March 17
1897– Bob Fitzsimmons knocks out Jim Corbett in the 14 th round to win the world heavyweight title in Carson City, Nev. It’s the very first boxing match photographed by a movie cam.
1908– Tommy Burns knocks out Jene Roche in 80 seconds at the Royal Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, to maintain the world heavyweight title.
1939– Villanova wins very first video game of the males’s NCAA basketball competition, beating Brown 42-30 in Philadelphia. Ohio State beats Wake Forest 64-52 in the 2nd video game of the doubleheader.
1940– For the very first time in NHL history, one line– The Kraut Line of Milt Schmidt, Woody Dumart and Bobby Bauer– surface 1-2-3 in NHL scoring when the Boston Bruins score 5 objectives in the 3rd duration to beat the Montreal Canadiens 7-2.
1955– Canadien fans riot in the streets of Montreal objecting NHL President Clarence Campbell’s suspension of Maurice “Rocket” Richard the previous day. The Canadiens surrender the video game to the Detroit after a smoke bomb goes off in the Online forum and crowds spill into the streets, setting fires, smashing windows and robbery.
1961– Manhattan District Lawyer Frank S. Hogan jails 2 expert bettors, Aaron Wagman and Joseph Hacken, and links Hank Gunter and Art Hicks of Seton Hall in a college point shaving scandal.
1993– Dallas snaps a 19- video game losing streak with a 102-96 win over going to Orlando. The Mavericks were one video game far from connecting the 1972-73 Philadelphia 76 ers for the longest single-season losing streak in NBA history.
2001– Connecticut cruises to a 101-29 win over Long Island University in the preliminary of the East Regional, the very best protective effort in the history of the ladies’s NCAA competition. Connecticut’s 72- point triumph likewise connects the second-biggest margin in competition history.
2006– Jermaine Wallace strikes a fadeaway 3-pointer with a split-second left, and little Northwestern State manages a surprise with a furious rally, beating No. 3 seed Iowa 64-63 in the preliminary of the males’s NCAA competition.
2012– Lindsey Vonn sets a females’s record for the most World Cup points in a season after completing 8th in a slalom won by Austria’s Michaela Kirchgasser at Schladming, Austria. Vonn reaches 1,980 indicate beat the mark of 1,970 set by Janica Kostelic of Croatia in 2006.
2016– Little Rock advances with an out-of-nowhere resurgence that results in an 85-83 double-overtime success over Purdue in the preliminary of the NCAA competition.
2018– The UConn Huskies open their NCAA Women’s Competition with a record-setting 140-52 thrashing of Saint Francis (Pa.). The competition’s front runner sets a record for points in a competition video game and all-time NCAA records for points in a duration (55 in the very first) and a half (94 in the very first).
2020– French Open ends up being very first Grand Slam tennis competition to be held off due to COVID-19 pandemic.
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March 18
1945– Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens ends up being the very first NHL gamer to rating 50 objectives in a season throughout a 4-2 accomplishment over the Boston Bruins in the last video game of the season.
1950– CCNY beats Bradley 69-61 for the NIT champion.
1953– Don Schlundt ratings 30 indicate lead Indiana to a 69-68 success over Kansas for the NCAA basketball champion.
1990– Jeff Fryer’s 41 points leads Loyola Marymount to a 149-115 triumph over protecting nationwide champ Michigan in the highest-scoring video game in NCAA competition history.
1993– Santa Clara beats Arizona 64-61 to end up being the 2nd 15 th-seeded group to win a first-round video game in the NCAA competition.
2001– Indiana’s Reggie Miller ends up being the very first gamer in NBA history to build up 2,000 3-pointers after striking 4 in a 101-95 win over Sacramento.
2008– The Houston Firecrackers’ 22- video game winning streak concerns an end. Kevin Garnett ratings 22 points and Paul Pierce includes 20 as the Celtics beat the Firecrackers 94-74, stopping Houston’s impressive run.
2009– New Jersey’s Martin Brodeur breaks Patrick Roy’s NHL record for profession wins by a goaltender. Brodeur records his 552 nd win in a 3-2 choice over the Chicago Blackhawks.
2013– LeBron James and the Miami Heat leave Boston with their 23 rd win in a row, the 2nd longest win streak in NBA history. James ratings 37 points and makes the consent basket with 10.5 seconds left in Miami’s 105-103 triumph.
2015– Lindsey Vonn wins the World Cup downhill title for the seventh time, winning the last race in the discipline at the World Cup finals in Meribel, France.
2016– Middle Tennessee State sends out a huge shock through the guys’s NCAA Competition, topping second-seeded Michigan State 90-81 in the preliminary. Middle Tennessee never ever routes the Spartans (29 -6) in among the greatest upsets considering that the competition started seeding groups in 1985.
2016– Thomas Walkup ratings 33 points and 14 th-seeded Stephen F. Austin removes West Virginia’s full-court pressure with a few of its own in-your-face defense, managing a 70-56 first-round upset of the third-seeded Mountaineers in the NCAA Competition.
2017– Kalani Brown ratings 21 points and top-seeded Baylor overwhelms much smaller sized Texas Southern 119-30, the most uneven ladies’s NCAA Competition video game. The 89- point margin breaks the previous record 74- point win by Tennessee over North Carolina A&T (111-37) in1994 Baylor’s 119 points are the most scored in guideline of a females’s NCAA Competition video game, exceeding the previous record 116.
2017– Texas A&M manages the greatest resurgence in ladies’s NCAA Competition history, rallying from a 21- point deficit for a 63-61 success over Penn to liquidate the preliminary of the NCAAs. The fifth-seeded Aggies end up the video game on a 25 -1 go to beat the 12 th-seeded Quakers.
2018– Tennessee loses for the very first time in your home in ladies’s NCAA Competition history. Marie Gulich has 14 points and 12 rebounds to lead sixth-seed Oregon State to a 66-59 win. The third-seeded Girl Vols had actually been 57 -0 in your home, with the majority of those success coming under late Hall of Popularity coach Pat Summitt.
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March 18
1945– Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens ends up being the very first NHL gamer to rating 50 objectives in a season throughout a 4-2 victory over the Boston Bruins in the last video game of the season.
1950– CCNY beats Bradley 69-61 for the NIT champion.
1953– Don Schlundt ratings 30 indicate lead Indiana to a 69-68 success over Kansas for the NCAA basketball champion.
1990– Jeff Fryer’s 41 points leads Loyola Marymount to a 149-115 success over protecting nationwide champ Michigan in the highest-scoring video game in NCAA competition history.
1993– Santa Clara beats Arizona 64-61 to end up being the 2nd 15 th-seeded group to win a first-round video game in the NCAA competition.
2001– Indiana’s Reggie Miller ends up being the very first gamer in NBA history to build up 2,000 3-pointers after striking 4 in a 101-95 win over Sacramento.
2008– The Houston Firecrackers’ 22- video game winning streak pertains to an end. Kevin Garnett ratings 22 points and Paul Pierce includes 20 as the Celtics beat the Firecrackers 94-74, stopping Houston’s impressive run.
2009– New Jersey’s Martin Brodeur breaks Patrick Roy’s NHL record for profession wins by a goaltender. Brodeur records his 552 nd win in a 3-2 choice over the Chicago Blackhawks.
2013– LeBron James and the Miami Heat leave Boston with their 23 rd win in a row, the 2nd longest win streak in NBA history. James ratings 37 points and makes the consent basket with 10.5 seconds left in Miami’s 105-103 success.
2015– Lindsey Vonn wins the World Cup downhill title for the seventh time, winning the last race in the discipline at the World Cup finals in Meribel, France.
2016– Middle Tennessee State sends out a huge shock through the males’s NCAA Competition, topping second-seeded Michigan State 90-81 in the preliminary. Middle Tennessee never ever tracks the Spartans (29 -6) in among the greatest upsets given that the competition started seeding groups in 1985.
2016– Thomas Walkup ratings 33 points and 14 th-seeded Stephen F. Austin removes West Virginia’s full-court pressure with a few of its own in-your-face defense, managing a 70-56 first-round upset of the third-seeded Mountaineers in the NCAA Competition.
2017– Kalani Brown ratings 21 points and top-seeded Baylor overwhelms much smaller sized Texas Southern 119-30, the most uneven females’s NCAA Competition video game. The 89- point margin breaks the previous record 74- point win by Tennessee over North Carolina A&T (111-37) in1994 Baylor’s 119 points are the most scored in policy of a ladies’s NCAA Competition video game, going beyond the previous record 116.
2017– Texas A&M manages the greatest return in females’s NCAA Competition history, rallying from a 21- point deficit for a 63-61 success over Penn to liquidate the preliminary of the NCAAs. The fifth-seeded Aggies end up the video game on a 25 -1 go to beat the 12 th-seeded Quakers.
2018– Tennessee loses for the very first time in the house in ladies’s NCAA Competition history. Marie Gulich has 14 points and 12 rebounds to lead sixth-seed Oregon State to a 66-59 win. The third-seeded Girl Vols had actually been 57 -0 in your home, with the majority of those triumphes coming under late Hall of Popularity coach Pat Summitt.
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March 19
1942– The Thoroughbred Racing Associations of the United States is formed, with John C. Clark president.
1950– Babe Didrikson Zaharias shoots a record 298 and beats Clair Doran by 8 strokes to catch the U.S. Women’s Open.
1950– The Rochester Royals win their 15 th successive video game, 97-66 over the Baltimore Bullets to set an NBA record for successive success to close a season.
1955– San Francisco wins the NCAA basketball champion with a 77-63 triumph over La Salle.
1955– Penis Ricketts and Si Green integrate for 56 indicates lead Duquesne to a 70-58 accomplishment over Dayton in the NIT champion.
1956– The Minneapolis Lakers beat the St. Louis Hawks 133-75 for the greatest thrashing in NBA playoff history.
1960– Ohio State wins the NCAA basketball title with a 75-55 triumph versus California.
1960– Mach Herndon’s 26 points leads Bradley to a 88-72 accomplishment over Providence for the NIT title. Lenny Wilkens ratings 25 points for the Friars.
1966– Texas Western, beginning 5 black gamers, wins the NCAA basketball champion with a 72-65 upset of all-white Kentucky.
1966– BYU beats New york city University 97-84 for the NIT champion.
1972– The Association for Intercollegiate Sports for Women holds its very first basketball champion and Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-48
1972– The Los Angeles Lakers beat the Golden State Warriors 162-99 for the most uneven triumph in NBA history.
1987– Bonnie Blair skates girls’ world record 500 m (3943 sec)
1994– Hartford’s Brian Propp reaches the 1,000- point mark with an objective in a 5-3 win over Philadelphia.
1995– Chicago’s Michael Jordan returns from his 17- month retirement. Using No. 45, he shoots 7-of-28 from the field and ratings 19 points in the Bulls’ 103-96 overtime loss at Indiana.
1998– The U.S. ladies’s soccer group sustains the worst loss in its 13- year history, falling 4-1 to ruling World Cup champ Norway in the Algarve Cup.
2006– Tennessee’s Candace Parker is the very first female to soak in an NCAA competition video game, jamming one-handed on a breakaway 6: 12 into the second-seeded Girl Vols’ 102-54 success versus an Army group that was making its NCAA competition launching.
2011– Duke provides coach Mike Krzyzewski his 900 th profession success, a 73-71 win over Michigan, and heaven Devils advance to the round of 16 for the 12 th time in 14 years.
2014– Chris Eversley ratings 19 indicate assist Cal Poly end up being the first string in 59 years with 19 losses to win an NCAA Competition video game, beating Texas Southern 81-69 on in the First 4.
2015– Lindsey Vonn wins the last super-G of the season and with it her 19 th crystal world prize– equating to the record of Swedish excellent Ingemar Stenmark.
2015– R.J. Hunter’s 3-pointer with 2.7 seconds staying caps a resurgence from a 12- point deficit and lifts 14 th-seeded Georgia State over third-seeded Baylor 57-56 in the NCAA Competition.
2015– William Lee ratings the last 4 points for 14 th-seeded UAB in its 60-59 upset of Iowa State.
2019– Houston Firecrackers guard James Harden ends up being very first gamer in NBA history to score a minimum of 30 points versus all 29 challengers in a single season with 31 in a 121-105 win over the Atlanta Hawks.
2022– LeBron James moves previous Karl Malone (36,909) into 2nd on NBA’s all-time scoring list with 38 points in LA Lakers’ 127-119 loss to Washington Wizards.
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March 20
1897– Yale beats Penn 32-10 in New Sanctuary, Conn., in the very first guys’s intercollegiate basketball video game.
1918– The Toronto Arenas (who would end up being the Maple Leafs) are the very first NHL group to play in the Stanley Cup Final. Toronto’s Reg Noble ratings 2 objectives with a help in the very first duration of a 5-3 win over Vancouver of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association.
1939– In a video game of unbeaten groups, Long Island U. beats Loyola of Chicago 44-32 to win the National Invite Competition title.
1954– In the very first telecasted NCAA national championship, La Salle beats Bradley 92-76 and sets a record for the majority of points in the title video game.
1965– Gail Goodrich’s 42 points lead UCLA to a 91-80 triumph over Michigan in the NCAA basketball champion.
1965– St. John’s sends out Joe Lapchick out a winner, as the Redmen beat Villanova 55-51 to win their 5th National Invite Competition champion.
1965– Expense Bradley ratings 58 indicate lead Princeton to a 118-82 thrashing of Wichita State in the NCAA third-place video game. UCLA beats Michigan 91-80 to win its 2nd Championship game.
1968– Dave Bing of the Detroit Pistons ends up the season with a league-leading 27.1 average, ending up being the very first guard in 20 years to lead the NBA in scoring.
1969– Less than 2 months after she ends up being the very first female to ride in a pari-mutuel race in America, Diane Crump trips her very first winner at Gulfstream Park.
1976– Boston’s John Havlicek ends up being the very first NBA gamer to score more than 1,000 points per season for 14 successive years.
1988– Mike Tyson knocks out Tony Tubbs in the 2nd round to keep his world heavyweight title in Tokyo.
2005– Liz Johnson ends up being the very first lady to advance to the champion match of an Expert Bowlers Association trip occasion, however loses by 27 pins to Tommy Jones in the last of the PBA Banquet Open.
2005– LeBron James, 20, ends up being the youngest gamer to rating 50 points in an NBA video game, when he ratings 56 in the Cavaliers’ 105-98 loss to the Raptors.
2006– Japan beats Cuba 10 -6 in the title video game of the inaugural World Baseball Classic.
2010– Northern Iowa manages among the most significant NCAA upsets in years by knocking No. 1 total seed Kansas with a 69-67 win. Ali Farokhmanesh buries an open 3-pointer with the shot clock still in the 30 s to offer the Panthers a four-point lead with 35 seconds left.
2014– Bernard Tomic loses the fastest finished ATP match on record, lasting just 28 minutes at the Sony Open in his very first competition considering that having surgical treatment on both hips. Ending a two-month layoff, Tomic wins simply 13 points and loses to Jarkko Nieminen 6-0, 6-1. It’s the quickest match considering that the ATP began keeping such records in 1991.
2020– After 20 years with the New England Patriots, six-time Super Bowl winning quarterback Tom Brady formally consents to transfer to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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