Events in Sport
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- Jan 1 77th Rose Bowl: #8 Washington beats #17 Iowa, 46-34
- Jan 1 57th Sugar Bowl: #6 Tennessee beats Virginia, 23-22
- Jan 1 20th Fiesta Bowl: #18 Louisville beats #25 Alabama, 34-7
- Jan 1 57th Orange Bowl: #1 Colorado beats #5 Notre Dame, 10-9
- Jan 3 LA King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against NY Islanders
- Jan 4 12 year old Chinese diver Fu Mingxia wins 10m platform gold medal World Swimming Championships in Perth, Australia
- Jan 4 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Goran Prpić beats American David Wheaton 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 for an unassailable 2-0 lead, (ends 2-1) and Yugoslavia's first title
- Jan 5 Kevin Bradshaw of US Intl scores NCAA Div 1 record 72 pts
- Jan 6 Portland Trail Blazers beat the Seattle SuperSonics, 114-111 before a sellout crowd at the Portland Memorial Coliseum; marks the Blazers' 600th consecutive sellout at home
- Jan 8 Tamas Darnyi swims world record 400m medley (4:12.36)
- Jan 9 Dean Smith of NC is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games
Event of Interest
Jan 9 Chicago's Michael Jordan scores a game-high 40 points to lead the Bulls to a 107-99 win over Philadelphia at the Spectrum; reaches the 15,000 point mark of his career
Michael Jordan
- Jan 11 Ben Johnson's 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finishes 2nd
- Jan 12 Largest crowd to watch Atlantic Coast Womens Basketball game (11,520)
- Jan 12 Melvin Stewart swims world record 200 m butterfly (1:55.69)
- Jan 13 42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg, South Africa
- Jan 13 Soccer stadium riot in Orkney, South Africa, at least 40 die
- Jan 15 Dean Jones (76) and Mark Taylor (71) lead Australia to 7 wicket win over New Zealand in cricket's World Series Cup 2nd Final in Melbourne; win series, 2-0
- Jan 17 Andy Van Hellemond sets NHL record for most games worked by a referee when he appears in his 1,173rd regular season encounter as the St. Louis Blues host the Montreal Canadiens
- Jan 18 WLAF's NY Knights become NY-NJ Knights
Event of Interest
Jan 18 Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours & 11 mins
Boris Becker
Omar Camporese
- Jan 19 42nd NHL All-Star Game, Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL: Campbell beats Wales, 11-5; Vincent Damphousse, Toronto Maple Leafs, C
- Jan 20 AFC Championship, Rich Stadium, Orchard Park, NY: Buffalo Bills beat Los Angeles Raiders, 51-3
- Jan 20 NFC Championship, Candlestick Park, SF: New York Giants beat San Francisco 49ers, 15-13
- Jan 21 Sacramento's Dick Motta coaches in his 1,648th regular season game, a 97-94 Kings' victory over Houston; at the time an NBA record for the most regular-season coaching appearances
Event of Interest
Jan 25 St. Louis right wing Brett Hull scores twice in Blues' 9-4 win at Detroit, to give him 50 goals in 49 games; becomes 3rd player in NHL history with 50 goals in less than 50 games
Brett Hull
Tennis Open
Jan 26 Australian Open: Monica Seles becomes the only Yugoslav player – male or female – to win a Grand Slam singles title; beats Jana Novotná 5-7, 6-3, 6-1
Monica Seles
Jana Novotna
- Jan 26 Houston guard Vernon Maxwell becomes 5th player in NBA history to score 30 points in a quarter in Rockets' 103-97 home win over Cleveland; joins Wilt Chamberlain, David Thompson, George Gervin & Michael Jordan
- Jan 27 Super Bowl XXV, Tampa Stadium, Tampa, FL: New York Giants beat Buffalo Bills, 20-19; MVP: Ottis Anderson, NY Giants, RB
- Jan 27 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Boris Becker of Germany wins his 1st Australian title; beats Ivan Lendl 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4
- Jan 31 Denver Nuggets Michael Adams becomes shortest NBAer to get a triple-double
- Feb 1 Australian cricket fast bowler Craig McDermott sets up a 9 wicket, 5th Test win over England with a career best 8-97 in Perth
- Feb 3 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 23-21; MVP: Jim Kelly, Buffalo Bills, QB
- Feb 4 Baseball's Hall of Fame board of directors vote 12-0 to bar Pete Rose, due to his betting on games while a player and manager
World Record
Feb 4 NZ cricketers Martin Crowe and Andrew Jones make a world record 467 run stand, against Sri Lanka at the Basin Reserve in Wellington
Martin Crowe
- Feb 5 LA King Dave Taylor becomes 29th NHler to score 1000 points
Event of Interest
Feb 5 Howard Stern kisses NY Giant Leonard Marshall's ass over bet, Stern lost claiming the Giants would lose the Super Bowl
Howard Stern
Hall of Fame
Feb 7 Bob Knight, Larry O'Brien, Tiny Archibald, Dave Cowens, Harry Gallatin & Larry Fleisher elected to NBA Hall of Fame
Dave Cowens
Contract of Interest
Feb 8 Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract
Roger Clemens
NBA All-Star Game
Feb 10 41st NBA All-Star Game, Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, NC: East beats West, 116-114; Charles Barkley, Philadelphia 76ers, F
Charles Barkley
Event of Interest
Feb 18 Edmonton Oiler goalie Grant Fuhr returns to NHL after season-long suspension for substance abuse & shuts out NJ Devils 4-0
Grant Fuhr
Event of Interest
Feb 22 Test Cricket debut of Sanath Jayasuriya, vs NZ at Hamilton
Sanath Jayasuriya
Event of Interest
Feb 25 Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky & John Candy buy CFL's Toronto Argonauts
John Candy
- Feb 26 Asanka Gurusinha scores twin Test Cricket tons v NZ (119 & 102)
- Feb 26 Bill Veeck & Tony Lazzeri elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
- Feb 26 NY-NJ Knights (WLAF) players 1st come together
- Feb 28 Don Mattingly named 10th NY Yankee Captain
- Mar 1 37 year-old Pat Day becomes the 6th jockey in history whose mounts earned $100 million when he rides Wild Sierra to 2nd-place in the 1st race at Oaklawn Park, Arkansas
- Mar 2 NC State point guard Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAA Div I player to record 1,000 career assists in a 89-84 loss to Wake Forest
- Mar 2 St. Louis right wing Brett Hull becomes a 70-goal scorer for the 2nd straight season and has 3 assists to help the Blues earn a 4-4 tie in Philadelphia; finishes season with NHL career-best 86 goals
- Mar 3 David Boon completes 10th Test Cricket century, 109* v WI at Kingston
- Mar 5 Reggie Miller (Indiana) begins NBA free throw streak of 52 games
- Mar 9 Joe Dumaars (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games
- Mar 10 Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs
- Mar 10 38th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #7 North Carolina beats #6 Duke, 96-74
- Mar 10 32nd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Tennessee, 88-69
- Mar 10 12th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Seton Hall beats Georgetown, 74-62
- Mar 11 John Smith, US amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award
- Mar 11 Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1
- Mar 14 Ice Dance Championship at Munich won by Isabel & Phil Duchesnay (FRA)
- Mar 15 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record 6.14m (20 feet 1 3/4)
- Mar 16 NJ Net coach Bill Fitch is 4th coach to win 800 NBA games
- Mar 16 England beats France, 21-19 at Twickenham for it's 19th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship, 9th Grand Slam and 16th Triple Crown; fullback Simon Hodgkinson 4 penalties and a conversion
Event of Interest
Mar 18 Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the 7th round
Mike Tyson
Event of Interest
Mar 18 Philadelphia '76ers retires Wilt Chamberlain's #13 jersey
Wilt Chamberlain
- Mar 18 Reggie Miller (Indiana) ends NBA free throw streak of 52 games
- Mar 19 KC Royals announce they are putting Bo Jackson on waivers
- Mar 19 Sacramento Kings set NBA record of 29 consecutive road loses
- Mar 19 St Louis Blues Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 80 goals in a season
Super Bowl
Mar 19 NFL owners strip Phoenix of 1993 Super Bowl game due to Arizona Not recognizing Martin Luther King Day
Martin Luther King Jr.
- Mar 23 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.12m)
- Mar 23 1st World League of American Football games, London beats Frankfurt 24-11, Sacramento beats Raleigh-Dur 9-3 & Mont beats Birmingham 20-5
- Mar 24 Barcelona Dragons beat NY/NJ Knights 19-7 in their 1st WLAF game
- Mar 24 NY Yankees beat NY Mets, 9-3
WrestleMania
Mar 24 WrestleMania VII in LA Memorial Sports Arena, CA: Hulk Hogan beats Sgt Slaughter for WWF Heavyweight title
Hulk Hogan
- Mar 25 Allan Border takes 5-68 v WI at Bourda (!), Georgetown
- Mar 26 Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their 1st WLAF game 35-34
- Mar 26 Victoria beat NSW by 7 wickets to win Sheffield Shield Final
- Mar 27 NCAA bans U of Minn football team from postseason play in 1992
- Mar 28 Mike Tyson admits paternity to Kimberly Scarborough's son
- Mar 30 1st exhibition baseball games at Joe Robbie Stadium (Yanks-Orioles)
- Mar 30 Northern Michigan wins its 1st NCAA hockey title
- Mar 31 10th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Virginia, 70-67; first overtime win in the NCAA's 10-year history
- Mar 31 St. Louis Blues' future Hockey Hall of Fame right wing Brett Hull scores his 86th goal of the season in a 2-1 win over Minnesota North Stars; 3rd best total in NHL history
PGA Players Championship
Mar 31 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Australian Steve Elkington birdies final hole to win by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Fuzzy Zoeller
Steve Elkington
- Mar 31 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Amy Alcott breaks her own scoring record to win her 3rd DS by 8 strokes over Dottie Pepper; her 5th major title, and 29th & final LPGA Tour win
- Apr 1 Dwight Gooden signs $5.15 million 3 year contract with NY Mets
- Apr 1 53rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Duke beats Kansas, 72-65; Blue Devils' first title; power forward Christian Laettner MOP
- Apr 3 Bo Jackson signs 1-year contract with Chicago White Sox
- Apr 5 Joe Dumaars (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games
Event of Interest
Apr 6 Argentine soocer star Diego Maradona suspended for 15 month by Italian League for testing positive for cocaine use
Diego Maradona
Birthdays in Sport
- Jan 1 Peter Burling, New Zealand sailor (Olympic gold 2016, helmsman America's Cup 2017), born in Tauranga, New Zealand
- Jan 6 Nikola Saric, Danish footballer, born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Jan 7 Eden Hazard, Belgian football player (Chelsea, Belgian national team), born in La Louvière, Belgium
- Jan 7 Caster Semenya, South African runner (Olympic Gold 2016), born near Polokwane, South Africa
- Jan 19 Tommy Fleetwood, British golfer (US Open runner-up 2018; Ryder Cup 2018), born in Southport, England
- Mar 21 Antoine Griezmann, French football player (Atlético Madrid, French national team), born in Mâcon, France
- Apr 21 Max Chilton, British racing driver, born in Redhill
- May 1 Marcus Stroman, American MLB pitcher (Gold Glove 2017), born in Medford, New York
- May 9 Majlinda Kelmendi, Kosovar-Albanian judoka (Olympic gold 2016), born in Peć, SFR Yugoslavia
- May 27 Beauden Barrett, New Zealand Rugby union player (male world rugby player 2016, 2017), born in New Plymouth, New Zealand
- May 28 Alexandre Lacazette, French soccer player, born in Lyon, France
- Jun 19 Pontus Ekhem, Swedish hockey player
- Jun 29 Kawhi Leonard, American basketball forward (NBA champion, Finals MVP 2014), born in Los Angeles, CA
- Jul 1 Michael Wacha, American MLB pitcher (All Star 2015), born in Iowa City, Iowa
- Jul 8 Virgil van Dijk, Dutch footballer (Liverpool FC, Netherlands national team captain), born in Breda, Netherlands
- Jul 12 James Rodríguez, Colombian footballer (Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Colombia national team), born in Cúcuta, Colombia
- Aug 18 Liz Cambage, Australian basketball player (WNBA single game record 53), born in London, England
- Aug 20 Marko Đoković, Serbian tennis player, born in Belgrade, Serbia
- Sep 21 Jordan Hasay, American track and field athlete
- Sep 27 Adam Chicksen, English Football Player
- Sep 27 Simona Halep, Romanian tennis player (French Open 2018, Wimbledon 2019), born in Constanța, Romania
- Oct 10 Mariana Pajón, Colombian BMX rider (Olympic gold 2012, 16), born in Medellin, Colombia
- Nov 27 Nur Atikah Nabilah, Singaporean gymnast, born in Singapore
Weddings in Sport
Wedding of Interest
Feb 9 Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (42) weds equestrian Madeleine Gurdon (28) in Westminster, London
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Wedding of Interest
Feb 15 Baseball superstar George Brett (37) weds Leslie Davenport in Manhattan Beach, California
George Brett
Wedding of Interest
Sep 15 NBA star Magic Johnson marries Earletha "Cookie" Kelly
Magic Johnson
Wedding of Interest
Dec 16 NBA center David Robinson (26) weds Valerie Hoggatt at a Baptist church ceremony in San Antonio, Texas
David Robinson
Deaths in Sport
Red Grange
Jan 28 Harold "Red" Grange, football's galloping ghost, dies of Parkinson's disease at 87
Red Grange
- Feb 1 Phil Watson, NHL coach (NY Rangers), dies
- Feb 8 Miran Bakhsh, Pakistani cricketer (2 Tests for Pakistan 1954-55), dies at 47
- Feb 13 Ronald "Ron" Pickering, British athletics coach and BBC sports commentator, dies after a heart bypass operation at 60
- Feb 15 Gary Gears, Chicago disk jockey, dies at 46 of a heart attack
- Feb 24 Héctor Rial, Spanish soccer striker (Real Madrid, 5 straight Euro Cup C'ships 1956-60), dies at 62
- Mar 3 Johnny Revolta, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1935; 18 PGA Tour titles), dies at 79
Cool Papa Bell
Mar 7 James "Cool Papa" Bell, American baseball center fielder in Negro league baseball, considered by many to have been one of the fastest men ever to play the game, dies at 87
Cool Papa Bell
- Mar 9 Jim Hardin, former Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves pitcher (b. 1943)
- Mar 19 John Russell Thomas, NFL general manager (Detroit Lions), dies
- Apr 4 Luc de Rijck, Belgian soccer player (Turnhout), dies
- Apr 4 Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (b. 1920)
- Apr 6 Bill Ponsford, cricketer (Test avg 48 22, 1st-class avg 65 18), dies
- Apr 9 Forrest Towns, American athlete (Olympic gold 110m hurdles 1936), dies at 77
- Apr 25 Theo Laseroms, [Tank], Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord), dies
- Apr 26 Lars Hall, Swedish pentathelete (Olympic gold 1952), dies at 63
- May 3 Don Whitmire, American College Football Hall of Fame tackle (Alabama, Navy - All American at both), dies at 68
- May 6 Chucky Mullins, US soccer player, dies
- May 14 Aladár Gerevich, Hungarian fencer (7 Olympic gold 1932, 36, 48, 52, 56, 60), dies at 81
- Jun 3 Thomas C Lasorda, American artist and son of Los Angeles Dodgers manager, dies of pneumonia at 33
- Jun 8 Mary Bacon, jockey, dying of cancer, commits suicide by gun at 43
- Jun 15 Happy Chandler, American politician and Commissioner of Baseball (b. 1898)
- Jun 28 Ernie McCormick, cricketer (12 Tests for Australia), dies
- Jul 3 Jimmy [James Henry] Van Alen, American tennis official who created Simplified Scoring System for tennis, dies at 88
- Jul 6 Muda Lawal, Nigerian footballer (b. 1954)
- Jul 18 Harold Butler, cricketer (2 Tests for England 1947-48, 12 wkts), dies
- Jul 21 Paul Warwick, English racing driver (b. 1969)
- Jul 24 Freddie Brown, cricketer (English Test captain 1950-51), dies
- Jul 27 Pierre Brunet, French figure skater pair (Olympic gold 1928, 32), dies at 89
Paul Brown
Aug 5 Paul Brown, NFL hall of fame coach (Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals), dies of pneumonia at 82
Paul Brown
- Aug 7 Shotzie, Cincinnati Red dog mascot, dies at 9
- Aug 8 Julissa Gomez, American gymnast (b. 1972)
- Aug 11 J. D. McDuffie, American NASCAR driver (b. 1939)
- Aug 14 Alberto Crespo, Argentine racing driver (b. 1920)
- Aug 24 Abel Kivlat, US 1500m runner (Olympic silver 1912), dies at 99
- Sep 2 Concetto Lo Bello, Italian intl soccer judge, dies
- Sep 6 Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
- Sep 10 Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (6 Grand Slam singles titles), dies at 83
- Sep 13 Metin Oktay, Turkish football player (b. 1936)
Leo Durocher
Oct 7 Leo Durocher, baseball player and manager (Dodgers, Giants), dies at 86
Leo Durocher
- Oct 17 Piet van Est, The Vuurbal, cyclist (7x Tour de France), dies at 57
- Oct 28 George Treweeke, Australian Rugby League second rower (7 Tests, South Sydney), dies at 86
- Nov 12 Howard Brunner, dies of AIDS at 51
- Nov 17 Adrian Quist, Australian tennis player, analyst (Australian C'ship 1936, 40, 48), dies at 78
- Nov 21 David "Sonny" Werblin, AFL owner (NY Jets), dies at 81
- Nov 21 Prior Jones, West Indian cricketer (WI pace bowler in 9 Tests 1948-52), dies at 74
- Nov 21 Sonny Werblin, NY sports impresario, dies at 81
- Nov 26 Bob Johnson, US hockey coach (Pittsburgh Penguins), dies at 60
- Nov 30 Zin [Parke Gerald Zinzan] Harris, New Zealand cricketer (9 Tests for NZ 1962-65), dies at 64
- Dec 5 Aad Mansfield, soccer player/trainer (ADO/Feyenoord/FC Utrecht), dies
- Dec 12 Ken Keltner, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), dies at 75
- Dec 14 John Arlott, British cricket commentator & writer (BBC), dies of emphysema at 77
- Dec 15 Horatio Luro, American horse trainer (Decidedly, Northern Dancer), dies at 90
- Dec 18 George Abecassis, English Formula 1 driver (b. 1913)
- Dec 20 Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (b. 1942)
- Dec 25 Mahmood Hussain, Pakistani cricket swing bowler (68 wkts in 27 Tests), dies at 59