{"id":12925,"date":"2016-02-15T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-feb-15\/"},"modified":"2016-02-15T09:00:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T17:00:40","slug":"today-in-sports-history-feb-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-feb-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in sports history: Feb. 15"},"content":{"rendered":"

1932 \u2014 Eddie Eagen, as a member of the four-man U.S. bobsled team, wins a gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. He previously won a gold medal in boxing light heavyweight division at the 1920 Summer Games in Antwerp, Belgium.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1936 \u2014 Sonja Henie of Norway, wins her third consecutive Olympics figure skating gold medal in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1952 \u2014 Emmett Ashford becomes the first black umpire in organized baseball when he signs to work in the class-C Southwest International League. He later serves as a major league umpire for the American League from 1966 to 1970.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1953 \u2014 Tenley Albright becomes the first American woman to win a world figure skating title beating Germany\u2019s Gundi Busch at the World Championships in Davos, Switzerland.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1974 \u2014 Boston\u2019s Phil Esposito scores his 1,000th point with an assist in the Bruins\u2019 4-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1975 \u2014 Yvan Cournoyer of the Montreal Canadiens scores five goals and gets two assists in a 12-3 win over the Chicago Blackhawks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1978 \u2014 Leon Spinks wins a 15-round split decision over Muhammad Ali to take the world heavyweight title at Las Vegas.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1980 \u2014 Rookie Wayne Gretzky ties the NHL record with seven assists in a game and sets a scoring record for first-year players in Edmonton\u2019s 8-2 victory over the Washington Capitals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1994 \u2014 Kentucky makes one of the greatest comebacks in college basketball history with a 99-95 victory over LSU after trailing by 31 points with 15:30 to play.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1994 \u2014 Freshman Ila Borders becomes the first woman to pitch in an NCAA or NAIA game. The left-hander pitches a complete-game for Southern California College, allowing five hits in the Vanguards\u2019 12-1 win over Claremont-Mudd.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1995 \u2014 <\/strong>Charlie Standish sets a PBA record by rolling three perfect games in the first round of the Peoria Open bowling tournament. Standish rolls the 300s in the second, fourth and sixth games of the six-game round and at one point has 23 consecutive strikes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1998 \u2014 Dale Earnhardt takes the Daytona 500 on his 20th try and ends a 59-race winless streak on the day NASCAR begins celebrating its 50th anniversary.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2002 \u2014 The worst judging scandal in Winter Olympics history is resolved, with Canadian pairs figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier declared co-gold medalists with the Russian winners.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2004 \u2014 Dale Earnhardt Jr. barrels past Tony Stewart to win the Daytona 500 on the same track that claimed his father\u2019s life three years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2007 \u2014 Joe Sakic scores twice, including his 600th career goal, and adds three assists and Milan Hejduk has three goals to lead Colorado to a 7-5 win at Calgary.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2013 \u2014 Ted Ligety becomes the first man in 45 years to win three gold medals at a skiing world championships. French great Jean-Claude Killy took home four golds in 1968. Ligety wins giant slalom by a massive margin for his third gold. Earlier in the championships held in Schladming, Austria, Ligety won the super-G and super-combined \u2014 both events he had never won on the World Cup circuit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2014 \u2014 Zbigniew Brodka wins the men\u2019s 1,500 meters, capturing Poland\u2019s first Olympic gold medal in speedskating. Brodka and Koen Verweij of the Netherlands finish the closest 1,500 in Olympic history. The two are initially shown on the scoreboard as tied for the top spot, but when the time is broken down to the thousandths, the victory goes to Brodka. His time is 1:45.006 and Verweij settles for silver in 1:45.009.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2014 \u2014 Renaud Lavillenie breaks Sergei Bubka\u2019s 21-year-old indoor pole vault world record in Donetsk, Ukraine. Lavillenie clears the bar comfortably at 6.16 meters (20 feet, 2 1\/2 inches) in Bubka\u2019s home city, almost to the day the pole vault great cleared achieved 6.15 (20-2) on Feb. 21, 1993.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2015 \u2014 Russell Westbrook scores 41 points to lead the Western Conference to a 163-158 win over the East in the NBA All-Star Game. The Oklahoma City speedster has a record 27 points by halftime and falls one point shy of Wilt Chamberlain\u2019s record 42 points in the 1962 game.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1932 \u2014 Eddie Eagen, as a member of the four-man U.S. bobsled team, wins a gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. He previously won a gold medal in boxing light heavyweight division at the 1920 Summer Games in Antwerp, Belgium. 1936 \u2014 Sonja Henie of Norway, wins her third consecutive […]<\/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-12925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12925","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=12925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12925"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}