November 5, 2004
- Football (soccer): Tottenham Hotspur manager Jacques Santini resigns for personal reasons after only 13 matches in charge.
- Baseball: Three days after they hired Wally Backman as their manager, the Arizona Diamondbacks fire him and hire Bob Melvin. The Diamondbacks had conducted a belated background check which confirmed the factual accuracy of an article published in the New York Times on November 2, which stated that Backman had relatively recent criminal convictions for drunk driving and misdemeanor harassment, as well as financial problems. (ESPN)
- NBA:
- The New Jersey Nets defeat the Chicago Bulls, 111–106, in two overtimes.
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