Events in Sport
Events 201 - 277 of 277
Tennis Open
Sep 8 US Open Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova retains her title; beats Chris Evert-Lloyd 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
Martina Navratilova
Chris Evert
Tennis Open
Sep 9 US Open Men's Tennis: John McEnroe wins his 4th US title and final Grand Slam singles event; beats Ivan Lendl 6-3, 6-4, 6-1
John McEnroe
Ivan Lendl
- Sep 12 NY Met Dwight Gooden sets rookie strike out record at 251
Baseball Record
Sep 17 Reggie Jackson is 13th to hit 500 HRs
Reggie Jackson
Event of Interest
Sep 18 Tim Raines is 1st player with 4 consecutive 70-stolen-base seasons
Tim Raines
- Sep 20 Cubs break 2 million in home attendance for 1st time
Event of Interest
Sep 23 SF 49er Joe Montana misses his 1st start in 49 games
Joe Montana
Event of Interest
Sep 23 Sparky Anderson is 1st manager to win 100 games in both leagues
Sparky Anderson
- Sep 24 Cubs clinch NL East title
- Sep 26 5,251 turn out to see Phillies play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
- Sep 28 Cleveland Indians down 0-10 to Minnesota Twins, win 11-10
- Sep 30 California Angels Michael Witt is 11th to pitch a perfect baseball game
- Sep 30 Bowie Kuhn ends career as Baseball Commissioner
- Sep 30 California Angel Mike Witt, pitches a perfect game over Texas Rangers, 1-0
- Sep 30 NY Yankee Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 avg
Event of Interest
Oct 1 Peter Ueberroth replaces Bowie Kuhn as 6th commissioner of Major League Baseball; he has a 4 year tenure
Peter Ueberroth
Event of Interest
Oct 7 Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader
Walter Payton
Jim Brown
- Oct 7 MLB National League Championship: San Diego Padres beat Chicago Cubs, 3 games to 2
- Oct 13 Blackhawk Bill Gardner scores on 10th penalty shot against Islanders
- Oct 13 John Henry becomes 1st thoroughbred to win $6 million
- Oct 14 Detroit Tigers beat San Diego Padres, 4 games to 1 in 81st World Series
Event of Interest
Oct 20 Islander's Mike Bossy's 30th career hat trick-4 goals
Mike Bossy
- Oct 21 Cleveland Browns' Steve Cox sets club record with a 60-yd field goal
- Oct 21 Austrian Ferrari driver Niki Lauda becomes a 3-time World Formula 1 Drivers champion when he finishes 2nd in the season ending Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril; wins title by just 0.5 from Alain Prost
- Oct 21 Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2:08:05
- Oct 22 NFL quarterback Ken Stabler retires
- Oct 23 Cubs Rick Sutcliffe, selected as a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young
- Oct 28 14th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:29:30
- Oct 28 15th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:14:53
- Oct 29 Orlando Pizzolato (2:14:53) & Greta Weitz (2:29:30) win NY Marathon
- Nov 1 First NBA game at LA Memorial Sports Arena - LA Clippers beat NY Knicks, 107-105
- Nov 8 1st-class cricket debut of Wasim Akram, 2 months before his 1st Test
- Nov 9 1st-class cricket debut for Brian McMillan, Transvaal B v N Tvl B
Boxing Title Fight
Nov 9 Larry Holmes TKOs Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
Larry Holmes
- Nov 9 Most shots in a NY Islander game (88 - Isles 45, NY Rangers 43)
- Nov 10 Australia all out for 76 v West Indies at cricket WACA, Holding 6-21
- Nov 10 Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Hollywood Park; winners: Chief's Crown, Eillo, Lashkari, Outstandingly, Princess Rooney, Royal Heroine, Wild Again
- Nov 16 Houston blocks 20 Denver shots tying NBA regulation game record
- Nov 16 Imran Khan makes his 1st appearance for NSW Cricket
- Nov 17 Golden State Warrior scores 59 points losing to NJ Nets 124-110
- Nov 17 Islanders score 20 assists against Rangers
- Nov 18 72nd CFL Grey Cup: Win Blue Bombers defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 47-17
- Nov 18 Flyers' Ron Sutter fails on 11th penalty shot against Islanders
- Nov 18 NJ Devils shutout NY Rangers 6-0
- Nov 18 34th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Terry Labonte wins
- Nov 19 NY Met Dwight Gooden, 20, is youngest to be named NL Rookie of Year
- Nov 20 Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden wins NL Rookie of Year
- Nov 23 Limited-over international cricket debut for Wasim Akram for Pakistan, v New Zealand
- Nov 23 Test Cricket debuts of Australians David Boon aged 23 & Bob Holland aged 38 (v WI)
Event of Interest
Nov 26 After 518 goals & 14 years with Montreal Canadiens, Guy Lafleur retires
Guy Lafleur
- Nov 26 John W Mercom Jr announces New Orleans Saints are up for sale for $75 million
- Nov 26 Kim Hughes tearfully resigns as Australian cricket captain
- Nov 29 Javed Miandad completes twin Test Cricket tons, v NZ, Hyderabad
- Dec 1 50th Heisman Trophy Award: Doug Flutie, Boston College (QB)
- Dec 1 Greg Page KOs Gerrie Coetzee in 8 for WBA heavyweight boxing title
- Dec 1 49th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 17-15 in Birmingham
Event of Interest
Dec 5 A's trade Rickey Henderson to Yankees for Jay Howell & Jose Rijo
Rickey Henderson
Tennis Open
Dec 9 73rd Men's Australian Open: Mats Wilander beats Kevin Curren (6-7, 6-4, 7-6, 6-2)
Mats Wilander
Tennis Open
Dec 9 73rd Women's Australian Open: Chris Evert-Lloyd beats Helena Suková 6-7, 6-1, 6-3
Chris Evert
Event of Interest
Dec 19 Wayne Gretzky, 23, is 18th & youngest NHL-er to score 1,000 points
Wayne Gretzky
Event of Interest
Dec 19 Scotty Bowman wins his 691st regular season game, the most wins by any coach in NHL history
Scotty Bowman
- Dec 22 Test Cricket debut of Craig McDermott, v WI at the MCG
- Dec 23 Viv Richards scores 208 in Test Cricket at MCG
- Dec 27 Padres' free agent pitcher Ed Whitson signs with NY Yankees
- Dec 29 Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period
- Dec 31 Test Cricket debut of Mohammad Azharuddin, v England at Calcutta
Birthdays in Sport
Birthdays 201 - 272 of 272
- Sep 25 Matt Carle, American ice hockey player
- Sep 27 John Lannan, American baseball player
- Sep 28 Ryan Zimmerman, American baseball player
- Sep 29 Per Mertesacker, German football player
- Oct 1 Matt Cain, American baseball player
- Oct 1 Daniel Guillén, Spanish footballer
- Oct 2 Marion Bartoli, French tennis player (Wimbledon 2013), born in Haute-Loire, France
- Oct 4 Álvaro Parente, Portuguese racing driver
- Oct 5 Kenwyne Jones, Trinidadian footballer
- Oct 7 Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer
- Oct 10 Paul Posluszny, American football player, born in Butler, Pennsylvania
- Oct 10 Troy Tulowitzki, American baseball player (Colorado Rockies), born in Santa Clara, California
- Oct 10 Rod Benson, American basketball player, born in Fairfield, California
- Oct 11 Sergio Hellings, Dutch footballer (Roeselare), born in Amsterdam
- Oct 13 Frank Simek, American soccer player, born in St. Louis, Missouri
- Oct 14 LaRon Landry, American football player
- Oct 17 Jelle Klaasen, Dutch darts player
- Oct 20 Florent Sinama-Pongolle, French footballer
- Oct 20 Andrew Trimble, Northern Irish rugby player for Irish rugby team
- Oct 21 Anouk Leblanc-Boucher, French Canadian short track speed skater
- Oct 21 Kenny Cooper, American soccer player
- Oct 21 Marvin Mitchell, American football player
- Oct 21 Kieran Richardson, English footballer
- Oct 26 Sasha Cohen, American figure skater
- Oct 26 Jefferson Farfán, Peruvian footballer
- Oct 26 Adriano Correia Claro, Brazilian footballer
- Oct 27 Brady Quinn, American football player
- Oct 27 Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer
- Oct 28 Obafemi Martins, Nigerian footballer
- Oct 29 Eric Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
- Nov 3 Christian Bakkerud, Danish racing driver
- Nov 5 Nick Folk, American football player, born in Los Angeles, California
- Nov 5 Tobias Enstrom, Swedish hockey player, born in Nordingrå, Sweden
- Nov 9 Joel Zumaya, American baseball player, born in Chula Vista, California
- Nov 10 Kendrick Perkins, American basketball player
- Nov 12 Sepp De Roover, Belgian footballer, born in Geel, Belgium
- Nov 12 Conrad Rautenbach, Zimbabwean rally driver, born in Harare, Zimbabwe
- Nov 14 Lisa De Vanna, Australian female footballer
- Nov 20 Ferdinando Monfardini, Italian racing driver
- Nov 21 Álvaro Bautista, Spanish motorcycle racer
- Nov 26 Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (d. 2007)
- Nov 27 Domata Peko, American football player
- Nov 28 Andrew Bogut, Australian basketball player
- Nov 28 Marc-Andre Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
- Nov 30 Nigel de Jong, Dutch footballer
- Nov 30 Alan Hutton, Scottish footballer
- Nov 30 Francisco Sandaza, Spanish Footballer
- Dec 2 Péter Máté, Hungarian footballer (Reading F.C.)
- Dec 3 Avraam Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
- Dec 5 Chris Solinsky, American distance runner
- Dec 7 Robert Kubica, the first Polish Formula One racing driver
- Dec 7 Luca Rigoni, Italian footballer
- Dec 7 Aaron Gray, American basketball player
- Dec 8 Greg Halford, English footballer
- Dec 8 Badr Hari, Dutch kickboxer, Niall Brennan, Irish Legend.
- Dec 11 Leighton Baines, English footballer
- Dec 12 Daniel Agger, Danish footballer
- Dec 14 Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer
- Dec 14 Edward Rainsford, Zimbabwean cricketer
- Dec 15 Martin Skrtel Slovakian Footballer
- Dec 17 Andrew Davies, English footballer
- Dec 19 Ian Kennedy, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Dec 21 Darren Potter, Irish football player
- Dec 25 Chris Cahill, Samoan footballer
- Dec 25 Alastair Cook, English cricketer
- Dec 26 Alex Schwazer, Italian race walker
- Dec 27 Gilles Simon, French tennis player
- Dec 28 Leroy Lita, English footballer
- Dec 28 Beverly Mullins, American Wrestler/Model
- Dec 28 Alex Lloyd, British racing driver
- Dec 30 Randall Azofeifa, Costa Rican footballer
LeBron James
Dec 30 LeBron James, American NBA basketball player (Cleveland Cavs, Miami Heat, LA Lakers), born in Akron, Ohio
LeBron James