Bathurst 1000, Australia - Won by Greg Murphy of New Zealand and Rick Kelly of Australia for the K-Mart Racing Team . Murphy sets the fastest ever lap of any type of car on the mountain, including open wheelers.
Marcos Ambrose for Stone Brothers Racing wins V8 Supercar Championship Series, with more wins and more poles than any other.
Mark Winterbottom for Stone Brothers Racing wins 'junior division', Konica Championship Series.
Championship won by Paul Stokell for Team Lamborghini in a Lamborghini Diablo GTR .
Bathurst 24 hours at Mount Panorama , Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, won by Peter Brock, Grey Murphy , Jason Bright and Todd Kelly in a Monaro GRM 427, 7-litre Race Prototype.
Michael Lewis, Moneyball: An examination of the present-day Oakland Athletics as run by their general manager Billy Beane, and how the application of sabermetric principles has allowed the A's to be competitive despite having one of the lowest payrolls in baseball.
WNBA Finals: Detroit Shock win 2 games to 1 over the Los Angeles Sparks, winning the franchise's first title, and marking the first time an Eastern conference team is WNBA world champions.
May - West Indies defeat Australia scoring a world record 418 runs in the 4th innings breaking a 27-year-old record of India who had scored 406 runs in the 4th innings to win a test match against West Indies.
April 10-13 - The Masters - Mike Weir. Weir becomes the first Canadian and the first left-handed golfer to win The Masters. He defeats Len Mattiace on the first playoff hole.
June 12-15 - US Open - Jim Furyk - takes place at Olympia Fields, Furyk wins his first major by 3 shots.
July 17-20- British Open - Ben Curtis, a virtual unknown, shocks the world, posting a -1, a single shot ahead of Thomas Björn and Vijay Singh at the very difficult Royal St. George's.
August 14-17 - PGA Championship - Shaun Micheel, another virtual unknown, wins by 2 shots at the tough Oak Hill Country Club.
Other highlights
March 2 - Tiger Woods wins the Accenture Match Play Championships, defeating David Toms 2 and 1.
April 20 - Davis Love III chips in on the 72nd hole to force a playoff, which he wins, giving him his fifth victory at the MCI Heritage at Harbour Town.
May 22 - At the Colonial Open golf tournament, LPGA champion Annika Sörenstam became the first woman in 58 years to compete in a men's professional golf tournament.
June 1 - Kenny Perry wins for the second straight week, this time at The Memorial, held at Muirfield Village Golf Club.
July 6 - Tiger Woods wins the 100th Western Open at Cog Hill
Vijay Singh is the PGA TOUR's leading money winner for the year, with earnings of $7,349,907 in 27 events.
Tom Watson is the leading money winner on the Champions Tour, with earnings of $1,853,108 in 14 events.
