1950 \u2014 Jim Hardy throws six touchdown passes, including five to Bob Shaw, and the Chicago Cardinals pound the Baltimore Colts 55-13.<\/p>\n
1970 \u2014 Fourteen members of the Wichita State football team are killed in a plane crash in the Rocky Mountains.<\/p>\n
1980 \u2014 Larry Holmes stops Muhammad Ali in the 11th round to win the world heavyweight title in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
1983 \u2014 The Green Bay Packers score 49 points in the first half, including 35 in the second quarter, in a 55-14 rout of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.<\/p>\n
1991 \u2014 Steffi Graf becomes the youngest woman to win 500 matches as a professional when she beats Petra Langrova of Czechoslovakia 6-0, 6-1.<\/p>\n
1993 \u2014 In the first all-British world heavyweight title fight, Lennox Lewis retains his WBC heavyweight crown with a seven-round knockout of Frank Bruno in Cardiff, Wales.<\/p>\n
1993 \u2014 California rallies from a 30-0 deficit to beat Oregon 42-41. Dave Barr throws three second-half touchdowns, including a 26-yarder to Iheanyi Uwaezuoke with 1:17 left.<\/p>\n
1994 \u2014 North Carolina\u2019s 92-game winning streak in women\u2019s soccer ends with a scoreless tie in overtime against Notre Dame.<\/p>\n
1994 \u2014 Don Shula\u2019s Miami Dolphins beat son Dave\u2019s Cincinnati Bengals 23-7 in the first meeting between father and son coaches in professional sports.<\/p>\n
2004 \u2014 Rice and San Jose State play in the highest-scoring regulation game in Division I-A history, with the Spartans winning 70-63. The 133 points surpass the total from Middle Tennessee\u2019s 70-58 victory over Idaho on Oct. 6, 2001. The schools combine for 19 touchdowns to break the Division I-A record of 18.<\/p>\n
2006 \u2014 Tennessee Titans defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth is given a five-game suspension \u2014 the longest for on-field behavior in NFL history \u2014 for stomping on Dallas Cowboys center Andre Gurode\u2019s head and kicking him in the face.<\/p>\n
2009 \u2014 Ninth-grader Alexis Thompson shoots a 3-under 69 for a share of the lead with top-ranked Lorena Ochoa and three others after the second round of the Navistar LPGA Classic. Ochoa eventually wins her second straight Navistar LPGA Classic, snapping an 11-start winless streak and the 14-year-old Thompson finishes tied for 27th at 6 under.<\/p>\n
2011 \u2014 Devin Hester sets an NFL record with his 11th punt return for a touchdown and Matt Forte rushes for a career-high 205 yards to lead Chicago to a 34-29 win over Carolina.<\/p>\n
2011 \u2014 Green Bay\u2019s Aaron Rodgers throws for a career-high 408 yards, ties a personal best with four touchdown passes and runs for two more scores in a 49-23 rout of the Denver Broncos.<\/p>\n
2011 \u2014 Michael Vick throws for a career-high 416 yards and two touchdowns and rushes for 75 yards in Philadelphia\u2019s 24-23 loss to San Francisco.<\/p>\n
2011 \u2014 Dallas has its largest lead blown in a loss in franchise history, frittering away a 24-point third-quarter cushion in a 34-30 loss to Detroit. The Lions turned a 20-point halftime deficit into an overtime win at Minnesota the previous week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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