Events in Sports History in March 1995

Mar 2 Joe Mullen becomes 2nd NHL player to appear in 300 NHL games with 3 different teams when he plays for the Penguins in a 6-3 loss in Buffalo; Pittsburgh 379, St. Louis 301, Calgary 345

Boxing Title Fight

Mar 4 George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker

Mar 4 Replacement NY Yankees beat NY Mets 2-1
Mar 9 Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays
Mar 10 Chiel Meijering's "St Louis Blues" premieres in Arnhem
Mar 12 16th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Villanova beats Connecticut, 94-78
Mar 12 36th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Arkansas, 95-93 (OT)
Mar 12 42nd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #7 Wake Forest beats #4 North Carolina, 82-80 (OT)
Mar 12 Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham UK won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)

Cricket History

Mar 12 West Indies cricketer Brian Lara scores 139 in ODI v Australia at Port-of-Spain

Mar 18 In a final round title decider, England beats Scotland, 24-12 at Twickenham to claim the Five Nations Rugby Championship, Grand Slam, Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup

Sports History

Mar 18 Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement

World Record

Mar 19 Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)

Mar 19 Michael Jordan rejoins Chicago Bulls after 17 months, beats Pacers
Mar 19 NBA NY Knicks beat NY Nets in 100th meeting (Knicks 53 Nets 47)

Sports History

Mar 25 Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years

Mar 26 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Nanci Bowen wins her only major title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Susie Redman; her sole LPGA Tour victory

PGA Players Championship

Mar 26 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Lee Janzen wins by a stroke ahead of runner-up Bernhard Langer of Germany

Golfer and Two-Time Masters Champion Bernhard Langer

Mar 28 Queensland beat South Australia in cricket to win the 1st ever Sheffield Shield
Mar 31 Federal judge Sonia Sotomayor of US District Court in NYC issues an injunction against Major League Baseball owners in move that effectively ends 232-day strike
Mar 31 Ranji Trophy Cricket Final, Wankhede Stadium, Bombay: Bombay (Sanjay Manjrekar 224 in 6/690) beats Punjab (Vikram Rathour 177 in 372) on 1st innings

Davis Cup

Mar 31 Second time in tennis history, world #1 and #2 ranked players play in the same Davis Cup team; Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi score victories in US quarter-final win against Italy in Palermo