Today in Sports - Gordie Howe becomes the NHL’s all-time goal-scoring leader, playoffs included, 627
Associated PressThe AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! 1964 — Detroit’s Gordie Howe becomes the NHL’s all-time goal-scoring leader, including playoffs, with his 627th career goal. 1970 — Forty-three members of the Marshall football team die when their chartered plane crashes in Kenova, W.Va. 1993 — Don Shula breaks George Halas’ career record for victories with No. 2010 — John Force wins his NHRA-record 15th Funny Car season championship, completing an improbable and emotional comeback from a horrific accident in Dallas three years ago that left the 61-year-old star’s racing future in serious jeopardy. The 144 points are the most points scored by a team in a men’s college basketball game featuring two D-I schools since TCU beat Texas-Pan American 153-87 in 1997.