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: 2005 In Sports
- asks UEFA to grant Liverpool F.C. a place in next season's Champions League should they win the competition this year but finish below fourth place in the FA Premier League . UEFA have indicated that they will not allow five teams from one country to take part. The FA could still place Liverpool in the Champions League if they win it - but they would have to deny the fourth placed Premiership club (currently Liverpool's intracity rivals Everton F.C. ) in order to do so. (sportinglife.com)
- Boxing :
- --- Antonio Margarito retains his WBO world Welterweight title, with a fifth round knockout win over Kermit Cintron . In the undercard, Shane Mosley returns to boxing with a ten round decision win over David Castillo . ESPN.com
- --- Wladimir Klitschko returns to the ring, with a fourth round knockout over Eliseo Castillo . Boxing Central.com
- 2005 English Cricket Season :
- --- County Championship - Division One :
-- Middlesex (9pts) drew with Nottinghamshire (12pts)
-- Kent (10pts) drew with Warwickshire (10pts)
-- Sussex (9pts) drew with Hampshire (9pts)
- --- County Championship - Division Two :
-- Northamptonshire (12pts) drew with Leicestershire (9pts)
-- Yorkshire (22pts) beat Somerset (3pts) by an innings and 44 runs
- 20, Biarritz 17 at Stade De France , Saint-Denis , metro Paris . Stade advances to the final to be held 22 May at Murrayfield , Edinburgh . (BBC)
- begins at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City . Highlights (ESPN) :
- ---The San Francisco 49ers , selecting first overall, pick Utah Quarterback Alex Smith , as expected.
- ---For the first time ever, three teammates Ronnie Brown and Carnell Williams (second and fifth respectively) and Texas ' Cedric Benson (fourth).
- ---Auburn has four first-round picks, with Brown and Williams joined by cornerback Carlos Rogers (ninth) and QB Jason Campbell (25).
- --- Cal QB Aaron Rodgers , who was regarded by many as a possible top overall pick until a week before the draft, freefalls through the first round all the way to the 24th slot. The Green Bay Packers pick Rodgers, who now stands to be the eventual successor to Brett Favre .
- ---In a surprise move, the Denver Broncos draft Maurice Clarett , former Ohio State Running Back , as a third-round compensatory pick.
- , Kurt Busch leads over half of the laps en route to his first victory of the season at the Subway Fresh 500 . (NASCAR.com)
- defeats Chivas USA 3-1 in an inter-city match. A strange delay occurs in the 41st minute when the "SkyCam", a movable TV camera suspended above the ground on a cable, that ESPN2 is using crashes to the ground, sparking a 3-and-a-half minute stoppage. The camera is removed at halftime. No one is injured when it falls. (MLSNet MatchTracker)
- Cycling :
- ---Six times winner of the Tour De France , Lance Armstrong , announces that he will retire from competition after This Summer's Tour . (BBC)
- ---Olympic champion Tyler Hamilton is banned for two years for Blood Doping , the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency reports. Hamilton forfeits all competitive results since the Tour Of Spain where he tested positive last 11 September . (BBC)
- Athletics - Boston Marathon :
- --- Men's race - Hailu Negussie , Ethiopia , 2 hours, 11 minutes, 45 seconds. (AP/ESPN)
- --- Women's race - Catherine Ndereba , Kenya , 2 hours, 25 minutes, 13 seconds. (AP/ESPN)
- Athletics - London Marathon :
- --- Men's race - Martin Lel , Kenya , 2 hours, 7 minutes, 26 seconds. (BBC)
- --- Women's race - Paula Radcliffe , Britain , 2 hours, 17 minutes, 42 seconds. (BBC)
- 2005 English Cricket Season :
- --- National League, Division One :
-- Essex (4pts) beat Hampshire (0pts) by 16 runs (D/L)
--The match between Lancashire and Glamorgan was abandoned (2pts each)
-- Worcestershire (4pts) beat Northamptonshire (0pts) by 31 runs (D/L)
-- Middlesex (4pts) beat Nottinghamshire (0pts) by 35 runs (D/L)
- --- National League, Division Two :
--The match between Derbyshire and Kent was abandoned (2pts each)
-- Durham (4pts) beat Leicestershire (0pts) by 9 runs (D/L)
-- Yorkshire (4pts) beat Surrey (0pts) by 43 runs in the only game unaffected by rain
--The match between Warwickshire and Somerset was abandoned (2pts each) (BBC)
- Football (soccer) :
- --- 1 – 4 Manchester United . Manchester United reach their seventeenth FA Cup Final. (BBC)
- ---The Oceania Football Confederation has given its permission for Australia to leave that confederation and join the Asian Football Confederation . The AFC has already endorsed Australia's move. FIFA must approve the move, and will make its decision later in 2005. The proposed move will not take effect until after the 2006 World Cup . (Reuters/Yahoo!)
- comes back to wins the Samsung/Radio Shack 500 at Texas Motor Speedway . (NASCAR.com)
- Peter Lonard gets his very first PGA TOUR win in a very strange final round of the MCI Heritage in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina . 54-hole leader Darren Clarke is at 14-under at one point in the final round, but ends up at 5-under in a 4-way tie for second place, a tie that includes 5-time tournament winner Davis Love III . Lonard finishes at 7-under. (The Golf Channel)
- (319/7) beat India (315/6) by 3 wickets in the 4th One-day International at Ahmedabad . (Wisden Cricinfo)
- , Quarter-finals, second leg, progressing teams in :
- --- Bayern Munich 3 – 2 (UEFA.com)
- --- Internazionale – - match abandoned after 75 minutes because of fan unrest, when AC were leading 1-0 (3-0 on aggregate). Result is pending decision of the UEFA Control and Disciplinary Body, which may either let the result stand, or award the match 3-0 to AC Milan. Regardless of UEFA's final decision, AC will advance. (UEFA.com)
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