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31 January 2006 (Tuesday)


  • ---Group D: Nigeria 2–1 Senegal ''Nigeria finishes with a perfect record in the group. Senegal backs into the quarterfinals thanks to Zimbabwe's win over Ghana.''

  • ---Group D: Ghana 1–2 Zimbabwe

  • NCAA Men's College Basketball :

  • --- (1) Huskies, behind 22 points from Rudy Gay , win a physical matchup against the Panthers.''

  • --- (6) , and come away with a win. The Illini get 16 points from Dee Brown and Rich McBride, and take command of the game with a 19-0 run late in the first half. They also take sole possession of the Big Ten lead.''

  • --- as a ranked team for the first time, but leave the same way as they have every year since 1996 —losing to the Bluejays.''




30 January 2006 (Monday)

  • Football :

  • --- 2006 African Cup Of Nations

  • --Group C: Tunisia 0–3 Guinea ''Guinea makes 3 wins out of 3 in a surprise defeat of the title holders. Both countries progress to the quarter-finals.''

  • --Group C: Zambia 1–0 South Africa

  • --- FA Cup : In the fifth round draw, and will meet on the weekend of February 18th.

  • Polls

  • ---Men's: UConn , Duke , and Memphis remain in the top three spots. In other highlights:

  • -- George Washington rises to #10, their first top-10 ranking since 1956 .

  • -- Northern Iowa enters the rankings for the first time ever, at #25.

  • ---Women's: As expected, North Carolina earns its first #1 ranking in history. Duke remains #2. Other highlights:

  • -- Tennessee drops to #5 after losses to Duke and Kentucky .

  • --Kentucky enters the poll for the first time since 1993 , at #21. This is also the first time since 1990 that Kentucky's women have been ranked and their men have not.

  • -- St. John's enters the poll at #25 after an even longer absence, since 1984 .




29 January 2006 (Sunday)

  • Football

  • --- 2006 African Cup Of Nations

  • --Group B: Angola 3–2 Togo

  • --Group B: Cameroon 2–0 Congo DR ''Cameroon top the group with a perfect record from three matches. Congo DR backs into the knockout phase; if Angola or Cameroon had scored one more goal, Angola would have advanced instead.''

  • ---FA Cup Fourth Round

  • -- 1-2

  • -- 0-3

  • defeats Marcos Baghdatis 5-7, 7-5, 6-0, 6-2 to win the men's championship. It is Federer's seventh Grand Slam title.

  • NCAA Women's College Basketball :

  • --- (3) . With this win and Tennessee's two losses in the past week, the Tar Heels are all but assured of their first-ever Number 1 women's ranking.''




28 January 2006 (Saturday)




27 January 2006 (Friday)




26 January 2006 (Thursday)

  • Football :

  • --- 2006 African Cup Of Nations

  • --Group C: Zambia 1–2 Guinea

  • --Group C: Tunisia 2–0 South Africa

    • Both winners advance to the knockout phase.

    • --- Real Zaragoza ended FC Barcelona 's 18-match Copa Del Rey winning streak in the first leg of their tie, winning 4-2.

    • NCAA Women's College Basketball :

    • --- , the Wildcats beat the Lady Vols for the first time in 20 years. Tennessee coach Pat Summitt goes 0-2 since winning her 900th game as coach, and the Lady Vols lose their second straight game for the first time since 1997 .''




    25 January 2006 (Wednesday)





    24 January 2006 (Tuesday)




    23 January 2006 (Monday)

    • Auto Racing

    • --- Toyota announces its will enter the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup and Busch Series for the 2007 season; its Camry will be the first car from marking the first time since the late 1950s that a car from a manufacturer operating principally abroad since the late 1950s. Toyota Press Release on NASCAR.com

    • --- In addition, NASCAR announces the phasing in of its "Car of Tomorrow" program starting with the short tracks and road courses during the 2007 season. The program will be fully implemented by 2009.


    • ---Group D: Nigeria 1–0 Ghana (BBC)

    • ---Group D: Zimbabwe 0–2 Senegal (BBC)

    • NCAA College Basketball :

    • ---Men's: (12) from their first loss of the season. The Orange lose their third game in eight days, all to teams ranked 12th or better.''

    • ---Women's: (2) , five Blue Devils score in double figures during their rout of the Lady Vols.''




    22 January 2006 (Sunday)





    21 January 2006 (Saturday)


    • ---Group A: Morocco 0–1 Côte D'Ivoire (BBC)

    • ---Group B: Cameroon 3–1 Angola (BBC)

    • ---Group B: Togo 0–2 Congo DR (BBC)

    • NCAA Men's College Basketball :

    • --- St. John's 55, (9) Pittsburgh 50: ''On a day when the Red Storm honored ten of their all-time greats at halftime, Lamont Hamilton matches his career high with 24 points and leads them to an upset of the previously unbeaten Panthers. (ESPN) This leaves two unbeaten teams in men's Division I basketball...''

    • --- Georgetown 87, (1) Duke 84 ''...make that one. The Blue Devils' normally vaunted defense fails to show up at the MCI Center , as the Hoyas shoot 61 percent from the field, build a double-digit lead well into the second half, and survive a Duke comeback. Brandon Bowman leads the Hoyas with 23 points. J. J. Redick scores 41 in a losing effort, but Shelden Williams only scores 4 for the Blue Devils. (ESPN) This left only one team unbeaten...

    • --- upset of the Gators. Even with all three unbeatens going down, one could argue that none of them were the biggest upset of the day...''

    • ---. The Badgers shoot 22.2% from the field.''

    • ---(3) , thanks to Maurice Williams' 15 points and Rudy Gay 's 12 points. When the new polls are released on Monday ( January 23 ), Connecticut will likely rise to number one (which they did).''

    • ---(11) , and Shannon Brown score 25, 19, and 17 respectively to lead the Spartans to the most lopsided win in their series against the Hawkeyes.''

    • ---(12) 24 points, the Mountaineers go to Pauley Pavilion , build a 20-point lead early in the second half, and survive a ferocious Bruins comeback, despite scoring only one field goal (a key Gansey three-pointer) in the final 14:43.''

    • ---'' Houston coach Tom Penders collapses before half-time during the team's 82-79 loss to UAB and is given a technical foul. Penders recovers and coaches during the second half, blaming his collapse on a heart condition. Conference USA officials refuse to resind the technical foul, and were disciplined several days later.'' aol.com

    • Boxing :

    • --- Manny Pacquiao defeats Erik Morales by a tenth round knockout in the first ever boxing undercard at the Wynn Hotel And Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada , avenging an earlier defeat to Morales. In the evening's only world title bout, Martin Castillo retained his World Boxing Association Super Flyweight title, after recovering from a first round knockdown, by a twelve round split decision in his rematch with former world champion Alexander Munoz . DailyNews.com





    20 January 2006 (Friday)




    19 January 2006 (Thursday)

    • forward and president of the Players Association Antonio Davis was suspended by the league for five games for going into the stands during the Knicks game against the Chicago Bulls to protect his wife from a drunken heckler.

    • have hired Tampa Bay Buccaneers line coach Rod Marinelli as their new head coach.

    • coach Pat Summitt won her 900th game as coach of the Lady Volunteers, defeating the Lady Commodores of Vanderbilt , 80-68.

    • NHL :

    • --- Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Bryan Berard was suspended two years from international hockey after failing a drug test. No word on if he will be suspended by the NHL.

    • --- Mario Lemieux is planning to sell the Pittsburgh Penguins , and reports are if they do not get a new arena by June 2008, the team may move out of the Steel City.

    • General Manager Theo Epstein , who turned down a contract extension and avoided the media on Halloween by wearing a gorilla suit out of the team offices at Fenway Park , will return to his old job as the team's general manager.




    18 January 2006 (Wednesday)




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    January 16 2006 (Monday)




    15 January 2006 (Sunday)




    14 January 2006 (Saturday)

    • Figure Skating :

    • --- wins his third consecutive gold medal in the men's competition, easily securing a spot for the 2006 Winter Olympics . Evan Lysacek , the current World bronze medalist, wins silver, while Matt Savoie finishes third. This will be the first Olympics for all three men. Meanwhile, on the women's side, Sasha Cohen gets her first national title, while Kimmie Meissner wins silver, and Emily Hughes , sister of reigning Olympic champion Sarah Hughes , wins bronze. Cohen and Meissner will go to Torino , but Hughes is named an alternate after Michelle Kwan , who withdrew from these Championships with a groin injury, successfully petitions for a spot on the Olympic team. (USFSA.org)

    • NFL Playoffs , Division Playoffs

    • ---NFC: leaves early with a Concussion , but the Seahawks hold on thanks to a terrific all-around performance. Darrell Jackson catches nine passes for 143 yards and a touchdown. The Seahawks will host the Carolina Panthers next Sunday in the NFC Championship Game .'' ( NFL.com )

    • ---AFC: against the Pittsburgh Steelers . Tom Brady threw for 341 yards in the loss, his first as a pro quarterback in post-season.'' ( NFL.com )

    • NCAA Men's College Basketball

    • ---(8) , who had 19. 'Nova, who have now lost two of their last three, shot 27 percent from the field in the loss, and fall to 11-2. Texas improves to 14-2.

    • ---(13) teams in the country, the Huskies have a monster second half, and win by four points. The Bruins, who were up 12 at halftime, fall to 14-3. Washington goes to 14-2.




    13 January 2006 (Friday)

    • sent the game into a third overtime with a buzzer-beating three-point basket and Chris Webber , who failed to call a time out with seconds remaining in that overtime period, in a reversal of the incident in the 1993 NCAA Championship Game while at Michigan against North Carolina , hit two free throws to give the Home team the win.''

    • fire Claude Julien as head coach and name general manager Bob Gainey as his interim replacement.

    • in the Kulm jump in Styria , the defending champion Roar Ljøkelsøy of Norway leaps 207.5 metres in the second jump to take a lead of 22.8 points over second-placed Thomas Morgenstern . The start was initially delayed for an hour due to windy conditions. (AP)




    12 January 2006 (Thursday)

    • NFL (Non-Post-season News)

    • ---One week after announcing that Marv Levy was returning to the Buffalo Bills as the team's new president and the subsequent firing of Tom Donahoe , head coach Mike Mularkey resigned.

    • ---The Green Bay Packers named former San Francisco 49ers offensive coordinator Mike McCarthy as their new head coach.

    • NBA

    • --- was "held" to 27 points, as the Lakers escaped with a win over LeBron James and the Cavs. King James had 28 points in the loss.''

    • ---'s 27 points and ten rebounds, the Pistons completed the season sweep of their 2005 NBA Finals rematch.''

    • introduced a new drug testing policy, with punishments very similar to those in Major League Baseball , covering suspensions of 20 games for the first offense, 60 games for the second and a lifetime ban on the third offense.




    11 January 2006 (Wednesday)

    • will have NBC , CBS and The Golf Channel televising PGA Tour events except for the four majors. The over-the-air networks will have six-year contracts, while The Golf Channel, owned by Comcast , will have a fifteen-year pact. NBC cable partner USA Network along with Disney 's ABC and ESPN were shut out in the negotiations, with the Disney duo walking away.

    • 's two leading Running Back s known as "Thunder and Lightning" are both leaving school, as LenDale White announces that he will forego his senior season for the Trojans and enter the NFL draft. His backfield teammate, Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush did the same Thursday ( January 12 ), and is expected to be the number one pick overall by the Houston Texans .




    10 January 2006 (Tuesday)




    9 January 2006 (Monday)

    • n KTM motorcycle rider Andy Caldecott , 41, dies in Mauritania during the ninth stage of the Rally , becoming the 23rd competitor to die during the event. Caldecott suffered fatal neck injuries during a crash, but the causes of the crash are not known. (ABC.net)




    8 January 2006 (Sunday)

    • quarterback Vince Young announces he will forego his senior year to enter the 2006 NFL Draft .

    • :

    • --- Stuart Appleby wins the Mercedes Championships for the third consecutive year, defeating Vijay Singh on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff. Both Appleby and Singh shot 8-under during the regulation 72 holes. Appleby is the first player on Tour to win an event three consecutive years since Tiger Woods won four straight Bay Hill Invitational s from 2000 to 2003 . (PGATour.com)

    • , Third round

    • --- 0–0 : '' Conference side Burton Albion earn a lucrative replay at Old Trafford against their august visitors from four divisions higher in the English League system.''

    • --- 1–2 : '' Premiership side Fulham crash out to League Two minnows Orient, from three divisions below them.''

    • --- 3–2 : '' Championship side Leicester recover from a two-goal deficit with a last-minute winner against their Premiership guests.''

    • --- Sunderland 3–0

    • NFL Playoffs Wild Card Weekend

    • ---NFC: passes. Carolina will play "Da Bears" in Chicago next week.''

    • ---AFC: throws for three touchdowns, while Jon Kitna , who entered after a first-quarter injury to Carson Palmer , throws two costly interceptions for the Bengals. The Steelers travel to Indianapolis next week and face the top-seeded Colts .''

    • NCAA Men's College Basketball :

    • ---(24) , and Mike Gansey , come back from a 15-point second-half deficit On The Road to hand the Wildcats their first loss of the season.''

    • --- to 11 and 2 points respectively. The Badgers go to 33-1 in Big Ten Home games under coach Bo Ryan .''

    • --- win. The Eagles shoot 4-for-16 from three-point range, and go more than 11 minutes of the game without a field goal.''

    • ---(1) thanks to 32 points from J. J. Redick , his fifth 30-plus performance of the season.''





    7 January 2006 (Saturday)





    6 January 2006 (Friday)

    • NFL :

    • --- Philadelphia Eagles offensive coordinator Brad Childress was named as the new head coach of the Minnesota Vikings , five days after the firing of Mike Tice .

    • ---The New York Jets and Kansas City Chiefs have made a deal that will allow Herman Edwards to become the Chiefs' new coach in exchange for sending the Jets a fourth-round draft pick as compensation. On Sunday ( January 8 ), an agreement was in place for a four-year contract between the Chiefs and Edwards.

    • Ski Jumping :

    • --- wins the fourth and final event of the Tournament at Bischofshofen 2.0 points ahead of Czech Jakub Janda , and the two finish level on overall points with 1,081.5 and share the title for the first time in the tournament's 54-year history. Ahonen was 1.0 points behind Janda after the first jump, but the Finn jumped 141.5 metres in the second jump, 2.5 metres longer than Janda. This was Ahonen's fourth Four Hills overall win, to equal a record set by Jens Weissflog in 1991.' (Reuters Canada)




    5 January 2006 (Thursday)

    • NCAA Men's College Basketball

    • ---(3) game ever and go to 11-2. Randy Foye has has 24 points and the Wildcats improve to 10-0, their best start since the 1960s.''

    • --- (6) comes up with 34 points to lead the Fighting Illini to victory over Tom Izzo and the Spartans. Brown was 12-for-22 from the field on a night that some think proved that he can lead the Illini to another final. Illinois improves the best record in the country to 15-0, while MSU falls to 12-3, having played a very tough schedule thus far.''

    • beats Russia 5-0 in the gold medal game to win their second straight World Junior Title. Canada coach Brent Sutter becomes 12-0 at the Juniors, becoming the winningest Canadian coach in history. However, the game was not without controversy, as a Russian goal was disallowed in the second period that would have made the score 2-1. Meanwhile, the heavily favored Americans lost to Finland 4-2 in the bronze medal game.'' (TSN.ca)




    4 January 2006 (Wednesday)

    • National Championship Game

    • --- champion Longhorns win their first National Championship since 1970 . Longhorns QB Vince Young , runner up to the Trojans' Reggie Bush in the Heisman Trophy balloting, runs for 200 of his game-record 467 total offensive yards, including the game-winning touchdown with a 9-yard dash on 4th and 5 with 19 seconds left. The Longhorns win their 20th straight game, while the Trojans lose for the first time in 35 games, handing Matt Leinart his second - and final - collegiate loss.''

    • at the Homestead-Miami Speedway , Toyota announces they will not supply engines for the series this year, leaving Honda as the IRL's lone engine supplier. So far, sixteen cars have been confirmed to be taking part in the upcoming season.' (Autoweek)

    • will skip the United States Figure Skating championships in St. Louis, Missouri this month and will instead petition to join the team in Turin, Italy for the XX Olympic Winter Games due to a right groin injury she suffered while practicing.

    • Ski Jumping :

    • --- of Norway comes back from 28th and 20th placings in the first two events to top the rankings in Innsbruck with 264.7pts. The Czech Jakub Janda takes over the overall lead in the Four Hills after finishing in second place 1.5 points behind Bystøl, while Bjørn Einar Romøren ensures that Norway have two men on the podium. Finn Janne Ahonen , who led the tournament before this event, finishes sixth. (NRK.no )




    3 January 2006 (Tuesday)

    • upset of the second-ranked Huskies in their Big East debut.''

    • was given the pink slip by the Oakland Raiders .


    • --- won his 21st bowl game, his first over Bobby Bowden in their first meeting since the 1990 Blockbuster Bowl. During the post-game trophy ceremony, JoePa, ever with the dry humor about the long night, asked an Orange Bowl official "How long have we been here, three months?"''




    2 January 2006 (Monday)

    • NCAA College Football

    • ---Non-BCS Games

    • -- led Notre Dame to a comeback win over Houston in the 1979 game.''

    • -- 31, Iowa 24: ''The SEC Gators withstand a fourth-quarter rally by the Hawkeyes from the Big Ten thanks to a blown call of offsides on an on-side kick by Iowa late in the game when replays showed no member of the kickoff team actually crossed the thirty-five yard line after the ball was kicked. The Gators recovered the ensuing attempt, and ran out the clock.''

    • -- 35, Louisville 24: ''The ACC's Hokies, former members of the Big East, come back from a 24-21 deficit to beat the latter conference's Cardinals.''

    • -- wins its first bowl game of the year in Barry Alvarez ' last game as head coach over the SEC Tigers.''

    • --- Bowl Championship Series

    • -- throws for 340 yards and rushes for 68.''

    • --At the 38 Georgia 35: ''The Big East champions finally avoided a conference-wide shutout in bowl games by upsetting the SEC Champions.''





    1 January 2006 (Sunday)

    • NFL Week 17: ''The NFL Playoff picture was finally set in stone on the first day of the New Year.''

    • ---'s first game since his son James' death, Indianapolis wins despite resting its star players and the Cards' Neil Rackers breaks the NFL record for field goals in a season with his 40th. An apparent touchdown that would have given the Cards a lead late in the fourth quarter by Cards' QB Josh McCown on fourth and goal from the Colts one was overturned by the replay official as the replay showed that McCown fumbling the ball before crossing the goal line.''

    • --- catches nine passes for 123 yards and a touchdown and Dennis Northcutt provides the winning score on a punt return. Ravens' DB Deion Sanders played in his final NFL game, announcing his retirement after the game.''

    • --- returns a kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter of the Jets' fourth win of the season, their worst since the 1-15 record posted by Rich Kotite in 1996 , and will select fourth in the 2006 NFL Draft April 29th in New York City. The win sent coach Herman Edwards out on a high note, as he would become the Kansas City Chiefs' new head coach a week later in exchange for the Chiefs' fourth-round pick in said draft.''

    • --- throws two touchdown passes — one of them to Steve Smith , who was the NFL's receiving leader with 1,563 yards — as the Panthers clinch a playoff spot. Smith ties Arizona's Larry Fitzgerald for the most passes caught with 103 during the regular season.''

    • ---, but miss out on the playoffs due to the Steelers' win. After the game, Chiefs coach Dick Vermeil announced his second — and likely permament — retirement.''

    • --- rushes for three touchdowns in what likely could be his final game at Heinz Field .''

    • --- with 4,110 total yards — were resting or played in limited action before next week's playoff game with Jacksonville, Doug Flutie capped off his career by making the NFL's first successful Drop Kick since Ray McLain did for the Chicago Bears on December 21 , 1941 during their 37-9 NFL Championship Game victory over the New York Giants. According to the Pro Football Hall Of Fame 's website, the kick was also the fist successful drop kick in a regular season game since Earl "Dutch" Clark did it in 1937 for the Detroit Lions.''

    • --- due a power struggle the following day.''

    • --- sets a new league record with his 28th touchdown of the season while winning the NFL's rushing title with 1,880 yards. Meanwhile, Brett Favre throws a touchdown pass — the 396th of his career — in what is likely to be his final game. The Pack will hold the fifth selection in the draft, but will have a new coach as Mike Sherman was dismissed the following day.''

    • --- the next day.''

    • --- throws two touchdowns for the Jaguars, who rest several starters, while the Titans will select third in the draft thanks to a strength of schedule tiebreaker.''

    • ---'s last game as Vikings head coach, he goes out a winner thanks to two Brad Johnson touchdown passes while Da Bears rested many of their regulars. Tice was informed by new Vikings owner Zygi Wilf that he was fired one hour following the contest.''

    • --- rushes for 124 yards and two touchdowns. The Eagles also made history — in a double negative way — by becoming the first team since the 2002 expansion to go unbeaten (6-0) in divisional play one year (in 2004 ) to going winless (0-6) the next year and the first in history to do just that.''

    • ---'s final Sunday Night Football telecast after nineteen seasons, the last eight as a full-season package. NBC will take over the package starting with the 2006 Season , renaming the games " Football Night In America ." Mike Martz and his interim replacement, Joe Vitt, were fired as Rams' coaches the following day, and Cowboys' coach Bill Parcells , who had been reported ready to step down signed a two-year contract extention that Friday ( January 6 ).''

    • Ski Jumping :

    • --- Jakub Janda wins his fifth World Cup event of the season in the New Year Ski Jump in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Germany , 1.9 points ahead of Finn Janne Ahonen , who nevertheless retains his overall lead in the Tournament, 5.8 points ahead of Janda. (CBC.ca) .