Events in Sport
- 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
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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
Alain Prost
- 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
Garry Kasparov Becomes World Chess Champion
Nov 9 Garry Kasparov becomes the youngest ever world chess champion (22), with a 13-11 win over fellow Russian Anatoly Karpov
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Nov 9 Richard Hadlee takes 9-52 New Zealand v Australia at the Gabba
Richard Hadlee
- Nov 12 Richard Hadlee takes 15-123 for cricket match New Zealand v Australia at Brisbane
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Nov 13 Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award
Dwight Gooden
- Nov 14 Brewers release 39-year-old pitcher Rollie Fingers
- Nov 17 NY Jets best offensive production beating Tampa Bay 62-28
- Nov 17 35th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Darrell Waltrip wins
- Nov 18 Dwight Gooden (NL) & Bret Saberhagen (AL) win Cy Young
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Nov 20 NY Yankee Don Mattingly easily wins AL MVP
Don Mattingly
- 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
Birthdays in Sport
- Nov 4 Marcell Jansen, German footballer, born in Mönchengladbach, West Germany
- Nov 11 Robin Uthappa, Indian cricket player 'The Walking Assassin' , born in Kodagu, India
- Nov 11 Luton Shelton, Jamaican soccer striker (75 caps; Vålerenga, Karabükspor, Sheffield United), born in Kingston, Jamaica (d. 2021)
- Nov 13 Asdrúbal Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
- Nov 14 Thomas Vermaelen, Belgian footballer
- Nov 18 Allyson Felix, American athlete (6-time Olympic gold 200m/400m/relays 2008, 12, 16), born in Los Angeles, California
- Nov 19 Chris Eagles, English footballer
- Nov 20 Juan Cruz Álvarez, Argentine racing driver, born in Arrecifes, Argentina
- Nov 21 Jesús Navas, Spanish footballer
- Nov 22 Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer
- Nov 23 Ahn Hyun-Soo, South Korean short track skater, born in Seoul, South Korea
- Nov 28 Caitlin McClatchey, Scottish swimmer
- Nov 29 Shannon Brown, American basketball player, born in Maywood, Illinois
Deaths in Sport
- Nov 1 Arnold Pihlak, Estonian soccer forward (44 caps; FK Austria Wien), dies at 83
- Nov 2 Fred Enke, American College basketball coach (University of Arizona 1925–1961, record 522–344), dies at 88
- Nov 8 Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish road cyclist (Tour de France 1927-28), dies at 86
- Nov 8 Masten Gregory, American auto racer (24 Hours of Le Mans 1961, 65 [Jochen Rindt]), dies at 53
- Nov 10 Pelle Lindbergh, goalie (Philadelphia Flyers), dies in drunk driving accident
- Nov 19 Lall Singh, cricketer (Test for India 1932), dies
- Nov 21 Ramnath Kenny, cricketer (5 Tests for India 1958-60), dies
- Nov 25 Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (b. 1926)
- Nov 28 Johnny "Blood" McNally, American Pro Football Hall of Fame halfback and coach (NFL champion 1929-31, 36; Green Bay Packers), dies from a stroke at 82
