4 August 2005
- Baseball: The struggling Baltimore Orioles fire manager Lee Mazzilli. Under interim manager Sam Perlozzo, the O's defeat the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, 4–1, snapping an eight-game losing streak.
- National Hockey League: Jeremy Roenick is traded from the Philadelphia Flyers to the Los Angeles Kings for "future considerations." A day earlier, Peter Forsberg joined the Flyers from the Colorado Avalanche. Bringing in Forsberg put the Flyers over the maximum salary cap limit, and trading Roenick put them back under it. Roenick himself stated that the Flyers were better off with Forsberg, and without him. (Yahoo!)
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