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Dan Dierdorf, a recent inductee into the Football Hall of Fame, is also a resident of St. Louis. A former broadcaster for the ABC television network, Dierdorf was a key player for the St. Louis Football Cardinals. The top drivers from the NASCAR and the NHRA circuits make tracks each year at St. Louis' Gateway International Raceway. In 1900, St. Louisan Dwight Davis donated a trophy, the Davis Cup, which is still the most prized team award in tennis. On November 15, 1999, the St. Louis Sports Commission named Stan Musial and Jackie Joyner-Kersee "St. Louis Athletes of the Century." |
- The 2000 NCAA Division one Wrestling Championships held at St. Louis' Savvis Center, March 15-18, 2000, sold the most all-session tickets in the sixty-nine-year history of the event. The record-breaking attendance surpassed the previous record set in 1997 when 90,064 people watched the championship matches.
- The St. Louis Blues NHL hockey club was awarded the President's Trophy for finishing with the best regular season record (51-20-11-1) during the 1999-2000 season. Blues' coach Joel Quenneville received the Jack Adams "Coach of the Year" Award, becoming the 3rd coach in Blues history to win that honor. Other Blues recipients were Coach Brian Sutter and Red Berenson. Blues' players honored that same season included Pavol Demitra and Chris Pronger. Demitra brought home the Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship; Pronger was named both MVP and best defenseman in the NHL to garner the Hart and Norris trophies.
- Saint Louis University's Billikens won the Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament in 2000.
- The St. Louis Swarm won the first International Basketball League Championship in 2000.
- Washington University's women's basketball team won their 3rd straight NCAA D-III title in 2000.
- Attendance records were set and some shattered by St. Louis sports teams and events in 2000. The St. Louis Blues finished in the top 5 in NHL league attendance. Saint Louis University Men's Billiken basketball ranked in the Top twenty in average attendance among all NCAA D-I schools. St. Louis' River City Rascals minor league baseball team set a Frontier League single-season attendance record and was named "Organization of the Year." The new Missouri River Otters minor league hockey team set a UHL regular season attendance record by an expansion team. The NCAA Wrestling Championships held in St. Louis set an all-time total attendance record of 96,994. And, the John Hancock U.S. Gymnastics Championships held at St. Louis' Savvis Center set an all-time U.S. Gymnastics Championships ticket sales mark. 2 evenings of that competition were broadcast on national television and became the 2 top-rated television sports programs of the week.
- The St. Louis Cardinals won the National League Central Division Championship in 2000. That same season, the Redbirds enjoyed the highest regular season attendance figures in the National League, hosting 3.3 million fans at Busch Stadium in downtown St. Louis. The team also drew at least three millions fans in 1998 and 1999.
- 1 of the premiere college sporting events in the national will be held in St. Louis when the NCAA Men's Final 4 Division I college basketball championship comes to the Edward Jones Dome at America's Center in 2005.
This article is in four parts. This is part four.
Part 1 Sports - all
types of sports - are not just a pastime in St. Louis.
Part 2 The St. Louis
Sports Commission was chosen by the National Association of
Sports Commissions (NASC) as the "Sports Commission of the Year".
Part 3 In 1904, St.
Louis was the site of the third Olympic games of modern times.
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