January 2009 in sports

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Golf 2009

Ice hockey 2008–09

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Winter sports

Days of the month

January 31, 2009 (Saturday)

American football

NCAA Bowl Games:
- 2009 Texas vs. The Nation Game in El Paso, Texas:
  - The Nation 27, Texas 24
    - In college football's season finale, Florida Atlantic's Frantz Joseph, with a 26-yard interception and a 32-yard fumble return, led The Nation team to a 27–24 victory over the Texas squad. Joseph was also named the game's defensive Most Valuable Player.

Cricket

India in Sri Lanka:
- 2nd ODI at Colombo:
  - File:Flag of India.svg India 256/9 (50 ov); File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka 241 (49.2 ov). India win by 15 runs and lead 5-match series 2–0.
Zimbabwe in Kenya:
- 3rd ODI in Nairobi:
  - File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya 234 (49.3 ov); File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe 236/6 (48.2 ov). Zimbabwe win by 4 wickets and win 5-match series 3–0.

Mixed martial arts

UFC 94 in Las Vegas

Tennis

Australian Open in Melbourne, day 13:
(seeding in parentheses)
- Women's singles final:
  - Serena Williams Template:Flagicon (2) beat Dinara Safina Template:Flagicon (3) 6–0, 6–3
    - Serena Williams wins her fourth Australian Open and tenth Grand Slam title, and will claim the Women's World #1 ranking.
- Men's doubles final:
  - Bob Bryan Template:Flagicon/Mike Bryan Template:Flagicon (2) beat Mahesh Bhupathi Template:Flagicon/Mark Knowles Template:Flagicon (3) 2–6, 7–5, 6–0
    - The Bryans win their third Australian Open and seventh Grand Slam men's doubles title.

Winter sports

Nordic combined

World Cup in Chaux-Neuve, France:
- 10 km Gundersen: (1) Magnus Moan Template:Flagicon 26min 06sec 8/10 (25th) (2) Anssi Koivuranta Template:Flagicon at 9.2 (1st) (3) Bjorn Kircheisen Template:Flagicon 32.9 (8th)
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 14 of 22 events): (1) Koivuranta 853 points (2) Moan 801 (3) Kircheisen 709

Ski jumping

World Cup in Sapporo, Japan:
- 134m hill: (1) Gregor Schlierenzauer Template:Flagicon 253.3 points (133.0/120.5m) (2) Thomas Morgenstern Template:Flagicon 216.9 (112.0/123.5) (3) Wolfgang Loitzl Template:Flagicon 211.2 (112.0/119.5)
  - Schlierenzauer wins fourth World Cup in a row.
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 18 events): (1) Schlierenzauer 1420 points, (2) Simon Ammann Template:Flagicon 1248, (3) Loitzl 1166

Snowboarding

World Cup in Bayrischzell/Sudelfeld, Germany:
- Parallel GS men: (1) Andreas Prommegger Template:Flagicon (2) Matthew Morrison Template:Flagicon (3) Sylvain Dufour Template:Flagicon
- Parallel GS women: (1) Doris Guenther Template:Flagicon (2) Amelie Kober Template:Flagicon (3) Nicolien Sauerbreij Template:Flagicon

Speed skating

World Cup 7 in Erfurt, Germany:
- Men's 500 m:
- Men's 1500 m
- Women's 500 m:
- Women's 3000 m:

January 30, 2009 (Friday)

Cricket

South Africa in Australia:
- 5th ODI in Perth:
  - File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa 288/6 (50 ov); File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia 249 (49 ov). South Africa win by 39 runs and win the series 4–1.

Football (soccer)

UNCAF Nations Cup in Tegucigalpa, Honduras:
- Semifinals:
  - Costa Rica File:Flag of Costa Rica.svg 1–0 File:Flag of El Salvador.svg El Salvador
  - Honduras File:Flag of Honduras (1949-2022).svg 0–1 File:Flag of Panama.svg Panama

Handball

World Men's Championship in Croatia
- Semifinals:
  - Template:Hb-rt 22–27 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 29–23 Template:Hb

Tennis

Australian Open in Melbourne, day 12:
(seeding in parentheses)
- Men's singles semifinals:
  - Rafael Nadal Template:Flagicon (1) beat Fernando Verdasco Template:Flagicon (14) 6–7 (4), 6–4, 7–6 (2), 6–7 (1), 6–4
- Women's doubles final:
  - Serena Williams Template:Flagicon/Venus Williams Template:Flagicon (10) beat Daniela Hantuchová Template:Flagicon/Ai Sugiyama Template:Flagicon (9) 6–3, 6–3
    - The Williams sisters win their third Australian Open and eighth Grand Slam title.

Winter sports

Alpine skiing

Women's World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany:
- Slalom: (1) Lindsey Vonn Template:Flagicon 1:47.17 (52.49 + 54.68) (2) Maria Riesch Template:Flagicon at 0.90 (53.05 + 55.02) (3) Marusa Ferk Template:Flagicon 1.16 (53.61 + 54.72)
  - World Cup overall standings (after 21 of 34 races): (1) Vonn 1014 pts (2) Riesch 890 (3) Kathrin Zettel Template:Flagicon & Anja Paerson Template:Flagicon 775

Cross-country skiing

World Cup in Rybinsk, Russia:
- Women 10 km freestyle: (1) Marianna Longa Template:Flagicon 25min 22.6sec (2) Arianna Follis Template:Flagicon at 0.4sec (3) Stephanie Böhler Template:Flagicon 1.6
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 20 of 33 races): (1) Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Template:Flagicon 1170 points (2) Petra Majdič Template:Flagicon 1054 (3) Virpi Kuitunen Template:Flagicon 1045
- Men 15 km freestyle: (1) Tobias Angerer Template:Flagicon 36:05.9 (2) Jean Marc Gaillard Template:Flagicon 0.7 (3) Sergei Dolidovich Template:Flagicon 1.0
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 20 of 33 races): (1) Dario Cologna Template:Flagicon 906 points (2) Petter Northug Template:Flagicon 698 (3) Axel Teichmann Template:Flagicon 649

Freestyle skiing

World Cup in Deer Valley, Park City, Utah, United States:
- Aerials men: (1) Ryan St. Onge Template:Flagicon 254.89 points (2) Zhongquin Liu Template:Flagicon 249.79 (3) Steve Omischl Template:Flagicon 247.92
- Aerials women: (1) Li Nina Template:Flagicon 194.67 points (2) Guo Xinxin Template:Flagicon 191.54 (3) Emily Cook Template:Flagicon 178.21

Speed skating

World Cup 7 in Erfurt, Germany:
- Men's 500 m: (1) Yu Fengtong Template:Flagicon 35.03 (2) Keiichiro Nagashima Template:Flagicon 35.04 (3) Tucker Fredricks Template:Flagicon 35.12
- Men's 5000 m: (1) Sven Kramer Template:Flagicon 6:16.02 (2) Håvard Bøkko Template:Flagicon 6:22.37 (3) Bob de Jong Template:Flagicon 6:23.45
- Women's 500 m: (1) Jenny Wolf Template:Flagicon 37.58 (2) Yu Jing Template:Flagicon 38.18 (3) Jin Peiyu Template:Flagicon 38.30
- Women's 1500 m: (1) Anni Friesinger Template:Flagicon 1:56.90 (2) Daniela Anschütz-Thoms Template:Flagicon 1:58.13 (3) Ireen Wüst Template:Flagicon 1:58.54

January 29, 2009 (Thursday)

Basketball

Euroleague Top 16, week 1:
- Group E:
  - AJ Milano Template:Flagicon 76–74 Template:Flagicon Olympiacos
- Group F:
  - Maccabi Tel Aviv Template:Flagicon 96–65 Template:Flagicon ALBA Berlin
- Group G:
  - Panathinaikos Template:Flagicon 81–63 Template:Flagicon Partizan Igokea
  - Lottomatica Roma Template:Flagicon 75–88 Template:Flagicon Unicaja Málaga
- Group H:
  - Fenerbahçe Ülker Template:Flagicon 48–66 Template:Flagicon CSKA Moscow

Cricket

Zimbabwe in Kenya:
- 2nd ODI in Mombasa:
  - File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe 351/7 (50 ov); File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya 200 (45.1 ov). Zimbabwe win by 151 runs and lead 5-match series 2–0.

Football (soccer)

UNCAF Nations Cup in Tegucigalpa, Honduras:
- Fifth place:
  - Nicaragua File:Flag of Nicaragua.svg 2–0 File:Flag of Guatemala.svg Guatemala
    - Nicaragua qualify to CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Handball

World Men's Championship in Croatia
- 5th/6th Placement Match:
  - Template:Hb-rt 25–28 Template:Hb
- 7th/8th Placement Match:
  - Template:Hb-rt 37–29 Template:Hb
- 9th/10th Placement Match:
  - Template:Hb-rt 27–34 Template:Hb
- 11th/12th Placement Match:
  - Template:Hb-rt 31–32 Template:Hb

Tennis

Australian Open in Melbourne, day 11:
(seeding in parentheses)
- Men's singles semifinals:
  - Roger Federer Template:Flagicon (2) bt Andy Roddick Template:Flagicon (7) 6–2, 7–5, 7–5
- Women's singles semifinals:
  - Serena Williams Template:Flagicon (2) bt Elena Dementieva Template:Flagicon (4) 6–3, 6–4
  - Dinara Safina Template:Flagicon (3) bt Vera Zvonareva Template:Flagicon (7) 6–3, 7–6 (4)

Winter sports

Freestyle skiing

World Cup in Deer Valley, Park City, Utah, United States:
- Moguls men: (1) Guilbaut Colas Template:Flagicon 24.62 (2) Alexandre Bilodeau Template:Flagicon 24.20 (3) Patrick Deneen Template:Flagicon 23.99
- Moguls women: (1) Hannah Kearney Template:Flagicon 22.91 (2) Michelle Roark Template:Flagicon 21.75 (3) Margarita Marbler Template:Flagicon 20.80

January 28, 2009 (Wednesday)

Basketball

Euroleague Top 16, week 1:
- Group E:
  - TAU Cerámica Template:Flagicon 99–77 Template:Flagicon Asseco Prokom Sopot
- Group F:
  - Real Madrid Template:Flagicon 85–83 Template:Flagicon Regal FC Barcelona
- Group H:
  - Cibona Zagreb Template:Flagicon 88–81 Template:Flagicon Montepaschi Siena

Cricket

India in Sri Lanka:
- 1st ODI at Dambulla:
  - File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka 246/7 (50 ov); File:Flag of India.svg India 247/4 (48.1 ov). India win by 6 wickets and lead 5-match series 1–0.

Ice hockey

Champions Hockey League Finals, second leg:
- ZSC Lions Template:Flagicon 5–0 Template:Flagicon Metallurg Magnitogorsk
  - Lions win 7–2 on aggregate

Tennis

Australian Open in Melbourne, day 10:
(seeding in parentheses)
- Men's singles quarterfinals:
  - Rafael Nadal Template:Flagicon (1) bt Gilles Simon Template:Flagicon (6) 6–2, 7–5, 7–5
  - Fernando Verdasco Template:Flagicon (14) bt Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Template:Flagicon (5) 7–6 (2), 3–6, 6–3, 6–2
- Women's singles quarterfinals:
  - Serena Williams Template:Flagicon (2) bt Svetlana Kuznetsova Template:Flagicon (8) 5–7, 7–5, 6–1
  - Elena Dementieva Template:Flagicon (4) bt Carla Suárez Navarro Template:Flagicon 6–2, 6–2

January 27, 2009 (Tuesday)

Cricket

Zimbabwe in Kenya:
- 1st ODI in Mombasa:
  - File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe 306/7 (50 ov); File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya 197 (46.2 ov). Zimbabwe win by 109 runs and lead 5-match series 1–0.

Football (soccer)

UNCAF Nations Cup in Tegucigalpa, Honduras:
- Group 2:
  - File:Flag of Panama.svg Panama 1–0 File:Flag of Guatemala.svg Guatemala
    - Panama advance to the semifinals and qualify to CONCACAF Gold Cup. Guatemala will play for 5th place.

Handball

World Men's Championship in Croatia:
(teams in bold advance to the semifinals)
- Group I:
  - Template:Hb-rt 28–27 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 26–27 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 19–22 Template:Hb
- Group II:
  - Template:Hb-rt 28–32 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 25–27 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 31–30 Template:Hb
- 13th/14th Placement Match:
  - Template:Hb-rt 28–24 Template:Hb
- 15th/16th Placement Match:
  - Template:Hb-rt 42–38 Template:Hb
- 17th/18th Placement Match:
  - Template:Hb-rt 23–29 Template:Hb
- 19th/20th Placement Match:
  - Template:Hb-rt 27–34 Template:Hb
- 21st/22nd Placement Match:
  - Template:Hb-rt 24–27 Template:Hb
- 23rd/24th Placement Match:
  - Template:Hb-rt 19–23 Template:Hb

Tennis

Australian Open in Melbourne, day 9:
(seeding in parentheses)
- Men's singles quarterfinals:
  - Roger Federer Template:Flagicon (2) bt Juan Martín del Potro Template:Flagicon (8) 6–3, 6–0, 6–0
  - Andy Roddick Template:Flagicon (7) bt Novak Djokovic Template:Flagicon (3) 6–7 (3), 6–4, 6–2, 2–1, retired
- Women's singles quarterfinals:
  - Dinara Safina Template:Flagicon (3) bt Jelena Dokić Template:Flagicon 6–4, 4–6, 6–4
  - Vera Zvonareva Template:Flagicon (7) bt Marion Bartoli Template:Flagicon (16) 6–3, 6–0

Winter sports

Alpine skiing

Men's World Cup in Schladming, Austria:
- Slalom: (1) Reinfried Herbst Template:Flagicon 1:37.32 ( 47.73 + 49.59) (2) Manfred Pranger Template:Flagicon 1:38.48 ( 48.31 + 50.17) (3) Ivica Kostelic Template:Flagicon 1:38.55 ( 48.83 + 49.72)
  - World Cup overall standings (after 25 of 37 races): (1) Kostelic 735 pts (2) Benjamin Raich Template:Flagicon 660 Jean-Baptiste Grange Template:Flagicon 656

January 26, 2009 (Monday)

Cricket

South Africa in Australia:
- 4th ODI in Adelaide:
  - File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia 222 (48 ov); File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa 223/2 (38.1 ov). South Africa wins by 8 wickets, and wins series, 3–1 with one match remaining.

Football (soccer)

UNCAF Nations Cup in Tegucigalpa, Honduras:
- Group 1:
  - Nicaragua File:Flag of Nicaragua.svg 1–1 File:Flag of Belize.svg Belize
  - Honduras File:Flag of Honduras (1949-2022).svg 2–0 File:Flag of El Salvador.svg El Salvador
    - Honduras and El Salvador advance to the semifinals and qualify to CONCACAF Gold Cup. Nicaragua will play in 5th place playoff.

Handball

World Men's Championship in Croatia:
- President's Cup–Group I:
  - Template:Hb-rt 24–27 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 30–23 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 32–40 Template:Hb
- President's Cup–Group II:
  - Template:Hb-rt 30–27 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 34–33 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 27–31 Template:Hb

Tennis

Australian Open in Melbourne, day 8:
(seeding in parentheses)
- Men's singles 4th round:
  - Rafael Nadal Template:Flagicon (1) bt Fernando González Template:Flagicon (13) 6–3, 6–2, 6–4
  - Fernando Verdasco Template:Flagicon (14) bt Andy Murray Template:Flagicon (4) 2–6, 6–1, 1–6, 6–3, 6–4
  - Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Template:Flagicon (5) bt James Blake Template:Flagicon (9) 6–4, 6–4, 7⁷-6³
  - Gilles Simon Template:Flagicon (6) bt Gaël Monfils Template:Flagicon (12) 6–4, 2–6, 6–1, retired
- Women's singles 4th round:
  - Serena Williams Template:Flagicon (2) bt Victoria Azarenka Template:Flagicon (13), 3–6, 4–2, retired
  - Elena Dementieva Template:Flagicon (4) bt Dominika Cibulková Template:Flagicon (18), 6–2, 6–2
  - Svetlana Kuznetsova Template:Flagicon (8) bt Zheng Jie Template:Flagicon (22) 4–1, retired
  - Carla Suárez Navarro Template:Flagicon bt Anabel Medina Garrigues Template:Flagicon (21) 6–3, 6–2

Winter sports

Alpine skiing

Women's World Cup in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy:
- Super giant slalom: (1) Jessica Lindell-Vikarby Template:Flagicon 1:25.13 (2) Andrea Fenninger Template:Flagicon 1:25.94 (2) Andrea Dettling Template:Flagicon 1:26.00
  - World Cup overall standings (after 20 of 34 races): (1) Lindsey Vonn Template:Flagicon 914 pts (2) Maria Riesch Template:Flagicon 810 (3) Anja Paerson Template:Flagicon & Kathrin Zettel Template:Flagicon 775

January 25, 2009 (Sunday)

Auto racing

Sports cars endurance racing:
- 24 Hours of Daytona in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States:
  - (1) David Donohue Template:Flagicon Antonio García Template:Flagicon Darren Law Template:Flagicon Buddy Rice Template:Flagicon
  - (2) Juan Pablo Montoya Template:Flagicon Scott Pruett Template:Flagicon Memo Rojas Template:Flagicon
  - (3) João Barbosa Template:Flagicon Terry Borcheller Template:Flagicon J. C. France Template:Flagicon Hurley Haywood Template:Flagicon
    - In the closest contested finish in the history of major international 24-hour endurance racing, the No. 58 Brumos Racing-run Riley–Porsche held off the No. 01 Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates-run Riley-Lexus by just 0.167 seconds after Script error: No such module "convert"..

Cycling

UCI ProTour:
- Tour Down Under:
  - Stage 6, Adelaide City Council Circuit, 90 km: (1) Francesco Chicchi Template:Flagicon Liquigas 1hr 42min 00, (2) Robbie McEwen Template:Flagicon same time, (3) Graeme Brown Template:Flagicon s.t.
    - Final standing: (1) Allan Davis Template:Flagicon 19hr 26min 59sec, (2) Stuart O'Grady Template:Flagicon at 25secs, (3) Jose Rojas Template:Flagicon 30 ...29. Lance Armstrong Template:Flagicon 49

Football (soccer)

UNCAF Nations Cup in Tegucigalpa, Honduras:
- Group 2:
  - File:Flag of Guatemala.svg Guatemala 1–3 File:Flag of Costa Rica.svg Costa Rica
    - Costa Rica advance to the semifinals.

Golf

PGA Tour:
- Bob Hope Classic in Palm Desert, California:
  - Winner: Pat Perez Template:Flagicon 327 (−33)
European Tour:
- Qatar Masters in Doha, Qatar:
  - Winner: Álvaro Quirós Template:Flagicon 269 (−19)
LPGA Tour:
- HSBC LPGA Brasil Cup in Brazil:
  - Winner: Catriona Matthew Template:Flagicon 138 (−6)

Handball

World Men's Championship in Croatia:
(teams in bold advance to the semifinals)
- Group I:
  - Template:Hb-rt 31–25 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 21–30 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 30–31 Template:Hb
- Group II:
  - Template:Hb-rt 32–24 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 25–24 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 23–35 Template:Hb
- President's Cup–Group I:
  - Template:Hb-rt 31–19 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 27–34 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 27–17 Template:Hb
- President's Cup–Group II:
  - Template:Hb-rt 31–30 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 15–34 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 28–29 Template:Hb

Ice hockey

NHL All-Star Game in Montreal, Canada:
- East 12, West 11 (OT)

Rugby union

Heineken Cup Pool stage, week 6:
(teams in bold advance to the quarterfinals)
- Pool 1:
  - Montauban Template:Flagicon 13–39 (Ireland) Munster
    - Munster, assured of a quarterfinal berth last weekend, secure a home quarterfinal.
- Pool 2:
  - Leinster (Ireland) 12–3 Template:Flagicon Edinburgh
    - Leinster's win and Wasps' loss send the Irish through as pool winners.
  - Castres Template:Flagicon 21–15 Template:Flagicon London Wasps
    - A Castres try four minutes from time eliminates Wasps from European competition, which also assure Template:Flagicon Ospreys a quarterfinal spot.
- Pool 5:
  - Bath Template:Flagicon 3–3 Template:Flagicon Toulouse
    - A dour draw played in a downpour at The Rec sees both teams go through to the quarterfinals.
  - Glasgow Warriors Template:Flagicon 13–10 Template:Flagicon Newport Gwent Dragons
- Quarterfinal matchups (to be played weekend of 10–12 April):
  - (1) Cardiff Blues Template:Flagicon – Template:Flagicon Toulouse (8)
  - (2) Munster (Ireland) – Template:Flagicon Ospreys (7)
  - (3) Harlequins Template:Flagicon – (Ireland) Leinster (6)
  - (4) Leicester Tigers Template:Flagicon – Template:Flagicon Bath (5)

Tennis

Australian Open in Melbourne, day 7:
(seeding in parentheses)
- Men's singles 4th round:
  - Roger Federer Template:Flagicon (2) bt Tomáš Berdych Template:Flagicon (20) 4–6, 6–7 (4), 6–4, 6–4 6–2
  - Novak Djokovic Template:Flagicon (3) bt Marcos Baghdatis Template:Flagicon 6–1, 7–6 (1), 6–7 (5), 6–2
  - Andy Roddick Template:Flagicon (7) bt Tommy Robredo Template:Flagicon (21) 7–5, 6–1, 6–3
  - Juan Martín del Potro Template:Flagicon (8) bt Marin Čilić Template:Flagicon (19) 5–7, 6–4, 6–4, 6–2
- Women's singles 4th round:
  - Marion Bartoli Template:Flagicon (16) bt Jelena Janković Template:Flagicon (1) 6–1 6–4
  - Dinara Safina Template:Flagicon (3) bt Alizé Cornet Template:Flagicon (15) 6–2, 2–6, 7–5
  - Vera Zvonareva Template:Flagicon (7) bt Nadia Petrova Template:Flagicon (10) 7–5, 6–4
  - Jelena Dokić Template:Flagicon bt Alisa Kleybanova Template:Flagicon (29) 7–5, 5–7, 8–6

Winter sports

Alpine skiing

Men's World Cup in Kitzbühel, Austria:
- Slalom: (1) Julien Lizeroux Template:Flagicon 1min 33.83sec (46.88 + 46.95) (2) Jean-Baptiste Grange Template:Flagicon 1:33.91 (45.88 + 48.03) (3) Patrick Thaler Template:Flagicon 1:34.50 (47.20 + 47.30)
- Combined: (1) Silvan Zurbriggen Template:Flagicon 3min 33.38sec (2) Ivica Kostelic Template:Flagicon 3:33.87 (3) Natko Zrnčić-Dim Template:Flagicon 3:36.36
  - World Cup overall standings (after 24 of 38 races): (1) Kostelic 675 pts (2) Benjamin Raich Template:Flagicon 660 (3) Grange 656
Women's World Cup in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy:
- Giant slalom: (1) Kathrin Zettel Template:Flagicon 2:47.10 (1:19.47 + 1:27.63) (2) Michaela Kirchgasser Template:Flagicon 2:48.49 (1:20.18 + 1:28.31) (3) Elisabeth Görgl Template:Flagicon 2:48.81 (1:19.09 + 1:29.72)
  - World Cup overall standings (after 19 races): (1) Lindsey Vonn Template:Flagicon 882 pts (2) Maria Riesch Template:Flagicon 810 (3) Anja Pärson Template:Flagicon 775

Bandy

World Championship in Västerås, Sweden:

Biathlon

World Cup 6 in Antholz, Italy:
- Women's 12.5 km Mass Start: (1) Ekaterina Iourieva Template:Flagicon 36min 37.8sec (0) (2) Helena Jonsson Template:Flagicon at 13.4sec (1) (3) Kaisa Maekaerainen (FIN) 27.8 (2) ... 7. Magdalena Neuner Template:Flagicon 46.0 (5)
  - Neuner had a comfortable lead going to the last shoot, but she missed all 5 targets and finished in seventh place.
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 14 of 26 races): (1) Iourieva 567 points (2) Kati Wilhelm Template:Flagicon 520 (3) Neuner 502
- Men's 15 km Mass Start: (1) Christoph Stephan Template:Flagicon 37:19.9 (1 penalty) (2) Dominik Landertinger Template:Flagicon at 0.2 (3) (3) Ivan Tcherezov Template:Flagicon 2.8 (2)
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 14 of 26 races): (1) Emil Hegle Svendsen Template:Flagicon 568 points (2) Tomasz Sikora Template:Flagicon 554 (3) Carl-Johan Bergman Template:Flagicon 456

Cross-country skiing

World Cup in Otepää, Estonia:
- Men's classic sprint: (1) Ola Vigen Hattestad Template:Flagicon (2) Øystein Pettersen Template:Flagicon (3) Boerre Naess Template:Flagicon
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 19 of 33 races): (1) Dario Cologna Template:Flagicon 880 points (2) Petter Northug Template:Flagicon 698 (3) Axel Teichmann Template:Flagicon 631
- Women's classic sprint: (1) Petra Majdič Template:Flagicon (2) Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Template:Flagicon (3) Virpi Kuitunen Template:Flagicon
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 19 of 33 races): (1) Saarinen 1138 points (2) Majdic 1043 (3) Kuitunen 1027

Figure skating

United States Championships in Cleveland, Ohio:
- Men: (1) Jeremy Abbott 241.89pts (2) Brandon Mroz 229.70 (3) Evan Lysacek 229.10

Freestyle skiing

World Cup in Mont Gabriel, Canada:
- Aerials men: (1) Steve Omischl Template:Flagicon 242.45 pts (2) Timofei Slivets Template:Flagicon 240.95 (3) Thomas Lambert Template:Flagicon 233.95
- Aerials women: (1) Lydia Lassila Template:Flagicon 185.94 pts (2) Cheng Shuang Template:Flagicon 181.18 (3) Zhao Shanshan Template:Flagicon 170.41

Luge

World Cup 7 in Altenberg, Germany:
- Men: (1) Armin Zöggeler Template:Flagicon (2) Felix Loch Template:Flagicon (3) David Möller Template:Flagicon
  - World Cup standings (after 7 of 9 races): (1) Zöggeler 601 points (2) Möller 525 (3) Jan Eichhorn Template:Flagicon 430

Ski jumping

World Cup in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada:
- 140m hill: (1) Gregor Schlierenzauer Template:Flagicon 293.2pts (137.5/149.0 m), (2) Thomas Morgenstern Template:Flagicon 291.7 (140.5/141.0), (3) Ville Larinto Template:Flagicon 272.3 (137.0/149.0)
  - Schlierenzauer scores third win in a row and fifth in six events.
  - World Cup standings (17 of 28 rounds): (1) Schlierenzauer 1320pts, (2) Simon Ammann Template:Flagicon 1212, (3) Wolfgang Loitzl Template:Flagicon 1106

Speed skating

World Cup 6 in Kolomna, Russia:
- Men:
  - 100 m: (1) Yuya Oikawa Template:Flagicon 09.61 (2) Joji Kato Template:Flagicon 09.66 (3) Zhang Zhongqi Template:Flagicon 09.81
  - 500 m: (1) Tucker Fredricks Template:Flagicon 34.81 (2) Keiichiro Nagashima Template:Flagicon 34.87 (3) Yu Fengtong Template:Flagicon 34.89
  - 1000 m: (1) Denny Morrison Template:Flagicon 1:08.53 (2) Stefan Groothuis Template:Flagicon 1:08.67 (3) Mark Tuitert Template:Flagicon 1:09.09
- Women:
  - 100 m: (1) Jenny Wolf Template:Flagicon 10.33 (2) Judith Hesse Template:Flagicon 10.56 (3) Xing Aihua Template:Flagicon 10.59
  - 500 m: (1) Jenny Wolf Template:Flagicon 37.67 (2) Jin Peiyu Template:Flagicon 38.01 (3) Yu Jing Template:Flagicon 38.13
  - 1000 m: (1) Margot Boer Template:Flagicon 1:15.79 (2) Anni Friesinger Template:Flagicon 1:15.81 (3) Christine Nesbitt Template:Flagicon 1:15.85

January 24, 2009 (Saturday)

College Football bowl game

2009 Senior Bowl, Mobile, Alabama
- South 35, North 18
  - West Virginia's Pat White led the all-star South squad to a 35–18 victory in the annual game.

Cricket

Sri Lanka in Pakistan:
- 3rd ODI in Lahore:
  - File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka 309/5 (50 ov); File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan 75 (22.5 ov). Sri Lanka win by 234 runs and win the 3-match series 2–1.
    - Pakistan's 75 is the lowest ever score in an ODI at Gaddafi Stadium.

Cycling

UCI ProTour:
- Tour Down Under:
  - Stage 5, Snapper Point – Willunga, 148 km: (1) Allan Davis Template:Flagicon 3hr 28min 33sec, (2) Jose Rojas Template:Flagicon same time, (3) Martin Elmiger Template:Flagicon s.t.
    - Overall standings: (1) Davis 17hr 44min 59sec, (2) Stuart O'Grady Template:Flagicon at 25secs, (3) Rojas 30 ... 29. Lance Armstrong Template:Flagicon 49

Football (soccer)

UNCAF Nations Cup in Tegucigalpa, Honduras:
- Group 1:
  - Belize File:Flag of Belize.svg 1–4 File:Flag of El Salvador.svg El Salvador
  - Honduras File:Flag of Honduras (1949-2022).svg 4–1 File:Flag of Nicaragua.svg Nicaragua
    - Honduras advance to the semifinals.

Handball

World Men's Championship in Croatia:
- Group I:
  - Template:Hb-rt 23–20 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 27–20 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 28–21 Template:Hb
- Group II:
  - Template:Hb-rt 27–29 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 32–28 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 35–35 Template:Hb
- President's Cup–Group I:
  - Template:Hb-rt 26–25 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 10–42 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 39–28 Template:Hb
- President's Cup–Group II:
  - Template:Hb-rt 28–21 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 28–22 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 25–22 Template:Hb

Rugby union

Heineken Cup Pool stage, week 6:
(teams in bold advance to the quarterfinals)
- Pool 1:
  - Sale Sharks Template:Flagicon 26–17 Template:Flagicon Clermont
- Pool 3:
  - Ospreys Template:Flagicon 15–9 Template:Flagicon Leicester Tigers
    - Leicester's bonus-point loss is enough to put the Tigers top of the group. Ospreys would qualify as one of the two best runners-up after the next day's results.
  - Benetton Treviso Template:Flagicon 16–48 Template:Flagicon Perpignan
- Pool 4:
  - Harlequins Template:Flagicon 29–24 Template:Flagicon Scarlets
    - Quins' bonus-point win improves their chances of a home quarterfinal.
  - Stade Français Template:Flagicon 24–19 (Ireland) Ulster

Tennis

Australian Open in Melbourne, day 6:
(top 10 seeds results; seeding in parentheses)
- Men's singles 3rd round:
  - Rafael Nadal Template:Flagicon (1) bt Tommy Haas Template:Flagicon 6–4, 6–2, 6–2
  - Andy Murray Template:Flagicon (4) bt Jürgen Melzer Template:Flagicon (31) 7–5, 6–0, 6–3
  - Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Template:Flagicon (5) bt Dudi Sela Template:Flagicon 6–4, 6–2, 1–6, 6–1
  - Gilles Simon Template:Flagicon (6) bt Mario Ančić Template:Flagicon 7–6 (2), 6–4, 6–2
  - James Blake Template:Flagicon (9) bt Igor Andreev Template:Flagicon (18) 6–3, 6–2, 3–6, 6–1
    - The top 9 seeds are all safely through to the fourth round.
- Women's singles 3rd round:
  - Serena Williams Template:Flagicon (2) bt Peng Shuai Template:Flagicon 6–1, 6–4
  - Elena Dementieva Template:Flagicon (4) bt Samantha Stosur Template:Flagicon 7–6 (6), 6–4
  - Svetlana Kuznetsova Template:Flagicon (8) bt Alona Bondarenko Template:Flagicon (31) 7–6 (7), 6–4

Winter sports

Alpine skiing

Women's World Cup in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy:
- Downhill: (1) Dominique Gisin Template:Flagicon 1:16.98 (2) Lindsey Vonn Template:Flagicon 1:17.13 (3) Anja Pärson Template:Flagicon 1:17.15
  - Gisin's win follows her first World Cup victory at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee last week.
  - World Cup overall standings (after 18 races): (1) Vonn 856 pts (2) Maria Riesch Template:Flagicon 810 (3) Paerson 762
Men's World Cup in Kitzbühel, Austria:
- Downhill: (1) Didier Défago Template:Flagicon 1:56.09 (2) Michael Walchhofer Template:Flagicon 1:56.26 (3) Klaus Kröll Template:Flagicon 1:56.38
  - Défago, who didn't win a World Cup downhill until last week, wins two prestigious races on the Lauberhorn and Hahnenkamm in succession.
  - World Cup overall standings (after 22 of 37 races): (1) Benjamin Raich Template:Flagicon 660 pts (2) Aksel Lund Svindal Template:Flagicon 610 (3) Defago 595

Bandy

World Championship in Västerås, Sweden:
- Semifinals:
  - File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden 8–3 File:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan
  - File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia 10–4 File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland

Biathlon

World Cup 6 in Antholz, Italy:
- Women's 10 km Pursuit: (1) Anna Boulygina Template:Flagicon 32min 49.8sec (2 penalties) (2) Kaisa Maekaerainen Template:Flagicon at 2.3 (1) (3) Darya Domracheva Template:Flagicon 2.3 (2)
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 13 of 26 events): (1) Ekaterina Iourieva Template:Flagicon 507 points (2) Svetlana Sleptsova Template:Flagicon 481 (3) Kati Wilhelm Template:Flagicon 477
- Men's 12.5 km Pursuit: (1) Björn Ferry Template:Flagicon 33:19.4 (1) (2) Simon Eder Template:Flagicon at 17.6sec (0) (3) Emil Hegle Svendsen Template:Flagicon 24.7 (3)
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 13 of 26 events): (1) Svendsen 568 points (2) Tomasz Sikora Template:Flagicon 518 (3) Carl-Johan Bergman Template:Flagicon 436

Cross-country skiing

World Cup in Otepää, Estonia:
- Women's 10 km classic: (1) Justyna Kowalczyk Template:Flagicon 26:25.6 (2) Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Template:Flagicon 26:51.8 (3) Virpi Kuitunen Template:Flagicon 27:12.2
  - World Cup overall standings: (1) Saarinen 1058 points (2) Kuitunen 967 (3) Kowalczyk 954
- Men's 15 km classic: (1) Lukáš Bauer Template:Flagicon 35min 43.5sec (2) Johan Olsson Template:Flagicon at 1.5 (3) Vincent Vittoz Template:Flagicon 9.3
  - World Cup overall standings (after 18 of 33 events): (1) Dario Cologna Template:Flagicon 880 points (2) Petter Northug Template:Flagicon 698 (3) Axel Teichmann Template:Flagicon 631

Figure skating

European Championships in Helsinki, Finland:
- Ladies: (1) Laura Lepistö Template:Flagicon 167.32 (1, 2) (2) Carolina Kostner Template:Flagicon 165.42 (3, 1) (3) Susanna Pöykiö Template:Flagicon 156.31 (2, 3)
United States Championships in Cleveland, Ohio:
- Pairs: (1) Keauna McLaughlin/Rockne Brubaker 178.76 (2) Caydee Denney/Jeremy Barrett 176.27 (3) Rena Inoue/John Baldwin 171.08
- Ice dance: (1) Meryl Davis/Charlie White 201.68 (2) Emily Samuelson/Evan Bates 181.64 (3) Kimberly Navarro/Brent Bommentre 176.30
- Ladies: (1) Alissa Czisny 178.06 pts (2) Rachael Flatt 173.78 (3) Caroline Zhang 171.08

Freestyle skiing

World Cup in Mont Gabriel, Canada:
- Moguls men: (1) Vincent Marquiz Template:Flagicon 25.77 (2) Alexandre Bilodeau Template:Flagicon 25.50 (3) Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau Template:Flagicon 25.39
- Moguls women: (1) Aiko Uemura Template:Flagicon 25.53 (2) Jennifer Heil Template:Flagicon 25.51 (3) Hannah Kearney Template:Flagicon 24.89

Luge

World Cup 7 in Altenberg, Germany:
- Doubles: (1) Christian Oberstolz/Patrick Gruber Template:Flagicon (2) Patric Leitner/Alexander Resch Template:Flagicon (3) Andreas Linger/Wolfgang Linger Template:Flagicon
  - World Cup standings (after 7 of 9 races): (1) Oberstolz/Gruber 580 pts (2) Leitner/Resch 484 (3) Linger/Linger 470
- Women's: (1) Natalie Geisenberger Template:Flagicon (2) Tatjana Hüfner Template:Flagicon (3) Anke Wischnewski Template:Flagicon
  - World Cup standings (after 7 of 9 races): (1) Hüfner 670 pts (2) Geisenberger 600 (3) Wischnewski 462

Ski jumping

World Cup in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada:
- 140m hill: (1) Gregor Schlierenzauer Template:Flagicon 289.2 points (142.0/139.5m) (2) Wolfgang Loitzl Template:Flagicon 274.1 (136.5/135.5) (3) Matti Hautamaeki Template:Flagicon 270.6 (136.5/135.5)
  - Schlierenzauer set a hill record with his first jump of 142m. His 4th win in 5 events lift him to the top of the World Cup standings.
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 16 of 28 events): (1) Schlierenzauer 1,220 points (2) Simon Ammann Template:Flagicon 1,172 (3) Loitzl 1,061

Snowboarding

World Championship in Gangwon-do, South Korea:
- Big air men: (1) Markku Koski Template:Flagicon 55.6 points (2) Seppe Smits Template:Flagicon 53.0 (3) Stefan Gimpl Template:Flagicon 51.0

Speed skating

World Cup 6 in Kolomna, Russia:
- Men:
  - 500 m: (1) Keiichiro Nagashima Template:Flagicon 34.85 (2) Yu Fengtong Template:Flagicon 34.89 (3) Yuya Oikawa Template:Flagicon 34.96
  - 1000 m: (1) Denny Morrison Template:Flagicon 1:08.71 (2) Stefan Groothuis Template:Flagicon 1:08.97 (3) Yevgeny Lalenkov Template:Flagicon 1:09.02
- Women:
  - 500 m: (1) Jenny Wolf Template:Flagicon 37.51 (2) Annette Gerritsen Template:Flagicon 38.02 (3) Yu Jing Template:Flagicon 38.17
  - 1000 m: (1) Margot Boer Template:Flagicon 1:15.84 (2) Yu Jing Template:Flagicon 1:16.04 (3) Christine Nesbitt Template:Flagicon 1:16.26

January 23, 2009 (Friday)

American football

NFL News:
- Herman Edwards was fired as the head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs.

Cricket

South Africa in Australia:
- 3rd ODI in Sydney:
  - File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia 269 (49.2 ov); File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa 270/7 (46.3 ov). South Africa win by 3 wickets, lead 5-match series 2–1.
Zimbabwe in Bangladesh:
- 3rd ODI in Dhaka:
  - File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe 119/9 (37 ov); File:Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh 124/4 (32.3 ov). Bangladesh win by 6 wickets, win 3-match series 2–1.

Cycling

UCI ProTour:
- Tour Down Under:
  - Stage 4, Burnside Village – Angaston, 143 km: (1) Allan Davis Template:Flagicon Quick Step 3hr 29min 35sec, (2) Graeme Brown Template:Flagicon same time, (3) Jose Rojas Template:Flagicon s.t.
    - Overall standings: (1) Davis 14hr 16min 36sec, (2) Brown at 4secs, (3) Stuart O'Grady Template:Flagicon 15

Football (soccer)

UNCAF Nations Cup in Tegucigalpa, Honduras:
- Group 2:
  - File:Flag of Costa Rica.svg Costa Rica 3–0 File:Flag of Panama.svg Panama

Rugby union

Heineken Cup Pool stage, week 6:
(teams in bold advance to the quarterfinals)
- Pool 6:
  - Cardiff Blues Template:Flagicon 62–20 Template:Flagicon Calvisano
    - The Blues win secures them the top seed in the knockout phase.
  - Biarritz Template:Flagicon 24–10 Template:Flagicon Gloucester
    - Gloucester's defeat by more than seven points and Biarritz's failure to score four tries mean that both teams are eliminated.

Tennis

Australian Open in Melbourne, day 5:
(top 10 seeds results; seeding in parentheses)
- Men's singles 3rd round:
  - Roger Federer Template:Flagicon (2) bt Marat Safin Template:Flagicon (26) 6–3, 6–2, 7–6 (5)
  - Novak Djokovic Template:Flagicon (3) bt Amer Delić Template:Flagicon 6–2, 4–6, 6–3, 7–6 (4)
    - Following this match, outside the Rod Laver Arena, Bosnian and Serb fans fought one another, mostly by throwing chairs. (Fox News (USA))
  - Andy Roddick Template:Flagicon (7) bt Fabrice Santoro Template:Flagicon 6–3, 6–4, 6–2
  - Juan Martín del Potro Template:Flagicon (8) bt Gilles Müller Template:Flagicon 6–7 (5), 7–5, 6–3, 7–5
- Women's singles 3rd round:
  - Jelena Janković Template:Flagicon (1) bt Ai Sugiyama Template:Flagicon (26) 6–4, 6–4
  - Dinara Safina Template:Flagicon (3) bt Kaia Kanepi Template:Flagicon (25) 6–2, 6–2
  - Alisa Kleybanova Template:Flagicon (29) bt Ana Ivanovic Template:Flagicon (5) 7–5, 6–7 (5), 6–2
  - Vera Zvonareva Template:Flagicon (7) bt Sara Errani Template:Flagicon 6–4, 6–1
  - Nadia Petrova Template:Flagicon (10) bt Galina Voskoboeva Template:Flagicon 6–1 retired

Winter sports

Alpine skiing

Men's World Cup in Kitzbühel, Austria:
- Super giant slalom: (1) Klaus Kröll Template:Flagicon 1:12.78 (2) Aksel Lund Svindal Template:Flagicon 1:13.00 (3) Ambrosi Hoffmann Template:Flagicon 1:13.17
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 21 of 37 events): (1) Benjamin Raich Template:Flagicon 638 pts (2) Svindal 598 (3) Jean-Baptiste Grange Template:Flagicon 576

Biathlon

World Cup 6 in Antholz, Italy:
- Men's 10 km Sprint: (1) Emil Hegle Svendsen Template:Flagicon 24:52.5 (0) (2) Björn Ferry Template:Flagicon at 3.6 (0) (3) Tomasz Sikora Template:Flagicon 6.7 (0)
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 12 of 26 events): (1) Svendsen 520 points (2) Tomasz Sikora Template:Flagicon 475 (3) Carl-Johan Bergman Template:Flagicon 413

Figure skating

European Championships in Helsinki, Finland:
- Ice dance final results (free dance in brackets): (1) Jana Khoklova / Sergei Novitski Template:Flagicon 196.91 (97.31) (2) Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali Template:Flagicon 186.17 (91.11) (3) Sinead Kerr / John Kerr Template:Flagicon 185.20 (92.60)
- Ladies' short program: (1) Laura Lepistö Template:Flagicon 56.62 points (2) Susanna Pöykiö Template:Flagicon 56.06 (3) Carolina Kostner Template:Flagicon 51.36
United States Championships in Cleveland, Ohio:
- Men's short program: (1) Jeremy Abbott 86.40pts (2) Evan Lysacek 83.59 (3) Parker Pennington 76.17

Snowboarding

World Championship in Gangwon-do, South Korea:
- Half pipe men: (1) Ryoh Aono Template:Flagicon 47.3 points, (2) Jeff Batchelor Template:Flagicon 44.4, (3) Mathieu Crepel Template:Flagicon 43.3
- Half pipe women: (1) Jiayu Liu Template:Flagicon 43.5 points, (2) Holly Crawford Template:Flagicon 39.6, (3) Paulina Ligocki Template:Flagicon 38.5

January 22, 2009 (Thursday)

Baseball

Major League Baseball news:
- Tribune Company has sold the Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field and twenty percent interest in Comcast SportsNet Chicago to the Ricketts family for US $900 million, pending the approval of Major League Baseball.

Basketball

NBA News:
- Marc Iavaroni was sacked as the coach of the Memphis Grizzlies, and replaced on an interim basis by Johnny Davis.

Cycling

UCI ProTour:
- Tour Down Under:
  - Stage 3, Unley – Victor Harbor, 136 km: (1) Graeme Brown Template:Flagicon Rabobank 3h 15' 35" (2) Allan Davis Template:Flagicon Quick Step s.t. (3) Stuart O'Grady Template:Flagicon Team Saxo Bank s.t.

Football (soccer)

UNCAF Nations Cup in Tegucigalpa, Honduras:
- Group 1:
  - El Salvador File:Flag of El Salvador.svg 1–1 File:Flag of Nicaragua.svg Nicaragua
  - Honduras File:Flag of Honduras (1949-2022).svg 2–1 File:Flag of Belize.svg Belize

Handball

World Men's Championship in Croatia:
(teams in bold advance to the top 12 stage)
- Group A:
  - Template:Hb-rt 28–23 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 27–22 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 36–16 Template:Hb
- Group B:
  - Template:Hb-rt 23–24 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 30–26 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 23–26 Template:Hb
- Group C:
  - Template:Hb-rt 36–30 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 30–23 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 36–25 Template:Hb
- Group D:
  - Template:Hb-rt 25–22 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 32–28 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 38–29 Template:Hb

Tennis

Australian Open in Melbourne, day 4:
(top 10 seeds results; seeding in parentheses)
- Men's singles 2nd round:
  - Rafael Nadal Template:Flagicon (1) bt Roko Karanušić Template:Flagicon 6–2, 6–3, 6–2
  - Andy Murray Template:Flagicon (4) bt Marcel Granollers Template:Flagicon 6–4, 6–2, 6–2
  - Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Template:Flagicon (5) bt Ivan Ljubičić Template:Flagicon 6–7 (4), 7–6 (8), 7–6 (7), 6–2
  - Gilles Simon Template:Flagicon (6) bt Chris Guccione Template:Flagicon 6–7 (5), 6–4, 6–1, 6–2
  - James Blake Template:Flagicon (9) bt Sébastien de Chaunac Template:Flagicon 6–3, 6–2, 6–3
- Women's singles 2nd round:
  - Serena Williams Template:Flagicon (2) bt Gisela Dulko Template:Flagicon 6–3, 7–5
  - Elena Dementieva Template:Flagicon (4) bt Iveta Benešová Template:Flagicon 6–4, 6–1
  - Carla Suárez Navarro Template:Flagicon bt Venus Williams Template:Flagicon (6) 2–6, 6–3, 7–5
  - Svetlana Kuznetsova Template:Flagicon (8) bt Tatjana Malek Template:Flagicon 6–2, 6–2

Winter sports

Bandy

World Championship in Västerås, Sweden:
(teams in bold advance to the semifinals)
- Group A:
  - File:Flag of Belarus.svg Belarus 3–13 File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
  - File:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan 7–2 File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway
  - File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia 15–3 File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland

Biathlon

World Cup 6 in Antholz, Italy:
- Women's 7.5 km Sprint: (1) Tora Berger Template:Flagicon 21' 25.5" (2) Darya Domracheva Template:Flagicon 21' 33.6" (3) Kati Wilhelm Template:Flagicon 21' 46.2"
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 12 of 26 events): (1) Svetlana Sleptsova Template:Flagicon 481 points, (2) Ekaterina Iourieva Template:Flagicon 473, (3) Wilhelm 437

Figure skating

European Championships in Helsinki, Finland:
- Men: (1) Brian Joubert Template:Flagicon 232.01 points (1, 2) (2) Samuel Contestini Template:Flagicon 220.92 (3, 3) (3) Kevin van der Perren Template:Flagicon 219.36 (4, 4)
- Ice dance (after original dance): (1) Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski Template:Flagicon 99.60 points (1, 1) (2) Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali Template:Flagicon 95.06 (2, 2) (3) Sinead Kerr / John Kerr Template:Flagicon 92.60 (3, 3)
United States Championships in Cleveland, Ohio:
- Ladies short programme: (1) Alissa Czisny 65.75 pts (2) Rachael Flatt 60.19 (3) Caroline Zhang 58.91
- Pairs short programme: (1) Caydee Denney/Jeremy Barrett 61.51 pts (2) Keauna McLaughlin/Rockne Brubaker 61.12 (3) Rena Inoue/John Baldwin 61.11
- Ice dance (after original dance): (1) Meryl Davis/Charlie White 101.86 (2) Emily Samuelson/Evan Bates 93.25 (3) Kimberly Navarro/Brent Bommentre 89.52

January 21, 2009 (Wednesday)

Basketball

NCAA Men's Basketball:
- The New Jersey Institute of Technology ended the longest losing streak in Division I Men's Basketball at 57 games by defeating Bryant College, 61–51. The school last won a game against Longwood University on February 19, 2007.

Cricket

Zimbabwe in Bangladesh:
- 2nd ODI in Dhaka:
  - File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe 160/9 (50 ov); File:Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh 164/4 (44.5 ov). Bangladesh win by 6 wickets, 3-match series tied 1–1.
Sri Lanka in Pakistan:
- 2nd ODI in Karachi:
  - File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka 290/8 (50 ov); File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan 161 (34.5 ov). Sri Lanka win by 129 runs, 3-match series tied 1–1.

Cycling

UCI ProTour:
- Tour Down Under:
  - Stage 2, Hahndorf – Stirling, 145 km: (1) Allan Davis Template:Flagicon Quick Step 3h 46' 25" (2) Graeme Brown Template:Flagicon Rabobank s.t. (3) Martin Elmiger Template:Flagicon AG2R La Mondiale +2"

Handball

World Men's Championship in Croatia:
(teams in bold advance to the Top 12 stage)
- Group A:
  - Template:Hb-rt 26–35 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 31–20 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 20–40 Template:Hb
- Group B:
  - Template:Hb-rt 22–32 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 30–19 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 26–31 Template:Hb
- Group C:
  - Template:Hb-rt 23–33 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 31–27 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 28–29 Template:Hb
- Group D:
  - Template:Hb-rt 17–26 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 26–27 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 24–26 Template:Hb

Ice hockey

Champions Hockey League Finals, first leg:
- Metallurg Magnitogorsk Template:Flagicon 2–2 Template:Flagicon ZSC Lions

Tennis

Australian Open in Melbourne, day 3:
(top 10 seeds results; seeding in parentheses)
- Men's singles 2nd round:
  - Roger Federer Template:Flagicon (2) def. Evgeny Korolev Template:Flagicon 6–2, 6–3, 6–1
  - Novak Djokovic Template:Flagicon (3) def. Jérémy Chardy Template:Flagicon 7–5, 6–1, 6–3
  - Andy Roddick Template:Flagicon (7) def. Xavier Malisse Template:Flagicon 4–6, 6–2, 7–6, 6–2
  - Juan Martín del Potro Template:Flagicon (8) def. Florian Mayer Template:Flagicon 6–1, 7–5, 6–2
  - Lu Yen-hsun Template:Flagicon def. David Nalbandian Template:Flagicon (10) 6–4, 5–7, 4–6, 6–4, 6–2
- Women's singles 2nd round:
  - Jelena Janković Template:Flagicon (1) def. Kirsten Flipkens Template:Flagicon 6–4, 7–5
  - Dinara Safina Template:Flagicon (3) def. Ekaterina Makarova Template:Flagicon 6–7 (3), 6–3, 6–0
  - Ana Ivanovic Template:Flagicon (5) def. Alberta Brianti Template:Flagicon 6–3, 6–2
  - Vera Zvonareva Template:Flagicon (7) def. Edina Gallovits Template:Flagicon 6–0, 6–0
  - Nadia Petrova Template:Flagicon (10) def. Sania Mirza Template:Flagicon 6–3, 6–2

Winter sports

Bandy

World Championship in Västerås, Sweden:
- Group A:

Figure skating

European Championships in Helsinki, Finland:
- Pairs: (1) Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy Template:Flagicon 199.07 points (2 SP, 1 FS) (2) Yuko Kawaguchi / Alexander Smirnov Template:Flagicon 182.77 (3, 2) (3) Maria Mukhortova / Maxim Trankov Template:Flagicon 182.07 (1, 4)
- Men's short program: (1) Brian Joubert Template:Flagicon 86.90 points (2) Tomáš Verner Template:Flagicon 81.45 (3) Samuel Contesti Template:Flagicon 75.95
United States Championships in Cleveland, Ohio:
- Compulsory Dance: (1) Meryl Davis/Charlie White 39.93 pts (2) Emily Samuelson/Evan Bates 36.28 (3) Kimberly Navarro/Brent Bommentre 35.22

Snowboarding

World Championship in Gangwon-do, South Korea:
- Parallel slalom men: (1) Benjamin Karl Template:Flagicon, (2) Sylvain Dufour Template:Flagicon, (3) Patrick Bussler Template:Flagicon
- Parallel slalom women: (1) Fraenzi Maegert-Kohli Template:Flagicon, (2) Doris Guenther Template:Flagicon, (3) Ekaterina Tudegesheva Template:Flagicon

January 20, 2009 (Tuesday)

Cricket

Sri Lanka in Pakistan:
- 1st ODI in Karachi:
  - File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka 219 (45.2 ov); File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan 220/2 (45.5 ov). Pakistan win by 8 wickets and lead 3-match series 1–0.

Cycling

UCI ProTour:
- Tour Down Under:
  - Stage 1, Norwood – Mawson Lakes, 140 km: (1) André Greipel Template:Flagicon Team Columbia 3h 45' 27" (2) Baden Cooke Template:Flagicon UniSA s.t. (3) Stuart O'Grady Template:Flagicon Team Saxo Bank s.t.

Tennis

Australian Open in Melbourne, day 2:
(top 10 seeds results; seeding in parentheses)
- Men's singles 1st round:
  - Rafael Nadal Template:Flagicon (1) def. Christophe Rochus Template:Flagicon 6–0, 6–2, 6–2
  - Andy Murray Template:Flagicon (4) def. Andrei Pavel Template:Flagicon 6–2, 3–1 (ret.)
  - Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Template:Flagicon (5) def. Juan Mónaco Template:Flagicon 6–4, 6–4, 6–0
  - Gilles Simon Template:Flagicon (6) def. Pablo Andújar Template:Flagicon 6–4, 6–1, 6–1
  - James Blake Template:Flagicon (9) def. Frank Dancevic Template:Flagicon 6–4, 6–3, 7–5
- Women's singles 1st round:
  - Serena Williams Template:Flagicon (2) def. Meng Yuan Template:Flagicon 6–3, 6–2
  - Elena Dementieva Template:Flagicon (4) def. Kristina Barrois Template:Flagicon 7–6, 2–6, 6–1
  - Venus Williams Template:Flagicon (6) def. Angelique Kerber Template:Flagicon 6–3, 6–3
  - Svetlana Kuznetsova Template:Flagicon (8) def. Anastasia Rodionova Template:Flagicon 6–2, 3–6, 6–3
  - Kateryna Bondarenko Template:Flagicon def. Agnieszka Radwańska Template:Flagicon (9) 7–6, 4–6, 6–1

Winter sports

Bandy

World Championship in Västerås, Sweden:
- Group A:
  - File:Flag of Belarus.svg Belarus 1–12 File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland
  - File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia 13–2 File:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan
  - File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden 15–3 File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway

Figure skating

European Championships in Helsinki, Finland:
- Compulsory dance: (1) Jana Khokhlova/Sergei Novitski Template:Flagicon 37.43 pts (2) Federica Faiella/Massimo Scali Template:Flagicon 36.03 (3) Sinead Kerr/John Kerr Template:Flagicon 34.89
- Pairs' short program: (1) Maria Mukhortova/Maxim Trankov Template:Flagicon 69.62 pts (2) Aliona Savchenko/Robin Szolkowy Template:Flagicon 66.64 (3) Yuko Kawaguchi/Alexander Smirnov Template:Flagicon 65.38

Snowboarding

World Championship in Gangwon-do, South Korea:
- Parallel giant slalom men: (1) Jasey Jay Anderson Template:Flagicon (2) Sylvain Dufour Template:Flagicon (3) Matthew Morison Template:Flagicon
- Parallel giant slalom women: (1) Marion Kreiner Template:Flagicon (2) Doris Guenther Template:Flagicon (3) Patrizia Kummer Template:Flagicon

January 19, 2009 (Monday)

Cricket

Zimbabwe in Bangladesh:
- 1st ODI in Dhaka:
  - File:Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh 124 (48.1 ov); File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe 127/8 (49.2 ov). Zimbabwe win by 2 wickets and lead 3-match series 1–0.

Handball

World Men's Championship in Croatia:
- Group A:
  - Template:Hb-rt 30–26 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 24–24 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 42–11 Template:Hb
- Group B:
  - Template:Hb-rt 34–19 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 34–30 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 41–20 Template:Hb
- Group C:
  - Template:Hb-rt 29–30 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 32–20 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 36–31 Template:Hb
- Group D:
  - Template:Hb-rt 32–30 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 30–20 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 32–13 Template:Hb

Tennis

Australian Open in Melbourne, day 1:
(top 10 seeds results; seeding in parentheses)
- Men's singles 1st round:
  - Roger Federer Template:Flagicon (2) def. Andreas Seppi Template:Flagicon 6–1, 7–6 (4), 7–5
  - Novak Djokovic Template:Flagicon (3) def. Andrea Stoppini Template:Flagicon 6–2, 6–3, 7–5
  - Andy Roddick Template:Flagicon (7) def. Björn Rehnquist Template:Flagicon 6–0, 6–2, 6–2
  - Juan Martín del Potro Template:Flagicon (8) def. Mischa Zverev Template:Flagicon 6–3, 6–4, 6–2
  - David Nalbandian Template:Flagicon (10) def. Marc Gicquel Template:Flagicon 6–4, 4–6, 6–2, 6–3
- Women's singles 1st round:
  - Jelena Janković Template:Flagicon (1) def. Yvonne Meusburger Template:Flagicon 6–1, 6–3
  - Dinara Safina Template:Flagicon (3) def. Alla Kudryavtseva Template:Flagicon 6–3, 6–4
  - Ana Ivanovic Template:Flagicon (5) def. Julia Görges Template:Flagicon 7–5, 6–3
  - Vera Zvonareva Template:Flagicon (7) def. Magdaléna Rybáriková Template:Flagicon 7–6 (2), 6–0
  - Nadia Petrova Template:Flagicon (10) def. Yaroslava Shvedova Template:Flagicon 6–3, 7–6 (3)

Winter sports

Bandy

World Championship in Västerås, Sweden:
- Group A:

Freestyle skiing

World Cup in Lake Placid, New York, United States:
- Skicross men: (1) Lars Lewens Template:Flagicon (2) Patrick Koller Template:Flagicon (3) Tomas Kraus Template:Flagicon
- Skicross women: (1) Ophelie David Template:Flagicon (2) Jenny Owens Template:Flagicon (3) Meryl Boulangeat Template:Flagicon

January 18, 2009 (Sunday)

American football

NFL Playoffs, Conference Championship Games:
Conference rankings in parentheses
- NFC: (4) Arizona Cardinals 32, (6) Philadelphia Eagles 25
  - The Cardinals book their first Super Bowl trip behind four Kurt Warner touchdown passes—three to Larry Fitzgerald in the first half, and the last to Tim Hightower after the Cards had blown a 24–6 halftime lead.
- AFC: (2) Pittsburgh Steelers 23, (6) Baltimore Ravens 14
  - Thanks to Santonio Holmes' 65-yard catch from Ben Roethlisberger and Troy Polamalu 40-yard interception return, the Steelers will attempt to become the first team to win six Lombardi Trophies.

Badminton

BWF Super Series:
- Korea Open Super Series in Seoul:
  (seeding in parentheses)
  - Men's singles: Peter Hoeg Gade Template:Flagicon (3) bt Lee Chong Wei Template:Flagicon (1) 21–18, 10–21, 21–17
  - Women's singles: Tine Rasmussen Template:Flagicon (2) bt Pi Hongyan Template:Flagicon (4) 21–19, 21–19
  - Men's doubles: Mathias Boe/Carsten Mogensen Template:Flagicon (4) bt Jung Jae-Sung/Lee Yong-Dae Template:Flagicon (2) 21–12, 24–22
  - Women's doubles: Chien Yu Chin/Chieng Wen Hsing Template:Flagicon (1) bt Lee Kyung-Won/Lee Hyo-jung Template:Flagicon (2) 21–19, 21–8
  - Mixed doubles: Lee Yong-Dae/Lee Hyo-jung Template:Flagicon (2) bt Songphon Anugritayawon/Kunchala Voravichitchaikul Template:Flagicon (4) 21–8, 21–7

Cricket

South Africa in Australia:
- 2nd ODI in Hobart:
  - File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia 249/9 (50 ov); File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa 244/6 (50 ov). Australia win by 5 runs and level 5-match series 1–1.

Golf

PGA Tour:
- Sony Open in Hawaiʻi in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
  - Winner: Template:Flagicon Zach Johnson 265 (−15)
Champions Tour:
- Wendy's Champions Skins Game in Kāʻanapali, Hawaiʻi:
  - Winners: Fuzzy Zoeller and Ben Crenshaw (13 skins, US $530,000)
European Tour:
- Abu Dhabi Golf Championship in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
  - Winner: Template:Flagicon Paul Casey 267 (−21)

Snooker

Masters in London, United Kingdom:
- Final: (2) Ronnie O'Sullivan Template:Flagicon def. (1) Mark Selby Template:Flagicon 10–8

Handball

World Men's Championship in Croatia:
- Group A:
  - Template:Hb-rt 12–47 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 27–30 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 26–33 Template:Hb
- Group B:
  - Template:Hb-rt 20–45 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 34–19 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 21–40 Template:Hb
- Group C:
  - Template:Hb-rt 19–32 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 24–26 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 22–24 Template:Hb
- Group D:
  - Template:Hb-rt 21–39 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 18–26 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 36–37 Template:Hb

Rugby union

Heineken Cup pool stage, week 5:
(teams in bold advance to the quarterfinals)
- Pool 4:
  - Scarlets Template:Flagicon 31–17 Template:Flagicon Stade Français
    - Stade's loss secures first place in the pool and a quarterfinal berth for Template:Flagicon Harlequins.
- Pool 5:
  - Newport Gwent Dragons Template:Flagicon 12–15 Template:Flagicon Bath
    - Bath set up a showdown with Template:Flagicon Toulouse next weekend, with first place in the pool on the line.
- Pool 6:
  - Gloucester Template:Flagicon 12–16 Template:Flagicon Cardiff Blues
    - The Blues, playing a man down from the 25th minute, come from behind and claim a quarterfinal berth with a converted try from Bradley Davies in the 76th minute.

Winter sports

Alpine skiing

Men's World Cup in Wengen, Switzerland:
- Slalom: (1) Manfred Pranger Template:Flagicon 1:40.36 (48.10 + 52.26) (2) Reinfried Herbst Template:Flagicon 1:40.70 (48.44 + 52.26) (3) Ivica Kostelic Template:Flagicon 1:40.75 (48.80 + 51.95)
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 20 of 38 races): (1) Benjamin Raich Template:Flagicon 638 pts (2) Jean-Baptiste Grange Template:Flagicon 576 (3) Kostelic 546
Women's World Cup in Altenmarkt–Zauchensee, Austria:
- Downhill: (1) Anja Paerson Template:Flagicon & Dominique Gisin Template:Flagicon 1:47.52 (3) Lindsey Vonn Template:Flagicon 1:47.69
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 17 of 35 races): (1) Vonn 776 pts (2) Maria Riesch Template:Flagicon 765 (3) Paerson 702

Bandy

World Championship in Västerås, Sweden:
- Group A:

Biathlon

World Cup 5 in Ruhpolding, Germany:
- Women's 10 km Pursuit: (1) Magdalena Neuner Template:Flagicon 32:56.5 (4), (2) Ekaterina Iourieva Template:Flagicon at 8.9s (1), (3) Kati Wilhelm Template:Flagicon 21.7 (3)
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 11 of 26 races): (1) Svetlana Sleptsova Template:Flagicon 481 points, (2) Iourieva 461, (3) Neuner 409
- Men's 12.5 km Pursuit: (1) Ole Einar Bjørndalen Template:Flagicon 36min 17.4sec (1) (2) Emil Hegle Svendsen Template:Flagicon 34.4 (1) (3) Dominik Landertinger Template:Flagicon 46.5 (2)
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 11 of 26 races): (1) Svendsen 460 points (2) Tomasz Sikora Template:Flagicon 427 (3) Bjørndalen 408

Bobsleigh

World Cup 6 and European Championships at Sankt Moritz, Switzerland:
- Four-man: (1) Alexandre Zoubkov, Roman Oreshnikov, Dmitry Trunenkov, Dmitriy Stepushkin Template:Flagicon 2:10.48 (1:05.20/1:05.28) (2) Thomas Florschütz, Marc Kühne, Andreas Barucha, Alex Metzger Template:Flagicon 2:10.79 (1:05.61/1:05.18) (3) Karl Angerer, Andreas Udvari, Thomas Pöge, Gregor Bermbach Template:Flagicon 2:10.81 (1:05.53/1:05.28)
  - World Cup standings (after 5 of 7 races): (1) Zoubkov 1046 points (2) André Lange Template:Flagicon 955 (3) Jānis Miņins Template:Flagicon 904

Cross-country skiing

World Cup in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada:
- Team sprint men: (1) Template:Flagu 19:44.1 (2) Template:Flagu 19:44.4 (3) Template:Flagu 19:44.7
- Team sprint women: (1) Template:Flagu 17:20.1 (2) Template:Flagu 17:30.0 (3) Template:Flagu 17:31.2

Curling

World Curling Tour:
- Glynhill Ladies International in Braehead, Glasgow, Scotland:
  - Women's final: Template:Flagicon Jennifer Jones def. Template:Flagicon Binia Feltscher-Beeli 7–6

Figure skating

Canadian Championships in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan:
- Men: (1) Patrick Chan 254.82 (2) Vaughn Chipeur 206.30 (3) Jeremy Ten 204.03

Freestyle skiing

World Cup in Lake Placid, New York, United States:
- Aerials men: (1) Jeret Peterson Template:Flagicon 252.59 (2) Kyle Nyssen Template:Flagicon 244.92 (3) Warren Shouldice Template:Flagicon 243.03
- Aerials women: (1) Alla Tsuper Template:Flagicon 189.98 (2) Xu Mengtao Template:Flagicon 186.11 (3) Emily Cook Template:Flagicon 184.70

Luge

World Cup 6 in Oberhof, Germany:
- Women: (1) Tatjana Hüfner Template:Flagicon (2) Natalie Geisenberger Template:Flagicon (3) Anke Wischnewski Template:Flagicon

Short track speed skating

European Championships in Torino, Italy:
- Men's overall standings: (1) Nicola Rodigari Template:Flagicon 76 (2) Haralds Silovs Template:Flagicon 55 (3) Viktor Knoch Template:Flagicon 55
- Women's overall standings: (1) Arianna Fontana Template:Flagicon 83 (2) Katerina Novotná Template:Flagicon 76 (3) Stéphanie Bouvier Template:Flagicon 63

Snowboarding

World Championship in Gangwon-do, South Korea:
- Snowboardcross men: (1) Markus Schairer Template:Flagicon (2) Xavier de Le Rue Template:Flagicon (3) Nick Baumgartner Template:Flagicon
- Snowboardcross women: (1) Helene Olafsen Template:Flagicon (2) Olivia Nobs (3) Mellie Francon Template:Flagicon

Speed skating

World Sprint Championships in Moscow, Russia:
- Men's overall standings: (1) Shani Davis Template:Flagicon 139.560 (2) Keiichiro Nagashima Template:Flagicon 139.720 (3) Simon Kuipers Template:Flagicon 140.450
- Women's overall standings: (1) Wang Beixing Template:Flagicon 152.475 (2) Jenny Wolf Template:Flagicon 153.410 (3) Yu Jing Template:Flagicon 153.740

January 17, 2009 (Saturday)

American football

NFL News:
- Less than 24 hours after sacking Jon Gruden as head coach, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers replace him with defensive backs coach Raheem Morris.
- The St. Louis Rams agree to terms with New York Giants defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo on a four-year contract to become the team's new head coach.

Auto racing

Rallying:
- Dakar Rally in Argentina and Chile:
  - Cars: (1) Giniel De Villiers Template:Flagicon Dirk von Zitzewitz Template:Flagicon 48:10:57 (2) Mark Miller Template:Flagicon Ralph Pitchford Template:Flagicon 48:19:56 (3) Robby Gordon Template:Flagicon Andy Grider Template:Flagicon 49:57:12
  - Trucks: (1) Firdaus Kabirov Template:Flagicon Aydar Belyaev Template:Flagicon Andrey Mokeev Template:Flagicon 49:34:46 (2) Vladimir Chagin Template:Flagicon Sergey Savostin Template:Flagicon Eduard Nikolaev Template:Flagicon 49:38:25 (3) Gerard De Rooy Template:Flagicon Tom Coldoul Template:Flagicon Marcel Van Melis Template:Flagicon 50:34:42
  - Motorbikes: (1) Marc Coma Template:Flagicon 52:14:33 (2) Cyril Despres Template:Flagicon 53:40:11 (3) David Fretigne Template:Flagicon 53:53:29
  - Quads: (1) Josef Machacek Template:Flagicon 68:22:06 (2) Marcos Patronelli Template:Flagicon 70:56:06 (3) Rafal Sonik Template:Flagicon 76:04:40

Football (soccer)

Arabian Gulf Cup in Muscat, Oman:
- Final:
  - Oman File:Flag of Oman.svg 0–0 File:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia
    - Oman win 6–5 in penalty shootout

Handball

World Men's Championship in Croatia:
- Group A:
  - Template:Hb-rt 27–25 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 41–17 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 31–21 Template:Hb
- Group B:
  - Template:Hb-rt 47–17 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 41–14 Template:Hb
- Group C:
  - Template:Hb-rt 39–22 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 26–26 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 24–25 Template:Hb
- Group D:
  - Template:Hb-rt 39–23 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 22–30 Template:Hb
  - Template:Hb-rt 40–27 Template:Hb

Mixed martial arts

UFC 93 in Dublin:

Rugby union

Heineken Cup pool stage, week 5:
- Pool 2:
  - London Wasps Template:Flagicon 19–12 (Ireland) Leinster
- Pool 3:
  - Leicester Tigers Template:Flagicon 52–0 Template:Flagicon Benetton Treviso
  - Perpignan Template:Flagicon 17–15 Template:Flagicon Ospreys
- Pool 4:
  - Ulster Rugby (Ireland) 21–10 Template:Flagicon Harlequins
- Pool 5:
  - Toulouse Template:Flagicon 26–33 Template:Flagicon Glasgow
- Pool 6:
  - Calvisano Template:Flagicon 15–23 Template:Flagicon Biarritz

Tennis

ATP Tour:
- Medibank International Sydney in Sydney, Australia:
  - Final: Template:Flagicon David Nalbandian def. Template:Flagicon Jarkko Nieminen 6–3, 6–7 (9/11), 6–2
- Heineken Open in Auckland, New Zealand:
  - Final: Template:Flagicon Juan Martín del Potro def. Template:Flagicon Sam Querrey, 6–4, 6–4
Exhibition tournaments:
- AAMI Kooyong Classic in Melbourne, Australia:
  - Final: Template:Flagicon Roger Federer def. Template:Flagicon Stanislas Wawrinka 6–1, 6–3

Winter sports

Alpine skiing

Men's World Cup in Wengen, Switzerland:
- Downhill: (1) Didier Défago Template:Flagicon 2:31.98 (2) Bode Miller Template:Flagicon 2:32.18 (3) Marco Sullivan Template:Flagicon 2:32.37
  - Defago wins his first ever World Cup downhill on the Lauberhorn course as the home crowd celebrate second Swiss victory in two days.
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 19 of 38 races): (1) Benjamin Raich Template:Flagicon 593 points (2) Jean-Baptiste Grange Template:Flagicon 536 (3) Aksel Lund Svindal Template:Flagicon 518
Women's World Cup in Altenmarkt–Zauchensee, Austria:
- Super combined: (1) Lindsey Vonn Template:Flagicon 2:40.53 (2) Kathrin Zettel Template:Flagicon 2:40.83 (3) Anja Paerson Template:Flagicon 2:41.19
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 16 of 35 races): (1) Maria Riesch Template:Flagicon 729 points (2) Vonn 716 (3) Zettel 651

Biathlon

World Cup 5 in Ruhpolding, Germany:
- Men's 10 km Sprint: (1) Ole Einar Bjørndalen Template:Flagicon 23:25.8 (0 penalty laps) (2) Dominik Landertinger Template:Flagicon at 33.4 (0) (3) Emil Hegle Svendsen Template:Flagicon 35.3 (1)
  - World Cup overall standings (after 10 of 26 events): (1) Svendsen 406 points (2) Tomasz Sikora Template:Flagicon 393 (3) Bjørndalen 348

Bobsleigh

World Cup 6 and European Championships at Sankt Moritz, Switzerland:
- Two-man: (1) Pierre Lueders/David Bissett Template:Flagicon 2:12.08 (1:06.21/1:05.87) (2) André Lange/Martin Putze Template:Flagicon 2:12.10 (1:06.23/1:05.87) Beat Hefti/Thomas Lamparter Template:Flagicon 2:12.23 (1:06.36/1:05.87)
  - European Championship: (1) Lange/Putze (2) Hefti/Lamparter (3) Thomas Florschütz/Marc Kuehne Template:Flagicon (4th overall)
  - World Cup standings (after 6 of 8 races): (1) Hefti 1171 points (2) Lange 1141 (3) Ivo Rüegg Template:Flagicon 1020

Cross-country skiing

World Cup in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada:
- Men's 15 km classic/15 km freestyle pursuit: (1) Pietro Piller Cottrer Template:Flagicon 1hr 13min 1.5sec (2) Jean-Marc Gaillard Template:Flagicon 15.0 (3) Valerio Checci Template:Flagicon 15.3
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 17 of 33 events): (1) Dario Cologna Template:Flagicon 835 points (2) Petter Northug Template:Flagicon 698 (3) Axel Teichmann Template:Flagicon 581
- Women's 7.5 km classic/7.5 km freestyle Pursuit: (1) Justyna Kowalczyk Template:Flagicon 40:41.3 (2) Marianna Longa Template:Flagicon 40:48.9 (3) Arianna Follis Template:Flagicon 41:27.3
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 16 of 33 events): (1) Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Template:Flagicon 978 points (2) Virpi Kuitunen Template:Flagicon 907 (3) Petra Majdič Template:Flagicon 893

Figure skating

Canadian Championships in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan:
- Women: (1) Joannie Rochette 185.35 (2) Cynthia Phaneuf 151.42 (3) Amélie Lacoste 143.01
- Pairs: (1) Jessica Dubé / Bryce Davison 188.43 (2) Meagan Duhamel / Craig Buntin 182.50 (3) Mylène Brodeur / John Mattatall 159.85
- Ice dancing: (1) Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir 197.77 (2) Vanessa Crone / Paul Poirier 175.58 (3) Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje 170.23

Luge

World Cup 6 in Oberhof, Germany:
- Men: (1) Jan Eichhorn Template:Flagicon (2) Felix Loch Template:Flagicon (3) David Möller (GER)
  - World Cup standings (after 6 of 9 races): (1) Armin Zöggeler Template:Flagicon 501 points (2) Möller 455 (3) Eichhorn 375
- Doubles: (1) Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt Template:Flagicon (2) Patric Leitner/Alexander Resch Template:Flagicon (3) André Florschütz/Torsten Wustlich Template:Flagicon
  - World Cup standings (after 6 of 9 races): (1) Christian Oberstolz/Patrick Gruber Template:Flagicon 480 points (2) Wendl/Arlt 405 (3) Andreas Linger/Wolfgang Linger Template:Flagicon 400

Nordic combined

World Cup in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada:
- 10 km Gundersen: (1) Magnus Moan Template:Flagicon 25:18.7 (2) Bjoern Kircheisen Template:Flagicon 25:19.1 (3) Bill Demong Template:Flagicon 25:19.2
  - World Cup standings (after 13 out of 24 races): (1) Anssi Koivuranta Template:Flagicon 773 points (2) Moan 701 (3) Demong 675

Skeleton

World Cup 6 and European Championships at Sankt Moritz, Switzerland:
- Men: (1) Frank Rommel Template:Flagicon 2:15.77 (1:08.08/1:07.69) (2) Kristan Bromley Template:Flagicon 2:16.74 (1:08.37/1:08.37) (3) Gregor Stähli Template:Flagicon 2:16.79 (1:08.36/1:08.43)
  - World Cup standings (after 5 of 7 events): (1) Aleksandr Tretyakov Template:Flagicon 924 points (2) Florian Grassl Template:Flagicon 907 (3) Rommel 900

Ski jumping

World Cup in Zakopane, Poland:
- 134m hill: (1) Gregor Schlierenzauer Template:Flagicon 285.7 points (130.5/138.5m) (2) Wolfgang Loitzl Template:Flagicon 280.7 (130.0/136.5) (3) Simon Ammann Template:Flagicon 271.2 (127.5/134.0)
  - World Cup standings (after 15 of 28 events): (1) Ammann 1,122 points (2) Schlierenzauer 1,120 (3) Loitzl 981

January 16, 2009 (Friday)

American football

NFL News:
- The Tampa Bay Buccaneers fire head coach Jon Gruden and General Manager Bruce Allen after a disappointing December in which they lost 4 games in a row and missed the playoffs.

Cricket

South Africa in Australia:
- 1st ODI in Melbourne:
  - File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia 271/8 (50 ov); File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa 272/7 (49.3 ov). South Africa win by 3 wickets and lead 5-match series 1–0.
Tri-Series in Bangladesh:
- Final in Dhaka:
  - File:Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh 152 (50 overs); File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka 153/8 (48.1 overs). Sri Lanka win by 2 wickets.
    - Bangladesh reduce Sri Lanka to 6 for 5 after eight overs, the lowest score ever recorded in ODI history at the fall of the 5th wicket. Sri Lanka fights back to take the Tri-Series with 59 runs from Kumar Sangakkara and 33 not out by Muttiah Muralitharan off 16 balls, including 18 runs in one over.

Handball

World Men's Championship in Croatia:
- Group B:
  - Template:Hb-rt 27–26 Template:Hb

Rugby union

Pool stage, week 5:
(teams in bold advance to the quarterfinal)
- Pool 1:
  - Munster (Ireland) 37–14 Template:Flagicon Sale Sharks
    - Munster get the bonus-point win they need to clinch first place in the pool and advance to the quarterfinals.
  - Clermont Template:Flagicon 43–10 Template:Flagicon Montauban
- Pool 2:
  - Edinburgh Rugby Template:Flagicon 32–14 Template:Flagicon Castres

Tennis

WTA Tour:
- Medibank International Sydney in Sydney, Australia:
  - Final: Template:Flagicon Elena Dementieva def. Template:Flagicon Dinara Safina 6–3, 2–6, 6–1
    - Dementieva wins two tournaments back-to-back after winning the ASB Classic in Auckland last week.
- Moorilla Hobart International in Hobart, Australia:
  - Final: Template:Flagicon Petra Kvitová def. Template:Flagicon Iveta Benešová 7–5, 6–1

Winter sports

Alpine skiing

Men's World Cup in Wengen, Switzerland:
- Super combined: (1) Carlo Janka Template:Flagicon 2:34.16 (1:47.15 + 47.01) (2) Peter Fill Template:Flagicon 2:34.38 (1:47.65 + 46.73) (3) Silvan Zurbriggen Template:Flagicon 2:34.56 (1:48.16 + 46.40)
  - Overall World cup standings (after 18 events): (1) Benjamin Raich Template:Flagicon 593 pts (2) Jean-Baptiste Grange Template:Flagicon 536 (3) Aksel Lund Svindal Template:Flagicon 502

Biathlon

World Cup 5 in Ruhpolding, Germany:
- Women's 7.5 km Sprint: (1) Magdalena Neuner Template:Flagicon 23min 26.6sec (1), (2) Kati Wilhelm Template:Flagicon at 0.2 (0), (3) Darya Domracheva Template:Flagicon 14.0 (0)
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 10 of 26 events): (1) Svetlana Sleptsova Template:Flagicon 441 points, (2) Ekaterina Iourieva Template:Flagicon 407, (3) Helena Jonsson Template:Flagicon 363

Bobsleigh

World Cup 6 and European Championships at Sankt Moritz, Switzerland:
- Two-woman: (1) Sandra Kiriasis/Berit Wiacker Template:Flagicon 2:17.40 (1:09.20/1:08.20) (2) Cathleen Martini/Janine Tischer Template:Flagicon 2:18.36 (1:09.73/1:08.63) (3) Nicole Minichiello/Gillian Cooke Template:Flagicon 2:18.75 (1:09.68/1:09.07)
  - World Cup standings (after 6 of 8 races): (1) Kiriasis 1295 points (2) Martini 1206 (3) Shauna Rohbock Template:Flagicon 1155

Cross-country skiing

World Cup in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada:
- Men 1.6 km Classic Sprint: (1) Emil Joensson Template:Flagicon (2) Ola Vigen Hattestad Template:Flagicon (3) Josef Wenzl Template:Flagicon
- Ladies 1.3 km Classic Sprint: (1) Alena Prochazkova Template:Flagicon (2) Justyna Kowalczyk Template:Flagicon (3) Anna Olsson Template:Flagicon

Nordic combined

World Cup in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada:
- 10 km Gundersen: (1) Bill Demong Template:Flagicon 25:07.9 (2) Anssi Koivuranta Template:Flagicon 25:26.3 (3) Bjoern Kircheisen Template:Flagicon 25:40.2
  - World Cup standings (after 12 out of 24 races): (1) Koivuranta 723 points (2) Demong 615 (3) Magnus Moan Template:Flagicon 601

Skeleton

World Cup 6 and European Championships at Sankt Moritz, Switzerland:
- Women: (1) Shelley Rudman Template:Flagicon 2:20.50 (1:10.53/1:09.97) (2) Mellisa Hollingsworth Template:Flagicon 2:20.59 (1:10.43/1:10.16) (3) Michelle Kelly Template:Flagicon 2:21.68 (1:10.95/1:10.73)
  - European Championship: (1) Rudman (2) Marion Trott Template:Flagicon (4th overall) (3) Maya Pedersen Template:Flagicon (7th)
  - World Cup standings (after 5 races): (1) Rudman 972 points (2) Anja Huber Template:Flagicon 931 (3) Trott 912

Ski jumping

World Cup in Zakopane, Poland:
- 134m hill: (1) Wolfgang Loitzl Template:Flagicon 272.7 points (129.5/132.0m), (2) Gregor Schlierenzauer Template:Flagicon 262.5 (127.5/130.0), (3) Martin Schmitt Template:Flagicon 249.4 (121.0/129.5)
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 14 of 28 rounds): (1) Simon Ammann Template:Flagicon 1062pts, (2) Schlierenzauer 1020, (3) Loitzl 901

January 15, 2009 (Thursday)

Baseball

Major League Baseball news:
- MLB owners approve two rules changes:
  - All postseason games, as well as one-game playoffs, will be played to their conclusion. Games called due to weather will be suspended, regardless of the number of innings played.
  - Home-field advantage for one-game playoffs to break ties for division championships or wild-card berths will now be determined by head-to-head record, instead of a coin flip.

Basketball

Euroleague, week 10:
(teams in bold advance to the Top 16 stage)
- Group A:
  - Air Avellino Template:Flagicon 79–75 Template:Flagicon Cibona Zagreb
  - Unicaja Málaga Template:Flagicon 92–69 Template:Flagicon Maccabi Tel Aviv
    - Málaga's win secure them top spot in this group.
  - Olympiacos Template:Flagicon 68–78 Template:Flagicon Le Mans
- Group C:
  - TAU Cerámica Template:Flagicon 91–83 Template:Flagicon DKV Joventut
  - ALBA Berlin Template:Flagicon 59–67 Template:Flagicon Union Olimpija Ljubljana
    - ALBA clinch the last spot in the Top 16 despite their loss because Joventut also lost.
  - Fenerbahçe Ülker Template:Flagicon 90–86(OT) Template:Flagicon Lottomatica Roma

Winter sports

Biathlon

World Cup 5 in Ruhpolding, Germany:
- Men's 4 x 7.5 km Relay: (1) Script error: No such module "flag". 1hr 24min 54.0sec (0), (2) Template:Flagu at 1:20.2 (0), (3) Script error: No such module "flag". 1:43.1 (0)
  - World Cup relay standings (after four of six events): (1) Austria 222 points, (2) Template:Flagu 190, (3) Germany 182

Bobsleigh

World Cup 4 at Sankt Moritz, Switzerland:
- Two-man: (1) Pierre Lueders/David Bissett Template:Flagicon 2:14.34 (1:07.55/1:06.79) (2) Ivo Rüegg/Roman Handschin Template:Flagicon 2:14.64 (1:07.78/1:06.86) (3) Beat Hefti/Thomas Lamparter Template:Flagicon 2:15.08 (1:08.03/1:07.05)
  - World Cup rankings (after 5 of 8 races): (1) Hefti 971 points (2) André Lange 931 Template:Flagicon (3) Rüegg 860
- Two-woman: (1) Sandra Kiriasis/Berit Wiacker Template:Flagicon 2:17.34 (1:08.75/1:08.59) (2) Cathleen Martini/Janine Tischer Template:Flagicon 2:17.36 (1:08.85/1:08.51) (3) Nicole Minichiello/Jackie Gunn Template:Flagicon 2:17.70 (1:08.75/1:08.95)
  - World Cup rankings (after 5 of 8 races): (1) Kiriasis 1070 points (2) Martini 996 (3) Shauna Rohbock Template:Flagicon 979
    - These races are substitutes for the cancelled races in Cesana Pariol in December.

January 14, 2009 (Wednesday)

American football

College football news:
- 2008 Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford announces that he will return for his junior (third) season at Oklahoma; as a third-year sophomore, he was eligible to declare for the 2009 NFL draft.

Basketball

Euroleague, week 10:
(teams in bold advance to the Top 16 stage)
- Group B:
  - Regal FC Barcelona Template:Flagicon 90–68 Template:Flagicon Žalgiris Kaunas
  - SLUC Nancy Template:Flagicon 79–103 Template:Flagicon Montepaschi Siena
  - Panathinaikos Athens Template:Flagicon 75–53 Template:Flagicon Asseco Prokom Sopot
    - Sopot clinch the 4th berth in the Top 16 despite their loss as their rivals, Žalgiris and Nancy, lose as well.
- Group D:
  - CSKA Moscow Template:Flagicon 63–66 Template:Flagicon Partizan Belgrade
  - Real Madrid Template:Flagicon 80–69 Template:Flagicon Efes Pilsen
  - Panionios Template:Flagicon 77–87 Template:Flagicon AJ Milano
    - Partizan Belgrade and Milano clinch berths in the Top 16 with their wins. Efes Pilsen's elimination ends a 12-years streak in the last-16 stage of Euroleague.

Cricket

Tri-Series in Bangladesh:
- 3rd match in Dhaka:
  - File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka 147 (30.3/31 ov); File:Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh 151/5 (23.5/31 ov). Bangladesh win by 5 wickets, and advance to the final on Friday against Sri Lanka.

Football (soccer)

Arabian Gulf Cup in Muscat, Oman:
- Semifinals:
  - Oman File:Flag of Oman.svg 1–0 File:Flag of Qatar.svg Qatar
  - Kuwait File:Flag of Kuwait.svg 0–1 File:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia
News:
- Israel police allows the Israeli Premier League match between Bnei Sakhnin F.C. and Hakoah Amidar Ramat Gan F.C. to be played at Sakhnin as scheduled on Saturday. It was earlier reported that due to fear of violence between home Arab fans and visiting Jewish supporters resulted from Israel-Gaza conflict the match would not be played at Sakhnin.

Winter sports

Biathlon

World Cup 5 in Ruhpolding, Germany:
- Women's 4 x 6 km Relay: (1) Template:Flagu 1hr 16min 41.2sec (0) (2) Template:Flagu at 37.5sec (0) (3) Template:Flagu 56.5 (0)
  - World Cup relay standings (after 4 of 6 events): (1) Template:Flagu 234 points (2) Template:Flagu 205 (3) Template:Flagu 175

Freestyle skiing

World Cup in Flaine, France:
- Skicross men: (1) Tomas Kraus Template:Flagicon (2) Casey Puckett Template:Flagicon (3) Eric Iljans Template:Flagicon
- Skicross women: (1) Ophelie David Template:Flagicon (2) Ashleigh McIvor Template:Flagicon (3) Karin Huttary Template:Flagicon

Snowboarding

World Cup in Gujō, Japan:
- Halfpipe men: (1) Ryoh Aono Template:Flagicon (2) Ben Mates Template:Flagicon (3) Shi Wancheng Template:Flagicon
- Halfpipe women: (1) Liu Jiayu Template:Flagicon (2) Sun Zhifeng Template:Flagicon (3) Soko Yamaoka Template:Flagicon

January 13, 2009 (Tuesday)

Cricket

West Indies in New Zealand:
- 5th ODI in Napier:
  - File:WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg West Indies 293/9 (50 ov); File:Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand 211/5 (35/35 ov). New Zealand win by 9 runs (D/L method) and win the series 2–1.
South Africa in Australia:
- 2nd T20I in Brisbane
  - File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa 157/5 (20/20 ov); File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia 161/4 (18.5/20 ov). Australia win by 6 wickets and win the series 2–0.

Football (soccer)

CECAFA Cup in Kampala, Uganda:
- Final:
  - Kenya File:Flag of Kenya.svg 0–1 File:Flag of Uganda.svg Uganda
    - Uganda wins the title for a record tenth time.
- Bronze medal match:
  - Tanzania File:Flag of Tanzania.svg 3–2 File:Flag of Burundi.svg Burundi
News:
- Israel Football Association decides to resume play in the top three divisions this weekend for the first time since the start of Israel-Gaza conflict. Lower divisions will still be suspended. Teams whose home grounds are within 40 km of the Gaza Strip will have to play their matches on alternative grounds out of the danger zone. Also, matches between teams from Jewish and Arab towns may be played on neutral grounds by police order for fear of possible crowd violence. Officials of teams that could be affected by this decision, in particular Hapoel Be'er Sheva F.C. and Bnei Sakhnin F.C., say they object to move away from their home grounds.

January 12, 2009 (Monday)

American football

NFL News:
- Tony Dungy retires from football as head coach of the Indianapolis Colts. Jim Caldwell, who was named head coach designate in January 2008, takes over Dungy's responsibilities.
- Josh McDaniels, offensive coordinator of the New England Patriots, is named the new head coach of the Denver Broncos.

Baseball

Jim Rice and Rickey Henderson are elected to the Hall of Fame by the BBWAA. Henderson enters in his first year of eligibility while Rice enters in his 15th and final year of eligibility, the third player to do so.

Cricket

Tri-Series in Bangladesh:
- 2nd match in Dhaka:
  - File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka 210/6 (50 ov); File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe 80 (28.2 ov). Sri Lanka win by 130 runs.

Football (soccer)

2008 FIFA World Player of the Year awards in Zürich, Switzerland:
- Men: (1) Template:Flagicon Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United) (2) Template:Flagicon Lionel Messi (Barçelona) (3) Template:Flagicon Fernando Torres (Liverpool)
- Women: (1) Template:Flagicon Marta (Umeå) (2) Template:Flagicon Birgit Prinz (Frankfurt) (3) Template:Flagicon Cristiane (Corinthians)

January 11, 2009 (Sunday)

American football

NFL Playoffs, Divisional Playoff Round:
(Conference rankings in parentheses)
- NFC: (6) Philadelphia Eagles 23, (1) New York Giants 11
  - The Eagles victory means the reigning Super Bowl champion will not defend its title for the fourth year in a row. Philadelphia will play at Glendale, Arizona in the NFC Championship Game next Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals.
- AFC: (2) Pittsburgh Steelers 35, (4) San Diego Chargers 24.
  - Willie Parker runs for 146 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Steelers to the win and the right to host their divisional rivals, the Baltimore Ravens, in the AFC Championship Game next week.
College football news:
- Tim Tebow announces he will return for his senior season at Florida.

Badminton

BWF Super Series:
- Malaysia Super Series in Kuala Lumpur:
  (seeding in parentheses)
  - Men's Singles: Lee Chong Wei Template:Flagicon (1) bt Park Sung-hwan Template:Flagicon (5) 21–14, 21–13
  - Women's Singles: Tine Rasmussen Template:Flagicon (2) bt Zhou Mi Template:Flagicon (1) 21–17, 15–21, 21–16
  - Mixed Doubles: Nova Widianto/Liliyana Natsir Template:Flagicon (1) bt Lee Yong-dae/Lee Hyo-jung Template:Flagicon (2) 21–14, 21–19
  - Women's Doubles: Lee Hyo-jung/Lee Kyung-won Template:Flagicon (4) bt Yang Wei/Zhang Jiewen Template:Flagicon (5) 21–15, 21–12
  - Men's Doubles: Jung Jae-sung/Lee Yong-dae Template:Flagicon (2) bt Hendra Aprida Gunawan/Alvent Yulianto Template:Flagicon 18–21, 21–14, 21–14

Cricket

South Africa in Australia:
- 1st T20I in Melbourne:
  - File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia 182/9 (20/20 ov); File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa 130 (18/20 ov). Australia win by 52 runs, and lead 1–0 in 2-match series.

Darts

BDO World Championship in Frimley Green, United Kingdom:
- Men's Final: Template:Flagicon Ted Hankey def. Template:Flagicon Tony O'Shea 7–6
  - The Count wins his second World Championship title.

Football (soccer)

CECAFA Cup in Kampala, Uganda:
- Semifinals:
  - Kenya File:Flag of Kenya.svg 2–1 File:Flag of Tanzania.svg Tanzania
  - Uganda File:Flag of Uganda.svg 5–0 File:Flag of Burundi.svg Burundi

Golf

PGA Tour:
- Mercedes-Benz Championship in Kapalua, Hawaii:
  - Winner: Template:Flagicon Geoff Ogilvy 268 (−24)
European Tour:
- Joburg Open in Johannesburg, South Africa:
  - Winner: Template:Flagicon Anders Hansen 269 (−15)

Tennis

ATP Tour:
- Brisbane International in Brisbane, Australia:
  - Final: Template:Flagicon Radek Štěpánek def. Template:Flagicon Fernando Verdasco 3–6 6–3 6–4
- Chennai Open in Chennai, India:
  - Final: Template:Flagicon Marin Čilić def. Template:Flagicon Somdev Devvarman 6–4, 7–6 (7/3)

Winter sports

Alpine skiing

Men's World Cup in Adelboden, Switzerland:
- Slalom: (1) Reinfried Herbst Template:Flagicon 1:42.95 (50.12 + 52.83) (2) Manfred Pranger Template:Flagicon 1:43.13 (49.14 + 53.99) (3) Felix Neureuther Template:Flagicon 1:43.27 (50.37 + 52.90)
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 17 events): (1) Benjamin Raich Template:Flagicon 557 pts (2) Jean-Baptiste Grange Template:Flagicon 507 (3) Aksel Lund Svindal Template:Flagicon 470
Women's World Cup in Maribor, Slovenia:
- Slalom: (1) Maria Riesch Template:Flagicon 1:29.64 (44.78 + 44.86) (2) Kathrin Zettel Template:Flagicon 1:30.79 (46.07 + 44.72) (3) Tanja Poutiainen Template:Flagicon 1:31.41 (46.08 + 45.33)
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 15 of 35 events): (1) Riesch 729 points (2) Poutiainen 644 (3) Lindsey Vonn Template:Flagicon 616

Biathlon

World Cup 4 in Oberhof, Germany:
- 12.5 km Mass Start Women: (1) Kati Wilhelm Template:Flagicon 38min 11.6sec (2 penalties) (2) Olga Medvedtseva Template:Flagicon at 1.6sec (2) (3) Helena Jonsson Template:Flagicon 11.1 (1)
  - Overall World Cup standings (after nine events): (1) Svetlana Sleptsova Template:Flagicon 401 points (2) Ekaterina Iourieva Template:Flagicon 371 (3) Jonsson 331
- 15 km Mass Start Men: (1) Christoph Sumann Template:Flagicon 38:11.9 (1+0+1+0) (2) Carl Johan Bergman Template:Flagicon 38:21.6 (0+0+1+1) (3) Ole Einar Bjørndalen Template:Flagicon 38:21.8 (0+1+1+0)

Bobsleigh

World Cup 5 in Königssee, Germany:
- Four-man: (1) Template:Flagu (Karl Angerer, Andreas Udvari, Alex Mann, Gregor Bermbach) 1:37.84 (48.96/48.88) (2) Template:Flagu (Edwin van Calker, Arnold van Calker, Arno Klaassen, Sybren Jansma) 1:37.93 (48.91/49.02) (3) Template:Flagu (André Lange, Rene Hoppe, Alexander Rödiger, Martin Putze) 1:37.94 (48.78/49.16) & Script error: No such module "flag". (Jānis Miņins, Daumants Dreiškens, Oskars Melbardis, Intars Dambis) 1:37.94 (48.83/49.11)
  - World Cup standings (after 4 of 8 events): (1) Alexandre Zoubkov Template:Flagicon 821 (2) Lange 803 (3) Minins 760

Curling

Ramada Perth Masters in Perth Scotland:
- Men's final: Template:Flagicon Kevin Koe 6–5 Template:Flagicon Thomas Ulsrud
Bernese Ladies Cup in Bern, Switzerland:
- Women's final: Template:Flagicon Shannon Kleibrink 6–5 Template:Flagicon Andrea Schöpp
Casino Rama Skins in Rama, Ontario
- Template:Flagicon Randy Ferbey def. Template:Flagicon Glenn Howard

Freestyle skiing

World Cup in Les Contamines, France:
- Half-pipe men: (1) Xavier Bertoni Template:Flagicon 44.60 (2) Nils Lauper Template:Flagicon 42.00 (3) Kevin Rolland Template:Flagicon 41.90
- Half-pipe women: (1) Virginie Faivre Template:Flagicon 41.2 (2) Miyuki Hatanaka Template:Flagicon 36.8 (3) Jessica Reedy Template:Flagicon 33.6

Luge

World Cup 5 in Cesana Pariol, Italy:
- Men: (1) Armin Zöggeler Template:Flagicon (2) Felix Loch Template:Flagicon (3) Daniel Pfister Template:Flagicon
  - World Cup standings (after 5 of 9 races): (1) Zöggeler 455 (2) David Möller Template:Flagicon 385 (3) Jan Eichhorn Template:Flagicon 275

Nordic combined

World Cup in Val di Fiemme, Italy:
- 10 km Gundersen: (1) Magnus Moan Template:Flagicon 27:33.1 (13th after ski jump) (2) Jan Schmid Template:Flagicon 27:37.2 (7) (3) Pavel Churavy Template:Flagicon 27:37.5 (8)
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 11 out of 24 races): (1) Anssi Koivuranta Template:Flagicon 643 points (2) Moan 556 (3) Bill Demong Template:Flagicon 515

Ski jumping

World Cup in Tauplitz/Bad Mitterndorf, Austria:
- 200m flying hill: (1) Gregor Schlierenzauer Template:Flagicon 393.6 points (203.5/202.0m) (2) Harri Olli Template:Flagicon 390.4 (201.5/200.5) (3) Simon Ammann Template:Flagicon 382.2 (197.5/198.5)
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 13 of 28 events): (1) Ammann 1017 points (2) Schlierenzauer 940 (3) Wolfgang Loitzl Template:Flagicon 801

Snowboarding

World Cup in Bad Gastein, Austria:
- Snowboardcross men: (1) Damon Hayler Template:Flagicon (2) Markus Schairer Template:Flagicon (3) Mike Robertson Template:Flagicon
- Snowboardcross women: (1) Lindsey Jacobellis Template:Flagicon (2) Dominique Maltais Template:Flagicon (3) Zoe Gillings Template:Flagicon

Speed skating

European Championships in Heerenveen, Netherlands:
- Men overall standings: (1) Sven Kramer Template:Flagicon 148.564 points (2) Håvard Bøkko Template:Flagicon 150.495 (3) Wouter olde Heuvel Template:Flagicon 150.629
- Women overall standings: (1) Claudia Pechstein Template:Flagicon 162.014 points (2) Daniela Anschütz-Thoms Template:Flagicon 162.307 (3) Martina Sáblíková Template:Flagicon 162.815

January 10, 2009 (Saturday)

American football

NFL Playoffs, Divisional Playoff Round (conference rankings in parentheses):
- AFC: (6) Baltimore Ravens 13, (1) Tennessee Titans 10
  - Matt Stover's 43-yard field goal with 53 seconds left provides the winning margin, and Joe Flacco becomes the first rookie quarterback in NFL history to win two playoff games. The Ravens will travel to either San Diego or Pittsburgh for next week's AFC title game.
- NFC: (4) Arizona Cardinals 33, (2) Carolina Panthers 13
  - Jake Delhomme throws five interceptions and loses a fumble, leading to 23 of Arizona's points. The Cardinals will play either Philadelphia Eagles or New York Giants in the NFC Championship Game.

Cricket

West Indies in New Zealand:
- 4th ODI in Auckland:
  - File:Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand 275/4 (50 ov); File:WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg West Indies 64/0 (10.3/40 ov). No result. 5-match series level 1–1.
Tri-Series in Bangladesh:
- 1st match in Dhaka:
  - File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe 205/9 (50 ov); File:Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh 167 (46.2 ov). Zimbabwe win by 38 runs.

Ice hockey

World Women's U18 Championship in Füssen, Germany:
- Final:
  - United States File:Flag of the United States.svg 3–2(OT) File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada
    - Kendal Coyne's eighth goal of the tournament in overtime gives USA their second title in as many women junior world championships.
- Bronze medal game:
  - Sweden File:Flag of Sweden.svg 9–1 File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic
- Game for 5th place:
  - Germany File:Flag of Germany.svg 1–2 File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland
- Game for 7th place:
  - Switzerland File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg 2–3(SO) File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia
    - Switzerland is relegated to Division I in 2010, and will be replaced in the top division by File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan.

Tennis

ATP Tour:
- Qatar ExxonMobil Open in Doha, Qatar:
  - Final: Template:Flagicon Andy Murray def. Template:Flagicon Andy Roddick 6–4, 6–2
WTA Tour:
- Brisbane International in Brisbane, Australia:
  - Final: Template:Flagicon Victoria Azarenka def. Template:Flagicon Marion Bartoli 6–3, 6–1
- ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand:
  - Final: Template:Flagicon Elena Dementieva def. Template:Flagicon Elena Vesnina 6–4 6–1
JB Group Classic in Hong Kong:
- Gold group final (best of five matches):
  - Gisela Dulko Template:Flagicon (Americas) def. Anna Chakvetadze Template:Flagicon (Russia) 3–6, 6–4, 6–4
  - Venus Williams Template:Flagicon (Americas) def. Vera Zvonareva Template:Flagicon (Russia) 6–2, 6–2
  - Venus Williams/Coco Vandeweghe Template:Flagicon (Americas) def. Anna Chakvetadze/Alexandra Panova Template:Flagicon (Russia) 6–4, 6–1
    - Americas beat Russia 4–1
- Silver group final (best of three matches):
  - Zheng Jie Template:Flagicon (Asia-Pacific) def. Michelle Larcher de Brito Template:Flagicon (Europe) 6–1, 6–1
    - Asia-Pacific beat Europe 3–0

Winter sports

Alpine skiing

Men's World Cup in Adelboden, Switzerland:
- Giant slalom: (1) Benjamin Raich Template:Flagicon 2:24.95 (1:12.33 + 1:12.62) (2) Massimiliano Blardone Template:Flagicon 2:25.19 (1:12.53 + 1:12.66) (3) Kjetil Jansrud Template:Flagicon 2:25.67 (1:14.19 + 1:11.48)
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 16 events): (1) Raich 533 points (2) Jean-Baptiste Grange Template:Flagicon 478 (3) Aksel Lund Svindal Template:Flagicon 470
Women's World Cup in Maribor, Slovenia:
- Giant slalom: (1) Tina Maze Template:Flagicon 2:45.15 (1:21.75 + 1:23.40) (2) Denise Karbon Template:Flagicon 2:45.54 (1:21.66 + 1:23.88) (3) Kathrin Hoelzl Template:Flagicon 2:46.07 (1:21.93 + 1:24.14)
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 14 of 35 events): (1) Maria Riesch Template:Flagicon 629 points (2) Tanja Poutiainen Template:Flagicon 584 (3) Lindsey Vonn Template:Flagicon 566

Biathlon

World Cup 4 in Oberhof, Germany:
- 10 km Sprint Men: (1) Maxim Tchoudov Template:Flagicon 25:49.5 (0+0) (2) Michael Roesch Template:Flagicon 26:02.2 (0+0) (3) Tomasz Sikora Template:Flagicon 26:14.7 (1+0)

Bobsleigh

World Cup 5 in Königssee, Germany:
- Two-man: Thomas Florschuetz/Marc Kühne Template:Flagicon 1:44.62 (52.20/52.42) (2) Ivo Rüegg/Cedric Grand Template:Flagicon 1:39.27 (49.54/49.73) (3) Alexandre Zoubkov/Dmitry Trunenkov Template:Flagicon 1:39.31 (49.58/49.73) & Karl Angerer/Alex Mann Template:Flagicon 1:39.31 (49.73/49.58)
  - World Cup standings (after 4 of 8 races): (1) André Lange Template:Flagicon 795 points (2) Beat Hefti Template:Flagicon 771 (3) Zoubkov & Todd Hays Template:Flagicon 672
- Two-woman: (1) Shauna Rohbock/Valerie Fleming Template:Flagicon 1:41.91 (50.78/51.13) (2) Nicole Minichiello/Gillian Cooke Template:Flagicon 1:42.05 (50.87/51.18) & Sandra Kiriasis/Romy Logsch Template:Flagicon 1:42.05 (51.02/51.03)
  - World Cup standings (after 4 of 8 races): (1) Kiriasis 845 points (2) Rohbock 803 (3) Helen Upperton Template:Flagicon 794

Freestyle skiing

World Cup in Les Contamines, France:
- Skicross men: (1) Andreas Matt Template:Flagicon (2) Christopher Delbosco Template:Flagicon (3) Markus Wittner Template:Flagicon
- Skicross women: (1) Hedda Berntsen Template:Flagicon (2) Ophelie David Template:Flagicon (3) Katrin Ofner Template:Flagicon

Luge

World Cup 5 in Cesana Pariol, Italy:
- Women: (1) Tatjana Hüfner Template:Flagicon (2) Natalie Geisenberger Template:Flagicon (3) Nina Reithmayer Template:Flagicon
  - World Cup standings (after 5 of 9 races): (1) Hüfner 485 points (2) Geisenberger 415 (3) Anke Wischnewski Template:Flagicon 322
- Doubles: (1) Christian Oberstolz/Patrick Gruber Template:Flagicon (2) Gerhard Plankensteiner/Oswald Haselrieder Template:Flagicon (3) Andris Sics/Juris Sics Template:Flagicon
  - World Cup standings (after 5 of 9 races): (1) Oberstolz/Gruber 420 points (2) Andreas Linger/Wolfgang Linger Template:Flagicon 350 (3) Plankensteiner/Haselrieder 319

Nordic combined

World Cup in Val di Fiemme, Italy:
- 10 km mass start: (1) Bjoern Kircheisen Template:Flagicon (2) Bernhard Gruber Template:Flagicon (3) Jan Schmid Template:Flagicon
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 10 of 24 events): (1) Anssi Koivuranta Template:Flagicon 643 points (2) Kircheisen 509 (3) Bill Demong Template:Flagicon 497

Ski jumping

World Cup in Tauplitz/Bad Mitterndorf, Austria:
- 200m flying hill: (1) Gregor Schlierenzauer Template:Flagicon 398.0 points (199.5/215.5m (hill record)) (2) Simon Ammann Template:Flagicon 390.1 (207.5/195.5) (3) Martin Koch Template:Flagicon 386.8 (197.5/209.0)
  - World Cup overall standings (after 12 of 28 events): (1) Ammann 957 points (2) Schlierenzauer 840 (3) Wolfgang Loitzl Template:Flagicon 775

Snowboarding

World Cup in Bad Gastein, Austria:
- Snowboardcross men: (1) Xavier de Le Rue Template:Flagicon (2) Michal Novotny Template:Flagicon (3) Nate Holland Template:Flagicon
- Snowboardcross women: (1) Sandra Frei Template:Flagicon (2) Déborah Anthonioz Template:Flagicon Lindsey Jacobellis Template:Flagicon

January 9, 2009 (Friday)

Darts

BDO World Championship in Frimley Green, United Kingdom:
- Women's final: Template:Flagicon Francis Hoenselaar beat Template:Flagicon Trina Gulliver 2–1
  - Hoenselaar wins her first World Championship title after losing in five previous finals to 7-times champion Gulliver.

Ice hockey

World Women's U18 Championship in Füssen, Germany:
- Semifinals:
  - Canada File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg 6–1 File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
  - United States File:Flag of the United States.svg 18–0 File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic
    - In a repeat of last year's championships, Canada and United States will play in the final, while Sweden and Czech Republic play for bronze medals.
- Classification 5–8:
  - Switzerland File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg 1–2(SO) File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany
  - Russia File:Flag of Russia.svg 1–2(OT) File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland

Tennis

Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia:
- Final:
  - Script error: No such module "flag". 2–0 Template:Flagu (doubles match not played)
    - Dominika Cibulková and Dominik Hrbatý give Slovakia its third Hopman Cup title.
JB Group Classic in Hong Kong:
- Gold group final (best of five matches):
  - Venus Williams Template:Flagicon (Americas) bt Anna Chakvetadze Template:Flagicon (Russia) 7–6 (7/1), 6–3
  - Vera Zvonareva Template:Flagicon (Russia) bt Gisela Dulko Template:Flagicon (Americas) 6–4, 0–6, 6–3
    - Americas and Russia level 1–1.
- Silver group final (best of three matches):
  - Sania Mirza Template:Flagicon (Asia-Pacific) bt Ágnes Szávay Template:Flagicon (Europe) 6–3, 6–4
  - Zheng Jie Template:Flagicon/Sania Mirza Template:Flagicon (Asia-Pacific) bt Jelena Janković Template:Flagicon/Michelle Larcher de Brito Template:Flagicon (Europe) 6–1, 6–1
    - Asia-Pacific win the silver group final 2–0.

Winter sports

Biathlon

World Cup 4 in Oberhof, Germany:
- 7.5 km Sprint Women: (1) Ekaterina Iourieva Template:Flagicon 22:09.7 (1 penalty), (2) Andrea Henkel Template:Flagicon at 2.4 (O), (3) Helena Jonsson Template:Flagicon 19.6 (0)
  - Overall World Cup standings (after eight rounds): (1) Svetlana Sleptsova Template:Flagicon 361 points, (2) Iourieva 337, (3) Jonsson 283

Skeleton

World Cup 5 in Königssee, Germany:
- Men: (1) Frank Rommel Template:Flagicon 1:34.91 (47.44/47.47) (2) Florian Grassl Template:Flagicon 1:35.91 (47.85/48.06) (3) Aleksandr Tretyakov Template:Flagicon 1:36.03 (48.20/47.83)
  - World Cup standings (after four races): (1) Grassl 803 points (2) Martins Dukurs Template:Flagicon 802 (3) Tretyakov 772
- Women: (1) Anja Huber Template:Flagicon 1:38.85 (49.55/49.30) (2) Shelley Rudman Template:Flagicon 1:39.09 (49.84/49.25) (3) Marion Trott Template:Flagicon 1:39.20 (49.65/49.55)
  - World Cup standings (after four races): (1) Huber 811 points (2) Rudman 747 (3) Amy Williams Template:Flagicon 736

January 8, 2009 (Thursday)

American football

NCAA Bowl Games:
- BCS National Championship Game at Miami Gardens, Florida:
  - (2) Florida 24, (1) Oklahoma 14
    - The Gators win their second BCS national title in three seasons as 2007 Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow outduels 2008 winner Sam Bradford.

Basketball

Euroleague, week 9:
(teams in bold advance to the Top 16 stage; teams in italics are eliminated)
- Group A:
  - Cibona Zagreb Template:Flagicon 76–77 Template:Flagicon Unicaja Málaga
  - Maccabi Tel Aviv Template:Flagicon 96–83 Template:Flagicon Olympiacos
    - Following these results, Málaga move to the top of the group, ahead of Olympiacos and Maccabi.
- Group B:
  - Montepaschi Siena Template:Flagicon 82–77 Template:Flagicon Panathinaikos Athens
  - Žalgiris Kaunas Template:Flagicon 105–94 Template:Flagicon SLUC Nancy
    - Žalgiris draw level with Nancy and Sopot for the 4th and final Top 16 place in the group, and hold tie-break advantage against each one of them, but Sopot would have the edge in case of a 3-way tie.
- Group C:
  - Union Olimpija Ljubljana Template:Flagicon 70–90 Template:Flagicon Fenerbahçe Ülker
    - Fenerbahçe punch their ticket to the Top 16.
  - Lottomatica Roma Template:Flagicon 96–103(OT) Template:Flagicon TAU Cerámica
    - TAU get the four-point win they needed to secure top spot in the group.
- Group D:
  - AJ Milano Template:Flagicon 70–61 Template:Flagicon Real Madrid
    - Real's loss assures CSKA Moscow of first place in the group. Milano gets level with Partizan Belgrade and Efes Pilsen in 3rd to 5th places, but because of disadvantage in tiebreakers can only advance to the Top 16 if results in other group matches on the final day go their way.

Tennis

Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia:
(teams in bold advance to the final)
- Group A:
  - Template:Flagu 2–1 Template:Flagu
  - Script error: No such module "flag". 3–0 Template:Flagu
- Group B:
  - Template:Flagu 2–1 Template:Flagu
  - Template:Flagu 3–0 Script error: No such module "flag".

Winter sports

Biathlon

World Cup 4 in Oberhof, Germany:
- 4 x 7.5 km Relay Men: (1) Script error: No such module "flag". 1hr 19min 36.61sec (0 penalties), (2) Template:Flagu 8.7sec behind (0), (3) Template:Flagu 19.2 (1)
  - World Cup relay standings: (1) Austria 174 (2) Russia 154 (3) Template:Flagu 124

January 7, 2009 (Wednesday)

Basketball

Euroleague, week 9:
(teams in bold advance to the Top 16 stage; teams in italics are eliminated)
- Group A:
  - Le Mans Template:Flagicon 92–88 Template:Flagicon Air Avellino
    - Le Mans score their first win, but it's too late...
- Group B:
  - Asseco Prokom Sopot Template:Flagicon 64–76 Template:Flagicon Regal FC Barcelona
    - Barcelona secure top place in the group which put them in the top seeding group for the draw of the Top 16 stage.
- Group C:
  - DKV Joventut Template:Flagicon 75–79 Template:Flagicon ALBA Berlin
    - ALBA get level with Joventut in 4th place, and take the tie-break advantage against them.
- Group D:
  - Efes Pilsen Template:Flagicon 55–74 Template:Flagicon CSKA Moscow
    - CSKA's win effectively secure them top place in the group, and also assures Real Madrid advance to the Top 16.
  - Partizan Belgrade Template:Flagicon 80–57 Template:Flagicon Panionios
    - Partizan draw level with Efes Pilsen in 3rd place. Panionios drop to last place and has only a slim chance of qualifying.

Cricket

South Africa in Australia:
- 3rd Test in Sydney, day 5:
  - File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia 445 and 257/4d; File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa 327 and 272. Australia win by 103 runs, South Africa win the series 2–1.
West Indies in New Zealand:
- 3rd ODI in Wellington:
  - File:WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg West Indies 128 (41.4 ov); File:Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand 129/3 (20.3 ov). New Zealand win by 7 wickets and level the 5-match series 1–1.
News:
- In a tumultuous day for the England cricket team, Kevin Pietersen steps down as captain and Peter Moores is sacked as head coach. Andrew Strauss will take over as captain for the upcoming tour of the West Indies.

Ice hockey

Champions Hockey League Semifinals, second leg:
(First leg scores in parentheses)
- Salavat Yulaev Ufa Template:Flagicon 1(2)–4(1) Template:Flagicon Metallurg Magnitogorsk
  - Metallurg win in penalty shootout.
- Espoo Blues Template:Flagicon 1(3)–4(6) Template:Flagicon ZSC Lions
  - Lions win 10–4 on aggregate.
World Women's U18 Championship in Füssen, Germany:
(teams in bold advance to the semifinals)
- Group B:
  - Switzerland File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg 4–3 File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland
  - Canada File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg 13–0 File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic
- Group A:
  - United States File:Flag of the United States.svg 9–2 File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
  - Russia File:Flag of Russia.svg 5–2 File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany

Tennis

Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia:
- Group A:
  - Template:Flagu 1–2 Template:Flagu
- Group B:
  - Template:Flagu 2–1 Script error: No such module "flag".

Winter sports

Biathlon

World Cup 4 in Oberhof, Germany:
- 4 x 6 km Relay Women: (1) Template:Flagu (Svetlana Sleptsova, Olga Zaitseva, Ekaterina Iourieva, Olga Medvedtseva) 1hr 16min 47.7sec (1 penalty), (2) Script error: No such module "flag". at 1:10.2 (0), (3) Template:Flagu 1:31.4 (2)
  - World Cup relay standings (after 3 of 6 events): (1) Russia 180 points, (2) Germany 145, (3) France 139

Snowboarding

World Cup in Kreischberg, Austria:
- Parallel slalom men: (1) Simon Schoch Template:Flagicon (2) Rok Flander Template:Flagicon (3) Zan Kosir Template:Flagicon
- Parallel slalom women: (1) Amelie Kober Template:Flagicon (2) Tomoka Takeuchi Template:Flagicon (3) Heidi Neururer Template:Flagicon

January 6, 2009 (Tuesday)

American football

NCAA Bowl Games:
- GMAC Bowl: Tulsa 45, (22) Ball State 13

Cricket

South Africa in Australia:
- 3rd Test in Sydney, day 4:
  - File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia 445 and 257/4d (Simon Katich 61); File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa 327 and 62/1. South Africa require another 314 runs with 9 wickets remaining.
Sri Lanka in Bangladesh:
- 2nd Test in Chittagong, day 4
  - File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka 384 and 447/6d (Tillakaratne Dilshan 143); File:Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh 208 and 158. Sri Lanka win by 465 runs and win the series 2–0.

Ice hockey

World Women's U18 Championship in Füssen, Germany:
(teams in bold advance to the semifinals)
- Group B:
  - Czech Republic File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg 7–3 File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Switzerland
  - Finland File:Flag of Finland.svg 0–6 File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada
- Group A:
  - Sweden File:Flag of Sweden.svg 6–1 File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia
  - Germany File:Flag of Germany.svg 0–11 File:Flag of the United States.svg United States

Tennis

Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia:
- Group B:
  - Template:Flagu 1–2 Template:Flagu
- Group A:
  - Template:Flagu 1–2 Script error: No such module "flag".

Winter sports

Alpine skiing

Men's World Cup in Zagreb, Croatia:
- Slalom: (1) Jean-Baptiste Grange Template:Flagicon 1:53.31 (53.91 + 59.40) (2) Ivica Kostelic Template:Flagicon 1:53.36 (54.18 + 59.18) (3) Giuliano Razzoli Template:Flagicon 1:53.66 (54.88 + 58.78)
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 15 races): (1) Grange 466pts, (2) Aksel Lund Svindal Template:Flagicon 444, (3) Benjamin Raich Template:Flagicon 433

Ski jumping

Four Hills Tournament:
- World Cup in Bischofshofen, Austria:
  - Individual 140m hill: (1) Wolfgang Loitzl Template:Flagicon 301.2 points (142.5/141.5m) (2) Simon Ammann Template:Flagicon 284.4 (137.5/140.5) (3) Dimitry Vassiliev Template:Flagicon 279.2 (138.0/138.5)
    - Final Four Hills standings: (1) Loitzl 1123.7 points (2) Ammann 1091.1 (3) Gregor Schlierenzauer Template:Flagicon 1077.1
    - Overall World Cup standings (after 11 of 28 events): (1) Ammann 877 points (2) Schlierenzauer 740 (3) Loitzl 739

Snowboarding

World Cup in Kreischberg, Austria:
- Parallel GS men: (1) Siegfried Grabner Template:Flagicon (2) Simon Schoch Template:Flagicon (3)Meinhard Erlacher Template:Flagicon
- Parallel GS women: (1) Doris Guenther Template:Flagicon (2) Tomoka Takeuchi Template:Flagicon (3) Claudia Riegler Template:Flagicon

January 5, 2009 (Monday)

American football

NCAA Bowl Games:
- Bowl Championship Series
  - Fiesta Bowl: (3) Texas 24, (10) Ohio State 21.
    - Colt McCoy's 26-yard pass to Quan Cosby with 16 seconds left wins the game for the Longhorns.

Baseball

Philadelphia Phillies reliever JC Romero and Sergio Mitre of the New York Yankees are both suspended for the first 50 games of the 2009 season after violating substance policy rules.
Carl Pohlad, owner of the Minnesota Twins, dies at the age of 93 in Minneapolis.

Cricket

South Africa in Australia:
- 3rd Test in Sydney, day 3:
  - File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia 445 and 33/0; File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa 327 (Mark Boucher 89). Australia lead by 151 runs with 10 wickets remaining.
Sri Lanka in Bangladesh:
- 2nd Test in Chittagong, day 3:
  - File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka 384 and 296/4 (Tillakaratne Dilshan 81*); File:Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh 208. Sri Lanka lead by 472 runs with 6 wickets remaining.

Ice hockey

World Junior Championships in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Gold Medal Game:
  - Sweden File:Flag of Sweden.svg 1–5 File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada
    - Canada wins its fifth consecutive gold medal, matching their own record set from 1993–1997.
- Bronze Medal Game:
  - Slovakia File:Flag of Slovakia.svg 2–5 File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia
World Women's U18 Championship in Füssen, Germany:
- Group B:
  - Czech Republic File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg 1–2(SO) File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland
  - Canada File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg 16–1 File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Switzerland
- Group A:
  - United States File:Flag of the United States.svg 17–0 File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia
  - Sweden File:Flag of Sweden.svg 8–1 File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany

Tennis

Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia:
- Group A:
  - Template:Flagu 1–2 Template:Flagu
  - Template:Flagu 0–3 Script error: No such module "flag".

Winter sports

Freestyle skiing

World Cup in St. Johann in Tirol, Austria:
- Skicross men: (1) Michael Schmid Template:Flagicon (2) Andreas Matt Template:Flagicon (3) Tommy Eliasson Template:Flagicon
- Skicross women: (1) Marion Josserand Template:Flagicon (2) Katharina Gutensohn Template:Flagicon (3) Kelsey Serwa Template:Flagicon

January 4, 2009 (Sunday)

American football

NFL Playoffs Wild card round:
(Seedings in parentheses)
- AFC: (6) Baltimore Ravens 27, (3) Miami Dolphins 9
  - Ed Reed's 64-yard interception return for a touchdown was the turning point for Baltimore.
- NFC: (6) Philadelphia Eagles 26, (3) Minnesota Vikings 14
  - Donovan McNabb's 79-yard touchdown pass to Brian Westbrook was the difference as the Eagles beat the NFC North champions.
- Next week's Divisional Round will be rematches of regular season games with the Arizona Cardinals visiting the Carolina Panthers and the Eagles visiting the New York Giants in the NFC, while the Ravens visit the Tennessee Titans and the San Diego Chargers making a trip to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC.

Cricket

South Africa in Australia:
- 3rd Test in Sydney, day 2:
  - File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia 445 (Michael Clarke 138), File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa 125/1. South Africa trail by 320 runs with 9 wickets remaining in the 1st innings.
Sri Lanka in Bangladesh:
- 2nd Test in Chittagong, day 2:
  - File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka 384 (Tillakaratne Dilshan 162) and 13/0; File:Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh 208 (Mashrafe Mortaza 63). Sri Lanka lead by 189 runs with 10 wickets remaining.

Darts

PDC World Darts Championship in London, United Kingdom:
- Final:
  - Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor def. Template:Flagicon Raymond van Barneveld 7–1

Ice hockey

World Junior Championships in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Relegation Round (at the Ottawa Civic Centre):
  - Germany File:Flag of Germany.svg 1–3 File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland
  - Kazakhstan File:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg 1–7 File:Flag of Latvia.svg Latvia
    - Germany and Kazakhstan are relegated to Division 1 in 2010.
- 5th place Playoff (at Scotiabank Place):
  - United States File:Flag of the United States.svg 3–2(OT) File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic

Tennis

Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia:
- Group B:
  - Template:Flagu 2–1 Template:Flagu

Winter sports

Alpine skiing

Women's World Cup in Zagreb, Croatia:
- Slalom: (1) Maria Riesch Template:Flagicon 1min 58.96sec (58.60 + 1:00.36) (2) Nicole Gius Template:Flagicon 1:59.40 (1:00.15 + 59.25) (3) Šárka Záhrobská Template:Flagicon 1:59.59 (59.79 + 59.80)
  - Overall standings (after 13 of 35 races): (1) Riesch 607pts, (2) Tanja Poutiainen Template:Flagicon 534, (3) Lindsey Vonn Template:Flagicon 530

Cross-country skiing

Tour de Ski stage 7 in Val di Fiemme, Italy:
- Men Final standings: (1) Dario Cologna Template:Flagicon 2hr 46min 05.4sec, (2) Petter Northug Template:Flagicon at 59.0sec, (3) Axel Teichmann Template:Flagicon 1min 02.8sec
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 15 of 33 races): (1) Cologna 835 points, (2) Teichmann 661, (3) Northug 618
- Women Final standings: (1) Virpi Kuitunen Template:Flagicon 2hr 06min 41.4sec, (2) Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Template:Flagicon at 7.2sec, (3) Petra Majdič Template:Flagicon 34.5
  - Overall World Cup standings (after 14 of 33 races): (1) Saarinen 978 points, (2) Kuitunen 907, (3) Majdic 893

Luge

World Cup 4 in Königssee, Germany:
- Men: (1) Armin Zöggeler Template:Flagicon (2) David Möller Template:Flagicon (3) Felix Loch Template:Flagicon
  - Overall standings (after 4 of 9 races): (1) Zöggeler 355 (2) Möller 325 (3) Andi Langenhan Template:Flagicon 227

Nordic combined

World Cup in Schonach, Germany:
- 10 km Gundersen: (1) Anssi Koivuranta Template:Flagicon 22min 15.4sec (1) (2) Bill Demong Template:Flagicon at 6.7 (18) (3) Bjorn Kircheisen Template:Flagicon 7.1 (19)
  - Overall standings (after 9 of 24 races): (1) Koivuranta 643 points (2) Demong 447 (3) Magnus Moan Template:Flagicon 420

Ski jumping

Four Hills Tournament:
- World Cup in Innsbruck, Austria:
  - Individual 130m hill: (1) Wolfgang Loitzl Template:Flagicon 261.0 points (126.5m/128.5m) (2) Gregor Schlierenzauer Template:Flagicon 260.3 (126.0/127.5) (3) Martin Schmitt Template:Flagicon 257.7 (128.5/125.5)
    - Four Hills Tournament standings (after 3 of 4 events): (1) Loitzl 822.5 points (2) Simon Ammann Template:Flagicon 806.7 (3) Schlierenzauer 798.0
    - World Cup standings (after 10 of 28 events): (1) Ammann 797 points (2) Schlierenzauer 690 (3) Loitzl 639

January 3, 2009 (Saturday)

American football

NFL Playoffs Wild card round:
(Seedings in parentheses)
- NFC: (4) Arizona Cardinals 30, (5) Atlanta Falcons 24
  - The Cardinals win in their first home playoff game since 1947.
- AFC: (4) San Diego Chargers 23, (5) Indianapolis Colts 17 (OT)
  - Darren Sproles' 22-yard rushing TD sends the Chargers to the Divisional playoffs for the third consecutive season.
NCAA Bowl Games:
- International Bowl: Connecticut 38, Buffalo 20
  - The Huskies score 28 unanswered points to come back from a ten-point deficit.

Cricket

South Africa in Australia:
- 3rd Test in Sydney, day 1:
  - File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia 267/6 (Michael Clarke 73*, Dale Steyn 2/71).
Sri Lanka in Bangladesh:
- 2nd Test in Chittagong, day 1:
  - File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka 371/6 (Tillakaratne Dilshan 162, Mashrafe Mortaza 2/48).
West Indies in New Zealand:
- 2nd ODI in Christchurch:
  - File:Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand 152/8 (Jesse Ryder 32, Fidel Edwards 3/26); File:WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg West Indies 158/5 (Ramnaresh Sarwan 67*, Jacob Oram 1/25). Match reduced to 28 overs each by rain. West Indies win by 5 wickets (D/L method) and lead 5-match series 1–0.

Ice hockey

World Junior Championships in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Relegation Round (at the Ottawa Civic Centre):
  - Finland File:Flag of Finland.svg 7–1 File:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan
- Semifinals (at Scotiabank Place):
  - Sweden File:Flag of Sweden.svg 5–3 File:Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia
  - Canada File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg 6–5(SO) File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia

Tennis

Capitala World Tennis Championship in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates:
- Final:
  - Andy Murray Template:Flagicon def. Rafael Nadal Template:Flagicon 6–4, 5–7, 6–3
Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia:
- Group B:
  - Template:Flagu 3–0 Script error: No such module "flag".

Winter sports

Cross-country skiing

Tour de Ski stage 6 in Val di Fiemme, Italy:
- 10 km classic women mass start: (1) Virpi Kuitunen Template:Flagicon 30min 10.3sec, (2) Petra Majdič Template:Flagicon at 13.8sec, (3) Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Template:Flagicon 20.5
  - Overall standings (after 6 of 7 stages): (1) Kuitunen 1hr 29min 14.5sec, (2) Saarinen at 31.7sec, (3) Majdic (SLO) 49.1
- 20 km classic men mass start, 15:30 CET: (1) Axel Teichmann Template:Flagicon 55min 19.2sec, (2) Sami Jauhojärvi Template:Flagicon at 0.3sec, (3) Nikolai Chebotko Template:Flagicon 1.3
  - Overall standings (after 6 of 7 stages): (1) Dario Cologna Template:Flagicon 2hr 20min 53.4sec, (2) Teichmann 2hr 21:27.5, (3) Eldar Roenning Template:Flagicon 2hr 21:58.6

Luge

World Cup 4 in Königssee, Germany:
- Women: (1) Tatjana Hüfner Template:Flagicon (2) Natalie Geisenberger Template:Flagicon (3) Anke Wischnewski Template:Flagicon
  - Overall standings (after 4 of 9 races): (1) Hüfner 385 (2) Geisenberger 330 (3)Wischnewski 280
- Doubles: (1) Patric Leitner/Alexander Resch Template:Flagicon (2) Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt Template:Flagicon (3) Andreas Linger/Wolfgang Linger Template:Flagicon
  - Overall standings (after 4 of 9 races): (1) Christian Oberstolz/Patrick Gruber Template:Flagicon 320 (2) Linger/Linger 290 (3) Leitner/Resch 264

Nordic combined

World Cup in Schonach, Germany:
- 4x5km Team: (1) Template:Flagu 43:28.1 (2) Script error: No such module "flag". 43:47.7 (3) Script error: No such module "flag". 44:02.8

January 2, 2009 (Friday)

American football

NCAA Bowl Games:
(BCS ranking in parentheses)
- Cotton Bowl Classic: (25) Mississippi 47, (8) Texas Tech 34
- Liberty Bowl: Kentucky 25, East Carolina 19
  - The Wildcats win three straight bowl games for the first time in school history.
Bowl Championship Series:
- Sugar Bowl: (6) Utah 31, (4) Alabama 17
  - The Utes jump to a 21–0 lead in the first quarter and never look back, finishing as this season's only unbeaten Division I FBS team.

Ice hockey

World Junior Championships in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Relegation Round (at the Ottawa Civic Centre):
  - Germany File:Flag of Germany.svg 1–7 File:Flag of Latvia.svg Latvia
- Quarterfinals (at Scotiabank Place):
  - United States File:Flag of the United States.svg 3–5 File:Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia
  - Russia File:Flag of Russia.svg 5–1 File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic

January 1, 2009 (Thursday)

American football

NCAA Bowl Games:
(BCS ranking in parentheses)
- Outback Bowl: Iowa 31, South Carolina 10
- Gator Bowl: Nebraska 26, Clemson 21
- Capital One Bowl: (15) Georgia 24, (18) Michigan State 12
Bowl Championship Series
- Rose Bowl: (5) Southern California 38, (8) Penn State 24
- Orange Bowl: (19) Virginia Tech 20, (12) Cincinnati 7
  - The Hokies' win ends an eight-game BCS losing streak for the ACC.

Ice hockey

2009 NHL Winter Classic at Wrigley Field, Chicago:
- Detroit Red Wings 6, Chicago Blackhawks 4
  - The Wings won the 701st meeting of these Original Six rivals in front of 40,818 fans.

Winter sports

Cross-country skiing

Tour de Ski stage 5 in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic:
- 1.2 km Sprint freestyle men: (1) Petter Northug Template:Flagicon (2) Tor Arne Hetland Template:Flagicon (3) Cristian Zorzi Template:Flagicon
  - Overall standings (after five of seven Tour de Ski rounds): (1) Dario Cologna Template:Flagicon 1 hr 26 min 02.4 sec (2) Vasily Rochev Template:Flagicon 1 h 26:25.9 (3) Eldar Rønning Template:Flagicon 1 h 26:34.9
- 1.2 km Sprint freestyle women: (1) Arianna Follis Template:Flagicon (2) Petra Majdič Template:Flagicon (3) Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Template:Flagicon
  - Overall standings (after five of seven Tour de Ski rounds): (1) Saarinen 59:30.4 (2) Virpi Kuitunen Template:Flagicon at 13.8 (3) Marit Bjørgen Template:Flagicon 37.0

Ski jumping

Four Hills Tournament:
- World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany:
  - Individual 140m hill: (1) Wolfgang Loitzl Template:Flagicon 276.3 points (134.5/136.5m) (2) Simon Ammann Template:Flagicon 274.6 (140.0/134.5) (3) Harri Olli Template:Flagicon 258.6 (133.0/131.5)
    - Four Hills standings (after two of four events): (1) Loitzl 561.5 points (2) Ammann 561.0 (3) Gregor Schlierenzauer Template:Flagicon 537.7
    - World Cup standings (after 9 of 28 events): (1) Ammann 765 points (2) Schlierenzauer 610 (3) Loitzl 539

References

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