14/3/2018 | Lionel Messi becomes the second player after Cristiano Ronaldo to reach 100 goals in the UEFA Champions League with his two for Barcelona against Chelsea (3-0) |
14/3/2000 | German gymnast Alfred Schwarzmann dies aged 87. He won 3 gold medals at the Berlin 1936 Olympics and 1 silver (representing West Germany) 16 years later in Helsinki |
14/3/1999 | By decision of the IAFF, the first and second winner in shot put Pavlis and Kortsarenko are stripped of their medals after failing to pass the drug test. As a result, Svetlana Krivielova takes the gold at the World Indoors Championships in Maebashi, Japan |
14/3/1998 | Jerome Davis is left paralysed in a bull-riding contest at Forth Worth Arena. In 1995, 22 year-old Davis succeeded in riding 9 out of 10 bulls in rodeo finals in Las Vegas |
14/3/1989 | Real Madrid win the European Cup Winners Cup after beating Snaidero Caserta 117-113 in overtime at Peace and Friendship Stadium. Drazen Petrovic scores 62 points for Real and Oscar Schmidt 44 for Caserta in a game officiated by Costas Rigas |
14/3/1980 | 22 members of the USA boxing team die in a plane crash in Warsaw |
14/3/1978 | The NFL adds 7th official (side judge) |
14/3/1976 | Jockey Willie Shoemaker completes 7.000 wins |
14/3/1976 | Guy Rodgers of the San Francisco Warriors equals Bob Cousie's most assists in a game record (28) playing against the St Louis Hawks (109-114) |
14/3/1970 | The 1st European Indoor Athletics Championships begin in Vienna with the participation of 153 men and 87 women athletes from 24 nations. Greece participate with just one athlete, Christos Papanikolaou, who will finish 4th in the pole vault competition with a 5-meter jump. |
14/3/1960 | Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA play-off record of 53 points |
14/3/1898 | The football team of “Young Boys” of Bern is founded, taking its name in opposition to the team of “Old Boys” of Basel |