March 9, 2006 (Thursday)
- Dogsled racing: Musher Doug Swingley is the first to reach Cripple in Iditarod XXXIV, and wins the Dorothy Page Halfway Award. Cripple is the official halfway point of the race on even-numbered years, when the race takes the northern route.
- Football:
- 2005–06 UEFA Cup – Round of 16, first leg.
- Rapid Bucharest 2–0 Hamburg
- FC Basel 2–0 Strasbourg
- Middlesbrough 1–0 Roma
- Steaua Bucharest 0–0 Real Betis
- Palermo 1–0 Schalke 04
- Marseille 0–1 Zenit St. Petersburg
- Udinese 0–0 Levski Sofia
- Lille 1–0 Sevilla (UEFA.com)
- Major League Soccer: The Austrian beverage company Red Bull purchases the MetroStars franchise from Anschutz Entertainment Group, and renames the team New York Red Bulls.
- 2005–06 UEFA Cup – Round of 16, first leg.
- Baseball: World Baseball Classic
- Pool B: Mexico defeats South Africa 10–4.
- Pool C: Puerto Rico defeats Netherlands 8–3.
- Pool D
- Venezuela defeats Italy 6–0.
- Dominican Republic defeats Italy, 8–3.
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Famous quotes containing the word march:
“As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.... The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)