{"id":21380,"date":"2016-02-12T09:02:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T17:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-feb-12\/"},"modified":"2016-02-12T09:02:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T17:02:20","slug":"today-in-sports-history-feb-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-feb-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in sports history: Feb. 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1937 \u2014 Cleveland is granted an NFL franchise. The Rams play in Cleveland for nine years before moving to Los Angeles. After the 1994 season, the Rams move to St. Louis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1958 \u2014 Boston\u2019s Bill Russell scores 18 points and grabs 41 rebounds to lead the Celtics to a 119-101 victory over the Syracuse Nationals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1968 \u2014 Jean-Claude Killy of France wins the men\u2019s giant slalom in the Winter Olympics at Grenoble, his second gold medal en route to the Alpine triple crown.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1972 \u2014 The Soviet Union ice hockey team wins the gold medal with a 5-2 victory over Czechoslovakia at the Winter Olympics. The United States is awarded the silver because it had beaten and tied Czechoslovakia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1997 \u2014 Morocco\u2019s Hicham el Guerrouj breaks indoor track\u2019s oldest record, winning the mile in 3 minutes, 48.45 at the Flanders meet held in Ghent, Belgium. Ireland\u2019s Eamonn Coghlan ran 3:49.78 in 1983 in New York.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2005 \u2014 Allen Iverson scores 60 points, a career high, to lead the Philadelphia 76ers to a 112-99 victory over the Orlando Magic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2007 \u2014 Duke, saddled by its first four-game losing skid in 11 years, falls out of The Associated Press men\u2019s poll for the first time since the end of the 1995-96 season. The Blue Devils had been in the media poll for 200 straight weeks \u2014 the second longest streak behind UCLA\u2019s record 221 weeks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2010 \u2014 Nodar Kumaritashvili, a 21-year-old men\u2019s Olympic luger from the country of Georgia, dies after a crash during training for the Vancouver Games.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2012 \u2014 American Hannah Kearney wins her 15th straight World Cup moguls event at the World Cup event in Beida Lake, China. Kearney breaks downhill great Ingemar Stenmark\u2019s all-discipline record for consecutive FIS World Cup victories. Stenmark won 14 straight giant slaloms in 1978-80. Kearney\u2019s streak began in Lake Placid, N.Y., on Jan. 22, 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2013 \u2014 LeBron James becomes the first player in NBA history to score 30 points and shoot at least 60 percent in six straight games as the Miami Heat hold off the Portland Trail Blazers 117-104.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2014 \u2014 Tina Maze of Slovenia and Dominique Gisin of Switzerland tie for gold in the Olympic women\u2019s downhill. Both speed down the Rosa Khutor course in 1:41.57 seconds for the first gold-medal tie in Olympic alpine skiing history.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1937 \u2014 Cleveland is granted an NFL franchise. The Rams play in Cleveland for nine years before moving to Los Angeles. After the 1994 season, the Rams move to St. Louis. 1958 \u2014 Boston\u2019s Bill Russell scores 18 points and grabs 41 rebounds to lead the Celtics to a 119-101 victory over the Syracuse Nationals. 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