Sports History
Mar 1 Quebec's Peter Šťastný becomes just the 2nd player in NHL history to score 100 points in each of his first 6 seasons, with an assist in an 8-4 Nordiques' loss to the visiting Buffalo Sabres
Sports History
Mar 2 Edmonton's Finnish right wing Jari Kurri scores 2 goals, including the overtime winner, to lead Oilers to a 2-1 win over Philadelphia; Kurri, 100 points for the 4th straight NHL season
- Mar 2 Qualifier Kenny Knox is the last player to score in the 80’s (R3 80) and still win a PGA Tour event, the Honda Classic at TPC Eagle Trace; total 287 is highest winning score in PGA tournament history
Sports History
Mar 2 The first million dollar purse for a handicap race is won by British bred 5-year old Greinton with Laffit Pincay Jr. aboard taking out the $1,359,500 Santa Anita Handicap
Sports History
Mar 4 Allan Border completes twin Test tons (140 & 114*) v NZ
NHL Record
Mar 7 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist
- Mar 8 27th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Alabama, 83-72
- Mar 8 7th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: St. John's beats Syracuse, 70-69
Sports History
Mar 8 Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million
- Mar 9 33rd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Duke beats Georgia Tech, 68-67
NHL Record
Mar 9 Gilbert Perreault of the Buffalo Sabres becomes the 12th NHLer to score 500 career goals, in a 4-3 win over New Jersey Devils
Baseball Hall of Fame
Mar 10 Ernie Lombardi (NL MVP in 1938) and Bobby Doerr, elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Sports History
Mar 11 New York Islanders Mike Bossy, 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons
- Mar 11 NFL adopts instant replay rule
- Mar 15 Scotland (10-9 v Ireland) and France (29-10 v England) win their final round matches to share the Five Nations Rugby Championship with 3-1 records
- Mar 18 Exciting draw in final gives NSW the Sheffield Shield over Queensland
- Mar 21 Pittsburgh Associates buy Pittsburgh Pirates for $218 million
- Mar 22 HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament
- Mar 22 Ice Pairs World Championship at Geneva won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
Boxing Title Fight
Mar 22 Jamaican boxer Trevor Berbick upsets Pinklon Thomas by unanimous decision in Las Vegas to win WBC heavyweight title
- Mar 23 First of 2 WTA Tour Championships of the year; change of tennis schedule; Martina Navratilova wins 4th straight and 7th overall title 6–2, 6–0, 3–6, 6–1 against Hana Mandlíková in NYC
Sports History
Mar 24 Men's International Professional Tennis Council announces Jimmy Connors' 10 week suspension and $20,000 fine for storming off the court after defaulting against Ivan Lendl at Boca Raton, Florida in February
Sports History
Mar 25 Canadian Kurt Browning becomes the 1st figure skater to land a quadruple jump
Sports History
Mar 25 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Brian Boitano (USA)
- Mar 30 5th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Texas beats USC, 97-81; Longhorns' Clarissa Davis MOP award; complete first undefeated season (34-0)
- Mar 30 PGA Tournament Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: John Mahaffey wins by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Larry Mize
- Mar 31 48th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats Duke, 72-69; first tournament to use a shot clock (initially set at 45 seconds)
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