- Nov 2 Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Aqueduct Racetrack; winners: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge
- Nov 2 LA Kings score 5 goals in a span of 5:37, the fastest in NHL team history; rout Hartford Whalers, 8-1 at Hartford Civic Center
- Nov 2 Tulsa's Gordon Brown (214) and Steve Gage (206) set NCAA football record for combined rushing yards in one game for 2 teammates who gained more than 200 yards each in 42-26 win at Wichita State
Sports History
Nov 3 Bill Elliott wins Atlanta Journal 500 at Atlanta Raceway to become first driver to win 11 super-speedway races in 1 season; also first driver to win $2m in prize money in a single season
F1 World Champion
Nov 3 French McLaren driver Alain Prost wins his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship, finishing 4th in the Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide; wins title by 20 points from Italian Michele Alboreto
Hadlee Takes 9-52
Nov 9 Richard Hadlee takes 9-52 New Zealand v Australia at the Gabba
Kasparov Youngest Chess Champion
Nov 9 Russia's Garry Kasparov (22) becomes the youngest ever World Chess Champion, with a 13-11 win over fellow countryman Anatoly Karpov
- Nov 10 NHL Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Pelle Lindbergh smashes his Porsche into a retaining wall in Somerdale, New Jersey after a team party, suffering mortal injuries with two passengers critically hurt; his blood-alcohol level was over twice the legal limit, his family had him removed from life support when they arrived from Sweden
- Nov 12 Richard Hadlee takes 15-123 for cricket match New Zealand v Australia at Brisbane
Gooden Cy Young Award
Nov 13 Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award
- Nov 14 Brewers release 39-year-old pitcher Rollie Fingers
Waltrip Wins NASCAR
Nov 17 35th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Darrell Waltrip wins
- Nov 17 NY Jets best offensive production beating Tampa Bay 62-28
- Nov 18 Dwight Gooden (NL) & Bret Saberhagen (AL) win Cy Young
Mattingly AL MVP
Nov 20 New York Yankees Don Mattingly easily wins AL MVP
- Nov 24 CFL Grey Cup, Olympic Stadium, Montreal: BC Lions defeat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 37-24; final CFL game played with 25-yard long endzone
- Nov 25 Chicago White Sox shortstop Ozzie Guillén is named AL Rookie of Year
- Nov 27 Cards Vince Coleman wins NL Rookie of Year
- Nov 30 50th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 25-23 in Birmingham
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