2007 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
Alpine skiing
Alpine Skiing World Cup
Men's overall season champion: Aksel Lund Svindal (Norway) Women's overall season champion: Nicole Hosp (Austria)
American football
Super Bowl XLI – the Indianapolis Colts (AFC) won 29–17 over the Chicago Bears (NFC) Location: Dolphin Stadium Attendance: 74,512 MVP: Peyton Manning, QB (Indianapolis) BCS National Championship Game at Fiesta Bowl (2006 season): The Florida Gators won 41–14 over the Ohio State Buckeyes to win the National Championship December 16 - The Miami Dolphins defeat the Baltimore Ravens 22–16 in overtime to claim their only win of the 2007 NFL season. With the Dolphins losing their final two games, they would've suffered an Imperfect season if not for that overtime victory, a year before the Detroit Lions became the first winless team since the NFL expanded to a 16-game schedule. December 29 - The New England Patriots became the second team after the 1972 Miami Dolphins to win all their regular season games after defeating the New York Giants 38-35 (16-0). They would win 2 playoff games and enter Super Bowl XLII at 18–0. However, the Patriots could not complete what could have been a historic 19–0 season. The Giants upset the Patriots 17–14.
Association football
UEFA Champions League 2006-07 Final in Athens won by AC Milan over Liverpool 2–1
UEFA Cup 2006-07 Final in Glasgow – Sevilla beat Espanyol 2–2 (3–1 pens) Copa América 2007 in Venezuela – Brazil beat Argentina 3–0 in the final Copa Libertadores 2007 won by Boca Juniors.
Australian rules football
Geelong wins its first Australian Football League Grand Final since 1963, thrashing Port Adelaide by 119 points in the biggest Grand Final margin in VFL/AFL history. The final score was 24.19 (163) to 6.8 (44).
Athletics
August–September – 2007 World Championships in Athletics held at Nagai Stadium in Osaka September 9 – sprinter Asafa Powell of Jamaica breaks the previous record set by himself at the 100 metres sprint (9.77 seconds) and sets a new world record of 9.74 September 30 – Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia sets new world marathon record time of 2:04:26 at Berlin
Baseball
2007 World Series – Boston Red Sox sweep the Colorado Rockies 4–0
2007 Japan Series – in a rematch of last year's series, the Chunichi Dragons win 4–1 over the 2006 champion Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. August 7 – Barry Bonds became Major League Baseball's career leader in home runs amid a cloud of controversy regarding his suspected use of performance-enhancing drugs by hitting the 756th home run of his career, surpassing Hank Aaron's previous mark of 755 2007 Asia Series – Japanese team Chunichi Dragons wins against Koreans SK Wyverns Oregon State Beavers win back to back National Championships. 2007 Pacific Asian Baseball League Finals - Seoul Shrubbery defeat the defend champions Singapore Sushi 1,300-1,212 to capture their first ever Periwinkle Feather.
Basketball
January 1: Bob Knight becomes the winningest coach in men's college basketball history when Texas Tech defeats New Mexico, 70–68. San Antonio Spurs won their fourth NBA Championship by sweeping the Cleveland Cavaliers in four games. Tony Parker was named Finals MVP. 2007 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament – Florida became the first team to repeat as champions since Duke in 1991 and 1992 2007 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament won for the seventh time by Tennessee with the Lady Vols' Candace Parker named Most Outstanding Player. Euroleague Final – Panathinaikos defeat defending champions CSKA Moscow 93–91 at the Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens The Phoenix Mercury would stun the 2006 WNBA Champion Detroit Shock in 5 games to capture their first title in franchise history. It was the second year in a row that a defending champion was stunned by another team who wasn't in the finals that previous year.