January 9th
1942 — Joe Louis retains the world heavyweight title by knocking out Buddy Baer with four seconds left in the first round at Madison Square Garden in New York.
1977 — Oakland wins its first NFL championship and the Minnesota Vikings are eliminated from their fourth Super Bowl as the Raiders emerge victorious 32-14.
1988 — Anthony Carter catches 10 passes for an NFL postseason record 227 yards, leading the Minnesota Vikings to a 36-24 victory over the San Francisco 49ers and advancing to the NFC title game. .
1991 — North Carolina defeats Maryland 105-73, giving Dean Smith the 700th win of his coaching career. Mr. Smith is the sixth Division I basketball coach to reach the 700-win plateau and has done so in the shortest amount of time.
1996 — The Toronto Raptors set an NBA record by failing to make a single free throw during a 92-91 loss to the Charlotte Hornets. The Raptors were on 0-of-3 shots from the foul line.
2004 — Phoenix’s Brian Boucher earns his fifth straight shutout victory with a 2-0 win over Minnesota. He stopped 21 shots and passed Bill Durnan’s NHL mark of 309:21 early in the third period.
2006 – Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers scores 45 points against Indiana, becoming the first player since Wilt Chamberlain in November 1964 to score at least the same number of points in four consecutive games.
2007 — Cal Ripken Jr. and Tony Gwynn are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Mark McGwire, who ranks seventh in career home runs with 583 home runs, was not included in the first vote.
2008 — Golf Channel suspends anchor Kelly Tillman for two weeks for saying a week earlier that young players who wanted to challenge Tiger Woods should “lynch him in an alley.”
2010 — Peyton Manning becomes the first player to win the Associated Press NFL Player of the Year award four times.
2010 — Detroit’s Ben Gordon scores 20 points, including his 10 millionth point in NBA history, in a 104-04 loss to Philadelphia.
2012 — Jeremy Shelley makes five field goals, Trent Richardson breaks up a 34-yard touchdown run late in the fourth quarter, and No. 2 Alabama beats No. 1 LSU 21-0 to advance to the BCS title game. It was the first shutout victory in history.
2013 — No one is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. This is the second time in 40 years that baseball writers have failed to give any player the 75 percent required to get into Cooperstown. Craig Biggio, 20th on the career list with 3,060 hits, had the most votes with 68.2 percent of 569 votes, but he was 39 votes shy.
2016 — Quarterback Carson Wentz, sidelined since mid-October with a broken wrist, returns to lead North Dakota State to a 37-10 win over top-seeded Jacksonville State. He led them to an unprecedented five consecutive FCS championships.
2016 — Chris Boswell kicks a 35-yard field goal with 14 seconds left as the Steelers cruise to an 18-16 victory over Cincinnati in the AFC Wild Card Game. Pittsburgh moves into field goal position after committing two 15-yard penalties to the Bengals. One was given to linebacker Vontaze Burfict, and the other was given to Adam Jones after Burfict hit unsuspecting Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown.
2017 — College Football National Championship, Raymond James Stadium in Tampa: No. 2 Clemson beats No. 1 Alabama 35-31.
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January 10th
1972 — The longest winning streak (33 games) in major professional sports ends when the Bucks defeat the Los Angeles Lakers 120-104 behind 39 points from Milwaukee’s Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
1980 — Goaltender Jim Stewart scores three goals in the first four minutes and five in the first period in his first and only game against the Boston Bruins. He was replaced and never played in the NHL again.
1982 — Joe Montana throws his third touchdown pass of the game, a 6-yard pass to Dwight Clark with 51 seconds left, and the San Francisco 49ers defeat the Dallas Cowboys in the NFC title game. won 28-27.
1986 — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the Los Angeles Lakers scores his 34,000th career point in a 124-102 victory over the Indiana Pacers. The only NBA player to reach this milestone at the time. It remains the highest number of all-time (38,387 people).
1989 — LA Kings center Wayne Gretzky becomes NHL’s all-time leading scorer in combined regular season and playoff points. He had four assists in a 5-4 home win over Edmonton for a total of 2,011 assists, one more than Gordie Howe.
1998 — Michelle Kwan wins her second U.S. Figure Skating Championship in three years with a 6.0 out of 9 artistry score in the free skate.
2002 — Todd Eldridge wins his sixth U.S. Figure Skating Championship title. After skipping two seasons of competition, Eldridge defeated defending champion Tim Goebel.
2004 — Michelle Kwan wins her seventh consecutive U.S. Figure Skating Championship title and eighth overall. Only one of the sport’s greats, Maribel Vinson, has won more national championships, nine times.
2006 — Bruce Sutter is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, becoming the fourth relief pitcher and first pitcher to be elected without making a career start.
2008 — Alex Ovechkin signs a $124 million, 13-year extension with the Washington Capitals, becoming the NHL’s first $100 million contract.
2009 — Arizona, the only NFC team not to play in a conference championship game since the NFL-AFL merger in 1970, wins 33-13 over Carolina and hosts its first NFC Championship Game. become.
2010 — Carlos Dansby’s 17-yard fumble return for a touchdown in overtime gives the Arizona Cardinals a 51-45 victory over the Green Bay Packers in the highest-scoring playoff game in NFL history.
2011 — No. 1 Auburn defeats No. 2 Oregon, 22-19, in the BCS title game. Wes Byram’s 19-yard field goal with no time left was his sixth career game-winning field goal and capped off a 14-0 season.
2015 — About a minute after Tre Roberson’s 58-yard run gave Illinois State the lead, North Dakota State quarterback Carson Wentz ran 5 yards for the winning touchdown, giving the Bison a 29-27 lead. With the emotional victory, they became the first team to win four consecutive FCS championships. .
2015 — Tom Brady sets a career record for postseason touchdown passes, leading New England from two 14-point deficits to a 35-31 win over Baltimore. Brady broke Joe Montana’s record with 46 postseason TD passes, and the Patriots reached their fourth straight AFC Championship Game.
2016 — Blair Walsh’s 27-yard field goal try in frigid winds hooks Minnesota with 22 seconds left, and the Seattle Seahawks lose in a wild-card round playoff game played in subzero weather. They defeated the Vikings 10-9.
2016 — Alex Ovechkin becomes the 43rd NHL player to reach the milestone by scoring his 500th and 501st goals as the Washington Capitals defeat the Ottawa Senators 7-1.
2022 — College Football, National Championship, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, Indiana: No. 3 Georgia defeats No. 1 Alabama, 33-18.
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January 11th
1970 — The AFL wins its second straight Super Bowl as the Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Minnesota Vikings 23-7 with great quarterback play from Len Dawson and three field goals from Jan Stenerud. Ta.
1973 — The American League adopts the designated hitter rule.
1981 — Jim Plunkett completes 14 of 18 passes for 261 yards and two touchdowns, leading the Oakland Raiders to a 34-27 victory over the San Diego Chargers and winning the AFC title. . The Raiders became the first AFC wild card team to advance to the Super Bowl.
1984 — The Denver Nuggets defeat the San Antonio Spurs 163-155 in a maximum-scoring NBA game.
1987 — Denver’s John Elway leads the Broncos to a 23-20 overtime victory over the Cleveland Browns to win the AFC Championship. Elway capped off a 15-play, 98-yard march with a 5-yard TD pass to Mark Jackson with 37 seconds left to tie the game. Rich Karlis kicked a 33-yard field goal in overtime to give Denver the victory.
1992 — Kristi Yamaguchi, runner-up the previous three years, wins her first title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. 1989 U.S. Champion Christopher Bowman won the men’s title.
1998 — Australian high schooler Lleyton Hewitt, ranked 550th, wins the Australian Men’s Hard Court Championship, becoming the lowest ranked player to win an ATP Tour event.
2004 — Detroit allowed 100 points for the first time this season, but the Pistons still managed to outscore Dallas 115-102. Detroit set an NBA record by not allowing 100 points in 38 games, including 36 this season.
2009 — Donovan McNabb’s Philadelphia defeats the New York Giants 23-11 to advance to the NFC title game for the fifth time in eight seasons. It was the first time in NFL history that the game ended with 23 wins and 11 losses.
2011 — Toronto defeats San Jose 4-2, giving Maple Leafs coach Ron Wilson his 600th career win. Wilson becomes the seventh coach to reach the 600-win milestone.
2014 — LeGarrette Blount throws for 166 yards and four touchdowns and New England defeats Indianapolis 43-22 to advance to its third straight AFC Championship Game. Blount became the only players to score four or more touchdowns in a playoff game, joining Ricky Watters, who scored five touchdowns at San Francisco on January 15, 1994.
2014 — Gracie Gold wins her first U.S. Figure Skating title, with 15-year-old Polina Edmunds finishing second. Charlie White and Meryl Davis have won six consecutive championships, a record in U.S. ice dance history, one place ahead of American ice dance pioneers Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto.
2014 — Alex Rodriguez is suspended for the entire 2014 season after arbitrator Fredrick Horowitz rules that the New York Yankees third baseman be suspended for the entire 2014 season as a result of Major League Baseball’s drug investigation. The harshest punishment in history was handed down. This decision reduces the suspension from 211 games that Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig handed down on August 5, 2013.
2015 — Roger Federer defeats up-and-comer Milos Raonic 6-4, 6-7(2), 6-4 to reach his 1,000th career match and win the Brisbane International. Federer becomes the third player to reach 1,000 wins on the men’s professional tour, following Jimmy Connors (1,253 wins) and Ivan Lendl (1,071 wins).
2015 — Green Bay rallied from an eight-point deficit with Aaron Rodgers to score two second-half touchdowns and defeat Dallas 26-21 in the NFC divisional round playoffs. The Packers were helped by a video challenge with 4:06 left. With four out and second base for the Packers, Dez Bryant made a leaping catch, but after a challenge from Green Bay, umpire Gene Steratore reversed it. Instead of Dallas scoring first, the ball went to the Packers.
2016 — Second-ranked Alabama wins 45-40 in the College Football Playoff Championship Game over Deshaun Watson and the dynamic play of No. 1 Clemson to win its fourth national title in the past seven seasons.
2021 — College Football, National Championship, Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, Florida: No. 1 Alabama defeats No. 3 Ohio State 52-24.