Events in Sport
Event of Interest
Sep 9 Vitas Gerulaitis bets his house that Martina Navratilova can't beat 100th ranked male tennis player
Martina Navratilova
Boxing Title Fight
Sep 10 Larry Holmes TKOs Scott Frank in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
Larry Holmes
- Sep 10 103rd Women's U.S. Open: Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert-Lloyd (6-1, 6-3)
- Sep 11 Franco Harris becomes 3rd NFL to rush 11,000 yards
Tennis Open
Sep 11 103rd Men's U.S. Open: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (6-3, 6-7, 7-5, 6-0)
Jimmy Connors
Ivan Lendl
Baseball Record
Sep 13 Oakland's Rickey Henderson 3rd straight 100 steals for season
Rickey Henderson
- Sep 13 US mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle)
- Sep 17 Chicago White Sox clinch their 1st-ever AL West championship
- Sep 18 Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
- Sep 18 New Orleans Saints 1st OT victory; beating Chicago Bears 34-31
- Sep 20 3,112 turn out to see Pirates play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
- Sep 22 Zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4"
- Sep 23 Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in 10 for heavyweight boxing title in Ohio
- Sep 23 Phillies Steve Carlton is 16th to wins 300 game (beating Cards)
- Sep 24 Braves Dale Murphy is 6th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases in season
- Sep 24 Test cricket debut of Shoaib Mohammad, son of Hanif, v India Jullundur
- Sep 26 Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks 56 yard field goal, a NY Giants record
- Sep 26 Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race - 1st non-US winner
Event of Interest
Sep 27 Tim Raines is 1st since Ty Cobb to steal 70 & drive in 70 runs
Tim Raines
Ty Cobb
- Sep 29 Oakland A's Mike Warren no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0
Birthdays in Sport
- Sep 1 José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer
- Sep 2 Mark Foster, English rugby player
- Sep 3 Augusto Farfus, Brazilian racing driver
- Sep 3 Nicky Hunt, English footballer
- Sep 3 Marcus McCauley, American football player
- Sep 3 Valdas Vasylius, Lithuanian basketball player
- Sep 4 Tareq Aziz, Bangladeshi cricketer
- Sep 5 Eugen Bopp, Ukrainian-German footballer, born in Kiev, Ukraine
- Sep 5 Pablo Granoche, Uruguayan footballer, born in Montevideo, Uruguay
- Sep 7 Philip Deignan, Irish cyclist
- Sep 7 Mehmet Topuz, Turkisher footballer
- Sep 7 Pops Mensah-Bonsu, British basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks
- Sep 7 Annette Dytrt, German skater figure
- Sep 8 Wali Lundy, American football player
- Sep 8 Diego Benaglio, Swiss-Italian footballer
- Sep 8 Chris Judd, Australian football player
- Sep 8 Lewis Roberts-Thompson, Australian football player
- Sep 8 Will Blalock, American basketball player
- Sep 9 Kyle Davies, American baseball player
- Sep 9 Edwin Jackson, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Sep 9 Sam Hollenbach, National Football League quarterback
- Sep 9 Cleveland Taylor, International footballer
- Sep 11 Jacoby Ellsbury, American baseball player
- Sep 11 Ike Diogu, American basketball player
- Sep 12 Daniel Muir, football player
- Sep 14 Frostee Rucker, National Football League defensive end
- Sep 15 Luke Hochevar, American baseball player
- Sep 16 Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer
- Sep 18 Kevin Doyle, Irish footballer
- Sep 19 Joey Devine, American baseball player
- Sep 19 Charlie Haeger, American baseball player
- Sep 20 Ángel Sánchez, Puerto Rican baseball player
- Sep 21 Fernando Cavenaghi, Argentinian footballer
- Sep 21 Anna Meares, Australian cyclist
- Sep 24 Randy Foye, American basketball player
- Sep 26 Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer
- Sep 28 Stefan Moore, English footballer
- Sep 30 Andreea Răducan, Romanian gymnast