Here are the sports history posts fro today, Monday and Tuesday ... Today in Sports History -- Nov. 30 By The Associated Press 1941 — The Chicago Bears score 49 points in the second half to beat the Philadelphia Eagles 49-13. 1956 — Floyd Patterson knocks out Archie Moore in the fifth round to win the world heavyweight title in Chicago. 1969 — Russ Jackson throws a record four touchdowns to lead the Ottawa Rough Riders to a 29-11 victory over Saskatchewan Roughriders in the CFL Grey Cup championship. 1979 — Sugar Ray Leonard wins the WBC welterweight title with 15th-round knockout of Wilfred Benitez in Las Vegas. 1987 — Bo Jackson, also an outfielder for the Kansas City Royals, rushes for 221 yards to lead the Los Angeles Raiders to a 37-14 rout of the Seattle Seahawks. 1991 — San Diego States Marshall Faulk becomes the first freshman to capture the national rushing and scoring titles after gaining 154 yards on 27 carries in a 39-12 loss to top-ranked Miami. Faulk finishes the season with 1,429 yards in nine games for a 158.7-yard rushing average. 2003 — Mark Philippoussis gives Australia its 28th Davis Cup title, fighting off a shoulder injury that nearly forces him to retire after the fourth set to beat Spains Juan Carlos Ferrero 7-5, 6-3, 1-6, 2-6, 6-0. 2006 — Kobe Bryant scores 30 of his 52 points in the third quarter to lead Los Angeles to a 132-102 victory over Utah. 2008 — Keith Tkachuk reaches 1,000 career points with the tying goal late in the second period in St. Louis 4-2 victory over Atlanta. 2008 — Oakland has only one catch by a wide receiver in its 20-13 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, and that officially was for 0 yards by Ronald Curry on a hook-and-lateral play. 2012 — NBA Commissioner David Stern fines the San Antonio Spurs $250,000 for a disservice to the league and our fans when they dont bring Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili or Danny Green to Miami for the final game of a six-game trip. 2012 — Georgetown and Tennessee hold each other scoreless over the final four minutes, and the Hoyas beat the Volunteers 37-36 in a display of abysmal shooting in the SEC/Big East Challenge. The teams combine to make just 7 of 20 shots — from the free throw line. The field-goal shooting is just as horrid, with the Vols hitting 33 percent and the Hoyas 36 percent. 2012 — Jordan Lynch rushes for three touchdowns, including a 2-yarder in the second overtime, and Demetrius Stones interception in the end zone gives Northern Illinois a 44-37 victory over Kent State in the Mid-American Conference championship game. Lynch throws for 212 yards and runs for 160 to break the major-college record for yards rushing by a quarterback in a season with 1,771. The previous mark was 1,702 by Michigans Denard Robinson in 2010. 2013 — Chris Davis races 100-plus yards with a missed field-goal attempt for a touchdown on the final play to lift No. 4 Auburn to a 34-28 victory over No. 1 Alabama. Davis catches the ball about 9 yards deep in the end zone after freshman Adam Griffiths 57-yard attempt falls short. He sprints down the left sideline and cuts back with nothing but teammates around him in a second straight hard-to-fathom finish for the Tigers. Today in Sports History -- Dec. 1 By The Associated Press 1936 — End Larry Kelley of Yale is named the Heisman Trophy winner. 1951 — Arnold Showboat Boykin of Mississippi scores seven touchdowns in a 49-7 rout of Mississippi State. 1959 — Louisiana State halfback Billy Cannon is named the Heisman Trophy winner. 1973 — Jack Nicklaus wins the Disney World Open to become the first professional golfer to surpass $2 million in career earnings. 1980 — South Carolina running back George Rogers is named the Heisman Trophy winner. 1984 — Greg Page knocks out South Africas Gerrie Coetzee in the eighth round in Sun City, Bophuthatswana, to win the WBA heavyweight title. 1984 — Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie is named the 50th Heisman Trophy winner. 1990 — Ty Detmer of Brigham Young wins the Heisman Trophy. Detmer, who had set or tied 25 NCAA passing and total offense records, becomes the first BYU winner and third consecutive junior winner. 1991 — France wins the Davis Cup for the first time in 59 years when Guy Forget beats Pete Sampras in four sets to give France an insurmountable 3-1 lead over the United States. 1992 — Washington guard Michael Adams sets a professional record for career 3-point baskets with his 795th in the Bullets 119-106 victory over San Antonio. Louie Dampier had 794 3-point goals for Kentucky of the ABA and San Antonio of the NBA from 1967-79. 2000 — Indiana holds Vancouver scoreless in overtime for a 86-76 victory. Its the eighth time in NBA history that a team fails to score in an overtime period. 2001 — North Texas (5-6) loses to Troy State 18-16 to become the third team to go to a bowl with a losing record. The Mean Green, bound for the inaugural New Orleans Bowl as the Sun Belt Conference champion, join SMU (4-6 in 1963) and William & Mary (5-6 in 1970) as the only teams to play in a bowl game with losing records. 2003 — Sylvester Croom becomes the Southeastern Conferences first black head football coach, accepting an offer to take over troubled Mississippi State. 2004 — McKendree College coach Harry Statham tops Dean Smith with his 880th career victory, an 83-72 win over Maryville. Smith, with 879 wins, still holds the NCAA record for career victories because all of Stathams wins are at the NAIA level. 2007 — Hawaii remains the nations only undefeated major college team with a 35-28 come-from-behind victory over Washington. Colt Brennan of Hawaii completes 42-of-50 passes for 442 yards and five TDs. Brennan, with 4,174 yards, breaks 4,000 yards passing in each of his three seasons at Hawaii. 2008 — The San Jose Sharks (21-3-1) match the best start in NHL history through 25 games with a 5-2 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Montreal Canadiens also had 43 points through 25 games in the 1943-44 season, going 20-2-3. 2009 — Brent Seabrook scores in the 11th round of a shootout and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-3 to give coach Joel Quenneville his 500th career victory. Quenneville becomes the 14th NHL coach to reach 500 wins. 2012 — Landon Donovan scores the tiebreaking goal on a penalty kick in the 65th minute, and David Beckham leaves the MLS as a two-time champion with the Los Angeles Galaxys 3-1 victory over the Houston Dynamo in the MLS Cup. 2013 — Peyton Manning passes for 403 yards with five touchdown passes in Denvers 35-28 win over Kansas City. Manning, with 4,125 yards passing, records his 13th career 4,000-yard season, extending his record for the most in NFL history. 2013 — Minnesotas Adrian Peterson rushes for 211 yards in a 23-20 overtime win over Chicago. He surpasses 10,000 yards for his career in just 101 games, needing the third-fewest games behind Eric Dickerson and Jim Brown. Chicagos Alshon Jeffery has 12 catches for 249 yards and two touchdowns. 2013 — Josh Gordon has 10 catches for 261 yards and two touchdowns in Clevelands 32-20 loss to Jacksonville. He becomes the first player in NFL history to record 200 yards receiving in consecutive games. Today in Sports History -- Dec. 2 By The Associated Press 1907 — Tommy Burns defends his world heavyweight title by knocking out Gunner Moir in the 10th round at London. 1944 — Ohio State quarterback Leslie Horvath wins the Heisman Trophy. 1947 — Notre Dame quarterback Johnny Lujack wins the Heisman Trophy. 1952 — Oklahoma halfback Billy Vessels is named the Heisman Trophy winner. 1958 — Army back Pete Dawkins is named the Heisman Trophy winner. 1977 — Veterinarian Mark Gerard is indicted in a horse-switching scandal. Cinzano, a purportedly dead 4-year-old champion colt, won a race on Sept. 23 at Belmont Park, under the name of Lebon, a 57-1 long shot. 1993 — The Houston Rockets tie the NBA record for the best start to a season, improving to 15-0 with a 94-85 victory over the New York Knicks. The Rockets matched the start of the 1948-49 Washington Capitols. 1995 — Notre Dame advances to the NCAA womens soccer championship by becoming the first team to beat 13-time champion North Carolina in the national semifinals. The lone score comes when Tar Heels forward Cindy Parlow accidentally heads a ball into her own net. 2002 — Oaklands Tim Brown and Jerry Rice take turns rewriting the NFL record book in a 26-20 win over the New York Jets. Brown becomes the third player with 1,000 receptions and the third with 14,000 yards receiving. Rich Gannon ties an NFL record with his ninth 300-yard passing game of the season. On the very next play after Browns 1,000th catch, Rice scores on a 26-yard catch, giving Oakland a 13-10 lead. Its Rices record 192nd TD catch and puts him over 1,000 yards receiving for a record 14th season. 2006 — Chase Holbrook of New Mexico State passes for 514 yards and three touchdowns and runs for another score in the Aggies 50-23 win over Louisiana Tech. Holbrooks 4,619 passing yards and 4,541 total offensive yards for the season set NCAA records for a sophomore. 2009 — The New Jersey Nets are pounded into NBA infamy, falling 117-101 to the Dallas Mavericks for their 18th straight loss to start the season. The Nets pass the 1988-89 Miami Heat and 1999 Los Angeles Clippers, who both dropped their first 17 games. 2012 — St. Louis Rookie Greg Zuerlein kicked a 54-yard field goal with 26 seconds left in overtime after booting a 53-yarder as time expired in regulation to give the Rams 16-13 win over San Francisco. The winning kick allowed the Rams to avoid a second tie in three weeks against the NFC West leaders.
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