{"id":15364,"date":"2016-01-27T09:03:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T17:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-jan-27\/"},"modified":"2016-01-27T09:03:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T17:03:35","slug":"today-in-sports-history-jan-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-jan-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Sports History: Jan. 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1973 \u2014 UCLA, led by Bill Walton, sets an NCAA record for consecutive victories with its 61st win, an 82-63 victory over Notre Dame. UCLA breaks the record of 60 set by San Francisco in 1956. Walton finishes with 16 points, 15 rebounds and 10 blocks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1982 \u2014 Geoff Houston of the Cleveland Cavaliers has 27 assists, two short of the NBA record and scores 24 points in a 110-106 victory over the Golden State Warriors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1991 \u2014 The New York Giants survive the closest Super Bowl when Scott Norwood is wide left on a 47-yard field goal attempt with 8 seconds left. The Giants win their second Super Bowl in five years, 20-19 over the Buffalo Bills.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1993 \u2014 American Chad Rowan is awarded the highest rank in sumo wrestling, the ancient Japanese sport, making him the first foreign \u201cyokozuna.\u201d The 6-foot-8, 455-pounder from Honolulu, becomes the 64th person to hold the top rank in the sport\u2019s history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1996 \u2014 The U.S. Golf Association elects Judy Bell as the first female president in its 101-year history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2001 \u2014 Jennifer Capriati upsets three-time winner Martina Hingis 6-4, 6-3 to win the Australian Open and her first Grand Slam tournament title.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2003 \u2014 Hermann Maier captures a World Cup super giant slalom in Kitzbuehel, Austria, a victory he ranks among his finest triumphs. The win comes 18 months after he almost loses his leg in a motorcycle crash.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2007 \u2014 Serena Williams wins her third Australian Open singles title, routing Maria Sharapova 6-1, 6-2. Unseeded and ranked 81st, Williams is the second unseeded woman to win the Australian title in the Open era.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2008 \u2014 Novak Djokovic fends off unseeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (2) in the Australian Open final for his first Grand Slam title.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2011 \u2014 Roger Federer, the 16-time Grand Slam winner, is knocked out of the Australian Open by Novak Djokovic in the semifinals. Federer\u2019s loss marks the first time since 2003 that he wouldn\u2019t hold any of the four major titles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2013 \u2014 Novak Djokovic beats Andy Murray 6-7 (2), 7-6 (3), 6-3, 6-2 to become the first man in the Open era to win three consecutive Australian Open titles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2013 \u2014 Speedskater Heather Richardson edges Canada\u2019s Christine Nesbitt in the final women\u2019s race to become the first American woman to win the World Sprint Championships since 2005. Richardson wins the overall title based on points, with a gold today to go with a pair of bronze medals yesterday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2013 \u2014 The NFC blew past the AFC 62-35 in the Pro Bowl. Minnesota tight end Kyle Rudolph is voted the game\u2019s MVP with five catches for 122 yards and a touchdown.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1973 \u2014 UCLA, led by Bill Walton, sets an NCAA record for consecutive victories with its 61st win, an 82-63 victory over Notre Dame. UCLA breaks the record of 60 set by San Francisco in 1956. Walton finishes with 16 points, 15 rebounds and 10 blocks. 1982 \u2014 Geoff Houston of the Cleveland Cavaliers has [&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-15364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15364","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=15364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15364"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}