1933 \u2014 Primo Carnera retains the world heavyweight title with a 15-round decision over Paolino Uzcudun in Rome.<\/p>\n
1950 \u2014 The Los Angeles Rams beat the Baltimore Colts 70-27.<\/p>\n
1961 \u2014 Erich Barnes of the New York Giants ties an NFL record by returning an interception 102 yards for a touchdown in a 17-16 loss to the Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n
1975 \u2014 The 10-team World Football League, citing lack of television and season ticket support, disbands before the 12th week of a 20-week season.<\/p>\n
1994 \u2014 Alcorn State\u2019s Steve McNair becomes the NCAA\u2019s career yardage leader with 15,049, surpassing the old mark set by Brigham Young\u2019s Ty Detmer, who had 14,665. McNair\u2019s 649 yards also breaks his own Division I-AA single-game record as he leads the Braves to a 41-37 win over Southern.<\/p>\n
2000 \u2014 Bengals running back Corey Dillon rushes for an NFL single-game record 278 yards in a 31-21 victory over the Denver Broncos. Three years after he broke Jim Brown\u2019s single-game rookie record with 246 yards against Tennessee, Dillon betters Walter Payton\u2019s 27-year-old mark by three yards.<\/p>\n
2003 \u2014 Alex Gonzalez leads off the bottom of the 12th with a solo homer, lifting Florida to a 4-3 victory over the New York Yankees in Game 5 of the World Series. The loss to Florida snaps the Yankees\u2019 winning streak in extra-inning World Series games at seven.<\/p>\n
2005 \u2014 Mount Union drops a regular-season game for the first time since 1994, losing 21-14 to Ohio Northern in a Division III matchup. The Purple Raiders, winners of 110 straight regular-season games, had not lost an Ohio Athletic Conference or regular-season game since they were beaten 23-10 by Baldwin-Wallace on Oct. 15, 1994.<\/p>\n
2006 \u2014 Roger Federer wins his first Madrid Masters and 10th title of the season with a three-set victory over Fernando Gonzalez. Federer is the first player in the Open era to win 10 titles in three straight years.<\/p>\n
2011 \u2014 East Carolina\u2019s Dominique Davis completes his first 26 passes against Navy, breaking the single-game record of 23 set by Tee Martin of Tennessee in 1998 and ties by Aaron Rodgers of California in 2004. Davis is 26 for 26 for 251 yards in the first half of a 38-35 win against Navy. The senior completed his final 10 passes last week against Memphis, giving him 36 straight completed passes \u2014 eclipsing the season mark of 26 set by Rodgers in 2004.<\/p>\n
2011 \u2014 Keith Nichol catches a 44-yard pass from Kirk Cousins on the game\u2019s final play for a tiebreaking touchdown, giving the 15th-ranked Spartans a 37-31 victory against No. 4 Wisconsin.<\/p>\n
2011 \u2014 Mike Green has two goals and two assists, Matthieu Perreault adds two goals, and the Washington Capitals rout the Detroit Red Wings 7-1 in a matchup of the NHL\u2019s last remaining unbeaten teams. It\u2019s only the second time in NHL history that two teams with records of at least 5-0 face off.<\/p>\n
2012 \u2014 Lance Armstrong is stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life by cycling\u2019s governing body following a report from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that accuses him of leading a massive doping program on his teams.<\/p>\n
2014 \u2014 Serena Williams is routed 6-0, 6-2 by Simona Halep in the WTA Finals round-robin, one of the most one-sided losses in the 18-time Grand Slam champion\u2019s career. The last time Williams managed to win just two games in a WTA Tour or Grand Slam match was in 1998 when she was 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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