2001 at a glance

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November

 Nov. 2 -- Juliana Filipe of Union (Ky.) College set the college record for career goals by scoring four times in a 6-0 victory over Cumberland College. Her total of 141 is a record for all divisions, man or woman. Filipe, a senior from Brazil, entered the game with 137 goals, tied with Richard Sharpe of NCAA Division II Florida Tech from 1993.

 Nov. 3 -- Arkansas beat Mississippi 58-56 in seven overtimes in the longest major-college football game in history. The Razorbacks stopped the Rebels' 2-point conversion try in the seventh overtime after Eli Manning threw a touchdown pass to cut the lead to two points. After ending regulation tied at 17, the teams scored touchdowns in every extra period but the second.

 Nov. 3 -- Indiana's Antwaan Randle El threw three touchdown passes in a 56-21 victory over Northwestern to become the first player in Division I-A history to pass for 40 touchdowns and score 40 touchdowns.

 Nov. 4 -- Luis Gonzalez hit an RBI single to cap a two-run rally off Mariano Rivera in the bottom of the ninth, and the Arizona Diamondbacks won their first championship by beating the New York Yankees 3-2 in Game 7 -- one of the greatest comebacks in World Series history. Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson were named co-MVPs.

 Nov. 4 -- Cristiano da Matta held off Max Papis by inches to win one of the most competitive events in auto racing history, taking the CART Toyota 500 at California Speedway. Da Matta passed Papis seven laps from the end and crossed the finish line less than six inches ahead of the Papis.

 Nov. 4 -- Tesfaye Jifar of Ethiopia and Margaret Okayo of Kenya pulled away for comfortable victories in a New York City Marathon. Jifar completed the 26.2 miles in 2 hours, 7 minutes, 43 seconds; Okayo finished in 2:24:21. Both were course records.

 Nov. 5 -- Los Angeles Clippers forward Lamar Odom was suspended for five games by the NBA for violating the league's anti-drug policy, his second such punishment in less than a year.

 Nov. 6 -- Baseball owners voted 28-2 to eliminate two major league teams by the 2002 season. The Minnesota Twins, Montreal Expos and Florida Marlins were the likeliest candidates.

 Nov. 9 -- Detroit's Luc Robitaille scored in the first period against Anaheim, becoming the 13th player in NHL history to score 600 career goals.

 Nov. 10 -- Harold "Tubby" Raymond became the ninth coach in college football history to win 300 games as Delaware beat Richmond 10-6.

 Nov. 10 -- Indiana quarterback Antwaan Randle El became the NCAA Division I-A career rushing leader among quarterbacks in the Hoosiers' 37-28 victory over Michigan State. Randle El broke the mark set by Air Force's Dee Dowis with a 149-yard day giving him a total of 3,645 -- 33 more than Dowis.

 Nov. 10 -- San Jose State beat Nevada 64-45 in a game that set an NCAA single-game record for total offense with 1,640 yards, eclipsing the previous record of 1,563 yards set by Houston and TCU on Nov. 3, 1990. San Jose State had 849 yards to Nevada's 791.

 Nov. 11 -- Kurt Warner, who was 14-for-20 for 144 yards, became the fastest player in NFL history to pass for 10,000 yards. It took Warner 36 games, two fewer than Dan Marino.

 Nov. 11 -- Shaun Alexander had 266 yards rushing on 35 carries and an 88-yard touchdown run as Seattle beat AFC West-leading Oakland 34-27. It was the fourth-best rushing game in NFL history.

 Nov. 11 -- Belgium cruised to its first Fed Cup title against Russia in one of the most lopsided finals in history. Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters each won their singles within 50 minutes before only 2,000 fans at the indoor final. The crowd was even smaller when Russia won the meaningless doubles.

 Nov. 12 -- Seattle outfielder Ichiro Suzuki became the second straight Japanese player to win the American League Rookie of the Year award. Albert Pujols of St. Louis was a unanimous choice for the National League rookie award. Suzuki, 28, was the first rookie to win a batting title since Tony Oliva in 1964. Suzuki batted .350 and his 242 hits were a rookie record and the most for anyone since Bill Terry's 254 for the 1930 New York Giants. Pujols set an NL rookie record with 130 RBIs, and led the Cardinals with a .329 average, 37 homers and 112 runs.

 Nov. 13 -- Randy Johnson of Arizona won his third straight National League Cy Young Award. Johnson was 21-6 and led the major leagues with a 2.49 ERA and 372 strikeouts, the third most in a season.

 Nov. 15 -- New York Yankees ace Roger Clemens won a record sixth American League Cy Young Award. Clemens, 20-3 with a 3.51 ERA and 213 strikeouts, is the only pitcher to win more than four Cy Youngs, and he is the first player to win the award on three teams.

 Nov. 17 -- Lennox Lewis knocked out Hasim Rahman in the fourth round to get back his WBC and IBF heavyweight titles. Rahman's championship reign of 209 days was the shortest in heavyweight history.

 Nov. 18 -- Charlie Batch of Detroit Lions threw for a franchise record 436 yards in a 45-38 loss to the Arizona Cardinals. He completed 36 of 62 for three touchdowns, but was intercepted three times in the fourth quarter.

 Nov. 18 -- Kurt Warner of St. Louis completed 30 of 42 passes for 401 yards and three touchdowns in a 24-17 win over New England.

 Nov. 18 -- Gennady Temnikov, a 40-year-old Russian, won the Philadelphia Marathon, pulling away from Kenyan favorite Joseph Nderitu with about two miles to go. Temnikov covered the 26.2 miles in 2:21.07, with Nderitu the runner-up in 2:22.35 in the field of almost 5,000 runners.

 Nov. 19 -- Barry Bonds became the first player to win four Most Valuable Player Awards. Bonds won the National League MVP in a landslide to cap a record-breaking season in which his 73 home runs broke baseball's biggest season record. Bonds also won the MVP award for Pittsburgh in 1990 and 1992 and for the Giants in 1993.

 Nov. 20 -- Ichiro Suzuki was named American League Most Valuable Player. Suzuki, who came to the major leagues after nine seasons in Japan, is the second rookie to win the MVP, the other was Boston's Fred Lynn in 1975.

 Nov. 23 -- Middleweight boxer James Butler punched his opponent Richard Grant long after the final bell at Madison Square Garden in New York. Grant had just won a 10-round decision and Butler threw a short hook with gloves off that dropped Grant. Butler, faces a second-degree assault charges, was suspended indefinitely by the New York State Athletic Commission.

 Nov. 24 -- Miami avenged their only loss last season, dominating Washington 65-7. The Hurricanes, who beat Syracuse 59-0 on Nov. 17, set an NCAA record for largest margin of victory in consecutive games against ranked opponents.

 Nov. 24 -- Akron's 65-62 triple overtime victory over Eastern Michigan fell one point short of the NCAA Division I football record for total points scored in a game. Eastern Michigan did set a new record for total points by a losing team. The previous record was set by Purdue in a 59-56 loss to Minnesota on Oct. 9, 1993.

 Nov. 27 -- Natalie Coughlin set the world short-course record in the 200-meter backstroke, finishing in 2:03.52 in the FINA World Cup at East Meadow, N.Y. The California sophomore beat the mark of 2:04.44, set Aug. 6 by Sarah Price of Britain, at the 25-meter Nassau County Aquatics Center pool.

 Nov. 28 -- Natalie Coughlin set the world short-course record in the the 100-meter backstroke in the FINA World Cup at East Meadow, N.Y. Coughlin broke the world mark finishing in 57.08 seconds in the 25-meter pool.