October 2005 in Sports - 20 October 2005

20 October 2005

• Hurricane Wilma affecting sports events:
  • The NFL game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins that was originally scheduled for October 23 was pushed back 2 days to Friday, October 21, due to Hurricane Wilma, while a Nationwide Tour golf event scheduled for this week in Miami, the Miccosukee Classic, the tour's final full-field event for 2005, was outright cancelled.
• Major League Baseball: Larry Walker, an outfielder for the Montreal Expos, Colorado Rockies and St. Louis Cardinals, officially announced his retirement after Game Six of the 2005 National League Championship Series.
• NCAA College Football:
  • AP Top 25: (3) Virginia Tech 28, Maryland 9.
• Football (soccer): UEFA Cup 2005-06, group stage, matchday 1:
  • Group A: Viking Stavanger 1–0 AS Monaco
  • Group A: CSKA Sofia 0–1 Hamburg
  • Group B: Maccabi Petach Tikva 1–2 Palermo
  • Group C: Halmstad 0–1 Hertha BSC Berlin
  • Group C: Steaua Bucharest 4–0 Lens
  • Group D: Grasshopper 0–1 Middlesbrough
  • Group D: Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1–2 AZ Alkmaar
  • Group E: FC Basel 0–2 Strasbourg
  • Group E: Tromsø 1–2 Roma
  • Group F: CSKA Moscow 1–2 Marseille
  • Group F: Dinamo Bucharest 0–0 Heerenveen
  • Group G: Rennes 0–2 VfB Stuttgart
  • Group G: Shakhtar Donetsk 1–0 PAOK
  • Group H: Zenit St. Petersburg 2–1 Vitória Guimarães
  • Group H: Beşiktaş 1–1 Bolton Wanderers
• See also UEFA Cup 2005-06.