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1994 NBA Finals
The 1994 NBA Finals, won 4-3 by the Houston Rockets over the New York Knicks, gave Houston its first NBA title, with Hakeem Olajuwon as unanimous Finals MVP.
1994 NFL season
1994 NFL season, the league's 75th, first under the $34.6M salary cap and with the two-point conversion adopted. San Francisco went 13-3 and won Super Bowl XXIX 49-26 over San Diego for a record fifth title.
1994 Stanley Cup Finals
1994 Stanley Cup Finals: the New York Rangers beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-3, winning Game 7 3-2 at Madison Square Garden on June 14, 1994, ending a 54-year drought; Brian Leetch won the Conn Smythe Trophy.
1994 World Series
1994 World Series: the MLB championship cancelled on September 14, 1994 by acting commissioner Bud Selig during the 232-day players' strike over a salary cap; first Series not played since 1904, with the 74-40 Montreal Expos denied a title run.
1994–95 Chicago Bulls season
1994-95 Chicago Bulls season: NBA campaign, 47-35, third Central Division, Phil Jackson coach. Michael Jordan returned March 19, 1995 after 21 months; Bulls beat Charlotte 3-1, lost to Orlando Magic 4-2 in East semifinals.
1994–95 Houston Rockets season
1994-95 Houston Rockets season: defending NBA champions who finished 47-35, traded for Clyde Drexler, and as the sixth seed swept Shaquille O'Neal's Orlando Magic 4-0 for a second straight title, Hakeem Olajuwon winning Finals MVP.
1994–95 Major League Baseball strike
1994–95 Major League Baseball strike, MLBPA walkout of August 11, 1994 to March 31, 1995 over a salary cap; 948 games and the World Series cancelled; ended by Sotomayor injunction.
1994–95 NBA season
1994–95 NBA season, the NBA's 49th. Houston Rockets won a second straight title, sweeping Orlando 4–0 as the first No. 6 seed champion; Jordan returned in March; Wilkens and Stockton set records.
1995 NBA draft
1995 NBA draft, held June 28, 1995 at Toronto's SkyDome; 58 picks, Joe Smith first overall to Golden State, Kevin Garnett fifth to Minnesota, first draft for Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies.
1995 NBA Finals
1995 NBA Finals: Houston Rockets swept the Orlando Magic 4-0 (Game 4, 113-101) for a second straight NBA title; Hakeem Olajuwon won his second consecutive Finals MVP.
1995 NBA playoffs
1995 NBA playoffs: postseason of the 1994-95 NBA season. Sixth-seeded Houston Rockets (47-35) won their second straight title, sweeping Orlando 4-0 in the Finals; Olajuwon was Finals MVP.
1995 NFL season
The 1995 NFL season, the league's 76th, added the Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars as expansion teams and ended with the Dallas Cowboys beating Pittsburgh 27-17 in Super Bowl XXX; Brett Favre won MVP.
1995 Rugby World Cup
1995 Rugby World Cup: third men's Rugby World Cup, hosted by South Africa 25 May-24 June 1995, its first appearance after apartheid. Springboks beat New Zealand 15-12 AET at Ellis Park; Mandela gave Pienaar the Webb Ellis Cup; rugby turned professional weeks later.
1995 World Series
1995 World Series: Atlanta Braves beat Cleveland Indians 4-2 for Atlanta's first title; Glavine MVP, Game 6 won 1-0 on Justice's homer; Indians' first Series since 1954.
1995–96 Chicago Bulls season
1995-96 Chicago Bulls season: NBA team that went 72-10 under Phil Jackson, led by Michael Jordan (30.4 ppg, MVP), Scottie Pippen, and Dennis Rodman (14.9 rpg), then won the 1996 NBA Finals 4-2 over Seattle for a 15-3 playoff run and fourth title in six years.
1995–96 NBA season
The 1995-96 NBA season, the league's 50th, in which the Chicago Bulls went a record 72-10 and won the title over Seattle; the NBA also expanded to 29 teams with the Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies.
1996 NBA draft
1996 NBA draft: held June 26, 1996, East Rutherford, N.J.; Allen Iverson picked first by Philadelphia. A 13-team lottery year; class of Kobe Bryant (13th, traded for Divac), Ray Allen, Nash, five Hall of Famers, three MVPs.
1996 NBA Finals
1996 NBA Finals: the 72-10 Chicago Bulls, led by Finals MVP Michael Jordan, beat the Seattle SuperSonics 4-2 in June 1996, clinching on Father's Day at the United Center.
1996 NFL season
1996 NFL season, the league's 77th: Green Bay Packers (13-3) beat New England 35-21 in Super Bowl XXXI; Panthers (12-4) and Jaguars (9-7) reached conference title games in year two; Browns moved to Baltimore as the Ravens.
1996 World Series
1996 World Series: New York Yankees beat defending champion Atlanta Braves 4-2, overcoming a 2-0 deficit; 23rd Yankees title, first since 1978; Wetteland MVP; start of the late-1990s dynasty.
1996–97 Chicago Bulls season
The 1996–97 Chicago Bulls season was the campaign in which the defending-champion Bulls went 69–13 and won their fifth NBA championship by defeating the Utah Jazz in six games.
1996–97 NBA season
1996-97 NBA season: the NBA's 50th-anniversary year. Chicago Bulls went 69-13 and beat Utah 4-2 for the title; Karl Malone won MVP, Jordan's Flu Game in Finals Game 5, and the 1996 draft class debuted.
1997 Masters Tournament
1997 Masters Tournament, won by Tiger Woods at Augusta National on April 13, 1997: 18-under 270, a record 12-stroke win over Tom Kite, youngest champion at 21, his first major.
1997 Michigan Wolverines football team
1997 Michigan Wolverines football team, coached by Lloyd Carr, went 12-0 (8-0 Big Ten), won the Rose Bowl 21-16 over Washington State, and claimed the AP national title, split with Nebraska; Charles Woodson won the Heisman.
1997 NBA draft
1997 NBA draft, held June 25, 1997: 57 picks, 47 played in NBA. San Antonio won the lottery (21.6% odds) and drafted Tim Duncan first; Boston's best odds missed out; Tracy McGrady went 9th to Toronto.
1997 NBA Finals
1997 NBA Finals: Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz 4-2 for their fifth 1990s title; Jordan Finals MVP (32.3/7.0/6.0), Flu Game in Game 5, Kerr's Game 6 clincher.
1997 NFL season
1997 NFL season, 78th NFL regular season; Denver Broncos (12-4) beat Green Bay Packers 31-24 in Super Bowl XXXII as Terrell Davis ran for 157 yards and a record 3 TDs, ending the NFC's 13-year Super Bowl streak; Oilers relocated to Tennessee.
1997 World Games
1997 World Games, fifth World Games, held 7–17 August 1997 in Lahti, Finland after Port Elizabeth withdrew; 22 sports, 164 medal events, 1,566 athletes from 70 nations; USA led the medal table.
1997 World Series
1997 World Series: Florida Marlins beat Cleveland Indians 4-3, winning Game 7 3-2 in 11 innings on Edgar Renteria's single; Livan Hernandez MVP; Marlins' first title in their fifth season; Cleveland's drought since 1948 continued.
1997–98 Chicago Bulls season
1997-98 Chicago Bulls: final title season of the Jordan-Pippen dynasty, 62-20, sixth NBA championship, beating Utah 4-2 in the 1998 Finals on Jordan's 45-point Game 6 and last shot with 5.2 seconds left.