January 2007 in Sports - 3 January 2007 (Wednesday)

3 January 2007 (Wednesday)

• Cricket:
  • England in Australia:
    • 2006–07 Ashes series, Fifth Test in Sydney, day 2:
      First innings: England bowled out for 291 (103.4 overs), Australia 188 for 4 (55.0 overs).
  • India in South Africa:
    • Third and Final Test in Cape Town, day 2:
      First innings: India 414 all out, South Africa 114–1 in 41.0 overs.

• American college football:
  • Nick Saban, head coach of the Miami Dolphins of the NFL, agrees to become head coach at Alabama. Contract details are still pending, but the contract is believed to be the most lucrative ever for a college football coach. (ESPN)
  • BCS: Allstate Sugar Bowl, (8) LSU 41, (11) Notre Dame 14.

• Basketball:
  • Euroleague:
    • Two Spanish clubs punch their tickets to the Top 16 phase — TAU Cerámica with a 97–68 home victory over RheinEnergie Köln and Winterthur FCB with an 84–67 home win over Žalgiris Kaunas . (Euroleague – TAU), (Euroleague – Barça)
  • WNBA:
    • The Charlotte Sting, one of the league's eight original franchises, fold. The Charlotte Bobcats, who had owned the team since being awarded the NBA's newest franchise in 2004, gave up control of the team three weeks earlier, and the WNBA could not find a buyer. (ESPN)
    • Van Chancellor, who coached the Houston Comets since the league's inception in 1997 and coached the team to the first four WNBA championships, resigns. (ESPN)

• Ice hockey – 2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships:
  • Canada and Russia advance to the gold medal game, with victories over USA and Sweden respectively in the semifinals.