Sports History
Mar 5 MLB pitcher Gaylord Perry (with 297 wins) signs with Seattle Mariners
- Mar 6 23rd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Kentucky, 48-46
- Mar 6 NBA highest scoring game: San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 (3 OT)
- Mar 7 29th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Virginia, 47-45
- Mar 7 NCAA Tournament Selection televised live for 1st time
- Mar 10 Saleem Malik scores 100 in 2nd inning of Test Cricket debut (v SL)
- Mar 10 Travis Jackson and former commissioner Happy Chandler elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
- Mar 11 Detroit Pistons play the Chicago Bulls, with final score of Detroit 152 to Chicago 144 and Detroit having 20 blocked shots
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Mar 12 1st-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica v Leeward Islands
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Mar 13 Ice Dance Championship at Copenhagen won by Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean (Great Britain)
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Mar 13 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
- Mar 13 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champs in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA) who lands 6 triple jumps
- Mar 15 Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lanka's first Test Cricket century (157) in 2nd Test v Pakistan in Faisalabad
- Mar 20 France beats Ireland, 22-9 at the Parc des Princes, Paris but the Irish take the Five Nations Rugby Championship with a 3-1 record and also their 5th Triple Crown
- Mar 21 Jerry Pate celebrates golf win by jumping into the water hazard
- Mar 21 PGA Tournament Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Jerry Pate shoots a final round 67 to win by 2 strokes over runners-up Scott Simpson and Brad Bryant
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Mar 23 NHL New York Islanders Mike Bossy's 20th career hat trick, in his 5th career 4-goal game, an 8-1 win over visiting Washington Capitols
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Mar 25 Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st NHL to score 200 points in a season
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Mar 29 44th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Georgetown, 63-62; Tar Heels' future Hall of Fame small forward James Worthy named Tournament Most Outstanding Player
- Mar 31 NBA and Players Association reach a 4-year agreement that includes a 53% revenue-sharing plan in return for minimum & maximum payrolls; first of its kind in team sports
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