23 September 2006 (Saturday)
- 2006 Australian Football League Finals Series – Week 3
- Preliminary Final: West Coast Eagles 11.19 (85), Adelaide Crows 11.9 (75)
- Basketball: 2006 FIBA World Championship for Women, Final
- Australia 91, Russia 74 — The Opals win their first gold in a major world event behind 28 points from tournament MVP Penny Taylor.
- Major League Baseball:
- Barry Bonds hits his 734th career home run to set a new National League career record. However, his San Francisco Giants lose 10–8 to the Milwaukee Brewers in Milwaukee, where previous NL record holder and current all-time MLB career home run leader Hank Aaron started and finished his major-league career.
- World Chess Championship
- Vladimir Kramnik takes a 1–0 lead over Veselin Topalov
- American football: Associated Press NCAA Division I-A Top 25:
- (1) Ohio State 28, (24) Penn State 6
- (2) Auburn 38, Buffalo 7
- (3) USC 20, Arizona 3
- (4) West Virginia 27, East Carolina 10
- (5) Florida 26, Kentucky 7
- (6) Michigan 27, Wisconsin 13
- (7) Texas 37, Iowa State 14
- (8) Louisville 24, Kansas State 6
- (9) Georgia 14, Colorado 13
- (10) LSU 49, Tulane 7
- (11) Virginia Tech 29, Cincinnati 13
- (12) Notre Dame 40, Michigan State 37: On the 40th anniversary of "The Game of the Century", The Irish come back from an 17-point deficit to beat the Spartans in East Lansing.
- (14) Iowa 24, Illinois 7
- (15) Tennessee 33, Marshall 7
- (17) Oklahoma 59, Middle Tennessee 0
- (18) Florida State 55, Rice 7
- (19) Clemson 52, North Carolina 7
- NC State 17, (20) Boston College 15
- (21) Cal 49, (22) Arizona State 21
- (23) Nebraska 56, Troy 0
- (25) Boise State 41, Hawaiʻi 34
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