BEFORE & AFTER
Horse racing's biggest trio of events that the queen only wears on special occasions
The Triple Crown Jewels
The Ladyjacks of Stephen F. Austin were queens of the lanes in 2019, rolling to the NCAA women's title in this
bowling
The resolution naming 2020 the International Year of Plant Health recognized plants' role in fighting this global "change"
climate change
This, this, this Greek letter, gently down the clue; it was "resh" in the Phoenician alphabet, now it's there for you
rho
Fuzzy freestone fruit (5)
a peach
Snoopy's owner who's a large forest-dwelling ursine creature
Charlie Brown bear
In 2019 TCU fired on all cylinders to win the school's third NCAA title in this weapon, with air & smallbore competitions
rifle
In 2019 World Space Week commemorated the 50th anniversary of this
If you don't know it's the 2nd-to-last letter in the Greek alphabet, you'll let out a heavy one (with a different spelling)
psi
Square, rectangle or rhombus (13)
parallelogram
18th century Prussian king & military genius who is a large body of water in northern Utah
Frederick the Great Salt Lake
Keep your Frisbee off the roof, er, rough, in the CDGNC, short for the College this National Championship
disc golf
DAILY DOUBLE
An annual November "Awareness Week" showcases the rising global problem of resistance to this important class of drugs
If Sophocles signed his name, he'd begin by writing this letter
sigma
Social outcast (6)
pariah
Night sack for a snoozing Boy Scout that's the set of skills available to someone like a magician
sleeping bag of tricks
Columbia foiled, sabered & epeed its rivals to win this 2019 NCAA title
fencing
Read some Yeats or Dickinson on March 21, World this Day
Poetry Day
Revelation 1:8 states, "I am" these 2 Greek letters, "the beginning and the ending", which really covers things
alpha & omega
South American cloak (6)
poncho
Celestial body of extremely intense gravity that scores an ace in golf
black hole in one
The ACUI sponsors a championship in this billiards game, one higher than another named for stripes & solids
nine-ball
2019 to 2028 is the "Decade of Peace" named for this south African
Nelson Mandela
It's basic math! This is celebrated every March 14th
Pi Day
Stolen, like the "Letter" in an Edgar Allan Poe story (9)
purloined