For love of the game: a look back at major sporting events.

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1970-The Cougars earned the first-ever national championship for BYU by winning the Track and Field Federation championship

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1976-The Utah Golden Spikers of the American Soccer League play their one and only season

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1979 - The Utah State Aggies volleyball team wins the AIAW national championship

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1979 - The Jazz franchise relocates to Utah from New Orleans, bringing

the NBA to the state

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1980 - The Utah State Aggies Softball team wins the AIAW national championship

1971 - The Utah Stars win the American Basketball Association championship in their first season in Utah (the team is dissolved in 1975)

1981 - The Utah State Aggies softball team wins the AIAW national championship

1978-The Utah Prospectors are one of six teams in the newly formed Western Basketball Association

1981 - The men's golf team is the first BYU team in any sport to win an NCAA championship

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1981 - University of Utah women's gymnastics wins the AIAW national championship

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1984-Utah Jazz coach Frank Layden is named the NBA Coach of the Year

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1986 - University of Utah women's gymnastics wins its fifth consecutive NCAA national championship

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1985 - The Salt Lake Trappers baseball team begins an eight-year run in the Pioneer League, winning its first three league championships and another in 1991

1989 - The pro soccer franchise Utah Sting kicks off a two-year stint in the state

1990 - BYU's football star Ty Detmer wins the Heisman Trophy

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1992 - University of Utah women's gymnastics wins the NCAA national championship

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1984 - The BYU Cougars football team tops off an undefeated "dream season" by winning the national championship

1985 - The BYU Cougars football team wins its 10th straight WAC championship

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1984 -BYU Cougar's football coach LaVell Edwards is selected as the NCAA National Coach of the Year

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1990 -University of Utah women's gymnastics wins the NCAA national championship

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1994 - University of Utah women's gymnastics wins the NCAA national championship

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1994-The Salt Lake Buzz baseball team (now known as the Bees) plays their first game in the...