Events in Sport
- Mar 2 NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers win 22nd straight home game
Event of Interest
Mar 2 NY Met Darryl Strawberry swings at teammate Keith Hernandez
Darryl Strawberry
Keith Hernandez
Event of Interest
Mar 7 Dino Ciccarelli is traded by the Minnesota North Stars to the Washington Capitals
Dino Ciccarelli
- Mar 8 Roger Kingdom runs indoor world record 60m hurdles (7.37 secs)
- Mar 9 Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 sec)
- Mar 12 36th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #9 North Carolina beats #7 Duke, 77-74
- Mar 12 30th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Florida, 72-60
- Mar 12 10th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats Syracuse, 88-79
- Mar 15 NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
- Mar 18 Dino Ciccarelli sets Washington Capital record of 7 pts in a game
- Mar 19 Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by M Klimova & S Ponomarenko (USSR)
- Mar 19 Lori Garbacz wins Circle K LPGA Golf Open Tucson
Event of Interest
Mar 22 Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years
Pete Rozelle
- Mar 22 Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.
- Mar 26 Allison Finney wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
- Mar 27 Delhi beat Bengal by innings & 210 to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
- Mar 28 New Zealand wins America's Cup over Stars & Stripes, in a NY court
- Mar 29 1st Soviet hockey players are permitted to play for the NHL
Birthdays in Sport
- Mar 1 Carlos Vela, Mexican footballer
- Mar 3 Erica Morningstar, Canadian Swimmer, and record holder.
- Mar 16 Theo Walcott, English football player (Arsenal, English national team), born in Stanmore, England
- Mar 16 Blake Griffin, American basketball player (Los Angeles Clippers), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Mar 20 Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi cricketer
Deaths in Sport
- Mar 18 Piet Kruiver, Dutch soccer player, dies at 51