{"id":26875,"date":"2016-05-11T08:04:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T15:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-may-11\/"},"modified":"2016-05-11T08:04:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T15:04:15","slug":"today-in-sports-history-may-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-may-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in sports history: May 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1892 \u2014 Azra, ridden by Alonzo Cayton, wins the first three-horse field in the Kentucky Derby, edging Huron by a nose.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1918 \u2014 Exterminator, a 30-1 long shot ridden by Willie Knapp, loses the lead but regains it to win the Kentucky Derby by one length over Escoba.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1923 \u2014 Setting several Pacific Coast League records, Pete Schneider of Vernon hit five homers and a double to drive in 14 runs in a 35-11 romp over Salt Lake City.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1968 \u2014 The Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup, completing a four-game sweep over the St. Louis Blues with a 3-2 victory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1972 \u2014 The Boston Bruins win the Stanley Cup in six games with a 3-0 victory over the New York Rangers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1992 \u2014 The Portland Trail Blazers win the highest-scoring playoff game in NBA history, 153-151 in double overtime against the Phoenix Suns in the Western Conference semifinals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1994 \u2014 The Phoenix Suns, down 20 points with 10 minutes to play, stage the biggest late-game comeback in NBA playoff history, beating the Houston Rockets 124-117 in overtime in the Western Conference semifinals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2001 \u2014 Vince Carter scores 34 of his 50 points in the first half and ties an NBA playoff record with nine 3-pointers to lead Toronto to a 102-78 win over Philadelphia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2005 \u2014 The New York State Athletic Commission suspends James Toney and orders him to pay a $10,000 fine for testing positive for banned substances after an April 30 heavyweight title bout with John Ruiz.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2009 \u2014 Cleveland makes it an NBA-record eight straight wins by double digits with an 84-74 victory over Atlanta to advance to the Eastern Conference finals. The Cavaliers are the second team to sweep the first two rounds of the playoffs since the NBA expanded the first round to best-of-seven in 2003.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1892 \u2014 Azra, ridden by Alonzo Cayton, wins the first three-horse field in the Kentucky Derby, edging Huron by a nose. 1918 \u2014 Exterminator, a 30-1 long shot ridden by Willie Knapp, loses the lead but regains it to win the Kentucky Derby by one length over Escoba. 1923 \u2014 Setting several Pacific Coast League [&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-26875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26875","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=26875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26875"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}