March 1984 in Sport

Events in Sport

Mar 3 Peter Ueberroth elected baseball commissioner (Effective Oct 1)

Mar 4 Nancy Lopez wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational

Mar 4 Pee Wee Reese & Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
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)

Mar 11 Christa Johnson wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic

Mar 22 Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL record scores 5 seconds into game

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 25 Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open

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
Mar 31 James Jones, American football player

Mar 2 Tennis player Yannick Noah (23) weds beauty queen Cecilia Rodhe (22) in Cameroon

Mar 3 Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway (23) weds swimmer Janet Buchan in Menlo Park, California

Mar 6 Ian Cromb, cricketer (5 Tests for NZ, 123 runs, 8 wkts), dies
Mar 13 Dick Whitington, journalist/cricketer (South Aust & AIF batsman), dies
Mar 18 Charlie Lau, White Sox coach/renowned hitting instructor, dies at 50