March 1987 in Sports History

Events in Sport

Mar 7 Mike Tyson beats James 'Bonecrusher' Smith by unanimous decision in 12 rounds in Las Vegas for WBC / WBA heavyweight boxing titles

Mar 8 28th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats LSU, 69-62
Mar 8 34th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats North Carolina, 68-67
Mar 8 8th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats Syracuse, 69-59
Mar 8 David Hookes (306*) Wayne Phillips make 462 stand for S Aust

Mar 12 David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game

Mar 12 Ice Pairs World Championship at Cincinnati won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
Mar 12 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (Canada)
Mar 13 Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)

Mar 14 NY Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl

Mar 14 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt
Mar 15 Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes & Joel Garner
Mar 15 NZ beat WI by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket
Mar 15 US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay

Mar 17 Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 v Pak

Mar 19 Bonnie Blair skates ladies' world record 500 m (39.43 sec)

Mar 19 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 3 km (4:16.85)

Mar 20 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies' world record 5 km (7:20.36)
Mar 21 France beats Ireland, 19-13 at Lansdowne Road, Dublin the clinch the outright Five Nations Rugby Championship for the 8th time and 4th Grand Slam title
Mar 21 PSV sells soccer player Ruud Gullit to AC Milan (Ÿ17 million)
Mar 24 WA win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria
Mar 29 6th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee routs Louisiana 67-44; Lady Vols guard Tonya Edwards MOP
Mar 29 PGA Tournament Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Sandy Lyle of Scotland defeats Jeff Sluman on the 3rd hole of a sudden-death playoff to become the first international player to win the title
Mar 31 49th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Syracuse, 74-73; Hoosiers' guard Keith Smart hits game-winner in final seconds, intercepts full court pass at the last second

Mar 5 Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player
Mar 10 Tuukka Rask, Finnish NHL goaltender (Boston Bruins), born in Savonlinna, Finland
Mar 11 Marc-Andre Gragnani, Canadian ice hockey player
Mar 13 Marco Andretti, American racecar driver (grandson of Mario Andretti), born in Nazareth, Pennsylvania
Mar 18 Cesare Rickler, Italian footballer
Mar 18 Gabriel Mercado, Argentinian Footballer
Mar 18 Mauro Zárate, Argentinian Footballer
Mar 19 Michal Švec, Czech footballer
Mar 20 Daniel Maa Boumsong, Cameroonian football player
Mar 20 Jô, Brazilian footballer
Mar 20 Patrick Boyle, Scottish footballer
Mar 20 Pedro Ken, Brazilian footballer
Mar 20 Sergei Kostitsyn, Belarusian hockey player
Mar 24 Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladeshi cricket all-rounder (Bangaladesh 217 highest score 2017), born in Magura, Bangladesh
Mar 25 Nobunari Oda, Japanese figure skater
Mar 27 Buster Posey, American baseball catcher (World Series 2010, 12, 14 SF Giants; 7 x MLB All Star; NL MVP 2012; NL Rookie of the Year 2010), born in Leesburg, Georgia
Mar 29 Dimitri Payet, French soccer midfielder (38 caps; Saint-Étienne, Lille, Marseille, West Ham United), born in Saint-Pierre, Réunion
Mar 31 Humpy Koneru, Indian chess player (youngest woman to achieve title of grandmaster), born in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh

Mar 5 Ice Skater Dorothy Hamill marries second husband Kenneth Douglas Forsythe (divorced 1995)

Mar 9 Bobby Locke, South African golfer (British Open 1949-50, 52, 57), dies of meningitis at 69
Mar 12 Woody Hayes, American College Football Hall of Fame coach (National C'ship 1954, 57, 61, 68, 70; Ohio State), dies of a heart attack at 74
Mar 15 Red Dutton, Canadian ice hockey player (Calgary Tigers) and coach, dies at 89