Events in Sports History in 1992

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• Jan 1 21st Fiesta Bowl: #6 Penn State beats #10 Tennessee, 42-17
• Jan 1 58th Orange Bowl: #1 Miami (FL) beats #11 Nebraska, 22-0
• Jan 1 58th Sugar Bowl: #18 Notre Dame beats #3 Florida, 39-28

• Jan 1 78th Rose Bowl: #2 Washington beats #4 Michigan, 34-14

• Jan 3 English club Wigan pays Widnes a world record rugby league transfer fee of £440,000 for Great Britain international winger Martin Offiah
• Jan 3 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Jakob Hlasek beats Karel Nováček of Czechoslovakia 6-4, 6-4 for a 2-0 lead (ends 2-1) and Switzerland's first title

• Jan 5 Indian cricket all-rounder Ravi Shastri scores 206 in 3rd Test in Sydney before being Shane Warne's first Test wicket, the first of 708 for Australia
• Jan 6 NY Yankees sign free agent Danny Tartabul

• Jan 12 Highest scoring NCAA basketball game; Troy State Trojans defeat DeVry Hoyas 258-149 in Troy, Alabama
• Jan 12 NFC Championship, RFK Memorial Stadium, Washington, D.C.: Washington Redskins beat Detroit Lions, 41-10

• Jan 20 Australia beat India 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup; Australian opener David Boon scores the most runs in the series (432)
• Jan 20 Score begins selling international soccer cards

• Jan 26 Super Bowl XXVI, Metrodome, Minneapolis, MI: Washington Redskins beat Buffalo Bills, 37-24; MVP: Mark Rypien, Washington, QB

• Jan 28 David Boon completes twelfth Test century, 135 v India at Adelaide
• Jan 28 St. Louis right wing Brett Hull becomes 2nd player (after Wayne Gretzky) in NHL history to record back-to-back seasons of 50 goals in 50 games; #50 comes in 3-3 Blues' tie in Los Angeles

• Feb 2 Australian Kieren Perkins swims 1,500m freestyle short course world record, 14:32.40 at AIS, Canberra, Australia
• Feb 2 David Boon's 13 Test Cricket century, 107 v India at Perth
• Feb 2 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 21-15; MVP: Michael Irvin, Dallas Cowboys, WR
• Feb 5 Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar
• Feb 5 Mike Whitney career-best 7-27 at WACA in Test Cricket win v India
• Feb 7 Mike Tyson testifies in his rape trial
• Feb 8 XVI Winter Olympic Games opens in Albertville, France

• Feb 9 Heike Henkel high jumps female indoor world record (2.07m)
• Feb 9 Jani Sievinen swims world record 400m medley (4:07.10)
• Feb 10 Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana

• Feb 13 West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game
• Feb 14 American sprinter Andre Cason runs world record 60m indoor (6.41s) in Madrid, Spain
• Feb 14 Kieren John Perkins swims world record 800m freestyle (7:46.60)

• Feb 16 LA Lakers retire Magic Johnson's #32 uniform
• Feb 19 In a blockbuster NHL trade, Pittsburgh Penguins send Mark Recchi, Brian Benning & LA's 1st round 1992 pick (Jason Bowen) to the Philadelphia Flyers for Kjell Samuelsson, Rick Tocchet & Ken Wregget
• Feb 21 Kristi Yamaguchi of US wins Olympic gold medal in women's figure skating
• Feb 23 Cricketer Andy Flower scores 115* on ODI debut as Zimbabwe lose to Sri Lanka
• Feb 23 XVI Winter Olympic Games close in Albertville, France
• Feb 27 Larry Smith named 9th Commissioner of the CFL

• Mar 1 In a rematch of one of the most controversial decisions in boxing history, Ghana's WBC super featherweight champion Azumah Nelson KOs Australian Jeff Fenech in 8th round in Melbourne
• Mar 1 Jenny Thompson swims 100m freestyle world record 54.48s at the US Olympic Trials in Indianapolis, IN; passes famous GDR drug tainted record, Kristen Otto 1986 by 0.25s
• Mar 2 American swimmer Anita Nall breaks the 200m breaststroke world record twice in the one day at the US Swimming championships in Indianapolis; wins final in 2:25.35

• Mar 6 Yankee pitcher Pascual Perez suspended for 1 year due to cocaine
• Mar 7 England routs Wales, 24-0 at Twickenham for it's 2nd straight outright Five Nations Rugby Championship, Grand Slam and Triple Crown titles; fullback Jonathan Webb 2 penalties and 3 conversions
• Mar 7 Nicole Stevenson swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.78)

• Mar 14 NY Met Daryl Boston, Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden accused of rape
• Mar 15 13th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Syracuse beats Georgetown, 56-54
• Mar 15 33rd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Alabama, 80-54
• Mar 15 39th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #1 Duke beats #20 North Carolina, 94-74
• Mar 21 Pakistan scores 6-264 to overhaul NZ in exciting World Cup cricket semi
• Mar 22 England beat South Africa in rain-ruined cricket World Cup semi final
• Mar 23 Florida Marlins begin selling tickets

• Mar 26 Mike Tyson sentenced to 10 years in rape of Desiree Washington
• Mar 26 NHL NY Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 years
• Mar 29 Ice Dance Championship in Oakland, California won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (CIS)
• Mar 29 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oakland, California won by Kristi Yamaguchi (USA)
• Mar 29 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Oakland, California won by Viktor Petrenko (CIS)
• Mar 29 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Dottie Pepper (Mochrie) wins the first of her 2 major titles in a sudden-death playoff with Juli Inkster with par on the 1st extra hole

• Mar 30 Man accidentally backs into Oakland A's Jose Canseco's $225,000 Lamborghini
• Mar 31 Phoenix coach Cotton Fitzsimmons guides the Suns to a 128-111 home win over Portland to become the 6th coach in NBA history to record 800 career wins
• Mar 31 Ranji Trophy Cricket Final, Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi: Delhi (Ajay Sharma 175 in 532) beats Tamil Nadu (449) on 1st innings
• Apr 1 NHL players begin first strike in 75-year history; 10 day action earns large playoff bonus increase, more control over licensing of their likenesses and changes to free agency system
• Apr 1 Sheffield Shield Men's Cricket Final, Perth: West Australia beats NSW by 44 runs; Justin Langer 149
• Apr 3 1st exhibition game at Camden Field - Orioles beat NY Mets
• Apr 4 146th Grand National: 14/1 shot Party Politics, ridden by Welsh jockey Carl Llewellyn wins by 2½ lengths from Romany King
• Apr 4 Game 1 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees beat NY Mets 6-4 at Yank Stad
• Apr 5 11th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Western Kentucky, 78-62; Cardinal guard Molly Goodenbour MOP
• Apr 5 Game 2 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees sweep NY Mets 6-5 at Shea

• Apr 6 1st game at Camden Field, Baltimore, Maryland - Orioles beat Cleveland Indians 2-0
• Apr 6 54th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Duke beats Michigan, 71-51; back-to-back titles for Blue Devils and coach Mike Krzyzewski
• Apr 9 Florida drops rape charges against NY Mets Gooden, Boston & Coleman
• Apr 9 Record 18 golfers shoot in 60s in Masters round 1 (old record 12)
• Apr 10 NHL strike ends after 10 days
• Apr 11 MLB Cleveland Indians set team record for long game loss to Boston Red Sox (19 innings - 6½ hr)
• Apr 12 2nd lowest NBA scoring game - Detroit Pistons 72, NY Knicks 61

• Apr 12 MLB Boston Red Sox pitcher Matt Young no-hits Cleveland Indians, but loses 2-1
• Apr 12 NY Mets lose 1st 3 home games for 1st time since 1962
• Apr 13 Longest 2 undefeated baseball teams to meet (NY Yanks 5-0 vs Toronto Blue Jays 6-0); Yanks score 3 in top of 9th to win 5-2
• Apr 13 Lou Carnesecca retires as coach of St John's basketball team

• Apr 16 NY Rangers win team record 50th game
• Apr 18 Start of South Africa's 1st Test Cricket since 1970 (v WI Bridgetown)

• Apr 20 96th Boston Marathon: Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya repeats in 2:08:14 for his 3rd title; Olga Markova first Russian women's champion in 2:23:43

• Apr 26 NFL Draft: University of Washington defensive end Steve Emtman from first pick by Indianapolis Colts

• Apr 27 NY Mets trade David Cone to Toronto Blue Jays for Jeff Kent

• May 3 Baltimore Orioles Gregg Olson, 25, is youngest to record 100 saves

• May 3 Ohio Glory wins 1st WLAF game (after 6 loses), beat Frankfurt 20-17
• May 6 NY Met Anthony Young begins losing streak of at least 26 games
• May 6 Werder Bremen of Germany win 32nd European Cup winner's Cup against AS Monaco of France 2-0 in Lisbon

• May 16 117th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Pine Bluff wins in 1:55.6
• May 16 America's Cup: America Team USA defeats Il Moro di Venezia 4-1 to win in San Diego

• May 20 36th European Cup: Barcelona beats Sampdoria 1-0 at London
• May 22 California Angels, are involved in a bus crash, in New Jersey
• May 22 NHL Clarence Campbell Conference Final: Chicago Blackhawks beat Edmonton Oilers, 4 games to 0
• May 23 NHL Prince of Wales Conference Final: Pittsburgh Penguins beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 0
• May 23 NY Yankees play in their 4th straight extra inning game
• May 24 Despite trailing 7-1, NY Yanks tie Milwaukee Brewers & then score 1 in 9th to avoid 5th straight extra inning game

• May 25 NY Yankees score 9 runs before 1st out in 8th inn, beat Brewers 13-7
• May 29 NY Mets score in 9th to end home shut-out streak at 3 games

• May 30 NY Yankee Scott Sanderson becomes 9th to beat all 26 teams
• Jun 1 Stanley Cup Final, Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL: Pittsburgh Penguins beat Chicago Blackhawks, 6-5 for a 3-1 series win; 2nd consecutive title for Penguins

• Jun 6 124th Belmont: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard AP Indy wins in 2:26
• Jun 6 America West Arena opens in Phoenix, Arizona; home court of NBA Phoenix Suns
• Jun 6 French Open Women's Tennis: Yugoslavian star Monica Seles retains title; outlasts Steffi Graf of Germany 6-2, 3-6, 10-8
• Jun 6 NY Mets first baseman Eddie Murray records his 1,510th run batted in during 15-1 thrashing of Pittsburgh Pirates to pass Mickey Mantle as all-time RBI leader among MLB switch-hitters
• Jun 6 WLAF World Bowl 2, Olympic Stadium, Montreal: Sacramento Surge beats Orlando Thunder, 21-17

• Jun 8 NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is banned from baseball for 7th time
• Jun 11 Owners approve sale of Seattle Mariners to a Japanese group

• Jun 11 US Olympic baseball team plays 1st exhibition game, beat Venezuela 20-0

• Jun 14 Ozzie Smith breaks Roy McMillan's NL mark by taking part in his 1,305th career double play

• Jun 15 Jeff Reardon breaks Rollie Fingers' save record with #342
• Jun 15 MLB Pittsburgh Pirates' Jeff King is 5th to be thrown out twice trying to steal in one inning - until a review of the rules determined his first steal attempt was nullified by an interference call [1]
• Jun 16 Colorado Rockies 1st minor league team's (Bend Oregon in Class A) game
• Jun 16 MLB Boston Red Sox Jeff Reardon sets record of 342 saves (vs Yanks 1-0) [1]

• Jun 18 Ottawa Senators make goalie Peter Sidorkiewicz their 1st draft pick

• Jun 19 NY Yankees 1st game in Baltimore Oriole's Camden Yards

• Jun 20 Kelly Saunders is 2nd female baseball PA announcer (Baltimore Orioles)
• Jun 20 NHL Draft: ZPS Zlin (Czechoslovakia) defenceman Roman Hamrlik first pick by Tampa Bay Lightning

• Jun 24 MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent permanently bans pitcher Steve Howe from baseball for repeated substance abuse violations; later overturned on appeal

• Jun 26 UEFA European Championship Final, Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden: In a huge upset Denmark beats Germany, 2-0
• Jun 27 193rd ranked Andrei Olhovskiy of Russia defeats #1 seed Jim Courier 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the 3rd round at Wimbledon
• Jun 27 Dan O'Brien fails on pole vault & eliminated from Olympics decathlon
• Jun 28 US Dream Team beats Cuba in 1st exhibition basketball game, 133-57
• Jun 29 A's Dennis Eckersley sets record of 26th straight save of season

• Jun 30 1st pay bathrooms in US open: 25 cents (NYC)

• Jul 7 South Africa beats Cameroon 1-0 in Durban in first FIFA sanctioned match after nearly 20 years international isolation, apartheid
• Jul 8 Florida Marlins unveil their uniform
• Jul 10 John Ellis becomes CEO of Seattle Mariners
• Jul 10 US Major Soccer League folds after 14 seasons
• Jul 12 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Saucon Valley CC: Larry Laoretti wins by 4 strokes ahead of Jim Colbert for his lone professional victory
• Jul 14 63rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-6 at Jack Murphy Stadium, SD

• Jul 19 30th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats Spain in Frankfurt Germany (2-1)
• Jul 19 British Open Men's Golf, Muirfield: Englishman Nick Faldo wins his 3rd Open title, by 1 stroke from American John Cook
• Jul 19 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Frankfurt, Germany: Germany wins 2nd title with 2-1 win over Spain; Steffi Graf clinches final 6-4, 6-2 against Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
• Jul 24 Faye Vincent reinstates Yankee owner George Steinbrenner (eff 3/1/93)
• Jul 25 25th Olympic Games open in Barcelona, Spain

• Jul 27 Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Republican National Convention
• Jul 27 Japanese swimmer Kyoko Iwasaki wins the 200m breaststroke in Barcelona to become the youngest to win an Olympic gold medal at 14 years-6 days
• Jul 28 Groundbreaking of Fla Marlins 7,500 seat spring training stadium
• Jul 29 American Michael Ray Barrowman swims world record 200m breaststroke (2:10.16) at the World Championships in Perth, Australia, breaking his own record set in August 1991
• Jul 29 Arkadiusz Skrzypaszek of Poland (5,559 points) beats Hungarian Attila Mizsér by 113 points to win the Pentathlon gold at the Barcelona Olympics; Poland also wins teams gold
• Jul 29 Yevgeni Sadovyi of the Unified Team swims world 400m record (3:45.00) to wrap up 200-400m freestyle double at the Barcelona Olympics
• Jul 30 Yael Arad becomes Israel's first ever Olympic medalist when she wins silver in the women's 61kg judo in Barcelona; 20th anniversary of Munich massacre and 500th anniversary of Alhambra Decree
• Jul 31 Hungarian swimmer Krisztina Egerszegi earns her 3rd gold medal of the Barcelona Olympics winning 200m backstroke for the 100-200 double along with 400m I/M gold
• Jul 31 Three world record swims on final night session at the Barcelona Olympics; Australian Kieren Perkins 1,500m (14:43.4); Tamás Darnyi of Hungary 200m backstroke (1:59.36); China's Yang Wenyi women's 50m freestyle (24.79)

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