January 2009 in sports

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Current sporting seasons

American football 2008

Auto racing 2008
  • A1 Grand Prix
  • GP2 Asia Series
  • Speedcar Series
  • Rolex Sports Car Series

Basketball 2008–09

Cricket 2008–09

Football (soccer)

Golf 2009

Ice hockey 2008–09

Rugby union 2008–09

Winter sports

Days of the month

January 31, 2009 (Saturday)

American football
  • NCAA Bowl Games:
    • 2009 Texas vs. The Nation Game in El Paso, Texas:
      • The Nation 27, Texas 24
        • In college football's season finale, Florida Atlantic's Frantz Joseph, with a 26-yard interception and a 32-yard fumble return, led The Nation team to a 27–24 victory over the Texas squad. Joseph was also named the game's defensive Most Valuable Player.

Cricket

Mixed martial arts

Tennis

Winter sports
Alpine skiing
Cross-country skiing
Freestyle skiing
Nordic combined
  • World Cup in Chaux-Neuve, France:
    • 10 km Gundersen: (1) Magnus Moan 26min 06sec 8/10 (25th) (2) Anssi Koivuranta at 9.2 (1st) (3) Bjorn Kircheisen 32.9 (8th)
      • Overall World Cup standings (after 14 of 22 events): (1) Koivuranta 853 points (2) Moan 801 (3) Kircheisen 709
Ski jumping
Snowboarding
Speed skating
  • World Cup 7 in Erfurt, Germany:
    • Men's 500 m:
    • Men's 1500 m
    • Women's 500 m:
    • Women's 3000 m:

January 30, 2009 (Friday)

Cricket

Football (soccer)

Handball

Tennis

Winter sports
Alpine skiing
  • Women's World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany:
    • Slalom: (1) Lindsey Vonn 1:47.17 (52.49 + 54.68) (2) Maria Riesch at 0.90 (53.05 + 55.02) (3) Marusa Ferk 1.16 (53.61 + 54.72)
      • World Cup overall standings (after 21 of 34 races): (1) Vonn 1014 pts (2) Riesch 890 (3) Kathrin Zettel & Anja Paerson 775
Cross-country skiing
Freestyle skiing
Speed skating

January 29, 2009 (Thursday)

Basketball

Cricket

Football (soccer)

Handball

Tennis

Winter sports
Freestyle skiing

January 28, 2009 (Wednesday)

Basketball

Cricket

Ice hockey

Tennis

January 27, 2009 (Tuesday)

Cricket

Football (soccer)

Handball

Tennis

Winter sports
Alpine skiing

January 26, 2009 (Monday)

Cricket

Football (soccer)

Handball

Tennis

Winter sports
Alpine skiing

January 25, 2009 (Sunday)

Auto racing

Cycling

Football (soccer)

Golf

Handball

Ice hockey

Rugby union

Tennis

Winter sports
Alpine skiing
Bandy
Biathlon
  • World Cup 6 in Antholz, Italy:
    • Women's 12.5 km Mass Start: (1) Ekaterina Iourieva 36min 37.8sec (0) (2) Helena Jonsson at 13.4sec (1) (3) Kaisa Maekaerainen (FIN) 27.8 (2) ... 7. Magdalena Neuner 46.0 (5)
      • Neuner had a comfortable lead going to the last shoot, but she missed all 5 targets and finished in seventh place.
      • Overall World Cup standings (after 14 of 26 races): (1) Iourieva 567 points (2) Kati Wilhelm 520 (3) Neuner 502
    • Men's 15 km Mass Start: (1) Christoph Stephan 37:19.9 (1 penalty) (2) Dominik Landertinger at 0.2 (3) (3) Ivan Tcherezov 2.8 (2)
Cross-country skiing
Figure skating
Freestyle skiing
Luge
Ski jumping
Speed skating

January 24, 2009 (Saturday)

College Football bowl game

Cricket

Cycling

Football (soccer)

Handball

Rugby union

Tennis

Winter sports
Alpine skiing
Bandy
Biathlon
Cross-country skiing
Figure skating
Freestyle skiing
Luge
Ski jumping
  • World Cup in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada:
    • 140m hill: (1) Gregor Schlierenzauer 289.2 points (142.0/139.5m) (2) Wolfgang Loitzl 274.1 (136.5/135.5) (3) Matti Hautamaeki 270.6 (136.5/135.5)
      • Schlierenzauer set a hill record with his first jump of 142m. His 4th win in 5 events lift him to the top of the World Cup standings.
      • Overall World Cup standings (after 16 of 28 events): (1) Schlierenzauer 1,220 points (2) Simon Ammann 1,172 (3) Loitzl 1,061
Snowboarding
Speed skating

January 23, 2009 (Friday)

American football

Cricket

Cycling

Football (soccer)

Rugby union
  • Heineken Cup Pool stage, week 6:
    (teams in bold advance to the quarterfinals)
    • Pool 6:
      • Cardiff Blues 62–20 Calvisano
        • The Blues win secures them the top seed in the knockout phase.
      • Biarritz 24–10 Gloucester
        • Gloucester's defeat by more than seven points and Biarritz's failure to score four tries mean that both teams are eliminated.

Tennis

Winter sports
Alpine skiing
Biathlon
Figure skating
Snowboarding
  • World Championship in Gangwon-do, South Korea:
    • Half pipe men: (1) Ryoh Aono 47.3 points, (2) Jeff Batchelor 44.4, (3) Mathieu Crepel 43.3
    • Half pipe women: (1) Jiayu Liu 43.5 points, (2) Holly Crawford 39.6, (3) Paulina Ligocki 38.5

January 22, 2009 (Thursday)

Baseball

Basketball

Cycling

Football (soccer)

Handball

Tennis

Winter sports
Bandy
Biathlon
Figure skating

January 21, 2009 (Wednesday)

Basketball
  • NCAA Men's Basketball:
    • The New Jersey Institute of Technology ended the longest losing streak in Division I Men's Basketball at 57 games by defeating Bryant College, 61–51. The school last won a game against Longwood University on February 19, 2007.

Cricket

Cycling

Handball

Ice hockey

Tennis

Winter sports
Bandy
Figure skating
Snowboarding

January 20, 2009 (Tuesday)

Cricket

Cycling

Tennis

Winter sports
Bandy
Figure skating
Snowboarding

January 19, 2009 (Monday)

Cricket

Handball

Tennis

Winter sports
Bandy
Freestyle skiing

January 18, 2009 (Sunday)

American football

Badminton

Cricket

Golf

Snooker

Handball

Rugby union

Winter sports
Alpine skiing
Bandy
Biathlon
Bobsleigh
Cross-country skiing
  • World Cup in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada:
    • Team sprint men: (1)  Sweden 19:44.1 (2)  Italy 19:44.4 (3)  Canada 19:44.7
    • Team sprint women: (1)  Italy 17:20.1 (2)  Germany 17:30.0 (3)  Sweden 17:31.2
Curling
Figure skating
Freestyle skiing
Luge
Short track speed skating
Snowboarding
Speed skating

January 17, 2009 (Saturday)

American football

Auto racing

Football (soccer)
  • Arabian Gulf Cup in Muscat, Oman:

Handball

Mixed martial arts

Rugby union

Tennis

Winter sports
Alpine skiing
Biathlon
Bobsleigh
Cross-country skiing
Figure skating
Luge
Nordic combined
Skeleton
Ski jumping

January 16, 2009 (Friday)

American football

Cricket
  • South Africa in Australia:
  • Tri-Series in Bangladesh:
    • Final in Dhaka:
      •  Bangladesh 152 (50 overs);  Sri Lanka 153/8 (48.1 overs). Sri Lanka win by 2 wickets.
        • Bangladesh reduce Sri Lanka to 6 for 5 after eight overs, the lowest score ever recorded in ODI history at the fall of the 5th wicket. Sri Lanka fights back to take the Tri-Series with 59 runs from Kumar Sangakkara and 33 not out by Muttiah Muralitharan off 16 balls, including 18 runs in one over.

Handball

Rugby union

Tennis

Winter sports
Alpine skiing
Biathlon
Bobsleigh
Cross-country skiing
Nordic combined
Skeleton
Ski jumping

January 15, 2009 (Thursday)

Baseball
  • Major League Baseball news:
    • MLB owners approve two rules changes:
      • All postseason games, as well as one-game playoffs, will be played to their conclusion. Games called due to weather will be suspended, regardless of the number of innings played.
      • Home-field advantage for one-game playoffs to break ties for division championships or wild-card berths will now be determined by head-to-head record, instead of a coin flip.

Basketball
  • Euroleague, week 10:
    (teams in bold advance to the Top 16 stage)
    • Group A:
    • Group C:
      • TAU Cerámica 91–83 DKV Joventut
      • ALBA Berlin 59–67 Union Olimpija Ljubljana
        • ALBA clinch the last spot in the Top 16 despite their loss because Joventut also lost.
      • Fenerbahçe Ülker 90–86(OT) Lottomatica Roma

Winter sports
Biathlon
  • World Cup 5 in Ruhpolding, Germany:
    • Men's 4 x 7.5 km Relay: (1)  Norway 1hr 24min 54.0sec (0), (2)  Germany at 1:20.2 (0), (3)  Austria 1:43.1 (0)
      • World Cup relay standings (after four of six events): (1) Austria 222 points, (2)  Russia 190, (3) Germany 182
Bobsleigh

January 14, 2009 (Wednesday)

American football

Basketball
  • Euroleague, week 10:
    (teams in bold advance to the Top 16 stage)
    • Group B:
      • Regal FC Barcelona 90–68 Žalgiris Kaunas
      • SLUC Nancy 79–103 Montepaschi Siena
      • Panathinaikos Athens 75–53 Asseco Prokom Sopot
        • Sopot clinch the 4th berth in the Top 16 despite their loss as their rivals, Žalgiris and Nancy, lose as well.
    • Group D:
      • CSKA Moscow 63–66 Partizan Belgrade
      • Real Madrid 80–69 Efes Pilsen
      • Panionios 77–87 AJ Milano
        • Partizan Belgrade and Milano clinch berths in the Top 16 with their wins. Efes Pilsen's elimination ends a 12-years streak in the last-16 stage of Euroleague.

Cricket
  • Tri-Series in Bangladesh:
    • 3rd match in Dhaka:
      •  Sri Lanka 147 (30.3/31 ov);  Bangladesh 151/5 (23.5/31 ov). Bangladesh win by 5 wickets, and advance to the final on Friday against Sri Lanka.

Football (soccer)

Winter sports
Biathlon
  • World Cup 5 in Ruhpolding, Germany:
    • Women's 4 x 6 km Relay: (1)  Germany 1hr 16min 41.2sec (0) (2)  Russia at 37.5sec (0) (3)  Sweden 56.5 (0)
      • World Cup relay standings (after 4 of 6 events): (1)  Russia 234 points (2)  Germany 205 (3)  France 175
Freestyle skiing
Snowboarding

January 13, 2009 (Tuesday)

Cricket

Football (soccer)
  • CECAFA Cup in Kampala, Uganda:
  • News:
    • Israel Football Association decides to resume play in the top three divisions this weekend for the first time since the start of Israel-Gaza conflict. Lower divisions will still be suspended. Teams whose home grounds are within 40 km of the Gaza Strip will have to play their matches on alternative grounds out of the danger zone. Also, matches between teams from Jewish and Arab towns may be played on neutral grounds by police order for fear of possible crowd violence. Officials of teams that could be affected by this decision, in particular Hapoel Be'er Sheva F.C. and Bnei Sakhnin F.C., say they object to move away from their home grounds.

January 12, 2009 (Monday)

American football

Baseball
  • Jim Rice and Rickey Henderson are elected to the Hall of Fame by the BBWAA. Henderson enters in his first year of eligibility while Rice enters in his 15th and final year of eligibility, the third player to do so.

Cricket
  • Tri-Series in Bangladesh:
    • 2nd match in Dhaka:

Football (soccer)

January 11, 2009 (Sunday)

American football

Badminton

Cricket

Darts

Football (soccer)

Golf

Tennis

Winter sports
Alpine skiing
Biathlon
Bobsleigh
Curling
Freestyle skiing
Luge
Nordic combined
Ski jumping
Snowboarding
Speed skating

January 10, 2009 (Saturday)

American football

Cricket

Ice hockey

Tennis

Winter sports
Alpine skiing
Biathlon
Bobsleigh
Freestyle skiing
Luge
Nordic combined
Ski jumping
Snowboarding

January 9, 2009 (Friday)

Darts

Ice hockey

Tennis

Winter sports
Biathlon
Skeleton

January 8, 2009 (Thursday)

American football

Basketball
  • Euroleague, week 9:
    (teams in bold advance to the Top 16 stage; teams in italics are eliminated)
    • Group A:
      • Cibona Zagreb 76–77 Unicaja Málaga
      • Maccabi Tel Aviv 96–83 Olympiacos
        • Following these results, Málaga move to the top of the group, ahead of Olympiacos and Maccabi.
    • Group B:
      • Montepaschi Siena 82–77 Panathinaikos Athens
      • Žalgiris Kaunas 105–94 SLUC Nancy
        • Žalgiris draw level with Nancy and Sopot for the 4th and final Top 16 place in the group, and hold tie-break advantage against each one of them, but Sopot would have the edge in case of a 3-way tie.
    • Group C:
      • Union Olimpija Ljubljana 70–90 Fenerbahçe Ülker
        • Fenerbahçe punch their ticket to the Top 16.
      • Lottomatica Roma 96–103(OT) TAU Cerámica
        • TAU get the four-point win they needed to secure top spot in the group.
    • Group D:
      • AJ Milano 70–61 Real Madrid
        • Real's loss assures CSKA Moscow of first place in the group. Milano gets level with Partizan Belgrade and Efes Pilsen in 3rd to 5th places, but because of disadvantage in tiebreakers can only advance to the Top 16 if results in other group matches on the final day go their way.

Tennis
  • Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia:
    (teams in bold advance to the final)
    • Group A:
      •  United States 2–1  Australia
      •  Slovakia 3–0  Germany
    • Group B:

Winter sports
Biathlon
  • World Cup 4 in Oberhof, Germany:
    • 4 x 7.5 km Relay Men: (1)  Austria 1hr 19min 36.61sec (0 penalties), (2)  Russia 8.7sec behind (0), (3)  Germany 19.2 (1)
      • World Cup relay standings: (1) Austria 174 (2) Russia 154 (3)  Sweden 124

January 7, 2009 (Wednesday)

Basketball
  • Euroleague, week 9:
    (teams in bold advance to the Top 16 stage; teams in italics are eliminated)
    • Group A:
    • Group B:
      • Asseco Prokom Sopot 64–76 Regal FC Barcelona
        • Barcelona secure top place in the group which put them in the top seeding group for the draw of the Top 16 stage.
    • Group C:
      • DKV Joventut 75–79 ALBA Berlin
        • ALBA get level with Joventut in 4th place, and take the tie-break advantage against them.
    • Group D:
      • Efes Pilsen 55–74 CSKA Moscow
        • CSKA's win effectively secure them top place in the group, and also assures Real Madrid advance to the Top 16.
      • Partizan Belgrade 80–57 Panionios
        • Partizan draw level with Efes Pilsen in 3rd place. Panionios drop to last place and has only a slim chance of qualifying.

Cricket

Ice hockey

Tennis

Winter sports
Biathlon
Snowboarding

January 6, 2009 (Tuesday)

American football

Cricket

Ice hockey

Tennis
  • Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia:
    • Group B:
      •  France 1–2  Italy
    • Group A:

Winter sports
Alpine skiing
Ski jumping
  • Four Hills Tournament:
    • World Cup in Bischofshofen, Austria:
      • Individual 140m hill: (1) Wolfgang Loitzl 301.2 points (142.5/141.5m) (2) Simon Ammann 284.4 (137.5/140.5) (3) Dimitry Vassiliev 279.2 (138.0/138.5)
        • Final Four Hills standings: (1) Loitzl 1123.7 points (2) Ammann 1091.1 (3) Gregor Schlierenzauer 1077.1
        • Overall World Cup standings (after 11 of 28 events): (1) Ammann 877 points (2) Schlierenzauer 740 (3) Loitzl 739
Snowboarding

January 5, 2009 (Monday)

American football

Baseball

Cricket

Ice hockey

Tennis
  • Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia:
    • Group A:
      •  Australia 1–2  Germany
      •  United States 0–3  Slovakia

Winter sports
Freestyle skiing

January 4, 2009 (Sunday)

American football

Cricket

Darts

Ice hockey

Tennis
  • Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia:
    • Group B:
      •  Russia 2–1  Italy

Winter sports
Alpine skiing
  • Women's World Cup in Zagreb, Croatia:
    • Slalom: (1) Maria Riesch 1min 58.96sec (58.60 + 1:00.36) (2) Nicole Gius 1:59.40 (1:00.15 + 59.25) (3) Šárka Záhrobská 1:59.59 (59.79 + 59.80)
Cross-country skiing
  • Tour de Ski stage 7 in Val di Fiemme, Italy:
    • Men Final standings: (1) Dario Cologna 2hr 46min 05.4sec, (2) Petter Northug at 59.0sec, (3) Axel Teichmann 1min 02.8sec
      • Overall World Cup standings (after 15 of 33 races): (1) Cologna 835 points, (2) Teichmann 661, (3) Northug 618
    • Women Final standings: (1) Virpi Kuitunen 2hr 06min 41.4sec, (2) Aino-Kaisa Saarinen at 7.2sec, (3) Petra Majdič 34.5
      • Overall World Cup standings (after 14 of 33 races): (1) Saarinen 978 points, (2) Kuitunen 907, (3) Majdic 893
Luge
Nordic combined
Ski jumping
  • Four Hills Tournament:
    • World Cup in Innsbruck, Austria:
      • Individual 130m hill: (1) Wolfgang Loitzl 261.0 points (126.5m/128.5m) (2) Gregor Schlierenzauer 260.3 (126.0/127.5) (3) Martin Schmitt 257.7 (128.5/125.5)
        • Four Hills Tournament standings (after 3 of 4 events): (1) Loitzl 822.5 points (2) Simon Ammann 806.7 (3) Schlierenzauer 798.0
        • World Cup standings (after 10 of 28 events): (1) Ammann 797 points (2) Schlierenzauer 690 (3) Loitzl 639

January 3, 2009 (Saturday)

American football

Cricket

Ice hockey

Tennis

Winter sports
Cross-country skiing
  • Tour de Ski stage 6 in Val di Fiemme, Italy:
    • 10 km classic women mass start: (1) Virpi Kuitunen 30min 10.3sec, (2) Petra Majdič at 13.8sec, (3) Aino-Kaisa Saarinen 20.5
      • Overall standings (after 6 of 7 stages): (1) Kuitunen 1hr 29min 14.5sec, (2) Saarinen at 31.7sec, (3) Majdic (SLO) 49.1
    • 20 km classic men mass start, 15:30 CET: (1) Axel Teichmann 55min 19.2sec, (2) Sami Jauhojärvi at 0.3sec, (3) Nikolai Chebotko 1.3
      • Overall standings (after 6 of 7 stages): (1) Dario Cologna 2hr 20min 53.4sec, (2) Teichmann 2hr 21:27.5, (3) Eldar Roenning 2hr 21:58.6
Luge
Nordic combined

January 2, 2009 (Friday)

American football

Ice hockey

January 1, 2009 (Thursday)

American football

Ice hockey

Winter sports
Cross-country skiing
Ski jumping

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