1989 in sports

Auto Racing

• Stock car racing:
  • Darrell Waltrip[?] won the Daytona 500
  • NASCAR Championship - Rusty Wallace[?]
• Indianapolis 500 - Emerson Fittipaldi
• CART Racing - Emerson Fittipaldi
• Formula One Championship - Alain Prost of France
• 24 hours of Le Mans:
  • won by the team of Jochen Mass[?] / Manuel Reuter[?] / Stanley Dickens[?] driving a Sauber-Mercedes[?]
• Rally racing - the team of Miki Biasion[?] / Tiziano Siviero[?] won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Lancia Delta HF Integrale
• Drag racing - Gary Ormsby[?] won the NHRA "Top Fuel" championship.

Baseball

• August 24 - Following an investigation that he gambled on baseball, superstar player Pete Rose is banned from baseball for life.

• World Series: Oakland Athletics won 4 games to 0 over the San Francisco Giants. The Series MVP was Dave Stewart[?], Oakland

Basketball

• NCAA Men's Basketball Championship:
  • Michigan wins 80-79 over Seton Hall

• NBA Finals:
  • Detroit Pistons win 4 games to 0 over the Los Angeles Lakers to win the franchise's first championship.

Boxing

• February 11 - In Grenoble, France, Rene Jacquot[?] won a 12 round decision over Donald Curry to win the World Welterweight Championship

Cycling

• Giro d'Italia won by Laurent Fignon[?] of France
• Tour de France - Greg Lemond[?] of the United States
• World Cycling Championship: Greg Lemond[?] of the United States

Figure Skating

• World Figure Skating Championships:
  • Men's champion: Kurt Browning[?], Canada
  • Women's champion: Midori Ito[?], Japan
  • Pairs champions: Jekaterina Gordejewa[?] & Sergej Grinkow[?], Soviet Union

Football (Soccer)

• England - FA Cup: Liverpool won 3-2 (aet) over Everton

Football (American)

• Super Bowl XXIII: San Francisco 49ers won 20-16 over the Cincinnati Bengals

Canadian Football League

• Grey Cup: Saskatchewan Roughriders won 43-40 over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats
• Vanier Cup: Western Ontario Mustangs[?] won 35-10 over the Saskatchewan Huskies[?]

Golf

Men's Golf

• Grand Slam of golf results:
  1. May - The Masters - Nick Faldo[?]
  2. June - US Open - Curtis Strange[?]
  3. July - British Open - Mark Calcavecchia[?]
  4. August - PGA Championship - Payne Stewart[?]

• PGA tour's leading money winner for the year: Tom Kite[?] - $1,395,278
• PGA Champions Tour leading money winner: Bob Charles[?] - $725,887
• Ryder Cup: Europe and the United States teams tied 14-14 in world golf.

Women's Golf

• US Women's Open - Betsy King[?]
• LPGA Championship - Nancy Lopez[?]
• Betsy King[?]: leading money winner on the LPGA tour, earning $654,132.

Thoroughbred Horse Racing

• Australia - Melbourne Cup - Tawriffic[?]
• Canada - Queen's Plate - With Approval[?]
• France - Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe - Carroll House[?]
• Ireland - Irish Derby Stakes - Old Vic[?]

• English Triple Crown Races:
  1. Two Thousand Guineas Stakes - Nashwan[?]
  2. Epsom Derby - Nashwan[?]
  3. St. Leger Stakes - Michelozzo[?]

• United States Triple Crown Races:
  1. Kentucky Derby - Sunday Silence[?]
  2. Preakness Stakes - Sunday Silence[?]
  3. Belmont Stakes - Easy Goer[?]

Harness Racing

• North America Cup - Quite A Sensation[?]

• United States Pacing Triple Crown races:
  1. Cane Pace - Dancing Master[?]
  2. Little Brown Jug - Goalie Jeff[?]
  3. Messenger Stakes - Sandman Hanover[?]

• United States Trotting Triple Crown races:
  1. Hambletonian - Park Ave Joe[?] & Probe[?] (dead heat)
  2. Yonkers Trot
  3. Kentucky Futurity - Peace Corps[?]

• Australian Inter Dominion Harness Racing Championship:
  • Pacers: Jodie's Babe[?]
  • Trotters: Yankee Loch[?]

Ice Hockey

• Art Ross Memorial Trophy as the NHL's leading scorer during the regular season: Mario Lemieux, Pittsburgh Penguins

• Hart Memorial Trophy for the NHL's Most Valuable Player: Wayne Gretzky, Los Angeles Kings

• Stanley Cup: Calgary Flames won 4 games to 2 over the Montreal Canadiens

• World Hockey Championship
  • Men's champion: Soviet Union defeated Canada
  • Junior Men's champion: Soviet Union defeated Sweden

Skiing

• Alpine Skiing
  • The men's overall season champion: Marc Girardelli[?], Luxembourg
  • The women's overall season champion: Vreni Schneider[?], Switzerland

Tennis

• Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
  1. Australian Open - Ivan Lendl[?]
  2. French Open - Michael Chang[?]
  3. Wimbledon championships - Boris Becker
  4. US Open - Boris Becker

• Grand Slam in tennis women's results:
  1. Australian Open - Steffi Graf
  2. French Open - Arantxa Sanchez Vicario[?]
  3. Wimbledon championships - Steffi Graf
  4. US Open - Steffi Graf

• Davis Cup: Germany F.R. won 3-2 over Sweden in world tennis.

General sporting events

• Embassy World Snooker Championship[?]:
  • Steve Davis[?] won 18-3 over John Parrott[?]

• Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Champion:
  • Joe Runyan[?] won with lead dogs: Rambo & Ferlin the Husky

Births

Deaths

• Secretariat - thoroughbred race horse
• January 9 - Bill Terry[?], Major League Baseball player (1923-1936)
• January 21 - Carl Furillo[?], Major League Baseball player (1946-1960)
• February 17 - Lefty Gomez[?], New York Yankees pitcher (1930-1943)
• February 10 - Dan Kelly[?], NHL sportscaster
• March 18 - Piet Kruiver[?], Dutch soccer player
• April 12 - Sugar Ray Robinson, boxing champion
• June 17 - John Matusek[?] 38, NFL player with Oakland Raiders
• June 22 - Lee Calhoun[?], Olympic Gold Medal hurdler
• July 18 - Donnie Moore[?] 35, Major League Baseball pitcher, suicide
• August 13 - Tim Richmond[?], NASCAR driver
• August 18 - Bert Oosterbosch[?] 32, cyclist, world professional pursuit champion
• September 10 - Jeff Stollmeyer[?], President, West Indies Cricket Board, murdered
• September 15 - Harry Cave[?], New Zealand cricketer
• October 4 - Norman Yardley[?], English cricketer
• December 25 - Billy Martin[?], New York Yankees manager, auto accident
• December 26 - Doug Harvey[?], NHL superstar defenseman (1947-1969)