10 January 2006 (Tuesday)
- Major League Baseball: Bruce Sutter is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America.
- Rugby Union: On appeal, the International Rugby Board reduces its previously issued ban on Wales and Ospreys centre Gavin Henson by three weeks. On 23 December 2005, a disciplinary panel originally banned him for 10 weeks and 2 days after finding him guilty of elbowing Leicester prop Alex Moreno in the face; the assault left Moreno with a broken nose. Henson will now be available for the third round of the Six Nations Championship against Ireland. BBC
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Famous quotes containing the word january:
“and you undid the reins
and I undid the buttons,
the bones, the confusions,
The New England postcards,
the January ten o’clock night,
and we rose up like wheat....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)