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2020–21 NBA season
The 2020–21 NBA season was the 75th season of the NBA, played as a shortened 72-game campaign beginning December 22, 2020, won by the Milwaukee Bucks in July 2021.
2020–21 NFL playoffs
2020–21 NFL playoffs: first 14-team NFL postseason (seven per conference, only No. 1 seeds on bye), played under COVID-19 limits; Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 11-5 wild card with Tom Brady, beat Green Bay 31-26 and won Super Bowl LV over Kansas City on Feb 7, 2021.
2020–21 NHL season
2020-21 NHL season: pandemic-shortened 56-game season, Jan 13 to May 8, 2021, with four realigned divisions including the first all-Canadian North Division; Tampa Bay Lightning won the Stanley Cup over Montreal.
2021 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship
2021 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship (第21回アジア男子バレーボール選手権大会), 21st AVC continental tournament, held September 12-19, 2021 in Chiba, Japan. Iran beat hosts Japan 3-0 in the final for a fourth title; both qualified for the 2022 World Championship; Saber Kazemi was MVP.
2021 ATP Tour
2021 ATP Tour: men's professional tennis season disrupted by COVID-19; new Singapore and Marbella 250s, Indian Wells moved to October, first Nitto ATP Finals in Turin won by Zverev; Djokovic record seventh year-end No. 1.
2021 Australian Open
2021 Australian Open: Grand Slam hard-court tournament at Melbourne Park, 8–21 February 2021, first February start in over 100 years; Djokovic won his ninth title, Osaka the women's, under strict hotel quarantine.
2021 Cincinnati Bengals season
2021 Cincinnati Bengals season: Zac Taylor's third year; Bengals went 10-7, won the AFC North, and reached Super Bowl LVI behind Joe Burrow's 4,611 yards and rookie Ja'Marr Chase, losing 23-20 to the Rams.
2021 College Football Playoff National Championship
2021 College Football Playoff National Championship: No. 1 Alabama beat No. 3 Ohio State 52-24 on January 11, 2021 at Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, behind DeVonta Smith and Mac Jones, giving Nick Saban his seventh title.
2021 Davis Cup Finals
2021 Davis Cup Finals (Davis Cup by Rakuten Finals 2021), 25 Nov-5 Dec 2021 in Madrid, Innsbruck, and Turin; 18 teams, round robin plus knockout; Russian Tennis Federation beat Croatia 2-0 in the Madrid Arena final for its third title.
2021 European Curling Championships
2021 European Curling Championships (Le Gruyère AOP ECC 2021), held in Lillehammer, Norway, 20–27 November 2021 after the 2020 edition's COVID cancellation; Scotland (Bruce Mouat) won the A-Division 11–0, Turkey and Russia won men's B-Division promotion.
2021 French Open
2021 French Open (Roland-Garros), clay Grand Slam in Paris, 24 May–13 June, postponed one week for COVID-19. Djokovic beat Tsitsipas in five sets; Krejcikova won women's singles; Naomi Osaka withdrew after press-conference boycott and $15,000 fine.
2021 French Open – Men's singles
2021 French Open men's singles (Roland-Garros, 30 May–13 June 2021): Novak Djokovic beat Rafael Nadal in the semifinal and came back from two sets down to defeat Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final, winning his 19th major and second Roland-Garros title.
2021 IIHF World Championship
2021 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship, men's world hockey tournament held 21 May-6 June 2021 solely in Riga, Latvia after Minsk was withdrawn; Canada beat Finland 3-2 in overtime for gold, USA bronze.
2021 in softball
2021 in softball saw the sport return from a 17-month COVID-19 hiatus, with Japan winning Olympic gold in Tokyo and the United States taking the U-18 World Cup.
2021 Los Angeles Rams season
2021 Los Angeles Rams season: NFL championship year in which the Rams, led by Matthew Stafford and coach Sean McVay, went 12-5, won the NFC West, and beat Cincinnati 23-20 in Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium.
2021 Major League Baseball draft
2021 MLB draft (July 11-13, 2021): 612 players chosen in 20 rounds; Pirates took Henry Davis first overall; bonus slots frozen at 2019 values, top slot $8,415,300; record 10 first-round shortstops.
2021 Major League Baseball season
2021 Major League Baseball season: full 162-game schedule April 1 to October 3 after the 60-game 2020 COVID season; sticky-stuff crackdown from June 21; All-Star Game moved to Coors Field; Shohei Ohtani's two-way year; Atlanta Braves won the World Series over Houston.
2021 NBA All-Star Game
2021 NBA All-Star Game, 70th NBA midseason exhibition, March 7, 2021, State Farm Arena, Atlanta; Team LeBron beat Team Durant 170-150; Giannis Antetokounmpo MVP, 16-for-16, 35 points; one-night pandemic format.
2021 NBA draft
The 2021 NBA draft, held July 29, 2021 on ABC/ESPN, saw Detroit select Cade Cunningham first overall, with Jalen Green, Evan Mobley, Scottie Barnes, and Jalen Suggs following, plus heavy draft-night trading.
2021 NBA Finals
The 2021 NBA Finals: Milwaukee Bucks beat Phoenix Suns 4-2 for their first title since 1971; Giannis Antetokounmpo won Finals MVP with 35.2 points per game and a 50-point Game 6.
2021 NBA playoffs
2021 NBA playoffs: Milwaukee Bucks beat Phoenix Suns 4-2 in the NBA Finals for their first title since 1971; Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 50 in Game 6 and won Finals MVP (35.2/13.2/5.0).
2021 NFL Draft
The 2021 NFL Draft, held April 29–May 1 in Cleveland, saw the Jaguars take Trevor Lawrence first overall among 259 selections; it was the first in-person draft since the pandemic began, with capacity limits and a reported $42 million local impact.
2021 NFL season
2021 NFL season: first 17-game regular season (18 weeks, three preseason games), approved March 30, 2021. Ended with Rams beating Bengals 23-20 in Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium; marked by historic parity and walk-off finishes.
2021 NHL entry draft
2021 NHL entry draft, held virtually July 23-24, 2021; 223 picks. Buffalo took Owen Power first overall, expansion Seattle Kraken picked Matthew Beniers second; Arizona forfeited pick 11.
2021 PDC World Darts Championship
The 2021 PDC World Darts Championship (William Hill World Darts Championship) ran 15 December 2020 to 3 January 2021 at Alexandra Palace. Gerwyn Price beat Gary Anderson 7-3 to become the first Welsh champion and world number one.
2021 PGA Championship
The 2021 PGA Championship, 103rd edition of the major, was won by Phil Mickelson at 282 (−6) on the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, making him golf's oldest major champion at 50 years, 11 months, 7 days.
2021 Premier League Darts
2021 Unibet Premier League Darts, the PDC's seventeenth edition, a delayed ten-player round-robin held behind closed doors at Milton Keynes's Marshall Arena; Jonny Clayton won on debut, with two nine-dart finishes thrown.
2021 Rugby League World Cup
2021 Rugby League World Cup (RLWC2021): England-hosted rugby league championship postponed to Oct-Nov 2022 after Australia and NZ withdrew over COVID-19; Australia won men's and women's titles, England the wheelchair, record 473,606 crowd over 61 matches.
2021 Ryder Cup
The 2021 Ryder Cup, the 43rd edition, was won by the United States 19-9 over Europe at Whistling Straits, Kohler, Wisconsin, September 24-26, 2021, after a one-year pandemic postponement; Dustin Johnson went 5-0-0.
2021 Six Nations Championship
2021 Six Nations Championship, won by Wales under Wayne Pivac; Triple Crown via 40-24 over England, Grand Slam denied by France 32-30, title sealed when France lost 23-27 to Scotland on 26 March after a Covid postponement.