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Events in Sport

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Jan 30th - Super Bowl XXXIV: St. Louis Rams beat Tennessee Titans, 23-16 at the Georgia Dome Atlanta MVP: Kurt Warner, St. Louis, QB
Apr 2nd - 19th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at Corel State Spectrum
Apr 3rd - 62nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at RCA Dome Indianapolis
Apr 9th - 64th Golf Masters Championship:
May 3rd - The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
Jun 18th - 100th US Golf Open: at Pebble Beach Golf Links Calif
Jun 19th - NBA-teams/la-lakers">Los Angeles Lakers beat Indiana Pacers 4-2 in NBA finals MVP: Shaquille O'Neal, L.A.
Jun 19th - Tiger Woods wins golf's US Open by 15 shots, a record for all majors, with a US Open to-par record score of -12
Jul 9th - Pete Sampras wins his 13th Grand Slam tennis title at Wimbledon
Jul 20th - The leaders of Salt Lake City's bid to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering
Jul 23rd - 129th British Golf Open: at Royal Lytham
Jul 23rd - 55th US Women's Open Golf Championship
Aug 21st - Tiger Woods wins golf's PGA Championship to become the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win 3 majors in a calendar year. He ties the to-par record for the PGA (-18) with Bob May, and wins in a playoff
Sep 15th - Opening ceremony of the XXVII Olympics in Sydney, Australia
Sep 16th - Sammy Sosa's becomes the second player to hit 50 or more home runs in three consecutive years, joining Mark McGwire
Sep 19th - Ken Griffey, Jr. pinch-hits his 400th home run. The first major leaguer to reach the mark as a pinch-hitter
Oct 1st - Juan Antonio Samaranch, the chairman of the IOC declares Sydney the "best Olympic Games ever"
Oct 1st - Closing ceremony of the XXVII Olympics in Sydney, Australia
Oct 1st - United States retain Basketball's Olympic gold medal defeating France 85-75
Champion Tennis Player Pete Sampras Oct 1st - United States wins the most medals (97), and the most gold medals (40) in Summer Olympics held in Sydney, Australia
Oct 7th - The last ever competitive match at Wembley Stadium is a 1-0 defeat of England to Germany and the last goal was scored by Liverpool's Dietmar Hammann. The match was Tony Adams' 60th at Wembley setting the record for most appearances at the stadium.
Oct 26th - NY Yankees defeat NY Mets 4-1 to win their 3rd straight World Series championship, MVP: Derek Jeter, NY Yankees
Dec 24th - The Texas 7 hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot during the robbery.

Deaths in Sport

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Jan 4th - Tom Fears, American football player (b. 1922)
Jan 8th - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (b. 1918)
Jan 11th - Betty Archdale, Anglo-Australian educationalist and cricketer (b. 1907)
Jan 11th - Bob Lemon, American baseball player (b. 1920)
Jan 12th - Bobby Phills, American basketball player (b. 1969)
Jan 26th - Don Budge, American tennis player (b. 1915)
Feb 8th - Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1918)
Feb 8th - Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967)
Feb 12th - Tom Landry, American football coach (b. 1924)
Feb 21st - Antonio Díaz-Miguel, Spanish basketball coach (b. 1933)
Feb 23rd - Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b. 1915)
Apr 5th - Lee Petty, American race car driver (b. 1914)
Apr 14th - Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (b. 1910)
Apr 14th - Wilf Mannion, English footballer (b. 1918)
May 5th - Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914)
May 12th - Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
May 20th - Malik Sealy, American basketball player (b. 1970)
May 27th - Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921)
Jun 5th - Don Liddle, baseball player (b. 1925)
Jun 10th - Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930)
Jul 7th - Kenny Irwin, Jr., American race car driver (b. 1969)
Aug 10th - Gilbert Parkhouse, Former England cricketer (b. 1925)
Aug 14th - Cuan McCarthy, South African cricketer (b. 1929)
Aug 29th - Willie Maddren, English footballer (b. 1951)
Sep 17th - Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (b. 1976)
Sep 23rd - Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player (b. 1947)
Oct 5th - Cătălin Hîldan, Romanian footballer (b. 1976)
Oct 17th - Leo Nomellini, wrestler (b. 1924)
Oct 28th - Andujar Cedeno, Dominican baseball player for the Houston Astros (b. 1969)
Nov 25th - Hugh Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1917)
Nov 27th - Len Shackleton, English former footballer (b. 1922)
Dec 18th - Stan Fox, American race car driver (b. 1952)
Dec 25th - Neil Hawke, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1939