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Events in Sport

Results 1 - 15 of 15

Feb 3rd - Super Bowl XXXVI: New England Patriots beat St. Louis Rams, 20-17 at the Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans MVP: Tom Brady, New England, QB
Feb 8th - XIX Winter Olympics opens in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Feb 24th - XIX Winter Olympics closes in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Feb 24th - Canada defeats the United States 5-2 to win the men's ice hockey Olympic Gold Medal
Mar 31st - 21st NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at San Antonio
Apr 1st - 64th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Georgia Dome Atlanta
Apr 14th - Tiger Woods becomes the third golfer to win The Masters in two consecutive years
May 4th - Barry Bonds hits his 400th home run as a Giant, leading his team to a 3-0 win over Cincinnati. Bonds is the first player to hit 400 homers for one team and 100 with another
May 10th - Anaheim Angels crush the Chicago White Sox 19-0. The Angels join the 1923 Indians, 1939 Yankees and 1950 Red Sox as the only teams to beat two opponents by 19 or more runs in the same season
May 31st - The NBA-teams/nj-nets">New Jersey Nets defeat the Boston Celtics 96-88 in Game 6 of the NBA's Eastern Conference Championship, winning the series 4 games to 2 to advance to their first NBA Finals appearance.
Jun 12th - NBA-teams/la-lakers">Los Angeles Lakers beat New Jersey Nets 4-0 in NBA finals MVP: Shaquille O'Neal, L.A.
Jun 21st - Lennox Lewis retains boxing's WBC world Heavyweight crown with an eight round knockout over Mike Tyson
Sep 8th - Texas Rangers set a major league record by homering in their 26th consecutive game as Texas falls to the Tampa Bay
Sep 9th - Pitcher Randy Johnson reaches 300 strikeouts for the fifth consecutive season, extending his major league record
Oct 27th - Anaheim Angels defeat San Francisco Giants 4-3 in baseball's World Series championship, MVP: Troy Glaus, Anaheim

Deaths in Sport

Results 1 - 45 of 45

Jan 15th - Steve Gromek, American baseball player (b. 1920)
Jan 16th - Bobo Olson, American boxer (b. 1928)
Jan 23rd - Paul Aars, American racecar driver (b. 1934)
Jan 29th - Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (b. 1928)
Feb 7th - Jack Fairman, British racing driver (b. 1913)
Feb 11th - Frank Crosetti, baseball player (b. 1910)
Feb 14th - Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (b. 1922)
Mar 4th - Velibor Vasović, Yugoslavian footballer (b. 1939)
Mar 6th - Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1969)
Mar 23rd - Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (b. 1977)
Apr 9th - Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (b. 1926)
Apr 13th - Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racecar driver (b. 1928)
Apr 15th - Byron "Whizzer" White, American football player and U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1917)
Apr 18th - Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
Apr 28th - Lou Thesz, American wrestler (b. 1916)
Apr 29th - Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (b. 1936)
May 7th - Seattle Slew, American racehorse (b. 1974)
May 9th - Dan Devine, American football coach (b. 1924)
May 12th - Erich Kulas, ECW Wrestler (Mass Transit)
May 13th - Valeri Lobanovsky, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
May 17th - Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian-Spanish footballer (b. 1927)
May 23rd - Sam Snead, American golfer (b. 1912)
Jun 1st - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969)
Jun 17th - Fritz Walter, German footballer (b. 1920)
Jun 18th - Jack Buck, American baseball announcer (b. 1924)
Jun 22nd - Darryl Kile, American baseball player (b. 1968)
Jun 23rd - Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar, Panamanian boxer (b. 1975)
Jun 26th - Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914)
Jul 5th - Ted Williams, baseball hall of famer and last player to bat over.400 in a single season (Boston Red Sox) dies at 84
Jul 7th - Bison Dele, American basketball player (b. 1969)
Aug 5th - Chick Hearn, American basketball announcer (b. 1916)
Aug 12th - Enos Slaughter, American baseball player (b. 1916)
Aug 16th - John Roseboro, American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)
Aug 23rd - Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (b. 1922)
Sep 8th - Laurie Williams, West Indian cricketer (b. 1968)
Sep 11th - Johnny Unitas, American football player (b. 1933)
Sep 18th - Mauro Ramos, Brazilian football player (b. 1930)
Sep 28th - Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman (Molson family), senator and sports executive (Montreal Canadiens) (b. 1907)
Oct 5th - Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
Oct 8th - Jacques Richard, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
Oct 12th - Audrey Mestre, French diver (b. 1974)
Oct 24th - Herman Gaviria, Colombian football player (b. 1969)
Dec 1st - Dave McNally, American baseball player (b. 1942)
Dec 5th - Roone Arledge, American sports broadcasting pioneer (b. 1931)
Dec 19th - Arthur Rowley, English footballer. (b. 1926)