Events in Sports History in 1993

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• Jan 1 22nd Fiesta Bowl: #6 Syracuse beats #10 Colorado, 26-22
• Jan 1 59th Orange Bowl: #3 Florida State beats #11 Nebraska, 27-14
• Jan 1 59th Sugar Bowl: #2 Alabama beats #1 Miami, 34-13

• Jan 1 79th Rose Bowl: #7 Michigan beats #9 Washington, 38-31
• Jan 1 Blockbuster Bowl 3: Stanford beats Penn State, 24-3
• Jan 3 "The Comeback", QB Frank Reich leads Buffalo Bills back from a 32-point deficit, to defeat the Houston Oilers 41-38 in overtime in a wild card playoff game, the greatest comeback ever in NFL history

• Jan 8 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Michael Stich beats Emilio Sánchez of Spain 7-5, 6-3 for a 2-0 win, and Germany's first title

• Jan 9 Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100m free style (53.33)

• Jan 17 AFC Championship, Joe Robbie Stadium, Miami: Buffalo Bills beat Miami Dolphins, 29-10
• Jan 17 NFC Championship, Candlestick Park, SF: Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco 49ers, 30-20
• Jan 18 West Indies beat Australia 2-0 win cricket's World Series Cup

• Jan 26 Everton scores a 3-1 away win over Wimbledon at Selhurst Park in London; lowest ever attendance at an EPL fixture, 3,039

• Jan 31 Super Bowl XXVII, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 52-17; MVP: Troy Aikman, Dallas, QB
• Feb 3 Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments

• Feb 7 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 23-20; MVP: Steve Tasker, Buffalo Bills, WR
• Feb 10 Jani Sievinen swims world record 200m backstroke (1:55.59)
• Feb 13 Sergei Bubka pole vaults indoor record (6.14 m)

• Feb 16 Sandra Völker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.33 sec)
• Feb 17 Hartford right wing Pat Verbeek scores his 300th career NHL goal and adds his 300th career assist in a 5-3 Whalers' home loss to the Buffalo Sabres
• Feb 20 Florida Marlins open their 1st spring training camp
• Feb 20 NY Islanders retire Billy Smith's number 31

• Feb 21 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 m)
• Feb 23 Sacramento Gold Miners admitted as CFL's 9th franchise (1st US team)
• Feb 25 Florida Marlins introduce their mascot "Billy"

• Feb 28 Iolanda Chen triple jumps world indoor record hop step (14.46m)
• Mar 1 New expansion NHL team, owned in Anaheim, CA by Disney, receives its name, inspired by the 1992 Disney movie 'The Mighty Ducks'

• Mar 2 Mario Lemieux undergoes his 22nd and final radiation treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma, then joins the Pittsburgh Penguins in Philadelphia and has a goal and assist in a 5-4 loss to the Flyers
• Mar 2 Winnipeg Jets Finnish right wing Teemu Selänne breaks NHL record for goals by a rookie with a hat-trick in a 7-4 loss to the visiting Quebec Nordiques; passes Mike Bossy's mark of 52
• Mar 3 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Boston (WBCN 104.1 FM-evenings)
• Mar 4 1st ESPY Awards: Michael Jordan, Monica Seles win

• Mar 5 Marlins beat Astros 12-8 in their 1st spring training game
• Mar 9 Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak

• Mar 14 14th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Seton Hall beats Syracuse, 103-70
• Mar 14 34th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats LSU, 82-65
• Mar 14 40th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgia Tech beats #1 North Carolina, 77-75
• Mar 14 Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days
• Mar 19 Ice Dance Championship in Prague won by M Usova & A Zhulin (RUS)

• Mar 20 France beats Wales, 26-10 at Parc des Princes, Paris for it's 10th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship
• Mar 23 NY Knicks & Phoenix Suns get into a major brawl
• Mar 28 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Helen Alfredsson of Sweden wins her only major title, 2 strokes ahead of 3 runners-up; first non-American to win the event as a major

• Mar 29 Queensland all out for 75 v NSW in Sheffield Shield Final
• Mar 30 New South Wales beat Qld by eight wkts to win Sheffield Shield
• Mar 30 Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
• Apr 1 Reigning NASCAR Winston Cup champion Alan Kulwicki perishes in a private plane crash en route to Bristol for the Food City 500
• Apr 2 Cleveland Cavaliers guard Mark Price has his consecutive free throw streak end at 77, during a 114-113 loss at Charlotte; falls 1 short of Calvin Murphy’s NBA record of 78 straight free throws
• Apr 3 147th Grand National: race declared void, after 30 of 39 runners carried on racing despite a false start; bookmakers forced to refund estimated £75 million in bets staked
• Apr 4 12th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Texas Tech beats Ohio State, 84-82; future Hall of Fame forward Sheryl Swoopes MOP
• Apr 4 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: Tom Shaw wins his lone career major title by 1 stroke from Mike Hill
• Apr 5 55th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Michigan, 77-71; Tar Heels' 3rd title
• Apr 5 73,293 see the NY Yankees beat the Cleveland Indians, 9-1 in the season opener at Cleveland Stadium
• Apr 5 A win and a loss for MLB expansion teams in their debut games; Florida Marlins beat LA Dodgers, 6-3 in Miami; the Colorado Rockies lose to Mets, 3-0 in NYC
• Apr 6 Florida Marlins 1st lost ever (4-2 to LA Dodgers)
• Apr 8 Indians' Carlos Baerga is 1st to switch hit HRs in same inn (vs Yanks)
• Apr 9 Colorado Rockies 1st home game & 1st victory, 11-4 over Mont Expos
• Apr 10 Ottawa Senators win 1st road game (Islanders) after 38 straight loses
• Apr 10 Pittsburgh Penguins win their NHL record 17 game winning streak

• Apr 12 American Jeff Rouse swims world record 100m backstroke (51.43 sec) at Sheffield, England

• Apr 19 97th Boston Marathon: Cosmas N'deti of Kenya wins men's event in 2:09:33; Olga Markova of Russia repeats as women's champion in 2:25:27
• Apr 22 Seattle Mariner Chris Basio no-hits Boston Red Sox
• Apr 25 NFL Draft: Washington State quarterback Drew Bledsoe first pick by New England Patriots

• Apr 28 Zambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon, 30 soccer players die
• May 1 119th Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey wins aboard Sea Hero, the first of 2 Derby victories (1996 on Grindstone)

• May 12 Parma of Italy win 33rd European Cup Winner's Cup against Royal Antwerp of Belgium 3-1 in London

• May 15 118th Preakness: Mike Smith aboard Prairie Bayou wins in 1:56.6
• May 22 Riddick Bowe TKOs Jesse Ferguson in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
• May 24 NHL Prince of Wales Conference Final: Montreal Canadians beat New York Islanders, 4 games to 1
• May 26 1st UEFA Champions League Final: Marseille beats Milan 1-0 at Munich

• May 29 NHL Clarence Campbell Conference Final: Los Angeles Kings beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 3
• May 29 Texas Ranger Jose Canseco pitches 8th inning in 15-1 loss to Red Sox, he gives up 3 runs on 2 hits & 3 walks, he damages his arm

• Jun 1 Phoenix Suns guard Dan Majerle sets a then NBA Playoff record by sinking 8 three-pointers during the Suns’ 120-114 win over Seattle in Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals
• Jun 4 Cricket's "Ball of the Century" - Australian spin bowler Shane Warne bowls England batsman Mike Gatting with his first ball of an Ashes series; Australia wins 1st Test at Old Trafford by 179 runs
• Jun 5 125th Belmont: Julie Krone aboard Colonial Affair wins in 2:29.8

• Jun 7 Cricket's Graham Gooch dismissed handled the ball vs Australia at Old Trafford
• Jun 9 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Canadiens beat LA Kings, 4-1 for a 4-1 series win; Canadiens' 24th SC Championship

• Jun 20 NBA Finals: Chicago Bulls become first team since legendary Boston Celtics of the 1960s to win 3 consecutive titles, with a 99–98 victory in Game 6 over Phoenix Suns; MVP: Michael Jordan for third straight year

• Jun 22 NY Met Anthony Young ties record of 23rd straight lose
• Jun 25 NY Islander goalie Billy Smith elected to NHL Hall of Fame
• Jun 26 NHL Draft: Victoriaville Tigres (QMJHL) center Alexandre Daigle first pick by Ottawa Senators

• Jun 27 NY Met pitcher Anthony Young loses record 24th straight game

• Jun 28 Carlton Fisk, 45, released by White Sox, as all time leader of most games caught and most HRs by a catcher
• Jun 28 Doctors recommend ligament transplant to Jose Canseco's arm
• Jun 28 Jacques Lemaire is named NJ Devils 8th Head Coach
• Jun 30 NBA Draft: Michigan center Chris Webber first pick by Orlando Magic (traded to Golden State)
• Jul 2 Royals Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri is renamed Kauffman Stadium shortly before the death of MLB Kansas City Royals team owner Ewing Kauffman
• Jul 3 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: In the centenary women's singles final, German Steffi Graf beats Czech Jana Novotná 7-6, 1-6, 6-4

• Jul 6 England cricket batsman Graham Thorpe scores 114 on Test debut, in drawn 3rd Test v Australia at Trent Bridge
• Jul 7 Lenny Dykstra hits bases loaded 2-run double to end Phillies 7, LA Dodgers 6 in 20 innings in Philadelphia
• Jul 11 Mike Smith aboard Sky Beauty wins the Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont to clinch thoroughbred racing's Triple Tiara for fillies

• Jul 13 64th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-3 at Camden Yards, Baltimore

• Jul 16 SF outfielder Darren Lewis sets record of 267 consecutive errorless games
• Jul 17 Graeme Obree breaks the world hour cycling record, riding 51.596km on Old Faithful at the Hamar velodrome in Norway [1]

• Jul 23 Chris Boardman cycles a world record 1 hour distance of 52.27 km
• Jul 23 David Boon completes 17th Test Cricket century, 107 at Headingley
• Jul 23 NY Yankee Mark Hutton is 1st Australian to be a starting pitcher, He beats Angels 5-2; Yanks, Red Sox, Blue Jays 3 way tie for 1st
• Jul 24 Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans
• Jul 24 NY Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight
• Jul 25 31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)

• Jul 25 US Open Women's Golf, Crooked Stick GC: Lauri Merten fires a final round 68 (−4) to win her lone major title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Donna Andrews and Helen Alfredsson
• Jul 27 Detroit infielder Travis Fryman hits for cycle but Tigers lose, 12-7 to NY Yankees
• Jul 27 NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million
• Jul 27 NY Met Anthony Young wins ending his losing streak at 27 games
• Jul 28 Mariner Ken Griffey Jr. is 3rd to hit HRs in 8 straight games
• Jul 29 Cincinnati Reds pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession
• Jul 31 Toronto Blue Jays obtain future Baseball Hall of Fame OF Rickey Henderson from Oakland in exchange for minor leaguers Steve Karsay and Jose Herrera
• Aug 1 14-time MLB All Star Reggie Jackson is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY
• Aug 1 England wins the women's cricket World Cup for the first time since the inaugural event in 1973 with a 67 run victory over New Zealand at Lord's
• Aug 2 Maryland investors led by Baltimore attorney Peter Angelos buy the MLB Baltimore Orioles team at auction in New York for $173M, nearly $50M more than ever paid for a baseball team

• Aug 11 NY Islander Brian Mullen, 31, suffers a mild stroke

• Aug 13 4th Athletics World Championships open at Stuttgart, Germany
• Aug 13 Blue Jay Rickey Henderson pays Turner Ward $25,000 for his #24
• Aug 14 Reggie Jackson Day - NY Yanks retire 13th # (#44)
• Aug 15 75th PGA Championship Men's Golf, Inverness GC: Paul Azinger wins his first major title in a playoff with Greg Norman of Australia

• Aug 19 34th Walker Cup: US, 19-5
• Aug 19 Sally Gunnell runs women's world record 400m hurdles (52.74")
• Aug 20 Colin Jackson runs world record 110m hurdles (12.91)

• Aug 24 Padres scores 14 in 1st vs Cardinals
• Aug 29 93rd US Golf Amateur Championship won by John Harris

• Aug 31 Minnesota Twins beat Cleveland Indians 5-4 in 22 innings

• Sep 4 MLB New York Yankees 1-handed pitcher Jim Abbott no-hits Cleveland Indians, 4-0 at Yankee Stadium
• Sep 4 Penn State University plays its first football game in the Big 10, beating Minnesota 38-20; quarterback John Sacca throws 4 touchdown passes to Bobby Engram
• Sep 7 St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Mark Whiten hits 4 HRs & 12 RBIs in 15-2 win at Cincinnati Reds
• Sep 8 Baseball's proposed switch to a three-division format OKed in AL
• Sep 8 Houston's Darryl Kile throws 3rd no-hitter of season in Astros' 7-1 win over NY Mets
• Sep 11 US Open Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf wins 15th Grand Slam singles title, 3rd US title; beats Helena Suková 6-3, 6-3

• Sep 12 US Open Men's Tennis: Pete Sampras wins his second US title; beats Frenchman Cédric Pioline 6-4, 6-4, 6-3

• Sep 18 LA Mighty Ducks play their 1st NHL pre-season game against Penguins
• Sep 18 Trailing 3-1 with 2 outs in 9th, time is called prior to Mike Stanley pop out, gets a 2nd chance, & Yanks rally to beat Boston 4-3
• Sep 19 San Diego Chargers' kicker John Carney boots 6 field goals in an 18-17 win over Houston to set a new NFL record with 29 consecutive field goals made

• Sep 22 Texas Ranger player Nolan Ryan at 46, pitches his last game
• Sep 26 Cubs bat out of order against Pirates in 2nd inning

• Sep 26 Indians win their last game at Cleveland Stadium, beating Brewers 6-4

• Sep 28 Dennis Martínez is 7th to win 100 games in AL & NL
• Oct 1 In his first World Boxing Council heavyweight title defense Lennox Lewis beats fellow Londoner Frank Bruno by TKO in 7 at the National Stadium in Cardiff, Wales
• Oct 3 Cleveland Indians play their final MLB game at Cleveland Stadium; lose 4-0 to Chicago White Sox Chicago
• Oct 6 After 9 seasons & 3 Championships with the Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan announces his retirement from the NBA; returns on March 18, 1995 and leads Bulls to another 3 NBA titles
• Oct 10 NFL Cleveland Browns' Najee Mustafaa sets club record for longest interception (97 yds)
• Oct 12 MLB American League Championship: Toronto Blue Jays beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2
• Oct 13 Mighty Ducks win their 1st NHL game
• Oct 13 MLB National League Championship: Philadelphia Phillies beat Atlanta Braves, 4 games to 2
• Oct 20 Highest scoring, longest lasting World Series game - Toronto Blue Jays score 6 runs in 8th inning to defeat Philadelphia Phillies 15-14, in 4 hr-14 min slugfest at Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia

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