Right this moment’s Sports activities Spotlight in Historical past:
1975 — The ten-team World Soccer League, citing lack of tv and season ticket help, disbands earlier than the twelfth week of a 20-week season.
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1933 — Primo Carnera retains the world heavyweight title with a 15-round resolution over Paolino Uzcudun in Rome.
1950 — The Los Angeles Rams beat the Baltimore Colts 70-27.
1961 — Erich Barnes of the New York Giants ties an NFL document by returning an interception 102 yards for a landing in a 17-16 loss to the Dallas Cowboys.
1966 — Bobby Orr of the Boston Bruins scores his first objective.
1975 — The Cincinnati Reds beat the Boston Crimson Sox, 4-3 at Fenway Park 4 video games to a few to win the World Collection.
1976 — Twin brothers Tom and Dick Van Arsdale play collectively in a sport for the Phoenix Suns, changing into the primary and solely pair of brothers to play for a similar NBA membership.
1984 — Future Professional Soccer HOF quarterback Ken Stabler retires after 17 seasons within the NFL with Oakland Raiders, Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints.
1994 — Alcorn State’s Steve McNair turns into the NCAA’s profession yardage chief with 15,049, surpassing the previous mark set by Brigham Younger’s Ty Detmer, who had 14,665. McNair’s 649 yards additionally breaks his personal Division I-AA single-game document as he leads the Braves to a 41-37 win over Southern.
2000 — Bengals working again Corey Dillon rushes for an NFL single-game document 278 yards in a 31-21 victory over the Denver Broncos. Dillon betters Walter Payton’s 27-year-old mark by three yards.
2001 — New York routs Seattle 12-3 in Recreation 5 to win the AL pennant for the thirty eighth time. The Yankees change into the primary crew since their predecessors in 1960-64 to win 4 straight pennants.
2005 — Mount Union drops a regular-season sport for the primary time since 1994, dropping 21-14 to Ohio Northern in a Division III matchup. The Purple Raiders, winners of 110 straight regular-season video games, had not misplaced a regular-season sport since they had been crushed 23-10 by Baldwin-Wallace on Oct. 15, 1994.
2012 — Lance Armstrong is stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for all times by biking’s governing physique following a report from the U.S. Anti-Doping Company that accuses him of main an enormous doping program on his groups.
2014 — Serena Williams is routed 6-0, 6-2 by Simona Halep within the WTA Finals round-robin, one of the vital one-sided losses within the 18-time Grand Slam champion’s profession. The final time Williams managed to win simply two video games in a WTA Tour or Grand Slam match was in 1998 when she was 16.
2016 — Kyle Hendricks outpitches Clayton Kershaw, Anthony Rizzo and Willson Contreras homers early and the Chicago Cubs received their first pennant since 1945, beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-0 in Recreation 6 of the NL Championship Collection.
2016 — Baker Mayfield has seven landing passes and 545 yards to assist No. 16 Oklahoma beat Texas Tech 66-59 within the sport that breaks the NCAA document for mixed offensive yards with 1,708 yards.
2016 — Leonard Fournette breaks LSU’s single-game dashing document on simply his first eight carries because the No. 25 Tigers beat No. 23 Mississippi 38-21. Fournette finishes with 284 yards dashing in his first motion since aggravating a left ankle harm on Sept. 24. He averages 17.8 yards on 16 carries and his touchdowns go for 78, 76 and 59 yards.
2017 — The Phoenix Suns hearth coach Earl Watson simply three video games in to the NBA season.
2020 — The Nationwide Hockey League introduced the annual NHL All Star Recreation and Expertise Competitors could be postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
