March 1994 in Sports History

Events in Sport

Sports History

Mar 3 US Internal Revenue Service investigates baseball player Darryl Strawberry

Mar 6 Colin Jackson runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.30 sec)
Mar 13 15th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Providence beats Georgetown, 74-64
Mar 13 35th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Florida, 73-60
Mar 13 41st ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #4 North Carolina beats Virginia, 73-66
Mar 15 Experts from AL certify the Cleveland Indians Jacobs Field is properly lit

Sports History

Mar 16 American figure skater Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on former Olympic teammate Nancy Kerrigan

Mar 17 It is announced there is no smoking in Cleveland Indians new ballpark
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

Sports History

Mar 19 Lara scores 167 for WI v England at Georgetown

Mar 19 NJ Devils club record 41st win of the season

NHL Record

Mar 21 Wayne Gretzky ties Gordie Howe's NHL record of 801 goals

Mar 22 Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.68 sec)
Mar 23 Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10 km (11:28)

Sports History

Mar 23 Last day of Test cricket for Kapil Dev

Mar 23 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 802 goals scored

World Record

Mar 26 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 m ladies (38.99 sec)

Mar 27 Ice Dance Championship at Chiba Japan won by Gritschuk & Platov (RUS)

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.

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

Sports History

Mar 29 Coach Jimmy Johnson quits Dallas Cowboys

Sports History

Mar 29 Last day of Test cricket for Allan Border

Mar 30 Bombay beat Bengal by 8 wickets to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
Mar 30 England Cricket all out for 46 at Port-of-Spain

Sports History

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

Birthdays in Sport

Mar 1 Tyreek Hill, American NFL wide receiver (Super Bowl 2020; Pro Bowl 2016–19; KC Chiefs), born in Lauderhill, Florida
Mar 7 Chase Kalisz, American swimmer (Olympic gold men's 400m individual medley 2020; silver 2016), born in Bel Air, Maryland
Mar 16 Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers), born in Yaoundé, Cameroon
Mar 17 DeForest Buckner, American NFL player, born in Waianae, Hawaii
Mar 30 Alex Bregman, American MLB player (Houston Astros), born in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Deaths in Sport

Mar 1 Dallas Shirley, American Basketball Hall of Fame referee (officiated 2,000+ games in 33-year career), dies at 80
Mar 3 Bob Crisp, South African cricket fast bowler (9 Tests, 20 wickets; Rhodesia, Western Province, Worcestershire), 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