Arnold Daniel Palmer is a professional golfer, generally regarded as one of the
greatest players in the history of men’s professional golf. He has won numerous
events on both the PGA and Champions Tour, dating back to 1955. He is one of
golf’s most popular stars and its most important trailblazer of the sport’s television
age, which began in the 1950s. He is part of "The Big Three" in golf, along with
Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player, who are widely credited with popularizing the
sport around the world. Palmer won the PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement
Award in 1998, and in 1974 he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.

David Pollock in Bad News Bears

Former child actor David Pollock (50), who played one of the little league player’s,
Rudi Stein in the 1976 comedy film “Bad News Bears”, is taking a swing at politics
these days. He has entered into a Congressional race as a Democrat in California’s
26th Congressional district. Pollock’s political aspirations began in 1994 when he was asked to consider running for his local school board which he did successfully. He
was on the board for 15 years. David has said that he is “proud of getting away
from Hollywood while the getting was good”.

Radio announcer Red Barber called the first televised major league baseball
game which was broadcast on experimental station W2XBS, later WNBC-TV,
from Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York. The Brooklyn Dodgers and the
Cincinnati Reds played a doubleheader. The Reds won the first 5-2, and
the Dodgers took the second, 6-1.

Red Barber 

Red Barber (center right) interviewing Leo Durocher after the game

Sports Illustrated is a sports magazine owned by Time Warner. It was launched 
on August 16, 1954 (above), and  has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read
by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first
magazine with circulation over one million to win the National Magazine Award
for General Excellence twice. Its swimsuit issue, which has been published
since 1964, is now an annual publishing event. Two other magazines named
Sports Illustrated were started in the 1930s and 1940s, but they both quickly
failed.

Michael Jordan has had the most covers by an athlete from
1954 to 2011 at a total of 60.

(ABC News)-Bubba Smith, the former NFL defensive end and "Police Academy"
actor, was found dead in his Los Angeles home Wednesday at the age of 66.

Ed Winter, spokesman for the Los Angeles County coroner, said he didn’t know
the cause or circumstances surrounding Smith’s death, but that it appeared to
be of natural causes.