{"id":30187,"date":"2016-03-13T08:04:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T15:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-march-13\/"},"modified":"2016-03-13T08:04:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T15:04:12","slug":"today-in-sports-history-march-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-march-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in sports history: March 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1894 \u2014 J.L. Johnstone of England invents the starting gate for horse racing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1920 \u2014 NYU wins the national amateur basketball championship in Atlanta. The Violets beat Rutgers 49-24 in the final of the AAU tournament.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1961 \u2014 Floyd Patterson knocks out Ingemar Johansson in the sixth round to retain the world heavyweight title in Miami Beach.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1982 \u2014 Elaine Zayak of the United States wins the world figure skating championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1983 \u2014 Randy Smith\u2019s consecutive game streak ends at 906 games, the longest in NBA history. Smith played for Buffalo, San Diego (twice), Cleveland and New York during the streak.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1997 \u2014 The America\u2019s Cup, the oldest trophy in international sports and yachting\u2019s most coveted prize, is all but destroyed by a Maori protester who struck it repeatedly with a sledgehammer in Auckland, New Zealand.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1998 \u2014 Bryce Drew hits a leaning 3-pointer as time expires to give Valparaiso a shocking 70-69 upset of Mississippi in the first round of the NCAA Midwest Regional.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2001 \u2014 Philadelphia\u2019s Mark Recchi picks up his 1,000th career point during 5-2 win over St. Louis. He\u2019s the 60th player in NHL history to reach the mark.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2005 \u2014 Donyell Marshall ties the NBA record with 12 3-pointers and the Toronto Raptors finish with a league-record 21 in their 128-110 victory over Philadelphia. Marshall, 12-for-19 from 3-point range, finishes with a career-high 38 points.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2007 \u2014 Lance Mackey wins the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, becoming the first musher to win major long-distance North American sled dog races back-to-back. On Feb. 20, Mackey won his third consecutive Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race, a 1,000 mile race between Fairbanks and Whitehorse, Yukon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2007 \u2014 Dallas\u2019 Mike Modano becomes the 39th player in NHL history and second born in the United States to reach 500 goals, scoring with 10:24 left in the third period of a 3-2 victory over Philadelphia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2008 \u2014 Bode Miller clinches the men\u2019s overall World Cup ski title. Miller earns his second title in four years with a 12th-place finish in the super-G combined along with Didier Cuche\u2019s announcement that he would not enter the season-ending slalom in Bormio, Italy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2008 \u2014 Detroit clinches a playoff berth after beating Dallas 5-3 while reaching 100 points for a league-record tying eighth-straight season. Montreal had 100-point seasons from 1975-82.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2010 \u2014 Oregon\u2019s Ashton Eaton breaks Dan O\u2019Brien\u2019s 17-year-old world record in the indoor heptathlon. Eaton sets a mark of 6,499 points at the NCAA indoor track and field championships, passing O\u2019Brien\u2019s record of 6,476.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2011 \u2014 The NCAA men\u2019s basketball selection committee releases its 68-team draw which included a record 11 teams from the Big East, the deepest conference in the nation. The tournament adds three more at-large teams that will open the tournament in what the NCAA is calling the \u201cFirst Four.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2012 \u2014 BYU pulls off the biggest comeback in NCAA tournament history on a wild opening night in Dayton, Ohio. The Cougars rally from 25 points down to beat Iona 78-72 in the first round. Previously, the largest deficit overcome was 22 points in 2001 when Duke fought back to beat Maryland 95-84 in the national semifinals. It\u2019s the second incredible turnaround of the night. With President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron watching, Western Kentucky comes back from a 16-point deficit in the final 5 minutes to beat Mississippi Valley State 59-58.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1894 \u2014 J.L. Johnstone of England invents the starting gate for horse racing. 1920 \u2014 NYU wins the national amateur basketball championship in Atlanta. 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