1934 — Joe Carter scores four touchdowns and Swede Hanson rushes for 190 yards as the Philadelphia Eagles crush the Cincinnati Reds 64-0.
1966 — Philadelphia’s Timmy Brown returns kickoffs 93 yards and 90 yards for touchdowns to lead the Eagles to a 24-23 victory over the Dallas Cowboys.
1981 — Larry Holmes knocks out Renaldo Snipes in the 11th round to retain the world heavyweight title in Pittsburgh.
1983 — James Wilder of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers rushes for 219 yards and a touchdown in 17-12 victory over the Minnesota Vikings.
1992 — Manon Rheaume of the Atlanta Knights becomes the first woman to suit up for a regular-season pro hockey game. The 20-year-old goalie doesn’t play in Atlanta’s 3-2 overtime loss to Cincinnati in the IHL game.
1993 — French-based Arcangues stages biggest Breeders’ Cup upset, rallying to beat Bertrando by 2 lengths in $3 million Classic at Santa Anita. Arcangues went off 133-1, returned $269.20 on a $2 bet.
1993 — Evander Holyfield regains the WBA and IBF heavyweight championships from Riddick Bowe in a fight disrupted by a parachutist. During the seventh round at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, the chutist tumbles into the ringside seats and stops the fight for 21 minutes.
1994 — German Silva of Mexico overcomes a wrong turn in the final mile to beat countryman Benjamin Paredes by 2 seconds in the closest finish in the New York City Marathon’s 25-year history.
1999 — Charles Roberts rushes for 409 yards and five touchdowns to lead Sacramento State past Idaho State 41-20, setting a new NCAA record for a single-game rushing performance.
2005 — Annika Sorenstam becomes 1st player in LPGA Tour history to win a tournament five straight times, shooting an 8-under 64 for a 3-stroke victory in the Mizuno Classic.
2010 — Joe Paterno becomes the first major college coach with 400 career wins as Penn State rallies from a 21-0 deficit behind backup quarterback Matt McGloin to defeat Northwestern 35-21.
2010 — Michigan wins the highest scoring game in its 131-year history by stopping a 2-point conversion attempt in the third overtime for a 67-65 victory over Illinois.
2010 — Zenyatta comes within a head of finishing a perfect career. Horse racing’s biggest star closes from dead last, but Blame holds off the 6-year-old mare and wins the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic under the lights Churchill Downs. Zenyatta entered the race hoping to improve to 20-0 on her career.
2011 — Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya shatters the course record in the New York City Marathon and Firehiwot Dado makes a stunning comeback for her first major marathon title. Mutai finishes in 2:05:06, crushing the previous mark of 2:07:43 set by Tesfaye Jifar of Ethiopia a decade earlier. Dado of Ethiopia trails Mary Keitany by nearly 2½ minutes at the 15-mile mark but passes her with about a mile left. The 27-year-old Dado wins in 2:23:15 — almost a minute better than her previous personal best.
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1925 — Brown and Boston University attempt a “scripted” game in which the teams ran 40 plays (20 each) from scrimmage each quarter without running a clock. Brown wins 42-6.
1968 — Red Berenson scores six goals, including four in the second period, to lead the St. Louis Blues to an 8-0 victory over Philadelphia.
1976 — Minnesota’s Sammy White catches seven passes for 210 yards and two touchdowns as the Vikings post a 31-23 victory over the Detroit Lions.
1985 — Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the former middleweight boxer convicted twice of a triple murder in 1966 and the hero of a Bob Dylan song, is released after 19 years in prison. Carter, 48, is freed after a federal judge rules the boxer and a co-defendant were denied their civil rights by prosecutors during trials in 1967 and 1976.
1991 — Magic Johnson, who helped the Los Angeles Lakers to five NBA championships, announces he has tested positive for the AIDS virus and is retiring.
1998 — Awesome Again steals Skip Away’s thunder & $5.12 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs with 3-quarter length win over Silver Charm. Skip Away finishes 6th and misses becoming 1st horse to earn $10 million.
1999 — Tiger Woods becomes the first player since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four straight tournaments, capturing the American Express Championship.
2003 — The defending champion U.S. baseball team fails to qualify for the 2004 Athens Olympics, losing to Mexico 2-1 in the quarterfinals of a qualifying tournament in Panama City.
2007 — Dallas center Mike Modano breaks Phil Housley’s NHL record for career points by an American-born player with two quick goals in the opening minutes of the Stars’ 3-1 victory against San Jose. Modano, with 1,233 points and 511 goals in 1,253 regular-season games, does it in 242 fewer games than Housley.
2008 — Jerry Sloan 1st NBA coach to win 1,000 games with one team when his Utah Jazz beat the Oklahoma City Thunder, 104-97. Sloan, 1,000-596 with the Jazz, has an overall coaching record of 1,094-717 with the Jazz and Chicago Bulls.
2008 — Peter Laviolette becomes the winningest American-born coach in NHL history when the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Ottawa Senators 2-1.
2009 — Zenyatta comes from last after a poor start and fights off Gio Ponti in the stretch to win the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic. The 5-year-old mare, ridden by Mike Smith, beats a loaded field of 11 males and becomes the first female to win the race in its 26-year history.
2010 — Gebre Gebremariam of Ethiopia wins the men’s title at the New York City Marathon in his debut at the distance. Kenya’s Edna Kiplagat takes the women’s race for her first major marathon championship.
2010 — Flavia Pennetta routs 18-year-old CoCo Vandeweghe 6-1, 6-2 to give Italy its second straight Fed Cup final victory over the United States.
2010 — Brett Favre rallies Minnesota from 14 points down to force overtime and drives the Vikings into position for Ryan Longwell’s 35-yard game-winning field goal for a 27-24 win over Arizona. Favre completes 36 of 47 passes for a career-high 446 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions.
2010 — Indianapolis quarterback Peyton Manning starts his 200th consecutive game, a 26-24 loss at Philadelphia. Manning joins Brett Favre as the only quarterbacks in NFL history to start 200 consecutive games.
