February 2006 in Sports - 7 February 2006 (Tuesday)

7 February 2006 (Tuesday)

• Football:
  • 2006 African Cup of Nations – Semifinals
    • S1: Egypt 2–1 Senegal
    • S2: Côte d'Ivoire 1–0 Nigeria
  • The FIFA Disciplinary Committee hands down its decisions regarding the fracas between Turkey and Switzerland following the second leg of their World Cup qualifying playoff in Istanbul on 16 November 2005 (FIFA.com):
    • The Turkish Football Federation is fined CHF 200,000 (USD 154,000).
    • The national team must play their next six competitive home matches behind closed doors at a site in a UEFA country and at least 500 km from the Turkish border.
    • Turkey assistant Mehmet Özdilek is banned from football for 12 months and fined CHF 15,000.
    • Turkey players Alpay Özalan and Emre Belözoğlu and Switzerland player Benjamin Huggel are all banned for their national team's next six competitive matches and fined CHF 15,000 each.
    • Turkey player Serkan Balcı and Swiss physiotherapist Stephan Meyer receive two-match bans and fines of CHF 5,000 and 6,500 respectively. Unlike the other punishments, these cannot be appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
• Ice hockey – Former NHL player and Phoenix Coyotes assistant coach Rick Tocchet is implicated for being in charge of a gambling ring that includes several NHL players, as well as Wayne Gretzky's wife, Janet Jones.
• College Basketball NCAA Top 25: #2 Duke 87, #24 North Carolina 83: J.J. Redick scores 35 points (22 in the second half alone), the first time he has scored more than 20 in the hostile "Dean Dome", as the Blue Devils survive a 17-point comeback from the Tar Heels. Reyshaun Terry led the Heels with 17 points.