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31 July 2005

• Cricket:
  • 2005 English cricket season: National League Division Two: Kent (218 for 5, Walker 58 not out) beat Yorkshire (216 for 6, Vaughan 116 not out) by 5 wickets. (BBC)
  • Indian Oil Cup: India (180 for 4, Dravid 52 not out) beat West Indies (178, Deonarine 41) by 6 wickets in the second match of the ODI Triangular Series. (BBC)
• Golf:
  • Jeong Jang wins the Weetabix Women's British Open at Royal Birkdale, her first LPGA win. (AP/ESPN)
  • Allen Doyle, nine shots behind after the third round of the U.S. Senior Open, shoots a course-record 63 (tied for the lowest round ever in the event) and wins his third senior major by one stroke. His final-round comeback is unprecedented in the history of the senior majors; among the mainstream men's majors, only Paul Lawrie's comeback from 10 shots down on the final day of the 1999 Open Championship surpasses this feat. (USSeniorOpen.com)
• Auto racing
  • Formula One: Kimi Räikkönen wins the 2005 Hungarian Grand Prix at the Hungaroring in Budapest. Michael Schumacher finishes second, with younger brother Ralf finishing third, his first podium since the 2004 Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka. Championship leader Fernando Alonso finishes 11th, the third time he's failed to score points this year, but the first time he's done so in finishing a race. Christian Klien does one rollover in an accident in the first turn after the start, but is not injured, and in fact, walks away. (Formula1.com)
  • IndyCar: Bryan Herta wins the Firestone Indy 400 at the Michigan International Speedway, his home track, and his first win since 2003.
  • ChampCar: Sébastien Bourdais wins the inaugural Grand Prix of San Jose.

• Baseball: The Baseball Hall of Fame inducts their two newest members — Ryne Sandberg and Wade Boggs — in Cooperstown, New York. The Hall also honors Jerry Coleman, recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting, and Peter Gammons, recipient of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award for baseball writing.

• Fishing: Kevin VanDam won his second BassMasters Classic championship in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

30 July 2005

• Cricket:
  • Indian Oil Cup:
    • Sri Lanka 209 for 7 (Jayasuriya 43*) beat India 205 for 9 (Dravid 54 - Muralitharan 3/33) by three wickets
  • 2005 English cricket season: Twenty20 Cup:
    • Lancashire 217 for 4 (Symonds 52*, Flintoff 49) beat Surrey (Ramprakash 45, Benning 42) by 22 runs in the first semi-final. (BBC)
    • Somerset 157 for 9 beat Leicestershire 153 for 8 (Maddy 56) by four runs in the second semi-final. (BBC)
    • Somerset 118 for 3 (Smith 64*) beat Lancashire 114 for 8 (Law 59) by 7 wickets in the final, to win the Twenty20 Cup. (BBC)
• Rugby union: In the opener of the Tri Nations Series, the Springboks (South Africa) win a closely fought match with the Wallabies (Australia) 22-16. Percy Montgomery becomes the first Springbok to score 500 points in Test matches. (BBC)
• NHL: No surprise — the Pittsburgh Penguins select superstar prospect Sidney Crosby as the first overall pick in the NHL Entry Draft.
• Football (soccer): In the 2005 Major League Soccer All-Star Game, the MLS All-Stars defeat Fulham of the English Premiership 4-1 at Columbus Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. New England Revolution striker Taylor Twellman scores a goal and is named the game's MVP, while Jeff Cunningham of the Colorado Rapids scores twice after coming on in the 68th minute. (ESPN Soccernet) (MLSnet.com)

29 July 2005

• NFL
  • Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Jerome McDougle was shot in Miami, Florida in a robbery attempt. He will miss four to six weeks of training camp.

• Golf
  • Ernie Els will miss the rest of the 2005 season with a knee injury he suffered while sailing.

28 July 2005

• Horse Racing
  • Afleet Alex, winner of the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes will miss the Haskell Invitational and Travers Stakes after suffering a left front leg injury.

• American Football
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison head coach Barry Alvarez will step down after the 2004 college football season to stay on as the school's athletic director. Defensive coordinator Bret Bielema will assume the reins in 2006.
  • Ted Johnson, New England Patriots inside linebacker, announced his retirement.

• Baseball
  • In the longest game by innings in Toronto Blue Jays history, and the longest this year in Major League Baseball, the Blue Jays defeat the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, 2-1, in 18 innings at Rogers Centre.

• Basketball
  • The New York Knicks officially name Larry Brown as head coach, signing a five-year, $50 million contract, the richest ever for a coach/manager in sports history.

• Football: UEFA Cup 2005-06 First Qualifying Round, second leg. Teams progressing to the next round shown in bold .
  • Zepce 1 – 1 Baskimi (UEFA.com)
  • APOEL 4 – 0 Birkirkara (UEFA.com)
  • Rapid Bucureşti 5 – 0 Sant Julià (UEFA.com)
  • Siroki Brijeg 3 – 0 Teuta (UEFA.com)
  • Vardar 0 – 0 Elbasani (Vardar win on away goals) (UEFA.com)
  • Hibernians 0 – 3 Omonia (UEFA.com)
  • Domzale 3 – 0 Domagnano (UEFA.com)
  • MTZ-RIPO Minsk 1 – 2 Ferencváros (UEFA.com)
  • Lokomotivi Tbilisi 0 – 2 Banants (UEFA.com)
  • BATE Borisov 5 – 0 Torpedo Kutaisi (UEFA.com)
  • Dacia Chişinău 1 – 0 FC Vaduz (UEFA.com)
  • MSK Zilina 3 – 1 Baku (UEFA.com)
  • MIKA 0 – 0 Mainz 05 (UEFA.com)
  • Khazar Lenkoran 1 – 2 Nistru Otaci (UEFA.com)
  • Carmarthen Town 5 – 1 Longford Town (UEFA.com)
  • Cork City 0 – 1 Ekranas (UEFA.com)
  • B36 2 – 1 ÍBV (UEFA.com)
  • Pétange 1 – 1 Allianssi (UEFA.com)
  • Ventspils 2 – 1 Linfield (Linfield win on away goals) (UEFA.com)
  • Liepajas Metalurgs 3 – 0 NSÍ (UEFA.com)
  • Keflavik 2 – 0 Etzella Ettelbruck (UEFA.com)
  • Viking 1 – 0 Portadown (UEFA.com)
  • MyPa 1 – 0 TVMK Tallinn (UEFA.com)
  • Atlantas 3 – 2 Rhyl (Rhyl win on away goals) (UEFA.com)
  • Flora Tallinn 0 – 6 Esbjerg (UEFA.com)

• Ice hockey: Less than three weeks after the 2004-05 NHL lockout was resolved, Bob Goodenow steps down as the Executive Director of the National Hockey League Players Association. Ted Saskin was named his replacement. (CBC)

27 July 2005

• Football: UEFA Champions League 2005-06: Second Qualifying Round, first leg:
  • F91 Dudelange 1 – 6 Rapid Vienna (UEFA.com)
  • Partizan 1 – 0 Sheriff (UEFA.com)
  • Shelbourne 0 – 0 Steaua Bucharest (UEFA.com)
  • Malmö FF 3 – 2 Maccabi Haifa (UEFA.com)
  • Artmedia Bratislava 5 – 0 Celtic (UEFA.com)
  • Rabotnicki 1 – 1 Lokomotiv Moskva (UEFA.com)
  • SK Tirana 0 – 2 CSKA Sofia (UEFA.com)
  • Debrecen 3 – 0 Hajduk Split (UEFA.com)

26 July 2005

• Football: UEFA Champions League 2005-06: Second Qualifying Round, first leg:
  • Dinamo Tbilisi 0 – 2 Brøndby (UEFA.com)
  • Dynamo Kyiv 2 – 2 FC Thun (UEFA.com)
  • Anorthosis Famagusta 3 – 1 Trabzonspor (UEFA.com)
  • Anderlecht 5 – 0 Neftchi (UEFA.com)
  • Vålerenga IF 1 – 0 FC Haka (UEFA.com)
  • FBK Kaunas 1 – 3 Liverpool (UEFA.com)
• Baseball: Matt Clement of the Boston Red Sox is hit by a ball and has to leave the pitcher's mound during the third inning of their game against local team Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and requires overnight hospitalization as precausionary measure. Johnny Damon of the Red Sox hits a home run in the tenth inning to give the Red Sox a 10-9 victory. BostonRedSox.com
• Basketball: The Phoenix Mercury's Kamila Vodichkova's establishes a new WNBA record by making ten field goal attempts in a row, and the Los Angeles Sparks Lisa Leslie sprained her left knee as the Mercury beat the Sparks, 77-60, in Phoenix. WNBA.com
  • BSN: The Arecibo Captains beat the Bayamón Cowboys, 88-84, in game four of the BSN's finals, to win Puerto Rico's national title for the fuirst time since 1959. bsnpr.com, in Spanish

25 July 2005

• Baseball:
  • The Tampa Bay Devil Rays beat the Boston Red Sox, 4-3, in 10 innings. The game is significant in that it was the Red Sox' first extra-inning game this year, after 98 nine-inning games. Never before in the history of Major League Baseball had a team played so many games without going into extra innings.

24 July 2005

• American football
  • Ricky Williams returns after a one-year absence to the NFL's Miami Dolphins.
• Cricket: The Ashes: Australia (190 & 384) beat England (155 & 180) by

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