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 The Baltimore Orioles miraculously win the last 5 games of the season to qualify for the 1982 MLB playoffs over the Milwaukee Brewers, who for failing to get the spot become known as "Harvey's Chokers". The O's beat the California Angels 3-1 to qualify for the World Series, and then swept the St. Louis Cardinals to win the championship.
 **IOTL**: The Orioles lost the very last game to the Brewers, aka "Harvey's Wallbangers", and thus were kept off the postseason by one point. Milwaukee beat the Angels in 5 before losing the World Series in 7, also to the Cardinals.
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 **IOTL**: Retton, gold in the all-around with a perfect 10, becomes a huge star, promoted to hell and back. Holyfield was only bronze, having lost the semifinal in a controversial decision even the winner disagreed on, but went on to become world heavyweight champion. Puică was gold, while Decker and Budd infamously stumbled upon each other's legs, with the former falling and being unable to finish, and the latter losing her rhythm and finishing seventh.
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+Defending IBF Heavyweight champion Larry Holmes equalled Rocky Marciano’s record of 49 consecutive victories by defeating Michael Spinks by a unanimous, but narrow, 15-round decision in 1985. Spinks, the reigning IBF Light Heavyweight Championship, had never fought in the heavyweight division prior to the match; following the defeat, he would drop one pound and box in the cruiserweight class, setting up the highly-anticipated 1986 championship match against Evander Holyfield. Holyfield knocked him out, Spinks would retire from boxing afterwards, while Holyfield would go on to fight WBC heavyweight champ Trevor Berbick, beginning Holyfield’s 1987 “Unite the Belt!” promotion.
+**IOTL**: Spinks won in a controversial decision, becoming the second fighter after Bob Fitzsimmons to win titles at both light heavyweight and heavyweight. A rematch in 1986 had Holmes losing again. Afterwards Spinks defeated European Heavyweight Champion Steffen Tangstad to defend his title, was stripped of the belt in 1987 by refusing to fight Tony Tucker, and accepting a higher offer to fight Gerry Cooney instead, and then retired after the infamous  91 second defeat in 1988 to the first Undisputed Heavyweight Champion since Spinks: Mike Tyson. Tyson had gotten the distinction - as well as being the youngest heavyweight champion ever - after beating Berbick in two rounds in 1986. Holyfield stayed at the cruiserweight level until 1988, uniting the cruiserweight belts before moving up to heavyweight; in his first heavyweight fight, Holyfield beat the crap out of James “Quick” Tillis.
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 Patrick Ewing reports to the 1984 NBA Draft. As expected, the Georgetown prospect is the top pick by the Houston Rockets, followed by Akeem Olajuwon going to the Portland Trail Blazers. The Rockets also aggressively sought another top 5 pick hoping to draft UNC standout Michael Jordan as well, and they do so by getting #3 from the Chicago Bulls, sending reigning rookie of the year Ralph Sampson and also getting Ennis Whatley. The Rockets become a powerhouse from the get-go, trouncing the Western Conference before beating the Boston Celtics in the 1985 Finals. The Bulls miss the playoffs, and the Blazers upset defending Western champion Los Angeles Lakers before falling to Houston in the conference finals.
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 **IOTL**: The Bears lost week 13 to the Dolphins, and afterwards recorded a rap song, "The Super Bowl Shuffle" (which credited them as  Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew). The Super Bowl was won by Chicago in a 46-10 laugher over the New England Patriots (who had beaten Miami in the AFC Championship). New England won the 16 regular season games in 2007, the first team to do so; but given they lost the Super Bowl, the last fully perfect season is still Miami in 1972.
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+Pete Rose breaks the all-time hit record previously held by Hall of Famer Ty Cobb in 1985, but the underwhelming Cincinnati Reds campaign (80-82) leads to his dismissal from the team as both manager and player.  In 1990, Rose voluntarily agreed to be placed on baseball’s permanently ineligible list, with no possibility of reinstatement, in connection with a confidential settlement entered in the Rose v. Giamatti case then pending in federal court in Ohio.
+**IOTL**: The Reds were 89-72, second in its division. Rose remained one more year as player-manager at the age of 45, and kept as coach until 1989. That year, incoming MLB commissioner Bart Giamatti retained attorney John M. Dowd to investigate allegations that Rose had bet on major league baseball. Dowd’s findings – the “Dowd Report” -- show unequivocally that from 1985 to 1987 (the period Dowd investigated), Rose bet on Cincinnati Reds games while he was managing the team. Pete Rose filed a lawsuit in state court attempting to block MLB from releasing the Dowd Report. This turned out to be a spectacularly stupid legal strategy; MLB successfully transferred the case to federal court, and, to defeat the injunction issued by the state court, was prepared to argue in open court on the merits of the underlying allegations. Knowing this, in 1989 Rose accordingly quickly agreed to voluntarily accept both the maximum sentence MLB could impose – a lifetime ban from baseball – and to allocate that MLB had a “factual basis” supporting such a ban in exchange for MLB’s agreement that it would drop the case and make no formal finding regarding his gambling.
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 **IOTL**: Phoenix, who backed out on the Baltimore Colts before they moved to Indiana, had USFL teams, including one of the league's last reminders, the Outlaws. The USFL attempted to play the also won its antitrust suit against the NFL; however, the New York-based jury in that suit  accepted the NFL’s mitigation arguments and reduced the USFL’s damages to a “nominal” sum of $1, which was then tripled by law to $3, and increased to $3.76 with the application of prejudgment interest. Part of the phyrric defeat is because Trump made the case be put in a New York court, where the NFL is also headquartered. The USFL folded before the 1986 season even started, but the NFL absorbed players, innovations, and would even put teams where the other league was present (the St. Louis Cardinals moved to Arizona and the Houston Oilers to Tennessee; Baltimore got a team back through a controversial move by the Cleveland Browns and the L.A. Raiders returned to Oakland; and Jacksonville earned an expansion team in 1995).
+The 1986-87 NFL Playoffs culminated in the New York Giants winning Super Bowl XXI over the Denver Broncos -  the Chiefs lost the AFC Wild Card Game, the Bears lost the Divisional Playoffs to the Washington Redskins (who in turn were trounced by the Giants in the NFC championship).