16 September 2005
- Baseball: Barry Bonds hits his first home run in 2005 — number 704 in his career — as the San Francisco Giants defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5–4. MLB.com
- Football (soccer): FIFA U-17 World Championship 2005 – Group Stage (FIFA)
- Group A: China PR 1 – 1 Costa Rica
- Group A: Peru 1 – 1 Ghana
- Group B: Uruguay 0 – 2 Mexico
- Group B: Turkey 1 – 0 Australia
- Basketball: Eurobasket 2005, the 30th continental championships, starts in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.
- Auto racing:
- Formula One: BMW and Nick Heidfeld will embark on a joint future in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship in 2006. The Munich automobile manufacturer has concluded a three-year contract with the racing driver from Mönchengladbach (28). This fills the first cockpit in the new team run by BMW.
- Cricket:
- Indian tour of Zimbabwe: India (554) beat Zimbabwe (279 & 185) by an innings and 90 runs. Irfan Pathan is Man of the Match after taking nine wickets for 111 runs and also scoring 52 with the bat. (Cricinfo)
- Ice hockey: The Montreal Canadiens announce that former Montreal Expos mascot Youppi will be their new team mascot, becoming the first mascot in North American professional sports employed in different sports. (TSN)
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