{"id":12497,"date":"2016-02-16T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-feb-16\/"},"modified":"2016-02-16T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T17:00:12","slug":"today-in-sports-history-feb-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-feb-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in sports history: Feb. 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1961 \u2014 Elgin Baylor of Los Angeles scores 57 points to lead the Lakers over the Detroit Pistons 129-106.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1967 \u2014 Rick Barry of the San Francisco Warriors scores 52 points against Chicago at Fresno, Calif., for his second consecutive 50-point game.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1969 \u2014 Alex Delvecchio of the Detroit Red Wings gets his 1,000th point with an assist in a 6-3 victory over the Los Angeles Kings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1970 \u2014 Joe Frazier retains his world heavyweight title with a fifth-round knockout of Jimmy Ellis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1972 \u2014 Wilt Chamberlain of the Los Angeles Lakers becomes the first player in NBA history to score 30,000 points during a 110-109 loss to the Phoenix Suns.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1992 \u2014 Martina Navratilova becomes the career singles titles leader by beating Jana Novotna in three sets in the final of the Virginia Slims of Chicago. Navratilova\u2019s 158th singles championship passes the mark of Chris Evert, who retired in 1989.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1992 \u2014 Chicago\u2019s Michel Goulet becomes the 17th NHL player to score 500 goals, getting one in the first period of the Blackhawks\u2019 5-5 tie with Calgary.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1997 \u2014 Jeff Gordon, 25, becomes the youngest winner of the Daytona 500 after Dale Earnhardt crashes 12 laps from the end to prolong his Daytona 500 jinx.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2001 \u2014 Philadelphia coach Larry Brown earns his 1,000th professional win, including his ABA record. Brown, 1,000-707 overall, ranks third on the career list behind Toronto\u2019s Lenny Wilkens and Miami\u2019s Pat Riley. Allen Iverson\u2019s 42 points leads the 76ers to a 108-93 win over the Los Angeles Clippers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2004 \u2014 Pittsburgh loses an NHL-record 12th straight home game, 8-4 to Toronto.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2009 \u2014 Brian Sears drives seven winners on the Presidents Day afternoon card at the Meadowlands. The last driver to win seven races on a 10-race card at the Meadowlands was John Campbell on Feb. 3, 1983.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2013 \u2014 Mikaela Shiffrin becomes the youngest woman in 39 years to win the slalom title at the world championships. At 17 years, 340 days, the American edges local hope Michaela Kirchgasser in Schladming, Austria. The only younger slalom world champions are Hanni Wenzel of Liechtenstein in 1974 and Esme Mackinnon of Britain in 1931.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1961 \u2014 Elgin Baylor of Los Angeles scores 57 points to lead the Lakers over the Detroit Pistons 129-106. 1967 \u2014 Rick Barry of the San Francisco Warriors scores 52 points against Chicago at Fresno, Calif., for his second consecutive 50-point game. 1969 \u2014 Alex Delvecchio of the Detroit Red Wings gets his 1,000th point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-12497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12497"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}