ON THIS DAY: 2013
1913: American athlete Jim Thorpe was stripped of his pentathlon and decathlon gold medals from the 1912 Stockholm Olympics after it was discovered he had been paid for playing baseball a couple of years earlier.
1991: In Super Bowl XXV, the New York Giants beat the Buffalo Bills 20-19 to record the only one-point win in the event’s history.
1999: Sunderland offered free admission and attracted 33,517 supporters for a reserve fixture against Liverpool.
2004: Sevilla forward Jose Antonio Reyes signed for Arsenal.