31 August 2006 (Thursday)
- Rugby union
- The 2006 Women's Rugby World Cup kicks off in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Basketball
- 2006 FIBA World Championship Fifth Place Bracket, Saitama City, Japan
- France 75, Germany 73
- Turkey 95, Lithuania 84
- France will play Turkey for fifth place on September 2 at 17:30 JST (4:30am EDT). Germany will play Lithuania for seventh place on September 3 at 16:30 JST (3:30am EDT).
- 2006 FIBA World Championship Fifth Place Bracket, Saitama City, Japan
Read more about this topic: August 2006 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the word august:
“O my dear Candide! You knew Paquette, that pretty attendant of our august baroness; I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise, which produced these torments of hell by which you see me devoured; she was infected and may have died of it.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)