1940 — The first telecast of an American hockey game is transmitted over station W2XBS in New York — the New York Rangers vs. the Montreal Canadiens at Madison Square Garden.
1962 — Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points, but New York’s Richie Guerin scores 50 to lead the Knicks to a 149-135 victory.
1964 — Cassius Clay wins the world heavyweight title when Sonny Liston is unable to answer the bell for the seventh round at Convention Hall in Miami Beach, Fla.
1977 — Pete Maravich of the New Orleans Jazz scores 68 points, the most by an NBA guard, in a 124-107 victory over the New York Knicks. Only Wilt Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor had scored more points in an NBA game.
1987 — The Southern Methodist football team is suspended for the 1987 season after investigations reveal that players received $61,000 from a booster slush fund.
1994 — Oksana Baiul of Ukraine wins the figure skating gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, and Nancy Kerrigan, who was whacked on the knee 2½ months earlier, wins the silver. Tonya Harding, later convicted of hindering prosecution in the Kerrigan attack, finishes eighth.
2004 — Minnesota snaps New Jersey’s 14-game winning streak and coach Lawrence Frank’s NBA-record run of 13 straight wins to open a coaching career with an 81-68 victory.
2009 — Senior guard A.J. Price scores a career-high 36 points as Connecticut beats Marquette 93-82 to give coach Jim Calhoun his 800th career victory.
2010 — In Vancouver, British Columbia, the Canadian women defeat the United States 2-0 for their third straight Olympic hockey title. Americans Billy Demong and Johnny Spillane finish 1-2 in a Nordic combined race. They are the first American medalists in a sport that’s been part of the Winter Olympics since 1924.
2014 — Second-ranked Wichita State becomes the first Division I men’s basketball team to reach 30-0 in the regular season with a 69-49 victory over Bradley. Wichita State is the 11th team to reach 30-0, the previous 10 all hitting the 30-win mark during postseason play.
2015 — The Miami Hurricanes builds an 18-point lead and survives the late heroics of Florida State’s Xavier Rathan-Mayes to win 81-77. Rathan-Mayes scores 30 points in the final 4:38. He shoots 8 for 10 during the stretch, including six 3-pointers, and the freshman finishes with 35 points to tie his career high.
