{"id":29076,"date":"2016-03-06T09:04:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T17:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-march-6\/"},"modified":"2016-03-06T09:04:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T17:04:56","slug":"today-in-sports-history-march-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-march-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in sports history: March 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1920 \u2014 Mickey Roach of Toronto scores five goals to lead the St. Patricks to an 11-2 rout of the Quebec Bulldogs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1976 \u2014 Dorothy Hamill wins the World Figure Skating Championships in Goteberg, Sweden.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1977 \u2014 Montclair State\u2019s Carol Blazejowski scores 52 points against Queens College, setting a new collegiate scoring record (for men or women) in the current Madison Square Garden in New York.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1982 \u2014 The San Antonio Spurs and Milwaukee Bucks combine for 337 points in the highest scoring game in NBA history, to that point. The Spurs win, 171-166, in three overtimes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1983 \u2014 The 12-team United States Football League begins its first season with five games.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1984 \u2014 Dale Hawerchuck of the Winnipeg Jets sets the NHL record for most assists in one period, with five in the second period of a 7-3 triumph over the Los Angeles Kings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1988 \u2014 Julie Krone becomes the winningest female jockey in history with her 1,205th career victory. Krone rides a filly named Squawter to victory in the ninth race at Aqueduct Racetrack.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1994 \u2014 Jay Sigel stages the biggest comeback in PGA and Senior tour history, rallying from 10 strokes behind to win the GTE West Seniors Classic in a four-hole playoff with Jim Colbert.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1996 \u2014 Detroit\u2019s Chris Osgood becomes the third goalie in NHL history to score a goal, firing the puck into an empty net with 11 seconds remaining in the Red Wings\u2019 4-2 victory over Hartford.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2000 \u2014 Shaquille O\u2019Neal of the Los Angeles Lakers scores an NBA season-high 61 points and had 23 rebounds in a 123-103 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2001 \u2014 George Mason beats North Carolina-Wilmington 35-33 in the second-lowest scoring game in the shot-clock era of NCAA basketball.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2007 \u2014 Jody Conradt becomes the second Division I coach to win 900 games as Texas beats Missouri 70-57 in the first round of the Big 12 Conference women\u2019s tournament.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2010 \u2014 Devin Harris scores 31 points and the New Jersey Nets erased an early 16-point deficit to beat New York 113-93. The Knicks miss all 18 attempts in the most futile 3-point shooting night in league history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2011 \u2014 Lindsey Vonn clinches her third discipline title in three days with a super-G victory to wrap up a memorable weekend of ski racing in Tarvisio, Italy. Vonn took the super-combined and downhill titles the previous two days.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2014 \u2014 The Los Angeles Clippers rout the rival Los Angeles Lakers 142-94. It\u2019s the most lopsided victory ever for the Clippers\u2019 franchise and the most one-sided loss in Lakers history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2015 \u2014 Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim is suspended for nine games, with the school punished for ignoring the \u201cmost fundamental core values of the NCAA\u201d for academic, drug and other violations committed primarily by the men\u2019s basketball program. The school is put on probation for five years and the basketball team is forced to vacate 108 wins in which ineligible players participated.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2015 \u2014 Shane Walsh scores the winning goal in the fifth overtime to lead UMass to a 4-3 victory over Notre Dame in the longest game in NCAA Division I ice hockey history.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1920 \u2014 Mickey Roach of Toronto scores five goals to lead the St. Patricks to an 11-2 rout of the Quebec Bulldogs. 1976 \u2014 Dorothy Hamill wins the World Figure Skating Championships in Goteberg, Sweden. 1977 \u2014 Montclair State\u2019s Carol Blazejowski scores 52 points against Queens College, setting a new collegiate scoring record (for men [&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-29076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29076","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=29076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29076"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=29076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}