Events in Sport
Event of Interest
Feb 3 Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Smither Center for Alcohol rehabilitation
Darryl Strawberry
Golf Tournament
Feb 4 Pat Bradley wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
Pat Bradley
Event of Interest
Feb 4 Richard Hadlee takes his 400th Test Cricket wicket (Sanjay Manjrekar)
Richard Hadlee
- Feb 4 St Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior Professional Baseball Association Championship
Event of Interest
Feb 6 Brett Hull becomes 1st son of NHL 50 goal scorer (Bobby) to score 50
Brett Hull
Boxing Title Fight
Feb 11 James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson in 10 to win heavyweight boxing crown
Mike Tyson
Event of Interest
Feb 13 Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games
Larry Bird
- Feb 15 Baseball owners lock out players
- Feb 18 Jane Crafter wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament
- Feb 18 32nd Daytona 500: Derrike Cope wins (165.761 MPH)
- Feb 22 1st day India v NZ cricket at Auckland NZ 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps
- Feb 25 Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup
Birthdays in Sport
- Feb 7 Steven Stamkos, Canadian ice hockey player
Bethany Hamilton
Feb 8 Bethany Hamilton, Pro-surfer (Soul Surfer), born in Lihue Hawaii
Bethany Hamilton
- Feb 15 Erwin Sak, Polish football goalkeeper (Stomil Olstyn), born in Lublin, Poland
Deaths in Sport
- Feb 2 Joe Erskine, Welsh boxer (b. 1934)
- Feb 14 Graeme Hole, cricketer (18 Tests for Australia, 789 runs), dies
- Feb 17 Hap Day, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (b. 1901)
- Feb 24 Tony Conigliaro, baseball player (Red Sox), dies of pneumonia at 45
- Feb 26 Leslie Ames, cricketer (47 Tests, 2434 runs 8 centuries), dies
- Feb 28 Colin Milburn, cricketer (9 Tests for England, 654 runs), dies
- Feb 28 Tuppy Owen-Smith, South African cricketer (batsman v England 1929), dies