Sport
- February 7 - Lennox Lewis becomes heavyweight boxing champion.
- September 25 - Chris Jericho is inducted into the Canadian Wrestling Hall of Fame.
- October 26 - Formula One: Jacques Villeneuve becomes the first Canadian to become World Drivers Champion.
- November 16 - The Toronto Argonauts win the Grey Cup.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“How long, then, Catiline, while you abuse our patience? How long is this madness of yours to make sport of us?”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist, indeed, is a most unhappy man; and his readers are most unhappy also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)