March 2006 in Sports - March 9, 2006 (Thursday)

March 9, 2006 (Thursday)

  • Dogsled racing: Musher Doug Swingley is the first to reach Cripple in Iditarod XXXIV, and wins the Dorothy Page Halfway Award. Cripple is the official halfway point of the race on even-numbered years, when the race takes the northern route.
  • Football:
    • 2005–06 UEFA Cup – Round of 16, first leg.
      • Rapid Bucharest 2–0 Hamburg
      • FC Basel 2–0 Strasbourg
      • Middlesbrough 1–0 Roma
      • Steaua Bucharest 0–0 Real Betis
      • Palermo 1–0 Schalke 04
      • Marseille 0–1 Zenit St. Petersburg
      • Udinese 0–0 Levski Sofia
      • Lille 1–0 Sevilla (UEFA.com)
    • Major League Soccer: The Austrian beverage company Red Bull purchases the MetroStars franchise from Anschutz Entertainment Group, and renames the team New York Red Bulls.
  • Baseball: World Baseball Classic
    • Pool B: Mexico defeats South Africa 10–4.
    • Pool C: Puerto Rico defeats Netherlands 8–3.
    • Pool D
      • Venezuela defeats Italy 6–0.
      • Dominican Republic defeats Italy, 8–3.

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