{"id":21668,"date":"2016-02-26T09:02:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T17:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-feb-26\/"},"modified":"2016-02-26T09:02:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T17:02:20","slug":"today-in-sports-history-feb-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-feb-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in sports history: Feb. 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1935 \u2014 Babe Ruth is released by the New York Yankees and signed by the Boston Braves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1938 \u2014 Glenn Cunningham sets a world indoor records in 1500-meter race at the AAU nationals at New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden. Cunningham finishes in 3:48.4.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1960 \u2014 Dave Jenkins of the U.S. wins the figure skating gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, Calif.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1968 \u2014 Thirty-two African nations agree to boycott the Olympics because of the presence of South Africa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1981 \u2014 The Boston Bruins beat the Minnesota North Stars 5-1 in a game marred by fights. The teams set an NHL record with 84 penalties worth 392 minutes, and 12 players are ejected.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1987 \u2014 Michael Jordan scores 58 points, the most by a Chicago player in a regular-season game, to lead the Bulls over the New Jersey Nets 128-113.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1994 \u2014 In Lillehammer, Norway, Vreni Schneider of Switzerland wins the slalom for the fifth medal of her career, the most of any woman in Alpine Olympic history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2007 \u2014 Roger Federer breaks Jimmy Connors\u2019 30-year-old mark with his 161st week at the top of the ATP rankings. Connors set his record from July 1974 to August 1977. The ATP rankings began on Aug. 23, 1973. Federer took the No. 1 spot on Feb. 2, 2004.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2007 \u2014 Shaquille O\u2019Neal passes the 25,000-point mark for his career midway through the first quarter of Miami\u2019s 99-93 loss to New York. O\u2019Neal is the seventh player to reach 25,000 points and 10,000 rebounds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2008 \u2014 Edmonton records its NHL-record 13th shootout win of the season with a 4-3 victory over Detroit. The mark was previously held by Dallas, which went 12-1 in 2005-06.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2012 \u2014 Pete Weber wins a record fifth U.S. Open bowling championship, throwing a strike on his final ball to beat Mike Fagan 215-214. Weber surpasses his father, Dick Weber, who won the tournament\u2019s predecessor four times, as did Don Carter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2012 \u2014 In Bulgaria, Lindsey Vonn captures her fourth World Cup super-G race of the year and becomes the career leader in the discipline. By winning her 18th super G the American overtakes Austria\u2019s Renate Goetschl for the record.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2013 \u2014 C. Vivian Stringer becomes the fourth women\u2019s college basketball coach to reach 900 wins when Rutgers cruises past South Florida 68-56.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1935 \u2014 Babe Ruth is released by the New York Yankees and signed by the Boston Braves. 1938 \u2014 Glenn Cunningham sets a world indoor records in 1500-meter race at the AAU nationals at New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden. Cunningham finishes in 3:48.4. 1960 \u2014 Dave Jenkins of the U.S. wins the figure skating gold [&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-21668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21668","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=21668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21668"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}