1999 in sports

Table of contents

1 Auto Racing
2 Baseball
3 Basketball
4 Boxing
5 Cricket
6 Cycling
7 Field Hockey
8 Figure Skating
9 Football (Soccer)
10 Football (American)
11 Canadian Football League
12 Golf
13 Thoroughbred Horse Racing
14 Harness Racing
15 Ice Hockey
16 Rugby Union
17 Skiing
18 Snooker
19 Tennis
20 General sporting events
21 Births
22 Deaths

Auto Racing

May 10: The Boston Red Sox pound the Seattle Mariners, 12-4, as shortstop Nomar Garciaparra leads the way with three home runs, including two grand slams. Garciaparra drives home 10 of Boston's runs as he clouts a bases loaded homer in the 1st, a 2-run shot in the 3rd, and another grand slam in the 8th. Nomar is the first Bosox since Jim Tabor, in 1939, to slam two slams in a game, and just the 9th in MLB history. Robin Ventura last did it, in 1995.
World Series: New York Yankees won 4 games to 0 over the Atlanta Braves. The series MVP: Mariano Rivera, New York

NCAA Men's Basketball Championship:
- Connecticut wins 77-74 over Duke
NBA Finals: - The San Antonio Spurs defeat the New York Knicks, 4 games to 1, to win the franchises' first championship.
WNBA Finals: - The Houston Comets defeat the New York Liberty, 2 games to 1, to win their third title in a row.

September 18 - The Fight of the Millennium:
- Felix Trinidad defeats Oscar De La Hoya by split 12 round decision to unify the IBF and WBC's world Welterweight championships.

World Figure Skating Championships:
- Men's champion: Alexej Jagudin, Russia
- Women's champion: Maria Butirskaja, Russia
- Pairs champions: Jelena Bereschnaja & Anton Sicharulidse, Russia

Grand Slam of golf results:
1. April - The Masters - Jose Maria Olazabal
2. June - US Open - Payne Stewart
3. July - British Open - Paul Lawrie
4. August - PGA Championship - Tiger Woods
PGA tour's leading money winner for the year: Tiger Woods - $6,616,585
PGA Champions Tour leading money winner: Bruce Fleisher - $2,515,705
Ryder Cup: United States won 14 1/2 to 13 1/2 over Europe in world team golf.

Bledisloe Cup: Australia retains the cup drawing the two match series with New Zealand 1-1
Rugby World Cup: Australia 35 defeats France 12
Five Nations - Scotland
Tri Nations - New Zealand

Alpine Skiing
- The men's overall season champion: Lasse Kjus, Norway
- The women's overall season champion: Alexandra Meissnitzer, Austria

February 27 - Ken Robinson, 29, major league pitcher (Arizona Diamondbacks), died from injuries sustained in an automobile accident
March 8 - Joe DiMaggio, 84, Major League Baseball great
March 25 - Cal Ripken, Sr, 63, father of Cal Ripken, Jr, baseball player and manager
April 4 - Early Wynn, 79, baseball Hall-of-Famer
April 25 - Lord Killanin, 84, former head of the International Olympic Committee
May 3 - Steve Chiasson, 32, hockey player, died in a car crash
May 7 - Leon Hess, 85, owner of the New York Jets football team
May 13 - Gene Sarazen, 97, golfer
May 23 - Owen Hart, 34, professional wrestler
June 6 - Eddie Stanky, 83, baseball player and manager
July 2 - Ricky Birdsong, 43, basketball coach at Northwestern University, murdered in Chicago's North Side
July 23 - Demitrius Dubose, 28, football player (New York Jets), shot in Miami
July 24 - Dmitri Tertyshny, 21, ice hockey player, died in boating accident in British Columbia
August 14 - Pee Wee Reese, baseball Hall-of-Famer, aged 81
August 19 - Kim Perrot, 32, women's basketball player, died of cancer
September 9 - Catfish Hunter, 53, baseball pitcher, died from complications of ALS
October 12 - Wilt Chamberlain, 62, basketball player
October 25 - Payne Stewart, 42, U.S. golfing champion died in a plane crash
October 31 - Greg Moore, 24, CART racing driver
November 1 - Walter Payton, 45, legendary football player
December 11 - Big Ben, 23, world champion show-jumping horse