January 2006 in Sports - 8 January 2006 (Sunday)

8 January 2006 (Sunday)

• NCAA College Football: Texas quarterback Vince Young announces he will forego his senior year to enter the 2006 NFL Draft.
• Golf: PGA Tour:
  • Stuart Appleby wins the Mercedes Championships for the third consecutive year, defeating Vijay Singh on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff. Both Appleby and Singh shot 8-under during the regulation 72 holes. Appleby is the first player on Tour to win an event three consecutive years since Tiger Woods won four straight Bay Hill Invitationals from 2000 to 2003. (PGATour.com)
• Football: FA Cup, Third round
  • Burton Albion 0–0 Manchester United: Conference side Burton Albion earn a lucrative replay at Old Trafford against their august visitors from four divisions higher in the English League system.
  • Fulham 1–2 Leyton Orient: Premiership side Fulham crash out to League Two minnows Orient, from three divisions below them.
  • Leicester City 3–2 Tottenham Hotspur: Championship side Leicester recover from a two-goal deficit with a last-minute winner against their Premiership guests.
  • Sunderland 3–0 Northwich Victoria
• NFL playoffs Wild Card Weekend
  • NFC: Carolina Panthers 23 New York Giants 0: The Panthers hold the Giants to 132 yards from scrimmage and intercept three Eli Manning passes. Carolina will play "Da Bears" in Chicago next week.
  • AFC: Pittsburgh Steelers 31 Cincinnati Bengals 17: Ben Roethlisberger throws for three touchdowns, while Jon Kitna, who entered after a first-quarter injury to Carson Palmer, throws two costly interceptions for the Bengals. The Steelers travel to Indianapolis next week and face the top-seeded Colts.
• NCAA Men's College Basketball:
  • (24) West Virginia 91, (3) Villanova 87: The Mountaineers, behind 20-plus point efforts from Joe Herber, Kevin Pittsnogle, and Mike Gansey, come back from a 15-point second-half deficit on the road to hand the Wildcats their first loss of the season.
  • Wisconsin 82, (7) Michigan State 63: Kammron Taylor ties a career high with 27 points, and the Badgers defense holds Spartans stars Maurice Ager and Paul Davis to 11 and 2 points respectively. The Badgers go to 33–1 in Big Ten home games under coach Bo Ryan.
  • Georgia Tech 60, (11) Boston College 58: The Yellow Jackets' Zam Fredrick sinks a tie-breaking three-pointer with 33.5 seconds left, and they hold on for the home win. The Eagles shoot 4-for-16 from three-point range, and go more than 11 minutes of the game without a field goal.
  • (1) Duke 82, (23) Wake Forest 64: The unbeaten Blue Devils easily avoid the upset bug on the road thanks to 32 points from J. J. Redick, his fifth 30-plus performance of the season.