2010 in sports will describe the year's events in world sport.
Events by month
January
24th-31st Bandy World Championship in Moscow, Russia. Winner:
February
7 American football, , Super Bowl XLIV. Winner: New Orleans Saints. 12 – 28: Olympics, / 2010 Winter Olympics. Winner: Canada.
March
April
25: Marathon, London Marathon. Winners: Tsegaye Kebede, Liliya Shobukhova
May
30: IndyCar Series, USA 2010 Indianapolis 500 Winner: Dario Franchitti
June
3 - 17: Basketball, / 2010 NBA Finals. Winner: Los Angeles Lakers. 11–11 July: Association football, 2010 FIFA World Cup. Winner: .
July
The ashes
August
28–12 September: Basketball, 2010 FIBA World Championship. Winner: .
September
23–3 October: Basketball, 2010 FIBA World Championship for Women. Winner: . 26: Formula One, 2010 Singapore Grand Prix. Winner: Fernando Alonso. 26: Marathon, Berlin Marathon. Winners: Patrick Makau, Aberu Kebede.
October
3 - 14: Multi-sport event, 2010 Commonwealth Games, Delhi, India. Winner: Australia 10: Marathon, Chicago Marathon. Winners: Samuel Wanjiru, Liliya Shobukhova. 24: Formula One, 2010 Korean Grand Prix. Winner: Fernando Alonso.
November
7: Marathon, New York City Marathon. Winners: Gebregziabher Gebremariam, Edna Kiplagat. 12 - 27: Multi-sport event, 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China. Winner: China
December
American football
January
The Alabama Crimson Tide defeats the Texas Longhorns 37–21 in the BCS National Championship Game at the Rose Bowl, thereby claiming the 2009 National Championship in College Football.
February
Super Bowl XLIV – the New Orleans Saints (NFC) won 31–17 over the Indianapolis Colts (AFC) Location: Sun Life Stadium Attendance: 74,059 MVP: Drew Brees, QB (New Orleans) For the third consecutive year, the proposed All American Football League, originally intended to launch in 2008, delays its planned debut, this time until 2011.
March
Another proposed league, the United National Gridiron League, announces that it has indefinitely suspended operations.
April
The new incarnation of the Arena Football League, consisting mostly of teams from the now-dissolved AF2, makes its debut. Although the new AFL is a separate corporate entity from the original AFL, it purchased the assets of the original league in a bankruptcy auction, enabling it to brand itself as a continuation of the original.
August
August–September: New Meadowlands Stadium, the new home of the New York Giants and Jets, opened on August 16 with a pre-season game between the two teams, with the Jets as the designated home team. The Giants won this matchup 31–16. After winning a coin flip between the two teams, the Giants played the first regular-season game in the stadium on September 12, defeating the Carolina Panthers 31–18. The Jets played the Baltimore Ravens in their home opener the following night on Monday Night Football, losing 10–9. August 20 – The Spokane Shock defeat the Tampa Bay Storm 69–57 at home to win ArenaBowl XXIII.
September
Reggie Bush, currently with the Saints, announced that he would forfeit his 2005 Heisman Trophy after his involvement with marketing agents while playing at USC led to severe NCAA penalties against the school. USC had already returned its copy of Bush's Heisman and the football program cut ties with Bush.
December
Brett Favre, Quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings was listed inactive against the New York Giants, which was played at Ford Field home of the Detroit Lions after the Vikings stadium, the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, collapsed due to heavy snow. This was the first time since 1991 that Favre did not start a game, ending his NFL consecutive-streak record at 297.
Aquatics
January/February
29 January–8 February Swimming at the 2010 South Asian Games in Dhaka, Bangladesh
July
13–18 2010 FINA Men's Water Polo World League (The Super Final was held in Niš, Serbia) 18–23 Swimming at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 27 July - 1 August 2010 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup in Oradea, Romania