{"id":14277,"date":"2016-01-13T09:04:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T17:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-jan-13\/"},"modified":"2016-01-13T09:04:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T17:04:43","slug":"today-in-sports-history-jan-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-jan-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Sports History: Jan. 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1962 \u2014 Wilt Chamberlain scores an NBA regulation-game record 73 points to lead the Philadelphia Warriors to a 135-117 victory over the Chicago Packers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1971 \u2014 Lenny Wilkens of the Seattle SuperSonics, at 33, becomes the oldest All-Star MVP, scoring 21 points in leading the West past the East 108-107.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1974 \u2014 The Miami Dolphins win their second straight Super Bowl in their third straight appearance with a 24-7 victory over the Minnesota Vikings. Larry Csonka, the game\u2019s MVP, gains 145 yards on 33 carries and scores a touchdown.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1986 \u2014 NCAA schools vote overwhelmingly in favor of Proposition 48. The rule requires incoming freshman to maintain 2.0 grade-point averages and score 700 or more on the Scholastic Aptitude Test or a 15 on the American College Testing program.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1987 \u2014 Lewis Lloyd and Mitchell Wiggins of the Houston Rockets become the third and fourth NBA players to be banned from the league for using cocaine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1991 \u2014 Phil Mickelson overcomes an 8 on the 14th hole to become the second amateur since 1954 to win a PGA Tour event as he posts a one-shot victory over Bob Tway and Tom Purtzer in the Northern Telecom Open.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1995 \u2014 America3, the first all-women\u2019s team in the 144-year history of America\u2019s Cup, wins the first race of the America\u2019s Cup defender trials, beating Team Dennis Conner by 69 seconds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1997 \u2014 Spain\u2019s Carlos Moya becomes the first man to knock out the defending champion in the opening round of a Grand Slam event in 20 years. After 3 1-2 hours of brutal heat, Moya beats Boris Becker 5-7, 7-6 (7-4), 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 at the Australian Open.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2003 \u2014 Jennifer Capriati becomes the first women\u2019s Australian Open defending champion to lose in the first round in the Open era. Capriati, seeded third, loses 2-6, 7-6 (6), 6-4 to 90th-ranked Marlene Weingartner of Germany.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2006 \u2014 Larry Brown becomes the fourth coach in NBA history to win 1,000 regular-season games as New York beats Atlanta 105-94. Brown, 1,000-762 in 23 seasons in the NBA, joins Lenny Wilkens, Don Nelson and Pat Riley in the 1,000-win club.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2010 \u2014 The Lakers become the first NBA team to reach 3,000 wins when Kobe Bryant scores with 28 seconds left to give Los Angeles a 100-95 victory over Dallas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2013 \u2014 Matt Bryant kicks a 49-yard field goal with 8 seconds left and the Atlanta Falcons bounce back after blowing a 20-point lead in the fourth quarter, defeating Seattle 30-28 in an NFC divisional playoff game. The Falcons lead 27-7 at the start of the final quarter before rookie quarterback Russell Wilson leads the Seahawks to three fourth-quarter touchdowns and a 28-27 lead with 31 seconds left.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2013 \u2014 Tom Brady becomes the winningest quarterback in postseason play, throwing for three touchdowns to beat Houston 41-28 and lift the New England Patriots into the AFC championship game. Brady gets his 17th victory, surpassing Joe Montana, by throwing for 344 yards.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1962 \u2014 Wilt Chamberlain scores an NBA regulation-game record 73 points to lead the Philadelphia Warriors to a 135-117 victory over the Chicago Packers. 1971 \u2014 Lenny Wilkens of the Seattle SuperSonics, at 33, becomes the oldest All-Star MVP, scoring 21 points in leading the West past the East 108-107. 1974 \u2014 The Miami Dolphins [&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-14277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14277","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=14277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14277"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}