17 January 2006 (Tuesday)
- Football: FA Cup third round replays
- Birmingham 2–0 Torquay
- Chester 0–1 Cheltenham
- Leeds United 3–3 Wigan (aet). Wigan win 4–2 on penalties.
- Middlesbrough 5–2 Nuneaton
- Reading 3–2 West Bromwich Albion (aet).
- Tamworth 1–1 Stoke (aet). Stoke win 5–4 on penalties
- Walsall 2–0 Barnsley (BBC)
- NFL (Non-Post-season news)
- The New York Jets hire New England Patriots defensive coordinator Eric Mangini as their new head coach. At age 35, Mangini becomes the youngest of the current head coaches.
- Sean Payton, former offensive coordinator of the Dallas Cowboys, was named the head coach of the New Orleans Saints.
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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)