{"id":23087,"date":"2016-02-14T09:05:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T17:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-feb-14\/"},"modified":"2016-02-14T09:05:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T17:05:25","slug":"today-in-sports-history-feb-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-feb-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in sports history: Feb. 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

1936 \u2014 Maribel Vinson wins her eighth U.S. figure skating singles championship and Robin Lee wins his second consecutive men\u2019s title.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1951 \u2014 Sugar Ray Robinson wins the middleweight title with a technical knockout in the 13th round over Jake LaMotta in Chicago.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1953 \u2014 Bill Chambers of William & Mary grabs 51 rebounds in a 105-84 victory over Virginia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1966 \u2014 Philadelphia\u2019s Wilt Chamberlain scores 41 points in a 149-123 win over Detroit to become the NBA\u2019s all-time scoring leader, passing Bob Pettit (20,880 points).<\/strong><\/p>\n

1975 \u2014 Julius Erving of the New York Nets scores 63 points in a 176-166 quadruple overtime loss to the San Diego Conquistadors. Erving sets an ABA record by shooting 25-for-46 from the field and the 342 points are an ABA record.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1977 \u2014 Philadelphia\u2019s Al Hill sets a record for most points in an NHL debut with five points \u2014 two goals and three assists \u2014 in a 6-4 victory over the St. Louis Blues.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1986 \u2014 Wayne Gretzky gets seven assists as the Edmonton Oilers beat the Quebec Nordiques 8-2.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1988 \u2014 Bobby Allison outduels his 26-year-old son Davey to win the Daytona 500 and becomes the first 50-year-old to win NASCAR\u2019s premier event.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1990 \u2014 Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins ends his 46-game scoring streak, the second-longest in NHL history, leaving after two periods of a 4-3 overtime victory over the New York Rangers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1992 \u2014 Bonnie Blair becomes the first American woman in 40 years to win two gold medals in the Winter Olympics when she takes the 1,000-meter speed skating event. Toni Nieminen, 16, becomes the youngest male Winter Olympic champion ever, leading Finland to the team ski jumping title. He\u2019s a day younger than American bobsledder Bill Fiske was in 1928.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1998 \u2014 Mississippi wins on Kentucky\u2019s homecourt for the first time since 1927 with a 73-64 victory. It\u2019s the Rebels\u2019 first win in 20 games in Rupp Arena and the second in 45 contests at Kentucky.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2004 \u2014 Anaheim\u2019s Sergei Fedorov is the first Russian-born player to collect 1,000 points with an assist on Keith Carney\u2019s goal in the second period of the Ducks\u2019 2-1 win over Vancouver.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2004 \u2014 Philadelphia\u2019s Sean Burke wins his 300th career game by stopping 25 shots in a 6-2 win over the Rangers. Burke is the 20th goalie to reach the milestone.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2005 \u2014 Savannah State is 0-for-the-season, becoming the second NCAA Division I school in a half-century to go through an entire season without a win, losing to Florida A&M 49-44 to finish 0-28.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2010 \u2014 The Eastern Conference edges the West 141-139 in the NBA All-Star game before the largest crowd ever to watch a basketball game. A crowd of 108,713 at Cowboys Stadium watches Dwyane Wade score 28 points and take MVP honors before Dallas native Chris Bosh makes the winning free throws with 5.0 seconds left.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2010 \u2014 Sailing\u2019s America\u2019s Cup, once again, belongs to America after Larry Ellison\u2019s space-age trimaran easily speeds ahead of two-time defending champion Alinghi of Switzerland to complete a two-race sweep in the 33rd America\u2019s Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2015 \u2014 Mikaela Shiffrin becomes the third woman to win back-to-back slalom titles at world championships. She finishes in a combined time of 1:38.48, edging Frida Hansdotter of Sweden by 0.34 seconds.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1936 \u2014 Maribel Vinson wins her eighth U.S. figure skating singles championship and Robin Lee wins his second consecutive men\u2019s title. 1951 \u2014 Sugar Ray Robinson wins the middleweight title with a technical knockout in the 13th round over Jake LaMotta in Chicago. 1953 \u2014 Bill Chambers of William & Mary grabs 51 rebounds in […]<\/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-23087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23087","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=23087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23087"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}