Events in Sport
- Mar 1 England cricket has its first win against West Indies in 16 years and 24 matches; 9 wicket victory in the 1st Test in Kingston, Jamaica; Allan Lamb's first overseas century 132
- Mar 10 Ice Dance Championship at Halifax won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (Soviet Union)
Sports History
Mar 10 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
- Mar 11 37th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #14 Georgia Tech beats Virginia, 70-61
- Mar 11 31st SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Ole Miss, 70-51
- Mar 11 11th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Connecticut beats Syracuse, 78-75
- Mar 17 Scotland beats England, 13-7 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh for it's 14th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship, 3rd Grand Slam title and 10th Triple Crown
- Mar 18 32-day lockout by baseball owners ends
- Mar 18 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Jodie Mudd wins by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Mark Calcavecchia; winner's cheque $270,000
- Mar 19 1st world ice hockey tournament for women held (Ottawa)
Sports History
Mar 20 LA Lakers retires Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's #33
NBA Record
Mar 28 Michael Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time he scores 60 pts in a game
Sports History
Mar 28 US President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal
Golf Tournament
Mar 30 Jack Nicklaus makes his debut on the Senior PGA Tour with a 71 (-1) in the first round of The Tradition at Desert Mountain; wins the event by 4 strokes from Gary Player
Birthdays in Sport
- Mar 4 Draymond Green, American NBA forward (Golden State Warriors), born in Saginaw, Michigan
- Mar 8 Petra Kvitová, Czech tennis player (Wimbledon 2011, 14), born in Bilovec, Czech Republic
- Mar 12 Dont'a Hightower, American NFL linebacker (New England Patriots), born in Lewisburg, Tennessee
- Mar 12 Marvin Jones, American NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions), born in Los Angeles, California
- Mar 17 Saina Nehwal, Indian Badminton player, born in Hisar, India
- Mar 29 Teemu Pukki, Finnish footballer (Norwich City), born in Kotka, Finland
Deaths in Sport
Tom Harmon
Mar 15 Tom Harmon, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1940, Michigan; LA Rams) and broadcaster (CBS 1950-62), dies of a heart attack at 70
- Mar 20 Lev Yashin, Soviet- Russian soccer goalie, known as 'The Black Spider' (Dynamo Moscow, 1950-70), and namesake of FIFA award for best World Cup Finals goalkeeper, dies of stomach cancer at 60
- Mar 31 John Hawkes, Australian tennis player (Australasian C'ship singles, doubles, mixed doubles 1926), dies at 90
