hey I'm golf broadcaster Matt Adams the updated and expanded second edition of my book the golf round I'll never forget golf's biggest stars recall their finest moments is now available readers can expect to march with arie's army at the 1960 US Open relive Jack Nicholas's remarkable 1986 Masters win and be amazed by the tiger slam the golf round I'll never forget golf's biggest stars we call their finest moments pick it up we find books sold including Barnes & noble.com and amazon.com Thrive sweet Productions and welcome back to this day in sports history it's January 21st and on this day a couple of tennis firsts for you in 1990 John macenroe became the first tennis player to be kicked out of the Australian Open for misconduct macenroe was always a fire brand ever since breaking in it's a pro in the late 1970s love him or hate him he was always entertaining to watch a great serve and volley player that won him seven Majors Between 1979 and 1984 but you know his aeric nature could be tough to handle for Courtside linesmen and chair umpires well on this day mroe was in a fourth round match with Sweden's Michael perfors during a change over in the third set macenroe was upset at a lions woman who he thought made a poor call he stopped in front of her stared her down without speaking and juggled two tennis balls on his racket the chair ump called the first code violation this one for unsportsmanlike conduct in the seventh game of the fourth set mackenro missed a shot wide and was mad at himself throwing the racket to the hardcord surface and disgust after another poor shot macenroe threw his racket again the chair umpire called the second codee violation this one for racket abuse at that point Mac and started yelling at chair umpire Jerry Armstrong demanding the chair supervisor come out once he did mackenro dropped a word or two that he shouldn't have and the third code violation was called but what mackenro did not remember is that the four-step default process had been changed to a three-step default process or three code violations and you're out up two sets to one but down two four and the 4th macenroe was disqualified and fined $6500 also in 1998 Venus and Serena Williams played against each other as Professionals for the first time in the second round of the Australian Open Venus won in straight set they would go on to meet another 30 times in their careers with Serena getting the better of her older sister winning 19 of them and in 2019 a small plan Lane carrying soccer player Emiliano Salah went down in the English Channel killing him and the pilot David ibbotson Salah had recently signed a $19 million transfer to play for Cardiff City in Wales from not in France both ibbitson and Salah expressed concerns about the plane and its ability to fly before boarding and taking off that's all for today more tomorrow on this day in sports history hey there sports history fan this is Arie Chapman aka the football history dude and I hope that you enjoyed this recent episode presented by the sports history Network and we're able to learn some good oldfashioned sports history knowledge nuggets I started the sports history Network back in 2020 with the mission to help podcasters find a community of like-minded sports history nerds as well as helping aspiring podcaster to start their own shows we have a little bit over 30 shows on the network right now covering all sorts of sports history but as far as I'm concerned we're just at the toothpick in the ocean moment you know that can't even figure it out cuz there's so much more coming we wanted to create the ultimate headquarters for sports yester year starting with podcast Network in our website but we're going to continue to move into other mediums as well and here's the cool part because we want you to be part of our team so if you're interested in starting your own podcast or maybe being a guest on one of our shows or who knows maybe even write an article for us over on the the website seriously all you got to do is reach out to us on the contact page over at sportsnetwork.com you can be as technologically savvy as a neanderthal tapping on a stone trying to figure out this whole hieroglyphics thing back in the day again it doesn't matter because even if you don't understand the whole podcast space we have a production team that can pretty much help you out with doing everything all you got to do head over to sportsnetwork.com head to the contact page fill it out that message goes right to me and I'll reach out to you as soon as I can but for now dude I'm through if you're through