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Feb. 4 -- Arena Football League players filed a class-action antitrust suit seeking free agency, an end to "price-fixed salaries", and contracts without injury benefits.

Feb. 4 -- Dawn Ellerbe broke her world record in the women's 20-pound weight throw, with a toss of 75 feet, 10 inches at the Millrose Games in New York. Ellerbe's previous mark of 75-8 1/4 was set Jan. 29 at the Air Force Academy.

Feb. 5 -- Lenny Krayzelburg broke the world record of fellow American Jeff Rouse in the 100-meter backstroke at a short course World Cup in Berlin. Krayzelburg sped through Berlin's new Europasportpark Swimming hall in 51.28 seconds, breaking Rouse's mark by .15 hundredths of a second.

Feb. 6 -- Randy Moss set records with nine catches for 212 yards, and Mike Alstott scored three touchdowns in the NFC's 51-31 victory over the AFC, the highest-scoring Pro Bowl.

Feb. 6 -- Pavel Bure recorded the 11th hat trick in All-Star history and goalie Olaf Kolzig played a shutout third period as the World team routed North America 9-4 in the NHL's 50th All-Star game.

Feb. 6 -- For the first time in the America's Cup's 150-year history, no U.S. boat would compete in the finals. Prada beat AmericaOne by 49 seconds, giving the Italians a 5-4 triumph in the best-of-9 challenger finals.

Feb. 6 -- Denmark's Wilson Kipketer broke the world indoor record in 2 minutes, 15.25 seconds at the seldom-run 1,000 meters at Stuttgart meet. The old record of 2:15.26 was set by Noureddine Morceli in 1992.

Feb. 6 -- A team from Global Athletics & Marketing smashed the world record in the men's 3,200-meter relay in 7 minutes, 13.94 seconds at the New Balance Invitational in Boston. The Boston-based relay team of Joey Woody, David Krummenacker, Karl Paranya and Rich Kenah broke the previous world record was 7:17.8 set in March 1971 by the Soviet Union.

Feb. 6 -- American Lenny Krayzelburg and Australian teen-ager Ian Thorpe set world records at a short course World Cup swim meet in Berlin. Thorpe covered 200 meters in 1 minute, 41.10 seconds, shattering his own record of 1:42.54, set in Hong Kong on Jan. 18. Krayzelburg lowered his own 200-meter backstroke record by .005 seconds to 1:52.43.

Feb. 6 -- The United States, in John McEnroe's debut as team captain, came from 2-1 down on the final day to beat Zimbabwe in first round of the Davis Cup. Chris Woodruff's rubber match victory over Wayne Black was the first time an American won a deciding fifth match in his Davis Cup debut since Raymond Little beat Australian Les Poidevin in 1906. It was the fourth time a U.S. team had comeback from 2-1 down and first time on a hostile court.

Feb. 6 -- Allen Iverson tied his career high with 50 points in Philadelphia's 119-108 victory over Sacramento.

Feb. 7 -- With an astonishing comeback to win the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, Tiger Woods won his sixth straight PGA Tour victory. Seven strokes behind with seven holes to play, Woods holed a 97-yard wedge for eagle on the 15th, and birdied two of the last three holes to win. Woods became the first player since Ben Hogan in 1948 to win six straight.

Feb. 8 -- Alexei Yagudin edged Russian rival Yevgeny Plushchenko in the short program at the European Figure Skating Championships in Vienna, Austria, as both landed quadruple jumps -- the first ever in the event.

Feb. 10 -- Ken Griffey Jr. was traded from Seattle to Cincinnati after agreeing to a nine-year, $116.5 million contract with his hometown team.

Feb. 11 -- In the first period of a 2-2 tie between Pittsburgh and Edmonton, Martin Straka of the Penguins scored twice in seven seconds. The NHL record for quickest goals is five seconds.

Feb. 12 -- Vince Carter won the NBA slam dunk contest, scoring a perfect 50 on three of five attempts, defeating teammate Tracy McGrady and Houston's Steve Francis. Jeff Hornacek was a double-winner, successfully defending his 3-point shootout title and teaming with Natalie Williams of the WNBA Utah Starzz to win the 2-ball contest.

Feb. 12 -- Michelle Kwan held off 15-year-old Sasha Cohen and 14-year-old Sarah Hughes to win her third straight U.S. Figure Skating Championships crown.

Feb. 12 -- Jenny Thompson, bettered her world record in the 100-meter butterfly, finishing in 56.80 seconds. She had set a previous record of 56.90 seconds on Dec. 1, 1998.

Feb. 13 -- Behind 24 points apiece from Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett, 22 from Shaquille O'Neal, and 14 assists from Jason Kidd, the West defeated the East 137-126 in the NBA All-Star game. Allen Iverson led the East with 26 points. O'Neal also had nine rebounds and three blocks, while co-MVP Duncan had 14 rebounds.

Feb. 13 -- Tiger Woods defied odds once again, erasing a seven-stroke lead in seven holes before falling short to Phil Mickelson in the Buick Invitational. Woods' six straight victories, longest PGA Tour streak in 52 years, ended as Mickelson closed at 2-under 70 for his first win in 18 months.

Feb. 13 -- Lanny Wadkins, 21-time PGA winner, became the ninth player in Senior PGA Tour history to win his first start, parring the third playoff hole against Spain's Jose Maria Canizares in the ACE Group Classic.

Feb. 13 -- Defending champion Michael Weiss got his first-ever 6.0 and retained his U.S. Figure Skating Championship, despite Timothy Goebel's three quadruple jumps.

Feb. 13 -- In St. Anton, Austria, Fritz Strobl and Werner Franz had identical times of 1 minutes, 20.72 seconds to win an icy and treacherous super-G, only the second tie in World Cup history.

Feb. 13 -- Ed Belfour recorded his 300th victory as Dallas defeated Washington 2-1. Belfour became the 16th goalie in NHL history to reach 300 wins, improving his career mark to 300-189-79 in 12 seasons, with Dallas, Chicago and San Jose.

Feb. 15 -- New Jersey goalie Martin Brodeur scored his second career goal in the Devils' 4-2 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers. Brodeur was credited with a goal at 9:43 of the third period when Flyers goalie Brian Boucher vacated the net following a delayed-penalty call. Sergei Brylin of the Devils knocked the puck loose from Philadelphia's Daymond Langkow and it rolled into the empty net. Brodeur, the last Devils player to touch the puck, got credit for the goal.

Feb. 19 -- Vancouver's Mark Messier, who contributed two assists, collected the 2,000th point of his career in the Canucks' 3-1 victory over Ottawa. The 2,000 points includes the NHL playoffs and a brief stint in the defunct World Hockey Association, in which he had one goal and 10 assists.

Feb. 20 -- Dale Jarrett won his third Daytona 500 in eight years, passing Johnny Benson for the lead four laps from the end. That matched Bobby Allison's total, leaving Jarrett trailing only Cale Yarborough with four and Richard Petty with seven.

Feb. 20 -- Ethiopia's Hailu Mekkonen set a world best for the rarely run two miles, clocking 8 minutes, 9.66 seconds at the CGU Grand Prix meet in Birmingham, England. Wilson Kipketer broke his 1,000-meter world indoor record for the second time in two weeks, in 2 minutes, 14.96 seconds.

Feb. 23 -- Boston's Marty McSorley was suspended for the rest of the season (23 games) for hitting Vancouver's Donald Brashear in the head with his stick on Feb. 21.

Feb. 27 -- Darren Clarke won the biggest prize of his career, taking down Tiger Woods 4 and 3 in the finals of Match Play Championship. Clarke knocked off Ryder Cup star Hal Sutton, whipped second-ranked David Duval, then handed Woods his worst loss in match play to earn $1 million for his sixth career victory, nearly four times his largest paycheck. He also became the first international player to win a World Golf Championship event.

Feb. 27 -- Vince Carter scored a career-high 51 points, leading the Toronto Raptors to a 103-102 win Phoenix.

Feb. 27 -- Pat Verbeek became the 57th player to reach 1,000 career points, contributing two assists in Detroit's 3-1 win over Tampa Bay.

Feb. 28 -- Darryl Strawberry was suspended one year by baseball commissioner Bud Selig after the Yankees outfielder tested positive for cocaine last month. It was Strawberry's third cocaine-related suspension from baseball.

Feb. 29 -- Sparky Anderson, the only manager to win World Series titles in both leagues, was elected into the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee. The former Cincinnati and Detroit manager, third on baseball's career win list, was elected in his first of eligibility. Negro Leagues outfielder Turkey Stearnes and 19th century infielder Bid McPhee were also selected for enshrinement.

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