NBA Record
Mar 1 Atlanta's Lenny Wilkens becomes first coach in NBA history to reach 1,000 career victories when the Hawks beat Cleveland Cavaliers, 74-68
Lenny Wilkens
Event of Interest
Mar 2 Despite Sachin Tendulkar's masterful 137 in India's 3 for 272, Sri Lanka wins Cricket World Cup match in Delhi by 6 wickets; Sanath Jayasuriya 79, Hashan Tillakaratne 70no
Sachin Tendulkar
Sanath Jayasuriya
- Mar 5 Earl Weaver & Jim Bunning, elected to Hall of Fame
- Mar 6 Aravinda De Silva smashes 145 v Kenya in cricket World Cup at Kandy Sri Lanka score 5-398 in 50 overs in World Cup v Kenya
Event of Interest
Mar 7 Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists
Magic Johnson
- Mar 9 Javed Miandad's last international in Pakistan's Cricket World Cup Quater Final loss to India
Event of Interest
Mar 9 Sri Lanka's Sanath Jayasuriya hammers 82 off 44 balls (13x4 3x6) v England in Cricket World Cup Quarter Final
Sanath Jayasuriya
Boxing Title Fight
Mar 16 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain heavyweight title
Mike Tyson
Frank Bruno
- Mar 16 Montreal Canadien's 1st game in their new arena (Bell Center)
- Mar 16 England beats Ireland, 28-15 at Twickenham for a second consecutive Five Nations Rugby Championship and Triple Crown; fly-half Paul Grayson lands 6 penalties, a conversion and drop goal
- Mar 17 Cricket World Cup, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, Pakistan: Aravinda de Silva scores 107 no and takes 3/42 as Sri Lanka beats Australia by 7 wickets; Sanath Jayasuriya, Player of Series
- Mar 18 50,000 swimmers raise 15 million for charity during BT's Swimathon '96
- Mar 25 Ice Dance Championship at Edmonton won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
- Mar 25 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Michelle Kwan (USA)
- Mar 25 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Todd Eldredge (USA)
Event of Interest
Mar 26 Last day of 1st-class cricket for Allan Border (Qld v Vic)
Allan Border
- Mar 29 Cleveland Browns choose new name, Baltimore Ravens
- Mar 29 NY Yankees beats NY Mets 7-3 in an exhibition game
- Mar 30 Lara hits 146 cricket not out in ODI vs NZ at Port-Of-Spain
- Mar 30 NY Mets beats NY Yankees 5-3 in an exhibition game
- Mar 30 149th Grand National: 7/1 favourite Rough Quest, ridden by Irish jockey Mick Fitzgerald wins by 1¼ lengths from Encore Un Peu
- Mar 31 15th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Georgia, 83-65; 3 Volunteers in All-Tournament team: Michelle Marciniak, Chamique Holdsclaw, Tiffani Johnson
- Mar 31 First time in MLB history, the regular season opens in March with Seattle Mariners beating Chicago White Sox, 3-2 in 12 innings at the Kingdome, Seattle
- Mar 31 Ranji Trophy Cricket Final, MA Chidambaram Stadium, Madras: Karnataka (Vijay Bharadwaj 146 of 8/620) beats Tamil Nadu (370) on 1st innings
PGA Players Championship
Mar 31 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Fred Couples shoots a final round 64 to win his 2nd PC title, 4 strokes ahead of runners-up Colin Montgomerie and Tommy Tolles
Fred Couples
Golf Major
Mar 31 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Patty Sheehan wIns by 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Meg Mallon, Kelly Robbins and Annika Sörenstam
Meg Mallon
Patty Sheehan