- Mar 1 Alpine skier Tamara McKinney becomes the first American woman to top the overall World Cup standings with 225 points
- Mar 3 Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw is admitted to hospital for surgery to repair his throwing arm under the alias 'Tom Brady'
- Mar 5 NSW beat Western Australia by 54 runs to win Sheffield Shield
Baseball Hall of Fame
Mar 10 Former Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers manager Walter Alston is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Sports History
Mar 11 Ice Dance Championship at Helsinki, Finland won by Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean (Great Britain)
Sports History
Mar 11 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
- Mar 12 4th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: St. John's beats Boston College, 85-77
- Mar 13 24th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgia beats Alabama, 86-71
- Mar 13 30th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Virginia, 81-78
- Mar 15 Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
- Mar 16 Smallest crowd of 1,814 attend NBA Cavaliers vs. NY Nets game at Cleveland Coliseum
NBA History
Mar 17 70th hat trick in NHL New York Islander franchise history, scored by Mike Bossy
- Mar 19 France (16-9 v Wales) and Ireland (25-15 v England) win final round matches to finish level and share the Five Nations Rugby Championship; no tie-break procedure exists before 1993
Sports History
Mar 20 In a clash of tennis legends, Martina Navratilova outclasses Chris Evert Lloyd 6-2, 6-0 to win her first of 5 straight WTA Tour Championships at Madison Square Garden, NYC
Boxing Title Fight
Mar 27 Larry Holmes beats Lucien Rodriguez in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
- Mar 28 PGA Tournament Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Hal Sutton comes from 4 strokes back with a final round 69 to win a rain-affected Monday finish by 1 stroke ahead of Bob Eastwood
Baseball Players
Basketball Stars
Boxers
Footballers
NFL Stars
Tennis Champions