March 1989 in Sports History

Events in Sport

Mar 2 NY Mets stars Keith Hernandez and Darryl Strawberry famously nearly come to blows in front of reporters and TV crews at spring training

Mar 7 Dino Ciccarelli is traded by the Minnesota North Stars to the Washington Capitals

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 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
Mar 19 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Tom Kite wins the title in gusty conditions, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Chip Beck
Mar 19 Wales beats England, 12-9 at Cardiff Arms Park to allow France to claim it's 9th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship

Mar 20 Baseball announces Reds manager Pete Rose is under investigation

Mar 22 Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years

Mar 22 Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.
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

Mar 1 Carlos Vela, Mexican soccer winger (72 caps; Real Sociedad, Los Angeles FC), born in Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Mar 3 Erica Morningstar, Canadian Swimmer, and record holder.
Mar 6 Agnieszka Radwańska, Polish tennis player (WTA Finals champion 2015), born in Kraków, Poland
Mar 16 Theo Walcott, English football player (Arsenal, English national team), born in Stanmore, England
Mar 16 Blake Griffin, American NBA forward (LA Clippers, Detroit Pistons), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Mar 20 Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi cricketer

Mar 22 J. J. Watt [Justin James], American NFL player (Houston Texans), born in Waukesha, Wisconsin

Mar 25 Scott Sinclair, English footballer
Mar 26 Von Miller, NFL outside linebacker (Denver Broncos), born in Dallas, Texas
Mar 28 Marek Suchý, Czech footballer
Mar 28 Mira Leung, Canadian figure skater
Mar 28 Lukas Jutkiewicz, English footballer