American Football
- January 3 – Fiesta Bowl (Bowl Championship Series):
- Ohio State Buckeyes win 31-24 over the Miami Hurricanes (double overtime)
- January 27 – Super Bowl XXXVII –
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers win 48-21 over the Oakland Raiders
- September 14 – Jamal Lewis sets NFL single game record for rushing yards (295) helping Baltimore Ravens beat Cleveland Browns 33-13.
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“There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“... in the minds of search committees there is the lingering question: Can she manage the football coach?”
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