2001 in Sport
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Months in 2001: January February March April May June August September October November December
Events in Sport
Results 1 - 4 of 4
Apr 1st - 20th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at St Louis
Apr 2nd - 63rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Metrodome Minneapolis
May 9th - In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster. The deaths were caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium)that followed a controversial decision by the referee handling a crucial match between arch-rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko.
May 29th - U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
Deaths in Sport
Results 1 - 37 of 37
Jan 12th - Affirmed, American racehorse (b. 1975)
Jan 22nd - Tommie Agee, American baseball player (b. 1942)
Jan 26th - Al McGuire, American basketball coach (b. 1928)
Jan 28th - Curt Blefary, American baseball player (b. 1943)
Feb 16th - Bob Buhl, baseball player (b. 1928)
Feb 17th - Bob Geary, Canadian football player and manager (b. 1933)
Feb 18th - Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1951)
Feb 18th - Eddie Mathews, American baseball player (b. 1931)
Feb 25th - Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (b. 1908)
Mar 16th - Bob Wollek, French race car driver (b. 1943)
Mar 20th - Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican baseball player (b. 1949)
Apr 1st - Jo-Jo Moore, American baseball player (b. 1908)
Apr 9th - Willie Stargell, American baseball player (b. 1940)
Apr 14th - Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (b. 1939)
Apr 25th - Michele Alboreto, Italian race car driver (b. 1956)
May 5th - Raymond Kessler, American midget wrestler
May 26th - Vittorio Brambilla, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)
Jun 2nd - Joey Maxim, American boxer (b. 1922)
Jun 26th - Soccer (dog actor) (b. 1988)
Aug 1st - Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
Aug 10th - Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
Aug 11th - Percy Stallard, English racing cyclist (b. 1909)
Aug 13th - Otto Stuppacher, Austrian racing driver (b. 1947)
Aug 21st - Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
Aug 25th - Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
Aug 25th - Ken Tyrrell, former race driver and founder of Tyrrell Racing (b. 1924)
Sep 1st - Brian Moore British sports commentator (b. 1932)
Sep 23rd - Ron Hewitt, Welsh footballer (b. 1928)
Oct 4th - Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (b. 1976)
Oct 6th - Arne Harris, American television sports director (b. 1934)
Oct 10th - Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (b. 1911)
Oct 23rd - Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and racehorse owner (b. 1917)
Nov 14th - Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (b. 1922)
Nov 23rd - Bo Belinsky, American baseball player (b. 1936)
Dec 6th - Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand yachtsman & winner of numerous Whitbread and America's Cup sailing contests, killed by pirates on the Amazon River at age 53
Dec 6th - Charles McClendon, Hall of Fame college football coach (b. 1923)
Dec 21st - Dick Schaap, American sports journalist (b. 1934)
