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Events in Sport

Results 1 - 100 of 162

Jan 17th - NY Islanders didn't get a shot off in 1 period against NY Rangers
Jan 21st - Superbowl XIII: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 35-31 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, QB
Jan 23rd - Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Jan 29th - 9th AFC-NFC Pro Bowl, NFC wins 13-7
Jan 29th - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 13-7
Feb 3rd - Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players
Feb 4th - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
Feb 10th - Border is named 12th man for Australia, only Test Cricket he missed
Feb 13th - 2nd Emmy Sports Award presentation
Feb 18th - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
Feb 21st - 2 Iowa girls HS basketball teams play 4 scoreless quarters game was won 4-2 in 4th overtime period
Feb 25th - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
Mar 4th - Sally Little wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
Mar 7th - Baseball exhibition season opens with semipro & amateur umpires
Mar 7th - Warren Giles & Hack Wilson selected to baseball Hall of Fame
Mar 9th - Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters
Mar 11th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic
Mar 11th - Randy Hold receives 67 min in penalties in a 60 min NHL hockey game
Mar 13th - Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick
Mar 15th - Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick
Mar 18th - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic
Mar 22nd - NHL votes to accept 4 WHA teams (Oilers, Jets, Nordiques & Whalers)
Mar 23rd - Larry Holmes TKOs Osvaldo Ocasio in 7 for Heavyweight boxing title
Mar 24th - 1st appearance as Australian Cricket captain for Kim Hughes
Mar 25th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sahara National Pro-Am Golf Tournament
Mar 26th - 41st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Mich State beats Indiana St 75-64
Mar 26th - Padres & Giants announce plans to play exhibition series in Tokyo but Giant players reject it
Mar 29th - Delhi beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
Mar 29th - Last day of Test cricket for Mushtaq Mohammad
Apr 1st - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
Apr 7th - Houston Astro Ken Forsch no-hits Atlanta Braves, 6-0
Apr 7th - Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers
Apr 8th - 8th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post
Apr 10th - J R Richard throws major league record 6 wild pitches in Astrodome
Apr 15th - 43rd Golf Masters Championship: Fuzzy Zoeller wins, shooting a 280
Apr 16th - 83rd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:09:27
Apr 19th - Following a 6-3 loss to the Orioles, Yanks Goose Gossage & Cliff
Apr 22nd - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Florida Lady Citrus Golf Tournament
Apr 29th - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Otey Crisman Golf Classic
May 2nd - -May 10] Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) begins nonstop ride, cycling 187 hrs, 28 min, around Vihara Maha Devi Park, Colombo, Sri Lanka
May 4th - Jackie Mercer wins her 4th golf title 31 years after her 1st
May 5th - 105th Kentucky Derby: Ron Franklin on Spectacular Bid wins in 2:02.4
May 6th - Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 818 kph over 200 m
May 6th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's International Golf Tournament
May 7th - Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland)
May 10th - John McMullen becomes CEO of Houston Astros
May 12th - Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end
May 13th - Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
May 16th - NL approves Astros sales from Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19M
May 17th - Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22, on 50 hits with 11 HRs
May 19th - 105th Preakness: Ron Franklin aboard Spectacular Bid wins in 1:54.2
May 20th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
May 21st - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat NY Rangers, 4 games to 1
May 23rd - 1st edition of "Wisden Cricket Monthly"
May 23rd - Borussia Minchengladbach wins 8th UEFA Cup at Dusseldorf
May 24th - Billy Martin issues a public apology to Reno sportswriter Ray Hagar
May 27th - Penny Pulz wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
Jun 1st - 33rd NBA-championship">NBA Championship: Sea Supersonics beat Wash Bullets, 4 games to 1
Jun 3rd - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship
Jun 9th - 111th Belmont: Ruben Hernandez aboard Coastal wins in 2:28.6
Jun 9th - 49th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Wendy Turnbull (62 60)
Jun 9th - Phillies wear burgundy uniforms for 1st & last time
Jun 10th - 25th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
Jun 10th - 49th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Victor Pecci (63 61 67 64)
Jun 10th - Balt Orioles pull their 8th triple play (5-4-3 vs Cleve)
Jun 14th - Canada all out 45 in Cricket World Cup v England, in 40 3 overs
Jun 14th - NY Giants Willie McCovey 513th HR is an NL lefty record
Jun 16th - Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit
Jun 17th - 79th US Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 284 at Inverness Club in Toledo
Jun 17th - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
Jun 18th - Sri Lanka beat India by 47 runs in Cricket World Cup upset
Jun 22nd - Larry Holmes TKOs Mike Weaver in 12 for Heavyweight boxing title
Jun 23rd - West Indies beat England by 92 runs to win Cricket World Cup
Jun 24th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
Jun 24th - Rickey Henderson debuts for Oakland & steals his 1st base
Jun 26th - Rocker Nigel Olsson runs a stop sign, crashes & kills a driver
Jun 27th - Heavyweight Muhammad Ali confirms that his 3rd retirement is final (it isn't)
Jul 1st - Vicki Fergon wins LPGA Lady Stroh's Golf Open
Jul 6th - 86th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (64 64)
Jul 7th - 93rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats R Tanner (67 61 36 63 64)
Jul 8th - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
Jul 12th - "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park, causes fans to go wild & causes White Sox to forfeit 2nd game of a doubleheader to Tigers
Jul 13th - Calif's Nolan Ryan & Boston's Steve Renko each lose no-hitters in 9th
Jul 15th - 34th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jerilyn Britz
Jul 17th - 50th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-6 at Kingdome, Seattle
Jul 17th - All star MVP: Dave Parker (Pittsburgh Pirates)
Jul 21st - 108th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 283 at Royal Lytham
Jul 22nd - Pat Meyers wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
Jul 23rd - George Brett gets his 1,000th hit
Jul 24th - Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR
Jul 29th - 7th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Amy Alcott
Aug 5th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate European Golf Open
Aug 5th - Phillies Pete Rose collects NL record 2,427th career single
Aug 5th - Willie Mays, Warren Giles, & Hack Wilson inducted in Hall of Fame
Aug 6th - 61st PGA Championship: David Graham shoots a 272 at Oakland Hills Mich
Aug 11th - Phillies Tug McGraw gives up record 4th grand slam of year
Aug 12th - Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin
Aug 19th - Sally wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic Little
Aug 21st - Mets win a protested game against Astros, 5-0
Aug 24th - NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new

Birthdays in Sport

Results 1 - 100 of 363

Jan 2nd - Jonathan Greening, British footballer
Jan 4th - Tristan Gommendy, French racing driver
Jan 5th - Ronnie O'Brien, Irish footballer
Jan 8th - Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer
Jan 8th - Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian footballer
Jan 8th - Seol Ki-Hyeon, South Korean footballer
Jan 12th - Jenny Schmidgall, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
Jan 12th - Grzegorz Rasiak, Polish footballer
Jan 15th - Drew Brees, American football player
Jan 15th - Martin Petrov, Bulgarian footballer
Jan 16th - Brenden Morrow, Canadian ice hockey player
Jan 16th - Jason Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
Jan 18th - Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
Jan 18th - Brian Gionta, American ice hockey player
Jan 18th - Kenyatta Jones, American football player
Jan 19th - Josu Sarriegi, Spanish/Basque footballer
Jan 19th - Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast
Jan 21st - Byung-Hyun Kim, Korean baseball player
Jan 21st - Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby union footballer
Jan 23rd - Larry Hughes, American basketball player
Jan 23rd - Juan Rincón, Venezuelan baseball player
Jan 25th - Rodrigo Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
Jan 27th - Daniel Vettori, New Zealand cricketer
Jan 29th - Sui Feifei, Chinese basketball player
Jan 30th - Karen Smith, Australian field hockey midfielder/halfback (Olympics-96)
Feb 1st - Juan Silveira dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
Feb 1st - Julie Augustyniak, American soccer player
Feb 2nd - Lindsay Langston, Modesto California, archer (Olympics-1996)
Feb 2nd - Petra Cada, Prague Czech, Canadian table tennis player (Olympics-96)
Feb 2nd - Fani Halkia, Greek hurdler
Feb 2nd - Irini Terzoglou, Greek shot putter
Feb 4th - Giorgio Pantano, Italian racing car driver
Feb 7th - Jon Leicester, American baseball player
Feb 8th - Aaron Cook, American baseball player
Feb 9th - Akinori Iwamura, Japanese baseball pitcher
Feb 12th - Matt Mauck, American football player
Feb 13th - Rafael Márquez, Mexican footballer
Feb 14th - Pablo Pallante, Uruguayan footballer
Feb 15th - Gordon Shedden, Scottish Race Car Driver
Feb 15th - Josh Low, English footballer
Feb 17th - Josh Willingham, American baseball player
Feb 18th - Julia Greville, Perth Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
Feb 19th - Clinton Morrison, Irish footballer
Feb 19th - Steve Cherundolo, American soccer player
Feb 21st - Pascal Chimbonda, French footballer
Feb 21st - Lonnie Ford, American football player
Feb 22nd - Brett Emerton, Australian footballer
Feb 26th - Mariano Bainotti, Argentine racing driver
Feb 26th - Pedro Mendes, Portuguese footballer
Feb 28th - Virginia Ledgerwood, Chester Va, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
Feb 28th - Sébastien Bourdais, French racing driver
Feb 28th - Ivo Karlović, Croatian tennis player
Mar 2nd - Damien Duff, Irish footballer
Mar 5th - Tang Gonghong, Chinese weightlifter
Mar 6th - Erik Bedard, Canadian baseball player
Mar 6th - Ryan Nyquist, American BMX rider
Mar 11th - Fred Jones, American basketball player
Mar 11th - Elton Brand, American basketball player
Mar 12th - Edwin Villafuerte, Ecuadorian footballer
Mar 13th - Johan Santana, Venezuelan baseball player
Mar 14th - Nicolas Anelka, French footballer
Mar 14th - Love, Angolan footballer
Mar 14th - Sead Ramović, German-born Bosnian footballer
Mar 15th - Kevin Youkilis, American baseball player
Mar 16th - Edison Méndez, Ecuadorian footballer
Mar 17th - Andrew Ference, Canadian ice hockey player
Mar 18th - Dramane Coulibaly, Malian footballer
Mar 18th - Anthony Maher, American soccer player
Mar 19th - Christos Patsatzoglou, Greek footballer
Mar 19th - Hee-Seop Choi, Korean baseball player
Mar 19th - Ivan Ljubičić, Croatian tennis player
Mar 19th - Hedo Türkoğlu, Turkish basketball player
Mar 20th - Bernard O'Connor, Gaelic Footballer
Mar 20th - Keven Mealamu, New Zealand rugby player
Mar 22nd - Juan Uribe, Dominican baseball player
Mar 23rd - Mark Buehrle, American baseball player
Mar 23rd - Donncha O'Callaghan, Irish International rugby player
Mar 23rd - Natalya Baranovskaya, Olympic swimmer
Mar 24th - Norris Hopper, American baseball player
Mar 24th - Graeme Swann, English cricketer
Mar 26th - Pierre Wome, Cameroonian footballer
Mar 26th - Nacho Novo, Spanish footballer
Mar 27th - Michael Cuddyer, Minnesota Twins baseball player
Mar 31st - Josh Kinney, American baseball player
Apr 4th - Rebecca Stoyel, South Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
Apr 4th - Roberto Luongo, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
Apr 5th - Timo Hildebrand, German footballer
Apr 7th - Adrián Beltré, Dominican baseball player
Apr 8th - Jeremy Guthrie, American baseball player
Apr 10th - Peter Kopteff, Finnish footballer
Apr 11th - Malcolm Christie, English footballer
Apr 11th - Michel Riesen, Swiss ice hockey player
Apr 12th - Mateja Kežman, Serbian footballer
Apr 12th - Elena Grosheva, Olympic gymnast
Apr 12th - Jordan De Jong, American baseball player
Apr 13th - Baron Davis, American basketball player
Apr 13th - Meghann Shaughnessy, American tennis player
Apr 14th - Noé Pamarot, French footballer
Apr 16th - Christijan Albers, Dutch Formula One driver
Apr 16th - Sixto Peralta, Argentine footballer

Deaths in Sport

Results 1 - 35 of 35

Jan 22nd - Ali Hassan Salameh, [Abu Hassan], killed by car bomb; believed to have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes
Feb 2nd - Jim Burke, cricketer (Australian opener), commits suicide
Feb 5th - Eddie Paynter, cricketer (20 Tests for England, avg 59.23), dies
Feb 9th - C I J Smith, cricket all-rounder (5 Tests for England 1935-37), dies
Feb 21st - Glendon Gibbs, cricketer (Test Cricket WI v Australia 1955), dies
Mar 17th - Merv Inverarity, cricketer (father of John WA player 1925-40), dies
Mar 23rd - Ted Anderson, English footballer (b. 1911)
Apr 2nd - Carroll D Rosenbloom, LA Rams president, dies at 72
Apr 2nd - Ivan Barrow, cricketer (11 Tests for West Indies 1930-39), dies
May 1st - Berkeley Bertram McGarrell Gaskin, cricketer (2 Tests for WI), dies
May 31st - Nigel Howard, cricketer (England captain 1951-52 tour of India), dies
Jun 4th - Edward Dawson, cricketer (England batsman in 5 Tests 1927-30), dies
Jun 9th - Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1884)
Jun 22nd - Louis Chiron, Monaco race car driver (b. 1899)
Jun 29th - Ben Barnett, cricketer (4 Tests for Australia 1938), dies
Jul 4th - Lee Wai Tong, Chinese footballer (b. 1905)
Jul 5th - Elizabeth Ryan, tennis ace (won 19 Wimbledon titles), dies at 87
Jul 7th - D P Conyngham, cricketer (one Test for South Africa), dies
Jul 9th - Janardhan Gnanoba Navle, cricketer (2 Tests for India), dies
Jul 17th - Doug Meintjes, South African cricket pace bowler (v England 1922-23), dies
Jul 22nd - Tony "Two-Ton" Galento, boxer/actor (On the Waterfront), dies at 69
Jul 22nd - Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
Aug 2nd - Thurmon Munson, NY Yankee, killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32
Aug 9th - Walter O'Malley, CEO (Dodgers), dies at 75
Aug 21st - Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (b. 1910)
Aug 23rd - Mian Mohammad Saeed, cricketer (1st Pakistan capt 1948-49), dies
Aug 31st - E J "Tiger" Smith, England cricket wicket-keeper 1911-14), dies
Sep 12th - Denis Smith, cricketer (England left-handed batsman 1935), dies
Sep 18th - Gene Kelly, sportscaster (Sportsreel), dies at 60
Oct 26th - Jackie Grant, cricketer (West Indian captain 1930-35), dies
Nov 14th - Bill Farrimond, England cricket wicketkeeper (4 Tests 1930-35), dies
Nov 18th - Freddie Fitzsimmons, baseball player (b. 1901)
Dec 3rd - Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player (b. 1905)
Dec 14th - Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, cricketer (2 Tests for India, avg 205), dies
Dec 21st - Bill Anderson, cricketer (Test for NZ 1946, scored five & one), dies