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1962 鈥� Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors scores 42 points and grabs 24 rebounds as he won MVP honors even though his East team lost to the West 150-130 in the NBA All-Star game. The West鈥檚 Bob Pettit pulls down an All-Star record 27 rebounds.
1972 鈥� The Dallas Cowboys dominate the Miami Dolphins, setting a Super Bowl record of 252 yards rushing en route to a 24-3 victory.
1974 鈥� Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Mantle is elected in his first year of eligibility and Ford in his second year.
1988 鈥� Jimmy 鈥淭he Greek鈥� Snyder, the CBS NFL Today tout for 12 years, is fired for his racial comments during an interview the previous day with WRC-TV in Washington.
1993 鈥� Kansas beats Louisville 98-77 for its 1,500th win in school history.
1993 鈥� Michael Jordan scores 64 points, but Chicago is upended in overtime by visiting Orlando 128-124. The Magic are led by rookie center Shaquille O鈥橬eal, who has 29 points and 24 rebounds.
2008 鈥� Bob Knight becomes the first men鈥檚 Division I coach with 900 wins when Texas Tech beats No. 10 Texas A&M 68-53.
2011 鈥� New York Jets stun the New England Patriots 28-21. The Patriots 鈥� who had the league鈥檚 best record during the regular season 鈥� suffer their third straight postseason loss. Mark Sanchez throws three touchdown passes, Tom Brady is sacked five times and the Jets advance to their second straight AFC championship game.
2015 鈥� The NCAA restores 112 football wins it stripped from Penn State and Joe Paterno in the Jerry Sandusky child-molestation scandal and reinstates the venerated late coach as the winningest in major college football history. The NCAA announces the new settlement with the school weeks before a scheduled trial on the legality of the sanctions imposed in 2012.
2016 鈥� Larry Fitzgerald sets up and scores the winning touchdown on the third play of overtime, taking a 5-yard pass from Carson Palmer that lifts Arizona past Green Bay 26-20 after Aaron Rodgers鈥� desperation 41-yard touchdown pass to Jeff Janis on the final play of regulation. Fitzgerald turns a short pass into a 75-yard gain on the first play of overtime to set up his 5-yard shovel pass reception for the winning score.
2019 鈥� Golden State guard Stephen Curry first player in NBA history to hit 8+ three-point FGs in 3 consecutive games; goes 9-of- 17 three鈥檚 in Warriors鈥� 147-140 win over New Orleans; teams combine for NBA record 43 3-pointers.
2020 – Former Sacramento State softball player Alyssa Nakken becomes first woman to hold a coaching position on a MLB staff when named an assistant by the San Francisco Giants.
2022 鈥� Unvaccinated World #1 tennis player Novak 膼okovi膰 is deported by the Australian government on 鈥渉ealth and good order鈥� grounds, without playing in the Australian Open.
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