January 2007 in Sports - 1 January 2007 (Monday)

1 January 2007 (Monday)

• American football:
  • College football – New Year's Day bowl games:
    • BCS Games:
      • Rose Bowl, (8) Southern California 32, (3) Michigan 18. Dwayne Jarrett (11 receptions, 204 yards, 2 TDs) and John David Booty (27–45, 390 yards, 4 TDs) shred the Wolverines secondary.
      • Fiesta Bowl, (9) Boise State 43, (7) Oklahoma 42 (OT). In a game that "will go down as one of best games in college football history", according to Arash Markazi, writer for SI.com, the Broncos send it into overtime with a hook-and-ladder play on 4th and 18, score a touchdown in overtime on a halfback pass, then run a Statue of Liberty play to score the winning two-point conversion.
    • Non-BCS Games:
      • Outback Bowl, Penn State 20, (17) Tennessee 10. Nittany Lions cornerback Tony Davis breaks a fourth-quarter tie with an 88-yard fumble return for a touchdown.
      • Capital One Bowl, (6) Wisconsin 17, (12) Arkansas 14. John Stocco throws two first-half touchdowns, and the Badgers defense holds on.
      • Gator Bowl, (13) West Virginia 38, Georgia Tech 35. Pat White throws for two third-quarter touchdowns and rushes for a third to erase an 18-point hole.
      • Cotton Bowl Classic, Auburn 17, Nebraska 14.
  • NFL News:
    • Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams is killed in a drive-by shooting outside a Denver nightclub.
    • Two coaches are fired: Jim Mora of the Atlanta Falcons and Dennis Green of the Arizona Cardinals.
    • Domanick Davis, the franchise-leading rusher of the Houston Texans who sat out the 2006 NFL season with knee issues, changes his name to Domanick Williams, and is permitted to change his number from 37 to 31. Williams is his mother's maiden name, whereas Davis was the last name of his half-brother's father. 31 was the number he had in high school and college. (ESPN)

• College basketball: Texas Tech defeats New Mexico, 70–68 in coach Bob Knight's 880th career victory. Knight passes Dean Smith for first place all-time.

• Darts: 2007 PDC World Darts Championship:
  • Raymond van Barneveld battles from 3 sets to 0 down to win his first PDC title and fifth world title overall 7–6 in the sudden-death leg versus Phil Taylor who maintaines his record of reaching every single PDC World Championship final to date.

• Ski jumping: 2006–07 Four Hills Tournament:
  • Andreas Küttel wins the second competition in windy and rainy conditions in the traditional 1 January ski jumping meeting in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Due to the wind and rain the second jump of the day was cancelled, which saw Küttel reducing the gap to leader Gregor Schlierenzauer to three points.

• Tennis: 2007 ATP Tour:
  • In the Next Generation Adelaide International for the first time in history besides the Tennis Masters Cup a round-robin competition is in use to replace the normally used 32 player brackets. The new system will be used in several other tournaments throughout the season.