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Events in Sport

Results 1 - 5 of 5

Apr 20th - Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
Aug 16th - Usain Bolt sets a new 100 metres dash world record of 9.69 seconds at the Beijing 2008 summer olympics.
Sep 21st - The final home game is played at Yankee Stadium against the Baltimore Orioles.
Oct 29th - The Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 5 of the 2008 World Series to become champions of Major League Baseball.
Dec 28th - The Detroit Lions finished the season 0-16 with a 31-21 lost to the Green Bay Packers The first time in National Football League history that a team went winless in a 16-game season.

Deaths in Sport

Results 1 - 61 of 61

Jan 2nd - Gerry Staley, American baseball player (b. 1920)
Jan 3rd - Yo-Sam Choi, South Korean boxer/former WBC light flyweight champion (b. 1972)
Jan 5th - Clinton Grybas, Australian sports commentator (b. 1975)
Jan 8th - George Moore, Australian champion jockey (b. 1923)
Jan 10th - Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (b. 1967)
Jan 13th - Johnny Podres, American baseball player (b. 1932)
Jan 17th - Ernie Holmes, American football player (b. 1948)
Jan 18th - Georgia Frontiere, American football team owner (b. 1927)
Jan 19th - Don Wittman, Canadian sportscaster for CBC (b. 1936)
Feb 6th - Tony Rolt, English racing driver (b. 1918)
Feb 17th - Brian Harris, English footballer (b. 1935)
Feb 18th - Mickey Renaud, Canadian professional ice hockey player (b. 1988)
Feb 23rd - Paul Frère, Belgian race car driver and motorsport journalist (b. 1917)
Feb 25th - Ashley Cooper, Australian race car driver (b. 1980)
Feb 27th - Myron Cope, American sports broadcaster (b. 1929)
Mar 16th - Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (b. 1912)
Mar 20th - Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer (b. 1935)
Mar 25th - Ben Carnevale, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
Mar 26th - Heath Benedict, American Football Player (b. 1983)
Mar 27th - Jean-Marie Balestre, French president of motor sport's FIA (b. 1921)
Mar 30th - David Leslie, Touring Car Driver (b. 1953)
Mar 30th - Richard Lloyd, Racing Car Driver (b. 1945)
Mar 31st - Bill Keightley, "Mr. Wildcat." University of Kentucky basketball equipment manger 1962-2008 (b .1926)
Apr 3rd - Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian football player (b. 1983)
Apr 4th - Francis Tucker, South African Rally Driver (b. 1923)
Apr 14th - Tommy Holmes, American baseball player (b. 1918)
Apr 19th - John Marzano, American baseball player (b. 1963)
Apr 22nd - Ed Chynoweth, Canadian ice hockey executive (b. 1941)
May 8th - François Sterchele, Belgian football player (b. 1982)
May 9th - Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (b. 1929)
May 11th - Bruno Neves, portuguese cyclist that died in competition (b.1981)
May 15th - Tommy Burns, Scottish footballer (b. 1956)
May 29th - Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1987)
Jun 7th - Jim McKay, American sportscaster (b. 1921)
Jun 11th - Ove Andersson, Swedish rally driver (b. 1938)
Jun 11th - Miroslav Dvořák, Czechoslovak ice hockey player (b. 1951)
Jun 12th - Derek Tapscott, Welsh footballer (b. 1932)
Jun 19th - Bennie Swain, American basketball player (b. 1930)
Jul 3rd - Ernie Cooksey, English Footballer (b. 1980)
Jul 4th - Terrence Kiel, American Football Player (b. 1980)
Jul 10th - Mike Souchak, professional golfer (b. 1927)
Jul 12th - Bobby Murcer, center fielder for the New York Yankees,San Francisco Giants, and Chicago Cubs from 1965-1983(b. 1946)
Jul 15th - Gyorgy Kolonics, Hungarian canoeist, Olympics medalist. (b. 1972)
Aug 8th - Orville Moody, American golfer (b. 1933)
Aug 15th - Vic Toweel, South African boxer, bantamweight world champion
Aug 16th - Elena Leuṣtean, Romanian gymnast and Olympic medalist (b. 1935)
Aug 20th - Gene Upshaw, American football player and union leader (b. 1945)
Aug 25th - Kevin Duckworth, American basketball player (b. 1964)
Aug 28th - Phil Hill, American race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1927)
Sep 6th - Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racing driver and trainer (b. 1917)
Sep 7th - Don Haskins, American College Basketball coach (b. 1930)
Sep 24th - Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (b. 1918)
Oct 20th - Gene Hickerson, American football Hall of Famer (b. 1935)
Oct 23rd - Kevin Finnegan, British Middleweight Boxing Champion (b. 1948)
Nov 11th - Herb Score, American baseball player (b. 1933)
Nov 17th - Pete Newell, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
Dec 9th - Ibrahim Dossey, Ghanaian football player (b. 1972)
Dec 13th - John Drake, New Zealand rugby union footballer (b. 1959)
Dec 17th - Dave Smith, American baseball player (b. 1955)
Dec 17th - Sammy Baugh, American football player (b. 1914)
Dec 19th - Dock Ellis, American baseball pitcher (b. 1945)