- Mar 3 3rd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Wake Forest, 76-64
- Mar 3 Dutch swimmer Cockie Gastelaars breaks 20-year old world record for 100m freestyle (1:04.2)
Golf Tournament
Mar 11 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Louise Suggs wins her 3rd Titleholders title by 1 stroke from Patty Berg
- Mar 13 NZ bowl out WI for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win
Contract of Interest
Mar 14 50-year-old baseball pitching star Satchel Paige signs a contract to play for and manage the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro National League
Sports History
Mar 16 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
- Mar 19 Biggest NBA margin of victory - Minn Lakers-133, St Louis Hawks-75
- Mar 24 110th Grand National: race best remembered for Devon Loch's inexplicable fall on final straight, just 40 yards from a certain victory; Dave Dick wins aboard E.S.B.
- Mar 24 18th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: San Francisco beats Iowa, 83-71; Dons' back-to-back National titles
- Mar 24 Wales beats France, 5-3 at the National Stadium, Cardiff to clinch their 13th Five Nations Rugby Championship
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Tennis Champions