19 January 2006 (Thursday)
- NBA: New York Knicks forward and president of the Players Association Antonio Davis was suspended by the league for five games for going into the stands during the Knicks game against the Chicago Bulls to protect his wife from a drunken heckler.
- NFL Non-Postseason News: The Detroit Lions have hired Tampa Bay Buccaneers line coach Rod Marinelli as their new head coach.
- NCAA Women's College Basketball: Tennessee coach Pat Summitt won her 900th game as coach of the Lady Volunteers, defeating the Lady Commodores of Vanderbilt, 80–68.
- NHL:
- Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Bryan Berard was suspended two years from international hockey after failing a drug test. No word on if he will be suspended by the NHL.
- Mario Lemieux is planning to sell the Pittsburgh Penguins, and reports are if they do not get a new arena by June 2008, the team may move out of the Steel City.
- Major League Baseball: Former Boston Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein, who turned down a contract extension and avoided the media on Halloween by wearing a gorilla suit out of the team offices at Fenway Park, will return to his old job as the team's general manager.
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