News by date

January

• 1: Motorcycling - Robbie Maddison breaks the Motorcycling long jump world record.
• 1: Darts - John Part wins his third world title beating qualifier Kirk Shepherd 7-2 in sets at the 2008 PDC World Darts Championship.
• 4: 30th Dakar Rally cancelled due to international political tension and the murder of four French tourists last 24th of December 2007.
• 6: Auto racing - Scuderia Ferrari unveils their 2008 Formula 1 car.
• 7: Auto racing - McLaren unveils their 2008 Formula 1 car.
• 7: College football - The LSU Tigers defeat the Ohio State Buckeyes 38-24 in the 2008 BCS National Championship Game, thus becoming the first two-time BCS National Champions. They also become the first 2-loss BCS National Champions.
• 19: Tennis - 2008 Australian Open, Australia's Lleyton Hewitt beats Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus in the 3rd round qualifier in a marathon 5-set match which took almost 5 hours. The match ended at 4:33am local time after the match was delayed until just before midnight, making it the latest ever finish for an Australian Open match.
• 20: The 2008 Africa Cup of Nations begins in Ghana.
• 26: Tennis - Maria Sharapova beat Serbian Ana Ivanović in the Australian Open to capture her third major.
• 26: The All American Football League (AAFL) held its inaugural draft.
• 26: Motorsport - The Palm Beach Cavallino Classic held its XVII Concorso d’Eleganza, with Enrique Senior and Malena Senior taking the most wins, and Mexican Lorenzo Zambrano was the only non-American to win an award.
• 27: Tennis - Novak Đoković defeats Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the Australian Open to become the first new major winner since Rafael Nadal defeated Mariano Puerta in the2005 French Open final since Gustavo Kuerten. He is also the first Serbian man to win any major.
• 27: Auto racing - Memo Rojas, Juan Pablo Montoya,Scott Pruett and Dario Franchitti win the Rolex 24 hours of Daytona for the team TELMEX Chip Ganassi Racing after a "perfect" race, in the first race of the 2008 Rolex Sportscar Series.
• 27: Auto racing - Pat Dean wins the first race of the SCORE Desert Series, the Laughlin Desert Challenge in his Class 1.
• 27: Team handball - Asian Handball Federation announced that Japanese and Korean federations will be expelled from AHF unless that'll stop hosting or participating 2008 Summer Olympics qualifiers re-match. But Hassan Mustafa, President of International Handball Federation declared the announcement which AHF made is invalid because IHF is the "only body endorsing the results of the continental qualifying tournaments for Olympic Games and World Championships." AHF dropped their decision and fined $1,000 for each country on February 5.
• 27: Figure skating - The winners of the 2008 European Figure Skating Championships in Zagreb, Croatia, are Tomáš Verner (men's singles), Carolina Kostner (ladies singles), Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy (pairs), and Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin (ice dancing).

February

April 16 - Welsh Varsity Boat Race between Cardiff University and Swansea University (External Link)

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