Events in Sports History in February 1987

Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC

Feb 1 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 10-6; MVP: Reggie White, Philadelphia Eagles, DE

Feb 2 KC Royal pitcher Dennis Leonard (3X 20 game winner), retires
Feb 3 MLB Montreal Expos trade pitcher Jeff Reardon to Minnesota Twins for pitcher Neal Heaton
Feb 4 Sacramento Kings score only 4 points 1st quarter against Lakers; fewest in a period since introduction of 24 second shot-clock in 1954
Feb 4 San Diego Yacht Club's 'Stars & Stripes' captained by Dennis Conner beats Royal Perth Yacht Club of Australia's 'Kookaburra III' to capture the America's Cup at Freemantle, Western Australia
Feb 4 Stars & Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps America's Cup
Feb 7 Dennis Conner & Stars & Stripes bring the America's Cup back to US

Boitano US Champion

Feb 7 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano

Feb 8 37th NBA All-Star Game, Kingdome, Seattle, WA: West beats East, 154-149 (OT); MVP: Tom Chambers, Seattle SuperSonics, C
Feb 11 England beat Australia 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup

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Feb 13 Tigers' Jack Morris awarded $1.85 million salary by arbitrator

Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher Jack Morris

Feb 14 Detroit Pistons-Philadelphia 76ers game draws crowd of 53,745 at Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac; third largest crowd in NBA history; Pistons win, 125-107

Disqualified for Kneeling

Feb 15 1982 Masters champion Craig Stadler is disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot

Daytona 500

Feb 15 29th Daytona 500: Bill Elliott leads for 104 of 200 laps including the last 3; had won pole with record speed of 210.364 mph

Feb 15 Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater

Senior PGA Championship

Feb 15 Senior PGA Championship, PGA National GC: Chi-Chi Rodríguez wins his second and final Champions Tour major title by 1 stroke from Dale Douglass

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Feb 17 New York Yankees Don Mattingly wins highest salary arbitration ($1,975,000 per year)

Baseball Player and Manager Don Mattingly

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Feb 19 Less than a month after re-signing, Oakland A's pitcher Vida Blue retires

Feb 23 Baseball World Series winning manager (1985) Dick Howser retires from Kansas City Royals role due to brain tumor

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Feb 24 LA Lakers center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point in a 97-93 win over the Suns in Phoenix

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Feb 26 NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points in one game is a Chicago Bulls record

Feb 26 Wash blocks 20 Indiana shots tying NBA regulation game record
Feb 27 American Mike Conley sets world indoor triple jump record (17.76m) in New York
Feb 27 NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption