Were you alive in 1989? Straight up, now tell me what do you really remember? It was nearly 30 years ago! Let’s take walk down memory lane and reminisce about the last year of the 1980’s. Here’s some athletes that were born in 1989: Andy Carroll , English footballerMichael Beasley , American basketball player Conor Dwyer , American Olympic swmmerRicky van Wolfswinkel , Dutch footballer Jahvid Best , American NFL playerIsaiah Thomas , American basketball player Rebecca Adlington , British swimmerChris Conte , American NFL playerKosta Koufos , Greek-born American basketball player Emma , Australian professional wrestlerAgnieszka Radwańska , Polish tennis playerBlake Griffin , American basketball player Theo Walcott , English footballerLars Bender , German footballerSven Bender , German footballerJames van Riemsdyk , American ice hockey player Earl Thomas , American football player Cam Newton , American football player Rob Gronkowski , American football player Tessa Virtue , Canadian iceBas Dost , Dutch football playerAnna Fenninger , Austrian alpine ski racer Jeffrey Earnhardt , American race car driverGareth Bale , Welsh footballerJamie Benn , Canadian ice hockey player Victoria Azarenka , Belarusian tennis playerMadison Bumgarner , American baseball playerShanshan Feng , Chinese golferDeMar DeRozan , American basketball playerAnthony Rizzo , American baseball playerJason Heyward , American baseball player Ander Herrera , Spanish professional footballerJames Harden , American basketball player Freddie Freeman , American baseball playerAndrew Luck , American football player Thomas Müller , German football player Tyreke Evans , American basketball playerKimmie Meissner , American figure skaterViktoria Rebensburg , German alpine skierMichelle Wie , American golf player Eric Hosmer , American professional baseball playerNastia Liukin , American artistic gymnast and Olympic gold medalist Aaron Hernandez , American football player and convicted murderer (d. 2017)Giancarlo Stanton , American baseball player Adam Rippon , American figure skater Jake Livermore , English footballerEric Bledsoe , American basketball playerCatrina Kious, My Amazing Wife Here are some of the athletes that died in 1989: Carl Furillo , American baseball player (b. 1922)Glenna Collett-Vare , American golfer (b. 1903)Lefty Gomez , Mexican-American baseball player (b. 1908)Sparky Adams , American baseball player (b. 1894)Aleksandr Prokopenko , Soviet footballer (b. 1953)Sugar Ray Robinson , American professional boxer (b. 1921)Jocko Conlan , American baseball player and umpire (b. 1899)John Matuszak , American football player and actor (b. 1950)Lee Calhoun , American Olympic athlete (b. 1933)Laurie Cunningham , English footballer (b. 1956)Lane Frost , American bull rider (b. 1963)Joe Collins , American baseball player (b. 1922)A. Bartlett Giamatti , American President of Yale University and MLB Commissioner (b. 1938)Grant Adcox , American Race Car Driver (b. 1950)Giuseppe Antonini , Italian football player (b. 1914)Ray Morehart , American baseball player (b. 1899)Haystacks Calhoun , American professional wrestler (b. 1934)Billy Martin , American baseball player and manager (b. 1928)News of the Year: Ron Hextall Clint Malarchuk Motorola Motorola MicroTAC The SkyDome Rogers Centre The world’s first HDTV broadcasts commence in Japan, in analog . An unknown Chinese protestor, “Tank Man The Sega Genesis is released in North America. Pete Rose Construction of the Denver Airport The first full-length episode of the animated series The Simpsons N.W.A Straight Outta Compton In WrestleMania V Hulk Hogan Randy Savage Kareem Abdul-Jabar Dallas Cowboys Tom Landry NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle Investor group led by George W Bush Edward W Rose Texas Rangers
One-handed pitcher Jim Abbott Nolan Ryan Wayne Gretzky First NFL game coached by a black man (Art Shell Minnesota Timberwolves Orlando Magic Michael Jordan Championships: World Series Oakland Athletics defeated San Francisco Giants , 4 games to 0, in a series that was delayed because of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake .Super Bowl XXIII San Francisco 49ers defeated Cincinnati Bengals, 20–16Stanly Cup Final Calgary Flames defeated Montreal Canadiens, won 4 games to 2NBA Finals Detroit Pistons defeated Los Angeles Lakers , 4 games to 0 overNCAA Baseball World Series Wichita State defeated Texas , 5-3NCAA Softball World Series UCLA defeated Fresno State, 1–0NCAA Men’s Basketball Michigan defeated Seton Hall, 80–79 in overtimeNCAA Women’s Basketball Tennessee defeated Auburn, 76-60NCAA Division I-A Football Notre Dame Fighting Irish defeated West Virginia Mountaineers, 34-21 in the Fiesta BowlEuropean Cup Milan of Italy defeated Steaua București of Romania 4–0UEFA Cup S.S.C. Napoli of Italy defeated VfB Stuttgart of West Germany, 5–4 on aggregate.English Football League First Division Arsenal beat Liverpool F.C., 2-0FA Cup Liverpool defeated Everton, 3-2 AETCFL Grey Cup Saskatchewan Roughriders defeated Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 43–40Tour de France Greg LeMond of the United StatesHorse Racing: Men’s Golf: Women’s Golf: Tennis:
