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This list shows notable sports-related deaths, events, and notable outcomes that occurred in February 2006. Deaths
26: Ace Adams 23: Telmo Zarraonaindía 20: Curt Gowdy 16: Ernie Stautner 14: Jackie Pallo 11: Ken Fletcher 3: Johnny Vaught 1: Dick Bass 1: Dick Brooks 1: Jake Wade
Sporting seasons Cricket 2005–06: Australia; West Indies Football (soccer) 2006: England: Premier League; England (general) Scotland Denmark: Superliga France: Ligue 1; UEFA Champions League; UEFA Cup Argentina Australia: Hyundai A-League Rugby union 2005–06: Heineken Cup, 2006 Super 14 U.S. and Canadian sports 2005–06: NHL; NBA; NASCAR
28 February 2006 (Tuesday) Football (soccer): England Under-21s defeat Norway Under-21 3–1 at the Madejski Stadium. Anton Ferdinand had struck the post for England before Peter Whittingham's low free-kick put them ahead on 24 minutes. Borre Steenslid levelled on 52 minutes with a neat header, David Bentley quickly restored the lead with a cool finish. And he soon added another, controlling a mis-hit volley from Tom Huddlestone and firing into the corner of the net.
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 No. 3, Villanova drops from No. 2 to No. 4, and Gonzaga remains at No. 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: AP Poll: North Carolina returns to No. 1 after their Saturday win over Duke, who drops to No. 2. LSU, Maryland, and Ohio State fill out the top five.
26 February 2006 (Sunday) 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 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 Yevgeny Dementyev claims the silver and Austrian Mikhail Botvinov gets the bronze. (CBC) Ice hockey, men's gold medal game Defenceman Nicklas Lidström 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) Auto racing: NASCAR Nextel Cup: Even though Greg Biffle led the most laps, he blew his engine to fall out of contention at the Auto Club 500. Biffle's Roush Racing teammate Matt Kenseth won the event. NCAA College basketball Men's: (3) UConn 89, (2) Villanova 75: Behind a career-high 23 points from Denham Brown 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: Florida 95, (5) Tennessee 93 (OT): A historic loss for the Lady Vols on Senior Day in Knoxville. 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.
25 February 2006 (Saturday) XX Winter Olympic Games, Turin, day fifteen: Speed skating: Clara Hughes of Canada sets the winning times at 6:59.07 for the gold medal in the 5000m event. German 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), 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 take the silver and bronze respectively. 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 Austrian team takes all three medals in the men's slalom: Gold for Benjamin Raich, 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 André 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. Crusaders defeat Sharks (1 BP) 22–20 in Timaru The Crusaders got home in a tight match with a Dan 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 JJ 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) 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: Cross-country skiing: Kateřina Neumannová of the Czech Republic wins the women's 30 km freestyle event. Russian Julija Tchepalova claims the silver and Pole Justyna Kowalczyk gets the bronze. Alpine skiing: American Julia Mancuso captures gold in the women's giant slalom. Finland's Tanja Poutianen wins the silver and Swede Anna Ottosson the bronze. (CBC) Speed skating: Bob de Jong of the Netherlands, the reigning world champion, set the winning time at 13:01.57 for the gold medal in the men's 10000m event. American Chad Hedrick skated to a silver medal. The bronze went to Carl Verheijen, also of the Netherlands. (CBC) Curling: The United States men's team defeats Great Britain with a score of 8–6 to take the bronze medal. (CBC) Canada used a six-point sixth end to defeat Finland 10–4 in the gold medal match to win the nation's first gold medal in men's curling after winning silver in 1998 and 2002. (CBC) Ice hockey, men's semi finals: Sweden 7 – Czech Republic 3 (CBC) Finland 4 – Russia 0: Antero Niittymäki posted his third shutout of the tournament.
23 February 2006 (Thursday) Football: 2005–06 UEFA Cup – Round of 32, second leg, progressing teams shown in bold. Strasbourg 0–0 Litex Lovech Espanyol 0–3 Schalke 04 Steaua Bucharest 0–1 Heerenveen Rapid Bucharest 2–0 Hertha Berlin AS Monaco 1–1 FC Basel AZ Alkmaar 2–1 Real Betis Zenit St. Petersburg 2–1 Rosenborg Levski Sofia 2–0 Artmedia Bratislava Marseille 2–1 Bolton Wanderers Shakhtar Donetsk 0–0 Lille Lens 1–0 Udinese Sevilla 2–0 Lokomotiv Moscow Roma 2–1 Club Brugge Middlesbrough 0–1 VfB Stuttgart Middlesbrough win on the away goals rule. Palermo 1–0 Slavia Prague Palermo win on the away goals rule. Hamburg 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. 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)