Events in Sport
Event of Interest
Mar 1 New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner is reinstated as general partner of the team; banned because of his relationship with convicted gambler Howie Spira
George Steinbrenner
- Mar 1 New expansion NHL team, owned in Anaheim, CA by Disney, receives its name, inspired by the 1992 Disney movie 'The Mighty Ducks'
Event of Interest
Mar 1 Pavel Bure scores twice to become the first player in Vancouver's 23 year history to record 50 goals in an NHL season as Canucks beat the Buffalo Sabres, 5-2 in Hamilton
Pavel Bure
Event of Interest
Mar 2 Mario Lemieux undergoes his 22nd and final radiation treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma, then joins the Pittsburgh Penguins in Philadelphia and has a goal and assist in a 5-4 loss to the Flyers
Mario Lemieux
Sports Awards
Mar 4 1st ESPY Awards: Michael Jordan, Monica Seles win
Michael Jordan
Monica Seles
Event of Interest
Mar 5 Boston Celtic Larry Bird undergoes backfusion surgery
Larry Bird
- Mar 5 Marlins beat Astros 12-8 in their 1st spring training game
- Mar 9 Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak
- Mar 14 40th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgia Tech beats #1 North Carolina, 77-75
- Mar 14 34th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats LSU, 82-65
- Mar 14 14th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Seton Hall beats Syracuse, 103-70
- Mar 19 Ice Dance Championship in Prague won by M Usova & A Zhulin (RUS)
- Mar 20 France beats Wales, 26-10 at Parc des Princes, Paris for it's 10th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship
- Mar 23 NY Knicks & Phoenix Suns get into a major brawl
PGA Players Championship
Mar 28 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Nick Price of Zimbabwe sets a scoring record of 270 (−18) to finish 5 strokes ahead of Germany's Bernhard Langer
Nick Price
Bernhard Langer
- Mar 28 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Helen Alfredsson of Sweden wins her only major title, 2 strokes ahead of 3 runners-up; first non-American to win the event as a major
- Mar 29 Queensland all out for 75 v NSW in Sheffield Shield Final
- Mar 30 New South Wales beat Qld by eight wkts to win Sheffield Shield
- Mar 30 Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
Birthdays in Sport
- Mar 6 Ning Zetao, Chinese swimmer (2015 World Championships, 2014 Asian Games), born in Zhengzhou, China
- Mar 11 Anthony Davis, American basketball center (2012 NBA Draft: #1 pick New Orleans Pelicans), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Mar 14 Anthony Bennett, Canadian basketball power forward (2013 NBA Draft: #1 pick Cleveland Cavaliers), born in Toronto, Ontario
- Mar 15 Paul Pogba, French football player (Manchester United, French national team), born in Lagny-sur-Marne, France
- Mar 20 Sloane Stephens, American tennis player (US Open 2017), born in Plantation, Florida
- Mar 30 Lee Mi-hyang, South Korean golfer (ANA Inspiration 2019 runner-up), born in Seoul, South Korea
Deaths in Sport
- Mar 7 Tony Harris, South African cricketer (8 Tests for South Africa 1947-49, 100 runs) and rugby union player (Springbok), dies at 76
- Mar 8 Don Barksdale, American basketball forward (Olympic gold 1948, NBA All Star 1953), dies of throat cancer at 69
- Mar 22 Cec Pepper, cricketer (NSW & Commonwealth XI leggie), dies
- Mar 22 Steve Olin, pitcher (Cleveland Indians), drowns at 27
- Mar 22 Tim Crews, pitcher (Cleveland Indians), drowns at 31
- Mar 26 Roy Riegels, University of California football player who ran wrong way, dies at 84