January 1990 in Sport

Events in Sport

Jan 11 Pat LaFontaine sets NY Islander record of scoring goals in 11 straight

Jan 14 AFC Championship Game: Denver Broncos beat Cleveland Browns 37-21

Jan 14 NFC Championship Game: San Francisco 49ers beat Los Angeles Rams 30-3

Jan 15 42 year old George Foreman KOs Gerry Cooney in 2 rounds in Atlantic City

Jan 15 Blue Jay Cecil Fielder signs with Detroit as a free agent
Jan 15 NY Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 sec, beats Bulls, 109-106
Jan 19 Police break up protests in Johannesburg against the cricket players defying a boycott on playing in apartheid South Africa
Jan 21 41st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 12-7 at Pittsburgh
Jan 21 Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association executive director

Jan 21 John McEnroe becomes 1st ever player to be expelled from the Australian Open

Jan 22 Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract with SF Giants
Jan 23 Australian cricketer Dean Jones scores twin test tons vs. Pakistan at Adelaide Oval
Jan 26 Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asst GM (highest-ranking African American female in a major-league front office)

Jan 28 Super Bowl XXIV: SF 49ers beat Denver Broncos, 55-10 in New Orleans Super Bowl MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, QB

Jan 28 78th Men's Australian Open: Ivan Lendl beats Stefan Edberg (4-6, 7-6, 5-2)

Jan 28 78th Women's Australian Open: Steffi Graf beats Mary Joe Fernandez (6-3, 6-4)

Jan 4 Toni Kroos, German football player (Real Madrid, German national team), born in Greifswald, East Germany
Jan 7 Elene Gedevanishvili, Georgian figure skater
Jan 7 Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper
Jan 10 Tao Li, Singaporean Olympic swimmer
Jan 12 Sergey Karjakin, Ukrainian chess player
Jan 15 Fernando Forestieri, Italian footballer
Jan 18 Gift Ngoepe, South African-born baseball player, 1st black African to play in Major League Baseball, born in Pietersburg, South Africa
Jan 26 Peter Sagan, Slovakian professional cyclist (World Road Champion 2016), born in Žilina, Slovakia