TWENTY YEARS AGO — James Worthy finishes with 36 points, 16 rebounds and 10 assists and is named Finals MVP as the Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Detroit Pistons 108-105 to win the NBA World Championship.

TEN YEARS AGO — Despite two early bogeys, Lee Janzen overcomes a seven-stroke deficit with a final-round 68 as he, for the second time in five years, defeats Payne Stewart by one shot to win the U.S. Open.

FIVE YEARS AGO — Natchez High golf coach Tom Matthews makes a hole-in-one on the par-3 4th hole from 185 yards out at Beau Pré Country Club, the sixth hole-in-one of his career but his first one at Beau Pré.