February 2006 in sports
See also: 2006 in sports, February 2006
28 February 2006 (Tuesday)
27 February 2006 (Monday)
- Baseball: Seventeen new members are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in a special vote for candidates from the Negro Leagues: Ray Brown, Willard Brown, Andy Cooper, Frank Grant, Pete Hill, Biz Mackey, Effa Manley, José Méndez, Alex Pompez, Cum Posey, Louis Santop, Mule Suttles, Ben Taylor, Cristóbal Torriente, Sol White, J. L. Wilkinson and Jud Wilson. Manley is the first woman ever elected.
- NCAA College Basketball
- Men's:
- AP Poll: Duke 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) West Virginia 67, (8) Pittsburgh 62: In the last home 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, San Francisco 72: Adam Morrison 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:
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
- NCAA College Basketball:
- Men's:
- 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 #1 in the polls. This was the first advance sellout ever for the women's team at Carmichael Auditorium.
24 February 2006 (Friday)
- Rugby union: 2006 Super 14 – Round 3.
- Hurricanes (1BP) defeat Cats 29–16 in Wellington.
- The Hurricanes picked up a bonus point for four tries with Lome Fa'atau scoring 2. The Cats were leading 5 minutes before half-time, despite being large underdogs. TVNZ
- Force loss to Chiefs 26–9 in Perth.
- The Chiefs picked up their first win of the season, scoring 3 tries to nothing. This included a team try where Sosene Anesi got past several defenders, which saw Mark Ranby score under the posts. The Force had a poor kicking game, with pointless kicks and several going out on the full. The Force have a bye next weekend. ARU
- Stormers drew with Brumbies 15 all in Cape Town.
- The Brumbies drew with the Stormers 15-all after missing several chances. All of the Stormers points came from penalties, while the Brumbies scored two tries.
- XX Winter Olympic Games, Turin, day fourteen:
23 February 2006 (Thursday)
22 February 2006 (Wednesday)
21 February 2006 (Tuesday)
- Football:
- XX Winter Olympic Games, Turin, day eleven:
- Biathlon, men's relay:
- 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:
- Italian Enrico Fabris, with a time of one minute, 45.97 seconds, became the first non-American to win an individual men's event through the first four races of these Winters Games. Shani Davis captured the silver medal in 1:46.13, and Chad Hedrick 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:
- Figure skating:
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 of 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)
- Football: UEFA Cup 2005–06 – Round of 32, First leg.
- Cricket: West Indies in New Zealand
- Twenty20: Tied 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.
- ODI: India 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:
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 February 17): Finland vs. Canada, USA vs. Sweden.
13 February 2006 (Monday)
- Cricket: India in Pakistan 2005–06
- 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 #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.
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
- 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:
- Cross country skiing:
- Figure skating: Michelle Kwan (USA) 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:
- Luge, men's singles:
- 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 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.
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
10 February 2006 (Friday)
9 February 2006 (Thursday)
8 February 2006 (Wednesday)
7 February 2006 (Tuesday)
6 February 2006 (Monday)
5 February 2006 (Sunday)
- Super Bowl XL at Ford Field, Detroit, Michigan
- Bandy: World Championships:
- Final: Russia defeat Sweden, 3–2, to win the world championship.
- Rugby Union: 2006 Six Nations Championship
- Scotland 20–16 France
- Scotland beat France at Murrayfield for the first time in a decade, upsetting the widely-fancied French team.
- Team handball: 2006 European Men's Championship:
- NCAA Basketball
- (17) Georgetown Hoyas 61, (9) Pitt 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.
- Kansas 59, (19) Oklahoma 58: The Jayhawks, who stunned the Sooners at home, are now in second place in the Big 12, argued that the victory demonstrated that they were underrated.
4 February 2006 (Saturday)
3 February 2006 (Friday)
1 February 2006 (Wednesday)