2000 in Sport

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• Jan 1 86th Rose Bowl: #4 Wisconsin beats #22 Stanford, 17-9
• Jan 1 66th Orange Bowl: #8 Michigan beats #5 Alabama, 35-34
• Jan 2 29th Fiesta Bowl: #3 Nebraska beats #6 Tennessee, 31-21

• Jan 4 2nd BCS National Championship: #1 Florida State beats #2 Virginia Tech, 46-29, at 66th Sugar Bowl
• Jan 8 "Music City Miracle", in AFC Wild Card Playoff, Tennessee Titans defeat Buffalo Bills 22-16 in last 16 seconds with Kevin Dyson, running length of the field for a game-winning touchdown

• Jan 23 AFC Championship Game: Tennessee Titans beat Jacksonville Jaguars 33-14
• Jan 23 NFC Championship Game: St. Louis Rams beat Tampa Bay Buccaneers 11-6
• Jan 30 Super Bowl XXXIV: St. Louis Rams beat Tennessee Titans, 23-16 at the Georgia Dome Atlanta MVP: Kurt Warner, St. Louis, QB

• Feb 6 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 51-31
• Feb 6 50th NHL All-Star Game: World beats North America 9-4 at Toronto, Ontario
• Feb 13 49th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 137-127 at Oakland

• Feb 20 42nd Daytona 500: Dale Jarrett wins (155.669 MPH)
• Mar 2 America's Cup: Team New Zealand defeats Prada Challenge 5-0 to win in Auckland

• Mar 11 21st Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: St. John's beats Connecticut, 80-70
• Mar 12 47th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #3 Duke beats #20 Maryland, 81-68
• Mar 12 41st SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Arkansas beats Auburn, 75-67
• Mar 18 England clinch inaugural Six Nations Rugby Championship with 59-12 thrashing of Italy at Stadio Flaminio, Rome; England flyhalf Jonny Wilkinson kicks 7 goals and winger Austin Healey scores 3 tries

• Apr 2 19th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Connecticut beats Tennessee 71-52
• Apr 3 62nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Michigan State beats Florida 89-76
• Apr 7 South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje is charged by Delhi police with fixing One Day International matches against India
• Apr 8 153rd Grand National: Ruby Walsh aboard Papillon wins
• Apr 9 64th Masters Golf, Augusta: Fijian Vijay Singh wins by 3 strokes from Ernie Els of South Africa
• Apr 11 South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje is sacked after admitting dishonesty following match-fixing allegations in India
• Apr 15 NFL Draft: Penn State defensive end Courtney Brown first pick by Cleveland Browns
• Apr 17 104th Boston Marathon: Elijah Lagat of Kenya 1st man in 2:09:47 and Catherine Ndereba of Kenya 1st woman in 2:26:11

• May 3 The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
• May 6 126th Kentucky Derby: Kent Desormeaux aboard Fusaichi Pegasus wins in 2:01.12
• May 20 125th Preakness: Jerry Bailey aboard Red Bullet wins in 1:56.00
• May 24 8th UEFA Champions League Final: Real Madrid beats Valencia 3-0 at Saint-Denis
• May 26 NHL Eastern Conference Final: New Jersey Devils beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4 games to 3
• May 27 NHL Western Conference Final: Dallas Stars beat Colorado Avalanche, 4 games to 3
• May 27 Crusaders claim their 3rd consecutive Super 12 Rugby title with a 20-19 win over the ACT Brumbies at Bruce Stadium, Canberra; flyhalf Andrew Mehrtens kicks 5 penalties for the winners


• May 28 Indianapolis 500: Juan Pablo Montoya wins in 2:58:59.431 (269.737 km/h)
• Jun 10 132nd Belmont: Pat Day aboard Commendable wins in 2:31.20
• Jun 10 Stanley Cup: New Jersey Devils defeat Dallas Stars 4-2
• Jun 11 99th Men's French Open: Gustavo Kuerten beats Magnus Norman (6-2, 6-3, 2-6, 7-6)

• Jun 18 100th US Golf Open: Tiger Woods shoots a 272 at Pebble Beach, California

• Jun 19 Tiger Woods wins golf's US Open by 15 shots, a record for all majors, with a US Open to-par record score of -12
• Jun 19 54th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Indiana Pacers, 4 games to 2
• Jun 25 46th LPGA Championship won by Juli Inkster
• Jul 2 UEFA European Championship Final: David Trezeguet scores in extra time to give France a 2-1 win over Italy in Rotterdam
• Jul 4 American jockey Russell Baze scores his 7,000th career victory aboard This Is the Moment at the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton, California
• Jul 6 West Ham United FC pays a record £1.8 million for the late Bobby Moore's collection of memorabilia, 79 items including his 1966 World Cup winner's medal
• Jul 6 Real estate developer Stan Kroenke announces the acquisition of the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche and the Pepsi Centre for $450m from the Ascent Entertainment Group

• Jul 9 Police fired tear gas at fans during a World Cup qualifying soccer game between Zimbabwe and South Africa, setting off a stampede that killed twelve people in Harare, Zimbabwe
• Jul 11 71st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-3 at Turner Field, Atlanta
• Jul 15 World record Rugby attendance of 108,874 see New Zealand beat Australia, 39-35 in Tri Nations match at Stadium Australia, Sydney; 5 tries each with Andrew Mehrtens' goal kicking (6) the difference
• Jul 20 The leaders of Salt Lake City's bid to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering
• Jul 23 British Open Golf, Royal Lytham & St. Annes: Tiger Woods beats Thomas Bjørn and Ernie Els by 8 shots to win his first Open title; becomes youngest player at 24 to win all 4 major titles

• Aug 3 England cricket wicket keeper Alec Stewart becomes only the 4th batsman to score a century (105) in his 100th Test, during the 3rd Test against the West Indies at Old Trafford
• Aug 5 Moni Maker wins the $500,00 Nat Ray at the Meadowlands in world record 1:52.1 to become harness racing's first $5m stakes earner

• Aug 20 PGA Championship: Tiger Woods becomes first since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win 3 majors in a calendar year; wins playoff with Bob May
• Aug 26 Australia clinches first Tri Nations Rugby Series with a 19-18 win over South Africa in Durban; Wallabies centre Stirling Mortlock lands 4 penalties and a conversion
• Sep 4 England wins 5th cricket Test v West Indies by 158 runs at The Oval for first series win (3-1) over WI since 1969; Windies captain Courtney Walsh's 132nd and final Test
• Sep 9 US Open Women's Tennis: Venus Williams wins her first US title; beats fellow American Lindsay Davenport 6-4, 7-5
• Sep 10 US Open Men's Tennis: Marat Safin of Russia wins his first Grand Slam title; beats Pete Sampras 6-4, 6-3, 6-3
• Sep 15 27th Olympic Games opens at Sydney, Australia

• Sep 17 Dan Marino's #13 jersey is retired by the Miami Dolphins
• Sep 19 Ken Griffey, Jr. pinch-hits his 400th home run. The first major leaguer to reach the mark as a pinch-hitter
• Sep 25 American basketball player Vince Carter jumps over 7 foot 2 Frédéric Weis in 2000 Summer Olympics, known in France as "le dunk de la mort" (the dunk of death)
• Oct 1 Juan Antonio Samaranch, the chairman of the IOC declares the XXVII Olympics in Sydney the "best Olympic Games ever" at the closing ceremony
• Oct 1 United States wins the most medals (97), and the most gold medals (40) in Summer Olympics held in Sydney, Australia
• Oct 1 German canoeist Birgit Fischer teams with Katrin Wagner to win the K2 500m gold medal at the Sydney Olympics; becomes first woman to win 2 or more medals at 4 Summer Olympics; only 4th woman to win 7 career gold
• Oct 1 An all-African podium for the men's marathon at the Sydney Olympics as Gezahegne Abera of Ethiopia runs 2:10:11 for the gold medal, 0.20s ahead of Kenyan Erick Wainaina with bronze to Ethiopian Tesfaye Tola
• Oct 1 NBA stars Ray Allen and Vince Carter each score 13 points as the US beats France 85-75 to win the men's basketball gold medal at the Sydney Olympics
• Oct 1 Cuban boxer Félix Savon wins his 3rd consecutive Olympic heavyweight gold medal at the Sydney Games; easily beats Russian Sultan Ibragimov on points 21-13; retires after victory ceremony
• Oct 1 Stephanie Cook of Great Britain scores 5,318 points to beat American Emily de Riel by just 8 points to win the inaugural Olympic women's modern pentathlon at the Sydney Games
• Oct 1 Norwegian canoeist Knut Holmann beats Petar Merkov of Bulgaria for the second consecutive day to win the K-1 500m gold medal at the Sydney Olympics; beat Markov in K-1 1000m the previous day
• Oct 7 Last ever competitive soccer match at Wembley Stadium, England defeated 1-0 by Germany, last goal scored by Liverpool's Dietmar Hammann. Match is Tony Adams' 60th at Wembley, the record for most appearances at the stadium.
• Oct 8 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Loch Lomond GC: Europe regains Cup 14½-11½; Carin Koch holes winning putt, coming back from 3 down to beat Michele Redman
• Oct 8 German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher wins Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka to clinch his 3rd, and 1st of 5 straight World F1 Drivers Championships
• Oct 11 South African Cricket Board issues former captain Hansie Cronje with a life ban as a result of match-fixing allegations
• Oct 16 MLB National League Championship: New York Mets beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 1
• Oct 17 MLB American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Seattle Mariners, 4 games to 2

• Oct 23 "Monday Night Miracle", down 30-7 at the end of the third quarter, New York Jets pull together an improbable comeback with 4 touchdowns and a field goal in the fourth quarter, eventually defeating the Miami Dolphins 40-37 in overtime

• Nov 1 Pat Riley becomes only 2nd coach in NBA history to accumulate 1,000 regular season victories when Miami Heat open season with a 105-79 victory v Orlando Magic; Lenny Wilkens is first to achieve the mark
• Nov 4 Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Churchill Downs; winners: Tiznow, Macho Uno, Spain, Kalanisi, War Chant, Perfect Sting, Kona Gold, Caressing
• Nov 11 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel near Kaprun, Austria
• Nov 11 12th College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 28-16 in South Bend
• Nov 18 65th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 9-0 in Tuscaloosa

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• Apr 23 Chloe Kim, American snowboarder (Olympic Gold 2018), born in Torrance, California
• Jun 9 Laurie Hernandez, American gymnast (Olympic team gold, individual silver 2016), born in Old Bridge Township, New Jersey

• Jan 1 Dominican-American baseball player Albert Pujols (19) weds Deidre "Dee Dee" Corona (22)

• Jul 8 Olympic figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi (28) weds Carolina Hurricanes ice hockey player Bret Hedican (29) at the Mauna Lani Resort in Kona, Hawaii

• Jan 4 Tom Fears, American football player (b. 1922)
• Jan 8 Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (b. 1918)
• Jan 11 Betty Archdale, Anglo-Australian educationalist and cricketer (b. 1907)
• Jan 11 Robert Granville "Bob" Lemon, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), dies at 79
• Jan 11 Phil Carrick, English cricketer (Yorkshire County Cricket Club), dies at 47
• Jan 12 Bobby Phills, American basketball player (b. 1969)
• Jan 26 Don Budge, American tennis player (6 Grand Slam singles titles, Grand Slam 1938), dies of cardiac arrest at 84
• Jan 27 Mae Faggs Starr, American athlete, 4x100m runner (Olympic gold 1952), dies at 67
• Feb 8 Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings), dies at 81
• Feb 8 Derrick Thomas, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs), dies of a blood clot at 33

• Feb 21 Antonio Díaz-Miguel, Spanish basketball coach (b. 1933)
• Feb 23 Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b. 1915)
• Feb 27 Bernard Mammes, American cyclist, dies at 88
• Mar 12 Mack Robinson, American 200m dash (Olympic silver 1932), dies at 85
• Apr 5 Lee Petty, American race car driver (b. 1914)
• Apr 14 Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (b. 1910)
• Apr 14 Wilf Mannion, English footballer (b. 1918)
• Apr 24 John Beck, New Zealand cricketer (lefty bat in 8 Tests for NZ 1953-56), dies at 65
• May 5 Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (Tour de France 1938), dies at 85
• May 12 Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
• May 20 Malik Sealy, American basketball player (b. 1970)

• Jun 5 Don Liddle, baseball player (b. 1925)
• Jun 10 Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930)
• Jul 2 Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1952)
• Jul 7 Kenny Irwin, Jr., American race car driver (b. 1969)
• Jul 10 Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975)
• Aug 10 Gilbert Parkhouse, Welsh cricketer (England batsman in 7 Tests 1950-59), dies at 74
• Aug 14 Cuan McCarthy, South African cricketer (b. 1929)
• Aug 20 Henry Austin, British tennis player (3-time Grand Slam runner-up), dies of complications from a fall at 94
• Aug 29 Willie Maddren, English footballer (b. 1951)
• Sep 17 Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (b. 1976)
• Sep 23 Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player (b. 1947)
• Oct 5 Cătălin Hîldan, Romanian footballer (b. 1976)
• Oct 17 Leo Nomellini, wrestler (b. 1924)
• Oct 28 Andujar Cedeno, Dominican baseball player for the Houston Astros (b. 1969)
• Oct 28 Andújar Cedeño, Dominican infielder (Houston Astros, Detroit Tigers), dies in a car accident at 31
• Nov 22 Emil Zátopek, Czech distance runner (4 x Olympic gold 1948, 52), dies of a stroke at 78
• Nov 25 Hugh Alexander, American baseball player, dies at 83
• Nov 27 Len Shackleton, English former footballer, dies at 78
• Dec 2 Chris Antley, Racing Hall of Fame jockey (Kentucky Derby 1991, 1999), dies of drug overdose at 34
• Dec 4 Colin Cowdrey, England cricket batsman (114 Tests, 7,624 runs @ 44.06), dies of a heart attack at 67
• Dec 18 Stan Fox, American race car driver (b. 1952)
• Dec 25 Neil Hawke, Australian cricketer (Aust pace bowler & late-order bat in 60s), dies at 61
• Dec 30 Lionel Hebert, American golfer (PGA Championship 1957), dies at 72

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