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Events in Sport

Results 1 - 20 of 20

1st - NY Isle Mike Bossy becomes 1st to score 60 goals in 3 cons seasons
3rd - 12th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
3rd - 2nd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: South Cal beats LA Tech 69-67
4th - 45th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: NC State beats Houston 54-52
5th - NY Met Tom Seaver's sets record 14th NL Opening Day assignment
9th - Caps 2-Isles 6 -Patrick Semis-Denis Potvin fails on penalty shot
10th - Baltimore's Eddie Murray hits his 1,000 career hit
10th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
11th - 47th Golf Masters Championship: Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 280
13th - Undefeated Middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault
17th - Grete Waltz runs female world record marathon (2:25:29)
17th - Lynn Adams wins LPGA Combanks Orlando Golf Classic
17th - Nolan Ryan strikes out his 3,500th batter
17th - Islanders tie NHL record with 3 shorthanded playoff goals vs Rangers Rangers 7-Isles 6-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 2-1 lead Wayne Gretzky scores 7 goals in one Stanley Cup playoff game
18th - 87th Boston Marathon won by Greg Meyer of Mass in 2:09:00
22nd - Start of 1st Sri Lanka-Australia Test Cricket match (at Kandy)
23rd - David Hookes scores his only Test Cricket century, 143* v Sri Lanka
24th - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
26th - San Antonio Spurs beat Denver Nuggets, 152-133 in NBA playoff game
NHL all-time top scorer Wayne Gretzky 27th - Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3,509), passing Walter Johnson

Birthdays in Sport

Results 1 - 31 of 31

1st - Ólafur Ingi Skúlason, Icelandic footballer
1st - Sean Taylor, American football player (d. 2007)
2nd - Felix Borja, Ecuadorian footballer
2nd - Paul Capdeville, Chilean tennis player
4th - Fabian Geiser, Swiss footballer
4th - Doug Lynch, Canadian ice hockey player
4th - Ben Gordon, American professional basketball player
11th - Nicky Pastorelli, Dutch racing driver
13th - Schalk Burger, South African rugby player
13th - Hunter Pence, American baseball player
14th - James McFadden, Scottish footballer
14th - Nikoloz Tskitishvili, American basketball player
15th - Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player
15th - Dudu Cearense, Brazilian footballer
15th - Bronson La'Cassie, Australian professional golfer
17th - Roberto Jimenez, Peruvian football player
18th - Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
18th - Fodil Hadjadj, Algerian footballer
19th - Alberto Callaspo, Venezuelan baseball player
19th - Zack Duke, American baseball player
19th - Joe Mauer, American baseball player
19th - Curtis Thigpen, American baseball player
21st - Paweł Brożek, Polish footballer
22nd - Matt Jones, American football player
23rd - Daniela Hantuchová, Slovakian tennis player
25th - J.P. Howell, American baseball player
26th - José María López, Argentine racing driver
28th - Roger Johnson, English footballer
29th - Jay Cutler, American football player
29th - David Lee, American basketball player
30th - Troy Williamson, American football player

Deaths in Sport

Results 1 - 6 of 6

12th - Carl Morton, American baseball player (b. 1944)
14th - Nina Dumbadze, Russian discus thrower (Oly-bronze-1952), dies at 64
18th - Alan Melville, cricketer (11 Tests for South Africa, 894 runs), dies
23rd - Buster Crabbe, 400m US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932), dies at 73
24th - Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver (b. 1943)
28th - Ron James, cricketer (NSW's Sheffield Shield capt 1949-50), dies