Dec. 13

1942 — The Washington Redskins win the NFL Championship with a 14-6 victory over the Chicago Bears.

1981 — John McEnroe and Roscoe Tanner lead the United States to a 3-1 victory over Argentina in the Davis Cup final.

1983 — Detroit beats Denver 186-184 in triple overtime in the highest-scoring game in NBA history. Isiah Thomas scores 47 and John Long adds 41 for the Pistons. Denver's Kiki Vandeweghe had 51 points.

1992 — Manon Rheaume becomes the first woman to play in a regular-season professional game when she appears in the Atlanta Knights' 4-1 loss to Salt Lake City in the International Hockey League.

1995 — Detroit's Paul Coffey became the first NHL defenseman to reach 1,000 career assists, setting up Igor Larionov's first-period goal in the Red Wings' 3-1 victory over Chicago.

1998 — Gary Anderson kicks six field goals, setting the NFL record with 34 straight without a miss, in Minnesota's 38-28 victory over Baltimore.

2000 — Utah guard John Stockton records his 14,000th career assist in the final minute of the Jazz's 111-102 loss to Milwaukee. Stockton, the NBA's career assist leader, becomes one of two players to surpass 10,000 assists. Magic Johnson ended his career with 10,141.

2003 — Mount Union breaks its own NCAA record by winning its 55th consecutive game, beating Bridgewater 66-0 in the NCAA Division III semifinals.

2004 — In Sestriere, Italy, World Cup leader Bode Miller wins a slalom to join Marc Girardelli as the only men to win races in all four disciplines in a season. Miller has won slalom, giant slalom, super-G and downhill races in a span of 16 days.

2004 — Tennessee's Billy Volek, replacing the injured Steve McNair, passes for a career-high 426 yards in 49-38 loss to Kansas City. Titans receiver Drew Bennett catches 12 passes for 233 yards and three touchdowns.

2005 — Tim Montgomery is suspended for two years for doping, and the 100-meter world record he once held is wiped from the books.

2007 — Trevor Brazile clinches his fifth world all-around title during the eighth round of the National Finals Rodeo.

2007 — Major League Baseball's Mitchell Report is released, identifying 85 names to differing degrees in the 409-page document. Seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens is the biggest name linked to illegal use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs in the report by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell.

2008 — Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford wins the Heisman after guiding the highest-scoring team in major college football history to the national championship game. A year after Tim Tebow became the first sophomore to win the Heisman, Bradford becomes the second.