Sport
- February 27 - The Los Angeles Kings trade Wayne Gretzky to the St. Louis Blues.
- March 16- The Montreal Canadiens play their first game at the Molson Centre against the New York Rangers.
- July 1 - The Winnipeg Jets leave Canada and become the Phoenix Coyotes.
- July 19 - The Atlanta Olympics open, Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey wins the 100-metre dash.
- July 26 - Gretzky signs with the New York Rangers.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)
“The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one’s appetite is not too keen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)