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2019 AFL draft
The 2019 AFL draft, held in Melbourne on November 27 and 28, 2019, saw Gold Coast select midfielders Matt Rowell and Noah Anderson with the first two picks.
2019 AFL season
2019 AFL season, the league's 123rd, won by Richmond over GWS Giants by 89 points in the Grand Final; Geelong minor premier, Nat Fyfe Brownlow, Jeremy Cameron Coleman, record 6.95m home-and-away attendance.
2019 ATP Finals
The 2019 ATP Finals, played at The O2 Arena in London, was the year-end men's tennis championship won by Stefanos Tsitsipas, who defeated Dominic Thiem in three sets.
2019 ATP Tour
2019 ATP Tour: men's professional tennis season of 63 tournaments in 31 countries plus four Grand Slams; Nadal year-end No. 1 (fifth time, oldest ever), Djokovic won Australian Open and Wimbledon, Nadal took Roland Garros and US Open, Tsitsipas won the ATP Finals.
2019 Australian Open
2019 Australian Open, Melbourne Park, 14-27 January 2019: Djokovic beat Nadal for a record seventh men's title, Osaka won her first AO, attendance record 796,435, 10-point final-set tiebreak and Heat Stress Scale debuted.
2019 College Football Playoff National Championship
2019 College Football Playoff National Championship: No. 2 Clemson beat No. 1 Alabama 44-16 on January 7, 2019 at Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara. Trevor Lawrence (347 yards, 3 TD) was offensive MVP; Clemson finished 15-0, its second CFP title in three years.
2019 Davis Cup
2019 Davis Cup: first edition of the reformed Davis Cup Finals, 18 teams at La Caja Mágica, Madrid, 18–24 November 2019, backed by Gerard Piqué's Kosmos. Spain beat Canada 2-0 for a sixth title, Nadal and Bautista winning the final rubbers.
2019 Davis Cup Finals
2019 Davis Cup Finals (Davis Cup by Rakuten Madrid Finals): inaugural restructured Davis Cup Finals, 18 teams at La Caja Magica, Madrid, 18-24 November 2019; Spain beat Canada 2-0 for a sixth title, led by Nadal.
2019 European Curling Championships
2019 European Curling Championships (Le Gruyère AOP ECC 2019), 15–23 November 2019 in Helsingborg, Sweden; 26 nations; Sweden won both titles, Hasselborg's women beating Scotland 5-4 and Edin's men beating Switzerland 9-3.
2019 European Tour
The 2019 European Tour, also called the Race to Dubai season, ran November 2018 to November 2019 with 48 tournaments in 31 countries. Abu Dhabi joined the Rolex Series; Jon Rahm won the Race to Dubai on the final hole in Dubai.
2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup
2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup, held in China, first 32-team edition. Spain went undefeated and beat Argentina 95-75 in the Beijing final; France took bronze, Ricky Rubio was MVP, and Team USA finished seventh.
2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification
2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification: first window-based FIBA qualifiers, 80 teams, six home-and-away windows Nov 2017-Feb 2019, 31 teams joined host China; NBA/EuroLeague players largely unavailable.
2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup
2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup, held in Japan October 1-15, 2019; 12 teams, single round-robin. Brazil won all 11 matches ahead of Poland and the USA; it was the last edition of the World Cup.
2019 French Open
2019 French Open (Roland-Garros 2019), Grand Slam clay tournament in Paris, 26 May–9 June 2019. Rafael Nadal won a 12th men's title over Dominic Thiem; Ashleigh Barty won the women's singles; record 520,000 attendance; Chatrier rebuilt.
2019 Kansas City Chiefs season
2019 Kansas City Chiefs season: Andy Reid's 12-4 AFC West champions who won Super Bowl LIV 31-20 over San Francisco, the franchise's second title and first since 1969, with Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes.
2019 LSU Tigers football team
2019 LSU Tigers football team: Ed Orgeron's LSU squad that went 15-0 (8-0 SEC), won the 2019 CFP National Championship 42-25 over Clemson and the SEC title 37-10 over Georgia, behind Heisman winner Joe Burrow's NCAA-record 60 touchdown passes.
2019 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
2019 MLB All-Star Game: 90th Midsummer Classic, July 9, 2019, Progressive Field, Cleveland. American League beat National League 4-3; Shane Bieber won MVP; new two-stage fan voting format.
2019 Major League Baseball season
2019 MLB season: opened March 20 at Tokyo Dome, first Europe games (London Series), record 6,776 home runs, mound visits cut to five; Washington Nationals beat Houston Astros 4-3 for first World Series title.
2019 Masters Tournament
The 2019 Masters Tournament, held April 11-14 at Augusta National Golf Club, was won by Tiger Woods at 275, his fifth green jacket and 15th major, ending an 11-year major drought; Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, and Xander Schauffele tied second.
2019 NBA All-Star Game
2019 NBA All-Star Game, the 68th edition, played February 17, 2019 in Charlotte: Team LeBron beat Team Giannis 178-164 after trailing by 20; Kevin Durant won his second All-Star MVP with 31 points; Wade and Nowitzki made farewell appearances.
2019 NBA draft
2019 NBA draft, held June 20, 2019 at Barclays Center, Brooklyn; first draft under flattened lottery rules. Pelicans won lottery with 6% odds and took Zion Williamson No. 1, ahead of Ja Morant and RJ Barrett; 60 picks, trade-heavy night.
2019 NBA Finals
2019 NBA Finals: Toronto Raptors beat two-time defending champion Golden State Warriors 4-2 for their first title, the first won by a non-U.S. franchise; Kawhi Leonard Finals MVP, Durant and Thompson injuries.
2019 NBA playoffs
2019 NBA playoffs: Toronto Raptors won their first NBA title, beating the two-time defending champion Golden State Warriors 4-2; Kawhi Leonard Finals MVP (28.5/9.8/4.2), first Game 7 buzzer-beater, first non-U.S. champion.
2019 Netball World Cup
2019 Netball World Cup (Vitality Netball World Cup 2019), 15th edition held in Liverpool, England. New Zealand won a fifth title, beating Australia by one goal; England took bronze; 112,000 tickets sold.
2019 New England Patriots season
2019 New England Patriots season: Tom Brady's final year with the Patriots; 12-4, AFC East champions, NFL's top-ranked defense (14.1 points per game), lost 20-13 to Tennessee in the Wild Card round.
2019 NFL Draft
2019 NFL Draft, 84th annual NFL player selection, held April 25-27, 2019 in Nashville; Kyler Murray went first overall to Arizona, 254 players were picked, and record 600,000-plus fans attended.
2019 NFL season
2019 NFL season: the league's 100th season, opened Sept 5 with Packers-Bears; Ravens went 14-2; Chiefs beat 49ers in Super Bowl LIV; pass interference replay tried for one year only.
2019 Open Championship
The 148th Open Championship, Royal Portrush 2019: Shane Lowry won by six at 15-under 269, the first Open in Northern Ireland since 1951, with a course-record 63 and record 237,750 attendance.
2019 PDC World Darts Championship
The 2019 PDC World Darts Championship, the twenty-sixth PDC world title, ran at Alexandra Palace, London, ending with Michael van Gerwen beating Michael Smith 7-3 in the final.
2019 PGA Championship
The 2019 PGA Championship, played May 16-19 at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, New York, was won wire-to-wire by Brooks Koepka at 272 (8 under), two ahead of Dustin Johnson.