Feb. 24
1960 - Bill Cleary's four goals lead the United States to a 9-1 victory over West Germany in the hockey championship round of the Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, Calif.
1978 - Kevin Porter of the New Jersey Nets sets an NBA record with 29 assists in a 126-112 victory over the Houston Rockets.
1980 - The United States hockey team wins the gold medal with a 4-2 victory over Finland at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y.
1988 - An unprecedented winner of the 90- and 70-meter individual events, Matti Nykanen becomes the Winter Olympics' first triple gold medalist in Nordic skiing when Finland wins the new 90-meter team ski jumping event.
1993 - Steve Yzerman of the Detroit Red Wings reaches 1,000 career points with two goals and two assists in a 10-7 loss to Buffalo Sabres.
1994 - Lipscomb's John Pierce becomes college basketball's career scoring leader with 33 points in his regular-season finale, a 119-102 win over Cumberland. Pierce's 4,110 points break former roommate Phil Hutcheson's record of 4,106.
2002 - Svetlana Feofanova breaks the pole vault indoor world record for the fourth time this month, clearing 15 feet, 6 1/2 inches at the Gaz de France meet.
2002 - Joe Sakic has two goals, including the game-winner, and two assists, and Jarome Iginla scores twice as Canada beat the United States, 5-2, for the gold medal at the Winter Olympics. It's the seventh time Canada has won the gold in its national sport, but the first since 1952.
2006 - Julia Mancuso earns a stunning victory in the giant slalom to salvage a disappointing Olympics for the US women in their final Alpine event of the Turin Games. Mancuso gives the American women their first Olympic Alpine medal since Picabo Street's gold in the super-G at the 1998 Nagano Games.
Feb. 25
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points, but New York's Richie Guerin scores 50 to lead the Knicks to a 149-135 victory.
1964 - Cassius Clay wins the world heavyweight title when Sonny Liston is unable to answer the bell for the seventh round at Convention Hall in Miami Beach, Fla.
1977 - Pete Maravich of the New Orleans Jazz scores 68 points, the most by an NBA guard, in a 124-107 victory over the New York Knicks. Only Wilt Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor had scored more points in an NBA game.
1987 - The Southern Methodist football team is suspended for the 1987 season after investigations revealed that players received $61,000 from a booster slush fund.
1993 - Vermont beats Northeastern, 50-40, for its 50th straight victory, breaking the women's Division 1 college basketball record for consecutive regular-season wins.
1994 - Oksana Baiul of Ukraine wins the figure skating gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, and Nancy Kerrigan, who was whacked on the knee 2 1/2 earlier, wins the silver. Tonya Harding, later convicted of hindering prosecution in the Kerrigan attack, finishes eighth.
2001 - In the largest playoff in PGA Tour history, Rert Allenby wins the Nissan Open on the first extra hole against five other players. It's Allenby's third PGA Tour victory, all of them in playoffs.
2004 - Minnesota snaps New Jersey's 14-game winning streak and coach Lawrence Frank's NBA-record run of 13 straight wins to open a coaching career with an 81-68 victory.
2004 - Pittsburgh snaps an 18-game winless streak with a 4-3 overtime victory over Phoenix. The Penguins come back from a 3-1 deficit for their first win since Jan. 12 at Philadelphia.
Feb. 26
1935 - Babe Ruth is released by the New York Yankees and signed by the Boston Braves.
1960 - Dave Jenkins of the United States wins the figure skating gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, Calif.
1962 - Philadelphia Warrior center Wilt Chamberlain scores 67 points in a 149-135 win over the New York Knicks.
1968 - Thirty-two African nations agree to boycott the Olympics because of the presence of South Africa.
1981 - The Bruins beat the Minnesota North Stars 5-1 in a game marred by fights. The teams set an NHL record with 84 penalties worth 392 minutes, and 12 players are ejected.
1987 - Michael Jordan scores 58 points, the most by a Chicago player in a regular-season game, to lead the Bulls over the New Jersey Nets, 128-113.
2005 - Jim Boeheim notches his 700th college basketball coaching victory when Syracuse, led by Hakim Warrick's career-high 36 points, overwhelms Providence for a 91-66 victory.
2006 - Sweden beats Finland, 3-2, to win the Olympic men's hockey gold. Germany leaves Turin with the most overall medals with 29, 11 of them gold, while the Americans win 25 medals overall, including nine gold.
2007 - Roger Federer breaks Jimmy Connors's 30-year-old mark with his 161st week at the top of the ATP rankings. Connors set his record from July 1974 to August 1977. The ATP rankings began on Aug. 23, 1973. Federer took the No. 1 spot on Feb. 2, 2004.
2007 - Shaquille O'Neal passes the 25,000-point mark for his career midway through the first quarter of Miami's 99-93 loss to New York. O'Neal is the seventh player to reach 25,000 points and 10,000 rebounds.
Feb. 27
1959 - The Celtics beat the Minneapolis Lakers, 173-139, as seven NBA records fall. The Celtics set records for most points, most points in a half (90), most points in a quarter (52), and most field goals (72). Boston's Tom Heinsohn leads all scorers with 43 points and Bob Cousy adds 31 while setting an NBA record with 28 assists.
1977 - Stan Mikita of the Chicago Black Hawks scores his 500th goal in a 4-3 loss to the Vancouver Canucks.
1992 - Prairie View sets an NCAA Division 1 record for most basketball defeats in a season with a 112-79 loss to Mississippi Valley State in the first round of the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament. Prairie View's 0-28 mark breaks the record of 27 losses shared by four teams.
1994 - Sweden wins its first hockey gold medal, defeating Canada, 3-2, in the first shootout for a championship at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway.
1996 - The Chicago Bulls reach 50 victories faster than any team in NBA history, beating the Minnesota Timberwolves, 120-99. The Bulls (50-6) reach 50 victories in 56 games, one better than the 1982-83 Philadelphia 76ers who started 50-7.
1998 - Indiana's 124-59 victory over Portland marks the first time in the NBA's 51-year history that one team scores more than twice as many points as the other.
2005 - David Toms delivers the most dominant performance in the seven-year history of the Match Play Championship, winning eight out of nine holes to put away Chris DiMarco with the largest margin of victory in the 36-hole final. The score 6 and 5, could have been much worse as Toms was 9 up at one point.
2005 - Unseeded Australian Wayne Arthurs, 33, becomes the oldest first-time winner since the ATP Tour was formed in 1990, beating third-seeded Mario Ancic of Croatia, 7-5, 6-3, in the Tennis Channel Open.
2006 - Effa Manley is the first woman elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. The former Newark Eagles co-owner is among 17 people from the Negro Leagues and pre-Negro Leagues chosen by a special committee.
Feb. 28
1960 - The United States hockey team scores six goals in the third period to beat Czechoslovakia, 9-4, and win the gold medal in the Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, Calif.
1971 - Jack Nicklaus wins the PGA Championship by beating Billy Casper by three strokes.
1986 - Baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth conditionally suspends Dave Parker of the Cincinnati Reds, Keith Hernandez of the New York Mets, Joaquin Andujar of the Oakland Athletics, Lonnie Smith of the Kansas City Royals, Enos Cabell of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Jeff Leonard of the San Francisco Giants, and Dale Berra of the New York Yankees one year for drug abuse. After conditions are met, the suspensions are reduced.
1999 - Venus and Serena Williams become the first sisters to win WTA Tour events on the same day. Venus wins the IGA SuperThrift Tennis Classic in Oklahoma City after Serena takes her first title on the WTA Tour at the Gaz de France Open.
2003 - In Val Di Fiemme, Italy, Johnny Spillane wins the Nordic combined sprint to become the first American to win a gold medal at the Nordic world championships.
Feb. 29
1976 - Boston goalie Gilles Gilbert extends his NHL-record winning streak to 17 games, with a 5-3 victory over Vancouver at the Boston Garden.
1980 - Hartford's Gordie Howe scores his 800th NHL goal to help the Whalers beat St. Louis, 3-0.
1992 - Ray Bourque has a goal and two assists to give him 1,000 career points in the Bruins' 5-5 tie against Washington. He becomes the third NHL defenseman to score 1,000 points.
1996 - The Dallas Mavericks set NBA records for 3-pointers in a game with 18 and in a half with 12 during a 137-120 victory over Denver.
2000 - Sparky Anderson, the only manager to win World Series titles in both leagues, is elected into the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee.
2004 - Tiger Woods roars past Davis Love with key putts to win the Match Play Championship for the second straight year, 3 and 2. Woods wins for the 40th time on the PGA Tour in just his 149th start, the quickest anyone has reached that milestone. Jack Nicklaus played 221 events before he won his 40th tournament.
March 1
1934 - Primo Carnera retains his world heavyweight title with a unanimous 15-round decision over Tommy Laughren in Miami.
1973 - Robyn Smith becomes the first female jockey to win a stakes race when she rides North Sea to victory in the Paumonok Handicap at Aqueduct Race Track in New York.
1983 - Tamara McKinney becomes the first American female skier to win the overall World Cup championship.
1986 - Billy Cunningham, Tom Heinsohn, and Red Holzman are named to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
1988 - Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers becomes the NHL's all-time assist leader, breaking the longtime mark of Gordie Howe. In his ninth season, Gretzky picks up assist No. 1,050 in a game against the Los Angeles Kings. Gretzky takes 681 games to surpass the record that took Howe 1,767 games to set.
1994 - NBA referee Steve Javie ejects Portland radio analyst Mike Rice in the third quarter of the Pacers' 106-94 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers.
1997 - Canada's Elvis Stojko nails the first quad-triple combination jump in figure skating history to win the Champions Series final.
2000 - With 26-year-old rookie Dean Barker at Black Magic's helm, New Zealand sails into America's Cup history, becoming the first country other than the United States to defend the oldest trophy in sports.
2001 - Jackie Stiles of Southwest Missouri State becomes the NCAA career scoring leader in women's basketball, running her career total to 3,133 points with 30 in Southwest Missouri State's 94-59 victory over Creighton.
2003 - Roy Jones Jr. beats John Ruiz, becoming the second light heavyweight champion to win a piece of the heavyweight title. Jones wins a unanimous 12-round decision to take the WBA heavyweight crown.
2006 - The Los Angeles Clippers hold New Orleans to one field goal over the final 20 minutes and an NBA record-low 16 points in the second half of an 89-67 victory.
March 2
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain scores an NBA-record 100 points to lead the Philadelphia Warriors to a 169-147 triumph over the New York Knicks. Chamberlain scores 59 second-half points and 28 points from the free throw line for records. Both teams combine for 316 points to surpass the record of 312 set by Boston-Minneapolis on Feb. 27, 1959.
1966 - Chicago's Bobby Hull becomes the first NHL player to have two 50-goal seasons, scoring in the Black Hawks' 5-4 victory over the Detroit Red Wings.
1969 - Phil Esposito becomes the first NHL player to score 100 points in a season, scoring a goal in the Bruins' 4-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins.
1991 - Del Ballard Jr. throws the most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour history, in the finals of the Fair Lanes Open. Ballard, needing seven pins on his last roll to beat Pete Weber, gets none as his ball falls into the gutter. Weber wins, 213-207, claiming the $30,000 first prize, while Ballard takes $15,500.
1997 - Croatia's Goran Ivanisevic wins the quickest final in ATP Tour history, beating Spain's Sergi Bruguera, 6-2, 6-2, in 47 minutes in the Italian Indoors.
2003 - Alinghi takes the America's Cup with a five-race sweep over Team New Zealand, winning the race by 45 seconds. The Swiss team becomes the first European yacht to win the America's Cup in 152 years.
2007 - Center Dikembe Mutombo becomes the first 40-year-old in NBA history to get more than 20 rebounds in a game, finishing with 22 boards in Houston's 108-97 victory over Denver.
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