2010 Sports Chronology - January through June
Jan. 1 — Florida State knocked off West Virginia 33-21 in the Gator Bowl in the final game of Bobby Bowden's storied 44-year career as a head coach. Bowden finished with a 389-129-4 record and a 33rd consecutive winning season.
Jan. 1 — Tim Tebow threw for a career-high 482 yards and three touchdowns, ran for 51 yards and another score, and fifth-ranked Florida overwhelmed No. 4 Cincinnati 51-24 in the Sugar Bowl. Tebow finished with 533 total yards — more than anyone in Bowl Championship Series history.
Jan. 1 — Boston's Marco Sturm capped a late comeback with an overtime goal as the Bruins beat the Philadelphia Flyers 2-1 in the Winter Classic, the first NHL game at Fenway Park.
Jan. 3 — Chris Johnson had 36 carries for 134 yards and two touchdowns in Tennessee's 17-13 win over Seattle. Johnson finished the year with 2,006 yards to become the sixth player in NFL history to rush for 2,000 yards in a season.
Jan. 3 — Jamaal Charles had 25 carries for a Chiefs-record 259 yards rushing in Kansas City's 44-24 win over Denver. The Broncos joined the 1978 Redskins and '03 Vikings as the only teams since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger to miss the playoffs after a 6-0 start.
Jan. 3 — Fred Jackson had 33 carries for a career-high 212 yards in Buffalo's 30-7 win over Indianapolis. The Colts' Dallas Clark became the NFL's second tight end to have a 100-catch season, joining Tony Gonzalez.
Jan. 3 — Detroit lost to Chicago 37-23 to finish 2-14 and set a league record with 30 losses over two seasons.
Jan. 3 — Oakland's 21-13 loss to Baltimore gave the Raiders seven straight seasons with at least 11 defeats, the worst run in NFL history.
Jan. 3 — Houston beat New England 34-27 to finish 9-7, its first winning record. Andre Johnson of the Texans finished with 1,569 yards receiving for his second straight 1,500-yard season. Johnson and Marvin Harrison (2001-02) are the only players in NFL history to have consecutive 1,500-yard seasons.
Jan. 4 — Boise State stunned Texas Christian in a Fiesta Bowl duel of unbeaten BCS busters. After the Broncos pulled off a gutsy fake punt at their own 33-yard line, Doug Martin scored the decisive touchdown to give No. 6 Boise State a 17-10 victory over third-ranked TCU. The Broncos became the second school ever to go 14-0, joining Ohio State in 2002.
Jan. 5 — The NCAA upheld its decision to vacate up to 14 victories from Bobby Bowden as part of Florida State's penalty in an academic cheating scandal. Bowden retired as major college football's second most winning coach with 389 wins after Florida State's Gator Bowl victory.
Jan. 6 — Andre Dawson was the lone player elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Dawson, in a career that spanned from 1976-96, was voted NL Rookie of the Year in 1977 with Montreal and NL Most Valuable Player in 1987 with the Chicago Cubs, the first member of a last-place team to earn the honor. He had a .279 career average, hit 438 homers with 1,591 RBIs and 314 steals, playing through 12 knee operations.
Jan. 6 — Gilbert Arenas of the Washington Wizards was suspended indefinitely by NBA commissioner David Stern a day after joking about his gun trouble. Arenas, under investigation after admittedly bringing guns to the Wizards' locker room, was photographed before a game in Philadelphia pointing his index fingers, as if they were guns, at his teammates.
Jan. 7 — Alabama knocked Texas quarterback Colt McCoy out of the BCS title game early, then went on to a 37-21 victory for the Crimson Tide's first national title since 1992.
Jan. 8 — The Togo team bus was ambushed as it traveled through Angola's Cabinda province two days before start of the African Cup of Nations soccer tournament. Gunmen sprayed bullets at Togo's national team, killing three people and forcing its withdrawal from the soccer tournament.
Jan. 9 — Peyton Manning became the first player to win The Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player honors four times. The Indianapolis Colts' sensational quarterback also won in 2003, 2004 and 2008, breaking a tie with Brett Favre at three MVPs.
Jan. 9 — Detroit's Ben Gordon had 20 points, including the 10 millionth point in NBA history, in a 104-04 loss to Philadelphia. Detroit suffered its 12th straight loss, the team's worst skid since April 1994.
Jan. 10 — Karlos Dansby's 17-yard fumble return for a touchdown in overtime gave the Arizona Cardinals a 51-45 victory over the Green Bay Packers in the highest-scoring playoff game in NFL history.
Jan. 13 — Kobe Bryant nailed a game-winning jumper with 28 seconds left, lifting the Los Angeles Lakers became the first NBA team to reach 3,000 wins with a 100-95 victory over the Dallas Mavericks.
Jan. 14 — Southern Indiana center Jeron Lewis collapsed with about 4 minutes to go in a game at Kentucky Wesleyan. He was rushed to a hospital, where he died. The 21-year-old Lewis was in his second season with Division II Southern Indiana, averaging 12.8 points and 8.0 rebounds in 13 games.
Jan. 17 — Jeremy Abbott earned a trip to the Olympics by winning his second national men's title. Abbott's won in a landslide with a score of 263.66 points, 25 more than Evan Lysacek.
Jan. 21 — Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant became the 15th player in NBA history to reach 25,000 career points and the youngest to hit the milestone. Bryant finished with 31 points in the Lakers' 93-87 loss at Cleveland. At 31 years, 151 days, Bryant got to 25,000 in 35 fewer days than Wilt Chamberlain, who finished his career with 31,419 points.
Jan. 23 — Rachael Flatt won her first title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, overpowering the rest of the field. She scored 200.11 points, finishing more than 10 points ahead of Mirai Nagasu.
Jan. 23 — Lindsey Vonn made it five wins in five downhills this season. Her 30th World Cup victory tied her with Croatia's Janica Kostelic for eighth place on the career list and nearly halfway to Austrian leader Annemarie Moser-Proell's 62 wins.
Jan. 24 — Peyton Manning threw three touchdown passes and the Indianapolis Colts rallied from an 11-point, first-half deficit to beat the New York Jets 30-17 in the AFC championship game.
Jan. 24 — The New Orleans Saints made it to their first Super Bowl after battering Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings 31-28 in overtime on unheralded Garrett Hartley's 40-yard field goal.
Jan. 24 — Kelly Kulick became the first woman to win a PBA Tour title, beating Chris Barnes in the final of the 45th Tournament of Champions. Kulick outscored Barnes 265-195 to take home the $40,000 first prize and a two-year PBA Tour exemption. The 32-year-old right-hander earned a berth in the Tournament of Champions by winning the PBA Women's World Championship last September.
Jan. 26 — The New York Knicks rebounded from a lopsided beating by administering one in a 132-105 win over Minnesota. The Knicks were dealt the worst home loss in franchise history when Dallas beat them 128-78 on Jan. 24. The Knicks became the third team in NBA history to win by 20 or more the game after losing by 50.
Jan. 27 — Washington's Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton were suspended without pay for the remainder of the season by NBA commissioner David Stern, who said guns in the workplace ``will not be tolerated.''
Jan. 28 — The Los Angeles Sol of Women's Professional Soccer folded after one season.
Jan 29 — Bernard Lagat won his eighth Wanamaker Mile at 103rd Millrose Games in New York. Lagat, who finished in 3:56.34, had shared the record with Irish great Eamonn Coghlan.
Jan. 30 — Maria Riesch of Germany won a World Cup downhill race, ending Lindsey Vonn's perfect streak this season in the event. Vonn, who had six straight wins including the final downhill race of last season, finished fifth, 1.21 back.
Jan. 30 — Serena Williams ended Justine Henin's hopes of a Grand Slam title in her return from retirement with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 victory in the Australian Open final. Williams won her second straight and fifth Australian Open title overall. It was Williams' 12th Grand Slam singles championship.
Jan. 30 — LeBron James scored half of Cleveland's 46 points in the first quarter and the Cavaliers tied an NBA record with 11 3-pointers in the opening period of their 114-89 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers.
Jan. 31 — Roger Federer easily beat Andy Murray 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (11) for a fourth Australian Open championship and his 16th Grand Slam title overall. Federer was in his 22nd Grand Slam final — 18 of the last 19.
Jan. 31 — The Pro Bowl, a warmup to the Super Bowl in Miami, became a series of wind sprints as the AFC beat the NFC 41-34. Matt Schaub of the Houston Texans threw for 189 yards and two AFC scores, and was chosen the most valuable player.
Jan. 31 — Lindsey Vonn won a super-G race, clinching the discipline title in the final World Cup race before the Vancouver Olympics. Vonn timed 1:01.77 seconds on the Corviglia piste for her ninth win of the season and third in super-G.
Feb. 1 — Kobe Bryant scored 44 points, passing Jerry West as the Lakers' career scorer, but it wasn't enough as Memphis got 22 points and 17 rebounds from Zach Randolph to defeat Los Angeles 95-93.
Feb. 1 — UConn was No. 1 in The Associated Press women's basketball poll for a record 37th straight week, surpassing Louisiana Tech (1980-82) for the longest run atop the Top 25.
Feb. 5 — Olympic hurdler Duane Ross received a two-year suspension from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for using performance enhancing drugs. Ross' results in competition since Nov. 2, 2001 were disqualified.
Feb. 5 — The Washington Capitals extended their team-record winning streak at 13 with a 5-2 victory over the Atlanta Thrashers. The 13-game winning streak is the NHL's longest since New Jersey won 13 in 2001.
Feb. 6 — Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith led a class of seven new members in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The NFL's career receiving and rushing leaders were joined in the Hall by John Randle, Russ Grimm, Rickey Jackson, Floyd Little and Dick LeBeau. Rice and Smith both made it in their first year of eligibility. Little and LeBeau were picked as senior committee nominees.
Feb. 7 — Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints rallied to beat Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 in the Super Bowl. Brees tied a Super Bowl record with 32 completions, the last a 2-yard slant to Jeremy Shockey for the winning points with 5:42 remaining.
Feb. 8 — The Nielsen Co. estimated that 106.5 million people watched the New Orleans Saints upset the Indianapolis Colts. That beat the ``M-A-S-H'' finale, which had 105.97 million viewers in an era when there were fewer television sets.
Feb. 10 — Tomas Plekanec scored his second goal of the game in overtime and the Montreal Canadiens ended Washington's team-record winning streak at 14 games with a 6-5 victory.
Feb. 12 — Nodar Kumaritashvili, men's Olympic luger from the country of Georgia, died after a crash during training. The 21-year-old Kumaritashvili lost control of his sled, went over the track wall and struck an unpadded steel pole near the finish line at Whistler Sliding Center.
Feb. 13 — Hannah Kearney won the women's moguls for first U.S. gold medal in the Olympic Games. Apolo Anton Ohno won the silver medal in the short-track 1,500-meter speedskating final, to tie Bonnie Blair as the most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian. Ohno won six medals in three Olympics, the most of any short-track skater.
Feb. 14 — The Americans broke through the Nordic combined barrier, winning their first Olympic medal in the sport dominated since its inception by the Europeans. Jason Lamy Chappuis of France overtook American Johnny Spillane on the final straightaway for the gold medal, winning the individual race in 25 minutes, 47.1 seconds, four-tenths of a second ahead of Spillane.
Feb. 14 — Walter Ray Williams Jr. won his second USBC Masters title, defeating top seed Chris Barnes 290-217. The victory was Williams' 47th on the Professional Bowlers Association Tour, extending his record for the most in PBA Tour history.
Feb. 14 — Jamie McMurray won the Daytona 500, holding off a hard-charging Dale Earnhardt Jr. over a wild, two-lap sprint to the finish. The race was stopped twice and delayed for more than two hours because of a pothole at Daytona International Speedway.
Feb. 14 — The Eastern Conference edged the West 141-139 in the NBA All-Star game before the largest crowd ever to watch a basketball game. The crowd of 108,713 at Cowboys Stadium watched Dwyane Wade score 28 points and take MVP honors before Dallas native Chris Bosh made the winning free throws with 5.0 seconds left.
Feb. 14 — Sailing's America's Cup, once again, belonged to America after Larry Ellison's space-age trimaran easily sped ahead of two-time defending champion Alinghi of Switzerland to complete a two-race sweep in the 33rd America's Cup. The Auld Mug, as the ornate silver jug is also known and the oldest trophy in international sports, was headed to San Francisco's Golden Gate Yacht Club.
Feb. 15 — Didier Defago won the gold in the Olympic downhill and American Bode Miller broke his personal streak of major championship mishaps by taking the bronze. Defending overall World Cup champion Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway took silver, a slim 0.07 seconds behind, and Miller was only 0.09 behind Defago. American Seth Wescott defended his Olympic title, overtaking Canada's Mike Robertson to win the gold medal in the wild sport of men's snowboardcross.
Feb. 17 — Americans Lindsey Vonn and Julia Mancuso captured gold and silver, respectively, in the women's Olympic downhill. It was the first time since 1984 that the United States occupied the top two steps of the podium in a women's alpine skiing event. The second multi-podium performance of the day went to Shani Davis who took the gold and Chad Hedrick who grabbed bronze in men's 1000-meter speedskating. Davis was the first U.S. male speedskater to successfully defend his Olympic title. Shaun White won gold in the snowboard halfpipe to become the third American male to successfully defend an Olympic gold medal, joining Dick Button (figure skating, 1948 and 1952) and Davis.
Feb. 18 — Evan Lysacek became the first U.S. man to win the Olympic gold medal since Brian Boitano in 1988, shocking everyone by upsetting defending champion Evgeni Plushenko.
Feb. 20 — Switzerland's Simon Ammann won the large hill to become the first ski jumper with four individual Olympic titles. Ammann also swept both individual events at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games as a brash 20-year-old, then had a disappointing performance in Turin.
Feb. 21 — The United States stunned Canada 5-3 to advance to the Olympic men's hockey quarterfinals. Brian Rafalski scored two goals, Ryan Miller held off a flurry of shots and the Americans quieted a raucous, pro-Canada crowd. Bode Miller finally won his elusive gold medal, using a blistering slalom run to win the super-combined for his third medal in three events at Vancouver.
Feb. 21 — Spectator Susan Zimmer was killed at the NHRA Arizona Nationals at Firebird International Raceway in Chandler when a tire flew off a crashing dragster and struck her.
Feb. 23 — Dutch skater Sven Kramer lost the Olympic gold medal when coach Gerard Kemkers sent him the wrong way on a changeover during the 25 laps of the 10,000-meter speedskating race. Kramer had not lost a 10,000 in three years.
Feb. 25 — The Canadian women beat the United States 2-0 for their third straight Olympic hockey title. Americans Billy Demong and Johnny Spillane finished 1-2 in a Nordic combined race, a surprising medal haul in a sport that's been part of the Winter Olympics since 1924 but never had an American medalist until these games.
Feb. 26 — The Americans reached 34 medals with a silver and a bronze in short-track speedskating and two more were clinched with the men's hockey team and men's team pursuit in speedskating advancing to medal events. The 36 medals, topped the U.S. record of 34 set at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics and matching the record for the most by any country at any Winter Olympics, set by Germany in Salt Lake City. In short track speedskating, Apolo Anton Ohno — who became the most-decorated Winter Olympian in U.S. history earlier in these games — picked up his eighth career medal by getting bronze in the 5,000-meter relay. He had a chance for another but was disqualified from the 500 meters final.
Feb. 27 — Steven Holcomb drove USA-1 to the Olympic gold medal in four-man bobsledding, ending a 62-year drought for the Americans in the event. It was the first gold medal for the U.S. in sliding's signature race since Francis Tyler won one for the Americans at St. Moritz in 1948. Holcomb's four-run time was 3:24.46, with Justin Olsen, Steve Mesler and Curt Tomasevicz pushing for him again — just as they did in winning the world championship a year ago.
Feb. 28 — Ai Miyazato won the HSBC Champions to become the first LPGA Tour player in 44 years to sweep the first two events of a season. Miyazato, who the LPGA Thailand last week, closed with 3-under 69 for a two-stroke victory over Cristie Kerr.
Feb. 28 — Sidney Crosby scored the winning goal in overtime to give Canada a 3-2 victory over the United States in the final event of the Vancouver Olympics. Canada earned its 14th gold medal, the most by any country at any Winter Olympics. The American silver was the 37th medal won by the United States at these games, also the most by any country at any Winter Olympics. The U.S. won the medals race for the first time since 1932.
March 3 — Brittney Griner punched an opponent in the face and was ejected from No. 14 Baylor's 69-60 win over Texas Tech. Officials tossed the freshman with 9:01 remaining after she struck Texas Tech sophomore forward Jordan Barncastle. Griner received a two-game suspension.
March 6 — Louisville gave Freedom Hall a memorable send-off by upsetting No. 1 Syracuse 78-68. Kyle Kuric scored all of his career-high 22 points in the second half and the Cardinals provided one last highlight at the 54-year-old home.
March 6 — Devin Harris scored 31 points and the New Jersey Nets erased an early 16-point deficit to beat New York 113-93. The Nets improved their NBA-worst record to 7-55, while the Knicks missed all 18 attempts in the most futile 3-point shooting night in league history.
March 7 — Michael Phelps set the U.S. record in the 200 yard butterfly at the Maryland Swim Championships at the U.S. Naval Academy. The 14-time Olympic gold medalist touched home in 1:39.65. His previous record time was 1:39.7, set March 3, 2006 at the South Texas American Short Course Championships in Austin.
March 8 — The top-ranked Connecticut Huskies set an NCAA women's record by winning their 71st straight game, a 59-44 victory over No. 6 Notre Dame in the semifinals of the Big East tournament. UConn surpassed its own mark set from Nov. 9, 2001, to March 11, 2003. The Huskies thoroughly dominated its opponents in every game of the streak, winning all of them by double digits.
March 10 — Disgraced Olympic sprinter Marion Jones was introduced as the newest member of the WNBA's Tulsa Shock.
March 12 — Lindsey Vonn capped a historic season with her third straight overall World Cup title. Vonn won the final super-G race of the season for her 33rd World Cup win, eclipsing Bode Miller as the most decorated American skier. Vonn became the first woman to win three straight overall titles since Petra Kronberger of Austria in 1990-92.
March 12 — The New Jersey Devils beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-1, to tie Montreal's NHL record for consecutive seasons with 40 or more victories. Montreal won 40 or more games in 13 straight seasons from 1971 to 1983 — when regulation ties were not broken in overtime or shootouts.
March 13 — Oregon's Ashton Eaton broke Dan O'Brien's 17-year-old world record in the indoor heptathlon. Eaton set a mark of 6,499 points at the NCAA indoor track and field championships, passing O'Brien's record of 6,476.
March 13 — With the biggest fight crowd in the U.S. in 17 years cheering him on at Cowboys Stadium, Manny Pacquiao, dominated a passive Joshua Clottey from the opening bell to retain his welterweight title and cement his status as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world.
March 14 — Kansas, Kentucky, Duke and Syracuse earned top billing and the No. 1 seeds for the NCAA men's basketball tournament. The Big East led with eight teams, which tied its own record and is the third time the conference has put that many teams in the tournament.
March 16 — Lance Mackey won the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to become the first musher in the event's 38-year history to win four consecutive races. He finished the race in eight days, 23 hours and 59 minutes — the second-fastest finish in race history.
March 17 — Michael Jordan became the first ex-player to be a majority owner in the league. The NBA's Board of Governors unanimously approved Jordan's $275 million bid to buy the Charlotte Bobcats from Bob Johnson.
March 20 — Northern Iowa pulled off one of the biggest NCAA upsets in years by knocking No. 1 overall seed Kansas with a 69-67 win. Ali Farokhmanesh buried an open 3-pointer with the shot clock still in the 30s to give the Panthers a four-point lead with 35 seconds left.
March 20 — Wladimir Klitschko knocked out Eddie Chambers in the 12th and final round to retain his WBO and IBF heavyweight belts in Duesseldorf, Germany. Klitschko dominated the fight and ended it with a left hook 5 seconds before the final bell.
March 21 — Louis Dale scored 26 points, Ryan Wittman added 24 and No. 12 seed Cornell upset the fourth-seeded Badgers 87-69, becoming the first Ivy League school in more than 30 years to advance to the round of 16.
March 21 — AL MVP Joe Mauer agreed to a $184 million, eight-year contract extension with Minnesota. The deal covers the 2011-18 seasons and is the fourth largest — both in total value and average salary — in major league history.
March 21 — Teemu Selanne became the 18th player in NHL history to score 600 goals, reaching the milestone in the Anaheim Ducks' 5-2 victory over the Colorado Avalanche. The only other European-born players in the 600-goal club are Finnish countryman Jari Kurri (601) and the Czech Republic's Jaromir Jagr (646).
March 22 — The NCAA announced its Infractions Appeal Committee ruled against Memphis and the Tigers must vacate its record 38-win men's basketball season from 2007-08. The Tigers were found to use an ineligible player, believed to be Derrick Rose.
March 23 — The NFL changed its overtime rules for playoff games. Starting the next season, if a team wins the coin toss and then kicks a field goal, the other team gets the ball. If the game becomes tied again after that next series, play will continue under the current sudden-death rules. If the team winning the toss immediately scores a touchdown, the game is over.
March 25 — Daisuke Takahashi gave Japan its first men's title at the World Figure Skating Championships and he did it with flair, attempting a rare quadruple flip. Canada's Patrick Chan won the silver for a second straight year and France's Brian Joubert took the bronze.
March 26 — Gilbert Arenas was sentenced to 30 days in a halfway house for bringing guns into the Washington Wizards locker room. District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Robert E. Morin also added a litany of conditions associated with the sentence — two years of probation, a $5,000 fine, 400 hours of community service that can't be done at basketball clinics.
March 27 — Mao Asada beat Olympic champion Kim Yu-na to win her second title at the World Figure Skating Championships. The Japanese star and Olympic silver medalist finished with 197.58 points, almost seven in front of South Korea's Kim.
March 27 — Al Shemali won the $5 million Dubai Duty Free, pulling away from a crowded field to pull off a surprisingly easy win in the Dubai World Cup. Al Shemali, a 40-1 longshot, started slow then dueled it out with Bankable before taking the lead for good.
March 27 — Joe Mazzulla scored a career-high 17 points in his first start this season and West Virginia beat Kentucky 73-66 to advance to the Final Four for the first time since 1959. Butler, behind 22 points from Gordon Hayward, defeated Kansas State 63-56 in the West Regional final to advance to the Final Four.
March 28 — Raymar Morgan's free throw with less than 2 seconds left lifted Michigan State to a 70-69 victory over Tennessee in the Midwest Regional final. The fifth-seeded Spartans advanced to their second straight Final Four and sixth in 12 years. Duke, behind a career-high 29 points from Nolan Smith, posted a 78-71 victory over Baylor to advance to the Final Four for the first time since 2004.
March 29 — Wayne Odesnik, an American tennis player ranked No. 98, pleaded guilty to importing human growth hormone into Australia before a tournament leading to the Australian Open.
March 29 — The New Jersey Nets notched their 10th victory, avoiding any chance of tying for the worst record in NBA history by beating the short-handed San Antonio Spurs 90-84. The Nets improved to 10-64. The 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers, who went 9-73, remain the league's worst team.
March 29 — Jeanette Pohlen drove the length of the court for the game-winning layin as the final buzzer sounded, lifting top-seeded Stanford past third-seeded Xavier 55-53 for a third straight trip to the Final Four. Phenomenal freshman Brittney Griner caught a pass, spun around and hit a short jumper with 45 seconds left to propel fourth-seeded Baylor to a 51-48 win over No. 2 seed Duke for its second trip ever to the Final Four.
March 30 — Maya Moore scored 22 points to lead Connecticut past Florida State 90-50 and send the defending champions back to the Final Four. The 40-point victory was the largest margin ever in a regional final. Nyeshia Stevenson scored 31 points, one shy of her career high, and Oklahoma blew past fourth-seeded Kentucky 88-68 to earn its second straight trip to the Final Four.
March 31 — Mike Miller scored a season-high 27 points and the Washington Wizards snapped a franchise-record 16-game losing streak beating Charlotte 96-91.
March 31 — Al Jefferson had 19 points and 12 rebounds and Darko Milicic also got a double-double to help the Minnesota Timberwolves snap a 16-game losing streak with a 108-99 win over Sacramento.
April 1 — Dayton denied last year's national champs another title as the Flyers beat North Carolina 79-68 to win the NIT. Marcus Johnson scored 20 points and reserve guard Paul Williams added 16 points for Dayton, which captured its third NIT title and first since 1968.
April 2 — Ohio State junior swingman Evan Turner was the runaway choice as The Associated Press' college basketball player of the year. Syracuse's Jim Boeheim was The Associated Press' college basketball coach of the year.
April 2 — The Chicago Blackhawks posted a 2-1 penalty free shootout victory over the New Jersey Devils. It was the first NHL game without a penalty since March 28, 2001, when Boston faced Toronto.
April 3 — Gordon Hayward scored 19 points and collected the final rebound, sending little Butler to its biggest victory, a 52-50 win over Michigan State in the men's Final Four. Butler shot just 30.6 percent from the field and made just one basket in the final 12:18 of the game. Duke advanced for a shot of its first national title in nine years, getting 23 points from Jon Scheyer to pull away from West Virginia for a 78-57 victory.
April 3 — Connecticut senior Tina Charles was the runaway choice as The Associated Press' women's college basketball player of the year. Nebraska's Connie Yori was named The Associated Press' women's college basketball coach of the year.
April 3 — David Haye mounted a successful first defense of his WBA heavyweight title after punishing John Ruiz for nine rounds in Manchester, England. Haye sent Ruiz crashing to the canvas twice in the first round and won in the ninth round when Ruiz's corner threw in the towel.
April 3 — Bernard Hopkins won a brutal unanimous decision over Roy Jones Jr. in their long-delayed rematch, emphatically avenging his loss in the famed champions' first fight nearly 17 years ago.
April 4 — Yani Tseng shot a 4-under 68 to win the Kraft Nabisco Championship for her second major title. Tseng finished at 13-under 275 at Mission Hills to hold off Suzann Pettersen by one stroke.
April 4 — Maya Moore had 34 points and 12 rebounds to help Connecticut beat Baylor and freshman phenom Brittney Griner 70-50 for its 77th straight win, leaving the Huskies one victory from becoming the first women's basketball team to go undefeated in consecutive seasons. Nnemkadi Ogwumike scored a career-high 38 points to help Stanford to a 73-66 victory over Oklahoma. Stanford (36-1) suffered its only loss to Connecticut.
April 5 — Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced the Enshrinement Class of 2010. The inductees were NBA stars Karl Malone, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Johnson, Gus Johnson and international star Maciel ``Ubiratan'' Pereira, Los Angele Laker ownwer Jerry Buss, WNBA star Cynthia Cooper, and high school coach Bob Hurley, Sr.. Two celebrated teams: the 1960 USA Men's Olympic team and the 1992 USA Basketball ``Dream Team'' were also elected.
April 5 — Duke won its fourth national men's basketball championship holding off the Butlers 61-59. Butler's Gordon Hayward gave the Blue Devils a scare when he rebounded Brian Zoubek's intentional miss and threw up a desperation heave at the buzzer, that hit glass, bounced off the rim and out.
April 6 — New Jersey's Martin Brodeur got his 600th career win with his second straight shutout in a 3-0 win over Atlanta. The shutout was Brodeur's league-leading ninth of the season and the 110th of his career.
April 6 — Maya Moore scored 23 points and helped Connecticut rally from a horrible first half to beat Stanford 53-47 for its second straight undefeated championship season. The Huskies trailed 20-12 at the break and bounced back and played like champs to claim their seventh national title.
April 7 — Don Nelson set the NBA career record for victories by a coach in the Golden State Warriors' 116-107 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves. Nelson won his 1,333rd career game, surpassing Lenny Wilkens to move atop the list.
April 8 — UConn's Tina Charles was selected first by the Connecticut Sun in the WNBA draft.
April 9 — Wisconsin forward Blake Geoffrion, the grandson of Hockey Hall of Famer Bernie ``Boom Boom'' Geoffrion, received the Hobey Baker Memorial Award as college hockey's top player.
April 10 — The Bruins clinched a playoff berth after three short-handed goals in 64 seconds on the same penalty powered Boston to a 4-2 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes. Daniel Paille, Blake Wheeler and Steve Begin scored short-handed goals in the second period to make it 3-0. It was the first time in NHL history that a team has scored three times while short-handed on the same penalty.
April 10 — Cam Atkinson scored twice, John Muse made 20 saves and Boston College won the NCAA hockey championship for the second time in three years with a 5-0 victory against Wisconsin.
April 11 — Phil Mickelson won his third Masters title, shooting a 5-under 67 to pull away for a three-stroke win over Lee Westwood. Mickelson wrapped it up with a birdie at the 18th for a 16-under 272, the lowest by a Masters champion since Tiger Woods in 2001.
April 11 — Sidney Crosby finished the regular season with a flourish, scoring twice to reach 50 goals for the first time and adding three assists that helped the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the New York Islanders 6-5 in overtime. Crosby's second-period breakaway gave him 51 goals this season, tying him with Tampa Bay's Steven Stamkos for the Maurice Richard Trophy as the league's top goal scorer. Stamkos got his 51st goal, an empty net with 13 seconds left, in a 3-1 win over Florida.
April 12 — The NFL suspended wide receiver Santonio Holmes four games for violating the league's substance abuse policy. Later in the day, the Pittsburgh Steelers traded Holmes to the New York Jets for a fifth-round draft pick.
April 14 — Ultra marathoner and amputee Amy Palmiero-Winters won the Sullivan Award as America's top amateur athlete.
April 14 — Oklahoma's Kevin Durant scored 31 points to finish the season as the youngest scoring champion in NBA history, as the Thunder beat Memphis 114-105. The 21-year-old Durant finished with an average of 30.1 points, 0.4 ahead of LeBron James, and supplanted 22-year-old Max Zaslofsky of the 1947-48 Chicago Stags as the youngest scoring champ in NBA history.
April 15 — Florida's Jorge Cantu extended his major league season-opening record to 10 games with a hit in a 10-2 win over the Cincinnati Reds.
April 17 — Ubaldo Jimenez pitched the first no-hitter in the Colorado Rockies' 18-year history, dominating the Atlanta Braves in a 4-0 victory. Jimenez (3-0) walked six — all in the first five innings. He was helped by Dexter Fowler's diving backhanded catch in left-center field in the seventh inning.
April 18 — Brian Davis called a two-stroke penalty on himself on the first playoff hole to give Jim Furyk a victory at the Verizon Heritage.
April 18 — Rafael Nadal defeated Fernando Verdasco 6-0, 6-1 in an all-Spanish final to win the Monte Carlo Masters for the sixth straight year. Nadal is the only player to win six consecutive titles in the same tournament since tennis turned professional in 1968.
April 19 — Kenya's Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot won the Boston Marathon and broke the course record. That record was set in 2006 by four-time winner Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, who's not related. Cheruiyot won with a time of 2:05:52, finishing 91 seconds ahead of Ethiopian Tekeste Kebede. Ethiopia's Teyba Erkesso won the women's race in a time of 2:26:11, outsprinting Russia's Tatyana Pushkareva to win by three seconds in the third-closest women's finish in event history.
April 21 — Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was suspended for six games for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy and ordered to undergo behavioral evaluation.
April 22 — Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford was selected first overall in the NFL draft by the St. Louis Rams. His selection opened the first NFL draft to begin in prime-time.
April 22 — The NCAA announced a 14-year, $10.8 billion deal with CBS and Turner Broadcasting that will begin with an expanded men's basketball tournament in March of 2011. Every game will be broadcast live nationally for the first time in the tournament's 73-year history.
April 24 — Jamaican Usain Bolt dazzled a capacity crowd with a lightning-fast final leg, overtaking USA Blue's Ivory Williams to win the 4x100-meter relay at the Penn Relays. A quartet of Mario Forsythe, Yohan Blake, Marvin Anderson and Bolt finished in 37.90 seconds for Jamaica Gold, setting a Penn Relays record. Trailing entering the final leg, Bolt took the handoff and finished the final 100 meters in an unofficial time of 8.79 seconds.
April 25 — Dwyane Wade set franchise playoff records with 46 points, 30 in the second half, and Miami staved off elimination by beating Boston 101-92 in Game 4 of an Eastern Conference first-round series.
April 26 — Ryan Howard agreed to a $125 million, five-year contract extension through 2016 with the Philadelphia Phillies that includes a club option for 2017. The $25 million average salary in the extension is the second-highest behind Alex Rodriguez's $27.5 million average under a 10-year contract with the Yankees through 2017.
April 27 — University of Washington president Mark Emmert was selected as president of the NCAA.
April 28 — The Montreal Canadiens beat the Washington Capitals 2-1 to complete a come-from-behind 4-3 series victory and eliminate the NHL's best regular-season in the first round of the playoffs. The Canadiens were the ninth No. 8-seeded team to knock off a No. 1 in 32 matchups since the NHL went to its current playoff format in 1994 — and the first to come back from a 3-1 series deficit.
April 29 — The NCAA's Board of Directors approved a 68-team format for the men's basketball tournament beginning next season. It was the first expansion since 2001 when the tourney went from 64 to 65 teams.
April 30 — Tiger Woods matched the worst nine-hole score of his PGA Tour career and wound up with a 7-over 79 to miss the cut at the Quail Hollow Championship. It was the sixth time in his 14-year career he missed a cut. Woods finished at 9-over 153, the highest 36-hole total of his career.
May 1 — Jockey Calvin Borel steered Super Saver through the mud to win his third Kentucky Derby in four years, beating Lookin At Lucky by 2 1/2 lengths. The win ended trainer Todd Pletcher's Derby drought. Pletcher, who had four horses in the race, came into the race 0 for 24 since 2000.
May 1 — Floyd Mayweather Jr. put on a display of boxing skill in an unanimous decision over Sugar Shane Mosley in Las Vegas. Almost dropped by a right hand in the second round, Mayweather rebounded to dominate Mosley the rest of the way to win the welterweight fight and remain undefeated in 41 fights,
May 2 — Ryo Ishikawa shot a 12-under 58 — the lowest score ever on a major tour — to win The Crowns in Togo, Japan.
May 2 — Cleveland's LeBron James became the 10th player in NBA history to win consecutive MVP awards.
May 3 — A police officer used a Taser gun to apprehend a fan who ran onto the field during a Philadelphia Phillies game. The fan hopped a fence and scurried around the outfield, eluding two security officers in the bottom of the eighth inning against the St. Louis Cardinals. One officer used a Taser and the fan went down in a heap.
May 5 — Phoenix, wearing its orange ``Los Suns'' jerseys in part to protest Arizona's new anti-immigration law, pulled away for a 110-102 victory over the San Antonio Spurs to take a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference semifinals.
May 7 — Before a record hockey crowd of 77,803, the United States lost to Germany 2-1 in the opening game of the world ice hockey championships. Felix Schutz scored the winning goal 21 seconds into overtime at Veltins Arena, ordinarily the home of the Schalke soccer team.
May 7 — A 36-year-old man attending the second round of The Players Championship was subdued by a Taser. Travis Parmelee, of Jacksonville, was charged with disorderly intoxication and resisting arrest without violence.
May 7 — Starlin Castro hit a three-run homer in his first major league at-bat and drove in a record six runs during the Chicago Cubs' 14-7 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. The 20-year-old became the youngest shortstop in Cubs history. His homer off Homer Bailey made him the sixth player in Cubs history to connect in his first at-bat. He added a bases-loaded triple, sliding headfirst into the record books with six RBIs, the most ever in a modern day debut — one more than the previous mark shared by four players.
May 7 — Forty-seven-year-old Jamie Moyer tossed a two-hitter to become the oldest player in major league history to throw a shutout, and the Phillies beat Atlanta 7-0. Moyer, at 47 years, 170 days old, struck out five and faced one batter over the minimum to earn his 262nd career victory.
May 9 — Dallas Braden pitched the 19th perfect game in major league history, a dazzling performance for the Oakland Athletics in a 4-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays. He struck out six in the 109-pitch performance, throwing 77 strikes in his 53rd career start.
May 12 — The sale of the New Jersey Nets to Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov was formally completed. The financial transaction came a day after Mikhail Prokhorov's purchase of the team was approved by NBA's owners, who welcomed the first non-North American into their club.
May 12 — A positive drug test notwithstanding, Houston Texans linebacker Brian Cushing was still The Associated Press NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year. Five days after he was suspended for four games, a nationwide panel again gave Cushing the award. He didn't receive anywhere near the 39 votes of his previous landslide victory, but the 18 he got in the revote were enough to reclaim the honor.
May 12 — Montreal followed up a monumental upset by pulling off another. The Canadiens, who eliminated the Washington Capitals, beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2 in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. Montreal accomplished what no team had done since the current playoffs format was adopted in 1994. And that is beat the Presidents' Trophy winner and defending Stanley Cup champion in successive rounds as an eighth-seeded team.
May 12 — Kelly Kulick, the first woman to win a PBA Tour title when she beat the men in January in the Tournament of Champions, won the U.S. Women's Open for her second women's major victory in 15 days. Kulick, who beat Liz Johnson 233-203 in the final, won the USBC Queens, two weeks earlier in El Paso, Texas.
May 14 — The Philadelphia Flyers overcame a couple of 3-0 deficits to finish off the Boston Bruins. Simon Gagne scored on a power play with 7:08 left to cap a comeback from a three-goal deficit, and the Flyers won 4-3 for a berth in the Eastern Conference finals. For the Bruins, the season will be remembered for the colossal collapse. They're only the third team in NHL history to lose a series after winning the first three games.
May 15 — Lookin at Lucky, ridden by new jockey Martin Garcia, won the Preakness. Lookin At Lucky moved into contention in the final turn and sprinted to the finish ahead of First Dude by three-quarters of a length.
May 16 — Rafael Nadal won a record 18th Masters title by beating Roger Federer 6-4, 7-6 (5) in the Madrid final.
May 16 — American sprinter Tyson Gay broke a 44-year-old record for 200 meters run on a straight track at the Great City Games in Manchester, England. Gay ran 19.41 seconds into a slight headwind on a specially constructed track, shaving 0.09 off the mark Tommie Smith set in May 1966 at San Jose, Calif. The record isn't an official world mark because track and field's governing body only recognizes 200s run around a curve.
May 18 — Dr. Anthony Galea of Toronto, whose high-profile clients included Tiger Woods and Alex Rodriguez, was charged with bringing unapproved drugs into the United States and unlawfully treating pro athletes.
May 19 — American tennis player Wayne Odesnik was banned for two years, two months after pleading guilty to importing human growth hormone into Australia.
May 20 — Floyd Landis admitted for the first time what had long been suspected — that he was guilty of doping for several years before being stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title.
May 23 — The Czech Republic captured the ice hockey world championship, ending Russia's 27-game tournament winning streak with a 2-1 victory. Russia, which had won a record 25 titles, hadn't lost a game at the worlds since 2007.
May 24 — Lukas Lacko of Slovakia beat American Michael Yani in a 71-game match that tied for the most in the French Open since tiebreakers were instituted in 1973. Lacko won 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4), 6-7 (5), 12-10 in a first-round match that took two days to complete.
May 24 — The Supreme Court rejected the National Football League's request for broad antitrust law protection, saying that it must be considered 32 separate teams — not one big business — when selling branded items like jerseys and caps.
May 25 — NFL owners voted to hold the 2014 Super Bowl in New Jersey. It was the first time the league had gone to a cold weather site that doesn't have a dome and, until this year, those places couldn't even bid on the big game. Two Florida cities, Miami and Tampa, were the other bidders.
May 27 — Florida International's Garrett Wittels extended his hitting streak to 50 games, after a third-inning single against Western Kentucky. Wittels moved within eight games of matching the NCAA Division I record of 58, set by Oklahoma State's Robin Ventura in 1987.
May 29 — Philadelphia's Roy Halladay threw the 20th perfect game in major league history, beating the Florida Marlins 1-0. It was the first time in the modern era that there were a pair of perfect games in the same season. Halladay struck out 11 and went to either 3-1 or 3-2 counts seven times, twice in the game's first three batters alone.
May 30 — Dario Franchitti drove 199 nearly flawless laps, then got a huge break from a spectacular crash on the last lap to climb back on top of the open-wheel world with a win at the Indianapolis 500. Franchitti's second Brickyard victory in four years helped his boss, Chip Ganassi, become the first owner to win Indy and NASCAR's Daytona 500 in the same year.
May 31 — Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde was given a global two-year ban for doping. The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled in favor of the International Cycling Union and World Anti-Doping Agency, which wanted Valverde sanctioned for suspected doping revealed in a 2006 Spanish scandal.
June 1 — French Open upset specialist Robin Soderling struck again, rallying past defending champion Roger Federer in a rainy quarterfinal, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4. That ended Federer's record streak of reaching the semifinals in 23 consecutive major events.
June 2 — Armando Galarraga of the Detroit Tigers lost his bid for a perfect game with two outs in the ninth inning on a call that first base umpire Jim Joyce later admitted he blew. First baseman Miguel Cabrera cleanly fielded Jason Donald's grounder to his right and made an accurate throw to Galarraga covering the bag. The ball was there in time, and all of Comerica Park was ready to celebrate the 3-0 win over Cleveland, until Joyce emphatically signaled safe.
June 5 — Francesca Schiavone became the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam title, beating Samantha Stosur in the French Open final 6-4, 7-6 (2). Schiavone, two weeks shy of her 30th birthday, rallied from a 4-1 deficit in the second set to become the oldest woman to win her first Grand Slam title since Ann Jones at Wimbledon in 1969 at age 30.
June 5 — Florida International's Garrett Wittels extended his hitting streak to 56 games but the Golden Panthers were eliminated by Dartmouth 15-9 in the Coral Gables regional. Wittels, ended the season two games from the Division I all-time hit streak record set by Oklahoma State's Robin Ventura in 1987. Wittels can attempt to break the record next season.
June 5 — Drosselmeyer pulled off an upset in the Belmont Stakes, seizing the lead in the stretch and giving Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott his first win in a Triple Crown race. Sent off at odds of 13-1, Drosselmeyer defeated Fly Down by three-quarters of a length. Drosselmeyer also gave jockey Mike Smith his first Belmont win in his 13th try.
June 5 — Jamie Moyer pitched a seven-hitter to help the Philadelphia Phillies break out of their offensive slump with a 6-2 win over the San Diego Padres. It was the 47-year-old left-hander's second complete game this season, and 33rd for a career that began in 1986. He also joined Phil Niekro (121) and Jack Quinn (103) as the only pitchers to win 100 games after age 40.
June 6 — Rafael Nadal won his fifth French Open title and avenged his lone Roland Garros defeat, beating Robin Soderling 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. Nadal improved to 38-1 at Roland Garros, with the only loss to Soderling in the fourth round a year ago.
June 6 — Poland's Anita Wlodarczyk broke her own world record in the women's hammer with a throw of 256 feet, 11 inches during a track meet in her home country. She set the record at a meet in Bydgoszcz. Her previous world record was 255-9.
June 6 — Rajon Rondo had his fifth postseason triple-double with 19 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists to lead the Celtics to a 103-94 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers that evened the NBA finals at one game apiece. Ray Allen powered the Celtics with seven 3-pointers and 27 points in the first half and added another 3-pointer in the second half for an NBA Finals record.
June 7 — The Washington Nationals selected junior college slugger Bryce Harper with the No. 1 overall pick in the baseball draft.
June 8 — Stephen Strasburg exceeded expectations in his much-hyped major league debut, striking out 14 in seven innings to lead the Washington Nationals to a 5-2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Last year's No. 1 overall draft pick allowed four hits, two earned runs and didn't walk a batter, piling up the most strikeouts in a debut since J.R. Richard fanned 15 for Houston in 1971.
June 9 — Chicago's Patrick Kane sneaked the puck past Michael Leighton 4:10 into overtime and stunned Philadelphia with a 4-3 overtime win in Game 6 for their first Stanley Cup championship since 1961. Blackhawks team captain Jonathan Toews was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.
June 10 — New Zealand motorcyclist Paul Dobbs was killed in a ``racing incident'' in the Isle of Man TT at Ballagarey, Isle of Man.
June 10 — Southern California was placed on four years probation, received a two-year bowl ban and a loss of 30 scholarships over a three-year period, 10 annually from 2011-13. The NCAA cited USC for a lack of institutional control. The NCAA found that Reggie Bush, identified as a ``former football student-athlete,'' was ineligible beginning at least by December 2004.
June 10 — The University of Colorado accepted an invitation to join the Pac-10 Conference.
June 11 — Boise State accepted an invitation to join the Mountain West Conference. Boise State, with the Western Athletic Conference, would become the Mountain West Conference's 10th member.
June 11 — Nebraska's membership in the Big Ten Conference became official when the Big Ten's board of presidents and chancellors unanimously approved adding Nebraska.
June 11 — Drag racing driver Neal Parker, 58, ran through a net at the end of a track and died of head injuries after crashing at a high rate of speed during a qualifying round at the NHRA SuperNationals at Raceway Park in Old Bridge, N.J.
June 12 — Daniel Nava hit the first pitch he saw as a big leaguer for a grand slam — only the second player to do it — leading the Boston Red Sox to a 10-2 rout of the Philadelphia Phillies.
June 13 — Zenyatta won her 17th consecutive race, giving her the longest winning streak by a modern day thoroughbred in unrestricted races. The 6-year-old mare, ridden by Hall of Famer Mike Smith, won the $200,000 Vanity Handicap by a half-length at Hollywood Park. Zenyatta surpassed the 16-race winning streaks of Cigar, 1948 Triple Crown winner Citation, and Mister Frisky.
June 17 — The University of Utah accepted an invitation to become the 12th member of the newly expanded Pac-10 conference.
June 17 — The Los Angeles Lakers beat Boston for the first time in a Game 7 to repeat as NBA champions. The Lakers won their 16th NBA championship, dramatically rallying from a fourth-quarter 13-point deficit to beat the Boston Celtics 83-79 in Game 7 of the NBA finals.
June 17 — Utah officially joined the Pac-10, leaving the Mountain West Conference.
June 18 — The compulsory dance was dropped from figure skating by the International Skating Union. The ISU revamped the format of ice dance to a Short Dance and a Free Dance. Previously, there were three segments: Compulsory Dance, Original Dance and Free Dance.
June 20 — Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland won the U.S. Open, holding off France's Gregory Havret to become the first European to win America's national championship since 1970. McDowell seized control after a shocking collapse by Dustin Johnson. Despite making only one birdie in the final round, McDowell closed with a 3-over 74 at Pebble Beach. Havret, a Frenchman who is No. 391 in the world, shot 72 and finished one shot behind.
June 22 — Dino Ciccarelli, Cammi Granato, Angela James were elected to Hockey Hall of Fame as players. In the Builder Category, Jimmy Devellano and the late Daryl ``Doc'' Seaman was elected.
June 22 — South Africa became the first host nation not to advance in 80 years of World Cup play. Th host nation did beat France 2-1 in its final game. Both teams needed a big win to have any chance of moving on from Group A.
June 23 — Henrik Sedin of the Vancouver Canucks captured the Hart Trophy wrecking Alex Ovechkin's bid for an NHL MVP three-peat. Sedin, who had a league-best 83 assists, had 894 total points compared with 834 for Washington's Ovechkin. Ryan Miller of the Buffalo Sabres won the Vezina Trophy as the NHL's top goaltender.
June 24 — John Isner outlasted Nicolas Mahut in the the longest match in tennis history. Isner hit a backhand winner to win the last of the match's 980 points, and he took the fifth set against Mahut, 70-68. The first-round Wimbledon match took 11 hours, 5 minutes over three days, lasting so long it was suspended because of darkness — two nights in a row. Play resumed at 59-all and continued for more than an hour before Isner won 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (3), 70-68.
June 24 — John Wall was selected as the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft by the Washington Wizards, and a record number of Kentucky teammates followed him. Four more Wildcats were among the top 30 selections, making them the first school ever to put five players in the first round.
June 25 — The Edmonton Oilers selected Ontario Hockey League forward Taylor Hall with the No. 1 pick in the NHL draft. The Oilers chose Hall over fellow OHL forward Tyler Seguin, making the toughest call at the top of a draft in several years. Boston grabbed Seguin moments later with the No. 2 pick.
June 25 — Edwin Jackson settled down after a wild start to throw the fourth no-hitter of the season of the pitcher, leading the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 1-0 victory. Jackson walked eight, all but one in the first three innings, and threw a season-high 149 pitches in the second no-hitter in Diamondbacks' history. It was the third time the Rays had been no-hit since last July, including Dallas Braden's perfect game at Oakland on May 9.
June 27 — Cristie Kerr cruised to a 12-stroke victory in the LPGA Championship in one of the most lopsided wins at a major. Kerr closed with a 6-under 66 for a 19-under 269 total. Kerr broke the tournament record for victory margin of 11 set by Betsy King in 1992 and matched the second-biggest victory in a major.
June 27 — Jamie Moyer gave up his record-breaking 506th home run but was sharp otherwise, and the Philadelphia Phillies took advantage of Toronto's troubles to beat the Blue Jays 11-2. Moyer only mistake was a two-run homer by Vernon Wells in the third inning. Moyer passed former Phillies Hall of Famer Robin Roberts for the most homers allowed in a career.
June 29 — Whit Merrifield's RBI single with one out in the bottom of the 11th inning gave South Carolina its first baseball national championship with a 2-1 victory over UCLA in the College World Series. This was last championship played at Rosenblatt Stadium, the CWS' home since 1950.
June 30 — Six-time champion Roger Federer lost to Tomas Berdych in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon. Berdych beat Federer 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 marking the first time since 2002 that Federer failed to reach the final. Federer had been bidding for a record-tying seventh Wimbledon title.
