PGA Players Championship
Mar 1 PGA Tournament Players Championship, Inverrary CC: Jack Nicklaus wins his second TPC title, 3 strokes ahead of runner-up J. C. Snead
- Mar 4 MLB's San Francisco Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth
- Mar 6 23rd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Virginia beats North Carolina, 67-62
- Mar 6 European Men's Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg, Sweden won by John Curry (Great Britain)
- Mar 6 Ice Dance Championship at Gothenburg won by Pakhomova & Gorshkov (URS)
Sports History
Mar 6 In his 10th title defense, WBA light welterweight champion Antonio Cervantes of Colombia is beaten by 17-year-old Puerto Rican boxer Wilfred Benítez in a 15-round split decision in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Benitez youngest ever world champion
- Mar 6 Wales clinch their 7th Five Nations Rugby Championship title, 7th Grand Slam and 13th Triple Crown with a 19-13 win over France at the National Stadium, Cardiff
Sports History
Mar 6 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by American Dorothy Hamill
Sports History
Mar 14 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race
- Mar 17 Boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried in the US after being convicted of murder in 1967 (sentence is upheld but overturned 1985)
- Mar 28 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Delta States beat Immaculata, 69-64 at Pennsylvania State University
- Mar 29 38th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Michigan, 86-68; first time 2 teams from same conference (Big Ten) play in title game
- Mar 31 Cleveland Cavaliers beat Jazz, 110-101 in New Orleans to clinch club's first ever NBA playoff berth
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