May 2006 in sports

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27 May 2006 (Saturday)
  • Rugby union: 2006 Super 14 Final
    • Crusaders 19, Hurricanes 12: The Crusaders win the first Super 14 title after beating the Hurricanes in a game that was dampened by the conditions. Thick fog covered the ground close to an hour before kick off and despite talks to delay or postpone the game, the final went ahead as scheduled. Many fans in the ground and watching on television were unable to see much of the game and also hampered the calling of the game by the commentators. While the fog overshadowed the game itself, the Crusaders completely dominated territory and possession throughout the match. Much of the game was decided on penalties before Casey Laulala dived over late in the second half for the first try of the match and gave the Crusaders a seven point advantage and secured their sixth Super Rugby title. Stuff (Sport)
  • Auto racing: Michael Schumacher is disqualified from pole position for the 2006 Monaco Grand Prix after it is ruled that he intentionally spun at Rascasse hairpin as time in the third and final session of qualifying ran up slowing down the cars behind him, including Fernando Alonso who then qualified 0.064 seconds off Schumacher's pace. Schumacher is relegated to the back of the grid, while Alonso will start from pole, promoting Mark Webber to 2nd. Alonso's teammate Giancarlo Fisichella is docked his three fastest laps for blocking David Coulthard, resulting in a demotion from 5th to 9th on the grid. (BBC)
  • Cycling
    • Giro d'Italia: Ivan Basso wins the penultimate stage of the Giro, his third so far. Basso also takes considerable time out of all the other competitors, and with one stage to go, he has a 9-minute over the next placed rider in the contest for the Maglia rosa.
  • Mixed martial arts
  • 2006 NBA Playoffs
  • NHL 2006 Stanley Cup playoffs
    • Western Conference Final, Game 5
      • Edmonton Oilers 2, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim 1: Behind a 32-save performance by Dwayne Roloson and a 10-for-11 penalty-killing unit, the Oilers return to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 1990, winning the series 4–1, and are the first 8th seeded team to play for the Cup since the current playoff format was adopted in 1994.
  • American football

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25 May 2006 (Thursday)

24 May 2006 (Wednesday)

23 May 2006 (Tuesday)
  • 2006 NBA Playoffs
  • NBA Draft Lottery: The Toronto Raptors won the 2006 edition and will select first in the 2006 NBA Draft on June 28.
  • NHL 2006 Stanley Cup playoffs
    • Western Conference Final, Game 3
  • Cycling
    • Giro d'Italia: Ivan Basso wins his second stage of the Giro, again a mountaintop finish, and builds on his lead in the Maglia rosa.

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14 May 2006 (Sunday)
  • NHL 2006 Stanley Cup playoffs
    • Carolina Hurricanes 4, New Jersey Devils 1: Brian Gionta scored the first goal of the game, but it was all Carolina after that as they exorised the Devils from the post season in five games. The Canes will open their Eastern Conference Final series against the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday (May 20) at the RBC Center in Raleigh at 2 PM US EDT.
  • Auto racing
    • Formula One: Renault's reigning World Champion Fernando Alonso wins his home Grand Prix for the first time in his career, at the Spanish GP. The 130,000 crowd cheered on the 24-year-old from Oviedo, as he won the 66-lap race easily, winning by 18.5 seconds from Ferrari's Michael Schumacher and by almost 24 seconds to his Renault teammate Giancarlo Fisichella. Alonso now opens up a commanding 15 point championship lead, before the next round – the Monaco Grand Prix on May 28.
  • Major League Baseball: In celebration of Mother's Day in the US and Canada, the Office of the Commissioner approved use of special pink bats in all games that were played today. Monies raised from the auctioning of these bats, as well as line-up cards and special bases used in the games, along with strikeouts by pitchers since last Sunday (May 7) will go to charities for breast cancer research.
  • Football: FC Shakhtar Donetsk beat FC Dynamo Kyiv 2:1 to win the Ukrainian Premier League championship. This match was an extra match labeled the "Golden Match" because the regular season ended in a tie between the two first placed teams. Both teams had 75 points in 30 games and to determine the champion an extra game was played.
  • Cycling
  • Rugby union: Sale Sharks beat defending champions London Wasps 22 – 12 and Leicester Tigers beats London Irish 40 – 8 and will meet in the Guinness Premiership final.

13 May 2006 (Saturday)
  • College Basketball: Southern California freshman point guard Ryan Francis, 19, is shot and killed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana while visiting his mother. One man is arrested and charged with murder. (Yahoo)
  • NHL 2006 Stanley Cup playoffs
  • Auto racing
    • NASCAR NEXTEL Cup: In a fast and furious finish, Greg Biffle defends his 2005 victory in the Dodge Charger 500 by two carlengths over Jeff Gordon.
  • Football:
    • FA Cup Final: Liverpool 3 – 3 West Ham United Liverpool win 3–1 on penalties: In the best FA Cup Final for decades, compared by commentators to the classic "Matthews Final" of 1953, for the second year running the FA Cup Final goes to extra time and a penalty shoot-out. West Ham take a 2-goal lead in the first half, through an own goal from Jamie Carragher and Dean Ashton before Djibril Cissé brings it back to 2–1 at half time. Steven Gerrard scores the equaliser in the 53rd minute, then defender Paul Konchesky puts West Ham back in the lead ten minutes later, with a cross-come-shot. But in the 91st minute, Gerrard scores a sensational goal, a well-hit 35-yard drive, worthy of levelling any football match. Extra time produced no goals, so it was onto penalties, and Liverpool's Pepe Reina is the hero, saving 3 of West Ham's 4 penalties from Bobby Zamora, Konchesky and Anton Ferdinand, to give Liverpool their 7th FA Cup, and their first since 2001.
    • Scottish Cup Final: Heart of Midlothian 1 – 1 Gretna Hearts win 4–2 on penalties: Third-tier Gretna's fairy tale story comes to an end at last, but not before they give SPL side Hearts a scare by taking the match to extra time and a penalty shoot-out. Rudi Skácel gave Hearts a 1–0 lead in the 39th minute, and they held that lead until the 76th minute. Deividas Česnauskis gave away a penalty when he tackled John O'Neil in the penalty area. Ryan McGuffie took the penalty, but was expertly saved by goalkeeper Craig Gordon, but he couldn't hold onto it, and McGuffie scored the rebound. Then in the last minute of extra time, Paul Hartley kicked out at Gretna defender Derek Townsley which earned him a 2nd yellow and he had to watch the shootout from the sidelines. Hearts scored all 4 of their penalties from Steven Pressley, Robbie Neilson, Skácel and Michal Pospíšil, while Gretna only scored 2 with 2 misses (Gavin Skelton – hit the bar & Townsley – saved by Gordon). Hearts win the Scottish Cup for the seventh time, and is their first since 1998.
  • Rugby union: 2006 Super 14 season
    • Hurricanes 19, Waratahs 14: The Hurricanes hold on to beat the Waratahs in Sydney and will host their first home semi-final in Super rugby history. They will meet the Waratahs next week in Wellington. TVNZ
    • Bulls 43, Stormers 10: The Bulls clinch the fourth and final semi-final spot in the Super 14 after defeating the Stormers in Cape Town. The 33 point winning margin was enough to overtake the Sharks in the standings on point difference by 1 point. The Bulls will now travel to Christchurch to face the defending champion Crusaders.TVNZ
  • Cycling

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7 May 2006 (Sunday)
  • Cricket: New Zealand in South Africa
    • Third Test at Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg: South Africa defeats New Zealand by 4 wickets to win the three-Test series, 2–0.
      • The Test began disastrously for New Zealand, sent into bat by South Africa, with the first three wickets falling with only two runs on the board. The visitors were dismissed for 119 shortly after lunch on Day 1. Makhaya Ntini's bowling figures of 5/35 was the fourteenth time the fast bowler claimed a five-wicket haul in Test cricket. South Africa's reply of 186 was centred on a partnership of 98 runs between Graeme Smith and Hashim Amla. Trailing by 67 runs at the turn of the innings, New Zealand lost early wickets in its second innings before finishing with 283. South Africa overhauled the total with four wickets to spare, the match finishing within three of the designated five days. (Scorecard)
  • Football:
    • England: After 93 years and 2,010 matches played, Arsenal closed out Highbury with a Thierry Henry hat trick and an emotional 4–2 victory over Wigan Athletic, jumping them into fourth place (and the last UEFA Champions League spot) in the FA Premier League as Tottenham Hotspur lost to West Ham United, 2–1, as many of the Spurs' players were hampered by food poisoning. This now means that the Romanian champions will now not need to qualify for the Champions League, as Romania, currently 10th in the UEFA coefficients list, would have lost their automatic spot had Arsenal finished 5th and won the Champions League.
    • Scotland: Celtic signed off their dominant campaign with a stuttering 2–2 draw with Aberdeen at Pittodrie. John Hartson and Shaun Maloney gave Celtic a 2–0 lead, before a brace from John Stewart gave his side a point. Meanwhile, second-place Heart of Midlothian lost, 2–0, at third-place Rangers, in Rangers manager Alex McLeish's 235th and last game in charge. Kris Boyd scored his 36th and 37th goals of the season, to move Rangers to within a point of Hearts, and today's other game saw Kilmarnock move up to fifth place after a 3–1 win over nine-man Hibernian. Steven Fletcher gave Hibs a half-time lead before they fell apart in the second half. Firstly, David Murphy was sent off, for deliberate handball, and Steven Naismith converted the penalty. Gordon Greer and Colin Nish also scored in four minutes (72' & 75') to put the game beyond doubt, and to make the Hibs' day even worse, goalkeeper Zbigniew Małkowski was also sent off for two yellow cards.
  • Horse racing:
    • Great Britain: 10/1 shot Speciosa won the 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket, giving a first win in the race for jockey Michael Fenton and trainer Pam Sly. Speciosa's time of 1:40.53, was the slowest time for a winning horse this century and was the slowest since Musical Bliss in 1989.
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  • Cycling:

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4 May 2006 (Thursday)
  • 2006 NBA Playoffs
    • New Jersey Nets 96, Indiana Pacers 90: While the Pacers' Anthony Johnson put 40 points on the board, it wasn't enough as the Nets finish off their series in six games.
    • Miami Heat 113, Chicago Bulls 96: Shaquille O'Neal had 30 points and 23 rebounds, and Dwyane Wade added 23 for Miami to end their-six game series and will now meet the Nets beginning on Monday (May 8).
  • Football: Steve McClaren, after his success as leader of Middlesbrough into the 2005–06 UEFA Cup Final, will take over as the manager of the English national team following the 2006 World Cup.

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2 May 2006 (Tuesday)

1 May 2006 (Monday)

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