2010 in sports

Events by month

January

• 24th-31st Bandy World Championship in Moscow, Russia. Winner:

  February

• 7 American football,, Super Bowl XLIV. Winner: New Orleans Saints.
• 12 – 28: Olympics, / 2010 Winter Olympics. Winner: Canada.

  March

April

• 25: Marathon, London Marathon. Winners: Tsegaye Kebede, Liliya Shobukhova

  May

June

• 3 - 17: Basketball, / 2010 NBA Finals. Winner: Los Angeles Lakers.
• 11–11 July: Association football, 2010 FIFA World Cup. Winner:.

  July

August

• 28–12 September: Basketball, 2010 FIBA World Championship. Winner:.

  September

• 23–3 October: Basketball, 2010 FIBA World Championship for Women. Winner:.
• 26: Formula One, 2010 Singapore Grand Prix. Winner: Fernando Alonso.
• 26: Marathon, Berlin Marathon. Winners: Patrick Makau, Aberu Kebede.

  October

• 3 - 14: Multi-sport event, 2010 Commonwealth Games, Delhi, India. Winner: Australia
• 10: Marathon, Chicago Marathon. Winners: Samuel Wanjiru, Liliya Shobukhova.
• 24: Formula One, 2010 Korean Grand Prix. Winner: Fernando Alonso.

  November

• 7: Marathon, New York City Marathon. Winners: Gebregziabher Gebremariam, Edna Kiplagat.
• 12 - 27: Multi-sport event, 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China. Winner: China

  December

[American football]

January

• The Alabama Crimson Tide defeats the Texas Longhorns 37–21 in the BCS National Championship Game at the Rose Bowl, thereby claiming the 2009 National Championship in College Football.

  February

• Super Bowl XLIV – the New Orleans Saints won 31–17 over the Indianapolis Colts
• *Location: Sun Life Stadium
• *Attendance: 74,059
• *MVP: Drew Brees, QB
• For the third consecutive year, the proposed All American Football League, originally intended to launch in 2008, delays its planned debut, this time until 2011.

  March

• Another proposed league, the United National Gridiron League, announces that it has indefinitely suspended operations.

  April

• The new incarnation of the Arena Football League, consisting mostly of teams from the now-dissolved AF2, makes its debut. Although the new AFL is a separate corporate entity from the original AFL, it purchased the assets of the original league in a bankruptcy auction, enabling it to brand itself as a continuation of the original.

  August

• August–September: New Meadowlands Stadium, the new home of the New York Giants and Jets, opened on August 16 with a pre-season game between the two teams, with the Jets as the designated home team. The Giants won this matchup 31–16. After winning a coin flip between the two teams, the Giants played the first regular-season game in the stadium on September 12, defeating the Carolina Panthers 31–18. The Jets played the Baltimore Ravens in their home opener the following night on Monday Night Football, losing 10–9.
• August 20 – The Spokane Shock defeat the Tampa Bay Storm 69–57 at home to win ArenaBowl XXIII.

  September

• Reggie Bush, currently with the Saints, announced that he would forfeit his 2005 Heisman Trophy after his involvement with marketing agents while playing at USC led to severe NCAA penalties against the school. USC had already returned its copy of Bush's Heisman and the football program cut ties with Bush.

  December

• Brett Favre, Quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings was listed inactive against the New York Giants, which was played at Ford Field home of the Detroit Lions after the Vikings stadium, the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, collapsed due to heavy snow. This was the first time since 1991 that Favre did not start a game, ending his NFL consecutive-streak record at 297.

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January/February

• 29 January–8 February Swimming at the 2010 South Asian Games in Dhaka, Bangladesh

  July

• 13–18 2010 FINA Men's Water Polo World League
• 18–23 Swimming at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
• 27 July - 1 August 2010 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup in Oradea, Romania

  August

• 4–15 2010 European Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. The total aquatics medal table was won by Russia with 13 gold medals, 7 silver, 8 bronze. Germany was second in the total medal table with 8 gold, 9 silver, 3 bronze. France was third with 8 gold, 8 silver and 7 bronze. The swimming medal table had slightly different order. Russia was second, France first and Great Britain third. France got 8 gold medals, 7 silver, 6 bronze. Russia got 7 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze. Great Britain got 6 gold, 6 silver and 6 bronze. Diving medal table was totally different: Germany was first, Ukraine second and Italy third. Germany got 5 gold, 3 silver, but no bronze. Ukraine got 2 gold, 2 silver and 0 bronze. Italy got 1 gold, two silver, but no bronze for Italy either. Synchronized Swimming medal table had only three countries. Russia was first, Ukraine second and Spain third. Italy won the open water medal table, Greece was second and Germany third. Water Polo Championships were held separately.
• 18-22 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Irvine California, United States

  September

• 13–29 2010 African Swimming Championships

  October

• 4–13 Swimming, Diving and Synchronized Swimming at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India

  November

• 12–27 Aquatics at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.
• 25–28 2010 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Germany won the medal table with 10 gold, 8 silver, 4 bronze. Host country Netherlands was second with 9 gold, 8 silver and 5 bronze. Hungary was third with 6 gold, 1 silver and two bronze.

  December

• 15-19 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. United States was the winner of the medal table with 12 golf medals, 6 silver and 7 bronze. Second in the medal table was Russia with 4 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze medals. Spain was third with 4 gold medals, two silver and two bronze.

  Association football

January

• 10th—31st – Africa Cup of Nations, Angola. Winner –
• Pachuca win the CONCACAF Champions League.
• PRK Hekari United win the OFC Champions League.
• Atlético Madrid win the UEFA Europa League.
• Internazionale win the UEFA Champions League.

  June/July

• June 11 – July 11 – FIFA World Cup, South Africa. Winner –

  July/August

• July 13 – August 1 – FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, Germany.

• Internacional win the Copa Libertadores

  September

• 5th—25th – FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, Trinidad and Tobago – Korea Republic
• LDU Quito win the 2010 Recopa Sudamericana
• Seongnam Ilhwa win the AFC Champions League
• TP Mazembe win the CAF Champions League
• Internazionale win the FIFA Club World Cup

  Athletics

March

• 12th–14th – IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha, Qatar.
• 27th – IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

  May

• May 14 – August 27 – IAAF Diamond League, worldwide track and field meeting series.
• May 15–16 – IAAF World Race Walking Cup in Chihuahua, Mexico.

  July/August

• July 27 – August 1 – European Athletics Championships in Barcelona, Spain.

  October

• October 16 – IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Nanning, China

  [Australian rules football]

September

• 25th – 2010 AFL Grand Final – drew with in the first Grand Final, 9.14 – 10.8. Collingwood won the replay by 56 points on October 2, 16.12 – 7.10. It was the first drawn AFL Grand Final since 1977.

  [Bandy]

• 24–31 January Bandy World Championship in Moscow, Russia – wins
• Bandy World Cup, October – Dynamo Kazan wins

  Baseball

April

• 2nd – Target Field in Minneapolis, the first stadium built specifically for the Minnesota Twins, opens with the Twins losing to the St. Louis Cardinals 8–4 in a spring training game.
• 12th – Target Field hosts its first regular-season game, with the Twins defeating the Boston Red Sox 5–2.

  May

• 9th – Dallas Braden of the Oakland Athletics pitches the 19th perfect game in Major League Baseball history in a 4–0 home win over the Tampa Bay Rays.
• 29th – Roy Halladay of the Philadelphia Phillies pitches the 20th perfect game in MLB history in a 1–0 road win over the Florida Marlins. This marks the first time in the modern era that two perfect games have been thrown in the same MLB season.

  June

• 2nd – Armando Galarraga of the Detroit Tigers loses out on a perfect game when the 27th batter, the Cleveland Indians' Jason Donald, is called safe on an infield grounder. Immediately after the game, umpire Jim Joyce admitted that he had blown the call. The Tigers won 3–0.

  July

• 13th – The 81st Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Angel Stadium of Anaheim, Anaheim, California is won by the National League for the first time since 1996. Brian McCann, whose three-run double in the seventh inning gives the NL all of its runs in the 3–1 game, is named MVP.

September

• September 7 – Trevor Hoffman, closing pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers become the first closing pitcher in the history of the MLB to record 600 career saves, at Miller Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin against the St. Louis Cardinals.

  October

• 6th – In Game 1 of the National League Division Series, Halladay no-hits the Cincinnati Reds in the Phillies' 4–0 win. Halladay becomes only the second pitcher to throw a no-hitter in postseason play, after Don Larsen's perfect game in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series.
• 22nd – The Texas Rangers defeat the New York Yankees in the ALCS to advance to their first World Series.
• 23rd – The San Francisco Giants defeat the Philadelphia Phillies in the NLCS to advance to their fourth World Series since relocating to San Francisco.