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[edit] 9 April 2007 (Monday)
- Baseball
- MLB: After all four of their scheduled home games with the Seattle Mariners were postponed due to snow in Cleveland, the Cleveland Indians announce that their upcoming three-game series against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim will be played at Miller Park in Milwaukee. (Yahoo! Sports)
[edit] 8 April 2007 (Sunday)
- Golf:
- The Masters in Augusta, Georgia
- American Zach Johnson (+1) wins by 2 strokes over Rory Sabbatini, Retief Goosen and Tiger Woods. It is the first time in 50 years, and the third time ever, that a golfer has won The Masters with an over-par score.
- The Masters in Augusta, Georgia
[edit] 7 April 2007 (Saturday)
- Ice hockey: 2007 Frozen Four in St. Louis, Missouri
- Michigan State 3, Boston College 1 — The Spartans break a 1-1 tie with 18.9 seconds left, and seal the win and the national title with an empty-net goal.
- Baseball
- MLB: Sammy Sosa, who is playing for the Texas Rangers after sitting out the 2006 season, hit his first home run since 2005 in an 8-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox. He now has 589 career home runs.
- The Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race:
- Cambridge University win the 173rd Boat Race
- Cricket:
- 2007 Cricket World Cup Super Eights
Bangladesh 251/8 (50 ov.) beat 
South Africa 184 (48.4 ov.) by 67 runs
- 2007 Cricket World Cup Super Eights
[edit] 6 April 2007 (Friday)
- Basketball
- A day after rumored leading candidate Billy Donovan announced he was staying at Florida, the University of Kentucky name Texas A&M head coach Billy Gillispie as their new college basketball head coach. (ESPN)
[edit] 5 April 2007 (Thursday)
- Football (soccer):
- UEFA Cup 2006-07 quarter-finals, first leg:
AZ Alkmaar 0 - 0 Werder Bremen 
- Bayer Leverkusen 0 - 3 Osasuna
- Sevilla 2 - 1 Tottenham Hotspur
- Espanyol 3 - 2 Benfica
- UEFA Cup 2006-07 quarter-finals, first leg:
- Rugby union:
- The clubs in the Guinness Premiership, the top level of the sport in England, announce that they will join in the boycott of the 2007-08 Heineken Cup and European Challenge Cup previously announced by French clubs. This move places the future of both competitions in serious doubt. (BBC)
[edit] 4 April 2007 (Wednesday)
- Basketball:
- NBA:
- Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas will be lost for the rest of the season and playoffs (two to three months) with a spained left knee suffered in a 108-100 loss to the Charlotte Bobcats.
- Israel premier league:
- In one of the longest matches in the history of profesional basketball, Hapoel Jerusalem B.C. beat Ironi Ashkelon 151-146 after 6 overtime periods.
- NBA:
- Football (soccer):
- UEFA Champions League 2006-07 quarter-finals, first leg:
- Roma 2 – 1 Manchester United
- Violence erupts during match.
- UEFA Champions League 2006-07 quarter-finals, first leg:
- Cricket:
- 2007 Cricket World Cup Super Eights
[edit] 3 April 2007 (Tuesday)
- Ice hockey:
- The Carolina Hurricanes were mathematically eliminated from the Stanley Cup Playoffs, losing to the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-2. The Canes become the first team since the New Jersey Devils (in 1996) to fail to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs in the season after winning the Cup. This also marks the first time in NHL history that both Stanley Cup finalists from the previous season, the Carolina Hurricanes and the Edmonton Oilers, were unable to make the playoffs the following year.
- College football:
- Former Grambling coach Eddie Robinson, the first college football coach with 400 victories in his career, dies at the age of 88 due to complications from Alzheimer's disease in Grambling, Louisiana.
- Basketball:
- 2007 Women's National Championship Game at Cleveland, Ohio:
- The Lady Vols win their seventh NCAA championship with Candace Parker named the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament.
- Gail Goestenkors leaves Duke to become the head women's basketball coach at Texas, replacing Jody Conradt.
- 2007 Women's National Championship Game at Cleveland, Ohio:
- Football (soccer):
- UEFA Champions League 2006-07 quarter-finals, first leg:
- AC Milan 2 – 2 Bayern Munich
- PSV Eindhoven 0 – 3 Liverpool
- UEFA Champions League 2006-07 quarter-finals, first leg:
[edit] 2 April 2007 (Monday)
- Baseball:
- 2007 MLB Opening Day:
- New York Yankees 9, Tampa Bay Devil Rays 5
- Toronto Blue Jays 5, Detroit Tigers 3 (10 innings)
- Cleveland Indians 12, Chicago White Sox 5
- Kansas City Royals 7, Boston Red Sox 1
- Seattle Mariners 4, Oakland Athletics 0
- Minnesota Twins 7, Baltimore Orioles 2
- Los Angeles Angels 4, Texas Rangers 1
- Atlanta Braves 5, Philadelphia Phillies 3 (10 innings)
- Florida Marlins 9, Washington Nationals 2
- Milwaukee Brewers 7, Los Angeles Dodgers 1
- Cincinnati Reds 5, Chicago Cubs 1
- Arizona Diamondbacks 8, Colorado Rockies 6
- Pittsburgh Pirates 4, Houston Astros 2 (10 innings)
- After accepting an $8.2 billion (US) offer by real estate magnate Sam Zell, The Tribune Company announces that the Chicago Cubs will be sold following the 2007 season.
- 2007 MLB Opening Day:
- Basketball:
- (Midwest #1) Florida 84, (South #1) Ohio State 75
- The basketball Gators repeat their football team's performance in the BCS Title Game thirteen weeks earlier, and in the process, became the first back-to-back national champions since Duke won in 1991 and 1992, and also the first Division I men's team in history to repeat as national champions with the same starting lineup. Corey Brewer is named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player for his performance. (ESPN)
- Cricket:
- 2007 Cricket World Cup Super Eights
New Zealand 178-1 (29.2 overs) beat Bangladesh 174 (48.3 overs) by 9 wickets.
- 2007 Cricket World Cup Super Eights
[edit] 1 April 2007 (Sunday)
- Golf
- 2007 LPGA Tour
- Morgan Pressel wins the 2007 Kraft Nabisco Championship for her first career victory and becomes the youngest woman to win an LPGA major event at 18 years, 313 days. The previous mark was held by Sandra Post who, at 20 years, 19 days, won the 1968 LPGA Championship. Suzann Pettersen dropped four strokes over three holes to finish one stroke behind Pressel. [1]
- 2007 LPGA Tour
- Baseball:
- 2007 MLB Opening Night
- In the 2007 season opener, the Mets turned four double plays behind Tom Glavine to defeat the team that denied them the National League pennant one year earlier.
- 2007 MLB Opening Night
- Basketball
- NCAA Women's Final Four at Cleveland, Ohio:
- (#4 Greensboro) Rutgers 59, (#3 Fresno) Louisiana State 35
- (#1 Dayton) Tennessee 56, (#1 Dallas) North Carolina 50
- The Lady Vols outscored the Tar Heels 20-2 points in the final 8:08 of the game to advance to the title matchup.
- NCAA Women's Final Four at Cleveland, Ohio:
- Swimming:
- Michael Phelps
wins his seventh gold medal at the 2007 FINA World Aquatics Championships in Melbourne, Australia in the 400 meter individual medley race, in the process, setting his fifth world record. The seven gold medals ties Mark Spitz' total at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Münich, West Germany.
- Michael Phelps
[edit] Events in sports by month
2007 in sports: January February March April
2006 in sports: January February March April May June July August September October November December
2005 in sports: January February March April May June July August September October November December
2004 in sports: June July August September October November December
(For earlier sports events, see May 2004 and preceding months and also the list of 'years in sports'.)
