1989 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships
The 1989 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships were the 43rd annual championships to determine the national champions of NCAA Division I men's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships
Stanford defeated Georgia, 5–3, in the final of the team championship to win their second consecutive and tenth overall title.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships, Host site
The tournaments were played at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. The men's and women's tournaments would not be held at the same venue until 2006.


1989 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships
The 1989 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships were contested May 31−June 3 at the Clarence F. Robison Track and Field Complex at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah in order to determine the individual and team national champions of men's and women's collegiate Division I outdoor track and field events in the United States.


1989 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships
These were the 67th annual men's championships and the eighth annual women's championships. This was the Cougars' fourth time hosting the event and the first since 1982.


1989 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships
LSU topped both the men's and women's standings, the first time this occurred in the eight years since the NCAA expanded the championship to include women's events in 1982; it was the LSU men's team's second team title (and first since 1934−a span of fifty-five years) and the third consecutive, as well as third overall, for the Lady Tigers. This would go on to be the third of LSU's eleven consecutive women's national championships in track and field between 1987 and 1997.


1989 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament
The 1989 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament was the eighth annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA women's collegiate softball. Held during May 1989, twenty Division I college softball teams contested the championship. The tournament featured eight regionals of either two or three teams, each in a double elimination format. The 1989 Women's College World Series was held in Sunnyvale, California from May 24 through May 28 and marked the conclusion of the 1989 NCAA Division I softball season. For the second consecutive year, UCLA won the championship by defeating Fresno State 1–0 in the final game.


1989 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament
This was the last WCWS before it moved to its current home in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.


1989 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships
The 1989 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships refer to one of two NCAA-sponsored events held during May 1989 to determine the national champions of men's and women's collegiate tennis in the United States:


1989 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships
The men's and women's tournaments would not be held at the same site until 2006.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
The 1989 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament began on March 15 and ended on April 2. The tournament expanded from 40 to 48 teams. The Final Four consisted of Auburn, Louisiana Tech, Tennessee, and Maryland, with Tennessee winning its second title with a 76-60 victory over Auburn. Tennessee's Bridgette Gordon was named the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Records
Auburn has only six turnovers in the National Semi-final game against Louisiana Tech, the fewest turnovers recorded in a Final Four game.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Records
Bridgette Gordon scored 17 points from the free throw line in the East Regional Final between Tennessee and Long Beach state, the most ever scored in an NCAA Tournament game.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Records
Maryland had 25 steals in a game against Stephen F. Austin in the West Regional Semifinal, the most in an NCAA tournament game, since the statistic has been recorded (starting in 1988).


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Records
Jennifer Azzi hit nine of eleven three point attempts over the course of the tournament, the best percentage ever recorded in a tournament game (minimum- 1.5 made per game)


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Records
Stanford hit 22 of 33 three point attempts over the course of the tournament, the best percentage ever recorded in a tournament game (minimum - three games)


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying teams - automatic
Forty-eight teams were selected to participate in the 1989 NCAA Tournament. Nineteen conferences were eligible for an automatic bid to the 1989 NCAA tournament.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying teams - at-large
Twenty-nine additional teams were selected to complete the forty-eight invitations.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Bids by conference
Nineteen conferences earned an automatic bid. In seven cases, the automatic bid was the only representative from the conference. Two conferences, Southland and American South sent a single representative as an at-large team. One team earned an at-large bid as an Independent Twenty-six additional at-large teams were selected from ten of the conferences.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, First and second rounds
In 1989, the field expanded to 48 teams. The teams were seeded, and assigned to four geographic regions, with seeds 1-12 in each region. In Round 1, seeds 8 and 9 faced each other for the opportunity to face the 1 seed in the second round, seeds 7 and 10 played for the opportunity to face the 2 seed, seeds 5 and 12 played for the opportunity to face the 4 seed, and seeds 6 and 11 played for the opportunity to face the 3 seed. In the first two rounds, the higher seed was given the opportunity to host the first-round game. In most cases, the higher seed accepted the opportunity. The exceptions:


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, First and second rounds
Because Purdue was also a first round venue, there are only 31 rather than 32 first and second round venues


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, First and second rounds
The following table lists the region, host school, venue and the thirty-one first and second round locations:


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Regionals and  Final Four
The Regionals, named for the general  location, were held from March 23 to March 25 at these sites:


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Regionals and  Final Four
Each regional winner advanced to the  Final Four, held March 31 and April 2 in Tacoma, Washington  at the Tacoma Dome, co-hosted by Seattle University & University of Washington.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Bids by state
The forty-eight teams came from thirty-one states. Pennsylvania and Tennessee had the most teams with four each. Nineteen states did not have any teams receiving bids.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Brackets
First and second-round games played at higher seed except where noted.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Record by  conference
Nineteen conferences had more than one  bid, or at least one win in NCAA Tournament play:


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship
The 1989 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship was the eighth annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national championship for Division I National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) women's college lacrosse. The championship game was played at John A. Farrell Stadium in West Chester, Pennsylvania during May 1989.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship
The Penn State Nittany Lions won their second championship by defeating the Harvard Crimson in the final, 7–8. This was Penn State's fourth consecutive appearance in the tournament final (2 wins, 2 losses).


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship
The leading scorer for the tournament, with 6 goals, was Karen Everling, from Harvard. The Most Outstanding Player trophy was not awarded this year.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship, Teams
All NCAA Division I women's lacrosse programs were eligible for this championship. Ultimately, 6 teams were invited to participate in this single-elimination tournament.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament
The 1989 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament was the eighth annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I women's collegiate soccer. The championship game was played again at Method Road Soccer Stadium in Raleigh, North Carolina during December 1989.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament
North Carolina defeated Colorado College in the final, 2–0, to win their seventh national title. Coached by Anson Dorrance, the Tar Heels finished the season 24–0–1. This was the fourth of North Carolina's record nine consecutive national titles (1986–1994). It was also part of the Tar Heels' ten-year unbeaten streak that ran from the 1984 championship game all the way until the 1994 season.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament
The Most Outstanding Offensive Player was Kristine Lilly from North Carolina, and the Most Outstanding Defensive Player was Tracey Bates, also from North Carolina. Shannon Higgins, also from North Carolina, was the tournament's leading scorer (3 goals, 4 assists).


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament, Qualification
After the establishment of the NCAA Division II Women's Soccer Championship in 1988, only Division I women's soccer programs were eligible to qualify for the tournament. Nonetheless, the tournament field remained fixed at 12 teams.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
The 1989 NCAA Women's Division I Swimming and Diving Championships were contested at the eighth annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of Division I women's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
This year's events were hosted at the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis, Indiana.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
Stanford topped the team standings, finishing just 63.5 points ahead of five-time defending champions Texas; it was the Cardinal's second overall title and first since 1983.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships
The 1989 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships were the eighth annual championships to determine the national champions of NCAA Division I women's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships
Stanford defeated UCLA, 5–0, to win their fourth consecutive and sixth overall national title.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships, Host sites
The tournaments were hosted at Linder Stadium at Ring Tennis Complex at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. The men's and women's tournaments would not be held at the same site until 2006.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament
The 1989 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament began with 32 teams and ended on December 16, 1989, when Long Beach State defeated Nebraska 3 games to 0 in the NCAA championship match.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament
Led by AVCA co-National Player of the Year Tara Cross's 20 kills, Long Beach State defeated Nebraska 15-12, 15-0, 15-6 to win the school's first NCAA championship. Nebraska made the program's second championship match appearance.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament
The 1989 Final Four was held at the Neil S. Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.


1989 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, NCAA tournament records
There are 4 NCAA tournaments record that were set in the 1989 NCAA tournament that still stand today.


1989 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships
The 1989 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships were the 59th NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships to be held. Both University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma hosted the tournament at McCasland Field House and Gallagher-Iba Arena, respectively.


1989 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships
Oklahoma State won the team championship with 91.25 points, their 28th team title, and had two individual champions.


1989 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships
Tim Krieger of Iowa State was named the Most Outstanding Wrestler and Mike Cole of Clarion received the Gorriaran Award.


1989 NCAA Division I baseball rankings
The following polls make up the 1989 NCAA Division I baseball rankings. Baseball America began publishing its poll of the top 20 teams in college baseball in 1981. Beginning with the 1985 season, it expanded to the top 25. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper published its first human poll of the top 20 teams in college baseball in 1957, and expanded to rank the top 30 teams in 1961.


1989 NCAA Division I baseball rankings, Baseball America
Currently, only the final poll from the 1989 season is available.


1989 NCAA Division I baseball rankings, Collegiate Baseball
Currently, only the final poll from the 1989 season is available.


1989 NCAA Division I baseball season
The 1989 NCAA Division I baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1989. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1989 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the forty third time in 1989, consisted of one team from each of eight regional competitions and was held in Omaha, Nebraska at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium as a double-elimination tournament. Wichita State claimed the championship for the first time.


1989 NCAA Division I baseball season, Conference winners
This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1989 season. The NCAA sponsored regional competitions to determine the College World Series participants. Each of the eight regionals consisted of six teams competing in double-elimination tournaments, with the winners advancing to Omaha. 27 teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference championship while 21 teams earned at-large selections.


1989 NCAA Division I baseball season, College World Series
The 1989 season marked the forty third NCAA Baseball Tournament, which culminated with the eight team College World Series. The College World Series was held in Omaha, Nebraska. The eight teams played a double-elimination format, with Wichita State claiming their first championship with a 5–3 win over Texas in the final.


1989 NCAA Division I softball season
The 1989 NCAA Division I softball season, play of college softball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level, began in February 1989. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 1989 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament and 1989 Women's College World Series. The Women's College World Series, consisting of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and held in Sunnyvale, California at Twin Creeks Sports Complex, ended on May 28, 1989.


1989 NCAA Division I softball season, Women's College World Series
The 1989 NCAA Women's College World Series took place from May 24 to May 28, 1989 in Sunnyvale, California.


1989 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
Freshman class innings pitched:393.0 – Dana Mitchell, Texas A&M Aggies


1989 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
Senior class at bats:255 – Kathy Mayer, Fresno State Bulldogs


1989 NCAA Division I-A football rankings
Two human polls comprised the 1989 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I-A football rankings. Unlike most sports, college football's governing body, the NCAA, does not bestow a national championship, instead that title is bestowed by one or more different polling agencies. There are two main weekly polls that begin in the preseason—the AP Poll and the Coaches' Poll.


1989 NCAA Division I-A football season
The 1989 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with Miami winning its third National Championship during the 1980s, cementing its claim as the decade's top team, winning more titles than any other program.


1989 NCAA Division I-A football season
Notre Dame signed a six-year, $30 million deal with NBC, granting the network the exclusive rights to broadcast Notre Dame football. However, the deal would not start until 1991.


1989 NCAA Division I-A football season
Florida State began 0–2 but finished the season 10–2, having beaten the National Champions Miami earlier in the season and beating Nebraska in the Fiesta Bowl.


1989 NCAA Division I-A football season
Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer resigned June 19 after 16 seasons, during which he led the Sooners to three national championships (1974, 1975, 1985).


1989 NCAA Division I-A football season
Michigan coach Bo Schembechler retired following the season. Steve Spurrier was hired by Florida away from Duke in an effort to clean up after a decade of NCAA sanctions.


1989 NCAA Division I-A football season
Houston quarterback Andre Ware ran the run and shoot offense all the way to the Heisman Trophy and numerous records.


1989 NCAA Division I-A football season, Conference and program changes
One team upgraded from Division I-AA and one resumed play after being suspended for two seasons, thus increasing the number of Division I-A teams from 104 to 106.


1989 NCAA Division I-A football season, Notable rivalry games
Auburn 30 Alabama 20 First Iron Bowl Played in Auburn


1989 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game
The 1989 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game between the Georgia Southern Eagles and the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks. The game was played on December 16, 1989, at Paulson Stadium in Statesboro, Georgia. The culminating game of the 1989 NCAA Division I-AA football season, it was won by Georgia Southern, 37–34.


1989 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game, Teams
The participants of the Championship Game were the finalists of the 1989 I-AA Playoffs, which began with a 16-team bracket. The location of the final, the Georgia Southern Eagles' Paulson Stadium, had been predetermined via a three-year agreement the university reached with the NCAA in February 1989.


1989 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game, Teams, Georgia Southern Eagles
Georgia Southern finished their regular season with an 11–0 record. Ranked first in the final NCAA I-AA in-house poll and seeded first in the tournament, the Eagles defeated Villanova, Middle Tennessee State, and Montana to reach the final. This was the fourth appearance for Georgia Southern in a Division I-AA championship game, having two prior wins (1985 and 1986) and one prior loss (1988).


1989 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game, Teams, Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks
Stephen F. Austin finished their regular season with a 9–1–1 record (5–0–1 in conference); their only loss was an away game against Boise State. Ranked third in the final NCAA I-AA in-house poll and seeded third in the tournament, the Lumberjacks defeated Grambling State, Southwest Missouri State, and second-seed Furman to reach the final. This was the first appearance for Stephen F. Austin in a Division I-AA championship game.


1989 NCAA Division I-AA football rankings
The 1989 NCAA Division I-AA football rankings are from the NCAA Division I-AA football committee. This is for the 1989 season.


1989 NCAA Division I-AA football season
The 1989 NCAA Division I-AA football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division I-AA level, began in August 1989, and concluded with the 1989 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game on December 16, 1989, at Paulson Stadium in Statesboro, Georgia. The Georgia Southern Eagles won their third I-AA championship, defeating the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks by a score of 37−34.


1989 NCAA Division I-AA football season, Conference champions
Big Sky Conference – IdahoColonial League – Holy CrossGateway Collegiate Athletic Conference –  Southwest Missouri StateIvy League – Princeton and YaleMid-Eastern Athletic Conference – Delaware StateOhio Valley Conference – Middle Tennessee StateSouthern Conference – FurmanSouthland Conference – Stephen F. AustinSouthwestern Athletic Conference – Jackson StateYankee Conference –  Connecticut, Maine, and Villanova


1989 NCAA Division I-AA football season, Postseason
The top four teams were seeded, and thus assured of home games in the opening round. The location of the final, the Georgia Southern Eagles' Paulson Stadium, had been predetermined via a three-year agreement the university reached with the NCAA in February 1989.


1989 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1989 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament involved 32 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college basketball as a culmination of the 1988–89 NCAA Division II men's basketball season. It was won by North Carolina Central University, with North Carolina Central's Miles Clark named the Most Outstanding Player.


1989 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
This was the first Division II men's tournament to adopt the current Elite Eight format, in which all eight regional winners advance to the championship site.


1989 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship
The 1989 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship was the 18th annual tournament held by the NCAA to determine the top men's Division II college soccer program in the United States.


1989 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship
New Hampshire College defeated UNC Greensboro in the final, 3–1, to win their first Division II national title. The Penmen (22-1-2) were coached by John Rootes.


1989 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship
The final match was played on December 3 in Greensboro, North Carolina.


1989 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
The 1989 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament was the eighth annual tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division II women's  collegiate basketball in the United States.


1989 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
Delta State defeated Cal Poly Pomona in the championship game, 88–58, claiming the Lady Statesmen's first NCAA Division II national title.


1989 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
A third-place game returned to the tournament this year after a six-year absence.


1989 NCAA Division II Women's Soccer Tournament
The 1989 NCAA Division II Women's Soccer Tournament was the second annual NCAA-sponsored tournament to determine the team national champion of Division II women's college soccer in the United States.


1989 NCAA Division II Women's Soccer Tournament
The championship was hosted at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida.


1989 NCAA Division II Women's Soccer Tournament
Hosts Barry defeated Keene State in the final, 4–0, to claim their first national title.


1989 NCAA Division II football rankings
The 1989 NCAA Division II football rankings are from the NCAA Division II football committee. This is for the 1989 season.


1989 NCAA Division II football season
The 1989 NCAA Division II football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division II level, began in August 1989, and concluded with the NCAA Division II Football Championship on December 10, 1989, at Braly Municipal Stadium in Florence, Alabama, hosted by the University of North Alabama. The Mississippi College Choctaws defeated the Jacksonville State Gamecocks, 3–0, to win their first Division II national title. However, their championship was later revoked by the NCAA.


1989 NCAA Division II football season
The Harlon Hill Trophy was awarded to Johnny Bailey, running back from Texas A&I, for the third consecutive year.


1989 NCAA Division II football season, Conference summaries
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Bowie StateGreat Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Grand Valley StateGulf South Conference – Jacksonville StateLone Star Conference – Texas A&IMissouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Pittsburg StateNorth Central Conference – Saint Cloud StateNorthern California Athletic Conference – UC DavisNorthern Intercollegiate Conference – Minnesota State–MoorheadPennsylvania State Athletic Conference – Millersville and West Chester (East), EdinboroRocky Mountain Athletic Conference – Adams State South Atlantic Conference – Carson-NewmanSouthern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Alabama A&MWestern Football League – Portland State


1989 NCAA Division II football season, Postseason
The 1989 NCAA Division II Football Championship playoffs were the 17th single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college football. The championship game was held at Braly Municipal Stadium in Florence, Alabama, for the fourth time.


1989 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament
The 1989 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 1989 NCAA Division III baseball season to determine the 14th national champion of college baseball at the NCAA Division III level. The tournament concluded with six teams competing at Muzzy Field in Bristol, Connecticut for the championship. Six regional tournaments were held to determine the participants in the World Series.


1989 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament
Regional tournaments were contested in double-elimination format, with one region consisting of six teams, four regions consisting of four teams, and one region consisting of two teams, which was played as best-of-five, for a total of 24 teams participating in the tournament. The tournament champion was N.C. Wesleyan, who defeated Cal State Stanislaus for the championship.


1989 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1989 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament was the 15th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champions of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men's Division III collegiate basketball in the United States.


1989 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
Held during March 1989, the field included forty teams, an increase of eight from 1988. For the first time, the championship rounds were contested in Springfield, Ohio.


1989 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
Wisconsin–Whitewater defeated Trenton State (now TCNJ), 94–86, to clinch their second NCAA Division III national title. The Warhawks' previous title came in 1984.


1989 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1989 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 1988–89 season, the 6th such tournament in NCAA history. It concluded with Wisconsin-Stevens Point defeating RIT in the championship series with 1 win and 1 tie. All Quarterfinals matchups were held at home team venues, while all succeeding games were played in Rochester, New York.


1989 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams
The following teams qualified for the tournament. There were no automatic bids, however, conference tournament champions were given preferential consideration. No formal seeding was used while quarter and semifinal matches were arranged so that the road teams would have the shortest possible travel distances. Because the semifinal series were played at home team venues the NCAA elected to select an equal amount of eastern and western teams.


1989 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament featured three rounds of play. Starting in 1988, each round of the tournament consisted of a two-game series where the first team to reach 3 points was declared a winner (2 points for winning a game, 1 point each for tying). If both teams ended up with 2 points after the first two games a 20-minute mini-game used to determine a winner. Mini-game scores are in italics. The teams were seeded according to geographic proximity in the quarterfinals so the visiting team would have the shortest feasible distance to travel.


1989 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament
The 1989 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament was the eighth annual tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division III women's collegiate basketball in the United States.


1989 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament
Elizabethtown defeated Stanislaus State in the championship game, 66–56, to claim the Blue Jays' second Division III national title.


1989 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament
The championship rounds were hosted by Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.


1989 NCAA Division III football season
The 1989 NCAA Division III football season, part of the college football season organized by the NCAA at the Division III level in the United States, began in August 1989, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, in December 1989 at Garrett-Harrison Stadium in Phenix City, Alabama. The Dayton Flyers won their second Division III championship by defeating the Union (NY) Dutchmen, 17−7.


1989 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason
The 1989 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the 17th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division III college football. The championship Stagg Bowl game was held at Garrett-Harrison Stadium in Phenix City, Alabama for the 15th, and final, time and for the fifth consecutive year. Like the previous four tournaments, this year's bracket featured sixteen teams.


1989 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The Consensus 1989 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of four major All-American teams. To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Associated Press, the USBWA, The United Press International and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.


1989 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament
The 1989 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament was the 20th annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA men's collegiate volleyball. The tournament was played at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, California during May 1989.


1989 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament
UCLA defeated Stanford in the final match, 3–1 (15–1, 15–13, 4–15, 15–12), to win their 13th national title. The Bruins (29–5) were coached by Al Scates.


1989 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament
UCLA's Matt Sonnichsen was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Sonnichsen, along with five other players, also comprised the All-tournament team.


1989 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament, Qualification
Until the creation of the NCAA Men's Division III Volleyball Championship in 2012, there was only a single national championship for men's volleyball. As such, all NCAA men's volleyball programs, whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III, were eligible. A total of 4 teams were invited to contest this championship.


1989 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
The 1989 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship was the 21st annual NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship to determine the national champion of NCAA men's collegiate water polo. Tournament matches were played at the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis, Indiana during December 1989.


1989 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
UC Irvine defeated two-time defending champion California in the final, 9–8, to win their third national title. Coached by Ted Newland, the Anteaters finished the season 27–6.


1989 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
The Most Outstanding Player of the tournament was Dan Smoot (UC Irvine). Smoot, along with eight other players, was named to the All-Tournament Team.


1989 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
The tournament's leading scorer, with 11 goals, was Tom Warde from UC Irvine.


1989 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship, Qualification
Since there has only ever been one single national championship for water polo, all NCAA men's water polo programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of 8 teams were invited to contest this championship.


1989 NCAA Rifle Championships
The 1989 NCAA Rifle Championships were contested at the ninth annual competition to determine the team and individual national champions of NCAA co-ed collegiate rifle shooting in the United States. The championship was held at (what is now known as) the Pat Spurgin Rifle Range at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky.


1989 NCAA Rifle Championships
West Virginia, with a team score of 6,234, retained the team championship, finishing 54 points ahead of South Florida. It was the Mountaineers second consecutive and fifth overall national title.


1989 NCAA Rifle Championships
The individual champions were, for the smallbore rifle, defending titlist Deb Sinclair (Alaska–Fairbanks), and, for the air rifle, Michelle Scarborough (South Florida).


1989 NCAA Rifle Championships, Qualification
Since there is only one national collegiate championship for rifle shooting, all NCAA rifle programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of seven teams ultimately contested this championship.


1989 NCAA Skiing Championships
The 1989 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested at the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Jackson Hole, Wyoming as the 36th annual NCAA-sanctioned ski tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's and women's collegiate slalom and cross country skiing in the United States.


1989 NCAA Skiing Championships
Vermont, coached by Chip LaCasse, claimed their second team national championship, just four points ahead of three-time defending champions Utah in the cumulative team standings.


1989 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venue
This year's championships were contested at the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.


1989 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venue
These were the second NCAA championships held at Jackson Hole as well as the second in the state of Wyoming (1974 and 1989).


1989 NCAA Women's Golf Championship
The 1989 NCAA Women's Golf Championships were contested at the eighth annual NCAA-sanctioned golf tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of women's collegiate golf in the United States. Until 1996, the NCAA would hold just one annual women's golf championship for all programs across Division I, Division II, and Division III.


1989 NCAA Women's Golf Championship
The tournament was held at the Stanford Golf Course in Stanford, California.


1989 NCAA Women's Golf Championship
San Jose State won the team championship, the Spartans' second.


1989 NCAA Women's Golf Championship
Future LPGA Major champion Pat Hurst, from San Jose State, won the individual title.


1989 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship
The 1989 NCAA Women's Gymnastics championship involved 12 schools competing for the national championship of women's NCAA Division I gymnastics. It was the eighth NCAA gymnastics national championship and the defending NCAA Team Champion for 1988 was Alabama. The competition took place in Athens, Georgia hosted by the University of Georgia in the Georgia Coliseum. The 1989 Championship was won by host Georgia, their second title, with a record score of 192.650.


1989 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship
While Suzanne Yoculan and the Georgia Gym Dogs hosted, the favorite heading into nationals was Tanya Service and the UCLA Bruins with the #1 seed. Juggernaut #2 seed, Utah came in with the addition of 1988 American Olympian, Missy Marlowe. The Defending Champion, Alabama lost their top gymnast, Marie Robbins to an ankle injury before the finals.


1989 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship
The end of the competition, UCLA head coach Jerry Tomlinson filed an inquiry over several scores with the judges. After the judges review, UCLA still fell short five one-hundredth of a point.


1989 NFL Draft
The 1989 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held April 23–24, 1989, at the Marriott Marquis in New York City, New York. The league also held a supplemental draft after the regular draft and before the regular season.


1989 NFL Draft
The draft had four of the first five players selected – quarterback Troy Aikman, running back Barry Sanders, linebacker Derrick Thomas, and cornerback Deion Sanders – inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Tackle Tony Mandarich, the only top five pick not inducted, is considered a draft bust.


1989 NFL Draft
The 1989 NFL Draft also helped set a major precedent, as Barry Sanders was selected with the third overall pick despite an NFL rule stating that collegiate juniors could not declare for the draft. Since Barry Sanders was selected as a junior, it has become an expectation for top college players to declare for the draft after their junior season; the rule disallowing collegiate juniors in the NFL draft was lifted by the next draft. Sanders, the 1988 Heisman Trophy winner, was allowed to declare early when Oklahoma State was found guilty of numerous major NCAA rule violations and placed on five years' probation in January 1989.


1989 NFL Draft
Another precedent the draft helped set was how players were invited to the actual draft room. First overall Aikman selection was represented by Leigh Steinberg, who went with his client to the draft finding he was the only player there. As years followed, more players began getting invited to the draft.


1989 NFL season
The 1989 NFL season was the 70th regular season of the National Football League. Before the season, NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle announced his retirement. Paul Tagliabue was eventually chosen to succeed him, taking over on November 5.


1989 NFL season
Due to damage caused by the Loma Prieta earthquake to Candlestick Park, the New England Patriots at San Francisco 49ers game on October 22 was played at Stanford Stadium in Stanford.


1989 NFL season
The season ended with Super Bowl XXIV where the 49ers defeated the Denver Broncos 55–10 at the Louisiana Superdome.


1989 NFL season, Player movement, Draft
The 1989 NFL Draft was held from April 23 to 24, 1989 at New York City's Marriott Marquis. With the first pick, the Dallas Cowboys selected quarterback Troy Aikman from the University of California, Los Angeles. Selecting third, the Detroit Lions drafted Barry Sanders, who would retire as the NFL's second all-time leading scorer (since broken).


1989 NFL season, Referee changes
Fred Silva retired during the 1989 off-season. He joined the NFL in 1968 as a line judge before being promoted to referee in 1969. Games that he officiated include Super Bowl XIV and the Freezer Bowl.


1989 NFL season, Referee changes
Dale Hamer, the head linesman for Super Bowl XVII and Super Bowl XXII, and Howard Roe were promoted to referee. In addition to replacing Silva, an extra 16th officiating crew was added to help handle the weekly workload of 14 games.


1989 NFL season, Referee changes
Walt Coleman was hired as a line judge. He was promoted to referee in 1995 and was a crew chief through 2018.


1989 NFL season, Preseason, American Bowl
A series of National Football League pre-season exhibition games that were held at sites outside the United States, a pair of games in 1989 were contested in London, England and Tokyo, Japan.


1989 NFL season, Preseason, Hall of Fame Game
The Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, in which the Washington Redskins defeated the Buffalo Bills 31–6, was played on August 5, televised nationally by ABC and held at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio, the same city where the league was founded.


1989 NFL season, Preseason, Hall of Fame Game
The 1989 Hall of Fame Class included Mel Blount and Terry Bradshaw, teammates on four Super Bowl championship teams with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1970s, Art Shell, a member of the Oakland Raiders Super Bowl XI and Super Bowl XV teams, plus Willie Wood, who captured five NFL championships, including Super Bowl I and Super Bowl II with the Green Bay Packers.


1989 NFL season, Regular season, Scheduling formula
Inter-conferenceAFC East vs NFC WestAFC Central vs NFC CentralAFC West vs NFC East


1989 NHK Trophy
The 1989 NHK Trophy was held at the Port Island Sports Center in Kobe on November 23–26. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


1989 NHL Entry Draft
The 1989 NHL Entry Draft was the 27th NHL Entry Draft. It was held on June 17 at the Met Center in Bloomington, Minnesota. The Detroit Red Wings' 1989 draft has been noted as exceptionally successful, with 5,955 total NHL games played by the players selected.


1989 NHL Entry Draft, Selections by round
Below are listed the selections in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft. Club teams are located in North America unless otherwise noted.


1989 NHL Supplemental Draft
The 1989 NHL Supplemental Draft took place in June 1989.


1989 NSL Cup
The 1989 NSL Cup was the thirteenth season of the NSL Cup, which was the main national association football knockout cup competition in Australia. 12 teams from around Australia entered the competition.


1989 NSL First Division
The 1989 National Soccer League First Division was the fifth edition of the NSL First Division in South Africa. It was won by Kaizer Chiefs.


1989 NSWRL season
The 1989 NSWRL season was the 82nd season of professional rugby league football in Australia. Sixteen clubs competed for the New South Wales Rugby League's J.J. Giltinan Shield and Winfield Cup Premiership during the season, which culminated in a grand final between Balmain and Canberra. This season NSWRL teams also competed for the 1989 Panasonic Cup. This would be the last time a mid-season competition was played concurrent with the regular season. From 1990 it would become a pre-season competition.


1989 NSWRL season, Season summary
Twenty-two regular season rounds were played from March till August, resulting in a top five of South Sydney, Penrith, Balmain, Canberra and Cronulla (who finished equal with Brisbane but beat them in a play-off for fifth) to battle it out in the finals.


1989 NSWRL season, Season summary
This year Penrith forward Geoff Gerard set new record for most first-grade NSWRL permiership games at 320 before retiring at the end of the season.


1989 NSWRL season, Season summary
The 1989 season's Rothmans Medal was shared by Cronulla-Sutherland forward Gavin Miller and Newcastle front-rower Mark Sargent. Miller also won the Dally M Award and was named Rugby League Week's player of the year.


1989 NSWRL season, Season summary, Teams
The lineup of teams remained unchanged from the previous season, with sixteen clubs contesting the premiership, including five Sydney-based foundation teams, another six from Sydney, two from greater New South Wales, two from Queensland, and one from the Australian Capital Territory.


1989 NSWRL season, Season summary, Teams
2nd seasonGround: Seagulls StadiumCoach: Bob McCarthyCaptain: Ron Gibbs → Billy Johnstone


1989 NSWRL season, Season summary, Teams
82nd seasonGround: North Sydney OvalCoach: Frank StantonCaptain: John Dorahy → Tony Rea


1989 NSWRL season, Season summary, Teams
82nd seasonGround: Sydney Football StadiumCoach: George Piggins Captain: Mario Fenech


1989 NSWRL season, Season summary, Teams
82nd seasonGround: Orana ParkCoach: John BaileyCaptain: Cameron Blair → Ellery Hanley


1989 NSWRL season, Season summary, Advertising
1989 was a watershed year for the New South Wales Rugby League's advertising commencing an association with Tina Turner that would last until 1995. In those years the NSWRL, its ad agency Hertz Walpole and promotions consultant Brian Walsh would fundamentally change the image and popular perception of the game in Australia.


1989 NSWRL season, Season summary, Advertising
Agency copywriter Paul Knights inspired by the brutal simplicity of the game, saw a link to the lyrics in Tina Turner's 1987 hit What You Get Is What You See written by Terry Britten & Graham Lyle. Negotiations were assisted by the fact that her Australian manager Roger Davies was familiar with the game and the rights deal was easily done. There was initially no intention to film Tina performing the song but at the last minute an availability appeared in her schedule.


1989 NSWRL season, Season summary, Advertising
The agency and a production crew were despatched to England along with the NSWRL's General Manager John Quayle bearing bags of balls, jumpers and branded goalpost pads. Leading players Cliff Lyons (Manly) and Gavin Miller (Cronulla) were both in England at the time playing for Leeds and Hull Kingston Rovers respectively and made themselves available for the film and promotional stills shoot with Tina. In the finished ad the Tina footage is interspersed with the usual big hits and crowd scenes plus shots of the star players of the time in pre-season training. Lyons appears in the commercial in a hammy locker room shot with Tina.


1989 NSWRL season, Season summary, Advertising
Initial questions about the relevance of Tina to the Australian game were displaced when the up tempo, sexy ad appeared and the long running and successful association began.


1989 NSWRL season, Finals
Cronulla and Brisbane, having finished equal fifth, played off for a semi-final berth. Cronulla would secure fifth position via a dominant display in a midweek clash on neutral turf at the recently constructed Parramatta Stadium.


1989 NSWRL season, Finals
Despite being on fourth place on the ladder, Canberra went on to win the competition, the first club to do so since the top five system's introduction. They won their last nine games of the season. Canberra's win also saw them become the first non-Sydney based club to win the premiership.


1989 NSWRL season, Finals, Grand final
For only the second time ever, the grand final was not an all-Sydney affair. A number of rugby league writers have referred to the 1989 grand final as the greatest ever; Canberra, who were beaten grand finalists in 1987, had won five games straight in order to make the finals, and in the finals accounted for Cronulla, an emerging Penrith team, and minor premiers South Sydney to qualify for their second grand final, though any loss would have eliminated the side from contention.


1989 NSWRL season, Finals, Grand final
Canberra captain Mal Meninga had to overcome a broken arm from earlier in the season and played in a special cast. Also playing for the Raiders were future representative stars Laurie Daley, Bradley Clyde, Ricky Stuart, Steve Walters and his younger brother Kevin and Glenn Lazarus, as well as established stars Gary Belcher, Brent Todd and John "Chicka" Ferguson. Canberra were coached by Tim Sheens.


1989 NSWRL season, Finals, Grand final
Their opponents Balmain, beaten grand finalists in 1988, boasted a Test-strength pack including Steve "Blocker" Roach, Paul Sironen, Ben Elias, Bruce McGuire, and inspirational captain Wayne "Junior" Pearce, as well as a backline that included Garry Jack, goalkicking English import Andy Currier, New Zealand halfback Gary Freeman, former Wallaby rugby union winger James Grant, and schoolboy sensation Tim Brasher, were favourites to win. The Tigers were again coached by former Canterbury-Bankstown dual premiership winning coach Warren Ryan.


1989 NSWRL season, Finals, Grand final
The pre-match entertainment was provided by Marc Hunter, Debra Byrne, Michael Edward Stevens, boy soprano Ben Hawks & John Williamson.


1989 NSWRL season, Finals, Grand final
Balmain led 12–2 at half time, having scored two tries against the run of play. The first came after an intercept by winger James Grant, snatching an offload from Raiders prop Brent Todd. The second was a great team effort with Paul Sironen steaming over under the posts after lead-up work from Andy Currier and Grant, all starting from a kick ahead by Currier after he had received a perfect offload from Steve Roach.


1989 NSWRL season, Finals, Grand final
Canberra had looked marginally the better side in the first half and coach Tim Sheens spoke effectively to his players at the break, stressing that they could be considered unlucky to be trailing. Fifteen minutes into the second half referee Bill Harrigan controversially ruled against Balmain second-rower Bruce McGuire for using offside Raider Steve Walters as a shepherd. From the ensuing penalty the Raiders kicked for touch and "Chicka" Ferguson set up the Raiders' first try when he escaped an attempted tackle by Currier, passed to Belcher, who also beat Currier to score. The gap was narrowed to 12–8.


1989 NSWRL season, Finals, Grand final
Twice in the last twenty minutes Balmain nearly wrapped up the match. Michael Neil was ankle-tapped five metres from the line in a desperate dive by Mal Meninga. Then the Tigers' captain Wayne Pearce lost the ball with the line wide open and centre Tim Brasher unmarked.


1989 NSWRL season, Finals, Grand final
Warren Ryan's decisions with fifteen minutes left to replace the enforcer Roach with defender Kevin Hardwick may have been the turning point in the game. Ryan effectively set out to defend a six-point lead, a tactic which ultimately backfired. Benny Elias' field goal attempt hit the cross bar, after he'd earlier had one charged down by Meninga. However, with 90 seconds to go and it seemingly all over for the Raiders, the evergreen Ferguson scored the try of his life. Chris O'Sullivan sent up a searching bomb, Laurie Daley was there to palm the ball to Ferguson who stepped back inside past three converging defenders to score close to the posts, enabling an easy conversion for Meninga to level.


1989 NSWRL season, Finals, Grand final
With Canberra's confidence mounting, the game became the first grand final since 1977 to go into same-day extra time. At this point the Sironen/Roach replacements became crucial with neither able to resume the field for the extra period.


1989 NSWRL season, Finals, Grand final
Garry Jack knocked on two minutes into extra time and from the scrum Canberra's five-eighth Chris O'Sullivan kicked a field goal. Minutes from the finish, Raiders replacement Steve Jackson received the ball fifteen metres from the line and made for the tryline, beating two men and then carrying a further three with him. As he was being brought down he reached out to place the ball one-handed on the line.


1989 NSWRL season, Finals, Grand final
It was Canberra's first ever premiership; the first grand final won by an out-of-Sydney club; and the first team to win from 4th position. Canberra's nineteen-year-old lock Bradley Clyde was a deserved Clive Churchill Medal winner as the man of the match, though most agreed that a number of Raiders could have won the medal, including fullback Gary Belcher.


1989 NSWRL season, Finals, Grand final
Such was the drama of the match that an account of it was written by Thomas Keneally entitled "A movie script that came to life". This memorable match is now commemorated each year with the 1989 League Legends Cup.


1989 NSWRL season, Finals, Grand final
Canberra 19 (Tries: Belcher, Ferguson, Jackson. Goals: Meninga 3/6. Field Goal: O'Sullivan)


1989 NSWRL season, World Club Challenge
On 4 October, Canberra played British champions Widnes in the 1989 World Club Challenge at Old Trafford, Manchester. The Raiders lost 18 to 30 in front of 30,768 people.


1989 NSWRL season, Player statistics
The following statistics are as of the conclusion of Round 22.


1989 Nabisco Dinah Shore
The 1989 Nabisco Dinah Shore was a women's professional golf tournament, held March 30 to April 2 at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California. This was the 18th edition of the Nabisco Dinah Shore, and the seventh as a major championship.


1989 Nabisco Dinah Shore
Juli Inkster won the second of her two Dinah Shores, five strokes ahead of runners-up JoAnne Carner and Tammie Green. She led wire-to-wire and entered the final round with a five-stroke lead. It was the third of Inkster's seven major titles, although the fourth came over a decade later.


1989 Nabisco Masters
The 1989 Nabisco Masters were tennis tournaments played on indoor carpet courts at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York, United States and at the Royal Albert Hall in London, United Kingdom. It was the 20th edition of the year-end singles championships, the 16th edition of the year-end doubles championships, and both tournaments were part of the 1989 Nabisco Grand Prix. The singles championships were held in New York from November 27 through December 3, 1989, while the doubles championship were held in London from December 6 through December 10, 1989.


1989 Nabisco Masters, Finals, Doubles
Jim Grabb /  Patrick McEnroe defeated  John Fitzgerald /  Anders Järryd, 7–5, 7–6, 5–7, 6–3.


1989 Nabisco Masters – Doubles
Rick Leach and Jim Pugh were the defending champions but were eliminated in the round robin stage.


1989 Nabisco Masters – Doubles
Jim Grabb and Patrick McEnroe won in the final 7–5, 7–6, 5–7, 6–3 against John Fitzgerald and Anders Järryd.


1989 Nabisco Masters – Doubles, Round robin, Red Group
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.


1989 Nabisco Masters – Doubles, Round robin, Blue Group
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.


1989 Nabisco Masters – Singles
Boris Becker was the defending champion but lost in the final 4–6, 7–6, 6–3, 6–1 against Stefan Edberg.


1989 Nabisco Masters – Singles, Round robin, Rod Laver Group
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.


1989 Nabisco Masters – Singles, Round robin, Ilie Năstase Group
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.


1989 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election
Elections to the Nagaland Legislative Assembly were held in November 1989 to elect members of the 60 constituencies in Nagaland, India. The Indian National Congress won a majority of seats and S. C. Jamir was appointed as the Chief Minister of Nagaland. The number of constituencies was set as 60 by the recommendation of the Delimitation Commission of India.


1989 Namibian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Namibia between 7 and 11 November 1989. These elections were for the Constituent Assembly of Namibia, which, upon independence in March 1990, became the National Assembly of Namibia.


1989 Namibian parliamentary election, Background
The elections were facilitated by the United Nations, after the withdrawal of South African troops from South West Africa (present day Namibia) after the 1988 Tripartite Accords. The UN established the United Nations Transition Assistance Group and through its resolutions 629, 632, 640 and 643 in 1989, implemented the United Nations plan for Namibia in 435 (1978) to help secure free and fair elections, and eventually, the country's independence. The United Nations plan included overview by foreign election observers who monitored the election process. The work of foreign observers helped to ensure that the elections were certified as free and fair by the UN Special Representative.


1989 Namibian parliamentary election, Background
701,483 people registered to vote, with 680,788 casting votes, equating to a voter turnout of 97%.


1989 Namibian parliamentary election, Aftermath
Following the election SWAPO supporters celebrated across Windhoek, especially in the segregated and predominantly black township of Katutura. Dirk Mudge, chairman of the DTA, pledged to work with the SWAPO government in moving towards independence and national development. Support for the DTA and UDF was strong in the former bantustans, including Hereroland and Damaraland.


1989 Namibian parliamentary election, Aftermath
As a result of SWAPO's election victory, its then president Sam Nujoma was unanimously declared President of Namibia, and was sworn in by UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar on 21 March 1990. Since then Namibia has held both presidential elections and parliamentary elections every five years.


1989 Narragansett Bay oil spill
On June 23, 1989, several hundred thousand gallons of fuel oil were spilled at the mouth of the Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island after the tanker MV World Prodigy ran aground on a reef near Aquidneck Island.


1989 Narragansett Bay oil spill
World Prodigy, a 532 feet (162 m) long ship operated by Ballard Shipping under the Greek flag, was inbound to Providence and Tiverton, Rhode Island when at about 16:40 local time she ran aground on Brenton Reef, about 1 mile (1.6 km) offshore from Brenton Point State Park, after passing the wrong side of a buoy marking the channel. She had a cargo of about 8.1 million gallons of fuel oil.


1989 Narragansett Bay oil spill
The grounding damaged four of the ship's eight cargo compartments; early reports indicated that as much as a million gallons of oil had spilled, but later estimates put the total at about 300,000 gallons. Oil covered about 50 square miles and washed up on shore, but due to its low viscosity and choppy seas that broke up the slick it evaporated fairly quickly. The Coast Guard estimated that the cleanup cost about $2 million.


1989 Narragansett Bay oil spill
The collision damaged the hull of World Prodigy in two places, but she was floated off the reef in early July and repaired at a shipyard in New York City.


1989 Narragansett Bay oil spill
After the collision, World Prodigy's captain, Iakovos Georgudis, was charged with two violations of the Clean Water Act and Ballard Shipping with one. Both the captain and company pleaded guilty; Ballard paid $1 million and Georgudis $10,000 in fines. In December 1990, the National Transportation Safety Board released the results of their investigation of the spill, finding that Captain Georgudis had been suffering from sleep deprivation and was distracted by working on paperwork at the time of the collision.


1989 Narragansett Bay oil spill
World Prodigy, having arrived at the mouth of the bay earlier than planned, had not taken on a harbor pilot, and shortly before she ran aground, Captain Georgudis had sent both his first officer and watchman away from the bridge to work on other tasks, which the NTSB judged left the ship "without a qualified deck watch officer for several minutes prior to the grounding."


1989 NatWest Trophy
The 1989 NatWest Trophy was the 9th NatWest Trophy. It was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 28 June and 2 September 1989. The tournament was won by Warwickshire who defeated Middlesex by 4 wickets in the final at Lord's.


1989 NatWest Trophy, Format
The seventeen first-class counties, were joined by thirteen Minor Counties: Berkshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cumberland, Dorset, Durham, Hertfordshire, Northumberland, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk and Wiltshire. The Ireland and Scotland teams also participated. Teams who won in the first round progressed to the second round. The winners in the second round then progressed to the quarter-final stage. Winners from the quarter-finals then progressed to the semi-finals from which the winners then went on to the final at Lord's which was held on 2 September 1989.


1989 National Camogie League
The 1989 National Camogie League, the second most important elite level inter-county competition in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by Kilkenny, who defeated Cork in the final, played at Nowlan Park. It was the first National League to be played under rules fixing the duration of matches at 60 minutes.


1989 National Camogie League, Arrangements
Kilkenny dropped three points early in the league campaign and an understrength team, minus Angela Downey lost to Cork by seven points. Kilkenny won their way back into contention when Dublin faltered and took their semi-final place at Dubln's expense. Both counties had big wins in the semi-finals, Kilkenny scored 6-8 against Galway in the semi-final and a weak Clare team failed to test Cork.


1989 National Camogie League, The Final
Angela Downey and Breda Holmes scored two goals each in the final for Kilkenny in the final.


1989 National Camogie League, Division 2
The Junior National League, known since 2006 as Division Two, was won by Kildare who defeated Armagh in the final on July 23.


1989 National Challenge Cup
The 1989 National Challenge Cup was the 76th edition of the national soccer championship of the United States.


1989 National Challenge Cup
The St. Petersburg Kickers (FSSL) won the cup 2–1 against New York Greek American Atlas (HASL) at St. Louis Soccer Park in Fenton, Missouri.


1989 National Invitation Tournament
The 1989 National Invitation Tournament was the 1989 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition.


1989 National Invitation Tournament, Selected teams
Below is a list of the 32 teams selected for the tournament.


1989 National Invitation Tournament, Bracket
Below are the four first round brackets, along with the four-team championship bracket.


1989 National League Championship Series
The 1989 National League Championship Series was played between the National League West champion San Francisco Giants and the National League East champion Chicago Cubs. The Giants won the series four games to one, en route to losing to the Oakland Athletics in four games in the 1989 World Series.


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
Wednesday, October 4, 1989, at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
The Giants entered the series as slight favorites due to the MVP season of Kevin Mitchell, the solid play of Will Clark, and the best ERA in baseball by pitcher Scott Garrelts. The Cubs had won their second NL East title in six seasons behind the excellent rookie performances of Jerome Walton and Dwight Smith, who finished one-two in the 1989 NL Rookie of the Year balloting. The Cubs also had three pitchers with 16 or more victories, Rick Sutcliffe, Mike Bielecki, and Greg Maddux, coming off his third full season in the majors. The opener pitted Maddux against Garrelts.


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
By the time the Cubs came to bat, the Giants led, 3–0. Brett Butler led off with a single and moved to third on Rick Wrona's passed ball. Clark drove in his first run of the series with a double. Clark moved to third on Mitchell's single and scored along with Mitchell on Matt Williams' double. Maddux had given up three runs and recorded only one out, but he retired Terry Kennedy and Pat Sheridan to end the first. The Cubs came right back in the bottom of the first.


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
Ryne Sandberg doubled and Mark Grace drilled a two-out, two-run homer to cut the Giants lead to 3–2. Clark got a run back when he homered in the third, but Sandberg's solo homer cut the Giants lead back to one. With the score 4–3, the Giants came to bat against Maddux in the fourth.


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
Pat Sheridan and José Uribe singled, and Uribe's steal put runners at second and third. Garrelts struck out, and the Cubs walked Butler intentionally hoping for a double play. Robby Thompson popped to shortstop, and the infield fly rule resulted in an automatic out. Bases loaded and two out with Clark batting. Having already driven in two runs, Clark tied the NLCS record for RBIs for an entire series in less than four innings when he drilled a grand slam to right that finished Maddux and the Cubs. The 8–3 lead ended in an 11–3 Giants victory when Mitchell nailed a three-run homer to close the scoring in the eighth. The Giants had drawn first blood and taken back home-field advantage.


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
Legend has it that Clark read Greg Maddux’s lips during the mound visit before the grand slam, and that helped Clark pound a high fastball over the wall for a grand slam that helped the Giants steal Game 1 in Wrigley. Although, Clark's teammate, Bob Brenly, expressed doubts about the truth of that story. Postgame, Cubs' manager Don Zimmer summed up Clark’s brilliant outing by saying "He [Clark] had a helluva week tonight."


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
Thursday, October 5, 1989, at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
Giving the Giants a dose of their own Game 1 medicine, the Cubs ended Game 2 early with a six-run first inning, five of the runs coming against Giants starter and loser Rick Reuschel. After Mike Bielecki picked Butler off first and retired the side, the Cubs went to work. Jerome Walton singled and scored on Ryne Sandberg's triple. After Dwight Smith lined out to first, Mark Grace doubled Sandberg home. Reuschel struck out Andre Dawson, but Luis Salazar singled to score Grace and moved to second on a single by Shawon Dunston.


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
The Giants walked Joe Girardi to get to the pitcher's spot, and Bielecki responded with a single that scored Salazar and Dunston to make it 5–0. Walton again singled, scoring Girardi, and when Kelly Downs retired Sandberg on a pop-up, the Cubs went back into the field with a 6–0 lead.


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
The game was essentially over after the first inning. The Giants cut the lead to 6–2 in the fourth when Will Clark singled and Kevin Mitchell homered for the second time in the series. But the Cubs got those runs plus another back in the sixth when Grace doubled with the bases loaded, scoring all three runners and giving the Cubs a 9–2 lead. The Giants got three cosmetic runs when Williams homered in the eighth and Robby Thompson homered in the ninth. But the Cubs' early scoring made it one game apiece as the series headed to San Francisco for Game 3. Les Lancaster got the win for the Cubs.


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
Saturday, October 7, 1989, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
Tied at one apiece, the series converged on Candlestick Park for Game 3. The pitching match-up featured 16-game winner Rick Sutcliffe against Mike LaCoss. Neither pitcher would be involved in the decision.


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
Following the trend of the first two games—five runs by the two teams combined in the first inning of Game 1 and six in the first inning of Game 2—the Cubs roared out of the gate with two first-inning runs courtesy of back-to-back singles by Walton and Smith, a wild pitch by LaCoss that put them on second and third, and a single by Andre Dawson that scored both and put the Cubs in the lead, 2–0. The Giants answered with three in their half of the first.


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
Butler and Thompson singled, and Will Clark's fielder's choice ground out moved the runners to second and third. Kevin Mitchell was given an intentional pass, and Matt Williams grounded out to the pitcher to score Butler. Two more walks gave the Giants a second run when Thompson scored, and Jose Uribe's infield single scored Mitchell. The Giants now led, 3–2, but Sutcliffe avoided further damage by getting LaCoss to pop up.


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
The Cubs tied it in the fourth, but they settled for one run with a chance to open up the game. They loaded the bases against LaCoss with nobody out, and Roger Craig summoned reliever Jeff Brantley. Brantley got Sutcliffe to hit into a double play, including a force on Salazar at the plate. With runners at second and third and two out, the Giants nearly escaped, but a wild pitch from Brantley scored Dunston and tied the game. Walton flied out to end the inning.


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
The Cubs regained the lead in the seventh when Sutcliffe doubled and went to third on Walton's bunt. Greg Maddux was sent in to pinch-run for Sutcliffe, and he scored on Ryne Sandberg's fly to center. Dwight Smith popped out, but the Cubs led, 4–3.


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
The Giants, however, came back to put the game away in the bottom of the seventh. Les Lancaster took the mound to face the Giants. He was the winning pitcher in Game 2, but he gave up a home run to Robby Thompson. Lancaster inherited Brett Butler at first and his first hitter was Thompson. Moments later, Thompson had his second home run in his last two at-bats against Lancaster, and the Giants had a 5–4 lead. Don Robinson got the win in relief, Steve Bedrosian got the save, and the Giants had a 2–1 series lead.


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
Sunday, October 8, 1989, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
In keeping with the first three games, the scoring began early in Game 4 as the Cubs sought to tie the series and the Giants hoped to take a 3–1 lead in the series. The pitching match-up featured a rematch of first-game pitchers Scott Garrelts and Greg Maddux. Garrelts had triumphed in round one, but neither pitcher would be involved in the decision in the rematch.


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
The Cubs opened the first playing small ball. A double by Sandberg followed by a short single by Smith and a line out to right by Mark Grace scored Sandberg to give the Cubs a 1–0 lead. The Giants mimicked the Cubs in the bottom of the first when Thompson walked, went to third on a Clark single, and scored on a Kevin Mitchell ground out. Luis Salazar then stunned the Giants faithful with a homer to give the Cubs a 2–1 lead in the second.


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
But a bases-loaded single by Matt Williams in the bottom of the third scored two runs and put the Giants back in front. José Uribe doubled in the fourth. Maddux seemingly had him picked off, but a throwing error put Uribe at third, and he scored on Maddux's wild pitch to make it 4–2 Giants. In the top of the fifth, Walton singled and scored on Grace's triple. Grace then scored on Dawson's double and the score was tied at four. But in the bottom of the fifth, Clark doubled and Matt Williams (after fouling off seven pitches in a 12-pitch at-bat) hit his second homer of the series to give the Giants a 6–4 lead that was the final score.


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
The Giants' win gave them a three games to one edge and a chance to finish the series the next day at home. Kelly Downs was the winning pitcher, and Steve Wilson was the loser. Steve Bedrosian got his second save in as many days.


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5
Monday, October 9, 1989, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5
Before the game, the Tower of Power horn section played the National Anthem.


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5
The Giants made it to their first World Series since 1962 with a 3–2 win over the Cubs to win the 1989 National League pennant, four games to one. The final game pitted Mike Bielecki against a well-rested (due to his quick exit from Game 2) Rick Reuschel. Reuschel made amends for his poor start in Game 2 by giving up only one run over eight innings. The one run Reuschel gave up was an unearned run the Cubs scored when Walton reached on an error by Mitchell and then scored on Sandberg's double. The Cubs held the 1–0 lead until the seventh inning when Will Clark tripled and scored on Mitchell's sacrifice fly.


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5
With two outs in the eighth, the Cubs appeared ready to perhaps send the series back to Chicago, but Candy Maldonado pinch-hit for Reuschel and walked. Bielecki then proceeded to load the bases by walking both Butler and Thompson. Don Zimmer sent for Mitch Williams to end the jam, but Clark drove home the pennant-winning runs with a single to center that gave the Giants a 3–1 lead. Les Lancaster got Matt Williams out to end the inning but the Cubs were finished.


1989 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5
They did rally, however, in the ninth with three straight singles that made it 3–2. But Sandberg grounded out and the Giants were in their first World Series since 1962. Clark's stellar performance earned him Most Valuable Player honors for the Giants. Clark hit .650 with eight RBIs.


1989 National League Championship Series, Television coverage
NBC play-by-play man Vin Scully was unable to call Game 2 because he had come down with laryngitis. Thus, number two play-by-play man, Bob Costas filled-in for him. Around the same time, Costas was assigned to call the American League Championship Series between Oakland and Toronto. Game 2 of the NLCS occurred on Thursday, October 5, which was an off day for the ALCS. NBC then decided to fly Costas from Toronto to Chicago to substitute for Scully on Thursday night. Afterwards, Costas flew back to Toronto, where he resumed work on the ALCS the next night.


1989 National League Championship Series, Television coverage
Game 5 of the 1989 NLCS (October 9, 1989) was the last Major League Baseball game that NBC, who had broadcast baseball games in some shape or form since 1947, would televise for five years (CBS would become the exclusive broadcast television network home for Major League Baseball in the meantime); the ensuing World Series was broadcast on ABC, with those four games being that network's last in the same timeframe.


1989 National League Championship Series, Television coverage
NBC would next televise a Major League Baseball game on July 12, 1994 (the All-Star Game from Pittsburgh); that same year, ABC began to broadcast Saturday night games via The Baseball Network. During the 1995 season, NBC began broadcasting Friday night games, with ABC still continuing Saturday night games, and the two networks would rotate postseason series, as well as games in the World Series, in which the Atlanta Braves defeated the Cleveland Indians, 4 games to 2.


1989 National League Championship Series, Television coverage
After The Baseball Network was dissolved, Fox took over the exclusive broadcast rights for MLB regular season games, although NBC would still broadcast select postseason games and alternate with Fox for World Series coverage. By 2001, Fox became the exclusive broadcast home for the MLB postseason as well, and continues to hold that position today.


1989 National League Championship Series, Aftermath
Giants pitcher Dave Dravecky, who would ultimately have his pitching arm amputated due to cancer, broke his arm during the Giants' on-field celebration following Game 5.


1989 National League Championship Series, Aftermath
The Giants were swept by the Athletics in the 1989 World Series. The ‘89 World Series was most known for the Loma Prieta earthquake, which hit minutes before Game 3 causing significant damage to both Oakland and San Francisco. The game was postponed out of concerns for the safety of everyone in the ballpark as well as the loss of power, with commissioner Fay Vincent later saying that he did not know when play would resume. The series resumed ten days later on October 27 and finished the next day. Until that point, it was the latest a World Series had ever been played.


1989 National League Championship Series, Aftermath
Long-time Giants catcher Bob Brenly served as a color analyst for televised Chicago Cubs games from 2005-2012.


1989 National League Championship Series, Aftermath
Known for their title droughts — the Giants had never won a World Series in San Francisco, while the Cubs had not won in 81 years at the time of this series in 1989 — both teams would have to wait until the 2010s to win a World Series. In 2010, the Giants defeated the Texas Rangers in five games to win the World Series for the first time since moving to San Francisco in 1958, thus ending the 52-year Curse of Coogan's Bluff. The Cubs beat the Cleveland Indians in the 2016 World Series in seven games after trailing in the series 3 games to 1. They won game 7 by a score of 8–7 in 10 innings at Progressive Field, ending their 108-year drought.


1989 National League Championship Series, Aftermath
The Cubs and Giants met in a Wild Card tiebreaker in 1998 where the Cubs advanced, beating the Giants 5–3. On their way to a World Series, the Cubs also beat the Giants in the 2016 NLDS, 3 games to 1.


1989 National League season
The National League was the second tier of British speedway racing in 1989.


1989 National League season, National League Knockout Cup
The 1989 National League Knockout Cup was the 22nd edition of the Knockout Cup for tier two teams. Berwick Bandits were the winners of the competition.


1989 National League season, National League Knockout Cup, Final
Berwick were declared Knockout Cup Champions, winning on aggregate 109–83.


1989 National Pro Soccer Championship
1989 National Pro Soccer Championship was the championship final for professional soccer in the U.S. in 1989. The match was contested on September 9, 1989. The WSL Champion, San Diego Nomads took on the ASL Champion, Fort Lauderdale Strikers in order to crown a national professional champion for the first time since 1984. The game was played at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, California.


1989 National Pro Soccer Championship, The match-up
By most accounts it was considered a David vs Goliath match-up from the start. Fort Lauderdale was a fully professional squad with a mix of mostly international players. Several were former NASL all-stars, including 1982 goal scoring champion, Ricardo Alonso. ASL teams allowed players with green card work status to count as US roster members. Conversely, San Diego was a defense-first, semi-pro team loaded with home-grown amateurs that included three 17-year-old, high schoolers. WSL teams were limited to a maximum of two non-US citizens per team on the field at any time.


1989 National Pro Soccer Championship, The match-up
To make matters worse for the Nomads, because of late date of the match, NCAA rules prohibited six players, including USMNT defender Marcelo Balboa and starting goalie Anton Nistl from participating. Two loaners from the MISL champion, San Diego Sockers were also ruled out because the injury-conscious Sockers organization felt the match was too close to the start of the new MISL season. This left the Nomads scrambling to fill in all of the holes, particularly at the back.


1989 National Pro Soccer Championship, Background, San Diego Nomads
The San Diego Nomads qualified for the playoffs by virtue of winning the WSL South Division with 99 points. The point total also earned them the top seed and the right to host all WSL playoff rounds. The Nomads reached the league finals for third consecutive year by defeating the Portland Timbers on July 23 in the semifinal match, 2–1. Three weeks later they dispatched the San Francisco Bay Blackhawks, 1–0, in the WSL finals, to claim their second WSL title in three years, and advance to the national championship game.


1989 National Pro Soccer Championship, Background, Fort Lauderdale Strikers
The Fort Lauderdale Strikers qualified for the playoffs by virtue of a second place finish in the ASL Southern Division with 35 points. The point total earned them the number four seed. The Strikers upset the number one seeded Washington Stars in the semifinals, sweeping both matches on August 12 and 13 to advance to their second straight ASL finals. The following week they needed the 30-minute, mini-game tie breaker to beat the Boston Bolts, 2 matches to 1, in the championship finals, to claim the ASL title. The victory earned them the right to play the San Diego Nomads on September 9.


1989 National Pro Soccer Championship, Game summary, Recap
The first half was one of end-to-end action, but also of missed opportunities, especially for San Diego. Despite the long odds, the Nomads repeatedly used the speed of their youthful squad to exploit their older opponents. At the 2:18 mark, Paul Wright had a sure goal headed off the line by Strikers captain Victor Moreland. The Nomads were repeatedly stopped in one-on-one looks at goal by USMNT veteran, Arnie Mausser. In 20th minute Rene Ortiz broke free, but was denied. Wright missed two more chances 22nd and 28th minute respectively. Ortiz and Jerome Watson also missed other opportunities to give San Diego an early lead. In all, Mausser and Nomads goalie Jeff Duback combined for 14 first-half saves.


1989 National Pro Soccer Championship, Game summary, Recap
The match remained scoreless until the 74th minute when Watson scored from 8 yards for San Diego, by volleying in Thien Nguyen's free kick from the edge of the penalty area. Just over a minute later, forward Eric Eichmann leveled the match on a rebound shot from 18 yards for the Strikers. Ortiz narrowly missed returning San Diego to lead, as his 80th minute shot blew just wide of the far post from a tough angle. Ten minutes later Troy Edwards put Fort Lauderdale ahead to stay thanks to a spectacular Marcelo Carrera bicycle kick assist in the 85th minute. With the Nomads pressing to equalize, Carrera then notched a goal of his own in the 90th minute on an assist from Victor Moreland.


1989 National Pro Soccer Championship, Game summary, Recap
For his efforts, Carrera earned man-of-the-match honors. Fort Lauderdale players and coaches alike acknowledged the Nomads' speed advantage in post-match interviews. Likewise, San Diego players acknowledged their veteran opponents' composure in the face constant pressure. The game was televised live by Pacific Sports Network with JP Dellacamera doing play-by-play, and Rick Davis on color commentary. It was also broadcast in several other television markets on a tape-delayed basis.


1989 National Pro Soccer Championship, Game summary, Championship results
1989 U.S. Professional Soccer Champions: Fort Lauderdale StrikersTelevision: Pacific Sports Network (live), and Prime Ticket (tape delayed)Announcers: JP Dellacamera, Rick Davis


1989 National Soccer League
The 1989 National Soccer League season, was the 13th season of the National Soccer League (NSL) in Australia.


1989 National Soccer League, Background
The Australian Soccer Federation began the year by announcing that the NSL would be televised on ABC rather than on SBS who had shown the league since 1979. SBS challenged the decision in the New South Wales Supreme Court and were allowed to show matches in rounds 1 and 2 before the court found in favour of the ABC.


1989 National Soccer League (Canada) season
The 1989 National Soccer League season was the sixty sixth season under the National Soccer League (NSL) name. The season concluded on September 18, 1989 with Toronto Italia defending their seventh consecutive NSL Championship by finishing first in the First Division. Toronto Italia also claimed the NSL Canadian Championship by defeating Montreal Ramblers of the Quebec National Soccer League (LNSQ) on September 20, 1989 at the Claude Robilliard Stadium in Montreal, Quebec. The NSL Cup was also successfully defended by Toronto Croatia. Croatia would also defeat LNSQ Cup champions St. Leonard to win the Canada Cup.


1989 National Soccer League (Canada) season, Overview
Changes were announced during the off season regarding the structure of the league with the Youth Division being reformed into the Second Division. The restructuring of the division marked the return of the NSL's Second Division since the 1978 season, but the promotion and relegation system wasn't reactivated between the two divisions. The reforms also permitted the second division clubs to participate in the NSL Cup. The membership in the First Division was decreased to eight teams with London Marconi requesting a leave of absence.


1989 National Soccer League (Canada) season, Overview
Chile Lindo's NSL franchise was revoked for continuous problems regarding fan violence, and Mississauga Lakers disbanded their team. The league had another presence in the Niagara territory in the Second Division with a team named Niagara City, and notable returnee was Oshawa Italia that previously played in the 1962 NSL season.


1989 National Soccer League (Canada) season, Overview
The lone expansion franchise was Toronto Macedonia Stars, which provided a Macedonian presence within the league since the 1977 season. Toronto Italia was involved in a friendly match against noted Portuguese side S.L. Benfica. The match was played on June 7, 1989 with Benfica defeating Toronto by a score of 3-1 at Varsity Stadium.


1989 National Society of Film Critics Awards
The 24th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 8 January 1990, honored the best filmmaking of 1989.


1989 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Picture
1. Drugstore Cowboy2. Enemies, a Love Story3. Casualties of War


1989 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Director
1. Gus Van Sant – Drugstore Cowboy2. Paul Mazursky – Enemies, a Love Story3. Spike Lee – Do the Right Thing


1989 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Actor
1. Daniel Day-Lewis – My Left Foot2. Morgan Freeman – Driving Miss Daisy3. Tom Cruise – Born on the Fourth of July


1989 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Actress
1. Michelle Pfeiffer – The Fabulous Baker Boys2. Jessica Tandy – Driving Miss Daisy3. Andie MacDowell – Sex, Lies, and Videotape


1989 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Supporting Actor
1. Beau Bridges – The Fabulous Baker Boys2. Denzel Washington – Glory


1989 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Supporting Actress
1. Anjelica Huston – Enemies, a Love Story2. Lena Olin – Enemies, a Love Story3. Brenda Fricker – My Left Foot


1989 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Screenplay
1. Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost – Drugstore Cowboy2. Steven Soderbergh – Sex, Lies, and Videotape3. Steve Kloves – The Fabulous Baker Boys


1989 Nations Cup
The 1989 Nations Cup was held in Gelsenkirchen. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


1989 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1989 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth race of the 1989 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 12–14 May 1989 at the Misano circuit.


1989 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
Before the race, riders were concerned about the track surface, considering it too slippery, and should it rain, even dangerous.


1989 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
Dry track and dark clouds for the green light with Kevin Schwantz on pole. Pierfrancesco Chili got a good start and led briefly, then Schwantz, Wayne Rainey and Christian Sarron settled into the lead. Short afterwards, the rain started and Schwantz raised his hand to stop the race.


1989 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
The top riders had a meeting and decided they wanted a practice session before restarting in the wet, but the request was refused by the race organizers and the riders decided to boycott the race. Eddie Lawson says, "This place is unique in that the track surface is very, very slippery, and when it has water on it you can’t ride on it. All the top riders felt it was too dangerous, and it is, and so we didn’t ride. It’s as simple as that. …


1989 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
We go to plenty of racetracks where we test all week, in the sunshine, and then it starts to rain; well, we put rain tires on and we race. This place, you can’t do that. Regardless of not testing or anything else, you just can’t ride in the wet, it’s just too dangerous. It was unfortunate."


1989 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
A notable dissenter is Chili, who wants to race, along with other riders. Chili manages to stay upright in the downpour and wins the race, with Lawson sarcastically cheering from the stands and Sarron blowing a kiss.


1989 Nauruan parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Nauru on 9 December 1989, after the resignation of President Hammer DeRoburt following a vote of no-confidence in August and the subsequent resignation of his replacement, Kenas Aroi, for health reasons. Following the election Bernard Dowiyogo was elected President by the Parliament, defeating DeRoburt. Voter turnout was 88.7%.


1989 Navajo Nation Council reforms
The 1989 Navajo Nation Council Reforms, also known as the Title II Amendments were a series of Constitutional changes to the government structure of the Navajo Nation. Following 1985 reforms to the Judicial Branch, the reforms were meant to separate the powers of the Tribal Council (the legislative branch) the President (the executive branch) and the Supreme Court (the judicial branch) with a checks and balances system similar to that of the U.S. Constitution. The resolutions were adopted by the Council on December 15, 1989 and became law on April 11, 1990.


1989 Navajo Nation Council reforms, Background
The Navajo Nation has an uncodified constitution, so the Tribal Council has the power to change its own operation with simple resolutions.


1989 Navajo Nation Council reforms, Background, Peter MacDonald
The executive of the Navajo Nation was previously the Tribal Chairman, and they possessed a lot of power. Peter MacDonald was the 7th Tribal Chairman, and he had an interest in wielding his expansive political power. He was a member of Richard Nixon's Committee to Re-Elect the President. He had a strained relationship with the Senator from Arizona Barry Goldwater. He delivered 90% of Navajo votes to elect a Democratic Governor of Arizona, and Goldwater retaliated by supporting the Hopi in a land dispute, causing Navajo citizens to lose their homes. He was often referred to as "the most powerful Indian in the USA".


1989 Navajo Nation Council reforms, Background, Peter MacDonald
MacDonald faced accusations of corruption involving kickback schemes, such as selling a ranch to the Navajo Nation at a $7.2 million profit. These actions resulted in the Tribal Council putting him on administrative leave. MacDonald however refused to step down, and after a five-month standoff, an interim Chairman was appointed. The situation grew confusing as there were at times up to three men claiming the title of Tribal Chairman. On July 20, 1989, rioters from competing group clashed outside an administrative building, resulting in the deaths of two MacDonald supporters.


1989 Navajo Nation Council reforms, Background, Peter MacDonald
His supporters claimed that the Navajo Police Department was brutalizing them as an attempt to remove MacDonald from power. A group of Tribal Councilmen managed to gather enough political support to remove MacDonald, and he was arrested and put on trial with some of his supporters. Chairman MacDonald served 8 years of his 14-year sentence in federal prison, having his sentence commuted by Bill Clinton on his last day in office. Out of 32 men originally indicted, only 10 (including MacDonald) were sentenced.


1989 Navajo Nation Council reforms, Reforms
In deciding what reforms should be made, the Tribal Council looked to the case of Chairman MacDonald and decided that the constitutional crisis resulted from a lack of oversight and too much power vested in the executive.


1989 Navajo Nation Council reforms, Legacy, Later Reforms
In 1998, the Tribal Council adopted the Navajo Nation Local Governance Act, giving the dozens of local Navajo chapters some ability to make their own decisions. The size of the Council was eventually reduced to 24 members from 88.


1989 Navajo Nation Council reforms, Legacy, Criticism
The Title II Reforms and subsequent changes have been criticized as being handled entirely by leadership, rather than via referendum or ballot initiative. Some have also requested that a written Constitution be created, to avoid further crises. The three-branch model has been criticized as being too similar to the U.S. Constitution and antithetical to Navajo cultural principles. Switching to a parliamentary system has been suggested as a solution. Corruption has also persisted despite the Title II reforms, one such scandal resulting in President Shirley being removed from office.


1989 Navy Midshipmen football team
The 1989 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy (USNA) as an independent during the 1989 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was led by third-year head coach Elliott Uzelac.


1989 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
The 1989 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the 1989 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was coached by Tom Osborne and played their home games in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.


1989 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, NFL and pro players
The following Nebraska players who participated in the 1989 season later moved on to the next level and joined a professional or semi-pro team as draftees or free agents.


1989 Nevada Wolf Pack football team
The 1989 Nevada Wolf Pack football team represented the University of Nevada, Reno during the 1989 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Nevada competed as a member of the Big Sky Conference (BSC). The Wolf Pack were led by 14th-year head coach Chris Ault and played their home games at Mackay Stadium.


1989 Nevada Wolf Pack football team, Previous season
The Wolf Pack finished the 1988 season 7–4 and 4–4 in BSC play to finish in a four-way tie in fourth place.


1989 New Democratic Party leadership election
The 1989 New Democratic Party leadership election was held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, from November 30 to December 3 to elect a leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada. Ed Broadbent retired as federal leader, and Audrey McLaughlin was elected as his replacement. McLaughlin's victory was the first time a woman won the leadership of a major federal Canadian political party. This convention was followed by six years of decline for the party, culminating in the worst electoral performance of a 20th-century federal democratic socialist party, when the party received only seven percent of the popular vote in the 1993 federal election.


1989 New Democratic Party leadership election, Prelude
Canadians elected a record 43 NDP Members of Parliament (MPs) in the election of 1988. The Liberal Party, however, had reaped most of the benefits of opposing free trade to emerge as the dominant alternative to the Progressive Conservative (PC) government. The PCs' barrage of attacks on the Liberals, and vote-splitting between the NDP and Liberals, helped them win a second consecutive majority. In 1989, Broadbent stepped down after 14 years as federal leader of the NDP.


1989 New Democratic Party leadership election, Leadership vote
At the 1989 Winnipeg leadership convention, former B.C. Premier Dave Barrett and Audrey McLaughlin were the main contenders for the leadership. During the campaign, Barrett argued that the party should be concerned with western alienation, rather than focusing its attention on Quebec. The Quebec wing of the NDP strongly opposed Barrett's candidacy, with Phil Edmonston, the party's main spokesman in Quebec, threatening to resign from the party if Barrett won.


1989 New Democratic Party leadership election, Leadership vote
McLaughlin won the leadership on the fourth ballot, with 1316 votes for 55 percent of the vote, versus Barrett's 1072 votes (45 percent). Her victory  meant that she became first woman in Canada to lead a major, recognized, federal political party.


1989 New Democratic Party leadership election, Aftermath
The party enjoyed strong support among organized labour and rural voters in the Prairies. McLaughlin tried to expand its support into Quebec without much success. In 1989, the Quebec New Democratic Party adopted a sovereigntist platform and severed its ties with the federal NDP. Under McLaughlin, the party won an election in Quebec for the first time when Edmonston won a 1990 by-election. The party had briefly picked up its first Quebec MP in 1986, when Robert Toupin crossed the floor from the Tories after briefly sitting as an independent. However, he left the party in October 1987 after claiming communists had infiltrated the party.


1989 New Democratic Party leadership election, Aftermath
New Democrats who declined to run. 1.Nelson Riis, British Columbia M.P2.Jim Fulton, British Columbia M.P3.Pauline Jewett, former British Columbia M.P4.Ross Harvey, Alberta M.P5.Allan Blakeney, former Saskatchewan Premier6.Lorne


1989 New Democratic Party leadership election, Aftermath
Nystrom, Saskatchewan M.P7.Howard Pawley, former Manitoba Premier8.Stephen Lewis, former Ontario N.D.P Leader9.Michael Cassidy, former M.P, former Ontario N.D.P leader10.Bob Rae, Ontario N.D.P Leader, former M.P11.Lynn McDonald, Former Ontario M.P12.Marion Dewar, Former Ontario M.P, former Ottawa Mayor13.John Rodriguez, Ontario M.P14.Bob White, President Canadian Auto Workers15.Ian Deans, former Ontario M.P16.Remy Trudel, 1988 Quebec N.D.P candidate17.Phil Edmonston, soon to be Quebec M.P, consumer advocate18.Nancy Riche, Union Leader19.Alexa McDonough, Nova Scotia N.D.P leader20.Jack Harris, Former Newfoundland M.P 21.Tony Penikett, Yukon Government Leader


1989 New Democratic Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election
The first contested New Democratic Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election was held in 1989 on March 18 in St. John's.