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Thursday,
November 1, 2001 |
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Mittie
has high hopes for new year |
Printers’
play ends QB controversy
For all the armchair quarterbacks and impatient fans who called
for junior quarterback Casey Printers’ head before Tuesday’s
game, any resemblance of a quarterback controversy is pretty much
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Yankees
even Series at two NEW
YORK — Derek Jeter became baseball’s first Mr. November,
hitting a home run with two outs in the bottom of 10th inning to
lift the New York Yankees over Arizona 4-3 Wednesday night and tie
the World Series at two games each.
Today
in sports history 1913 — Knute Rockne and Notre Dame beat Army at West Point, 35-7. In this game, Rockne unveiled a new strategy in football, the forward pass, to hand Army its first loss of the season. 1947 — The famous racehorse, Man o’ War, died. His funeral was attended by over 2,500 people. As a stud in retirement, Man o’ War sported a guest book with more than 2 million names. 1950 — The first black man to play in the National Basketball Association hit the hardwood. Charles Cooper was in the Boston Celtics lineup for a game played in Fort Wayne, Ind. 1987 — Tom Watson won the first Tour Championship of Golf by two strokes over Chip Beck. Watson received $384,000 in prize money — the biggest payoff in golf to that day. 1994 — The Chicago Bulls retired Michael Jordan’s No. 23 uniform and put it on display at the United Center. A sculpture was later commissioned and placed outside the arena with the inscription, “The Best There Ever Was. The Best There Ever Will Be.” |
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