February 2009 in sports

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Deaths in February

Current sporting seasons

Auto racing 2008

Basketball 2008–09

Cricket 2008–09

Football (soccer)

Golf 2009

Ice hockey 2008–09

Rugby league 2009

Rugby union 2008–09

Winter sports

Days of the month

28 February 2009 (Saturday)

Auto racing

Cricket

Football (soccer)

Rugby union

Tennis

Winter sports

Alpine skiing
Cross-country skiing
Figure skating
Nordic combined
Skeleton
Ski jumping
Snowboarding

27 February 2009 (Friday)

Cricket

Rugby union

  • Six Nations Championship, week 3:
    • France  21–16  Wales in Paris
      • In the tournament's first ever Friday night match, France rallied from ten points behind to stop Wales' winning streak at eight matches, and inflict coach Warren Gatland's first defeat as Welsh head coach.

Winter sports

Alpine skiing
Cross-country skiing
Figure skating
Skeleton
Ski jumping

26 February 2009 (Thursday)

Basketball

  • Euroleague Top 16, week 4:
    • Group E:
      • Olympiacos 84–71 Asseco Prokom Sopot
        • Olympiacos and TAU Cerámica lead the group on 3–1. Sopot (0–4) is eliminated from quarterfinals contention.
    • Group F:
      • Maccabi Tel Aviv 69–73 Real Madrid
        • Real Madrid (4–0) score its first win in Tel Aviv in 13 years and advance to the quarterfinals. Maccabi is 0–5 against Spanish teams this season.
      • ALBA Berlin 57–75 Regal FC Barcelona
        • Barcelona (3–1) is on the brink of qualifying to the quarterfinals, while ALBA (0–4) is eliminated.
    • Group G:
      • Lottomatica Roma 71–90 Panathinaikos
        • Panathinaikos (4–0) and Partizan (3–1) advance to the quarterfinals, while Roma and Málaga are eliminated.

Cricket

Football (soccer)

Winter sports

Cross-country skiing
Figure skating
Nordic combined
Snowboarding

25 February 2009 (Wednesday)

Basketball

Cricket

Football (soccer)

Winter sports

Cross-country skiing
Figure skating

24 February 2009 (Tuesday)

Cricket

Football (soccer)

Winter sports

Cross-country skiing
Freestyle skiing

23 February 2009 (Monday)

Cricket

22 February 2009 (Sunday)

Auto racing

Basketball

Cricket

Golf

  • PGA Tour:
  • European Tour:
    • Johnnie Walker Classic in Perth, Australia:
      • Winner: Danny Lee (am) 271 (−17)
        • Lee becomes the youngest winner in European Tour history, aged 18 years and 213 days – breaking the record of Dale Hayes, who was 77 days older when he won the 1971 Dutch Open. As Lee is an amateur, he is not entitled to the prize money of $304,286.

Snooker

Tennis

Winter sports

Alpine skiing
Biathlon
Bobsleigh
Bobsleigh and Skeleton
Cross-country skiing
Nordic combined
Snowboarding

21 February 2009 (Saturday)

Auto racing

Basketball

Cricket

Tennis

Winter sports

Alpine skiing
Biathlon
Bobsleigh
Cross-country skiing
Luge
Ski jumping
Snowboarding

20 February 2009 (Friday)

Winter sports

Alpine skiing
  • Women's World Cup in Tarvisio, Italy:
    • Super combined: (1) Maria Riesch 2:18.57 (1:31.98 + 46.59) (2) Lindsey Vonn 2:19.06 (1:31.22 + 47.84) (3) Kathrin Zettel 2:20.60 (1:33.57 + 47.03)
      • World Cup overall standings (after 23 from 34 races): (1) Vonn 1194 points (2) Riesch 1035 (3) Anja Pärson 900
      • Final super-combined standings: (1) Pärson 205 points (2) Vonn 180 (3) Zettel 162
Cross-country skiing
Freestyle skiing
Luge
Nordic combined
Ski jumping
Snowboarding

19 February 2009 (Thursday)

Basketball

  • Israeli State Cup Final in Tel Aviv:
    • Hapoel Holon 69–68 Maccabi Haifa
      • Brian Tolbert scores a three-pointer as time expires to give Holon its first Cup in history.

Cricket

Football (soccer)

Golf

  • Tiger Woods announces that his first event since knee surgery after the 2008 U.S. Open will be next week's Accenture Match Play Championship. (ESPN)

Winter sports

Biathlon
Cross-country skiing
Freestyle skiing
Nordic combined
Snowboarding

18 February 2009 (Wednesday)

Cricket

  • England in West Indies:

Football (soccer)

Winter sports

Biathlon

17 February 2009 (Tuesday)

Cricket

Football (soccer)

  • Copa Libertadores group stage:
    • Group 1:
    • Group 2:
      • Boca Juniors 1–0 Deportivo Cuenca
    • Group 6:
      • Everton 1–0 Caracas

Winter sports

Biathlon

16 February 2009 (Monday)

Cricket

Golf

15 February 2009 (Sunday)

Auto racing

Basketball

Cricket

Golf

Rugby union

Tennis

Winter sports

Alpine skiing
Biathlon
Nordic combined
Short track speed skating
Ski jumping
Snowboarding
  • World Cup in Cypress Mountain, Canada:
    • Parallel GS men: Cencelled
    • Parallel GS women: Cancelled
Speed skating

14 February 2009 (Saturday)

Auto racing

Basketball

Golf

Rugby union

Tennis

Winter sports

Alpine skiing
Biathlon
Bobsleigh
Cross-country skiing
Freestyle skiing
Luge
Nordic combined
Ski jumping
Snowboarding

13 February 2009 (Friday)

Baseball

  • The City Commission of Miami, Florida, defeats a construction agreement that would have permitted the construction of Marlins Park, a new baseball stadium for the Florida Marlins, by a vote of 2–2 with one absence. The deal will be renegotiated and is rescheduled for a new meeting on 12 March.

Basketball

Cricket

Winter sports

Alpine skiing
Bobsleigh
Cross-country skiing
Freestyle skiing
Luge
Snowboarding

12 February 2009 (Thursday)

Auto racing

Basketball

Football (soccer)

  • Copa Libertadores group stage:

Winter sports

Alpine skiing
Bobsleigh
Skeleton

11 February 2009 (Wednesday)

American football

  • NFL news:
    • Three-time MVP Brett Favre announces his retirement. Unlike last postseason, when he initially announced his retirement but decided to return, he filed official retirement papers with the NFL offices. (ESPN)

Basketball

Football (soccer)

Winter sports

Alpine skiing
  • World Championships in Val d'Isère, France:
    • Teams: Cancelled
Skeleton
Ski jumping

10 February 2009 (Tuesday)

Cricket

Football (soccer)

9 February 2009 (Monday)

Baseball

Winter sports

Alpine skiing

8 February 2009 (Sunday)

American football

Cricket

Golf

Ice hockey

Rugby union

Tennis

Winter sports

Alpine skiing
Luge
Nordic combined
Short track speed skating
Ski jumping
Speed skating

7 February 2009 (Saturday)

Auto racing

Baseball

Cricket

  • England in West Indies:
    • 1st Test in Kingston, Jamaica, day 4:
      •  England 318 and 51;  West Indies 392. West Indies win by an innings and 23 runs, lead 4-match series 1–0.
        • England's 51 is their third-lowest Test innings score in history.

Ice hockey

Rugby union

Tennis

Winter sports

Alpine skiing
Bobsleigh
Figure skating
Freestyle skiing
Luge
Nordic combined
Ski jumping
Snowboarding

6 February 2009 (Friday)

Cricket

Ice hockey

Winter sports

Alpine skiing
Bobsleigh
Figure skating
Freestyle skiing
Luge

5 February 2009 (Thursday)

Basketball

Boxing

Cricket

Ice hockey

Winter sports

Figure skating
Skeleton
Snowboarding

4 February 2009 (Wednesday)

Basketball

  • Euroleague Top 16, week 2:

Cricket

Winter sports

Alpine skiing
Figure skating

3 February 2009 (Tuesday)

Cricket

Winter sports

Alpine skiing

2 February 2009 (Monday)

1 February 2009 (Sunday)

American football

Auto racing

Cricket

Darts

Football (soccer)

Golf

Handball

Tennis

Winter sports

Alpine skiing
Cross-country skiing
  • World Cup in Rybinsk, Russia:
    • Men pursuit: cancelled
    • Women pursuit: cancelled
Nordic combined
Ski jumping
  • World Cup in Sapporo, Japan:
    • 134m hill: cancelled
Speed skating
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