Events in Sport
Super Bowl
Feb 4 Super Bowl XLI, Dolphin Stadium, Miami Gardens, Miami, FL: Indianapolis Colts beat Chicago Bears, 29-17; MVP: Peyton Manning, Indianapolis, QB
Peyton Manning
- Feb 10 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 31-28; MVP: Carson Palmer, Cincinnati Bengals, QB
Event of Interest
Feb 12 Marty Schottenheimer is abruptly fired as head coach of the San Diego Chargers due to lack of playoff success and a strained relationship with ownership
Marty Schottenheimer
NBA All-Star Game
Feb 18 56th NBA All-Star Game, Thomas & Mack Center, Paradise, NV: West beats East, 153-132; MVP: Kobe Bryant, LA Lakers, F
Kobe Bryant
- Feb 18 49th Daytona 500: Kevin Harvick wins by 0.02s over Mark Martin in the closest finish since the first race at Daytona in 1959
Event of Interest
Feb 27 Mark Messier's #11 jersey is retired by the Edmonton Oilers
Mark Messier
Weddings in Sport
- Feb 17 Australian TV presenter Natalie Gruzlewski (30) weds pro surfer Luke Egan at St. Augustine's Catholic Church
Wedding of Interest
Feb 24 Former world champion track and field athlete Marion Jones (31) weds Olympic bronze medalist Obadele Thompson (30) at the Union Hill African Methodist Episcopal Church in Wilson's Mills, North Carolina
Marion Jones
Deaths in Sport
- Feb 2 Masao Takemoto, Japanese gymnast (b. 1919)
- Feb 4 Steve Barber, American baseball pitcher (b. 1938)
- Feb 4 José Carlos Bauer, Brazilian World Cup footballer (b. 1925)
- Feb 6 Lew Burdette, American baseball player (b. 1926)
- Feb 6 Willye White, American athlete (Olympic silver long jump 1956, 4x100m relay 1964; Sports Illustrated 100 greatest women athletes of 20th century), dies of pancreatic cancer at 67
- Feb 9 Hank Bauer, American baseball infielder, manager (8-time World Series champion; NY Yankees, Baltimore Orioles), dies from lung cancer at 84
- Feb 22 Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954)
- Feb 23 John Ritchie, British footballer (b. 1941)
- Feb 24 Lamar Lundy, American football player (b. 1935)
- Feb 24 Damien Nash, American football player (b. 1982)