2015 Event RadioShack, the U.S. electronics retailer founded in 1921, files for bankruptcy; the company plans to sell up to half of its stores to Sprint and close the remainder 2014 Event Race car driver Tony Stewart hits fellow driver Kevin Ward, Jr. with a vehicle on a sprint car track; Ward was walking on the track and did not survive the incident 2014 Event U.S. telecom company Sprint is in talks to purchase T-Mobile U.S.; the combined company will be better able to compete against market leaders Verizon and AT&T 2014 Event Kevin Harvick wins The Profit on CNBC 500 in Arizona, placing him in 4th position in the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series 2013 Event In racing, Danica Patrick becomes the first woman at the Daytona 500 and the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series to win pole position 2012 Event Jamaican runner Usain Bolt wins his third gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, anchors the sprint relay team to a world record; Bolt is 25 years old and now holds six Olympic gold medals 2011 Event Sprint Nextel reportedly pays $20 billion for the exclusive rights to Apple's next mobile cell phone 2010 Event Jimmy Johnson becomes the first driver ever to win five straight NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championships 1997 Event Phil Mickelson wins golf's Sprint International 1997 Event Sprint Titleholders LPGA Championship 1997 Event Tammie Green wins LPGA Sprint Titlehoders Championship 1996 Event Karrie Webb wins LPGA Sprint Titleholders Golf Championship 1995 Event Val Skinner wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship 1994 Event Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament 1994 Event Sherri Steinhauer wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship 1993 Event Kristi Albers wins Sprint Golf Classic 1993 Event Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament 1982 Death Louis J N Gerardin, bicyclist (world champ sprint 1930), dies at 69 1977 Birthday Lia Rousset, Alhambra California, sprint kayak 1996 Olympics 1973 Birthday Bill Clay, Yokosuka Japan, U.S. sprint cyclist 1996 Olympics 1971 Birthday Marty Nothstein, Allentown, Pennsylvania, sprint cyclist Olympics-silver-96 1970 Birthday Gus Nketia, Auckland New Zealand, 100m sprint 1996 Olympics 1970 Birthday Nicole Jeray, Cook County, Illinois, LPGA golfer, 1995 Sprint Champ-22nd 1970 Birthday Peter Newton, born in Kailua, Hawaii, sprint kayak 1996 Olympics 1968 Birthday Mike Harbold, Oakland, California, sprint kayak 1996 Olympics 1966 Birthday Cliff Meidl, born in Redondon Beach California, sprint kayak, alternate in 1996 Olympics 1965 Birthday Curt Harnett, born in Toronto, Ontario, sprint cyclist, Olympics-bronze-92/96 1965 Birthday Jim Terrell, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, sprint canoe 1996 Olympics 1965 Birthday Alexandra Harbold, New York City, sprint kayak, 1996 Olympics 1964 Birthday John Mooney, born in Seattle, Washington sprint kayak 1996 Olympics 1964 Birthday DeAnne Hemmens, born in San Francisco, California, sprint kayak 1996 Olympics 1963 Birthday Kristi Albers, El Paso, Texas, LPGA golfer, 1993 Sprint Classic 1962 Birthday Traci Phillips, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, sprint kayak 1996 Olympics 1962 Birthday Stein Jorgesen, born in Los Angeles, California, sprint kayak 1996 Olympics 1961 Birthday Donna Wynd, Auckland New Zealand, 1k sprint cyclist 1996 Olympics 1961 Birthday Connie Paraskevin-Young, born in Detroit, sprint cyclist, Olympic-bronze - 1988, 1992, 1996 1961 Birthday Curt Bader, born in Bloomfield, Iowa, sprint kayak 1996 Olympics 1960 Birthday Val Skinner, Hamilton, Montana, LPGA golfer, 1995 Sprint Championship 1960 Birthday Stephen Brent Lowery, Birmingham, Alabama, PGA golfer, 1994 Sprint 1959 Birthday Pascal Barre, France, sprint relay team 1980 Olympics bronze 1959 Birthday Brett Bodine, born in Chemung, New York, auto racer, former NASCAR Winston Cup driver, current Sprint Cup, pace car driver, employed as Director of Cost and Research by NASCAR 1958 Birthday Phillipe Boccara, born in Le Mans, France, U.S. sprint kayak 1996 Olympics 1958 Birthday Mark Hamilton, born in Louisville, Kentucky, sprint kayak 1996 Olympics 1955 Birthday Sue Novara-Reber, born in Flint, Michigan, cyclist, 1975 World sprint champ 1927 Birthday Dorothy Manley, England, 100m sprint 1948 Olympics silver 1924 Event Cyclist Piet Moeskops regains world sprint championist 1922 Event Bicyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world sprint champ 1912 Birthday Ilse Dorffeldt, Germany, sprint relay, Olympic-1936 1910 Birthday Marie Dollinger, Germany, dropped bataan in 1936 Olympic sprint
