Events in Sport
Election of Interest
Mar 3 Peter Ueberroth elected baseball commissioner (Effective Oct 1)
Peter Ueberroth
- Mar 4 Pee Wee Reese & Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
Event of Interest
Mar 4 Tennis legend Martina Navratilova retains her WTA Tour Championship in NYC; beats Chris Evert 6–3, 7–5, 6–1 for her 5th overall Championship title
Martina Navratilova
Chris Evert
- Mar 9 Philadelphia 76'ers block 20 Seattle shots tying NBA regulation game record
- Mar 9 Tim Witherspoon beats Greg Page in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
- Mar 10 Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page
- Mar 10 25th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Auburn, 51-49
- Mar 10 5th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats Syracuse, 82-71 (OT)
Golf Tournament
Mar 11 Christa Johnson wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic
Christa Johnson
- Mar 11 31st ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Maryland beats Duke, 74-62
- Mar 13 Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
- Mar 13 WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
- Mar 18 Christa Johnson wins LPGA Tucson Conquistadores Golf Open
- Mar 19 MLB Pitcher Denny McLain indicted on charges of racketeering
- Mar 21 Border scores 100* v WI Trinidad after 98* in 1st cricket innings
- Mar 21 NFL owners passed the infamous anti-celebrating rule
NHL Record
Mar 22 Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL record scores 5 seconds into game
Bryan Trottier
- Mar 23 World Ice Dancing Championship won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (GRB) in Ottawa, Canada
- Mar 23 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
- Mar 23 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
- Mar 24 IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics
- Mar 29 NFL Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis
- Mar 31 138th Grand National: Neale Doughty aboard Hallo Dandy wins
Birthdays in Sport
- Mar 1 Alexander Steen, Canadian-born Swedish ice hockey player
- Mar 3 Alexander Semin, Russian ice hockey player
- Mar 4 Zak Whitbread, American-born English footballer
- Mar 7 Mathieu Flamini, French footballer
- Mar 9 Julia Mancuso, American Olympic gold medalist
- Mar 10 Ben May, English footballer
- Mar 13 Pieter Custers, Dutch athlete, born in Weert, Netherlands
- Mar 13 Steve Darcis, Belgian tennis player, born in Liège, Belgium
- Mar 13 Marc Zwiebler, German badminton player, born in Bonn, Germany
- Mar 15 Kostas Vassiliadis, Greek basketball player
- Mar 16 Levi Brown, American football player
- Mar 20 Markus Niemelä, Finnish racing driver
- Mar 20 Fernando Torres, Spanish footballer
- Mar 20 Valtteri Filppula, Finnish professional ice-hockey player
- Mar 20 Marcus Vick, American football player
- Mar 21 Franck Perera, Montpellier France, racing car driver
- Mar 24 Chris Bosh, American basketball player
- Mar 26 Gregory Strydom, Zimbabwean cricketer, born in Pretoria, South Africa
- Mar 28 Christopher Samba, French-born footballer
- Mar 28 Yordanos Abay, Ethiopian footballer
- Mar 30 Mario Ancic, Croatian tennis player
- Mar 30 Samantha Stosur, Australian tennis player (US Open 2011) born in Brisbane, Australia
- Mar 31 James Jones, American football player
Weddings in Sport
Wedding of Interest
Mar 2 Tennis player Yannick Noah (23) weds beauty queen Cecilia Rodhe (22) in Cameroon
Yannick Noah
Wedding of Interest
Mar 3 Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway (23) weds swimmer Janet Buchan in Menlo Park, California
John Elway