NFL About 123 million people tuned in to watch the Kansas City Chiefs become back-to-back Super Bowl champions by defeating the San Fran- cisco 49ers 25–22 in overtime. It was the most-watched Super Bowl in history.
NBA The Boston Celtics defeated the Dallas Mavericks to capture the team’s 18th championship. Shortly af- ter, owner Wyc Grousbeck announced that the Celtics, valued at $4.7 billion, were for sale. His family purchased the team in 2002 for $360 million.
OLYMPICS Gold medalists Torri Huske, left, and Regan Smith were among Amer- ican athletes who dominated the Paris Olympics in August. Team USA topped the overall medal chart with 126 total medals (40 golds, 44 silvers, 42 bronzes) for the eighth consecutive Games.
STANLEY CUP Oh Canada! The Florida Panthers defeated the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 in the best of seven series, earning their fi rst championship in the team’s 30-year history. It was the fi fth consecutive fi nals featuring the Florida team.
WNBA The New York Liberty won their fi rst championship in the league’s 28-year history, defeating the Minnesota Lynx. After a record season of revenue and attendance, now players want in on the action, opting out of their current labor contract in hopes of a better deal.
WORLD SERIES L.A. Dodgers won the World Series, beating the N.Y. Yankees by four games to one. The series scored huge ratings in the U.S., and in Japan, where 15 million fans tuned in over breakfast to cheer Dodger players Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
JIMMY CARTER
When Jimmy Carter turned 100 in October, he became the fi rst former president to live a full century. The son of a Depression-era peanut farmer in Georgia, Carter was elected president in 1976 in a nation recovering from the Watergate scandal that had brought down Richard Nixon. His presidency was hobbled by crises from an oil embargo that led to gasoline shortages to the humiliating seizure of American hostag- es in Iran. The Democrat served one term, and then for four decades led The Carter Center, which he and his wife, Rosalynn, cofounded in 1982 to “wage peace, fi ght disease, and build hope.” In 2002 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his eff orts for world peace and advancing democracy and human rights.
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