Events in Sport
Event of Interest
Mar 3 US Internal Revenue Service investigates baseball player Darryl Strawberry
Darryl Strawberry
- Mar 6 Colin Jackson runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.30 sec)
- Mar 13 41st ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #4 North Carolina beats Virginia, 73-66
- Mar 13 35th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Florida, 73-60
- Mar 13 15th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Providence beats Georgetown, 74-64
- Mar 17 It is announced there is no smoking in Cleveland Indians new ballpark
- Mar 19 NJ Devils club record 41st win of the season
- Mar 19 England beats Wales, 15-8 at Twickenham, London but the Welsh take the Five Nations Rugby Championship as title decided by using points difference for the first time
NHL Record
Mar 21 Wayne Gretzky ties Gordie Howe's NHL record of 801 goals
Wayne Gretzky
- Mar 23 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 802 goals scored
- Mar 27 Ice Dance Championship at Chiba Japan won by Gritschuk & Platov (RUS)
PGA Players Championship
Mar 27 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Australian Greg Norman sets scoring record of 264 (−24) to finish 4 strokes ahead of runner-up Fuzzy Zoeller
Greg Norman
Golf Major
Mar 27 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Donna Andrews wins her only major title by 1 over British runner-up Laura Davies; Andrews birdies final hole while Davies makes bogey.
Laura Davies
Event of Interest
Mar 29 Coach Jimmy Johnson quits Dallas Cowboys
Jimmy Johnson
Event of Interest
Mar 31 Chicago White Sox assigns former NBA superstar Michael Jordan to the Birmingham Barons of Class AA Southern League; returns to NBA after one season
Michael Jordan
Birthdays in Sport
- Mar 16 Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers), born in Yaoundé, Cameroon
Deaths in Sport
- Mar 3 Bob Crisp, South African cricketer (9 Tests for South Africa, 20 wickets at 37 35), dies at 82
- Mar 9 Eddie Creatchman, Canadian wrestler manager (b. 1928)
- Mar 13 Murt [Edward James] O'Donoghue, New Zealand snooker player (1st witnessed 147 break), dies at 93
- Mar 17 Ellsworth Vines, American tennis player (US Open 1931-32; Wimbledon 1932), golfer (3 PGA Tour titles), dies at 82