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- NCAA College Basketball
- ---Men's:
-- retains the top spot. UConn moves up one spot to second after defeating Villanova yesterday. Memphis moves up one spot to #3, Villanova drops from #2 to #4, and Gonzaga remains at #5.
--(16) game for Mountaineers seniors Kevin Pittsnogle , Mike Gansey , and Joe Herber, Pittsnogle scores 26 and Herber adds 16 to clinch a first-round bye in the upcoming Big East tournament.''
--(5) Gonzaga 75, leads all scorers with 34 points, but his assist with 1.0 second remaining on a three-pointer by Pierre Marie Altidor-Cespedes gives the Bulldogs their margin of victory. The Bulldogs complete their second unbeaten season in West Coast Conference play in the last three years.''
- ---Women's:
--AP Poll: North Carolina returns to #1 after their Saturday win over Duke, who drops to #2. LSU , Maryland , and Ohio State fill out the top five.
- Rugby Union :
- --- 2006 Six Nations - Round 3
-- Ireland 31–5 Wales
- Road Running :
- --- Lornah Kiplagat and Wilson Kiprotich win the feminine and masculine branch of the World's Best 10K Race in San Juan , Puerto Rico .
- XX Winter Olympic Games , Turin , final day:
- --- Cross-country Skiing :
-- Giorgio Di Centa of Italy wins the 50 Km Freestyle event. Russian Evgenji Dementiev claims the silver and Austrian Mikhail Botvinov gets the bronze. (CBC)
- --- Ice Hockey , Men's Gold Medal Game
-- Defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom scores the winning, third-period goal, leading Sweden to a 3-2 win over Finland , in the men's Ice Hockey final, capturing the last Gold Medal Of The Turin Games . (CBC)
- led the most laps, he blew his engine to fall out of contention at the Auto Club 500 . Biffle's Roush Racing teammmate Matt Kenseth won the event.
- NCAA College Basketball
- ---Men's:
--(3) and 17 from the nation's leading scorer off the bench, Rashad Anderson , the Homestanding Huskies avenge a loss two weeks ago to the Wildcats that knocked them from the top spot in the polls.''
- ---Women's:
--. This is their first loss to an unranked team at home since 1984 , and marks the first time since the women's rankings began in 1976 that they have lost twice to unranked teams in the same season.''
- XX Winter Olympic Games , Turin , day fifteen:
- --- Speed Skating :
-- Claudia Pechstein skates to a silver medal. Cindy Klassen , also from Canada, gets the bronze, her fifth medal at these Games. (CBC)
- --- Biathlon :
-- Anna Carin Olofsson of Sweden wins the women's 12.5-km free gold with Kati Wilhelm of Germany taking the silver and her compatriot Uschi Disl capturing the bronze. (CBC)
-- Michael Greis of Germany win the men's 15-km freestyle to capture his third gold medal in Turin. Tomasz Sikora of Poland wins the silver and Ole Einar Bjørndalen the bronze. (CBC)
- --- Short Track Speed Skating :
-- American Apolo Anton Ohno wins the men's 500m, earning his second career gold medal. Canada's François-Louis Tremblay wins the silver, while Ahn Hyun-Soo of South Korea is denied of his third individual gold medal of the Olympics, settling for the bronze and his third career Olympic medal. (Reuters) , (CBC)
-- South Korea's Jin Sun-Yu wins her third gold of the Games in the women's 1000m. Chinese women Wang Meng and Yang Yang (A) take the silver and bronze respectively. (CBC)
-- South Korea wins the gold medal in the men's 5000m relay. Ahn wins his third gold medal of the Games, bringing his total number of medal in Turin to four. Canada takes the silver, while the United States gets bronze. (CBC)
- --- Alpine Skiing :
-- The , silver for Reinfried Herbst , bronze for Rainer Schönfelder . (CBC)
- --- Ice Hockey : Men's Bronze Medal Game
-- Czech Republic 3 — Russia 0 (CBC)
- --- Bobsleigh :
-- The German bob driven by Andre Lange wins gold in the 4-man event 0.13 seconds ahead of the Russian bob driven by Alexandre Zoubkov and 0.41 seconds ahead of Martin Annen 's Swiss sleigh. Pierre Lueders pilots his ''Canada 1'' sleigh to a fourth-place finish, missing the podium by 0.09 seconds. (CBC)
- Lacrosse :
- --- 2006 NLL All Star Game
--West Division All Star Team 14–13 East Division All Star Team
- Rugby Union :
- --- 2006 Six Nations - Round 3
-- France 37–12 Italy
-The scoreline flatters an error-riddled France team, which had to come back from a 12-8 halftime deficit in front of their Home fans.
-- Scotland 18–12 England
-In a tight match which saw no tries by either side, Chris Paterson's five penalties lead the Scots to a win over their ''Auld Enemy'', claiming the Calcutta Cup for the first time since 2000 and sending the Murrayfield crowd home delirious.
- --- 2006 Super 14 - Round 3.
-- defeat Sharks (1 BP) 22-20 in Timaru
-The Crusaders got home in a tight match with a Daniel Carter Drop Goal with six and a half minutes remaining. The Sharks led most of the game before this, with Percy Montgomery intercepting a Carter pass early in the match. The overall officiating of the match was poor, with two Crusaders tries disallowed when television replays proved differently.
-- Reds (1 BP) loss to 20-21 in Brisbane
-The Blues held on to a one point win late in the game. The win was the first for the Blues this season while the Reds are 13th on the table (out of 14) on two points. The Reds are yet to win a game.
- ---Game Three in the Five match One-day International series.
-- New Zealand defeat the West Indies by 21 runs in Christchurch and win the series.
-New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat, with some late hitting by Nathan Astle bringing his score up to 118 Not Out and New Zealand to 276-6 with three sixes of the last three balls of the innings. Ian Bradshaw was the pick of the West Indian bowlers, with 3-41 off 8 overs. In reply the West Indies were all out at the end of 49 overs. Astle was named Man Of The Match . Cricinfo
- NCAA College Basketball :
- ---Men's:
-- Duke player J. J. Redick breaks the Atlantic Coast Conference career scoring record that was previously held by Dickie Hemric and has stood since 1955 . Scoring 11 points against Temple , Redick upped his career total to 2,590 points, surpassing Hemric's record of 2,587.
- ---Women's:
--(2) s, as the Tar Heels score their fifth consecutive win over the Blue Devils, likely returning them to #1 in the polls. This was the first advance sellout ever for the women's team at Carmichael Auditorium .''
- - Round of 32, second leg, progressing teams shown in .
- --- 0–0 Litex Lovech
- --- Espanyol 0–3
- --- 0–1 Heerenveen
- --- 2–0 Hertha Berlin
- --- AS Monaco 1–1
- --- AZ Alkmaar 2–1
- --- 2–1 Rosenborg
- --- 2–0 Artmedia Bratislava
- --- 2–1 Bolton Wanderers
- --- Shakhtar Donetsk 0–0
- --- Lens 1–0
- --- 2–0 Lokomotiv Moscow
- --- 2–1 Club Brugge
- --- 0–1 VfB Stuttgart
--''Middlesbrough win on the away goals rule.''
- --- 1–0 Slavia Prague
--''Palermo win on the away goals rule.''
- --- 2–0 FC Thun (UEFA.com)
- XX Winter Olympic Games , Turin , day thirteen:
- --- Snowboarding , women's Parallel Giant Slalom :
-- Defending world cup champion Daniela Meuli of Switzerland won gold with Germany's Amelie Kober taking the silver and American Rosey Fletcher the bronze. (CBC)
- --- Biathlon , women's 4x6-km relay:
-- Despite missing veteran Olga Pyleva , suspended for two years after failing an anti- Doping test last week, the Russian Team of Albina Akhatova , Anna Bogaliy , Svetlana Ishmuratova and Olga Zaitseva led from start to finish, posting a gold medal-winning time of 1:16:12.5. Two-time defending Olympic gold medallists from Germany finished 50.7 seconds behind for the silver. The French team took the bronze, more than two minutes back. (CBC)
- --- Curling :
-- Canada ( Glenys Bakker , Amy Nixon , Christine Keshen , Sandra Jenkins and Shannon Kleibrink ) wins the bronze medal in women's curling, defeating Norway 11-5 in eight ends. (CBC)
-- The Swedish women's team skipped by Anette Norberg win the gold medal match against Switzerland with a 7-6 double take out on the last stone of the 11th end. (CBC)
- --- Freestyle Skiing :
-- China 's Han Xiaopeng wins gold in men's aerials by just over 2 points over Dmitri Dashinski of Belarus . Vladimir Lebedev of Russia wins Bronze. (CBC)
- --- Figure Skating :
-- Shizuka Arakawa of Japan performs a conservative but clean free skate to defeat Sasha Cohen of the United States and Irina Slutskaya of Russia , who both suffer falls and take silver and bronze respectively. Arakawa's win gives Japan their first medal in Turin. (CBC)
- - Round of 16, first leg.
- --- Chelsea 1–2 Barcelona
- --- Rangers 2–2 Villarreal
- --- Werder Bremen 3–2 Juventus
- --- Ajax 2–2 Internazionale (UEFA.com)
- --- ODI Series Game Two in the Five match series.
-- New Zealand defeat West Indies by 3 wickets and go 2-0 up.
-New Zealand won the toss and elected to field first, restricting the West Indies to 200-9 of 50 overs. New Zealand recovered from 13-4 after 3.2 overs to win with 3 wickets in hand. Daniel Vettori was awarded Man Of The Match for his All-round figures of 53 Not Out and 28-1 off ten overs.
- --- ODI Series Game Two of Three.
-- Bangladesh defeats Sri Lanka by four wickets in Bogra , Bangladesh , prompting scenes of celebration in the country {Link without Title} . It is Bangladesh's first victory against Sri Lanka.
-Bangladesh won the toss and sent Sri Lanka into bat. The tourists struggled to 212 from their allotted overs, with only opener Sanath Jayasuriya (96 runs from 110 balls) passing fifty. Bangladesh reached the target with two overs to spare to win by four wickets. Scorecard
- XX Winter Olympic Games , Turin , day twelve:
- --- Cross-country Skiing , Women's 1.1 km Sprint:
-- Chandra Crawford of Canada sprinted in a time of two minutes, 12.3 seconds to a gold medal in her Olympic debut. Germany's Claudia Künzel edged out Russian Alena Sidko to earn the silver while Beckie Scott finished fourth. (CBC) , (Turin2006.org)
- --- Cross-country Skiing , Men's Sprint
-- Björn Lind of Sweden sprinted to a gold medal after a superior race which left his opponents a long way behind. France's Roddy Darragon edged out Swede Thobias Fredriksson to earn the silver while Cristian Zorzi of Italy could not repeat his performance from the relay and finished in fourth place. (Turin2006.org)
- --- Snowboarding , Parallel Giant Slalom :
-- Philipp Schoch of Switzerland bested his elder brother Simon Schoch in the final of the men's snowboard parallel giant slalom to successfully defend his Olympic gold medal. Siegfried Gabner of Austria took bronze. (CBC)
- --- Alpine Skiing , women's slalom:
-- Anja Pärson of Sweden wins her first Olympic gold medal and the fifth Olympic medal of her career. Austrians Nicole Hosp and Marlies Schild take silver and bronze. Janica Kostelić of Croatia fails to add to her record six career women's alpine medals, finishing 0.15 seconds behind Schild. (CBC)
- --- Speed Skating , women's 1,500 metres:
-- Canadians Cindy Klassen and Kristina Groves finish one-two, with Klassen winning by a dominant 1.47 seconds. Dutch Ireen Wust takes bronze, while German medal favourite Anni Friesinger finishes fourth and misses out on the medals. (CBC)
- --- Ice Hockey , men's quarterfinals:
-- Sweden 6 – Switzerland 2 (CBC)
-- Finland 4 – USA 3 (CBC)
-- Russia 2 – Canada 0 '' Kazakh -born goaltender Evgeni Nabokov hands the Canadians their third shutout in four games, eliminating the defending champion from the tournament.'' (CBC)
-- Czech Republic 3 – Slovakia 1 (CBC)
- --- Curling :
-- Men's semi-finals:
- Finland 4 – Great Britain 3
- Canada 11 – USA 5 (CBC)
-- Women's semi-finals
- Sweden 5 – Norway 4
- Switzerland 7 – Canada 5 (CBC)
- --- Short Track Speed Skating :
-- South Korea wins the gold medal in the women's 3,000 m relay, while Canada takes silver, and Italy bronze. (Turin2006.org) , (CBC)
- --- Figure Skating :
-- Sasha Cohen of the United States leads after the ladies' short program, edging out Russian competitor Irina Slutskaya by only 0.03 points. (CBC)
- Football :
- --- UEFA Champions League 2005-06 - Round of 16, first leg.
-- Bayern Munich 1–1 A.C. Milan
-- Benfica 1–0 Liverpool
-- Real Madrid 0–1 Arsenal
-Arsenal become the first English team ever to beat Real Madrid on Their Own Ground .
-- PSV 0–1 Lyon (UEFA.com)
- ---The English Football Association announces that the final of the FA Cup in May will be held at Cardiff 's Millennium Stadium , as the new Wembley Stadium in London will not have been completed in time. The Football League playoff finals will also take place in Cardiff. England's pre- World Cup friendly matches against Hungary on 30 May and Jamaica on 3 June have also been moved, to Old Trafford , Trafford , Greater Manchester . (BBC)
- XX Winter Olympic Games , Turin , day eleven:
- --- Biathlon , men's relay:
-- Sven Fischer , Michael Greis , Ricco Gross and Michael Rösch of Germany posted a winning time of one hour, 21 minutes and 51.5 seconds. Russia claimed the silver and France took the bronze. The win gives Fischer his fourth career Olympic gold during his 13-year career. (CBC)
- --- Nordic Combined , men's 7.5-kilometre sprint:
-- Austrian Felix Gottwald completed the course in 18 minutes, 29 seconds. Norwegian Magnus Moan (5.4 seconds behind) took the silver medal, while Germany's Georg Hettich (9.6 seconds behind) claimed the bronze. These were the same three medallists in the 15-km event, each getting a different medal. (CBC)
- --- Speed Skating , men's 1500-m:
-- took the bronze in 1:46.22. (CBC)
- --- Ice Hockey , men's preliminary round:
-- Switzerland 3 – Italy 3 (CBC)
-- Kazakhstan 5 – Latvia 2 (CBC)
-- Canada 3 – Czech Republic 2 (CBC)
-- Finland 2 – Germany 0: ''Finland wins Group A undefeated.'' (CBC)
-- Slovakia 3 – Sweden 0: ''Slovakia wins Group B undefeated.'' (CBC)
-- Russia 5 – United States 4 (CBC)
- --- Bobsleigh , Two-woman event:
-- and Jennifer Isacco of Italy took the bronze (3:51.01). (CBC)
- tells USA Today 's Bob Nightingale that 2006 will be his final season.
- NBA
- --- of the Cleveland Cavaliers was named the game's MVP with 29 points, 2 assists, and 6 rebounds. Tracy McGrady of the host Houston Rockets led all scorers with 36.''
- ---In the 48th edition of "The Super Bowl of Stock Car Racing", Jimmie Johnson wins his first "Great American Race."
- XX Winter Olympic Games , Turin , day nine:
- --- Cross Country Skiing , 4 x 10 km men's relay:
-- Italy takes the gold in the men's 4x10-kilometre relay, with Italian anchor Cristian Zorzi crossing the finish line 15 seconds ahead of silver medalist, Germany .
- --- Bobsleigh :
-- The German bob driven by Andre Lange wins gold in the men's 2-man event 0.21 seconds ahead of the Canadian bob driven by Pierre Lueders and 0.35 seconds ahead of Martin Annen 's Swiss sled.
- --- Speed Skating , women's 1000m:
-- Marianne Timmer of the Netherlands wins the women's 1000m in 1.16.05, 8 years after winning in Nagano . Cindy Klassen of Canada comes in second and favorite Anni Friesinger of Germany wins the bronze, 0.06 seconds behind Timmer.
- --- Pakistan defeat India in the final by 38 runs.
--Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat first ending all out on 109. India's top order failed, with 4 of the first 6 batsmen scoring 0 leaving India at one stage 9/6. India eventally ended all out on 71.
- - Round two.
- --- Hurricanes (1BP) 29–5 Western Force at New Plymouth
--The Hurricanes enjoyed their second bonus point win of the season, with four tries, including 2 within the first 10 minutes. The Force turned down 5 kickable penalties in the first 20 minutes and their only points came as a consolation try after the siren.
- --- Reds 21–47 (1BP) Crusaders at Brisbane
--The Crusaders recorded their second bonus point victory over the Reds, despite being down 14–11 at half time and fly half and goal kicker Daniel Carter missing several penalty attempts. However, Carter, the 2005 IRB player of the year, led a comeback midway through the second half, scoring two tries himself. The Crusaders went on to score 4 second half tries.
- --- Sharks (1 BP) 26–27 (1 BP) Cheetahs at Durban
--The Cheetahs picked up their first Super 14 victoy, coming from being 10 points behind at half time to win by a point. Giscard Pieters scored two tries in the victory.
- --- Stormers (1 BP) 26–32 (1 BP) Waratahs at Cape Town
--The Waratahs recorded their second victory off the season with a come-from-behind win. Trailing 20-10 at the break, the Waratahs scored 3 second half tries, including one in the final minutes of the match.
- ---First ODI of the five match series - New Zealand defeat West Indies by 81 runs in Wellington .
--New Zealand recorded a comprehensive victory with Nathan Astle scoring 90 and New Zealand ending up on 288-9 off 50 overs. West Indies never looked like winning, with wickets falling at regular intervals, despite Ramnaresh Sarwan and Daren Ganga both scoring 50s. Vice Captain Daniel Vettori was the pick of the New Zealand bowlers with 2-29 of 10 overs.
- XX Winter Olympic Games , Turin , day eight:
- --- Cross Country Skiing , women's 20 km relay:
-- Russia wins the 20km women's relay handily, finishing 10 seconds ahead of silver medalists Germany and 11 seconds ahead of bronze winners Italy .
- --- Curling :
-- In the men's competition, Italy shocks Canada 6-5, while the United States beats Germany 8-5. Great Britain edges Switzerland , 6-5, and Finland takes out Norway 7-3.
- --- Ice Hockey :
-- Switzerland stuns Canada 2-0 in the men's competition. Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Martin Gerber has 49 saves in the win.
- --- Short Track Speed Skating :
-- Jin Sun-Yu and Choi Eun-Kyung of South Korea take gold and silver in the women's 1500m. China's Wang Meng takes bronze. In the men's 1000m, Ahn Hyun-Soo and Lee Ho-Suk of South Korea take gold and silver with United States' Apolo Anton Ohno taking the bronze.
- --- Speed Skating :
-- The United States takes gold and silver in the men's 1000m with Shani Davis outskating Joey Cheek for first. Erben Wennemars of the Netherlands receives bronze. Davis' victory makes him the first black person to win an individual gold medal in the history of the Winter Olympics.
- --- Ski Jumping :
-- After a disappointing performance on the K90 hill, Austrian ski jumpers Thomas Morgenstern and Andreas Kofler take gold and silver on the large hill, with the smallest possible margin of 0.1 points between them. Lars Bystøl , winner of gold on the normal hill, places third.
- - Round two.
- --- Highlanders 25–13 Blues at Dunedin
--The Highlanders had a lucky win over the Blues, with two tries in the second half. One was an intercept in the Highlanders 22 and the second was a very close video replay try.
- --- Cats 21–16 Chiefs (1 BP) Johannesburg
--The Chiefs lose their second South African Super 14 match. However they picked up a bonus point for their 5 point loss.
- --- (1 BP) Bulls 21–27 Brumbies Pretoria
-- Stirling Mortlock scores and converts a try at the death to give the Brumbies their second win on the road, over the Bulls, who got a bonus point for their 6 point loss.
- XX Winter Olympic Games , Turin , day seven:
- --- Cross Country Skiing , 15 km men:
-- Andrus Veerpalu wins Estonia 's third cross-country gold medal, successfully defending his gold from the 2002 Games. Czech Lukáš Bauer wins silver, 15 seconds behind Veerpalu, while German Tobias Angerer bronze. (CBC)
- --- Snowboarding , women's cross:
-- Tanja Frieden of Switzerland takes the first ever Olympic gold medal in women's snowboard cross, passing the American Lindsey Jacobellis near the end of the race. Canada 's Dominique Maltais finishes with bronze. Maltais's teammate Maelle Ricker suffered a bruised hip and a mild concussion after a spectacular crash early in the race. (CBC)
- --- Ice Hockey , women's semifinal:
--In a remarkable upset, Sweden defeats the United States 3-2 in a Shootout to advance to the gold medal game against Canada . The United States had previously never been defeated in Olympic play by any team except Canada; however, an incredible game by Swedish goaltender Kim Martin brought the Swedes an unexpected victory. The United States will play for the bronze medal against Finland . (CBC)
--Canada soundly defeats Finland 6-0 in their semi-final, to set up a Canada - Sweden gold medal game. The United States will play Finland for bronze. (CBC)
- --- Skeleton , men's:
-- Canadians Duff Gibson and Jeffrey Pain win gold and silver despite Pain nearly losing control of his sled coming around the penultimate corner. Switzerland 's Gregor Staehli finishes third, beating out Canadian Paul Boehm by only two tenths of a second to prevent a Canadian sweep of the podium. The 39-year-old Gibson becomes the oldest individual gold medalist in Winter Olympics history. (CBC)
- - Round of 32, First leg.
- --- VfB Stuttgart 1–2 Middlesbrough
- --- Slavia Prague 3–1 Palermo
- --- FC Thun 1–0 Hamburg
- --- match. New Zealand defeat West Indies in a bowl off 3-0.
--Note: Chris Cairns ' final international cricket game for New Zealand.
-The New Zealanders won the toss, playing in the beige uniforms of the 80's, and sent the West Indies in. The "Windies" scored a modest 126-7 off their 20 overs, a run rate of only 6.30 an over. In reply, Lou Vincent scored 42 off 37, the highest score in the match. New Zealand looked to have the game in the bag, needing just 47 off nine overs. However, in the next 7 overs, Dwayne Smith and Chris Gayle had only 31 runs scored of their bowling, reducing the Black Caps to 110-8. New Zealand then required 17 to win off the last over and the game looked beyond them. A James Franklin six off the second ball changed things and off the last ball, New Zealand required 5 to win and 4 to tie with Tailender Shane Bond facing. Bond hit a four, sending the game in to a bowl off. The 12 balls missed the stumps and it took two hits from last ball hero Shane Bond to break the deadlock and then a hit from Scott Styris gave New Zealand a 3-0 win in the bowl off. The first ODI starts on February 18 .
- --- defeat Pakistan by 5 wickets at the Multan Cricket Stadium in the fourth ODI.
--India win the 5 match series 3-1.
-India won the toss and sent Pakistan into bat. The choice paid off as Pakistan ended all out for 161. Yuvraj Singh picked up 4 wickets and India coasted to an easy win to take the series.
- XX Winter Olympic Games , Turin , day six:
- --- Biathlon , women's sprint:
-- Florence Baverel-Robert of France wins the women's biathlon 7.5 km sprint. Anna Carin Olofsson of Sweden and Lilia Efremova of Ukraine complete the podium. (CBC.ca)
-- Olga Pyleva , who placed second at the 15km, has been disqualified from the Games following a positive test for Carphedon . She has been stripped of her medal. (CBC.ca) , (Olympic.org)
- --- Cross Country Skiing :
-- Kristina Šmigun wins her second gold medal of these Games, but she's still the only Estonian to medal. Three Norwegians follow, though over 20 seconds behind Šmigun. (CBC.ca)
- --- Nordic Combined , team:
-- Austria win the team competition after Mario Stecher catches up with Germany's Jens Gaiser on the final 5km leg. Finland win bronze nearly a minute ahead of the rest of the field. (NBC Olympics)
- --- Snowboarding , snowboard cross:
-- Seth Wescott of USA wins the inaugural Men's Snowboard Cross final. Radoslav Zidek of Slovakia is second and Paul-Henri Delarue of France is third. (CBC.ca)
- --- Speed Skating , team pursuit:
--The Italian men's team of Matteo Anesi , Stefano Donagrandi , Enrico Fabris , Ermanno Ioriatti , and Ippolito Sanfratello upsets the Canadians in the final to take the gold medal, after the Dutch team fell with a large lead in Italy's semi-final. The Dutch recover in the bronze-medal race to take third place. (CBC)
--World Cup-leading Germany 's team of Daniela Anschütz , Anni Friesinger , Lucille Opitz , Claudia Pechstein , and Sabine Völker defeat the Canadian team for the women's gold medal. Russia takes bronze. (CBC)
- --- Figure Skating , men's free skate
--Three-time world champion Russian Yevgeny Plushenko takes an unsurprising gold medal after a first-place free skate and short program. Switzerland 's Stephane Lambiel takes silver, while Canadian Jeffrey Buttle overcomes a poor short program to finish in third place. (CBC)
- --- Skeleton
-- Two-time world champion Maya Pedersen sets the two fastest times to win the Skeleton , and Switzerland 's first Gold of the Games. Shelley Rudman wins silver, the UK's first medal of any color. Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards takes bronze for Canada .
- --- Australia defeat Sri Lanka by 9 wickets at Brisbane Cricket Ground after 45.3 overs.
--Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat. After being 2-28, Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene put on a 100 run partnership. Jayawardene went on to score 86 of 91 balls. Russel Arnold made 76 off 71. Sri Lanka's final score was 266-9 off 50 overs. In Australia's innings, Opener s Adam Gilchrist and Simon Katich scored centuries to win the game by 9 wickets. Captain Ricky Ponting was not out with Katich on 28. Australia came from behind in the finals to win 2-1. Andrew Symonds was named man of the series, and Adam Gilchrist man of the match.
- XX Winter Olympic Games , Turin , day four:
- --- Biathlon , men's 10-kilometre sprint :
-- Sven Fischer won Germany 's second gold medal in biathlon with a perfect day on the shooting range and skiing the 10 kilometres in 26 minutes, 11.6 seconds. As in the men's individual, Norwegians take the two other medals. (CBC.ca)
- --- Cross Country , men's team sprint, classical style:
-- Thobias Fredriksson and Björn Lind from Sweden wins the gold medal at the men's team sprint, classical style, bringing in Sweden's first medal of the 2006 Winter Olympics. Minutes earlier, Lina Andersson and Anna Dahlberg , also from Sweden, won the women's gold medal in the same event. (BBC Sport)
- --- Speed Skating , women's 500 metres:
--34-year-old Russian Svetlana Zhurova , who left speed skating in 2003 to become a mother, becomes the oldest woman to win a speed skating gold medal by clocking times of 38.23 and 38.34. In the last pair of the second round, she beat Chinese Wang Manli , runner-up in the first round with 38.31, by 0.13 seconds to secure the gold medal. (CBC.ca)
- --- Alpine Skiing , men's combined:
--Unheralded 21-year-old Ted Ligety of the USA wins gold by virtue of two nearly-flawless slalom runs. The heavy favorite, Ligety's countryman Bode Miller , was disqualified for straddling a gate in his first slalom run after leading by two full seconds following the downhill segment. Ivica Kostelić of Croatia takes silver, while bronze goes to Rainer Schoenfelder of Austria . (CBC.ca)
- --- Ice Hockey Women's Group Stage
--Pool "A"
-Italy 1-5 Russia: ''After over 128 minutes, the Italians scored their first goal in the Olympics, thanks to Sabina Floran on a two-man advantage.''
-Canada 8-1 Sweden: ''Gillian Apps scored two goals in the rout of the Swedes.''
--Pool "B"
-Switzerland 1-2 Germany
-USA 7-3 Finland: ''The USA scored six straight times between the late second period and the entire third period to put this game away.''
- ---SEMIFINALS (Friday February 17 ): Finland vs. Canada, USA vs. Sweden.
- ---Third One Dayer in the Best of Five Series.
-- India defeat Pakistan by five wickets, after 47.4 overs.
- India won the toss and elect to field first. Shoaib Malik made 108 off 120 balls during Pakistan 's Innings of 288/8 off their 50 overs. Abdul Razzaq made 64 Not Out off 56 balls. Irfan Pathan ended the innings with 49/3 off ten overs, which included 2 madiens. In India's innings, Sachin Tendulkar 's 95 guided the Indian's towards victory. Yuvraj Singh scored 79--- and put on a 102 run stand with Mahendra Dhoni , who scored 72--- off 46 balls. This partnership was Not Out and secured India the win. India now lead the series 2-1.
- XX Winter Olympic Games , Turin , day three:
- --- Biathlon , women's 15 km individual:
--Russia occupies the top two spots on the podium of this distance, with Svetlana Ishmouratova claiming gold 45.5 seconds ahead of compatriot Olga Pyleva . Martina Glagow claimed bronze despite missing one target on the final shooting, thus preventing an all-Russian sweep. (CBC.ca)
- --- Curling
--Men's draw 1:
-Great Britain 7–5 Italy
-Sweden 6–3 New Zealand
-United States 11–5 Norway ''The Olympic champion Pål Trulsen resign in the eighth end after giving up five points'' (CBC.ca)
-Finland 7–2 Switzerland
--Men's draw 2: (CBC.ca)
-Canada 10–5 Germany
-Finland 4–3 United States
-Great Britain 10–5 New Zealand
-Sweden 7–5 Italy
--Women's draw 1:
-Great Britain 3–2 Denmark ''Five ends were blanked; Rhona Martin eventually secured a point with the hammer in the tenth end''
-Norway 11–6 United States
-Sweden 7–5 Canada '' Anette Norberg claimed a 6–4 lead in the eighth end and held on to beat Canada's Olympic debutant team, skipped by Shannon Kleibrink '' (CBC.ca)
-Switzerland 11–4 Italy
- --- Figure Skating :
-- Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin of Russia takes gold in the pairs event. Two Chinese pairs claim silver and bronze. (CBC.ca)
- --- Ice Hockey , Women's Group Stage :
--Group A: Sweden 11–0 Italy: ''The Italian team have now given up 27 goals in two games. Sweden clinches a spot in the medal round.''
--Group B: Finland 4–0 Switzerland: ''The Finns clinch a spot in the medal round.''
--The USA and Canada, who were off from compitition, also joined these teams in the medal round.
- --- Snowboarding , women's halfpipe:
--Just as in the men's competition, USA clinch gold and silver, while a Nordic settles for a bronze medal. 19-year-old Hannah Teter made runs of 44.6 and 46.4 points, of which the highest score counted; both scores were higher than any others. Gretchen Bleiler won silver and Norway's Kjersti Buaas bronze. (CBC.ca)
- --- Speed Skating , men's 500 metres:
-- Joey Cheek becomes the second American to win speed skating gold in two days, as the only skater to go below 35 seconds in a race; he does it in both races, ending with a total time of 69.76 seconds, while Dmitry Dorofeyev , who won silver, had a best time of 35.17 to end with 70.43 seconds. (AP)
- ---Eleven athletes are injured during the day: three female downhill skiers crash, including 2002 gold medallist Carole Montillet , in addition, five lugers, two figure skaters and a snowboarder sustain injuries. (CBC.ca)
- NCAA College Basketball :
- ---Men's:
--In the latest , Duke , Memphis , Villanova , Gonzaga , and Texas . Bucknell enters the rankings for the first time in history, at #24.
--#4 Villanova 69, #1 University of Connecticut 64: The Wildcats, playing at their second home of the Wachovia Center , storm back from a 12-point deficit early in the second half to score their first win over a #1 team since beating University of Connecticut in 1995 .
- ---Women's:
--After North Carolina's loss to Maryland Thursday night, Duke regains the top spot. LSU rises to #2 after defeating Tennessee the same night. North Carolina drops to third, Maryland rises to #4, and Tennessee remains #5.
- ---In the Pro Bowl , the NFL's season finale, played in Hawaii , the NFC took advantage of six turnovers by the AFC as the NFC squad won 23-17. Tampa Bay 's Derrick Brooks was named the game's most valuable player.
- ---Rookie Denny Hamlin , who qualified for the Bud Shootout by winning the pole for the fall race at Phoenix International Raceway last season, stuns the field by winning the invitation-only event over teammate Tony Stewart and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. , who both finished in a dead heat for second.
- --- Wales 28–18 Scotland
--Scotland score two tries (one unconverted) in the last minutes to make a more respectable score, but they were never in the match after being reduced to 14 men after 20 minutes.
- XX Winter Olympic Games , Turin
- --- Alpine Skiing , men's downhill:
-- Antoine Dénériaz of France claims victory 0.72 seconds ahead of Austria 's Michael Walchhofer , who had staved off attacks from all other Austrians, Norwegians and Americans before going down to the Frenchman, who "pulled off a startling upset" according to NBC. (NBC Olympics)
- --- Cross Country Skiing :
--7.5+7.5 km double pursuit, women: Kristina Šmigun wins Estonia 's first gold medal at these Games by overtaking Kateřina Neumannová on the final stretch. (NBC Olympics)
--15+15 km double pursuit, men: Russia 's Yevgeny Dementiev wins an event decided in the final 100 metres, overtaking several skiers to win a three-man sprint. Frode Estil takes the fifth medal for Norway in these Games, but fails to reach gold; Estil broke his ski in a fall at the start, but caught up with the pack to beat Italian Pietro Piller Cottrer and win silver. (CBC.ca)
- --- ( USA ) withdrew from the Ladies' Figure Skating compition due to her illness and injuries. Emily Hughes , pending approval from IOC and the ISU , will be Kwan's replacement.
- --- Ice Hockey , Women's Group Stage :
-- Group A:
Canada 12–0 Russia : ''Despite angry e-mails following their record 16-0 win over Italy in the tournament opener (Reuters/Yahoo) , the Canadian women have now outscored their opposition 28-0.''
-- Group B:
Germany 0-5 United States
- --- Luge , men's singles:
--Defending Olympic and World champion Armin Zöggeler takes the first gold medal for the host nation by defending his lead in the singles competition, ahead of Russian Albert Demtschenko and Latvian Martins Rubenis (CBC.ca)
- --- Short Track Speed Skating , men's 1500 meters:
--Koreans Ahn Hyung-soo and Lee Ho-suk win the first medals for their country, and make it a 1–2 finish, and Li Jiajun makes it an all-Asian podium. Defending Olympic champion Apolo Ohno stumbles in the penultimate lap of the semi-final, fails to qualify, and eventually finishes eighth. (AP)
- --- Ski Jumping , normal hill (HS106):
-- Lars Bystøl is the first Norwegian to strike gold in Turin; he leapt from seventh to first place by soaring 103.5 metres in the second round to claim gold ahead of Matti Hautamäki , Finland, and another Norwegian, Roar Ljøkelsøy . (Reuters)
- --- Snowboarding , Men's Halfpipe :
--Americans Shaun White (46.8 points) and Danny Kass (44.0 points) claims gold and silver at the halfpipe event, keeping the defending World Champion Antti Autti out of the podium. Mason Aguirre also takes fourth place, but Finn Markku Koski splits the Americans with a run worth 41.5 points (CBC.ca) .
- --- Speed Skating , Women's 3000 Metres :
--The Dutch women complete the third 1–2 finish of the day; 19-year-old beats Canadian Cindy Klassen in their pair, but the two end up taking silver and bronze. Anni Friesinger , who was, along with Klassen, considered a favourite by CBC , finished outside the podium. (CBC.ca)
- – Second Final
- --- Australia defeat Sri Lanka to level the best of three final 1 all.
--Australia scored 368/5 off their fifty overs after being 10/3 at the start of the 3rd over. Both Ricky Ponting and Andrew Symonds scored centuries. Muttiah Muralitharan finished the innings with figures of 99/0 off 10 overs, the most expensive in ODI history for a 10 over spell. In reply, Sri Lanka ended all out on 201, with Mahela Jayawardene and Russel Arnold scoring half centuries. The series will now be decided on the 14th of February at the Brisbane Cricket Ground . Andrew Symonds was named man of the match. Australia won the match by 167 runs.
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- --- India level the 5 match ODI series 1–1.
-- Pakistan win the toss and bat, setting India 266 to win at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium. Shoaib Malik scored 95 before being run out. India chased down the total with 6.5 overs left, for a 7 wicket victory. Yuvraj Singh made 83 not out.
- XX Winter Olympic Games , Turin , opening day:
- --- Biathlon , men's 20 km individual:
-- clinches silver, 16 seconds behind Greis, after missing two shots, while 1998 gold medallist Halvard Hanevold records his second medal on an Olympic 20 km, pipping Russia's Sergei Tchepikov to the medal by 0.8 seconds. (NBC Olympics)
- --- Nordic Combined , Gundersen:
-- of Austria and bronze medallist Magnus Moan of Norway both managed to beat Hettich by more than a minute in the cross-country leg, but after eleventh and ninth place respectively in the ski jumping leg, their cross-country skiing is not enough to take them to the very top of the podium. Moan beats compatriot Petter Tande in a dash for the finish line. (NBC Olympics)
- --- Speed Skating , Men's 5000 M :
-- In his quest to emulate . Dutchman Sven Kramer wins silver, 1.72 seconds adrift, while home skater Enrico Fabris takes Italy 's first medal with a bronze (NBC Olympics)
- --- Freestyle Skiing , Women's Moguls :
-- Qualifying winner and two-time World Cup winner Jennifer Heil of Canada wins the first gold medal for the Canucks in 2006, finishing with a total of 26.50, nearly one point ahead of Norway's defending Olympic champion Kari Traa , who takes Norway's fourth medal of the Games. France 's Sandra Laoura wins bronze with 25.37 points. (NBC Olympics)
- --- Ice Hockey , Women's Group Stage :
-- Group A:
Sweden 3–1 Russia
Canada 16–0 Italy : ''The sixteen goals is an all-time record for women's hockey.''
-- Group B:
Finland 3–0 Germany
United States 6–0 Switzerland (NBC Olympics)
- --- Luge , men's singles:
-- in second place and American Tony Benshoof in third. (NBC Olympics)
- --- England 31–16 Italy
--England secures a hard-fought victory over Italy, who led 9-7 in the second half.
- --- France 43–31 Ireland
--France hold off a strong Irish comeback in the second half after leading 43-3.
- ---Current title holders, the Crusaders defeat southern neighbours, the Highlanders 38–15 in Christchurch .
- ---Last years runners up the Waratahs win a close match in Brisbane over the Reds . The final score was 16–12, with the Reds securing a bonus point for a loss under 7 points.
- ---The Stormers win 23–12 over the favourites for the wooden spoon, the Cats in Johannesburg
- ---The Sharks get their Super 14 campaign started with a 30–21 over the visiting New Zealand side the Chiefs in Durban .
- - Final
- --- Egypt 0–0 Côte D'Ivoire ( Aet , 4–2 On Penalties )
--''Egypt win the penalty shoot-out 4-2, to win the African Cup Of Nations for a record fifth time (after 1957, 1959, 1986, and 1998).''
- - Sri Lanka beat Australia by 22 runs in the first game of the VB Series final, with Tillakaratne Dilshan involved in 4 run outs and a catch.
- ---In the season opener in Auckland between the Blues and Hurricanes , the visiting Hurricanes storm back from a 16-3 halftime deficit to score a 37-19 bonus-point win over the Blues.
- --- Western Force lose their first Super 14 match at home, against the Brumbies 25 - 10.
- --- Cheetahs also lose first Super 14 match against the Bulls at home, 18–30. The Bulls also picked up a bonus point for their four tries.
- - Third-place playoff
- --- Senegal 0–1 Nigeria
--''Nigeria finish in third place for the third successive Cup of Nations.''
- NCAA College Basketball Top 25
- ---Men's:
--#14 basketball meeting in which both teams were ranked going into the game, the Homestanding Panthers hand the Mountaineers their first Big East loss. The Mountaineers shot 34% from the field and 22% from three-point range, and star Kevin Pittsnogle went scoreless.''
- ---Women's:
--#6 Maryland 98, #1 North Carolina 95 (OT): ''The Terrapins' Ashleigh Newman hits a desperation three-pointer at the buzzer to force overtime, and the Terps go on to hand the Tar Heels their first loss of the season.''
--#3 , the Lady Tigers become the first SEC team to defeat the Lady Vols In Knoxville since December 1996.''
- Football :
- --- 2006 African Cup Of Nations - Semifinals
--S1: Egypt 2–1 Senegal
--S2: Côte D'Ivoire 1–0 Nigeria
- ---The FIFA Disciplinary Committee hands down its decisions regarding the fracas between Turkey and Switzerland following the second leg of their World Cup Qualifying Playoff in Istanbul on 16 November 2005 ( FIFA.com ):
--The Turkish Football Federation is fined CHF 200,000 ( USD 154,000).
--The national team must play their next six competitive home matches behind closed doors at a site in a UEFA country and at least 500 km from the Turkish border.
--Turkey assistant Mehmet Ozdilek is banned from football for 12 months and fined CHF 15,000.
--Turkey players Alpay Özalan and Emre Belözoğlu and Switzerland player Benjamin Huggel are all banned for their national team's next six competitive matches and fined CHF 15,000 each.
--Turkey player Serkan Balcı and Swiss physiotherapist Stephan Meyer receive two-match bans and fines of CHF 5,000 and 6,500 respectively. Unlike the other punishments, these cannot be appealed to the Court Of Arbitration For Sport .
- Ice Hockey - Former NHL player and Phoenix Coyotes assistant coach Rick Tocchet is implicated for being in charge of a gambling ring that includes several NHL players, as well as Wayne Gretzky's wife, Janet Jones .
- scores 35 points (22 in the second half alone), the first time he has scored more than 20 in the hostile " Dean Dome ", as the Blue Devils survive a 17-point comeback from the Tar Heels. Reyshaun Terry led the Heels with 17 points.
- Super Bowl XL at Ford Field , Detroit, Michigan
- --- and a 43-yard touchdown pass from Antwaan Randle El to MVP Hines Ward help the Steelers win their fifth NFL title, joining the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers . Jerome Bettis announces his retirement after the game.'' ( Yahoo! Sports )
- :
- ---Final: Russia defeat Sweden , 3-2, to win the world championship.
- --- Scotland 20–16 France
--Scotland beat France at Murrayfield for the first time in a decade, upsetting the widely-fancied French team.
- :
- ---Final: Spain 23–31 France
--France win their first European handball title with an eight-goal advantage in the final, holding Spain to 23 goals; Nikola Karabatic nets 11 goals for the victors. Yahoo! France Sport
- NCAA Basketball
- --- Georgetown Hoyas (AP #17) won at home against the Pittsburgh Panthers (#9), 61-58. The Hoyas passed up the Panthers in the Big East standings, and almost passed them up in the next morning's AP poll, which boosted the Hoyas to #15 and dropped Pitt to #14.
- ---The Kansas Jayhawks upset the Oklahoma Sooners (#19), 59-58, at home. The Jayhawks, now in second place in the Big 12 , argued that the victory demonstrated that they were underrated.
- - Quarterfinal
- ---Q1: Egypt 4–1 Congo DR
- ---Q2: Guinea 2–3 Senegal ''Senegal go through to the semi-finals when both teams score in time added on. There is a scuffle involving players of both sides in the centre of the pitch for several minutes at the end of the match.''
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