- January 21
- AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 25-24. [1]
- NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-20. [1]
- January 22
- 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 31
- Bobby Simpson takes 5-59 versus India in his last Test for ten years. [1]
- February 1
- Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of the Green Bay Packers. [1]
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- 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 in golf. [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 (Montreal Canadiens) 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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