1968

January 7

• GE College Bowl quiz show premieres on NBC TV. [1]

January 9

• First ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 120 at Indiana. [1]
• Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Olympics-bronze-1964), commits suicide. [1]

January 13

• Minnesota North Stars' center Bill Masterton fatally injured (dies on 15th). [1]

January 14

• Super Bowl II: Green Bay Packers beat Oakland Raiders, 33-14 in Miami, Florida; Most Valuable Player: Bart Starr, quarterback. [1]

January 15

• Bill Masterson, first NHL player fatally injured during game (January 13), dies. [1]

January 16

• 21st NHL All-Star Game: Toronto Maple Leafs beat All-Stars 4-3 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [1]

January 20

• Houston ends UCLA's 47-game basketball winning streak, 71-69. [1]
• US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming. [1]
• US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood. [1]

January 21

• AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 25-24. [1]
• NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-20. [1]

January 22

• Duke Kahanamoku of Hawaii, 100m swimmer (Olympics-gold-1912, 1920, 1924), dies at age 77. [1]
• NBA announces it will expand to Milwaukee and Phoenix. [1]

January 23

• Joe Medwick elected to Baseball Hall of Fame. [1]

January 28

• 29th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Chandler Harper. [1]
• Goose Goslin and Kiki Cuyler elected to baseball Hall of Fame. [1]

January 29

• Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai; cricketer (Test for India), dies. [1]

January 31

• Bobby Simpson takes 5-59 versus India in his last Test for ten years. [1]

February 1

• Lawson Little, amateur golfer (US/British Opens 1934, 1935), dies at age 57. [1]
• Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of the Green Bay Packers. [1]

February 4

• Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th commissioner of baseball. [1]

February 6

• (to February 18) The X Olympic Winter Games are held in Grenoble, France. [7]
• Former US President Dwight Eisenhower shoots a hole-in-one. [1]

February 11

• Peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France. [1]

February 15

• Anaheim Amigos' Les Salvage scores ten three-point baskets in ABA game versus Denver Nuggets. [1]

February 17

• Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. [1]

February 18

• X Olympic Winter Games close at Grenoble, France. [1]

February 21

• American Major League Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000. [1]

February 23

• Wilt Chamberlain becomes first NBA player to score 25,000 points. [1]

March 2

• World Ice Dance Championship in Geneva, Switzerland won by Diane Towler and Bernard Ford (Great Britain). [1]
• World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Geneva, Switzerland won by Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov (USSR). [1]
• World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva, Switzerland won by Peggy Fleming (USA). [1]
• World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva, Switzerland won by Emmerich Danzer (Austria). [1]

March 3

• Jean Beliveau (Montréal) becomes second NHL player to score 1,000 points. [1]

March 4

• Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 rounds for heavyweight boxing title. [1]

March 8

• Six-year-old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown, Maryland). [1]

March 15

• Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27 feet 2.75 inches). [1]

March 17

• Kathie Whitworth wins LPGA Saint Petersburg Orange Blossom Golf Open. [1]

March 21

• "Royals" chosen as the name of new Kansas City American League Baseball franchise. [1]

March 23

• 30th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats North Carolina 78-55. [1]

March 24

• Mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational. [1]

March 31

• Mickey Wright wins LPGA Palm Beach County Golf Open. [1]
• Seattle's American League club is named Pilots. [1]