1941
Joe Louis retained his heavyweight boxing championship when he knocked out Red Burman in the fifth round at Madison Square Garden.

1950
An Associated Press poll named former Minneapolis Laker, George Mikan, as the greatest basketball player of the half century.

1970
Pistol Pete Maravich Louisiana State's scoring machine, passed former Cincinnati star Oscar Robertson as the top collegiate point producer of all time.

1988
Washington's Doug Williams, seeking to become the first black quarterback to lead his team to a National Football League championship, threw 4 touchdown passes and combined with rookie running back Tim Smith to lead the Redskins to a 42-10 Super Bowl XXII victory over Denver.

1989
Pittsburgh's Mario Lemieux scored his 54th goal in the Penguins' 50th game, the 3rd best 50 game total in NHL history.

1989
Hank Gathers scored 41 and an incredible 11 other players joined him in double figures as Loyola Marymount and U.S. International played the highest scoring game in college basketball history - a 181-150 contest.
The combined 331 points broke the previous record of 306 - set by the same 2 teams three weeks earlier.

1993
The Dallas Cowboys turned a record 9 turnovers and 2 defensive Touchdowns into a 52-17 victory over the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVII.

1998 - Martina Hingis, 17, became the youngest player in the Open era to defend a Grand Slam title, capturing her second Australian Open with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Conchita Martinez.

1999
Denver quarterback John Elway throws for 336 yards and a TD and rushes for another to lead the Broncos to a successful defense of their Super Bowl title, 34-19 over the Atlanta Falcons.

[This message has been edited by CrazyCanuck (edited 01-31-2000).]