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This list shows notable sports-related deaths, events, and notable outcomes that occurred in November of 2006. Deaths
24 Willie Pep 23 Pat Dobson 20 Andre Waters 17 Ferenc Puskás 17 Bo Schembechler 7 Jackie Parker 7 Bryan Pata 7 Johnny Sain 6 Francisco Fernández Ochoa 5 Pietro Rava 4 Sergi López Segú 3 Alberto Spencer 2 Wally Foreman
Sporting seasons
Auto racing 2006:
D1 Grand Prix World Rally Championship A1 Grand Prix
Basketball 2006–07:
Euroleague Philippine Basketball Association Australian National Basketball League
Cricket 2006–07:
Australia South Africa
Cyclo-cross: 2006/07 Cyclo-cross World Cup
Football 2006–07:
2006–07 UEFA Champions League 2006–07 UEFA Cup England (general) 2006–07 FA Premier League Scotland
Golf: 2007 European Tour
Rugby union 2006:
2006–07 Heineken Cup 2006–07 English Premiership 2006–07 Top 14 2006–07 Celtic League 2007 Rugby World Cup qualifying
Speed skating 2006–07:
Essent Cup 2006–07 World Cup
Volleyball 2006:
Men's CEV Champions League 2006–07
U.S. and Canadian sports 2006–07:
2006 US college football season 2006 NFL season 2006–07 NHL season 2006–07 NBA season
30 November 2006 (Thursday) Asian Games Baseball – Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) 4–2 . The Taiwanese use three home runs to strike first in the gold medal chase. Table Tennis Men (Team): Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) and advance to the quarterfinals. Quarterfinal Matches: 3–0 Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) 3–0 3–2 0–3 Women (Team): DPR Korea and advance to the quarterfinals Quarterfinal Matches: DPR Korea 3–0 1–3 3–0 0–3 Cricket: Pakistan batsman Mohammad Yousuf breaks Viv Richards' record for runs in test cricket in a calendar year in a match against the West Indies. American football: College: MAC Championship at Detroit: Central Michigan 31, Ohio 10: The Chippewas win their first outright MAC title. NFL Week 13 Thursday Night Game: Cincinnati Bengals 13, Baltimore Ravens 7. T. J. Houshmandzadeh's 40-yard catch of a flea-flicker pass from Carson Palmer prevented the Ravens from clinching the AFC North. Football (soccer): 2006–07 UEFA Cup Matchday 4. Clubs that have qualified today for the Round of 32 are in bold. Group E: Nancy 3–0 Feyenoord1 Group E: Wisła Kraków 3–1 FC Basel Group F: Ajax 0–2 Espanyol Group F: Austria Vienna 0–1 Sparta Prague Group G: Mladá Boleslav 0–0 Paris Saint-Germain Group G: Panathinaikos 0–0 Rapid Bucharest Group H: Celta Vigo 1–0 Fenerbahçe Group H: Eintracht Frankfurt 0–0 Newcastle United
: The match was suspended after 80 minutes of play at 3–0 due to crowd trouble. Feyenoord fans who gathered tickets for the match in an illegal way and others who were held at the stadium by the police were rioting during the whole match. After a 20-minute break, the match was finished.
29 November 2006 (Wednesday) Asian Games Table Tennis Team-Men – , , Korea, , , and all advance to the quarterfinals. Team-Women – , , Korea, , , and all advance to the quarterfinals. College Basketball (American): For the second time in less than a week, the top team in the AP NCAA Division I Men's poll came up on the losing side of the score, as this week's #1 team, Ohio State was beaten by #6 North Carolina 98–89 in the "Dean Dome". Football: 2006–07 UEFA Cup Matchday 4. Clubs that clinched advancement to the round of 32 today are in bold. Group A: Partizan Belgrade 1–4 AJ Auxerre Group A: Livorno 1–1 Maccabi Haifa Group B: Dinamo Bucharest 2–1 Bayer Leverkusen Group B: Beşiktaş 2–1 Club Brugge Group C: Grasshoppers 0–4 Sevilla Group C: AZ Alkmaar 2–2 Slovan Liberec Group D: Lens 1–2 Parma Group D: Osasuna 3–1 Odense General news: FIFA announces its three-player shortlists for the 2006 World Player of the Year awards: Men: Fabio Cannavaro (), Ronaldinho (), Zinedine Zidane () Women: Kristine Lilly (), Renate Lingor (), Marta () José Manuel Esnal who promoted with Levante UD towards La Liga in the 2005–06 season will replace Félix Sarriugarte as the manager of Athletic Bilbao. Gimnàstic de Tarragona appoints Paco Flores as their new manager. Flores who was also manager of RCD Espanyol and Real Zaragoza replaces Luis Ángel César Sampedro, who was fired earlier this week. Rugby union: Andy Robinson resigns as manager of the England national rugby union team after his team lost eight out of the last nine matches he managed the team.
28 November 2006 (Tuesday) Asian Games Volleyball – Chinese Taipei (Taiwan), Kuwait, Bahrain, and Lebanon advance to the second round. Cricket – Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Yousuf becomes the first to score 8 test centuries in a calendar year during the third test of the West Indies tour of Pakistan. Equestrian: The parents of Albert Zoer who own his horse Okidoki reject a €4,000,000 bid on the 10-year-old horse. Zoer already won several Grand-Prix events with Okidoki and they were part of the Dutch team that became World Champions in Aachen in 2006. Owner Mr. Zoer told the press he prefers his son's career over the money. Swimming: Breaststroke specialist Madelon Baans ends her career at the age of 29 to concentrate on her post-sport career. Baans is 49 time Dutch national champion, current Dutch national record holder at the 100m breaststroke in either the 25- and 50m pools. During the 2004 European Championships in Madrid, she won the bronze medal as being part of the 4 × 100 m medley, in the same year she reached the final at the 2004 Summer Olympics on the same discipline. 2010 Winter Olympics: Skicross will likely be added to the Olympic schedule as of the Vancouver Olympics in 2010 after the executive board voted in favour of the sport. The inclusion of skicross must also be approved by the Vancouver Olympic Committee for the sport to be officially part of the sport program. Other events that were up for inclusion were rejected. These events included: Biathlon mixed relay, mixed curling, team alpine skiing, team bobsleigh, team skeleton, team luge and women's ski jumping.
27 November 2006 (Monday) Asian Games: Volleyball – United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong advance to the second round. NBA Basketball: The top teams in the Eastern and Western Conferences met in Salt Lake City, Utah, as the Orlando Magic defeated the Utah Jazz, 88–75. Dwight Howard and Carlos Boozer led their respective teams with 21 points each, but Howard had 16 rebounds as well. The Magic out-rebounded the Jazz, 45–36. Cricket: England in Australia: wins the opening Ashes Test in Brisbane, defeating by 277 runs at the Gabba. Australian captain Ricky Ponting is named Player of the Match for his score of 196 in the First Innings. (Scorecard) Football (American): NFL Monday Night Football: Seattle Seahawks 34, Green Bay Packers 24. Shaun Alexander rushed 40 times for 201 yards, becoming the third player in NFL history to do so, and Matt Hasselbeck threw for three second half touchdowns in the first Seahawks game played in a Seattle snowstorm. College: Alabama fired head coach Mike Shula. Joe Kines, former Arkansas coach, will serve as the team's coach in their bowl game. Michigan State names Cincinnati head coach Mark Dantonio as their new coach. The Bearcats then announce defensive coordinator Pat Narduzzi will coach the team in their bowl game. Iowa State reaches into the Big 12 and names Texas assistant Gene Chizik as their new coach. Football (soccer): The Golden Ball, the prize awarded to the European Footballer of the Year, goes to Fabio Cannavaro of Real Madrid. Cannavaro was the captain of Italy during the 2006 FIFA World Cup where his team became World Champion. Cannavaro gained 173 points, with Gianluigi Buffon (124) and Thierry Henry (121) following in second and third place. He is the first defender to win the award since Matthias Sammer in 1996. Branko Oblak resigns as the manager of Slovenia. Oblak led the Slovenians since 2004. In Spain two La Liga managers were sacked due to achieving weak results in the competition. Félix Sarriugarte only won 8 points in 12 games at Athletic Bilbao, while Luis Ángel César Sampedro was in the bottom position with his team Gimnàstic de Tarragona. RKC Waalwijk sacks their manager Adrie Koster. RKC is currently in 18th and last position of the Eredivisie. Ice hockey: The NHL's Chicago Blackhawks fire head coach Trent Yawney and name former star Denis Savard as his replacement. Tennis: Thiemo de Bakker and Antal van der Duim are suspended for a month by the Dutch Tennis Federation, because the two did not follow the commitments made between them and the federation. They were supposed to fly back home, but played three tournaments in Israel instead. De Bakker reached the final in one of these tournaments.
26 November 2006 (Sunday) Asian Games Basketball: Uzbekistan, Syria, and Kazakhstan all advance to the second round of the tournament by winning their respective groups. Volleyball: Saudi Arabia and Macau advance to the second round of the tournament. Auto racing: 2006–07 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Malaysia: Neel Jani finishes in first position of the sprint race, beating Nico Hülkenberg and Jonny Reid. Hülkenberg however, wins the main race later in the day by finishing in front of Robbie Kerr and Nicolas Lapierre. Cycling: During the Six Days of Ghent current world champion at the madison Isaac Gálvez was involved in a serious crash in which he received serious injuries. He was rushed to a nearby hospital. While being rushed there, he died as a result of his injuries. The race was immediately stopped and no winners were announced. Football (American) College football: Two head coaches were given their walking papers as North Carolina State's Chuck Amato and Arizona State's Dirk Koetter were fired. (Charlotte Observer via San Jose Mercury News) NFL Week 12 Sunday games: Minnesota Vikings 31, Arizona Cardinals 26. Chester Taylor's 136 yards rushing was part of the Vikings' win. Washington Redskins 17, Carolina Panthers 13. Redskins quarterback Jason Campbell gets his first NFL win on a 66-yard touchdown pass to Chris Cooley late in the fourth quarter. Cincinnati Bengals 30, Cleveland Browns 0. The Bengals pitch a shutout for the first time since December 3, 1989, against the Browns. New York Jets 26, Houston Texans 11. Chad Pennington threw for 289 yards in the Jet's win. Buffalo Bills 27, Jacksonville Jaguars 24. Rian Lindell's 42-yard field goal as time expired gave the Bills their second straight come-from-behind win. New Orleans Saints 31, Atlanta Falcons 13. Michael Vick runs for 166 yards but completes only nine passes, then flips off booing fans while leaving the field. He later apologizes for the gesture. Meanwhile, Ryan Copper's 48-yard catch of a "Hail Mary pass" from Drew Brees to end the first half stunned the Falcons. Baltimore Ravens 27, Pittsburgh Steelers 0. The Ravens sack Ben Roethlisberger nine times and intercept him twice. St. Louis Rams 20, San Francisco 49ers 17. Marc Bulger saved the day for the Rams with a game-winning five-yard TD pass ti Kevin Curtis with 27 seconds left. San Diego Chargers 21, Oakland Raiders 14. For the fourth week in a row, LaDainian Tomlinson leads the Chargers on a second-half comeback. This time, Tomlinson runs for two touchdowns and throws a third. New England Patriots 17, Chicago Bears 13: In a game with nine turnovers, Asante Samuel's third interception ends Chicago's comeback attempt. Tennessee Titans 24, New York Giants 21. The Giants lead 21–0 with 10 minutes left. But Vince Young throws two touchdown passes and runs in a third score to tie the game. A Pacman Jones interception in the last minute sets up Rob Bironas' game-winning 49-yard field goal. Indianapolis Colts 45, Philadelphia Eagles 21. Joseph Addai ties a Colts record with four rushing touchdowns. In off-the-field news: The Denver Broncos, searching for a kick start to a struggling offense, have replaced Jake Plummer at quarterback with rookie Jay Cutler for next Sunday night's game against Seattle. Football (soccer):