August 2006 in Sports - 6 August 2006 (Sunday)

6 August 2006 (Sunday)

• NFL Pre-season:
  • Hall of Fame Game at Canton, Ohio: Oakland Raiders 16, Philadelphia Eagles 10. In front of a crowd that featured former Raiders coach and new Hall of Fame inductee John Madden, Art Shell is successful in his first game back as Raiders head coach after having been fired in 1994, with the help of three Sebastian Janikowski field goals.
• Auto racing:
  • NASCAR NEXTEL Cup: Jimmie Johnson wins the Allstate 400 at The Brickyard for his 22nd career victory.
  • Formula One: Jenson Button wins his first F1 race (his 113th start), the Hungarian Grand Prix.
• Golf:
  • PGA: Tiger Woods shoots his fourth straight round of 66, winning the Buick Open by three strokes over Jim Furyk for his 50th career victory.
  • LPGA/LET/LGU: Sherri Steinhauer wins her third Women's British Open by three strokes for her second major title (the British Open was not recognized by the LPGA as a women's major until 2001).
• Basketball: The first round of eliminations in the men's basketball tournament of the University Athletics Association of the Philippines ends with the Ateneo Blue Eagles beating the UST Growling Tigers, 114–78. Ateneo finished the first round undefeated, with a 6–0 win-loss record. Season host UE Red Warriors are at second place with 4–2, followed by the Adamson Soaring Falcons at 3–3. Four teams are tied for the fourth spot, all with 2–4 records: the defending champions FEU Tamaraws, the UP Fighting Maroons, the NU Bulldogs and the UST Growling Tigers. UBelt.com