American Football
- January 13 – ABC and ESPN negotiate a $1.15 billion a season contract to keep Monday Night Football.
- Super Bowl XXXII – Denver Broncos won 31–24 over the Green Bay Packers
- December 13 – The Baltimore Ravens and Minnesota Vikings return an NFL record 3 kickoff returns for touchdowns.
- NCAA – The Tennessee Volunteers claim the first ever BCS National Championship over the Florida State Seminoles.
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“Let’s face it. Let’s talk sense to the American people. Let’s tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains, that we are now on the eve of great decisions, not easy decisions.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)
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