Oct. 27

1967 — New Mexico tight finish Emilio Vallez catches 17 passes for 257 yards to tie an NCAA file in a 75-12 rout of Texas-El Paso.

1973 — Four gamers rush for greater than 100 yards as Alabama units three NCAA data throughout a 77-6 romp of Virginia Tech. Alabama units data with 823 yards whole offense, 743 yards speeding and 4 100-yard rushers. Jim Taylor good points 142 yards, Wilbur Jackson 138, Calvin Culliver 127 and Richard Todd 102.

1984 — Washington State’s Rueben Mayes units an NCAA file with 357 yards speeding, 197 within the first half, and scores three touchdowns in a 50-41 victory over Oregon.

1984 — Iowa’s Chuck Long completes 22 straight passes to set an NCAA file in a 24-20 victory over Indiana.

1996 — After two humbling losses at residence, the New York Yankees win their first World Series title since 1978 with a 3-2 victory over the defending champion Atlanta Braves in Game 6.

2001 — Joe Paterno wins his 324th recreation to go Bear Bryant for essentially the most victories by a Division I-A coach when Penn State rallies for a 29-27 win over Ohio State.

2002 — Emmitt Smith breaks the NFL profession speeding yardage file held by the late Walter Payton on an 11-yard run within the fourth quarter. Smith has 109 yards and a landing in Dallas’ 17-14 loss to Seattle and ends the sport with 16,743 profession yards — 17 greater than Payton gained.

2002 — Behind rookie pitcher John Lackey and a three-run double by Garret Anderson, the Anaheim Angels beat Barry Bonds and the San Francisco Giants 4-1 for the franchise’s first World Series in 42 years.

2004 — The Boston Red Sox are World Series champions at lengthy, lengthy final. Johnny Damon homers on the fourth pitch of the sport, Derek Lowe makes it arise and the Red Sox win Game 4 3-0, sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals for his or her first crown since 1918. 2005 — Curtis Joseph makes 13 saves to earn his four-hundredth NHL victory and Mike Comrie scores twice as Phoenix edges Calgary 3-2.

2006 — The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Detroit Tigers 4-2 in Game 5 to wrap up their first Series title in almost a quarter-century and tenth general. The Cardinals, with 83 regular-season wins, is the fewest by a World Series champion.

2007 — Curlin posts an emphatic victory towards his hardest rivals within the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Monmouth Park. Ridden by Robby Albarado, Curlin defeats Derby runner-up Hard Spun by 4 1/2 lengths.

2007 — Weber State beats Portland State 73-68 to set an NCAA all-division soccer file for factors in a recreation. Back in 1916, Georgia Tech beat Cumberland 222-0, however that was earlier than the NCAA saved monitor of data. q2012 — Matt Scott of Arizona good points 469 whole yards and accounts for 4 TDs within the Wildcats’ 39-36 win over Southern California. Marqise Lee of USC, catches 16 passes for a Pac-12-record 345 yards and two TDs.

2013 — Matthew Stafford’s 1-yard lunge over a pile of linemen with 12 seconds left and Calvin Johnson’s 329 yards receiving carry the Detroit Lions to a 31-30 comeback win over the Dallas Cowboys. Stafford throws a 22-yard go to Johnson, who had the second-most yards receiving in NFL historical past, to arrange his profitable rating.

2013 — Serena Williams ends her greatest season in model, rallying previous Li Na 2-6, 6-3, 6-0 for her second straight WTA Championship and Eleventh title of the 12 months.

2015 — Alex Gordon hits a tying residence run with one out within the ninth inning, Eric Hosmer hits a sacrifice fly towards Bartolo Colon within the 14th and the Kansas City Royals beat the New York Mets 5-4 within the longest opener in World Series historical past.

2020 — LA Dodgers beat Tampa Bay Rays. 31- in Game 6 at Globe Life Field, Arlington Texas towin their first World Series title in 32 years.

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Oct. 28

1939 — Kansas State’s homecoming contest towards Nebraska is the second school soccer recreation ever televised, following the Fordham-Waynesburg contest in New York earlier this fall. The Cornhuskers spoil homecoming with a 25-9 triumph in Manhattan, Kan., earlier than a restricted Nebraska ETV viewers within the surrounding space.

1950 — Nevada punter Pat Brady boots an NCAA file 99-yard punt in a 34-7 loss to Loyola Marymount.

1962 — New York Giants quarterback Y.A. Title passes for 505 yards and 7 touchdowns, and Del Schofner catches 11 passes for 269 yards and a landing in a 49-34 victory over the Washington Redskins.

1973 — Gail Goodrich scores 49 factors and seven-foot heart Elmore Smith units an NBA file with 17 blocked pictures because the Los Angeles Lakers beat Portland 111-98.

1973 — With jockey Eddie Maple substituting for suspended Ron Turcotte, Secretariat concludes his racing profession with a victory within the Canadian International Championship Stakes at Woodbine in Toronto.

1989 — Tony Alford of Colorado State rushes for 310 yards on 28 carries to interrupt a Western Athletic Conference file and scores three touchdowns in a 50-10 win over Utah.

1989 — Central State crushes Lane 101-0. Lane concedes with 11:26 to play within the fourth quarter. Quarterback Henderson Mosley runs for 3 touchdowns and passes for six.

1990 — Jennifer Capriati, 14, beats Zina Garrison in three units to seize the Puerto Rico Open and develop into the youngest participant to qualify for the Virginia Slims Championship.

1993 — Ron Francis turns into the thirty eighth NHL participant to attain 1,000 factors with a objective within the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 7-3 loss to the Quebec Nordiques.

1995 — Cigar completes an undefeated season of 10 straight wins with a rousing 2½-length victory beneath Jerry Bailey within the Breeders’ Cup Classic. Cigar, the 3-to-5 favourite, covers the 1 1/4 miles in a time of 1:59 2/5 to beat L’Carriere and provides Bailey his third consecutive Classic win.

1997 — Dee Kantner and Violet Palmer are employed as full-time NBA referees, marking the primary time in main professional sports activities within the United States that females will officiate regular-season video games in an all-male league.

2010 — Caroline Wozniacki wraps up the year-end No. 1 rating after rallying to beat Francesca Schiavone 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 on the WTA Championships. The 20-year-old from Denmark is the tenth lady to finish the season on high and the youngest since Martina Hingis in 1997.

2016 — Russell Westbrook has 51 factors and a triple-double and scores the profitable factors within the Oklahoma City Thunder’s 113-110 extra time victory over the Phoenix Suns. It’s the primary 50-point triple-double since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had one in 1975. Westbrook finishes with 13 rebounds and 10 assists.

2017 — J.T. Barrett caps the best recreation of his profession with a 16-yard landing go to Marcus Baugh with 1:48 left within the fourth quarter and No. 6 Ohio State rallies from 11 down within the remaining 5 minutes handy No. 2 Penn State its first loss, 39-38.

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Oct. 29

1950 — Detroit’s Wally Triplett good points 294 yards in kickoff returns and finally ends up with 331 whole yards because the Lions pound the Los Angeles Rams 65-24 on 41 third-quarter factors.

1960 — Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) wins his first skilled battle beating Tunney Hunsaker on factors in 6 rounds in Louisville, Kentucky.

1961 — Oscar Robertson dishes out a franchise-record 22 assists throughout Cincinnati’s 139-132 win over visiting Syracuse. The “Big O” goes on to common a triple-double (30.8 ppg, 12.5 rpg and 11.4 apg) for the Royals in the course of the 1961-62 season, changing into the primary NBA participant to common double figures in assists.

1969 — Tom Seaver wins NL CY Young.

1977 — Boston’s John Havlicek turns into the second participant in NBA historical past to attach on 10,000 profession discipline objectives, reaching the milestone in a 103-98 loss at Cleveland.

1977 — Russell Erxleben of Texas kicks a 60-yard discipline objective in a 26-0 rout of Texas Tech for his third discipline objective of the season over 60 yards, an NCAA file.

1983 — Gil Fenerty rushes for 337 yards on a 18 carries and scores six touchdowns to steer Holy Cross to a 77-28 rout of Columbia.

1984 — Orlando Pizzolato wins the New York Marathon in 2:14:53 and Grete Waitz captures the ladies’s title in 2:29:30.

1987 — Thomas Hearns wins unprecedented 4th completely different weight boxing title.

1994 — Arnold Mickens rushes for greater than 200 yards for the eighth consecutive recreation, breaking the NCAA Division I-AA single-season speeding file as Butler beats Evansville 49-14. Mickens’ 244 yards provides him a complete of two,111, surpassing the file of two,016 set by Towson State’s Tony Vinson.

2005 — Top-ranked Southern California wins its thirtieth straight recreation, routing Washington State 55-13. The Trojans tie Texas for the Eleventh-longest profitable streak in main school soccer historical past.

2006 — With a a 34-31 victory over Denver, Indianapolis is the primary group to begin 7-0 in consecutive seasons because the 1929-31 Green Bay Packers did it three straight instances.

2011 — Joe Paterno breaks Eddie Robinson’s file for victories by a Division I coach with No. 409 in Penn State’s sloppy 10-7 win over Illinois.

2014 — Madison Bumgarner and the San Francisco Giants succeed the place no group had in 3 1/2 many years, profitable Game 7 on the highway for his or her third World Series title in 5 years. Bumgarner comes out of the bullpen to pitch 5 scoreless innings on two days’ relaxation because the Giants held off the Kansas City Royals 3-2.

2017 — Russell Wilson hits Jimmy Graham for an 18-yard landing with 21 seconds left, his second TD catch of the fourth quarter, to steer Seattle over Houston 41-38. Wilson finishes 26 of 41 for a career-high 452 yards and 4 TDs. Deshaun Watson is sort of the equal of Wilson, throwing for 402 yards and 4 touchdowns and three interceptions.

2017 — Caroline Wozniacki wins the most important title of her profession when she beat Venus Williams 6-4, 6-4 within the WTA Finals.

2017 — Justin Rose mounts the third-largest final-round comeback in PGA TOUR historical past to win the WGC-HSBC Champions. Rose begins the ultimate spherical eight pictures behind Dustin Johnson, who ties a file for dropping the most important lead within the remaining spherical. The historic 5-under 67 spherical by Rose is keyed by a back-nine 31. Rose finishes at 14-under 274 and Johnson who finishes with a 77, ties for second with Henrik Stenson and Brooks Koepka, two strokes again.

2018 — Klay Thompson, Golden State Warriors, breaks the NBA file for many 3-pointers in a recreation with 14 in a Warrior’s 149-124 over the Chicago Bulls. The file was beforehand held by Thompson’s teammate Stephen Curry.

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Oct. 30

1943 — Gus Bodnar of Toronto scores a objective 15 seconds into his first NHL recreation because the Maple Leafs beat the New York Rangers 5-2.

1945 — Branch Rickey indicators Jackie Robinson to the Montreal Royals.

1955 — Jim Patton of New York returns a kickoff and a punt for a landing because the Giants beat the Washington Redskins 35-7.

1966 — Jim Nance of the Boston Patriots rushes for 208 yards and two touchdowns in a 24-21 victory over the Oakland Raiders.

1971 — Eric Allen of Michigan State rushes for 350 yards in 43-10 rout of Purdue.

1974 — Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman within the eighth spherical in Kinshasa, Zaire, to regain the world heavyweight title within the “Rumble in the Jungle”.

1975 — John Bucyk of the Boston Bruins scores his five hundredth profession objective in a 3-2 victory over St. Louis.

1977 — Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears rushes for 205 yards and two touchdowns in a 26-0 conquer the Green Bay Packers.

1993 — Erin Whitten turns into the primary lady goalie in skilled hockey to be credited with a victory as Toledo beats Dayton 6-5 within the East Coast Hockey League.

1996 — The WNBA publicizes the eight cities that can compete within the WNBAs inaugural season. Charlotte, Cleveland, Houston and New York will play within the Eastern Conference and Los Angeles, Phoenix, Sacramento and Utah will compete the Western Conference.

1997 — Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona publicizes his retirement from soccer on his thirty seventh birthday.

1997 — Violet Palmer makes skilled sports activities historical past by changing into the primary lady to officiate an NBA recreation. There is little response by the gang when her identify is introduced simply earlier than tip-off of the sport between the Dallas Mavericks and Vancouver Grizzlies.

1999 — Marques Tuiasosopo turns into the primary school participant to go for 300 yards and run for 200, racking up a school-record 509 yards as Washington rallied to beat Stanford 35-30. Tuiasosopo completes 19-of-32 passes for 302 yards and a landing and rushes 22 instances for 207 yards and two TDs.

2001 — Michael Jordan misses his greatest shot of the evening and commits two essential late turnovers within the Washington Wizards’ 93-91 loss to the New York Knicks, Jordan’s first regular-season recreation after a 3 1/2-year retirement.

2003 — In the primary regular-season recreation of his NBA profession, 18-year-old LeBron James has 25 factors, 9 assists, six rebounds and 4 steals, however the Cleveland Cavaliers lose 106-92 to the Sacramento Kings.

2004 — Trainer Bobby Frankel lastly breaks by within the Breeders’ Cup Classic, with Ghostzapper blazing to victory in America’s richest race held at Lone Star Park. Frankel, who had simply two wins with 62 Breeders’ Cup starters earlier than the $4 million Classic, had saddled the overwhelmed favourite the previous three years.

2004 — Dana College’s Tom Lensch units an all-division school file by trying 101 passes in a 60-35 loss to Hastings College. Lensch completes 56 passes for a school-record 507 yards with three touchdowns and three interceptions.

2011 — The Baltimore Ravens erase a 24-3 deficit to defeat Arizona 30-27. It marks the fifth time this season a group trailed by a minimum of 20 factors and got here again to win. That is essentially the most in a single season in NFL historical past.

2016 — Derek Carr throws a 41-yard landing go to Seth Roberts with 1:45 remaining in extra time, capping a record-breaking day for the Oakland Raiders in a 30-24 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Carr throws for a franchise-record 513 yards — finishing 40 of 59 passes with out an interception — and the Raiders overcome an NFL-record 23 penalties for 200 yards.

2019 — Baseball World Series: Washington Nationals beat Houston Astros, 6-2 in Game 7 at Minute Maid Park, Houston to win first title in franchise historical past; MVP: Washington pitcher Stephen Strasburg.

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