Events in Sport
- Mar 2 Joe Mullen becomes 2nd NHL player to appear in 300 NHL games with 3 different teams when he plays for the Penguins in a 6-3 loss in Buffalo; Pittsburgh 379, St. Louis 301, Calgary 345
Boxing Title Fight
Mar 4 George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker
George Foreman
- Mar 4 Replacement NY Yankees beat NY Mets 2-1
- Mar 9 Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays
- Mar 10 Chiel Meijering's "St Louis Blues" premieres in Arnhem
- Mar 12 Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham UK won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
- Mar 12 42nd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #7 Wake Forest beats #4 North Carolina, 82-80 (OT)
- Mar 12 36th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Arkansas, 95-93 (OT)
- Mar 12 16th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Villanova beats Connecticut, 94-78
Event of Interest
Mar 18 Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement
Michael Jordan
- Mar 18 In a final round title decider, England beats Scotland, 24-12 at Twickenham to claim the Five Nations Rugby Championship, Grand Slam, Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup
World Record
Mar 19 Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)
Bonnie Blair
- Mar 19 Michael Jordan rejoins Chicago Bulls after 17 months, beats Pacers
- Mar 19 NBA NY Knicks beat NY Nets in 100th meeting (Knicks 53 Nets 47)
Event of Interest
Mar 25 Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years
Mike Tyson
PGA Players Championship
Mar 26 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Lee Janzen wins by a stroke ahead of runner-up Bernhard Langer of Germany
Bernhard Langer
Davis Cup
Mar 31 Second time in tennis history, world #1 and #2 ranked players play in the same Davis Cup team; Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi score victories in US quarter-final win against Italy in Palermo
Pete Sampras
Andre Agassi
- Mar 31 Ranji Trophy Cricket Final, Wankhede Stadium, Bombay: Bombay (Sanjay Manjrekar 224 in 6/690) beats Punjab (Vikram Rathour 177 in 372) on 1st innings
- Mar 31 Federal judge Sonia Sotomayor of US District Court in NYC issues an injunction against Major League Baseball owners in move that effectively ends 232-day strike
Deaths in Sport
- Mar 1 César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish soccer forward (12 caps; Barcelona) and manager (Zaragoza, Barcelona), dies at 74
- Mar 5 Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle and touring car racer, dies at 42
- Mar 9 Ruud van den Hende, Dutch sports reporter, dies at 63
- Mar 13 Leon Day, American baseball pitcher (Negro Leagues), dies of heart failure at 78
Florence Chadwick
Mar 15 Florence Chadwick, American swimmer, dies at 86
Florence Chadwick
- Mar 20 Merv Harvey, Australian cricketer (scored 12 & 31 in Test Aus v Eng 46-47), dies at 76
- Mar 23 Davie Cooper, Scottish football player, dies at 39
- Mar 30 Graham Anthony Richard Lock, cricketer, dies at 65
- Mar 30 Tony Lock, English cricketer and left-arm spinner who took 174 wickets for England, dies at 65