became a football legend, who coached St. Cecilia to a 6-1 victory over Bogota High School in a 1940 New Jersey high school basketball game?

7. Which World Golf Hall of Famer won the 1956 U.S. Girls' Junior, the U.S. Women's Amateur five times from 1957 to 1968 and the U.S. Women's Open in 1971 and 1976?

Answers

1. Julio Cesar Chavez, who was 89-0-1 before the fight.

2. Larry Nance.

3. The Knights of Columbus.

4. Speed skating.

5. The U.S. Coast Guard Academy and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.

6. Vince Lombardi.

7. JoAnne Gunderson Carner.

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