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2023 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
2023 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament (March Madness): 68-team single-elimination championship; fourth-seeded UConn beat fifth-seeded San Diego State 76-59 in Houston for its fifth title; Fairleigh Dickinson upset Purdue.
2023 NFL Draft
2023 NFL Draft, held April 27-29 in Kansas City, Missouri; 259 picks over seven rounds. Bryce Young went first to Carolina; Houston took C.J. Stroud and Will Anderson; Miami forfeited its first-round pick.
2023 NFL season
2023 NFL season, the league's 104th, ran September 2023 to January 2024; Ravens went 13-4, Panthers 2-15, Dolphins scored 70 on Denver, and kickoff returns hit a record-low 21.8%.
2023 Pan Continental Curling Championships
2023 Pan Continental Curling Championships (PCCC), second edition, Kelowna, Canada, 29 Oct-4 Nov 2023; Canada men (Gushue) and Korea women won; qualifier for 2024 world championships.
2023 PDC Pro Tour
The 2023 PDC Pro Tour was the Professional Darts Corporation's set of 2023 ranking tournaments: 30 Players Championship events and 13 European Tour events with £5,275,000 in prize money.
2023 PDC World Darts Championship
2023 PDC World Darts Championship (2022/23 Cazoo World Darts Championship): Michael Smith beat Michael van Gerwen 7-4 in the 3 January 2023 final at Alexandra Palace for his first world title, hitting a nine-dart finish in a leg where both players threw for perfection.
2023 Premier League Darts
2023 Premier League Darts: 19th PDC edition, February 2 to May 25, 2023, eight players in nightly knockouts. Michael van Gerwen beat Gerwyn Price 11-5 at The O2 for a record seventh title.
2023 Rugby World Cup
2023 Rugby World Cup (Coupe du Monde de Rugby 2023): tenth men's Rugby World Cup, held in France 8 September to 28 October 2023; South Africa beat New Zealand 12-11 for a record fourth title; 20 teams, 48 matches, record 1.33 billion viewing hours.
2023 Ryder Cup
2023 Ryder Cup, 44th edition at Marco Simone, Rome, Italy. Europe, captained by Luke Donald, beat Zach Johnson's United States 16½–11½, sweeping Friday foursomes 4–0; first Italian hosting, €262 million economic impact.
2023 San Francisco 49ers season
2023 San Francisco 49ers season: NFL team's campaign, 12-5 regular season, first in NFC West, playoff wins over Packers and Lions, overtime Super Bowl LVIII loss to Chiefs.
2023 Six Nations Championship
The 2023 Six Nations Championship, the 24th edition of Europe's annual rugby union tournament, ran from February to March 2023 and was won by Ireland with a Grand Slam.
2023 Stanley Cup Finals
2023 Stanley Cup Final: Vegas Golden Knights beat Florida Panthers 4-1 for their first Cup, clinching 9-3 in Game 5 on June 13, 2023; Marchessault won the Conn Smythe.
2023 Stanley Cup playoffs
2023 Stanley Cup playoffs, NHL postseason for the 2022-23 season, April 17 to June 13, 2023. Vegas Golden Knights won their first Cup, beating the Florida Panthers 4-1; Marchessault won the Conn Smythe.
2023 US Open – Men's singles
2023 US Open men's singles: Novak Djokovic beat Daniil Medvedev 6-3, 7-6(5), 6-3 in the final for his 24th Grand Slam title, tying Margaret Court, his fourth US Open crown, and the oldest Open Era US Open championship.
2023 US Open – Women's singles
2023 US Open women's singles: Coco Gauff (seed 6) won her first Grand Slam, beating Aryna Sabalenka 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the September 9, 2023 final; defending champion Iga Swiatek lost the quarterfinal to Ostapenko.
2023 US Open (tennis)
2023 US Open tennis Grand Slam, Aug 28-Sep 10 at Flushing Meadows, New York. Djokovic beat Medvedev for a 24th major; Gauff beat Sabalenka for her first; record 957,387 attendance.
2023 Wimbledon Championships
2023 Wimbledon Championships, 136th edition, 3–16 July 2023, London. Carlos Alcaraz beat Novak Djokovic for the men's title; Marketa Vondrousova became the first unseeded women's champion; record £44.7m prize money.
2023 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles
2023 Wimbledon men's singles: Carlos Alcaraz beat Novak Djokovic 1-6, 7-6(6), 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 in 4h42m for his first Wimbledon title, ending Djokovic's 34-match streak and bids for an eighth title and 24th major.
2023 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles
2023 Wimbledon women's singles: unseeded Czech Marketa Vondrousova, world No. 42, beat sixth seed Ons Jabeur 6-4, 6-4 in the July 15, 2023 final, becoming the first unseeded Wimbledon women's champion; Jabeur fell to 0-3 in major finals.
2023 World Baseball Classic
The 2023 World Baseball Classic, the fifth WBC, ran March 8-21, 2023, in Taiwan, Japan, and the US with 20 teams. Japan beat the United States 3-2 in the Miami final on Shohei Ohtani's strikeout of Mike Trout, winning its third title.
2023 World Men's Handball Championship
The 28th IHF Men's World Championship 2023 (Poland/Sweden handball worlds), 11-29 January 2023, 32 teams, nine venues. Denmark beat France 34:29 in the Stockholm final for a record third straight title; Spain took bronze; Mathias Gidsel was MVP and top scorer with 60 goals.
2023 World Series
The 2023 World Series, MLB's 119th championship, matched wild cards Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks; the Rangers won 4-1 for their first title, with Corey Seager as MVP and an 11-0 postseason road record.
2023 WTA Tour
2023 WTA Tour (Hologic WTA Tour): the WTA's 50th-anniversary season, United Cup debut to WTA Finals Cancun; 39 singles champions, Swiatek's six titles and year-end No. 1, calendar reform and equal-pay roadmap.
2023 XFL season
2023 XFL season, the third XFL incarnation under Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia: eight teams, February 18 to May 13, 2023; Arlington Renegades upset DC Defenders 35-26 for the title before the USFL merger.
2023–24 College Football Playoff
2023–24 College Football Playoff: final four-team CFP edition. Field: Michigan, Washington, Texas, Alabama; undefeated Florida State (13-0) excluded. Michigan beat Washington 34-13 in Houston for its 12th title.
2023–24 NBA season
2023-24 NBA season, the league's 78th regular season (Oct 24, 2023-Apr 14, 2024), debuted the NBA In-Season Tournament won 7-0 by the Lakers; Boston won its record 18th title, Jokic won MVP, Wembanyama unanimous Rookie of the Year.
2023–24 NFL playoffs
2023-24 NFL playoffs: 14-team postseason for the 2023 NFL season, ending in Super Bowl LVIII (Feb 11, 2024, Las Vegas) between the Chiefs and 49ers; record 38.5 million average viewers and Lions' first playoff win in 32 years.
2023–24 NHL season
The 2023–24 NHL season was the league's 107th season, running from October 2023 to April 2024, ending with the Florida Panthers' first Stanley Cup title over Edmonton.
2024 AFL Grand Final
2024 AFL Grand Final: Brisbane Lions beat Sydney Swans 18.12 (120) to 9.6 (60) by 60 points at the MCG on 28 September 2024, crowd 100,013, Will Ashcroft Norm Smith medallist, Brisbane's first flag since 2003.
2024 AFL season
2024 AFL season, the 128th Australian Football League premiership season; Brisbane Lions beat Sydney by 60 points in the Grand Final; first Opening Round, record 8,289,788 attendance, Cripps won Brownlow with 45 votes.