February 2006 in Sports - 26 February 2006 (Sunday)

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.