April 2007 in Sports - 3 April 2007 (Tuesday)

3 April 2007 (Tuesday)

• Ice hockey:
  • The Carolina Hurricanes were mathematically eliminated from the Stanley Cup Playoffs, losing to the Tampa Bay Lightning 3–2. The Canes become the first team since the New Jersey Devils (in 1996) to fail to make the Stanley Cup playoffs in the season after winning the Cup. This also marks the first time in NHL history that both Stanley Cup finalists from the previous season, the Hurricanes and the Edmonton Oilers, were unable to make the playoffs the following year.

• College football:
  • Former Grambling coach Eddie Robinson, the first college football coach with 400 victories in his career, dies at the age of 88 due to complications from Alzheimer's disease in Grambling, Louisiana.

• Baseball:
  • 2007 MLB Opening Day:
    • San Diego Padres 7, San Francisco Giants 0

• Basketball:
  • 2007 Women's National Championship Game at Cleveland, Ohio:
    • (Dayton #1) Tennessee 59, (Greensboro #4) Rutgers 46

    The Lady Vols win their seventh NCAA championship with Candace Parker named the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament.

  • Gail Goestenkors leaves Duke to become the head women's basketball coach at Texas, replacing Jody Conradt.

• Cricket:
  • 2007 Cricket World Cup Super Eights
    • South Africa 165/3 (31.4/35 ov.) beat Ireland 152/8 (35/35 ov.) by 7 wickets (D/L)

• Football (soccer):
  • 2006–07 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals, first leg:
    • A.C. Milan 2 – 2 Bayern Munich
    • PSV Eindhoven 0 – 3 Liverpool