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 vs 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 10th 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 vs Denver Nuggets. [1]
- February 17
- Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. [1]
- February 18
- 10th Winter Olympic 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]
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