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Events in Sport

Results 1 - 100 of 337

Jan 3rd - LA King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against NY Islanders
Jan 5th - Kevin Bradshaw of US Intl scores NCAA Div 1 record 72 pts
Jan 9th - Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame
Jan 9th - Dean Smith of NC is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games
Jan 11th - Ben Johnson 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd
Jan 12th - Largest crowd to watch Atlantic Coast Womens Basketball game (11,520)
Jan 13th - 42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg South Africa
Jan 13th - Phil Mickelson wins PGA Northern Telecom Golf Open
Jan 13th - Soccer stadium riot in Orkney South Africa, at least 40 die
Jan 15th - Australia beat NZ 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
Jan 18th - WLAF's NY Knights become NY-NJ Knights
Jan 18th - Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours & 11 mins
Jan 19th - 42nd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 11-5 at Chicago
Jan 20th - Buffalo Bills beat LA Raiders 51-3 for AFC title
Jan 20th - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
Jan 20th - Matt Barr's field goal with no time left gives NY Giant 15-13 Victory over defending champs SF 49ers, for NFC title
Jan 25th - Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 50 goals in less than 50 games (49)
Jan 25th - Mark Waugh scores ton in 1st Test Cricket innings, v England Adelaide
Jan 26th - 65th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats J Novotna (57 63 61)
Jan 26th - Houston guard Vernon Maxwell is 4th NBAer to score 30 pts in a quarter
Jan 26th - Jan Stenerud becomes 1st pure placekicker to make NFL Hall of Fame
Jan 27th - 79th Australian Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats I Lendl (16 64 64 64)
Jan 27th - Superbowl XXV: NY Giants beat Buffalo Bills, 20-19 in Tampa Superbowl MVP: Ottis Anderson, NY Giants, RB
Jan 31st - Nugget's Michael Adams becomes shortest NBAer to get a triple-double
Feb 3rd - Meg Mallon wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
Feb 3rd - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-21
Feb 4th - Hall of Fame's board of directors vote 12-0 to bar Pete Rose
Feb 5th - LA King Dave Taylor becomes 29th NHler to score 1000 points
Radio shock jock Howard Stern Feb 5th - Howard Stern kisses NY Giant Leonard Marshall's ass over bet, Stern lost claiming the Giants would lose the Superbowl
Feb 7th - Bob Knight, Larry O'Brien, Tiny Archibald, Dave Cowens, Harry Gallatin & Larry Fleisher elected to NBA Hall of Fame
Feb 8th - Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract
Feb 10th - 41st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 116-114 at Charlotte
Feb 10th - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament
Feb 10th - NBA All Star Game at Charlotte NC
Feb 12th - North & South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition
Feb 14th - NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 mil salary arbitration
Feb 15th - Troy State sets NCAA Div II record with 103 points in 2nd half routing DeVry Institute 187-117
Feb 18th - Edmonton Oiler goalie Grant Fuhr returns to NHL after season-long suspension for substance abuse & shuts out NJ Devils 4-0
Feb 22nd - Test Cricket debut of Sanath Jayasuriya, vs NZ at Hamilton
Feb 23rd - NC is 1st NCAA basketball team to win 1,500 games
Feb 23rd - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
Feb 24th - End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft
Feb 25th - Andrew Jones scores twin Test Cricket tons v Sri Lanka (122 & 100*)
Feb 25th - Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky & John Candy buy CFL's Toronto Argonauts
Feb 26th - Asanka Gurusinha scores twin Test Cricket tons v NZ (119 & 102)
Feb 26th - Bill Veeck & Tony Lazzeri elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Feb 26th - NY-NJ Knights (WLAF) players 1st come together
Feb 28th - Don Mattingly named 10th NY Yankee Captain
Mar 2nd - Deb Richard wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
Mar 2nd - NC State Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAAer to get 1,000 assists
Mar 3rd - Boon completes 10th Test Cricket century, 109* v WI at Kingston
Mar 5th - Reggie Miller (Indiana) begins NBA free throw streak of 52 games
Mar 9th - Joe Dumaars (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games
Mar 10th - Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs
Mar 10th - Laura Davies wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
Mar 11th - John Smith, amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award
Tennis Player Steffi Graf Mar 11th - Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1
Mar 15th - Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record 6.14m (20 feet 1 3/4)
Mar 16th - NJ Net coach Bill Fitch is 4th coach to win 800 NBA games
Mar 17th - Penny Hammel wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International
Mar 18th - Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the 7th round
Mar 18th - Phila '76ers retires Wilt Chamberlain's #13 jersey
Mar 18th - Reggie Miller (Indiana) ends NBA free throw streak of 52 games
Mar 19th - KC Royals announce they are putting Bo Jackson on waivers
Mar 19th - Sacramento Kings set NBA record of 29 consecutive road loses
Mar 19th - St Louis Blue Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 80 goals in a season
Mar 19th - NFL owners strip Phoenix of 1993 Super Bowl game due to Arizona Not recognizing Martin Luther King Day
Mar 23rd - Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.12m)
Mar 23rd - 1st World League of American Football games, London beats Frankfurt 24-11, Sacramento beats Raleigh-Dur 9-3 & Mont beats Birmingham 20-5
Mar 24th - Barcelona Dragons beat NY/NJ Knights 19-7 in their 1st WLAF game
Mar 24th - Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson Mar 24th - NY Yankees beat NY Mets, 9-3
Mar 26th - Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their 1st WLAF game 35-34
Mar 26th - Victoria beat NSW by 7 wickets to win Sheffield Shield Final
Mar 27th - NCAA bans U of Minn football team from postseason play in 1992
Mar 27th - Scotty Bowman & Neil Armstrong elected to NHL Hall of Fame
Mar 28th - Mike Tyson admits paternity to Kimberly Scarborough's son
Mar 30th - 1st exhibition baseball games at Joe Robbie Stadium (Yanks-Orioles)
Mar 30th - Northern Michigan wins its 1st NCAA hockey title
Mar 31st - 10th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Virginia 70-67
Mar 31st - 20th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
Mar 31st - St Louis Blues Brett Hull scores his 86th goal
Apr 1st - 53rd NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: Duke Bluedevils beats Kansas 72-65
Apr 1st - Dwight Gooden signs $5.15 million 3 year contract with NY Mets
Apr 3rd - 12th Emmy Sports Award presentation
Apr 3rd - Bo Jackson signs 1-year contract with Chicago White Sox
Apr 5th - Joe Dumaars (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games
Soccer Legend Diego Maradona Apr 6th - Argentine soocer star Diego Maradona suspended for 15 month by Italian League for testing positive for cocaine use
Apr 7th - 3rd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus
Apr 7th - Chris Johnson wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
Apr 8th - Jockey, Bill Shoemaker, paralyzed in a car accident
Apr 8th - Major league umpires & baseball reach a 4-year agreement
Apr 10th - LA King Wayne Gretzky scores NHL record 93rd playoff goal
Apr 14th - 55th Golf Masters Championship: Ian Woosnam wins, shooting a 277
Apr 14th - Chic Blackhawks becomes 1st NHL regular season champion in 20 years to lose in 1st round of the playoffs (To Minn North Stars)
Apr 15th - 95th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:11:06
Apr 15th - Magic Johnson sets NBA record for career assistswith 9,898
Apr 15th - Sacramento Kings set NBA record, losing 35th consecutive game on road
Apr 16th - St Louis Blues becomes 8th NHL team in Play-off to come back from a 3-1 deficit as they beat the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 in game 7
Apr 18th - John Stockton breaks his own NBA season assist record at 1,136

Birthdays in Sport

Results 1 - 5 of 5

Jan 6th - Nikola Saric , Danish footballer
May 10th - Emily McEnroe, daughter of Tatum O'Neal & John McEnroe
Aug 20th - Marko Đoković, Serbian tennis player
Sep 27th - Adam Chicksen, English Football Player
Nov 27th - Nur Atikah Nabilah, Singaporean Gymnast

Deaths in Sport

Results 1 - 44 of 44

Jan 7th - Joe Hicks, baseball coach, dies of cancer at 64
Jan 20th - Bill Riordon, US tennis promotor (Jimmy Connors), dies
Feb 1st - Phil Watson, NHL coach (NY Rangers), dies
Feb 8th - Miran Bux, cricketer (2 Tests for Pakistan 1954-55), dies at 47
Feb 15th - Gary Gears, Chicago disk jockey, dies at 46 of a heart attack
Mar 7th - James "Cool Papa" Bell, American baseball league great, dies at 87
Mar 9th - Jim Hardin, former Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves pitcher (b. 1943)
Mar 19th - John Russell Thomas, NFL general manager (Detroit Lions), dies
Apr 4th - Luc de Rijck, Belgian soccer player (Turnhout), dies
Apr 4th - Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (b. 1920)
Apr 4th - Forrest Towns, American hurdler (b. 1914)
Apr 6th - Bill Ponsford, cricketer (Test avg 48 22, 1st-class avg 65 18), dies
Apr 25th - Theo Laseroms, [Tank], Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord), dies
May 6th - Chucky Mullins, US soccer player, dies
Jun 8th - Mary Bacon, jockey, dying of cancer, commits suicide by gun at 43
Jun 15th - Happy Chandler, American politician and Commissioner of Baseball (b. 1898)
Jun 28th - Ernie McCormick, cricketer (12 Tests for Australia), dies
Jul 6th - Muda Lawal, Nigerian footballer (b. 1954)
Jul 18th - Harold Butler, cricketer (2 Tests for England 1947-48, 12 wkts), dies
Jul 21st - Paul Warwick, English racing driver (b. 1969)
Jul 24th - Freddie Brown, cricketer (English Test captain 1950-51), dies
Aug 5th - Paul Brown, NFL founder (Cleveland Browns, Cin Bengals), dies at 82
Aug 8th - Julissa Gomez, American gymnast (b. 1972)
Aug 11th - J. D. McDuffie, American NASCAR driver (b. 1939)
Aug 14th - Alberto Crespo, Argentine racing driver (b. 1920)
Aug 24th - Abel Kivlat, US 1500m runner (Olympic-silver-1912), dies at 99
Sep 2nd - Concetto Lo Bello, Italian intl soccer judge, dies
Sep 6th - Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
Sep 10th - Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (b. 1908)
Sep 13th - Metin Oktay, Turkish football player (b. 1936)
Oct 7th - Leo Durocher, baseball coach/manager (Dodgers, Giants), dies at 86
Oct 17th - Piet van Est, The Vuurbal, bicylist (7x Tour de France), dies
Nov 21st - David "Sonny" Werblin, AFL owner (NY Jets), dies at 81
Nov 21st - Prior Jones, West Indian cricket pace bowler (9 Tests 1948-52), dies
Nov 21st - Sonny Werblin, NY sports impresario, dies at 81
Nov 26th - Bob Johnson, US hockey coach (Pittsburgh Penguins), dies at 60
Nov 30th - P G Z (Zin) Harris, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ 1962-65), dies
Dec 5th - Aad Mansfield, soccer player/trainer (ADO/Feyenoord/FC Utrecht), dies
Dec 12th - Ken Keltner, US baseball player (Cleveland Indians), dies at 75
Dec 14th - John Arlott, cricketer (the greatest of cricket commentators), dies
Dec 15th - Horatio Luro, US horse trainer (Northern Dancer), dies at 90
Dec 18th - George Abecassis, English Formula 1 driver (b. 1913)
Dec 20th - Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (b. 1942)
Dec 25th - Mahmood Hussain, cricketer (27 Tests for Pakistan, 68 wickets), dies