2001 - Sports

Sports

The Baltimore Ravens (formerly the Cleveland Browns) win Super Bowl XXXV, defeating the New York Giants 34 to 7 January 28 at Tampa.

North Carolina-born Nascar racing star Dale Earnhardt is killed February 18 at age 49 in a crash of his No. 3 black Chevrolet on the last lap of the Daytona 500 at Daytona Beach, Fla. He has won seven Winston Cup championships and more than $41 million in 25 years.

Olympic athlete-turned-sports announcer Marty Glickman dies at New York January 3 at age 83 of complications following heart surgery; cricket legend Sir Donald Bradman dies of pneumonia at Adelaide, South Australia, February 25 at age 92; Calumet Farm racehorse trainer Jimmy Jones at Maryville, Mo., September 2 at age 94.

Golfer Tiger Woods sinks an 18-foot putt and wins the Masters Tournament at Augusta, Ga., April 8 to complete an unprecedented sweep of four consecutive professional championships (but not the "grand slam" because he lost one of the four last year).

Football (soccer) fans try to force their way into Johannesburg's Ellis Park April 11 during a match between the Kaizer Chiefs and the Orlando Pirates: 43 are crushed to death; Congo police move to break up rioting at an April 30 match at Lubumbashi: at least seven people are killed, 51 seriously injured; fans at Accra's main stadium in Ghana May 9 begin tearing up plastic chairs and throwing chunks onto the field 5 minutes before the end of a match between the Hearts of Oak and the Kumasi Asante Kotokos. Police fire tear gas into the crowd, triggering a stampede that kills more than 100.

Goran Ivanisevic, 29, (Croatia) wins in men's singles at Wimbledon, Venus Williams in women's singles; Lleyton Hewitt, 20, (Australia) in U.S. men's singles, Venus Williams in women's.

The 5-year-old Arizona Diamondbacks win the World Series, defeating the New York Yankees 4 games to 3. Former Cleveland Indians shortstop-manager Lou Boudreau has died of cardiac arrest at Olympia Fields, Ill., August 10 at age 84.