1982 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game
The game was also known as the Pioneer Bowl, a name that had been used starting in 1971 for various NCAA playoff games held in Wichita Falls. The Colonels, making their fourth consecutive appearance in the I-AA championship game, became the first program to capture two I-AA titles, having previously won in 1979.


1982 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game, Teams
The participants of the Championship Game were the finalists of the 1982 I-AA Playoffs, which began with a 12-team bracket.


1982 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game, Teams, Eastern Kentucky Colonels
Eastern Kentucky finished their regular season with an undefeated 10–0 record (7–0 in conference). Ranked first in the final NCAA I-AA in-house poll and seeded first in the tournament, the Colonels received a first-round bye then defeated Idaho and fourth-seed Tennessee State to reach the final. This was the fourth appearance for Eastern Kentucky in a Division I-AA championship game, having won in 1979 and having lost in 1980 and 1981.


1982 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game, Teams, Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens
Delaware finished their regular season with a 10–1 record; its only loss was an away game at Temple. Ranked third in the final NCAA I-AA in-house poll and seeded third in the tournament, the Fightin' Blue Hens received a first-round bye then defeated Colgate and second-seed Louisiana Tech to reach the final. This was the first appearance for Delaware in a Division I-AA championship game, though the team had recently been the 1979 Division II champion before moving up to Division I-AA in 1980.


1982 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game, Game summary, Scoring summary
Delaware's attempt to kick the extra point was blocked, but Eastern Kentucky was ruled offside on the play. Delaware then attempted a two-point conversion, with the ball being snapped 1 1⁄2 yards from the end zone.


1982 NCAA Division I-AA football rankings
The 1982 NCAA Division I-AA football rankings are from the NCAA Division I-AA football committee. This is for the 1982 season.


1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season
The 1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division I-AA level, began in August 1982 and concluded with the 1982 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game on December 18, 1982, at Memorial Stadium in Wichita Falls, Texas. The Eastern Kentucky Colonels won their second I-AA championship, defeating the Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens in the Pioneer Bowl, 17−14.


1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season, Conference changes and new programs
Before the 1982 season, a total of 41 NCAA Division I-A teams, including three conferences and all of their members, were shifted from Division I-A to Division I-AA:


1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season, Conference changes and new programs
Most of the Missouri Valley Conference football schools were also reclassified. This began the few years where the MVC hosted both 1-A and 1-AA teams. Drake, Illinois State, Indiana State, Southern Illinois, and West Texas State did not meet 1-A standards and were reclassified to 1-AA. New Mexico State, Tulsa, and Wichita State remained in 1-A.


1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season, Conference changes and new programs
Independent Cincinnati and MAC schools Ball State, Bowling Green, Eastern Michigan, Kent State, Miami (OH), Northern Illinois, Ohio, and Western Michigan were all reclassified as well.


1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season, Conference changes and new programs
The University of Cincinnati filed an injunction against the NCAA to postpone their demotion until after the 1982 season, and was successful in remaining in 1-A.


1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season, Conference changes and new programs
Of the ten schools in the MAC, initially only Central Michigan and Toledo maintained 1-A status. Bowling Green, Northern Illinois, Miami, and Western Michigan all made appeals and the conference as a whole was granted the ability to remain at the 1-A level.


1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season, Conference champions
Big Sky Conference – Montana (tiebreaker over Idaho, Montana State)Ivy League – Dartmouth, Harvard, and PennMid-Eastern Athletic Conference – South Carolina StateOhio Valley Conference – Eastern KentuckySouthern Conference – FurmanSouthland Conference – Louisiana TechSouthwestern Athletic Conference – Jackson StateYankee Conference – Boston University, Connecticut, Maine, and Massachusetts


1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season, Postseason
The playoffs expanded from eight to twelve teams this season; four years later, in 1986, the field was expanded to sixteen teams.


1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season, Postseason, NCAA Division I-AA playoff bracket
The top four teams were seeded, and received first-round byes.


1982 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1982 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament involved 32 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college basketball as a culmination of the 1981–82 NCAA Division II men's basketball season. It was won by the University of the District of Columbia and UDC's Michael Britt was the Most Outstanding Player.


1982 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
This was the first NCAA D-II basketball tournament to contain the word "Men's" in its official title, as the NCAA held its first D-II women's championship in that season.


1982 NCAA Division II Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1982 NCAA Men's Division II Ice Hockey Tournament involved 8 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college ice hockey. A total of 12 games were played, hosted by the University of Lowell.


1982 NCAA Division II Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The University of Lowell, coached by Bill Riley, won the national title with a 5-1 victory in the final game over Plattsburgh.


1982 NCAA Division II Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Paul Lohnes, of the University of Lowell, was named the Most Outstanding Player and Scott Swanson, of Gustavus Adolphus, was the high scorer of the tournament with eleven points (4 goals, 7 assists).


1982 NCAA Division II Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams
With the number of teams in the tournament doubling, the NCAA did not hold a western regional tournament. No automatic bids were offered.


1982 NCAA Division II Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament bracket
The quarter-finals were two-game total-goals series played at the campus of the higher seed. The semi-finals and finals were single elimination games.


1982 NCAA Division II Soccer Championship
The 1982 NCAA Division II Soccer Championship was the eleventh annual tournament held by the NCAA to determine the top men's Division II college soccer program in the United States.


1982 NCAA Division II Soccer Championship
Florida International defeated Southern Connecticut State in the final, 2–1, to win their first Division II national title. The Panthers (16-3-1) were coached by Karl Kremser.


1982 NCAA Division II Soccer Championship
The final match was played on December 4 at Florida International University in Miami, Florida.


1982 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
The 1982 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament was the inaugural tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the team national champion of women's collegiate basketball among its Division II membership in the United States.


1982 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
Cal Poly Pomona defeated Tuskegee in the championship game, 93–74, to claim the first-ever Division II national title.


1982 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
The championship rounds were contested at the Springfield Civic Center in Springfield, Massachusetts.


1982 NCAA Division II Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
The 1982 NCAA Women's Division II Swimming and Diving Championships were the first annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of Division II women's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.


1982 NCAA Division II Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
The inaugural event was hosted by Clarion University in Clarion, Pennsylvania.


1982 NCAA Division II Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
Cal State Northridge topped the team standings and took home the inaugural Division II women's team title.


1982 NCAA Division II football rankings
The 1982 NCAA Division II football rankings are from the NCAA Division II football committee. This is for the 1982 season.


1982 NCAA Division II football season
The 1982 NCAA Division II football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division II level, began in August 1982, and concluded with the NCAA Division II Football Championship on December 11, 1982, at McAllen Veterans Memorial Stadium in McAllen, Texas. During the game's five-year stretch in McAllen, the "City of Palms", it was referred to as the Palm Bowl.


1982 NCAA Division II football season
Southwest Texas State defeated UC Davis in the championship game, 34–9, to win their second overall and second consecutive Division II national title.


1982 NCAA Division II football season, Conference summaries
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Virginia UnionGreat Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – HillsdaleGulf South Conference – Jacksonville StateLone Star Conference – Southwest Texas StateMissouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Northeast Missouri StateNorth Central Conference – North Dakota StateNorthern California Athletic Conference – UC DavisNorthern Intercollegiate Conference – Minnesota State–MoorheadPennsylvania State Athletic Conference – East StroudsburgRocky Mountain Athletic Conference – Colorado MesaSouth Atlantic Conference – Carson-NewmanSouthern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Fort Valley State


1982 NCAA Division II football season, Postseason
The 1982 NCAA Division II Football Championship playoffs were the 10th single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college football. The championship game was held at McAllen Veterans Memorial Stadium in McAllen, Texas, for the second time.


1982 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament
The 1982 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 1982 NCAA Division III baseball season to determine the seventh national champion of college baseball at the NCAA Division III level. The tournament concluded with six teams, for the first time, competing at Pioneer Park in Marietta, Ohio for the championship. Six regional tournaments were held to determine the participants in the World Series.


1982 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament
Regional tournaments were contested in double-elimination format, with one region consisting of six teams, four regions consisting of four teams, and one region consisting of two teams, which was played as best-of-five, for a total of 24 teams participating in the tournament. The tournament champion was Eastern Connecticut State, who defeated Stanislaus State for the championship.


1982 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1982 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament was the eighth annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champions of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men's Division III collegiate basketball in the United States.


1982 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
Held during March 1982, the field included 32 teams and the final championship rounds were contested at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.


1982 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
Wabash defeated defending champions SUNY Potsdam, 83–62, to claim their first national title.


1982 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament
The 1982 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament was the inaugural tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division III women's collegiate basketball in the United States.


1982 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament
Elizabethtown defeated UNC Greensboro in the championship game, 67–66 in overtime, to claim the Blue Jays' first Division III national title.


1982 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament
The championship rounds were hosted at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.


1982 NCAA Division III football season
The 1982 NCAA Division III football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division III level, began in August 1982, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, in December 1982 at Garrett-Harrison Stadium in Phenix City, Alabama.


1982 NCAA Division III football season
The West Georgia Wolves won their first Division III championship, defeating the Augustana (IL) Vikings by a final score of 14−0.


1982 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason
The 1982 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the tenth annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division III college football. The championship Stagg Bowl game was held at Garrett-Harrison Stadium in Phenix City, Alabama for the tenth consecutive year. Like the previous seven championships, eight teams competed in this edition.


1982 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships
The 1982 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships were contested March 12−13, 1982 at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan at the 18th annual NCAA-sanctioned track meet to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate indoor track and field events in the United States. This was the first championship not hosted at Detroit's Cobo Arena, the venue of the previous 17 events.


1982 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships
This was the final year before the introduction of a woman's championship and events in 1983.


1982 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships
UTEP once again topped the team standings, finishing 37 points ahead of Arkansas. The Razorbacks claimed their third consecutive and seventh overall indoor team title and their seventh title in nine seasons.


1982 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, Qualification
Unlike other NCAA-sponsored sports, there were not separate NCAA Division I, Division II, and Division III championships for indoor track and field until 1985. As such, all athletes and programs from all three divisions were eligible to compete.


1982 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The Consensus 1982 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of four major All-American teams. To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Associated Press, the USBWA, The United Press International and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.


1982 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament
The 1982 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament was the 13th annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA men's collegiate volleyball. The tournament was played at Rec Hall in University Park, Pennsylvania during May 1982.


1982 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament
UCLA defeated Penn State in the final match, 3–0 (15–4, 15–9, 15–7), to win their ninth national title. The undefeated Bruins (29–0) were coached by Al Scates.


1982 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament
UCLA's Karch Kiraly was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player for the second consecutive year. Kiraly, along with six other players, comprised the All-tournament team.


1982 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament, Qualification
Until the creation of the NCAA Men's Division III Volleyball Championship in 2012, there was only a single national championship for men's volleyball. As such, all NCAA men's volleyball programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of 4 teams were invited to contest this championship.


1982 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
The 1982 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship was the 14th annual NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship to determine the national champion of NCAA men's college water polo. Tournament matches were played at the Belmont Plaza Pool in Long Beach, California during December 1982.


1982 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
UC Irvine defeated Stanford in the final, 7–4, to win their second national title. The Anteaters also finished the season undefeated (30–0).


1982 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
James Bergeson (Stanford), Peter Campbell (UC Irvine), and John O'Brien (UC Irvine) were named the Co-Most Outstanding Players of the tournament. An All-Tournament Team, consisting of eight players, was also named.


1982 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
The tournament's leading scorer was Peter Heushul from UC Santa Barbara (9 goals).


1982 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship, Qualification
Since there has only ever been one single national championship for water polo, all NCAA men's water polo programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of 8 teams were invited to contest this championship.


1982 NCAA Rifle Championships
The 1982 NCAA Rifle Championships were contested at the third annual tournament to determine the team and individual national champions of NCAA co-ed collegiate rifle shooting in the United States. The championship was held at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia during March 1982.


1982 NCAA Rifle Championships
Tennessee Tech, with a team score of 6,138, once again won the team title; the Golden Eagles finished ahead of West Virginia, runners-up for the third consecutive year, with a score of 6,136. Tennessee Tech was coached by James Newkirk.


1982 NCAA Rifle Championships
Both individual champions were repeat winners from the previous year: Kurt Fitz-Randolph (Tennessee Tech) for smallbore rifle and John Rost (West Virginia) for air rifle.


1982 NCAA Rifle Championships, Qualification
Since there is only one national collegiate championship for rifle shooting, all NCAA rifle programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of 9 teams ultimately contested this championship.


1982 NCAA Skiing Championships
The 1982 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested at the Whiteface Ski Resort in Lake Placid, New York as part of the 29th annual NCAA-sanctioned ski tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate slalom skiing and cross country skiing in the United States.


1982 NCAA Skiing Championships
Colorado, coached by Tim Hinderman, claimed their eleventh team national championship, 24.5 points ahead of Vermont in the cumulative team standings.


1982 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venue
This year's NCAA skiing championships were hosted at the Whiteface Ski Resort in Lake Placid, New York.


1982 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venue
These were the second championships held in the state of New York (1980).


1982 NCAA Women's Golf Championship
The 1982 NCAA Women's Golf Championships were the inaugural NCAA-sanctioned golf tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of women's collegiate golf in the United States. Through 1996, the NCAA would hold only one women's golf championship for programs across Division I, Division II, and Division III.


1982 NCAA Women's Golf Championship
The tournament was held at the Stanford Golf Course in Stanford, California.


1982 NCAA Women's Golf Championship
A 13th and final AIAW Women's Golf Championship was also held this year and also won by Tulsa.


1982 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship
The 1982 NCAA Women's Gymnastics championship involved 10 schools competing for the national championship of women's NCAA Division I gymnastics. It was the first NCAA gymnastics national championship but not the first championship for college gymnastics. The NCAA took over for the AIAW in 1982 in determining national champions. The defending AIAW Champion for 1981 was Utah. The Competition took place in Salt Lake City, Utah hosted by the University of Utah in the Jon M. Huntsman Center.


1982 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship
The 1982 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship was the first annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national championship of NCAA women's college lacrosse. Unlike later editions, this title was determined by a single game. The championship game was played at Lions Stadium in Trenton, New Jersey during May 1982.


1982 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship
The Massachusetts Minutewomen  won their first championship by defeating the host Trenton State Lions in the final, 9–6.


1982 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship
The leading scorer in the match was Repy Hattersly, from Trenton State, with 4 goals. There was no All-Tournament Team or Most Outstanding Player named this year.


1982 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship, Qualification
Until 1985, there was only one NCAA championship; a Division III title was added in 1985 and a Division II title in 2001. Hence, all NCAA women's lacrosse programs were eligible for this championship. Nonetheless, only 2 teams were invited to participate.


1982 NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament
The 1982 NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament was the first annual single-elimination tournament, played during November 1982, to determine the national champion of NCAA women's collegiate soccer. The championship game was played at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida on November 21, 1982.


1982 NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament
North Carolina defeated Central Florida in the final, 2–0, to win their first national title. This was the first of North Carolina head coach Anson Dorrance's 21 national championships with the Tar Heels (as of 2019).


1982 NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament
The Most Outstanding Offensive Player was  Mary Varas (Central Florida), and the Most Outstanding Defensive Player was Linda Gancitano (Central Florida). There was no All-Tournament Team named this year. Three players, with 2 goals each, were the leading scorers of the tournament. TheMost Valuable Player was goalkeeper  Kim Wyant (Central Florida).


1982 NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament, Qualification
At the time, there was only one NCAA championship for women's soccer; a Division III title was added in 1986 and a Division II title in 1988. Hence, all NCAA women's soccer programs  (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible for this championship. A total of 12 teams were ultimately invited to contest this tournament.


1982 NFL Draft
The 1982 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held April 27–28, 1982, at the New York Sheraton Hotel in New York City, New York. At the time of the draft the Raiders were still the Oakland Raiders, they relocated to Los Angeles in May 1982. The league also held a supplemental draft after the regular draft and before the regular season.


1982 NFL Draft, Player selections, Round one
NOTE: The New Orleans Saints forfeited the No. 3  overall pick to select Illinois quarterback Dave Wilson in the 1981 supplemental draft.


1982 NFL season
The 1982 NFL season was the 63rd regular season of the National Football League. A 57-day-long players' strike reduced the 1982 season from a 16-game schedule per team to an abbreviated nine game schedule. Because of the shortened season, the NFL adopted a special 16-team playoff tournament; division standings were ignored for seeding (although each division sent at least two teams, except the NFC West which had only one). Eight teams from each conference were seeded 1–8 based on their regular season records. Two teams qualified for the playoffs despite losing records (the Cleveland Browns and the Detroit Lions). The season ended with Super Bowl XVII when the Washington Redskins defeated the Miami Dolphins 27–17 at the Rose Bowl.


1982 NFL season
Before the season, a verdict was handed down against the league in the trial brought by the Oakland Raiders and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum back in 1980. The jury ruled that the NFL violated antitrust laws when it declined to approve the proposed move by the team from Oakland to Los Angeles. Thus, the league was forced to let the officially renamed Los Angeles Raiders play in the second largest city in the United States, returning football to the Los Angeles area proper following a two-year absence (the Los Angeles Rams left the Coliseum for Anaheim Stadium in Orange County in 1980).


1982 NFL season
For the start of the 1982 season, the Minnesota Vikings moved from Metropolitan Stadium to the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.


1982 NFL season, Player movement, Traded
September 18, 1982: The New Orleans Saints traded longtime starter Archie Manning to the Houston Oilers for offensive tackle Leon Gray.


1982 NFL season, Player movement, Draft
The 1982 NFL Draft was held from April 27 to 28, 1982 at New York City's Sheraton Hotel. With the first pick, the New England Patriots selected defensive end Kenneth Sims from the University of Texas.


1982 NFL season, Regular season, New Sunday time slots
For the first time all Sunday afternoon games began in one of two windows: 1:00 p.m. ET/noon CT for early games, or 4:00 p.m. ET/1:00 p.m. PT for late games. From 1970 to 1981, most games began at 1 p.m. local time regardless of the home team (except in Denver, where the Broncos kick off at 2 p.m. MT).


1982 NFL season, Regular season, New Sunday time slots
An exception to this rule was made for the Baltimore Colts, who were forced to begin Sunday home games no earlier than 2 p.m. Eastern due to a Baltimore ordinance, since repealed, which prohibited Sunday sporting events from beginning prior to that hour. That ordinance was cited by owner Robert Irsay as a burden and a factor in moving the franchise to Indianapolis in March 1984.


1982 NFL season, Regular season, 1982 players' strike
Players began a 57-day strike following the completion of Week 2 of the regular season. As a result of the impasse, games were simply cancelled until a settlement was reached (ultimately, Weeks 3 to 10). Upon reaching that settlement, the NFL announced that Weeks 11 to 16 would be played as scheduled, and the games originally scheduled for Week 3 of the season would be played following the completion of the resumed regular season as a new Week 17, with the playoffs pushed back one week.


1982 NFL season, Regular season, 1982 players' strike
Later, the NFL decided to use the final week 17 to hold various intra-division games from cancelled Weeks 3 to 10 instead of merely playing the Week 3 games. This was done to increase attendance and to allow some teams to balance out home and away games, to the extent possible (either five home and four away, or four home and five away).


1982 NFL season, Regular season, 1982 players' strike
Because the 1982 shortened season would include only nine regular season contests for each team, the NFL announced that the three divisions in each of the two conferences would be eliminated for the purpose of determining playoff qualifications, and the regular season would be followed by an expansion of the playoffs from 10 to 16 teams. With this, each conference had 14 teams competing for 8 playoff spots, with division standings being disregarded in favor of overall conference standings. The Washington Redskins were the Super Bowl winners.


1982 NFL season, Final standings
Clinched playoff seeds are marked in parentheses and shaded in green


1982 NFL season, Playoffs
Each of the first three rounds of the playoffs was pushed back one week in order to make room for the new week 17, which was originally scheduled as the Wild Card weekend. This was possible because there was an idle week between the Conference Championship games and the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl was held as originally scheduled.


1982 NFL season, Playoffs, Bracket
Until this season, no team ever reached the post-season with a losing record. The Cleveland Browns and Detroit Lions both made playoff appearances with 4–5 records. It would be 28 years before another team with a losing record would make the post-season (however, this would be accomplished in a full season).


1982 NFL season, Playoffs, Bracket
The postseason would mark several "firsts" and "lasts" for several teams and players:


1982 NHK Trophy
The 1982 NHK Trophy was held in Tokyo. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


1982 NHL Entry Draft
The 1982 NHL Entry Draft was the 20th NHL Entry Draft. It was held at the Montreal Forum in Montreal, Quebec. The National Hockey League (NHL) teams selected 252 players eligible for entry into professional ranks, in the reverse order of the 1981–82 NHL season and playoff standings. This is the list of those players selected.


1982 NHL Entry Draft, Selections by round
Below are listed the selections in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft. Club teams are located in North America unless otherwise noted.


1982 NHL Entry Draft, Selections by round, Round seven
Victor Nechaev, the first Russian trained player to play professionally in the NHL was selected by the Los Angeles Kings in the seventh round of the 1982 Draft.


1982 NSL Cup
The 1982 NSL Cup was the sixth season of the NSL Cup, which was the main national association football knockout cup competition in Australia. All 16 NSL teams from around Australia entered the competition.


1982 NSW Building Society Open
The 1982 NSW Building Society Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the White City Stadium in Sydney, Australia that was part of the 1982 Avon Championships World Championship Series. It was the 91st edition of the tournament and was held from 22 November through 28 November 1982. First-seeded Navratilova won the singles title and earned $22,000 first-prize money.


1982 NSW Building Society Open, Finals, Doubles
Martina Navratilova /  Pam Shriver defeated  Eva Pfaff /  Claudia Kohde-Kilsch 6–2, 2–6, 7–6


1982 NSWRFL season
The 1982 NSWRFL season was the 75th season of professional rugby league football in Australia and saw the New South Wales Rugby Football League’s first expansion since 1967 with the introduction of the first two clubs from outside the Sydney area in over half a century: the Canberra Raiders and the Illawarra Steelers.


1982 NSWRFL season
Thus a total of 14 clubs (including 6 Sydney-based foundation teams, another 6 from Sydney, one from greater New South Wales, and one from the Australian Capital Territory) competed for the J.J. Giltinan Shield and newly-created Winfield Cup during the season, which culminated in a grand final between the Parramatta and Manly-Warringah clubs. This season, NSWRFL teams also competed for the 1982 KB Cup which was won by Manly-Warringah.


1982 NSWRFL season, Season summary
The first Charity Shield match was played before the 1982 season between St. George and South Sydney.


1982 NSWRFL season, Season summary
This year a bronze replica of “the Gladiators” – the 1963 photo taken by John O'Gready of Norm Provan and Arthur Summons’ post-game, mud-caked embrace – was first adopted to adorn the Winfield Cup, the new trophy to be awarded to the grand final winners. Because of the introduction of two new teams, twenty-six (rather than twenty-two) regular season rounds were played from February till August, resulting in a top five of Parramatta, Manly, Norths, Easts and Wests. The new teams, the Illawarra Steelers and the Canberra Raiders, would finish their debut seasons in second last and last place respectively.


1982 NSWRFL season, Season summary
The 1982 season saw the only nil-all scoreline in competition history. Newtown and Canterbury-Bankstown drew their match at Henson Park on 28 March, with neither team scoring a point. The long-standing record for the longest suspension for a player in the League's history was broken during the season. Western Suburbs' Bob Cooper was suspended for 15 months for punching Illawarra’s Lee Pomfret.


1982 NSWRFL season, Season summary
The 1982 season's Rothmans Medallist was Canterbury-Bankstown’s Greg Brentnall and the Dally M Award went to Parramatta’s lock forward, Ray Price. Rugby League Week gave their player of the year award to Eastern Suburbs’ halfback Kevin Hastings for the third consecutive season.


1982 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams
This year the number of clubs in the League reached a new high of fourteen, with the addition of two  expansion clubs, the Illawarra Steelers and the Canberra Raiders. This saw the first inclusion of teams based outside of the Sydney area since the foundation Newcastle club departed the League in 1909. This was the first of several expansions that would take place over the next decade and a half which would see the Sydney-wide competition grow into a New South Wales-wide competition and eventually into a national league. Also, for the first time in three quarters of a century, the League's 1908 foundation teams were outnumbered by teams introduced since the inaugural season.


1982 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams
75th seasonGround: Henson ParkCoach: Warren RyanCaptain: Tom Raudonikis & Ken Wilson


1982 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final
The Eels won the minor premiership with ease – eight points ahead of Manly – and breezed through the decider with the same confidence. Manly opened the scoring through Phil Blake in the opening minutes, but Parramatta replied quickly when Brett Kenny put Steve Ella over. After a quiet period, Manly collapsed in the ten minutes before half-time with Parramatta scoring three tries.


1982 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final
The first to Eric Grothe came when Brett Kenny had shown brilliant evasive skills on the second tackle after Manly dropped the ball, the second came when a Peter Sterling bomb deflected off a Parramatta player into Kenny's arms, and the third after quick hands saw Kenny send Neil Hunt over in the corner. The Eels led 16–3 at half-time and, despite Les Boyd scoring after playing the ball forward in the 48th minute, Brett Kenny's second try in the 62nd minute sealed victory.


1982 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final
Parramatta 21 (Tries: Kenny 2, Ella, Grothe, Hunt. Goals: Cronin 3/5.)


1982 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election
Elections to the Nagaland Legislative Assembly were held in November 1982 to elect members of the 60 constituencies in Nagaland, India. The United Democratic Front—Progressive alliance, led by the Indian National Congress won the most seats and S. C. Jamir was appointed as the Chief Minister of Nagaland for his second term. The number of constituencies was set as 60 by the recommendation of the Delimitation Commission of India.


1982 Nagasaki flood
The 1982 Nagasaki flood (Japanese: 長崎大水害) was caused by a cloudburst that occurred mainly in Nagasaki, Japan in July 1982.


1982 Nagasaki flood, Overview
On July 23, 1982, due to the influence of the Meiyu front, a cloudburst occurred around Nagasaki. Due to this cloudburst, mudflows and rivers overflowed their banks in quick succession.


1982 Nagasaki flood, Overview
Throughout the Nagasaki area, following rainfall observed at 100 to 187 mm a per hour, as well as landslides throughout the area. According to the Japanese government report, 299 people died in Nagasaki Prefecture, along with 23 in Kumamoto Prefecture.


1982 Nagasaki flood, Overview
The Japan Meteorological Agency named the heavy rain from July 23 to July 25 the "July 1982 heavy rain" (昭和57年7月豪雨). On the other hand, Nagasaki Prefecture named this disaster the "7.23 Nagasaki Flood" (7.23長崎大水害).


1982 NatWest Trophy
The 1982 NatWest Trophy was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 3 July and 4 September 1982. It was the 2nd NatWest Trophy, after it had been renamed from the Gillette Cup the previous year. The tournament was won by Surrey who defeated Warwickshire by 9 wickets in the final at Lord's.


1982 NatWest Trophy, Format
The seventeen first-class counties, were joined by five Minor Counties: Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Durham and Norfolk. The Ireland national cricket team also participated. Teams who won in the first round progressed to the second round. The winners in the second round then progressed to the quarter-final stage. Winners from the quarter-finals then progressed to the semi-finals from which the winners then went on to the final at Lord's which was held on 4 September 1982.


1982 National Camogie League
The 1982 National Camogie League, the second most important elite level inter-county competition in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by Kilkenny, who defeated Cork in the final, played at St John’s Park, Kilkenny.


1982 National Camogie League, Arrangements
Cork defeated Limerick, Clare, Tipperary and Wexford, while Kilkenny defeated Dublin the holders, Antrim, Down and Galway.


1982 National Camogie League, The Final
Jo Dunne secured the title for Kilkenny with two goals. Cork showed five changes from their All-Ireland team and Kilkenny had three. Cork played with the wind in the first half but did not open the scoring until the 16th minute when a long distance free from Martha Kearney eluded the defence to put Cork ahead with a goal. They added two points before the interval, while Kilkenny’s only score was an Angela Downey point from a free. Pat Landers and Val Fitzpatrick were best for Cork in the first half. Only Liz Neary impressed on the Kilkenny side.


1982 National Camogie League, The Final
Aided by the wind Kilkenny into attack in the opening minutes of the second half with Jo Dunne and Angela Downey adding points. A good Kilkenny movements five minutes later saw Anna Whelan cross to Angela Downey, who passed on to Jo Dunne and she finished to the net, putting Kilkenny ahead by one point. Mary O'Leary and Angela Downey then exchanged points. Jo Dunne’s second goal, palmed to the net in the 16th minute, gave Kilkenny a three point lead. They increased this a minute later and despite Cork’s efforts Kilkenny claimed the titile.


1982 National Camogie League, Division 2
The Junior National League, known since 2006 as Division Two, was reorganised to allow the second teams of the senior counties. The second teams were kept apart from the junior counties, who were divided into three zones. The division was won by Dublin who defeated Tyrone in a one-sided final at Eglish on May 30th, their side led by Anne Thorpe, Mairéad Bergin, Catherine Ledwidge, goalkeeper Toni O'Byrne, Mary Duane, Ethna O'Hehir and Anne Colgan, while Tyrone’s stars were Pauline Vally, Ann Daly, Ann Jordan, Caroline McCann, Kathleen Devlin, Ursula Jordan and Nuala Kelly. Dublin defeated Galway, Antrim, Down and Kilkenny, Tipperary in the play-off, and Kildare in the semi-final. Tyrone defeated Westmeath, Roscommon, Donegal, Derry, drew with holders Cavan, and defeated Carlow in the semi-final. Agnes Hourigan wrote in the Irish Press:


1982 National Camogie League, Division 2
. In fact this competition may have to be examined in the light of varying standards in the counties, considering it was inaugurated to help the weaker counties. Even within the junior zones, there was a wide range of standards. Dublin were not extended in any of their games in their section or in the play off game with Tipperary. They had no difficulty in defeating Kildare in the semi-final, a factor which must worry the Lily Whites as they are 1991 Leinster junior champions in the final last Sunday they proved much too strong, too experienced and too clever for Tyrone, whom they defeated 6-9 to 0-2.


1982 National Challenge Cup
The 1982 National Challenge Cup was the 69th edition of the USSF's annual open soccer championship. Teams from the North American Soccer League declined to participate. The New York Pancyprian-Freedoms defeated Maccabee A.C. in the final game in extra time by a score of 4–3.


1982 National Invitation Tournament
The 1982 National Invitation Tournament was the 1982 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition.


1982 National Invitation Tournament, Selected teams
Below is a list of the 32 teams selected for the tournament.


1982 National Invitation Tournament, Bracket
Below are the four first round brackets, along with the four-team championship bracket.


1982 National League Championship Series
The 1982 National League Championship Series was played between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Atlanta Braves from October 6 to 10. It was the 14th NLCS. The Cardinals swept the series in 3 games, and went on to win the World Series over the Milwaukee Brewers in seven games.


1982 National League Championship Series, Background
Despite their history as the National League's most successful franchise – the second-most World Series titles in baseball behind the New York Yankees — this was the Cardinals first postseason appearance since the league went to divisional play. Their last postseason trip had been to the 1968 World Series when they lost to the Detroit Tigers — the last year before divisional play. The Atlanta Braves were making their first postseason appearance since 1969, the first year of divisional play.


1982 National League Championship Series, Background
The Cardinals were led by Gold Glove first baseman and solid hitter Keith Hernandez, while the Braves were led by Dale Murphy, who was later named the season's MVP. The Cardinals had been the first team to clinch a playoff berth on September 27 while the Braves were the last to make the playoffs, clinching the West on October 3 when the Giants beat the Dodgers.


1982 National League Championship Series, Background
On a side note, Atlanta's manager Joe Torre and two of his coaches Bob Gibson and Dal Maxvill were known for playing for the opposing St. Louis Cardinal team while Cardinal coach Red Schoendienst previously played for the Braves and Cardinal coach Hub Kittle previously managed in the Braves organization.


1982 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1: Take 1
Wednesday, October 6, 1982, at Busch Stadium (II) in St. Louis, Missouri


1982 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1: Take 1
Game 1 was a wash—literally. The Braves led 1–0 behind Phil Niekro and were two outs from an official game when the umpire stopped it. When the rain did not subside, the game was postponed. Game 1 began from the start the following night in a match-up of the volatile Braves starter Pascual Pérez and longtime Cardinal starter Bob Forsch.


1982 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1: Take 2
Thursday, October 7, 1982, at Busch Stadium (II) in St. Louis, Missouri


1982 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1: Take 2
The new Game 1 was scoreless through two innings. In the bottom of the third, Willie McGee tripled and scored on Ozzie Smith's sacrifice fly to center. It stayed 1–0 until the sixth when the floodgates opened and the Cardinals scored five runs to finish off Perez and the Braves for the evening. Three straight singles by Lonnie Smith, Keith Hernandez, and George Hendrick chased Perez and made it 2–0 with two on and nobody out.


1982 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1: Take 2
Brought in to put out the fire, Steve Bedrosian walked Darrell Porter to load the bases and gave up a single to McGee that scored Hernandez. Ozzie Smith's single scored Hendrick and Porter scored on a sacrifice fly by Forsch. A wild pitch advanced the runners, and a Ken Oberkfell single made it 6–0 Cardinals. Donnie Moore replaced Bedrosian and ended the inning, but the game was as good as over.


1982 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1: Take 2
The Cardinals added a cosmetic run in the eighth scored by Forsch on a sacrifice fly. The 7–0 win gave the Cardinals a 1–0 lead in the best-of-five series. Forsch went the distance and only yielded three hits while Perez got the loss.


1982 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
Saturday, October 9, 1982, at Busch Stadium (II) in St. Louis, Missouri


1982 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
After another rainout the night before, an exciting contest unfolded at Busch Stadium in Game 2 with the Braves sending Phil Niekro against John Stuper. The Cardinals took a 1–0 lead in the bottom of the second when Ken Oberkfell scored on a wild pitch.


1982 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
The Braves answered in the top of the third when Bruce Benedict walked, went to second on a Niekro bunt, and scored the Braves' first run of the series that counted when Rafael Ramirez hit a single that he followed by scoring on a three-base error to put the Braves in front for the first time, 2–1. Niekro helped himself in the fifth when Glenn Hubbard singled, Benedict doubled, and Niekro's sacrifice fly gave the Braves a two-run lead. In the bottom of that same inning, Keith Hernandez singled and scored on Darrell Porter's double to make it 3–2 Atlanta.


1982 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
In the eighth, Porter walked, went to third on a George Hendrick single, and scored to tie it when Willie McGee hit into a fielder's choice that forced Hendrick at second. With the score tied, the Cardinals won in the bottom of the ninth when David Green singled, went to second on a bunt by Tommy Herr, and scored on a single by Oberkfell. The last at-bat win gave the Cardinals a 2–0 lead heading to Atlanta. Bruce Sutter got the win and Braves ace reliever Gene Garber got the loss.


1982 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
Sunday, October 10, 1982, at Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia


1982 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
In a must-win game, the Braves sent Rick Camp to the hill and the Cardinals countered with the sometimes volatile and often entertaining Joaquín Andújar. There were no runs in the first, but in the second, the Cardinals clinched the series. Hernandez singled, Porter walked, Hendrick singled to score Hernandez, and Willie McGee hit his second triple of the series to score two more runs. When Ozzie Smith singled to make it 4–0, Camp was history and for all intents and purposes, so were the Braves.


1982 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
In the fifth, Tommy Herr doubled and scored on a Hernandez single to make it 5–0. Facing elimination, the Braves fought back valiantly. Claudell Washington and Bob Horner both singled. Faced with the prospect of a big inning, manager Joe Torre pulled Washington and replaced him with the faster Terry Harper. But the next hitter, Chris Chambliss hit into a double play that scored Harper and made it 5–1, but took the Braves out of the inning since the next hitter was their star, Dale Murphy. Had Chambliss hit safely, a Murphy homer would have made it 5–4.


1982 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
Instead, Murphy singled with two outs, went to second on a wild pitch by Andujar, and scored on Glenn Hubbard's single. The scoring continued in the ninth when McGee drilled a home run off reliever Gene Garber to end the scoring at 6–2. Bruce Sutter got the save and Camp the loss.


1982 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
The win thrust the Cardinals into the 1982 World Series against another beer town team, the Milwaukee Brewers.


1982 National League Championship Series, Aftermath
Joe Torre would later manage the Cardinals from 1990-1995, before leading the Yankees to four World Series championships from 1996-2007. For his success with the Yankees, Torre was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014.


1982 National League Championship Series, Aftermath
The Braves would avenge their 1982 National League Championship Series loss 14 years later during the 1996 National League Championship Series when  Atlanta became just the sixth team in MLB history to comeback from a 3-1 series deficit in the postseason. The two teams met again three other times during the postseason, during the 2000 National League Division Series, 2012 National League Wild Card Game, and 2019 National League Division Series, with the Cardinals winning all three match-ups.


1982 National League season
In 1982 the National League, also known as British League Division Two, was the second tier of speedway racing in the United Kingdom.


1982 National League season, Summary
Milton Keynes rider Brett Alderton was killed in an accident during the second half of a league meeting at King's Lynn. The 18-year old Australian sustained a fatal head injury on 17 April.


1982 National League season, National League Knockout Cup
The 1982 National League Knockout Cup was the 15th edition of the Knockout Cup for tier two teams. Newcastle Diamonds were the winners of the competition.


1982 National League season, National League Knockout Cup, Final
Newcastle were declared Knockout Cup Champions, winning on aggregate 118–74.


1982 National Panasonic Open
The 1982 National Panasonic Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the Milton Tennis Centre in Brisbane, Australia that was part of the Category 4 tier of the 1982 WTA Tour. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from 15 November through 21 November 1982. Third-seeded Wendy Turnbull won the singles title and earned $22,000 first-prize money.


1982 National Panasonic Open, Finals, Doubles
Billie Jean King /  Anne Smith defeated  Eva Pfaff /  Claudia Kohde-Kilsch 6–3, 6–4


1982 National Panasonic Series
The 1982 National Panasonic Series was an Australian motor racing contest for Australian Formula 1 cars (commonly referred to as Formula Pacific cars). It was the second running of the National Panasonic Series.


1982 National Panasonic Series
The series was won by Charlie O'Brien driving a Ralt RT4.


1982 National Panasonic Series, Schedule
Rounds 1,2 & 3 were contested concurrently with Rounds 2, 4 & 5 of the 1982 Australian Drivers' Championship.


1982 National Panasonic Series, Points system
Series points were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis for each round.


1982 National Soccer League
The National Soccer League 1982 season was the sixth season of the National Soccer League in Australia. The champions were Sydney City SC for the third year in a row.


1982 National Soccer League (Canada) season
The 1982 National Soccer League season was the fifty ninth season under the National Soccer League (NSL) name. The season began in May, 1982 and concluded in late October, 1982 with the NSL Championship final where Hamilton Steelers successfully defended their title against Toronto Italia in a two-legged series final. Toronto Italia would still achieve a double by producing a undefeated streak in order to claim the regular season title and the NSL Cup by defeating St. Catharines Roma.


1982 National Soccer League (Canada) season
The season also marked the final time when the NSL would operate a franchise in the United States.


1982 National Soccer League (Canada) season, Overview
As reports of a potential Canadian national soccer league were becoming more imminent as an alternative to the American based North American Soccer League (NASL) two rival parties the Canadian Major Soccer League (CMSL) and the Canadian Professional Soccer League (CPSL) were attempting to receive sanctioning from the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) and were competing for national sponsorship. The CMSL attempted to recruit the Ontario based National Soccer League (NSL) to the discussions with the intentions of deploying the NSL as the league's eastern affiliate.


1982 National Soccer League (Canada) season, Overview
In December, the CPSL was officially announced and set to debut for the following season with two NSL clubs Hamilton Steelers and Toronto Croatia under the name Mississauga Croatia being granted franchises. The CMSL on the other hand received provisional sanctioning from the CSA in January, 1983. After failing to secure any national sponsorship the CMSL failed to make its debut.


1982 National Soccer League (Canada) season, Overview
The amount of teams within the NSL remained the same as the previous season with the exception of the departure of Toronto Ukrainia. The amount remained as ten teams as a new entry which represented the Latin American community in the Greater Toronto Area known as Dinamo Latino was granted a NSL franchise. Near the conclusion of the season the league lost its presence in the United States when Detroit Besa withdrew from the competition.


1982 National Soccer League (Canada) season, Overview
A notable friendly tournament sponsored by the Labatt Brewing Company featured European teams such as Celtic F.C., and Dinamo Zagreb against Toronto Italia and Toronto Panhellenic. Toronto Italia managed to upset Celtic with a defeat, but ultimately were defeated by Zagreb in the finals. Former league president Joe Piccininni returned to his former post and attempts of a television deal with MTV was announced in hopes of broadcasting league matches.


1982 National Society of Film Critics Awards
The 17th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 2 January 1983, honored the best filmmaking of 1982.


1982 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Director
1. Steven Spielberg – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial2. Sydney Pollack – Tootsie3. Jean-Jacques Beineix – Diva3. Francesco Rosi – Three Brothers (Tre fratelli)


1982 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Actor
1. Dustin Hoffman – Tootsie2. Ben Kingsley – Gandhi3. Peter O'Toole – My Favorite Year


1982 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Actress
1. Meryl Streep – Sophie's Choice2. Jessica Lange – Frances and Tootsie3. Diane Keaton – Shoot the Moon


1982 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Supporting Actor
1. Mickey Rourke – Diner2. John Lithgow – The World According to Garp


1982 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Supporting Actress
1. Jessica Lange – Tootsie2. Glenn Close – The World According to Garp3. Teri Garr – Tootsie


1982 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Screenplay
1. Murray Schisgal and Larry Gelbart – Tootsie2. Barry Levinson – Diner


1982 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1982 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth race of the 1982 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 28–30 May 1982 at the Circuito Internazionale Santa Monica.


1982 Navy Midshipmen football team
The 1982 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy (USNA) as an independent during the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was led by first-year head coach Gary Tranquill.


1982 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
The 1982 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was coached by Tom Osborne and played their home games in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.


1982 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster
Behning, Mark #73 (So.) OTBiggers, Kevin #13 (Jr.) CBBourn, Don #92 (So.) TEBrown, Todd #29 (Sr.) SEBrungardt, Tim #32 (Jr.) IBBuchanan, Eric #82 (So.) DEBurke, Dave #33 (So.) CBCampbell, Grant #24 (Sr.) PClark, Bret #10 (So.) SCraig, Roger #21 (Sr.) IBDamkroger, Steve #35 (Sr.) LBDaum, Mark #51 (So.) LBDenny, Gregorio #36 (Fr.) IBEngebritson, Monte #83 (Jr.) TEEvans, Brent #48 (Sr.) LBFelici, Tony #46 (Sr.) DEFisher, Todd #6 (So.) CBFryar, Irving #27 (Jr.) WBGdowski, Tom #93 (Sr.) DTGill, Turner #12 (Jr.) QBGlathar, Kurt #69 (Sr.) OGGraeber, Ken #52 (So.) MGGreene, Ricky #5 (So.) CBGrimminger, Harry #58 (So.) OGHaase, David #4 (Jr.) SHagerman, Mark #9 (Sr.) PKHarris, Neil #11 (So.) CBHerrmann, Doug #63 (Jr.) DTHill, Dan #84 (Sr.) TEHill, Pete #41 (So.) DEHolbrook, Tim #23 (Sr.) MON


1982 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster
Huebert, Randy #31 (Sr.) WBJohnson, Brad #55 (Sr.) CKeeler, Mike #61 (Jr.) DTKimball, Scott #88 (So.) SEKnox, Mike #44 (So.) LBKrenk, Mitch #89 (Sr.) TEKwapick, Jeff #70 (Sr.) OTLarsen, Pat #3 (Sr.) SLyday, Allen #18 (Sr.) CBMandelko, Mike #68 (Sr.) OGMason, Nate #8 (Jr.) QBMathison, Bruce #19 (Sr.) QBMcCashland, Mike #2 (So.) MONMcLaughlin, Scott #59 (So.) OGMcWhirter, Steve #45 (Sr.) LBMerrell, Jeff #74 (Sr.) MGMoravec, Mark #40 (Sr.) FBMorrow, Tom #77 (So.) OTMuehling, Brad #54 (Jr.) CMurphy, Jim #16 (Jr.) CBOrton, Greg #67 (So.) OGPraeuner, Wade #85 (Jr.) DERaridon, Scott #72 (Jr.) OTRathman, Tom #26 (So.) FBReinhardt, John #62 (Jr.) MGRidder, Dave #86 (Jr.) DERimington, Dave #50 (Sr.) CRipa, Dan #43 (So.) LBRozier, Mike #30 (Jr.) IBSchellen, Mark #25 (Jr.) FB


1982 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster
Schneider, Gary (Fr.) CBSchoening, Lynn #91 (Sr.) PKSchoettger, Scott #42 (So.) SESeibel, Kevin #49 (Sr.) PKSherlock, John #66 (Jr.) OTSimmons, Ricky #7 (Jr.) WBSmith, Jeff #28 (So.) IBSteinkuhler, Dean #71 (Jr.) OGStrasburger, Scott #90 (So.) DEStuckey, Rob #75 (So.) DTSundberg, Craig #15 (So.) QBSwanson, Shane #17 (So.) WBTheiss, Randy #65 (Sr.) OTThomas, Anthony #53 (So.) OGThompson, Jim #39 (So.) WBTramner, Mike #64 (Jr.) MGTraynowicz, Mark #57 (So.) OTTurner, Travis #14 (So.) QBVan Norman, Kris #38 (Sr.) MONVergith, Tom #22 (Sr.) SEWaechter, Kevin #76 (Jr.) DTWeber, Bill #87 (So.) DEWeed, Dan #56 (So.) CWilkening, Doug #34 (Jr.) FBWilliams, Jamie #80 (Sr.) TEWilliams, Toby #97 (Sr.) DTWingard, Dan #47 (So.) PKZierke, Mike (So.) DT


1982 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa
Defending Big Ten Champion Iowa was down 28-0 by halftime, and was only able to muster a single 4th-quarter touchdown against Nebraska reserves to avoid the shutout.


1982 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, New Mexico State
Records fell all over as Nebraska steamrolled New Mexico State 68-0 in Lincoln. Nebraska's total of 883 offensive yards, 645 consecutive yards without going backwards, 36 rushing first downs, and 43 total first downs were all new NCAA records.


1982 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Penn State
Nebraska fought back from a 7-21 deficit and finally pulled into the lead on an 80-yard drive with 1:18 remaining, yet the Nittany Lions drove right back and handed the Cornhuskers their first and only loss of the season, keyed by a controversial Penn State completion at the sideline, leaving 9 seconds left on the clock. Sixteen years later, Penn State TE Mike McCloskey, the receiver of the controversial catch, admitted he was out of bounds on the play and should have been ruled incomplete. Because the McCloskey "catch" stood, quarterback Todd Blackledge subsequently tossed the game winning catch to Kirk Bowman with 4 seconds remaining.


1982 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Auburn
The Cornhuskers, demoralized from the loss to Penn State a week earlier, struggled to come to life as Nebraska entered the locker room at halftime with a narrow 14-7 lead. By the end of the 3rd quarter, Nebraska had tacked on another 7 points, while Auburn had turned over the ball three times, and Nebraska finally ran off three straight scores in the 4th to put it away.


1982 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Colorado
Nebraska LB Steve Damkroger only recorded two interceptions during his Nebraska career, both in this game, as new Colorado coach Bill McCartney had his Colorado Buffaloes gunning for Nebraska through his attempt to establish the Cornhuskers as their main rival to give his squad a target by which to measure their success. At one point, Colorado came within 6 points of the lead, but Damkroger's two interceptions helped put to bed any Colorado upset hopes as Nebraska posted 20 unanswered 4th quarter points for the easy win.


1982 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State
Nebraska IB Mike Rozier became the second Nebraska back, after I.M. Hipp, to play back-to-back 200 yard games, and Cornhusker QB Turner Gill set a new Big 8 completion percentage record of 91.7%, as Nebraska had little trouble with Kansas State in Lincoln.


1982 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Missouri
Missouri was sniffing an upset after Nebraska QB Turner Gill was forced out by an injury in the 2nd quarter as the Tigers led 7-6, and the pressure was mounting after the Cornhuskers fell behind 9-13 in the 4th quarter, but backup QB Bruce Mathison directed two touchdown drives with help from an interception by Nebraska LB Brent Evans, and although Missouri would score again, the 10-point lead with 2:36 to go was too much for the Tigers to overcome.


1982 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas
Nebraska cruised to their 14th win in a row over Kansas and their 2nd shutout of the season, piling up 546 yards of offense compared to 69 for the Jayhawks and giving up only one turnover while owning the ball for 34:27. Five different players recorded touchdowns, as the Cornhuskers set out to protest their drop in the poll from #5 to #6 and prove that the previous close call in Missouri was not to be the norm.


1982 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma State
Oklahoma State runner Ernest Anderson, who later became the NCAA rushing record holder, was held to just 68 yards, while Nebraska IB Mike Rozier broke the Nebraska single season rushing record, held by Bobby Reynolds since 1950, with his 251-yard performance. The Cornhuskers jumped out to a 21-point lead, and the Cowboys only came within 14 before Nebraska left them behind.


1982 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa State
Iowa State briefly held Nebraska to just a 7-point lead, long enough for the Cyclones to post a tying score at the end of the 1st quarter, but the Cornhusker offense proved to be impossible to hold back as Nebraska then ran off 28 unanswered points. Iowa State feebly posted a field goal in the 4th quarter, which Nebraska then punctuated with another 13 points to put this one away.


1982 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma
A hard-fought, statistically matched game of football powerhouses, Nebraska and Oklahoma traded the lead a few times before both offenses ground to a halt at the end of the 3rd quarter with the Cornhuskers clinging to a 4-point lead. Two 4th quarter Sooner drives crossed Nebraska's 35-yard line without producing points, yet the game remained in doubt until Nebraska DE Scott Strasburger intercepted Oklahoma with 26 seconds left to play and ended the Sooners' hopes for the upset.


1982 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Hawaii
Few, if any, could have predicted that unranked Hawaii would lead Nebraska 10-0 by halftime and 16-7 at the end of the 3rd quarter, but the Cornhuskers finally found their footing late in this rare, late-season non-conference game and ripped 30 straight unanswered points in the 4th quarter, amassing 479 rushing yards on the day, to escape Honolulu with a 37-16 win.


1982 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, LSU
Nebraska struggled to overcome six turnovers in a game that saw them behind 7-14 at the half, behind 17-14 by the end of the 3rd, and clinging to a 1-point lead after LSU was forced to settle for a field goal in the 4th. Nebraska only punted once compared to the Tigers' six punts, had nearly double the total offensive yards, and a dominating rushing yardage lead, but the LSU ownership of the turnover battle demonstrated the importance of not giving away the ball as Nebraska barely escaped with the win.


1982 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, NFL and pro players
The following Nebraska players who participated in the 1982 season later moved on to the next level and joined a professional or semi-pro team as draftees or free agents.


1982 Nebraska gubernatorial election
The 1982 Nebraska gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1982, and featured businessman Bob Kerrey, a Democrat, defeating incumbent Republican Governor Charles Thone.


1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game
The 1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game was an NCAA college football game held on September 25, 1982, during the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season at Beaver Stadium in State College, Pennsylvania, between the then-#2 Nebraska Cornhuskers (coached by Tom Osborne) and then-#8 Penn State Nittany Lions (coached by Joe Paterno).


1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game, Lead-up to the game
The host Nittany Lions were ranked #8 in the AP Poll in the week leading up to the game with #2 Nebraska. Both teams were undefeated (Nebraska had beaten Iowa and New Mexico State, while Penn State had defeated rivals Temple, Maryland and Rutgers).


1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game, The game, First quarter
Penn State drew first blood in the first quarter on a six-play, 83-yard drive that culminated in a touchdown pass from Todd Blackledge to Kirk Bowman. Massimo Manca's extra point made it 7–0 Penn State.


1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game, The game, Second quarter
Penn State scored again in the second quarter, this time on a six-play, 71-yard drive that culminated in a Curt Warner touchdown run from the Nebraska 2. The score was 14–0 Penn State after the extra point by Manca.


1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game, The game, Second quarter
Late in the half, Nebraska got on the board after a seven-play, 80-yard drive culminated in a Turner Gill touchdown pass followed by the extra point by Kevin Seibel. The score was 14–7 Penn State at the half.


1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game, The game, Third quarter
Penn State scored again in the third quarter, this time on a seven-play, 83-yard drive on a touchdown pass from Blackledge to Kenny Jackson. Manca's third extra point made it 21–7 Penn State.


1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game, The game, Third quarter
However, Nebraska scored again, this time on a 15-play, 80-yard drive that resulted in a touchdown to make it 21–14 Penn State after three quarters following Seibel's extra point.


1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game, The game, Fourth quarter
Following a fumble by Penn State's backup tailback Skeeter Nichols (replacing Warner, who left the game early in the third quarter with muscle cramps) that was recovered by Nebraska at their own 44 yard line, Nebraska moved to the Penn State 20 before settling for a Seibel field goal to make the score 21–17 Penn State.


1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game, The game, Fourth quarter
Nebraska would take its only lead of the afternoon on an 80-yard drive after intercepting a Blackledge pass in the end zone, leading to a touchdown to make the score 24–21 Nebraska.


1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game, The game, Fourth quarter, Final drive
Penn State returned the ensuing kickoff to their own 20 yard line, but Nebraska's David Ridder was flagged for a personal foul. The fifteen yard penalty saw the final drive start from the Penn State 35.


1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game, The game, Fourth quarter, Final drive
Blackledge led Penn State down the field to the Nebraska 28, where the drive appeared to have stalled, but on fourth down and 11, Penn State kept the drive alive when Blackledge completed a pass to Jackson for a first down. The next completion ended up being controversial. On second down and four yards to go, Blackledge threw a 15-yard pass to Mike McCloskey. Replays appeared to show the pass was caught out of bounds, however the linesman ruled him in-bounds. At the time, instant replay could not be used to overturn calls made on the field.


1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game, The game, Fourth quarter, Final drive
This set up first and goal from the Nebraska 2 yard line with nine seconds remaining on the clock. Nebraska defensive players thought McCloskey was out of bounds, but without the benefit of instant replay, Penn State took advantage and Blackledge hooked up with Bowman on the winning touchdown pass with 4 seconds left. It wasn’t certain to Nebraska’s defenders that Bowman made a legal catch of the final pass. Manca's extra point attempt was no good, so the score was 27–24 Penn State.


1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game, The game, Fourth quarter, Final drive
Nebraska failed to return the ensuing kickoff past their own 35, making the 27–24 score official in favor of Penn State.


1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game, Aftermath
Nebraska dropped to #8 after the loss, but ran the table over the remainder of the season, including a win over #13 LSU in the Orange Bowl.


1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game, Aftermath
Penn State moved up to #4 after the win (then to #3 following a bye week), then lost to #5 Alabama to fall back to #8. But they ran the table over the remainder of the regular season, and went on to win their first consensus national championship in the Sugar Bowl by defeating top-ranked Georgia (who were led by Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker), 27–23. The win over Nebraska was the signature win of Penn State's first national championship season.


1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game, Aftermath
Nebraska would get revenge the next season by defeating Penn State in the inaugural Kickoff Classic at Giants Stadium 44–6.


1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game, Aftermath
In 1998, Mike McClosky admitted at a speaking engagement that he was in fact "out of bounds". Blackledge commented that perhaps the worst call in Nebraska history was a break for the Nittany Lions. Even Joe Paterno said later that the pass "might have been incomplete".


1982 Nedlands state by-election
The 1982 Nedlands state by-election was a by-election held on 13 March 1982 for the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Nedlands in the western suburbs of Perth.


1982 Nedlands state by-election
The by-election was triggered by the resignation of the Liberal member for the seat, Premier Sir Charles Court, on 25 January 1982. Court had held the seat since the 1953 state election. Having served as a senior minister in the Brand–Watts Ministry and then as Premier since the 1974 state election, his retirement had been widely expected and was announced on 18 December, a few months after his 70th birthday. He claimed that he had delayed his retirement to carry through the battle against the federal government over funding for Western Australia.


1982 Nedlands state by-election
On 2 February 1982, the Speaker of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly issued a writ for an election in the district. It was to be held concurrently with a by-election in the Labor-held seat of Swan and a legislative council by-election for South Metropolitan. His son, 33-year-old businessman Richard Court, was preselected for the Liberal Party to run for the seat.


1982 Nedlands state by-election
The seat of Nedlands, first established in 1929, was considered to be a safe seat for the Liberal Party, and had had just two other members since its creation—former Attorney-General and leader of the Nationalist Party, Norbert Keenan, and the independent Liberal member David Grayden, who served for a single term from 1950 until his defeat in 1953 by Court.


1982 Nedlands state by-election, Candidates
The by-election attracted six candidates. Local businesswoman and long-standing Liberal Party member Margaret Sheen nominated as an Independent Liberal, while the Labor Party nominated lawyer Ian Temby QC, who had been prominent in assisting the Labor Party with court challenges to the government's electoral legislation. Temby accused local real estate agents of discriminating against him with a view to preventing him from obtaining a campaign office. The Australian Democrats, perennial independent candidate Alf Bussell and another independent who had also stood at the 1977 and 1980 elections also nominated.


1982 Nedlands state by-election, Results
As largely predicted, Richard Court retained the seat for the Liberal Party, albeit against an estimated swing of 9.1% to the ALP.


1982 Nehru Cup
The 1982 Nehru Cup was the first edition of the Nehru Cup. It was held between 16 February to 3 March in Calcutta.


1982 Nehru Cup, Format
A total of 6 teams participated in the tournament through being invited by the All India Football Federation. The tournament would be played in a round-robin style with the top two in the final standings then meeting in a final match to crown the champions.


1982 Netherlands v France (women's rugby union match)
Netherlands v France in 1982 was the first women's rugby union test match. 1982 was the 50th anniversary of the Dutch Rugby Union and, as part of the celebrations, the Dutch invited the Association Française de Rugby Féminin (AFRF) to send a France women's national rugby union team to play a Netherlands women's national rugby union team. The match was covered by reporter Henk Hansen of the Dutch news magazine Panorama.


1982 Netherlands v France (women's rugby union match)
The match was played on 13 June 1982 at the Utrecht Sportpark Strijland, the home of Utrechtse Rugby Club, in Utrecht, Netherlands. The Netherlands were led by head coach Jopie Nessels and captained by their prop Lisa Groenedijk; France were led by head coach Clause Isoard. The match referee was Roel Wijnant of Belgium. The match resulted in a 4–0 victory for France.


1982 Nevada Wolf Pack football team
The 1982 Nevada Wolf Pack football team represented the University of Nevada, Reno during the 1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Nevada competed as a member of the Big Sky Conference (BSC). The Wolf Pack were led by seventh-year head coach Chris Ault and played their home games at Mackay Stadium.


1982 Nevada Wolf Pack football team, Previous season
The Wolf Pack finished the 1981 season 7–4 and 4–3 in BSC play to finish tied in third place.


1982 Nevada gubernatorial election
The 1982 Nevada gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1982 to elect the Governor of Nevada. Incumbent Republican Robert List ran unsuccessfully for re-election to a second term. He lost to Democratic nominee Richard Bryan by a small margin.


1982 New Brunswick general election
The 1982 New Brunswick general election was held on October 12, 1982, to elect 58 members to the 50th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, the governing house of the province of New Brunswick, Canada. It saw Richard Hatfield's Progressive Conservative Party win its largest majority ever to that time. (Bernard Lord beat this record in 1999.)


1982 New Brunswick general election, Background
The Opposition Liberal Party had changed leaders four times since the eve of the 1978 election. It chose Doug Young just months before the vote in a divisive contest that came down to a final ballot against Joseph A. Day.


1982 New Brunswick general election, Campaign
The PCs ran two separate campaigns - one in English and one in French. The francophone campaign, which was mostly run by Hatfield's French lieutenant Jean-Maurice Simard, began with the Grand Ralliement, a symposium on language rights which took place in Shippagan ten days before the election call. Over 400 notable Acadians and other francophones attended. The dual campaigns were remarkably separate from each other, and in some cases contradictory: the English campaign revolved around attacking Doug Young's economic record, while the French campaign pointed out Hatfield's role working with Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in enshrining francophone rights in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.


1982 New Brunswick general election, Campaign
The Liberals, divided by their recent leadership contest, ran a lackluster campaign which allowed Hatfield's and Simard's overtures to the Acadian population to carry many seats that had been Liberal strongholds for generations, including 10 of 21 Acadian ridings. The Parti Acadien made its last appearance, as the Conservatives adopted several key points of their former platform.


1982 New Brunswick general election, Campaign
The New Democratic Party of New Brunswick elected Bob Hall as its first ever Member of the Legislative Assembly. He was later joined by a second NDP MLA, Peter Trites, in a by-election.


1982 New Brunswick general election, Results by riding, South West
Consisting of Queens, Kings, Saint John and Charlotte county ridings.


1982 New England Patriots season
The 1982 New England Patriots season was the franchise's 13th season in the National Football League and 23rd overall. They finished the National Football League's strike-shortened season with a record of five wins and four losses and finished seventh in the American Football Conference. One of the most notable games in NFL history occurred during the season, when the Patriots hosted the Miami Dolphins in a game dubbed the Snowplow Game due to several inches of snow on the field at Schaefer Stadium. New England won the game 3-0. In the first round of the playoffs, they were defeated by the same Dolphins, this time in warm-weathered Miami, by a score of 28-13.


1982 New England Patriots season
The 1982 season was shortened from 16 regular season games to 9 due to the 57-day players strike.


1982 New Hampshire Wildcats football team
The 1982 New Hampshire Wildcats football team was an American football team that represented the University of New Hampshire as a member of the Yankee Conference during the 1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season. In its eleventh year under head coach Bill Bowes, the team compiled a 4–6 record (1–4 against conference opponents) and finished last out of six teams in the Yankee Conference.


1982 New Hampshire gubernatorial election
The 1982 New Hampshire gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 1982.


1982 New Hampshire gubernatorial election
Incumbent Democratic Governor Hugh Gallen ran for re-election but was defeated by Tufts University professor John Sununu. Sununu became the first Arab-American governor of New Hampshire.


1982 New Mexico Lobos football team
The 1982 New Mexico Lobos football team represented the University of New Mexico in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their third and final season under head coach Joe Morrison, the Lobos compiled a 10–1 record (6–1 against WAC opponents), finished in second place in the WAC, and outscored opponents, 374 to 225.


1982 New Mexico Lobos football team
The team's statistical leaders included Dave Osborn with 1,609 passing yards, Mike D. Carter with 722 rushing yards and 739 receiving yards, and Pete Parks with 60 points scored.


1982 New Mexico State Aggies football team
The 1982 New Mexico State Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico State University in the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their fifth year under head coach Gil Krueger, the Aggies compiled a 3–8 record. The team played its home games at Aggie Memorial Stadium in Las Cruces, New Mexico.


1982 New Mexico gubernatorial election
The 1982 New Mexico gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1982. Its purpose was to elect the Governor of New Mexico. Due to term limits, incumbent Democrat Bruce King was ineligible to seek a second term as Governor. As of 2021, this is the last election in which a Governor was succeeded by a member of the same party.


1982 New Mexico gubernatorial election, Democratic primary
The Democratic primary was won by former Attorney General Toney Anaya.


1982 New Orleans Saints season
The 1982 New Orleans Saints season saw the team nearly qualify for the NFL playoffs, missing it by a tiebreaker. The Saints finished with a 4–5 record, and narrowly missed the playoffs in a complicated labyrinth of tie-breakers.


1982 New Orleans mayoral election
The New Orleans mayoral election of 1982 resulted in the reelection of Ernest Morial to a second term as mayor of New Orleans.


1982 New Orleans mayoral election, Background
Elections in Louisiana—with the exception of U.S. presidential elections—follow a variation of the open primary system. Candidates of any and all parties are listed on one ballot; voters need not limit themselves to the candidates of one party. Unless one candidate takes more than 50% of the vote in the first round, a run-off election is then held between the top two candidates, who may in fact be members of the same party. In this election, the first round of voting was held on February 6, 1982, and the runoff was held on March 20.


1982 New Orleans mayoral election, Campaign
Throughout the campaign, challengers Faucheux and Jefferson were able to make Morial the main campaign issue. Faucheux accused Morial of allowing the New Orleans Police Department to deteriorate and crime to rise, and emphasized the mayor's poor relations with City Council and the state Legislature. Jefferson accused Morial of having done little to aid the city's African-American community or to curb police brutality. Both major challengers argued that the mayor's abrasive personality hampered his leadership of the city.


1982 New Orleans mayoral election, Campaign
Morial defended his record as mayor and emphasized the economic growth that had occurred during his term as mayor, including the development of many new buildings in the Central Business District, the construction of the New Orleans Convention Center, and industrial development in New Orleans East. He also cited his progress in eliminating bureaucracy and streamlining city governance. Morial was aided by endorsements by several black political organizations, including BOLD and SOUL, as well as the Louisiana Weekly newspaper and the Regular Democratic Organization.


1982 New Orleans mayoral election, Campaign
Faucheux stressed his anti-crime credentials during his time in the state legislature, and made the transferral of sales tax revenue from the state to the city one of his major campaign promises. Faucheux was endorsed by the Alliance for Good Government.


1982 New Orleans mayoral election, Campaign
Jefferson also emphasized that the city would need new sources of revenue, and promised to work to eliminate the homestead exemption on real estate tax. Jefferson's campaign was damaged by accusations by some black leaders that he was trying to divide the black community by challenging the city's first black mayor and forcing him into a runoff against a white opponent.


1982 New Orleans mayoral election, Results
While Morial was able to come out with more votes than Faucheux in the primary, four years of declining popularity meant that Morial received only about 15% of the white vote, compared with the 29% he received in the election of 1977. Morial received 90% of the black vote, while Faucheux was only able to get 1% of the black vote. Jefferson received about 7% support from both white and black voters.


1982 New Orleans mayoral election, Results
Morial was aided in the runoff by a concerted effort to bring out the black vote, using the slogan "Keep the Drive Alive." Black voters turned out in significantly higher proportion compared to their white counterparts; many black leaders framed the election as a chance to cement the political gains won by the civil rights movement and by the subsequent election of Morial to his first term.


1982 New Orleans mayoral election, Results
Faucheux's endorsement by former mayor Moon Landrieu had little impact on the election, coming only three days before the runoff. According to the Times-Picayune's post-election analysis, Morial won by "holding a significant white crossover vote while increasing the black turnout and denying any of it to Faucheux."


1982 New Year Honours
The New Year Honours 1982 were appointments by most of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and honorary ones to citizens of other countries. They were announced in The London Gazette on 31 December 1981 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1982.


1982 New Year Honours
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.


1982 New Year Honours, United Kingdom and Commonwealth, Royal Victorian Order, Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)
At this time the two lowest classes of the Royal Victorian Order were "Member (fourth class)" and "Member (fifth class)", both with post-nominal letters MVO. "Member (fourth class)" was renamed "Lieutenant" (LVO) from the 1985 New Year Honours onwards.


1982 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The 1982 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by Elizabeth II on the advice of the New Zealand government to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. The awards celebrated the passing of 1981 and the beginning of 1982, and were announced on 31 December 1981.


1982 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.


1982 New York City Marathon
The 1982 New York City Marathon was the 13th edition of the New York City Marathon and took place in New York City on 24 October.


1982 New York Cosmos season
The 1982 New York Cosmos season was the 12th season for the New York Cosmos in the now-defunct North American Soccer League. The Cosmos completed their fourth double—a feat not matched by any NASL or, as yet, MLS club—finishing 37 points ahead of Seattle for the league premiership, and defeating the Sounders in Soccer Bowl '82 for the league championship.


1982 New York Cosmos season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season
Pld = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points6 points for a win, 1 point for a shootout win, 0 points for a loss, 1 point for each goal scored (up to three per game).


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
April 10, 1982: New York Cosmos 3, Jacksonville Tea Men 2 Jacksonville, Fl Attendance: 4,537


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
April 18, 1982, New York Cosmos 2, Tampa Bay Rowdies 0 Giants Stadium Attendance 52,436


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
April 24, 1982: New York Cosmos 3, Chicago Sting 1 Wrigley Field Attendance 16,149


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
April 28, 1982: Fort Lauderdale Strikers 2, New York Cosmos 1 Lockhart Stadium Attendance 17,951


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
May 2, 1982: New York Cosmos 2, Jacksonville Tea Men 0 Giants Stadium Attendance 32,710


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
May 5, 1982: New York Cosmos 1, Toronto Blizzard 2 Varsity Stadium Attendance 16,746


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
May 8, 1982: New York Cosmos 3, Tulsa Roughnecks 2 Skelly Stadium Attendance 21,118


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
May 12, 1982: New York Cosmos 2, San Diego Sockers 1 San Diego Sports Arena 14,805


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
May 16, 1982: Chicago Sting 1, New York Cosmos 3 Giants Stadium 36,193


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
May 19, 1982: New York Cosmos 3, Portland Timbers 2 Civic Stadium 15,233


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
May 23, 1982: New York Cosmos 3, Fort Lauderdale Strikers 2 Giants Stadium 18,710


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
June 6, 1982: New York Cosmos 2, Toronto Blizzard 1 Giants Stadium 18,938


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
June 12, 1982: New York Cosmos 2, Tampa Bay Rowdies 0 Tampa Stadium 28,475


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
June 18. 1982: Montreal Manic 3, New York Cosmos 2 Olympic Stadium 32,654


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
June 20, 1982: New York Cosmos 3, Seattle Sounders 2 Giants Stadium 27,397


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
June 23, 1982: New York Cosmos 3, Vancouver Whitecaps 2 Giants Stadium 22,914


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
June 27, 1982: New York Cosmos 3, Edmonton Drillers 1 Giants Stadium 26,379


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
June 30, 1982: San Jose Earthquakes 4, New York Cosmos 2 Spartan Stadium 18,111


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
July 3, 1982: Vancouver Whitecaps 1, New York Cosmos 0 Empire Stadium 22,618


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
July 7, 1982: Edmonton Drillers 2, New York Cosmos 1 Clarke Stadium 8,697


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
July 10, 1982: New York Cosmos 2, Chicago Sting 1 Wrigley Field 18,023


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
July 14, 1982: New York Cosmos 3, Montreal Manic 2 Giants Stadium 25,634


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
July 18, 1982: New York Cosmos 6, Portland Timbers 2 Giants Stadium 24,387


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
July 22, 1982: New York Cosmos 1, Toronto Blizzard 0 Varsity Stadium 10,856


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
July 25, 1982: New York Cosmos 2, San Diego Sockers 1 Giants Stadium 29,572


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
July 28, 1982: New York Cosmos 2, San Jose Earthquakes 1 Giants Stadium 18,828


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
August 1, 1982: New York Cosmos 3, Montreal Manic 2 Giants Stadium 38,891


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
August 4, 1982: Seattle Sounders 3, New York Cosmos 2 Kingdome attendance 23,925


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
August 11, 1982: Toronto Blizzard 4, New York Cosmos 1 Giants Stadium Attendance 22,158


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
August 15, 1982: New York Cosmos 3, Chicago Sting 1 Giants Stadium Attendance 36,241


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
August 18, 1982: New York Cosmos 3, Tulsa Roughnecks 1 Giants Stadium Attendance 28,638


1982 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Matches
August 20, 1982: Montreal Manic 3, New York Cosmos 1 Olympic Stadium 34,251


1982 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
The 48th New York Film Critics Circle Awards honored the best filmmaking of 1982. The winners were announced on 20 December 1982 and the awards were given on 30 January 1983.


1982 New York Giants season
The 1982 New York Giants season was the franchise's 58th season in the National Football League, but was shortened to nine games due to the 1982 NFL Players Strike.


1982 New York Giants season
The season saw the Giants attempting to improve on a 9–7 record from 1981, a season in which they had made the playoffs for the first time since 1963 and also clinched their first winning record since 1972. However, the Giants stumbled out the gates early, starting 0–2 before the strike occurred. After the strike ended, the Giants won four of their last seven games, but missed the playoffs because of losing two tiebreakers against the Saints and the Lions (who both ended with identical 4–5 records). The Giants lost the tiebreakers based on best conference record.


1982 New York Giants season
The Lions went 4–4 against NFC teams, while the Giants and Saints both went 3–5 against NFC teams. The Lions won the tiebreaker over the Saints, thus eliminating the Saints and Giants from playoff contention and putting the Lions into the playoffs as the final wild card spot in the NFC. This was the nineteenth season out of the last twenty that the Giants missed the playoffs.


1982 New York Jets season
The 1982 New York Jets season was the 23rd season for the franchise and its 13th in the National Football League. It began with the team trying to improve upon its 10–5–1 record from 1981 and return to the playoffs under head coach Walt Michaels. The season was marred by an eight-week players’ strike, cancelling eight scheduled games (one game was made up at the end of the season), and eliminating divisional play for the season; the top eight teams from each conference advanced to the playoffs.


1982 New York Jets season
The Jets finished the season with a record of 6–3 in sixth place in the American Football Conference. They defeated the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Raiders in the first two rounds of the playoffs to advance to their first AFC Championship Game. There, they fell to their division rivals, the Miami Dolphins, 14–0.


1982 New York Mets season
The New York Mets' 1982 season was the 21st regular season for the Mets. They went 65–97 and finished in sixth place in the National League East. They were managed by George Bamberger. They played home games at Shea Stadium.


1982 New York Mets season, Regular season, Joel Youngblood
On August 4, 1982, Youngblood became the first player in history to get hits for two different teams in two different cities on the same day. Youngblood had driven in the winning run for the Mets in an afternoon game at Wrigley Field against the Chicago Cubs, and then singled in a night game for the Montreal Expos in Philadelphia after he had been traded. The two pitchers he hit safely against, Ferguson Jenkins of the Cubs and Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies, are both in the Baseball Hall of Fame.


1982 New York Mets season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In


1982 New York Yankees season
The New York Yankees' 1982 season was the 80th season for the Yankees. The team finished in fifth place in the American League Eastern Division with a record of 79–83, finishing 16 games behind the AL Champion Milwaukee Brewers. As a result, the Yankees endured their first losing season since going 80–82 in 1973, the team's final season at the original Yankee Stadium before the 1976 renovations. The Yankees were managed by Gene Michael, Bob Lemon, and Clyde King. The Yankees played their home games at Yankee Stadium.


1982 New York Yankees season
Mel Allen, the long time Yankees play-by-play commentator, returned that season this time as a cable PBP man for the Yankees broadcasts on SportsChannel NY with Fran Healy, with former partner Phil Rizzuto alternating with him. He had been a familiar face to many for several years now since his return to television in 1975 as the voice-over narrator and presenter for the hit program This Week in Baseball.


1982 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases


1982 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases


1982 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1982 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1982 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1982 New York gubernatorial election
The 1982 New York gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1982 to elect the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of New York. Incumbent Democratic Governor Hugh Carey chose not to run for a third term, which resulted in an open race. Democratic nominee Mario Cuomo, the Lieutenant Governor of New York, narrowly defeated Republican Lewis Lehrman, a banker who ran as a conservative.


1982 New York gubernatorial election
Both candidates had been considered unlikely victors of their respective parties' primaries. Cuomo had unexpectedly defeated Ed Koch, the Mayor of New York City, to win the Democratic nomination. Cuomo was considered a political liberal who worked to revitalize the New Deal coalition. Entering the race as a political novice, Lehrman reportedly spent $7 million to boost his profile through advertising, beginning as early as January 1981. Lehrman ran a law and order campaign, referring to criminals as "savages", and on fiscal policy pledged cuts to the state income tax.


1982 New York gubernatorial election
Cuomo ultimately won what was described as "a classic left vs. right battle" by a 50.9 to 47.5 percent margin, buoyed by voters in New York City. Cuomo would go on to serve three terms in office before ultimately losing reelection in 1994.


1982 New York gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Candidates, Declined
The Democratic primary shaped up as a rematch of the 1977 New York City mayoral election between Mario Cuomo and Ed Koch. Koch won a Democratic primary runoff narrowly over Cuomo and then defeated Cuomo, running on the Liberal Party of New York ticket, again in the general election. In the meantime, Cuomo had been elected Lieutenant Governor in 1978 and Koch had been re-elected to a second term as Mayor in 1981.


1982 New York gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Candidates, Declined
Governor Hugh Carey announced he would not stand for re-election to a third term on January 15, amid low approval ratings and nascent challenges from within his own party, including by Lieutenant Governor Mario Cuomo. After Carey announced he would not run, New York City Mayor Ed Koch entered the race. His decision in turn discouraged Robert Abrams and Carol Bellamy from running.


1982 New York gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Campaign
Koch's status as the early front-runner was quickly derailed by the publication of an interview he had given to Playboy in late 1981, in which he exalted life in New York City and denigrated suburban and rural lifestyles in comparison. On a trip to Albany following the article's publication, Koch was booed loudly. He described the interview as "foolish" and apologized to upstate voters.


1982 New York gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Campaign
Both candidates emphasized their respective records. Cuomo differentiated himself by his opposition to the death penalty, and attempted to link Koch to Republican politicians and President Ronald Reagan. Nevertheless, at the June party convention in Albany, Koch received the party's endorsement with 61% of the vote.