Sports Fact of the Day 3/29/2007

3/29/1962:
The Detroit Pistons stave off elimination in the NBA playoffs, eding the L.A. Lakers, 118-117, at Cobo Hall. The Pistons overcome a remarkable two-pronged attack by Elgin Baylor and Jerry West, who each score more than 40 points in the game and combine for 30 of the Lakers' 31 points in the fourth quarter. Coached by Fred Schaus, the Lakers will go on to win this series but bow to the Celtics in the finals-the first of six times in the next eight years that this fate will befall them.

Birthdays:
Walt Frazier b. 1945
Teofilo Stevenson b. 1952
Earl Campbell b. 1955
Brian Jordan b. 1967
Jennifer Capriati b. 1976