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EPISODE SUMMARY
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In 1961, St. Bonaventure’s men’s basketball team had won 99 consecutive games at home but that all came to an end. It’s still the second longest in NCAA history.
In 1998, boxer Riddick Bowe kidnapped his family in an effort to mend his relationship with them.
In 1964, Muhammad Ali ‘shook up the world’ with a win against Sonny Liston.
In 1987, the SMU football program got the ‘death penalty.’
THIS DAY IN SPORTS BACKGROUND
Relive the greatest moments in sports every day of the year. From the triumphs to the tragedies, the first to do it to the last time it happened, the unbelievable to the strange, This Day in Sports History is a 365-day journey remembering those significant events that made a lasting impact.