Jun 29, 2022 2 min read

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June 30

1965 — The NFL grants Atlanta a franchise. Rankin Smith Sr., an Executive Vice President of Life Insurance Company of Georgia, pays $8.5 million for the franchise. It’s the highest price paid in league history at the time.

1975 – Ron Junko, a former PIAA wrestling champion and the coach at McGuffey for the past three seasons, is named coach at Canon-McMillan. Junko replaces Bob Schmidt, who resigned.

1980 – Jerry Seaman, a 1963 state champion, is named head wrestling coach at McGuffey High School.

1992 – Bob Tway makes a 15-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a sudden death playoff to defeat Curtis Strange and win the Family House Invitational at Laurel Valley Golf Club.

1994 – Tonya Harding is stripped of her national title and banned for life from the U.S. Figure Skating Association because of her role in an attack on Nancy Kerrigan.

2003 – Canon-McMillan High School hires Guy Montecalvo as its football coach and athletic director. Montecalvo spent the previous 23 years as head coach at Washington.

2003 – The University of Miami (Fla.) leaves the Big East to join to the Atlantic Coast Conference.

2016 – Coastal Carolina capitalized on two errors on the same play for four unearned runs in the sixth inning, and the Chanticleers won their first national championship in any sport with a 4-3 victory over Arizona in Game 3 of the College World Series finals.