February 2006 in sports

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27 February 2006 (Monday)

26 February 2006 (Sunday)

25 February 2006 (Saturday)
  • XX Winter Olympic Games, Turin, day fifteen:
  • Lacrosse:
  • 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.
      • Crusaders 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 Blues 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.
  • Cricket: West Indies in New Zealand
    • 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) North Carolina 77, (1) Duke 65: Ivory Latta scores 18 points, and Erlana Larkins and La'Tangela Atkinson both rack up double-doubles, as the Tar Heels score their fifth consecutive win over the Blue Devils, likely returning them to No. 1 in the polls. This was the first advance sellout ever for the women's team at Carmichael Auditorium.

24 February 2006 (Friday)

23 February 2006 (Thursday)

22 February 2006 (Wednesday)

21 February 2006 (Tuesday)

20 February 2006 (Monday)

19 February 2006 (Sunday)

18 February 2006 (Saturday)
  • Rugby union: 2006 Super 14 – 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 victory, 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.
  • Cricket: West Indies in New Zealand
    • 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 off 10 overs.
  • XX Winter Olympic Games, Turin, day eight:

17 February 2006 (Friday)
  • Rugby union: 2006 Super 14 – 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:
    • Snowboarding, women's cross:
    • 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)

16 February 2006 (Thursday)

15 February 2006 (Wednesday)

14 February 2006 (Tuesday)
  • Cricket: 2005–06 VB Series
  • 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:
    • 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:
    • 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 17 February): Finland vs. Canada, USA vs. Sweden.

13 February 2006 (Monday)
  • Cricket: India in Pakistan 2005–06
    • 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 maidens. 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 Singh 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:
    • 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 competition, 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 AP polls, the top six teams remain the same from last week: UConn, Duke, Memphis, Villanova, Gonzaga, and Texas. Bucknell enters the rankings for the first time in history, at No. 24.
      • #4 Villanova 69, No. 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 No. 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 No. 2 after defeating Tennessee the same night. North Carolina drops to third, Maryland rises to No. 4, and Tennessee remains No. 5.

12 February 2006 (Sunday)
  • Football: NFL
    • 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.
  • Auto racing: NASCAR
    • 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.
  • Rugby union: 2006 Six Nations Championship
    • 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)
    • Figure skating: Michelle Kwan (United States) withdrew from the Ladies' Figure Skating competition due to her illness and injuries. Despite not winning an Olympic Gold Medal, Kwan finishes her career as a five-time World Champion and nine time US Champion. 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):
    • Snowboarding, men's halfpipe:
    • Speed skating, Women's 3000 metres:
      • The Dutch women complete the third 1–2 finish of the day; 19-year-old Ireen Wüst skates a time of 4:02.43 in the tenth pair and watches as all the remaining skaters finish behind her. Renate Groenewold 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)
  • Cricket: 2005–06 VB Series – 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 third 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 14 February at the Brisbane Cricket Ground. Andrew Symonds was named man of the match. Australia won the match by 167 runs.

11 February 2006 (Saturday)
  • Cricket : Indian cricket team in Pakistan in 2005–06
    • 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:
    • Nordic combined, Gundersen:
      • Georg Hettich of Germany defends his lead after the ski jumping portion with a race of 39:44.6 to record Germany's second gold medal at the Olympics, after two events. Silver medallist Felix Gottwald 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:
    • 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:
    • Luge, men's singles:
      • Italy's Armin Zoeggeler is well placed to take the home nation's first gold after clocking the fastest time in both of the runs in the singles event, leading with a time of 1:43.132. The event continues with two more runs tomorrow, with Russian Albert Demtschenko in second place and American Tony Benshoof in third. (NBC Olympics)
  • Rugby Union: 2006 Six Nations Championship
    • 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.
  • Rugby Union: 2006 Super 14 Season
    • 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.

10 February 2006 (Friday)
  • Football: 2006 African Cup of Nations – Final
    • Egypt 0–0 Ivory Coast (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).
  • Cricket: 2005–06 VB Series – 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.
  • Rugby Union: 2006 Super 14 Season
    • 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.

9 February 2006 (Thursday)
  • Football: 2006 African Cup of Nations – 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:
    • Women's:
      • #6 Maryland 98, No. 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 LSU 72, No. 5 Tennessee 69: Behind 32 points from Seimone Augustus, the Lady Tigers become the first SEC team to defeat the Lady Vols in Knoxville since December 1996.

8 February 2006 (Wednesday)

7 February 2006 (Tuesday)
  • Football:
    • 2006 African Cup of Nations – Semifinals
    • 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 (US$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 Özdilek 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.
  • College Basketball NCAA Top 25: No. 2 Duke 87, No. 24 North Carolina 83: J.J. Redick 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.

6 February 2006 (Monday)

5 February 2006 (Sunday)

4 February 2006 (Saturday)

3 February 2006 (Friday)
  • Football: 2006 African Cup of Nations – 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.

1 February 2006 (Wednesday)
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