1956 — Syracuse beats Colgate 61-7 behind halfback Jim Brown. Brown sets an NCAA-record for points by an individual player in a game by scoring six touchdowns and kicking seven extra points for 43 points.
1968 — The “Heidi” television special starts on time and cuts off the NBC broadcast of the Oakland-New York Jets game in the final minutes, leaving viewers in the dark and unaware that the Raiders score two touchdowns in the last minute for a 43-32 comeback victory.
1975 — Ken Anderson of the Cincinnati Bengals passes for 447 yards and two touchdowns in a 35-24 victory over the Buffalo Bills.
1981 — Bill Cartwright of the New York Knicks ties a 20-year-old NBA record by hitting 19 of 19 free throws in a 124-110 loss to the Kansas City Kings.
1984 — Purvis Short of the Golden State Warriors scores 59 points in a 131-114 loss to the New Jersey Nets.
1990 — David Klingler of Houston throws an NCAA-record 11 touchdown passes as the Cougars trounce Eastern Washington 84-21. Klingler completes 41 of 58 passes for 572 yards and ties the NCAA record for touchdown passes in a season with 47.
1991 — Detroit offensive lineman Mike Utley suffers a spinal injury on the first play of the fourth quarter of a 21-10 victory over the Los Angeles Rams and is left paralyzed from the chest down.
2000 — Jason Kidd has a dubious quadruple-double — 18 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists and 14 turnovers in the Phoenix Suns’ 90-85 loss to the New York Knicks. The turnovers tie the NBA record set by Atlanta’s John Drew on March 1, 1978.
2001 — Lennox Lewis knocks out Hasim Rahman in the fourth round to get back his WBC and IBF heavyweight titles. Rahman’s championship reign of 209 days is the shortest in heavyweight history.
2004 — New Orleans ties an NBA low by taking just two foul shots in a 95-84 loss to Phoenix.
2007 — Tim Tebow becomes the first player in NCAA history with at least 20 touchdowns passing and rushing in the same season, helping Florida hammer Florida Atlantic 59-20.
2007 — Martin Brodeur becomes the second NHL goalie to win 500 career games, stopping 26 shots in New Jersey’s 6-2 win at Philadelphia. Patrick Roy won 551 games.
2009 — Kobe Bryant scores 40 points for the 100th time in his career, and the Los Angeles Lakers avoid a rare three-game losing streak with a 106-93 victory over the Detroit Pistons.
2012 — Johnny Manziel passes for 267 yards and three touchdowns, and rushes for 100 yards and two more scores in Texas A&M’s 47-28 win over Sam Houston State. Manziel, a redshirt freshman, breaks the NCAA freshman quarterback rushing record of 1,029 set by Missouri’s Brad Smith in 2002. He also breaks the freshman record for total offense of 3,827 yards and becomes the first freshman in FBS history to pass for 3,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards in a season.
2013 — The Czech Republic retains the Davis Cup title by beating Serbia 3-2 in the final after Radek Stepanek sweeps past Dusan Lajovic in the decisive singles match.
2013 — Jimmie Johnson wins his sixth Sprint Cup championship in eight years. Johnson, who needed only to finish 23rd or better to wrap up the title, finishes ninth.
2013 — Sebastian Vettel wins the U.S. Grand Prix in easy fashion, setting an F1 season record with his eighth straight victory behind another blistering drive that gave the field no chance to catch him.
2014 — Amber Orrange makes a go-ahead jumper with 1:38 left in overtime and the tying 3-pointer with 1.4 seconds remaining in regulation, sending No. 6 Stanford to an 88-86 victory against top-ranked Connecticut to snap the Huskies’ 47-game winning streak. UConn, which went 40-0 last season, loses for the first time since falling to Notre Dame in the 2013 conference tournament.
2014 — Miami Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton agrees to a $325 million, 13-year contract. That tops the $292 million, 10-year deal Miguel Cabrera agreed to with the Detroit Tigers in March.
