September 2006 in Sports - 28 September 2006 (Thursday)

28 September 2006 (Thursday)

• Cricket: Allegations of ball tampering against Pakistani cricket captain Inzamam-ul-Haq are dismissed during an ICC Code of Conduct hearing at the Oval in London. However, Inzamam was found guilty of having brought the game into disrepute and subsequently banned for four one day international matches. The allegations stem from an incident during the Fourth Test between Pakistan and England in August. (Cricinfo article)
• Major League Baseball playoff races:
  • American League:
    • Toronto Blue Jays 8, Detroit Tigers 6
    • Minnesota Twins 2, Kansas City Royals 1
      • Joe Mauer ties the game with a home run in the ninth inning, then Jason Bartlett singles home the winning run in the 10th. The Twins pull even with the Tigers in the AL Central.
  • National League:
    • Houston Astros 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 0: Houston is eliminated from wild-card contention, but still competes with St. Louis for the NL Central.
    • Los Angeles Dodgers 19, Colorado Rockies 11: Dodgers increase wild card lead to 2 games.
    • Cincinnati Reds 5, Florida Marlins 1: The Reds keep their slim playoff hopes alive.
    • Washington Nationals 3, Philadelphia Phillies 1: Game starts over 4 hours late in front of a near empty stadium as they try to get the game in with little opportunity to reschedule this late in the season.
    • Milwaukee Brewers 9, St. Louis Cardinals 4: The Cards' lead falls to ½ game over the Astros.
    • San Diego Padres 12, Arizona Diamondbacks 4: Padres maintain 1 game lead in the West.
    • The New York Mets announce that Pedro Martínez will miss the playoffs due to a calf injury. Yahoo! Sports

• American football: NCAA Division I-A Top 25:
  • (2) Auburn 24, South Carolina 17
  • BYU 31, (17) TCU 17: The Cougars end the Horned Frogs' 13-game winning streak, and most likely end the Frogs' hopes of "busting" the BCS.

• Football (soccer): 2006–07 UEFA Cup, first round, second leg, progressing teams shown in bold.
  • Hapoel Tel Aviv 3 – 1 Chornomorets Odessa (aggregate: 4–1)
  • Chievo 2 – 1 Sporting Braga (aet) (agg.: 2–3)
  • Newcastle United 2 – 1 Levadia Tallinn (agg.: 3–1)
  • Rangers 2 – 0 Molde (agg.: 2–0)
  • Celta Vigo 3 – 0 Standard Liège (agg.: 4–0)
  • Litex Lovech 1 – 3 Maccabi Haifa (agg.: 2–4)
  • Paris St-Germain 2 – 0 Derry City (agg.: 2–0)
  • Odense 1 – 0 Hertha Berlin (agg.: 3–2)
  • Austria Vienna 1 – 0 Legia Warsaw (agg.: 2–1)
  • Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 0 – 1 Panathinaikos (agg.: 1–2)
  • Zulte-Waregem 2 – 0 Lokomotiv Moscow (agg.: 3–2)
  • Sparta Prague 0 – 0 Hearts (agg.: 2–0)
  • Randers 0 – 3 Fenerbahçe (agg.: 1–5)
  • Blackburn Rovers 2 – 0 Red Bull Salzburg (agg.: 4–2)
  • Nancy 3 – 1 Schalke 04 (agg.: 3–2)
  • Lens 3 – 1 Ethnikos Achna (agg.: 3–1)
  • Red Star Belgrade 1 – 2 Slovan Liberec (agg.: 1–4)
  • Kayserispor 1 – 1 AZ Alkmaar (agg.: 3–4)
  • Parma 1 – 0 Rubin Kazan (agg.: 2–0)
  • Sevilla 4 – 0 Atromitos (agg.: 6–1)
  • Brøndby 2 – 2 Eintracht Frankfurt (agg.: 2–6)
  • CSKA Sofia 2–2 Beşiktaş (aet) (agg.: 2–4)
  • Heerenveen 0 – 0 Vitória Setúbal (agg.: 3–0)
  • Mladá Boleslav 4 – 2 Marseille (agg.: 4–3)
  • Grasshoppers 5 – 0 Åtvidaberg (agg.: 8–0)
  • Nacional 1 – 2 Rapid Bucharest (aet) (agg.: 1–3)
  • Osasuna 0 – 0 Trabzonspor (agg.: 2–2 )
  • Rabotnički 0 – 1 FC Basel (agg.: 2–7)
  • Palermo 3 – 0 West Ham United (agg.: 4–0)
  • Feyenoord 0 – 0 Lokomotiv Sofia (agg.: 2–2 )
  • Club Brugge 1 – 1 Ružomberok (agg.: 2–1)
  • Bayer Leverkusen 3 – 1 FC Sion (agg.: 3–1)
  • Groningen 1 – 0 FK Partizan (agg.: 3–4)
  • Dinamo Bucharest 4 – 1 Skoda Xanthi (agg.: 8–4)
  • Tottenham Hotspur 1 – 0 Slavia Prague (agg.: 2–0)
  • Ajax 4 – 0 I.K. Start (agg.: 9–2)
  • Espanyol 3 – 1 Artmedia Bratislava (agg.: 5–3)
  • Iraklis 0 – 2 Wisła Kraków (aet) (agg.: 1–2 )
  • Pasching 0 – 1 Livorno (agg.: 0–3)
  • Auxerre 3 – 1 Dinamo Zagreb (agg.: 5–2)