NOVEMBER 28

1906 — Tommy Burns fights to a 20-round draw with light heavyweight Jack O’Brien in a world heavyweight title bout in Los Angeles.

1929 — Ernie Nevers rushes for six touchdowns and kicks four PATs to score all his team’s points, an NFL record, in the Chicago Cardinals’ 40-6 rout of the Chicago Bears.

1948 — Dippy Evans of the Chicago Bears is the only NFL player to score two touchdowns on recovered fumbles in a 48-13 victory over the Washington Redskins.

Three months after the NFL agreed on a $765 million settlement with thousands of ex-players for concussion-related health problems, a group of their NHL peers is going to court, too.

Hockey has proven to be an equally dangerous sport as football, but that doesn’t mean the link between collisions on the ice and post-career trouble will lead to a similar outcome. The legal and cultural surroundings of the NFL and NHL concussion lawsuits are more distinct than alike.

Start with the nature of the players themselves.

It isn’t often we have a day to do nothing but be thankful.

In reality however, we should be able to be thankful every day.

To surround that calendar distinction with pigskin and pies, or hoops and drumsticks, and then a giant shopping spree may defeat the purpose of the day but we mean well.

There is much to be thankful for on the sporting life in Juneau and a lot that we still need to work on.

I am really blessed to find more parking spaces at the Floyd Dryden and Dzantik’I Heeni parking lots when I go to cover a sporting event.

Wednesday, Nov. 27

MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

1 p.m., ESPN2 — Maui Invitational, fifth place game, teams TBD, at Lahaina, Hawaii

3:30 p.m., ESPN2 — Maui Invitational, third place game, teams TBD, at Lahaina, Hawaii

5:30 p.m., ESPN2 — NIT Season Tip-Off, semifinal, teams TBD, at New York

6 p.m., ESPN — Maui Invitational, championship, teams TBD, at Lahaina, Hawaii

NBA BASKETBALL

3:30 p.m., ESPN — Miami at Cleveland

NHL HOCKEY

3:30 p.m., NBCSN — Boston at Detroit