January 7
#1 UCLA 83, Purdue 49
Washington 79, Wisconsin 58

Standings
1. UCLA (16-0, 5-0)
2. Maryland (14-0, 4-0)
2. USC (14-1, 4-0)
4. Ohio State (14-0, 3-0)
5. Minnesota (15-1, 3-1)
5. Washington (12-4, 3-1)
7. Indiana (10-4, 2-1)
7. Michigan State (12-2, 2-1)
9. Nebraska (11-4, 2-2)
9. Iowa (12-3, 2-2)
9. Oregon (11-4, 2-2)
12. Michigan (10-4, 1-2)
13. Illinois (11-4, 1-3)
14. Wisconsin (10-6, 1-4)
15. Northwestern (7-8, 0-4)
15. Penn State (9-6, 0-4)
15. Purdue (7-8, 0-4)
15. Rutgers (8-7, 0-4)

Games for Wednesday, January 8
#9 Ohio State at #25 Michigan (6:00 PM - BTN+)
#20 Michigan State at Nebraska (7:00 PM - Nebraska Public Media / BTN+)
Rutgers at Minnesota (7:00 PM - BTN+)
Indiana at Northwestern (7:00 PM - BTN+)
#4 USC at #8 Maryland (7:30 PM - FS1)

January 22

1901 - Queen Victoria of England died at age 81 after reigning for 63 years (the second-longest reign among British monarchs behind Elizabeth II, who reigned for 70 years); she was succeeded by her eldest son, Edward VII.

1905 - More than 500 workers were killed by the Czar's troops in "Bloody Sunday" in St. Petersburg, Russia.

1938 - Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town" was first performed publicly in Princeton, New Jersey.

1944 - During World War II, Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy.

1947 - America's first commercially licensed television station west of the Mississippi River, KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, made its official debut.

1973 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in its Roe v. Wade decision, declared a nationwide constitutional right to abortion. (The high court would overrule Roe v. Wade in 2022, in the decision of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.)

1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, died at his Texas ranch at age 64.

1997 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the nation's first female secretary of state.

1998 - Theodore Kaczynski pleaded guilty in Sacramento, California, to being the Unabomber responsible for three deaths and 23 injuries in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole.

2008 - Actor Heath Ledger was found dead at age 28 from an accidental prescription overdose in a New York City apartment.

Birthdays
23 - Caitlin Clark (basketball player)
23 - Darianka Sanchez (model)
23 - Miranda McKeon (actress)
29 - Sami Gayle (actress)
53 - Gabriel Macht (actor)
56 - Olivia d'Abo (actress)
57 - Guy Fieri (chef/TV host)
60 - Diane Lane (actress)
66 - Linda Blair (actress)
76 - Steve Perry (singer)

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Today in Sports History - January 22

1951 - Fidel Castro was ejected from a Winter League baseball game after hitting a batter. He later gave up baseball for politics.

1968 - The NBA awarded franchises to Milwaukee and Phoenix.

1969 - Roy Campanella and Stan Musial are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1973 - Joe Frazier lost the first fight of his professional career to George Foreman. He had been the undefeated heavyweight world champion since February 16, 1970 when he knocked out Jimmy Ellis. The event was HBO's first televised boxing match.

1983 - Houston became the first NBA team to not score a point in overtime. They lost to the Portland Trail Blazers after being outscored 17-0 in overtime.

1983 - Bjorn Borg retired from tennis. He had set a record by winning 5 consecutive Wimbledon championships.

1984 - Annette Kennedy (State University of New York) set a woman's collegiate basketball record when she scored 70 points.

1984 - The Los Angeles Raiders defeat the Washington Redskins 38-9 to win Super Bowl XVIII.

1989 - The San Francisco 49ers defeat the Cincinnati Bengals 20-16 to win Super Bowl XXIII.

1998 - Minnesota's new NHL franchise selected the nickname Wild.

1998 - The World League of American Football is renamed NFL Europe.

2001 - Former National Football League (NFL) player Rae Carruth was sentenced to a minimum 18 years and 11 months in prison for his role in the 1999 shooting death of his pregnant girlfriend, Cherica Adams. Adams died a month later from her wounds. The baby survived and lives with the victim's mother.

2002 - Pat Summerall announced that he would leave his NFL broadcasting partner, John Madden, after they called the Super Bowl for Fox Sports. The two had worked together for 21 years.

2003 - Michael Jordan (Washington Wizards) became the third highest all-time scorer in the NBA.

2006 - Kobe Bryant scored 81 points, the second-highest single game total in NBA history, in the Los Angeles Lakers' 122-104 win over the Toronto Raptors.

2018 - DeMarcus Cousins of the New Orleans Pelicans has 44 points, 24 rebounds and 10 assists in a 132-128 win over the Chicago Bulls, becoming the first player since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1972 with 40+ points, 20+ rebounds and 10+ assists in a game.

2020 - The NFL's Oakland Raiders officially relocated to Las Vegas.

2024 - Joel Embiid scores 70 points in leading the Philadelphia 76ers to a 133-123 win over the San Antonio Spurs, breaking the single game franchise scoring record of 67 points set by Wilt Chamberlain in 1967.

January 21
1793 - During the French Revolution, King Louis XVI was guillotined for treason.

1915 - The first Kiwanis Club was founded in Detroit.

1924 - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died in Moscow at age 53.

1950 - Former State Department official Alger Hiss, accused of being part of a Communist spy ring, was found guilty in New York of lying to a grand jury. (Hiss, who proclaimed his innocence, served less than four years in prison.)

1950 - George Orwell died in London.

1954 - The USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, was launched.

1957 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated for a second term in the White House.

1976 - British Airways and Air France inaugurated scheduled passenger service on the supersonic Concorde jet.

1977 - President Jimmy Carter issued a pardon for most Vietnam War draft evaders on his first full day in office.

1985 - President Ronald Reagan is sworn in for a second term in office.

2003 - The U.S. Census Bureau reported that Hispanics had surpassed Blacks as the nation's largest minority group.

2010 - In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that the government cannot restrict the spending of corporations for political campaigns, maintaining that it's their First Amendment right to support candidates as they choose. This decision upsets two previous precedents on the free speech rights of corporations.

2013 - President Barack Obama is sworn in for a second term in office.

2017 - A day after Donald Trump's first presidential inauguration, an estimated 3 to 5 million people rallied at Women's March demonstrations across the United States to support civil rights and to protest Trump's rhetoric and policies.

2020 - The U.S. reported its first known case of the 2019 novel coronavirus circulating in China, saying a Washington state resident who had returned the previous week from the outbreak's epicenter was hospitalized near Seattle.

Birthdays
23 - Minnie Mills (actress)
41 - Luke Grimes (actor)
42 - Maryse Ouellet (professional wrestler)
49 - Emma Bunton (singer)
62 - Hakeem Olajuwon (basketball player)
69 - Geena Davis (actress)
69 - Robby Benson (actor)
70 - Jeff Koons (artist)
75 - Billy Ocean (singer)
84 - Placido Domingo (opera singer)
85 - Jack Nicklaus (golfer)

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Today in Sports History - January 21
1979 - The Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Dallas Cowboys 35-31 to win Super Bowl XIII.

1985 - Dennis Potvin tied Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals.

1986 - Former major-league player, Randy Bass, became the highest-paid baseball player in Japanese history. Bass signed a three-year contract for $3.25 million. He played for the Hanshin Tigers.

1990 - John McEnroe was disqualified and expelled for throwing a tantrum and using abusive language at an official while leading Mikael Pernfors in the Australian Open. He was the first person to be thrown out of a Grand Slam in 27 years. He was fined $6,500 and kicked out of the tournament.

1995 - John Stockton of the Utah Jazz became the NBA's all-time assists leader with 9,922.

1997 - New York Yankees slugger Don Mattingly announced his retirement.

2010 - Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers became the 15th player in NBA history to reach 25,000 career points and the youngest to hit the milestone, reaching the mark 35 days faster than Wilt Chamberlain.

2019 - Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors sets an NBA record by making his first 10 attempts from 3-point range as the Warriors beat the Los Angeles Lakers 130-111; Thompson ended the game with 44 points.

2024 - Stanford women's basketball coach Tara VanDerveer becomes the winningest college basketball coach with her 1,203rd carer victory after defeating Oregon State 65-56.

$55mil/year to the second best QB on their roster?

Tough to see, their coach deserves better roster management.

January 6
1540 - King Henry VIII of England married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.

1759 - George Washington married Martha Custis.

1838 - Samuel Morse gave the first public demonstration of the telegraph.

1912 - New Mexico became the 47th state.

1919 - Former President Theodore Roosevelt died in Oyster Bay, New York at age 60.

1941 - In his State of the Union address, President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined a goal of "Four Freedoms": freedom of speech and expression, the freedom of people to worship God in their own way, freedom from want and freedom from fear.

1974 - Year-round daylight saving time began in the United States on a trial basis as a fuel-saving measure in response to the OPEC oil embargo.

1982 - Truck driver William G. Bonin was convicted in Los Angeles of 10 of the "Freeway Killer" slayings of young men and boys. (Bonin was later convicted of four other killings; he was executed in 1996.)

1987 - University of California astronomers first witnessed the birth of a galaxy that contained 1 billion stars.

2005 - Former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was indicted on murder chargers 41 years after three civil rights workers were slain in Mississippi. (Killen was later convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 60 years in prison; he died in prison in 2018.)

2021 - Supporters of President Donald Trump, fueled by his claims of a stolen election, assaulted police and smashed their way into the U.S. Capitol to interrupt the certification of Democrat Joe Biden's victory, forcing lawmakers into hiding. (Congress reconvened hours later to finish certifying the election result.)

Birthdays
29 - Courtney Eaton (actress)
31 - Catriona Gray (model)
31 - Jameis Winston (football player)
39 - Irina Shayk (model)
41 - Hilaria Thomas Baldwin (actress)
41 - Eric Trump (son of President Donald Trump)
41 - Kate McKinnon (actress/comedian)
43 - Gilbert Arenas (basketball player)
43 - Tiffany Pollard (reality star)
43 - Eddie Redmayne (actor)
55 - Julie Chen Moonves (TV host)
56 - Norman Reedus (actor)
61 - Charles Haley (football player)
65 - Howie Long (football player)
68 - Nancy Lopez (golfer)
70 - Rowan Atkinson (actor/comedian)

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Today in Sports History - January 6

1681 - The first recorded boxing match in history is organized by Christopher Monck, the Second Duke of Albermarle, between his butler and his butcher.

1942 - The National Collegiate Football Rules Committee abolished the Y formation.

1942 - Star MLB pitcher Bob Feller reports for duty after enlisting in the U.S. Navy.

1951 - The Indianapolis Olympians defeat the Rochester Royals 75-73 in six overtimes, the longest game in NBA history.

1976 - Ted Turner purchased the Atlanta Braves for $12 million dollars.

1988 - A seven-fight deal was signed between Mike Tyson and HBO.

1994 - Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the leg by an assailant at Detroit's Cobo Arena; four men, including the ex-husband of Kerrigan's rival, Tonya Harding, went to prison for their roles in the attack. (Harding pleaded guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution but denied any advance knowledge of the assault.)

1995 - Atlanta Hawks coach Lenny Wilkens passes the legendary Red Auerbach ot become the NBA's all-time winningest coach with 939 career wins.

1997 - Peter O'Malley announced that the Los Angeles Dodgers were for sale. The team had been owned by his family for 47 years.

1998 - Barry Switzer resigned as the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.

1998 - Don Sutton is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1999 - The National Basketball Association (NBA) and its players agreed to a tentative labor agreement to end a six-month lockout.

2002 - Emmitt Smith (Dallas Cowboys) became the first running back in the NFL to run gain 1,000 yards in 11 consecutive seasons.

2010 - NBA commissioner David Stern indefinitely suspended Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas without pay. Arenas has admitted to bringing guns into the Verizon Center locker room and was under investigation by local and federal authorities.

2013 - The NHL reaches an agreement to end a 113 day lockout

2014 - Florida State defeats Auburn 34-31 to win the final BCS National Championship.

2015 - Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz, and Craig Biggio are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

2018 - Tennessee Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota scores a touchdown off his own pass in a 22-21 win over the Kansas City Chiefs, becoming the second NFL quarterback to ever do so.

January 20
1801 - John Marshall is appointed Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

1841 - As a result of the First Opium War, Hong Kong was ceded to the British. (It was returned to Chinese control in July 1997.)

1885 - LaMarcus A. Thompson of Coney Island patented the roller coaster.

1936 - Britain's King George V died after his physician injected the mortally ill monarch with morphine and cocaine to hasten his death. The king was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward VIII, who would abdicate 11 months later to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.

1937 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for a second term, becoming the first chief executive to be inaugurated on Jan. 20; prior to the 20th Amendment in 1933, presidential terms began on March 4.

1942 - The Nazis formulated their "Final Solution" regarding the Jews at the Wannsee Conference.

1949 - Harry S. Truman is sworn in for his second term as president of the United States.

1953 - Dwight D. Eisenhower is sworn in as president of the United States.

1961 - John F. Kennedy is sworn in as the 35th president of the United States, urging Americans "ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country."

1964 - The Beatles released their first album in the United States, "Meet the Beatles."

1965 - Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as president of the United States for a second term.

1969 - Richard M. Nixon is sworn in as president of the United States.

1973 - President Richard Nixon is inaugurated for his second term as president of the United States.

1977 - Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th president of the United States.

1981 - Ronald Reagan became the oldest president to take office as he is sworn in as the 40th president of the United States at age 69 years, 349 days.

1981 - Iran released 52 Americans it had been holding hostage for 444 days, minutes after the presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.

1986 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day was celebrated as a national holiday for the first time.

1989 - George H.W. Bush in sworn in as the 41st president of the United States.

1993 - Bill Clinton is sworn in as the 42nd president of the United States.

1997 - President Bill Clinton is sworn in for his second term as president of the United States.

2001 - George W. Bush, son of President George H.W. Bush, is inaugurated as the 43rd president of the United States.

2005 - President George W. Bush is sworn in for a second term as president of the United States.

2009 - Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States and the nation's first African American president.

2011 - Federal authorities orchestrated one of the biggest mafia takedowns in FBI history, charging 127 suspected mobsters and associates in the Northeast with murders, extortion and other crimes spanning decades.
2017 - Political outsider Donald Trump was sworn in as the nation's 45th president.

2021 - Former vice president Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States.

Birthdays
36 - Dena Kaplan (actress)
38 - Evan Peters (actor)
40 - Brantley Gilbert (singer)
53 - Nikki Haley (politician)
55 - Skeet Ulrich (actor)
59 - Rainn Wilson (actor)
60 - John Michael Montgomery (singer)
69 - Bill Maher (comedian/TV host)
95 - Buzz Aldrin (astronaut)

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Today in Sports History - January 20
1892 - The first official basketball game was played by students at the Springfield, MA, YMCA Training School.

1937 - Nels Stewart (New York Americans) became the NHL's career leading scorer when he scored his 270th NHL goal.

1952 - George Mikan of the Minneapolis Lakers scores 61 points in a 91-81 double-overtime win over the Rochester Royals.

1967 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers makes all 15 of his field goal attempts in a 119-108 win over the Los Angeles Lakers to set an NBA record for consecutive shots made.

1968 - Houston ended UCLA's 47-game winning streak with a 71-69 victory at the Astrodome before 52,693 fans. The game also set a NCAA attendance record.

1980 - The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Los Angeles Rams 31-19 to win Super Bowl XIV.

1980 - President Jimmy Carter announces the U.S. will boycott the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

1985 - The most-watched Super Bowl game in history was seen by an estimated 115.9 million people. The San Francisco 49ers beat the Miami Dolphins, 38-16. Super Bowl XIX marked the first time that TV commercials sold for a million dollars a minute. Joe Montana was awarded his third MVP award.

1989 - Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins becomes just the second player in NHL history to score 50 goals in less than 50 games (44).

1995 - The NHL season opened with the teams playing a 48-game schedule instead of the usual 84. The season had been shortened due to a players strike.

1999 - The NBA lockout officially ended after 204 days.

2003 - Patrick Roy (Colorado Avalanche) became the first NHL goalie to play in 1,000 games.

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January 8

1790 - President George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York City.

1815 - The last major engagement of the War of 1812 came to an end as U.S. forces defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans, not having received word of the signing of a peace treaty.

1867 - The House of Representatives joined the Senate in overriding President Andrew Johnson's veto of the District of Columbia Suffrage Act, giving Black men in the nation's capital the right to vote.

1918 - President Woodrow Wilson outlined his "Fourteen Points" peace program.

1958 - Bobby Fischer won the United States Chess Championship for the first time at age 14.

1959 - Charles de Gaulle became the first president of France's Fifth Republic.

1964 - In his State of the Union address to Congress, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his "War on Poverty" initiative.

1982 - The AT&T Bell System telephone monopoly agreed to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies and split itself into seven "Baby Bells."

1998 - The mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York City, Ramzi Yousef, was sentenced to life in prison.

2011 - Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is among 17 shot by a gunman at a meeting outside a grocery store. Six people were killed, including U.S. District Court Judge John Roll, and a young girl. Police would identify the gunman as Jared Lee Loughner, who was sentenced in 2012 to seven consecutive life sentences plus 140 years.

2016 - Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the world's most-wanted drug lord, was captured for a third time in a daring raid by Mexican marines, six months after walking through a tunnel to freedom from a maximum security prison.

2020 - Iran struck back at the United States for killing Iran's top military commander, firing missiles at two Iraqi military bases housing American troops. More than 100 U.S. service members were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries after the attack. As Iran braced for a counterattack, the country's Revolutionary Guard shot down a Ukrainian jetliner after apparently mistaking it for a missile; all 176 people on board were killed.

2023 - Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro who refused to accept his election defeat, stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace in the capital, a week after the inauguration of his leftist rival, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Birthdays
23 - Kaylor Martin (reality star)
24 - Kaash Paige (singer)
30 - Rachel Cook (actress)
30 - Ryan Destiny (singer)
37 - Allison Harvard (model)
38 - Cynthia Erivo (actress)
44 - Genevieve Padalecki (actress)
43 - Gaby Hoffman (actress)
46 - Sarah Polley (film maker)
79 - Robby Krieger (musician)
85 - Cristy Lane (singer)
88 - Shirley Bassey (singer)

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Today in Sports History - January 8

1901 - In Chicago, the first tournament sanctioned by the American Bowling Congress was held.

1945 - The Kentucky men's basketball team sets an NCAA record by holding Arkansas to just six points in a 75-6 win.

1955 - Furman sets an NCAA single-game men's basketball scoring record with 154 points.

1955 - After 130 consecutive home wins, the Kentucky men's basketball team was defeated by Georgia Tech, 59-58. It was the Wildcats first home loss since January 2, 1943.

1957 - Jackie Robinson announced his retirement from baseball.

1960 - The NCAA voted against reviving unlimited substitution in college football.

1962 - Jack Nicklaus makes his PGA Tour debut at the Los Angeles Open.

1972 - The NCAA announces freshman are eligible for varsity competition in the upcoming school year.

1980 - The NCAA votes to begin sanctioning championships in five women's sports.

1984 - The NCAA approves expansion of the Division I men's basketball tournament to 64 teams.

1984 - ABC purchased the remaining 85% of ESPN.

1986 - Willie McCovey becomes the 16th player to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.

1991 - Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins and Rod Carew are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1993 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls became the 18th player in NBA history to score 20,000 career points and becomes the second-fastest (620 games) player to ever reach the milestone, behind only Wilt Chamberlain (499 games).

1994 - Dino Ciccarelli of the Detroit Red Wings became the 19th player in NHL history to score 500 career goals.

1995 - Mike Schmidt is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1996 - For the first time in 25 years, no one is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

2000 - In what has been dubbed the "Music City Miracle," the Tennessee Titans defeat the Buffalo Bills 22-16 in a wild AFC wild card playoff game that saw Kevin Dyson run the length of the field in the final 16 seconds to score the game-winning touchdown for the Titans.

2007 - Florida defeats Ohio State 41-14 to win the BCS National Championship.

2009 - Florida defeats Oklahoma 24-14 to win the BCS National Championship.

2012 - In an AFC wildcard playoff game dubbed "The 3:16 Game", the underdog Denver Broncos defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers 29-23 which saw Tim Tebow connecting with Demaryius Thomas on an 80-yard touchdown pass on the first scrimmage play in overtime.

2013 - Steve Nash becomes the fifth player in NBA history to record 10,000 career assists.

2018 - Alabama defeats Georgia 26-23 to win the College Football Playoff national championship.

According to a report from Jon Rothstein, Nebraska, Kansas State and Mississippi State will headline the 2025 Hall of Fame Classic in Kansas City, which will be held Nov. 20-21 of 2025. The event will be played inside the T-Mobile Center. The fourth team has yet to be announced, as are the official matchups.

January 9
1788 - Connecticut became the fifth state.

1861 - Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union.

1916 - The World War I Battle of Gallipoli ended with an Ottoman Empire victory as Allied forces withdrew.

1945 - During World War II, American forces began landing on the shores of Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines as the Battle of Luzon got underway, resulting in an Allied victory over Japanese forces.

1964 - Anti-American rioting erupted in the Panama Canal Zone.

1968 - Surveyor 7, the last of America's unmanned lunar probes, landed on the moon.

2005 - Mahmoud Abbas was elected president of the Palestinian Authority, following the death of Yasser Arafat the previous November.

2007 - Apple entered the smartphone world as CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone at the Macworld Conference in San Francisco.

2018 - Downpours sent mud and boulders roaring down Southern California hillsides that had been stripped of vegetation by a gigantic wildfire, more than 20 people died and hundreds of homes were damaged or destroyed.

2022 - Seventeen people, including eight children, died after a fire sparked by a malfunctioning space heater filled a high-rise apartment building with smoke in the New York City borough of the Bronx; it was the city's deadliest blaze in over 30 years.

Birthdays
27 - Lottie Moss (model)
30 - Nicola Peltz (actress)
33 - Shilpa Sethi (model)
36 - Nina Dobrev (actress)
38 - Nicola Coughlan (actress)
43 - Catherine, Princess of Wales (wife of Britain's Prince William)
45 - Sergio Garcia (golfer)
47 - AJ McLean (singer)
47 - Chad Johnson (football player)
58 - Dave Matthews (musician)
60 - Joely Richardson (actress)
60 - Muggsy Bogues (basketball player)
69 - Imelda Staunton (actress)
70 - J.K. Simmons (actor)
74 - Crystal Gale (singer)
81 - Jimmy Page (musician)
84 - Joan Baez (musician)

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Today in Sports History - January 9
1903 - Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchase the Baltimore Orioles and moved the franchise to New York City, where it would become the Highlanders (and eventually, the Yankees).

1918 - The NHL announced a new rule that permitted goaltenders to leave their feet while making a save. Previously a penalty was called if a goalie sat or lay on the ice to stop the puck.

1930 - The Boston Bruins set an NHL record with 14 straight wins.

1951 - The NBA's Washington Capitals franchise folds.

1958 - University of Cincinnati basketball star Oscar Robertson scores 56 points in a game against Seton Hall in which Seton Hall only scored 54.

1954 - Bert Olmstead (Montreal Canadiens) tied an NHL record when he scored 8 points in a game.

1962 - The NFL approved a new rule banning the grabbing of face masks.

1967 - The new NFL franchise in New Orleans announces the adoption of the nickname "Saints."

1972 - The Milwaukee Bucks defeat the Los Angeles Lakers 120-104, snapping the Lakers' NBA record 33-game win streak.

1977 - The Oakland Raiders defeat the Minnesota Vikings 32-14 to win Super Bowl XI.

1979 - The Boston Bruins retire Bobby Orr's #4.

1981 - Future NHL Hall of Famer Phil Esposito of announced his retirement.

1989 - Johnny Bench and Carl Yastrzemski are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1990 - Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1991 - A special committee of Major League Baseball authorities officially banned Pete Rose from being elected into the Hall of Fame.

1991 - North Carolina men's basketball coach Dean Smith becomes the sixth to reach 700 career victories.

1998 - The "Hockey News" magazine selected Wayne Gretzky as the best NHL player ever.

2000 - Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino plays in his final NFL game.

2004 - Brian Boucher (Phoenix Coyotes) set a new NHL record with his fifth consecutive shutout. The total time of the streak was 325 minutes and 45 seconds.

2005 - Randy Moss (Minnesota Vikings) pretended to pull down his pants and moon the Green Bay Packer crowd during a playoff win. On January 13 the NFL fined Moss $10,000 for the act.

2012 - Alabama defeats LSU 21-0 to win the BCS National Championship.

2017 - Clemson defeats Alabama 35-31 to win the College Football Playoff National Championship.

2023 - Georgia routs TCU 65-7 to win the College Football Playoff National Championship.

January 16
1547 - Ivan the Terrible was crowned the first czar of Russia.

1865 - Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman decreed that 400,000 acres of land in the South would be divided into 40-acre lots and given to former slaves. (The order, later revoked by President Andrew Johnson, inspired the expression, "40 acres and a mule.")

1883 - The U.S. Civil Service Commission was established.

1920 - A year after it was ratified, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect, which prohibited the sale of alcoholic beverages.

1942 - Actress Carole Lombard, age 33 and the wife of actor Clark Gable, along with 20 others died in a plane crash near Las Vegas.

1989 - Three days of rioting began in Miami when a police officer fatally shot Clement Lloyd, a Black motorcyclist, causing a crash that also claimed the life of Lloyd's passenger, Allan Blanchard. (The officer, William Lozano, was convicted of manslaughter, but was acquitted in a retrial.)

1991 - In a televised address to the nation, President George H.W. Bush announced the start of Operation Desert Storm, an Allied combat operation to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.

1992 - The government of El Salvador signed a peace treaty with guerrilla forces, formally bringing an end to a 12-year civil war.

1996 - Wayne Newton performed his 25,000th Las Vegas show. Newton had performed more shows as a headliner than any other entertainer.

2001 - Congolese President Laurent-Desire Kabila was fatally shot by one of his own bodyguards.

2001 - Laurent Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was assassinated.

2003 - The space shuttle Columbia blasted off on what would be its final mission. The craft broke up on its descent on Feb. 1, killing all on board.

2006 - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became the first elected female head of state in Africa when she was sworn in as president of Liberia.

2018 - Authorities in Denmark charged inventor Peter Madsen with killing Swedish journalist Kim Wall onboard his private submarine. (Madsen would be convicted and sentenced to life in prison.)

Birthdays
29 - Sara Hoxha (model)
35 - JeLaminah Lanier (reality star)
37 - Alex Gonzaga (actress)
38 - Katie Maloney (reality star)
40 - Joe Flacco (football player)
45 - Albert Pujols (baseball player)
45 - Lin-Manuel Miranda (actor)
51 - Kate Moss (model)
56 - Roy Jones Jr. (boxer)
66 - Sade (singer)
75 - Debbie Allen (actress/dancer)
82 - Ronnie Milsap (singer)
90 - A.J. Foyt (race car driver)
91 - Marilyn Horne (singer)
97 - William Kennedy (author)

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Today in Sports History - January 16

1896 - The first five-player college basketball game was played at Iowa City, Iowa.
1960 - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings becomes the NHL's all-time leading scorer with 947 points, passing Maurice Richard.

1961 - Mickey Mantle signed a contract which made him the highest paid baseball player in the American League at $75,000 for the 1961 season.

1966 - Chicago is awarded an NBA franchise to be named the "Bulls"; it is the third NBA franchise in the city after the Chicago Stags (1946-1950) and Chicago Packers/Zephyrs (now Washington Wizards).

1970 - St. Louis Cardinals center fielder Curt Flood filed a $1 million antitrust lawsuit against Major League Baseball and MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, arguing for the right to free agency.

1970 - The NFL announces it will realign its teams from four divisions into three, per conference.

1972 - The Dallas Cowboys defeat the Miami Dolphins 24-3 to win Super Bowl VI.

1988 - The NFL's St. Louis Cardinals announced that they would be moving to Phoenix.

1993 - Michael Jordan (Chicago Bulls) scored 64 points against the Orlando Magic. It was Jordan's second highest single-game total of his career.

1995 - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were sold to Malcolm Glazer for $192 million.

2002 - Baseball owners voted to approve the record $660 million sale of the Boston Red Sox.

2019 - Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry becomes the first player in NBA history to hit 8 or more 3-point shots in a game, going 9-of-17 from behind the arc in a 147-140 win over the New Orleans Pelicans; the two teams combined for an NBA single-game record 43 3-point shots.

2019 - Houston guard James Harden becomes first player to score 55+ points in back-to-back NBA games since Wilt Chamberlain (1962); scores 58 in 145-142 OT loss to Brooklyn; 18 straight games with 30+ points.

2020 - Former Sacramento State softball player Alyssa Nakken becomes first woman to hold a coaching position on a MLB staff when named an assistant by the San Francisco Giants.

I’m wondering if anyone who post on here knows of a good hitting coach in the Omaha area I could take my 14 year old son who has high school tryouts coming at the end of February to for some lessons. While I would preferably keep it as cheap as I can, I do realize quality comes at a price, so I am willing to shell out the dough for a great coach. Anyways anybody got ideas/connections?

January 7
1610 - Astronomer Galileo Galilei observed four of Jupiter's moons for the first time.

1896 - Fanny Farmer published her first cookbook.

1927 - Transatlantic commercial telephone service began between New York and London.

1953 - President Harry S. Truman announced that the United States had developed the hydrogen bomb.

1955 - Singer Marian Anderson became the first Black American to sing with the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

1979 - Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge government.

1989 - Japan's Emperor Hirohito died.

1999 - The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton began in the U.S. Senate.

2015 - Masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French newspaper that had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, methodically killing 12 people, including the editor, before escaping. (Two suspects were killed two days later.)

2022 - Three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery were sentenced to life in prison; a judge in Georgia denied any chance of parole for the father and son who armed themselves and initiated the deadly pursuit of the 25-year-old Black man after spotting him running in their neighborhood.

2023 - Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives on a historic post-midnight 15th ballot, overcoming holdouts from his own ranks after a chaotic week that tested the new GOP majority's ability to govern.

Birthdays
21 - Sofia Wylie (actress)
25 - Kerri Medders (actress)
25 - Marcus Scribner (actor)
28 - Lamar Jackson (football player)
35 - Camille Rowe (model)
37 - Robert Sheehan (actor)
40 - Lewis Hamilton (race car driver)
42 - Brett Dalton (actor)
43 - Lauren Cohan (actress)
51 - John Rich (singer)
54 - Jeremy Renner (actor)
61 - Nicolas Cage (actor)
68 - Katie Couric (TV host/journalist)
69 - David Caruso (actor)
74 - Helen Worth (actress)
77 - Kenny Loggins (musician)

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Today in Sports History - January 7

1899 - Walter Camp publishes his first All-American college football team.

1920 - Joe Malone (Quebec Bulldogs) scored two goals and became the NHL's all-time leading goal scorer with 59.

1927 - In Hinckley, Illinois, the Harlem Globetrotters played their first game.

1961 - The first NFL Playoff Bowl (3rd place game) is played, with the Detroit Lions defeating the Cleveland Browns 17-16.

1972 - The Los Angeles Lakers set an NBA record with their 33rd consecutive win; it is also the longest such win streak in all of North American major professional sports.

1980 - The Philadelphia Flyers set an NHL record, playing 35 consecutive games without a loss.

1985 - Lou Brock and Hoyt Wilhelm are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1989 - The Cleveland Cavaliers tie an NBA record with 21 blocked shots against the New York Knicks.

1991 - Pete Rose left an Illinois federal prison and checked into a halfway house in Cincinnati. He was completing a sentence for cheating on his taxes.

1992 - Tom Seaver and Rollie Fingers are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1994 - Nancy Kerrigan withdrew from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit. The previous day her right leg was severely bruised in an attack following a practice session; the championship was won by Tonya Harding.

1995 - The NHL Board of Governors threatened to cancel the regular season if the striking players did not agree with raising unrestricted free agency from 30 years to 32 years of age.

1998 - Los Angeles Lakers center Shaquille O'Neal records his 1,000th career blocked shot in a game against the Milwaukee Bucks.

2007 - Phil Jackson becomes the fastest head coach in NBA history to record 900 career wins.

2008 - LSU defeats Ohio State 38-24 to win the BCS National Championship.

2010 - Alabama defeats Texas 37-21 to win the BCS National Championship.

2013 - Alabama defeats Notre Dame 42-14 to win the BCS National Championship.

2019 - Clemson defeats Alabama 44-16 to win the College Football Playoff National Championship.

January 13
1733 - James Oglethorpe and some 120 English colonists arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, while en route to settle in present-day Georgia.

1794 - President George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the Union. (The number of stripes was later reduced to the original 13.)

1898 - French writer Emile Zola publishes his "J'Accuse" letter, accusing the French of a cover-up in the Alfred Dreyfus treason case.

1941 - Author James Joyce died in Zurich.

1941 - A new law went into effect granting Puerto Ricans U.S. birthright citizenship.

1979 - Singer Donny Hathaway died in a fall from a hotel window in New York at age 34.

1982 - An Air Florida 737 crashed into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and fell into the Potomac River while trying to take off during a snowstorm, killing a total of 78 people, including four motorists on the bridge; four passengers and a flight attendant survived.

1990 - Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the first elected Black governor in the United States.

1992 - Japan apologized for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for its soldiers during World War II, citing newly uncovered documents that showed the Japanese army had a role in abducting the so-called "comfort women."

2002 - After 17,162 performances, "The Fantasticks" ended its almost 42-year off-Broadway run.

2004 - Joseph Darby, a U.S. soldier at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, reported U.S. abuses of Iraqi prisoners to the Army's Criminal Investigations Division.

2021 - President Donald Trump is impeached by the House of Representatives over the violent January 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol, becoming the only president in U.S. history to be impeached twice; ten Republicans joined Democrats in voting to impeach Trump on a charge of "incitement of insurrection." (Trump would again be acquitted by the Senate in a vote after his term was over.)

Birthdays
25 - Kensington Tillo (model)
28 - Connor McDavid (hockey player)
30 - Natalia Dyer (actress)
35 - Liam Hemsworth (actor)
48 - Orlando Bloom (actor)
59 - Patrick Dempsey (actor)
63 - Trace Adkins (singer)
64 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus (actress)
68 - Mark O'Meara (golfer)

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Today in Sports History - January 13

1962 - Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia Warriors) scored 73 points against the Chicago Packers, which was an NBA single-game record at the time.

1968 - Bill Masterson (Minnesota North Stars) was injured when he was checked into the boards. He died two days later. He was the first casualty in the NHL.

1974 - The Miami Dolphins defeated the Minnesota Vikings 24-7 to win Super Bowl VIII.

1982 - Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1984 - Wayne Gretzky extended his NHL consecutive scoring streak to 45 games.

1986 - The NCAA adopted the controversial "Proposal 48," which set standards for Division 1 freshman eligibility.

1998 - The NFL completed a $9.2 billion deal to keep "Monday Night Football" on ABC and the entire Sunday night cable package for ESPN.

1999 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls announced his second retirement from the NBA. (He would unretire again in 2001.)

2003 - The NHL's Buffalo Sabres filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

2005 - Major League Baseball adopted a steroid-testing program that suspended first-time offenders for 10 days and randomly tested players year-round.

2005 - The NFL fined Randy Moss (Minnesota Vikings) $10,000 for pretending to pull down his pants and moon the Green Bay Packer crowd during a playoff win the previous weekend.

2008 - The Orlando Magic knock down a then NBA single-game record 23 3-pointers in 37 attempts (62.2%) in a 139-107 win over the Sacramento Kings.

2019 - Houston Rockets guard James Harden scores 38 points in a 116-108 loss to the Orlando Magic, giving him his 16th consecutive game with 30+ points, matching Kobe Bryant's NBA record.

2020 - LSU defeats Clemson 42-15 to win the College Football Playoff national championship.

2020 - Houston Astros manager AJ Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow are fired by team owner Jim Crane for their roles in the sign-stealing scandal after MLB suspends both for one year.