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1938– Temple beats Colorado 60-36 in the very first National Invite Competition and the very first significant postseason basketball competition.
1947– Billy Taylor of the Detroit Red Wings sets an NHL record with 7 helps in a 10 -6 victory over the Chicago Black Hawks.
1955– NHL President Clarence Campbell suspends Maurice “Rocket” Richard for the rest of the routine season and playoffs after striking linesman Cliff Thompson throughout a melee in a video game versus the Boston Bruins.
1961– Montreal’s Bernie Geoffrion ends up being the 2nd gamer to rating 50 objectives in a season in a 5-2 triumph over the Toronto Maple Leafs. Maurice Richard was the very first to do it, in 1945.
1971– Goaltender Glenn Hall gets his 407 th and last NHL triumph as the St. Louis Blues publish a 6-2 win versus the checking out Montreal Canadiens.
1990– Philip Hutcheson of David Lipscomb University strikes a running 5-foot hook shot in the NAIA Competition to end up being the all-time scoring champ of college basketball. The 6-foot-8 Hutcheson, who scored in double figures in every college video game he played, climaxes of 4,045 embeded in 1969-72 by Travis Grant of Kentucky State.
2005– Norway’s Robert Sorlie wins his 2nd Iditarod Path Sled Pet dog Race in among the closest races in years. Sorlie finishes the 1,100- mile race throughout Alaska in 9 days, 18 hours, 39 minutes and 31 seconds. He’s still in the winner’s circle when Ed Iten of Kotzebue crossed the line 34 minutes later on.
2007– Kobe Bryant ratings 33 of his 65 points in the 4th quarter and overtime to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a 116-111 win over Portland.
2008– Denver sets NBA season highs for points in a half with 84 and points in a video game with a 168-116 thrashing of the Seattle SuperSonics.
2010– Lance Mackey wins the 1,100- mile Iditarod Path Sled Pet Race to end up being the very first musher in case’s 38- year history to win 4 successive races.
2012– Kyle O’Quinn has 26 points and 14 rebounds to assist No. 15 seed Norfolk State stun second-seeded Missouri 86-84 in the West Regional of the guys’s NCAA competition. C.J. McCollum ratings 30 points and Lehigh upsets Duke 75-70 in the South Regional to end up being the 2nd No. 15 seed to beat a No. 2 throughout a wild day in the NCAA competition.
2013– Mikaela Shiffrin provides an impressive 2nd go to surpass Tina Labyrinth and clinch the World Cup slalom title with an unlikely come-from behind success at Lenzerheide, Switzerland. The American teen tracking Labyrinth by an enormous 1.17 seconds after the very first leg, ends up ahead of the Slovenian in the 2nd go to win the slalom title in her very first complete season on the circuit.
2013– Ted Ligety caps his dominant season in huge slalom with a 6th World Cup win at Lenzerheide, Switzerland. The American skier signs up with Ingemar Stenmark as the only males in the 47- year World Cup history to get 6 GS success in a season. Stenmark’s 10- race sweep in 1978-79 is the record.
2018– Senior guard Jairus Lyles ratings 28 points and the University of Maryland-Baltimore County manages the most stunning upset in NCAA Competition history, beating Virginia 75-54 to end up being the very first No. 16 seed to beat a No. 1 seed in males’s basketball. Virginia gets in the NCAA Competition as the No. 1 general seed after going 31 -2 this season, consisting of 20 -1 in ACC competitors.
2020 – Big league Baseball suspends rest of Spring Training and hold-ups start of routine season in reaction to COVID-19 pandemic; return depending on suggestions by Centers for Illness Control
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