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31 December 2005 (Saturday)

• NFL Week 17
  • Denver Broncos 23, San Diego Chargers 7: Tatum Bell scored three touchdowns for the Broncos, but could muster only 52 yards, leaving him short of a 1,000 yard season, missing out on joining teammate Mike Anderson.
  • New York Giants 30, Oakland Raiders 21: Tiki Barber had a 95-yard touchdown run, the longest in Giant history; Plaxico Burress caught a 78-yard touchdown pass from Eli Manning; and the Giants won the NFC East title, ending the four-year reign of the Philadelphia Eagles, and also clinched a playoff berth for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the process.
• NCAA College Football
  • Meineke Car Care Bowl: NC State 14, South Florida 0: The ACC's Wolfpack shuts out the Big East's Bulls for the first time since the USF program began in 1997.
  • AutoZone Liberty Bowl: Tulsa 31, Fresno State 24: Golden Hurricane QB Paul Smith scored the winning touchdown for the C-USA champions over the WAC Bulldogs.
  • EV1.net Houston Bowl: TCU 27, Iowa State 24: Peter LoCoco's 44-yard field goal was the margin of victory for the MWC Champion Horned Frogs in their win over the Cyclones, who were the Big 12 representatives. On January 3, 2006, three days after their triumph in Houston, TCU's freshman kicker, Kasey Davis, is found shot to death in the parking lot of an apartment complex.
• NCAA College Basketball
  • (21) Ohio State 78, LSU 76: In, what is called by same, the best comeback of the year thus far, the Buckeyes keeps their perfect record intact going to 10-0. The disappointing loss for the Tigers sends them to 7-4. The winning shot was taken by Matt Sylvester, who also made the shot in March of last year that ended Illinois' bid for a perfect season. Ohio State trailed by 15 points with just over 5½ minutes left and was down by 10 with 2½ minutes to go, but managed to come back and get the win. They are one of eight undefeated teams left.
  • Arizona 96, (7) Washington 95 (2 OT): Unranked traditional powerhouse Arizona pulls off a gutsy win in a Pac-10 thriller that lasted 50 minutes, two overtimes. With 5.1 seconds to go Kirk Walters made a free throw to give Arizona the lead. It ended Washington's best start to a season since 1975 and also ended the longest current home-winning streak, at 32 games. The new leader is Gonzaga at 30. Washington is another undefeated team to fall, as they go to 11-1. Arizona improves to 9-3, and 2-0 in the Pac-10.
  • (14) Oklahoma 68, Alabama 56: The Crimson Tide lose yet another chance to beat a ranked team as they fall to the Sooners and Kevin Bookout's 18 points and 8 rebounds. They were bouncing back from an upset loss to West Virginia the previous week, and now move to 8-2, likely holding on to their top 15 spot, if not moving up. Alabama's season has been disappointing to say the least, as they now move to 6-5.
  • (1) Duke 102, UNC-Greensboro 69
  • (10) Louisville 58, Miami (FL) 43
  • California 68, (11) UCLA 61
  • (3) Villanova 75, Temple 53
  • (8) Gonzaga 102, St. Joseph's 94
  • Pittsburgh 73, (24) Wisconsin 64

30 December 2005 (Friday)

• NFL
  • The league and the New Orleans Saints announced that the franchise will return to the state of Louisiana for the 2006 NFL Season.
  • Tony Dungy will return to coach the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday (January 1, 2006) against the Arizona Cardinals a week after his son's death.

• NCAA College Football
  • Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl presented by Bridgestone: Virginia 34, Minnesota 31: The ACC Cavaliers, the replacement for the SEC who didn't field enough teams who had six wins, needed a 39-yard field goal by Connor Hughes with 1:08 left to beat the Big Ten's Golden Gophers at The Coliseum in Nashville.
  • Vitalis Sun Bowl: UCLA 50, Northwestern 38: In the sole Big Ten-Pac 10 matchup this bowl season, the Bruins defeated the Wildcats thanks to two on-side kick returns for touchdowns by Brandon Breazell and three touchdown passes by Drew Olson after he had a bad first quarter, throwing three interceptions, two of which were returned for touchdowns in an anomaly, considering that Olson threw a total of three pickoffs in the regular season.
  • Independence Bowl: Missouri 38, South Carolina 31: The Big 12 Tigers roared back from a 28-7 deficit thanks to four Brad Smith touchdowns to beat the SEC Gamecocks in Shreveport, Louisiana.
  • Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl: LSU 40, Miami (FL) 3: The ACC's Hurricanes scored the first three points, but the SEC's Bayou Bengals scored the final forty points thanks to 282 yards rushing in the last game using the "Peach Bowl" name, as beginning next year, the game becomes the "Chick-fil-A Bowl." The post-game was marred by a fight between players from both sides.

• Cricket
  • South Africa in Australia: At Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia (355 & 321–7d) completed their 184-run victory in the second Test against South Africa (311 & 181) just after lunch. (Cricinfo)

29 December 2005 (Thursday)

• NHL: Wayne Gretzky returned behind the bench for the Phoenix Coyotes, and the team responded as they defeated the Los Angeles Kings, 6-5 in overtime.
• NCAA College Football
  • Emerald Bowl: Utah 38, Georgia Tech 10: The MWC Utes, who shocked the world last year as an entry into the Bowl Championship Series, defeated an outmanned ACC Yellow Jackets squad thanks to Brett Ratliff's 30-for-41 performance for 381 yards and four touchdowns, all caught by wideout Travis LaTendresse. Quinton Genther added 120 rushing yards.
  • Pacific Life Holiday Bowl: Oklahoma 17, Oregon 14: The Sooners stunned the sixth-ranked Ducks in a typical Holiday Bowl finish, with Cliff Ingram intercepting Brady Leaf's pass deep in Sooner territory. It's the second straight year a high-ranked Pac-10 team was shocked by a Big 12 school.
• Ski jumping:
  • Four Hills Tournament: In the first meet of the one-week tournament, defending champion Janne Ahonen wins after jumps of 130.5 and 130 metres, gaining a total of 270.9 points. Norway's Roar Ljøkelsøy finishes second, 2.5 points behind, while World Cup leader Jakub Janda of the Czech Republic is 8.3 points off in third place. TSN.ca

28 December 2005 (Wednesday)

• NCAA College Football
  • MPC Computers Bowl: Boston College 27, Boise State 21: After nearly blowing a 27-0 lead, the ACC's Eagles intercept a Jared Zabransky pass in the end zone with less than two minutes remaining to secure their sixth straight bowl win on the WAC host's hostile "Smurf Turf".
  • MasterCard Alamo Bowl: Nebraska 32, Michigan 28: The Husker Nation from the Big 12 was delighted to see their team back in post-season play after a one-year absence defeating the Big Ten's Wolverines after a wild play in the final seconds with an attempt to recreate the famed Band Play from the 1982 Cal-Stanford game, but both teams had players on the field other than the eleven legal players on each team winding up with offsetting penalties.

27 December 2005 (Tuesday)

• NCAA College Football
  • Champs Sports Bowl: Clemson 19, Colorado 10: James Davis rushes for 148 yards and a touchdown as the ACC Tigers survived a game Big 12 Buffaloes comeback.
  • Insight Bowl: Arizona State 45, Rutgers 40: In the long-awaited rematch of the inaugural Garden State Bowl, the de facto host Sun Devils from the Pac-10 — behind Rudy Carpenter's four touchdown passes — rallied to defeat the Scarlet Knights from the Big East in what could very well be the last football game played at Chase Field. Next year's game will move to Sun Devil Stadium on the ASU campus. The teams combined for 1,211 yards total offense, a record for any bowl game.
• NCAA Men's College Basketball
  • (4) Memphis 83, (8) Gonzaga 72: The Tigers win at home to go to 10-1, their best start since 1985-86. The nation's leading scorer, Gonzaga's Adam Morrison, scores 34 points, but goes cold at the wrong time, failing to score in the final 9:31 of the game.
• Rugby Union
  • Jonah Lomu scores his first try since his 2004 kidney transplant. The All Blacks legend crosses the line for the Cardiff Blues early in the second half of a 41-23 Celtic League win over the Newport Gwent Dragons.

26 December 2005 (Monday)

• NCAA College Football
  • Motor City Bowl: Memphis 38, Akron 31: DeAngelo Williams scored three touchdowns, but the MAC Champion Zips gave C-USA's Tigers a scare late.

• NFL Monday Night Football
  • New England Patriots 31, New York Jets 21: In the final ABC broadcast of the series after thirty-six seasons and 555 games, the Pats prevailed thanks to two Mike Vrabel touchdown catches. Next September, the MNF package will be moving to Disney-owned sibling ESPN.

25 December 2005 (Sunday)

• NBA Christmas Doubleheader
  • Detroit Pistons 85, San Antonio Spurs 70: Chauncey Billups registered 20 points as the Pistons got a measure of revenge in a rematch of last year's NBA Finals.
  • Miami Heat 97, Los Angeles Lake

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