American Football
- Super Bowl XXXVI – New England Patriots win 20-17 over the St. Louis Rams
- ArenaBowl XVI – San Jose SaberCats win 52-14 over the Arizona Rattlers
- NCAA Football Championship – University of Miami win 37-14 over the University of Nebraska
- The Houston Texans become the NFL's 32nd active franchise.
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“The highway presents an interesting study of American roadside advertising. There are signs that turn like windmills; startling signs that resemble crashed airplanes; signs with glass lettering which blaze forth at night when automobile headlight beams strike them; flashing neon signs; signs painted with professional touch; signs crudely lettered and misspelled.... They extol the virtues of ice creams, shoe creams, cold creams;...”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“...I’m not money hungry.... People who are rich want to be richer, but what’s the difference? You can’t take it with you. The toys get different, that’s all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It’s all relative.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)