{"id":21108,"date":"2016-01-18T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-jan-18\/"},"modified":"2016-01-18T09:00:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T17:00:51","slug":"today-in-sports-history-jan-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-jan-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Sports History: Jan. 18"},"content":{"rendered":"

1958 \u2014 Canadian born Willie O\u2019Ree becomes the NHL\u2019s first black player for the Boston Bruins.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1972 \u2014 The Lakers\u2019 Jerry West, hits a last second, 20-foot jumper to lead the West team to a 112-110 NBA All-Star victory over the East, as he garners the MVP award.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1976 \u2014 Pittsburgh wins the Super Bowl for the second straight year. Terry Bradshaw\u2019s 64-yard touchdown pass to Lynn Swann and Glen Edwards\u2019 interception on the last play of the game gives the Steelers a 21-17 win over the Dallas Cowboys.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1996 \u2014 Baseball owners break with more than a century of tradition by unanimously approving interleague play in 1997.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2003 \u2014 Michelle Kwan wins her sixth straight title, and seventh overall, at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2004 \u2014 The New England Patriots earn their second trip to the Super Bowl in three seasons by defeating the Indianapolis Colts 24-14 in the AFC championship game. The Philadelphia Eagles fall one win short of the Super Bowl for the third straight year as the Carolina Panthers post a 14-3 win.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2005 \u2014 Earl Boykins breaks the NBA record for points in an overtime, scoring 15 of Denver\u2019s 21 points in the extra period as the Nuggets beat the Seattle SuperSonics 116-110. The 5-foot-5 guard, the league\u2019s smallest player, broke the record of 14 overtime points set by Butch Carter of Indiana against Boston on March 20, 1984.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2011 \u2014 Kim Clijsters starts her Australian Open run with a 6-0, 6-0 romp of three-time Grand Slam finalist and former No. 1-ranked player Dinara Safina. It\u2019s the first time a woman who was once the top-ranked player in the world had ever lost by that score.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2014 \u2014 The NBA fines Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban $100,000 for confronting referees and using inappropriate language toward them after the Mavericks blew a 17-point lead in the final 5 minutes of a 129-127 loss at the Los Angeles Clippers on Jan. 15.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2015 \u2014 Russell Wilson hits Jermaine Kearse for a 35-yard touchdown 3:19 into overtime to lift the Seattle Seahawks to an improbable 28-22 victory over Green Bay in the NFC championship game. Outplayed much of the game and plagued by five turnovers, the Seahawks trail 16-7 with 2:09 remaining. That\u2019s when Wilson runs 1 yard for a TD. Seattle recovers a bobbled onside kick at the 50, and Marshawn Lynch powers his way to a 24-yard TD run. Wilson\u2019s desperate 2-point conversion pass is hauled in by Luke Willson to make it 22-19. But Aaron Rodgers leads the Packers to Mason Crosby\u2019s fifth field goal, from 48 yards with 14 seconds to go.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2015 \u2014 Tom Brady throws for three touchdowns and LeGarrette Blount runs in three more to lead the New England Patriots into the Super Bowl with a 45-7 victory over the Indianapolis Colts.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1958 \u2014 Canadian born Willie O\u2019Ree becomes the NHL\u2019s first black player for the Boston Bruins. 1972 \u2014 The Lakers\u2019 Jerry West, hits a last second, 20-foot jumper to lead the West team to a 112-110 NBA All-Star victory over the East, as he garners the MVP award. 1976 \u2014 Pittsburgh wins the Super Bowl […]<\/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-21108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21108","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=21108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21108"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}