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[edit] Athletics (track and field)

[edit] Auto Racing

[edit] Baseball

Main article: 2005 in baseball

[edit] Basketball

[edit] National Basketball Association

  • The San Antonio Spurs win their third NBA title in the past seven years, defeating the Detroit Pistons in the first seven-game NBA Finals in eleven years. Tim Duncan was named NBA Finals MVP for the third time in his career. Only three others have accomplished this feat. (Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and Shaquille O'Neal. The match-up between the Spurs and Pistons, though panned by the media and low-rated, is the first NBA Finals to match the last two NBA champions in over a decade.
  • Due to backlash against its players, the NBA institutes a controversial dress code, requiring business casual attire at all team functions.

for more, see 2005 NBA Playoffs and 2005 NBA Finals

[edit] NCAA Champions

[edit] International Competitions

[edit] Other Professional competitions

[edit] Boxing

  • May 7 – Diego Corrales defeats José Luis Castillo by 10th round knockout, for the WBO-WBC lightweight title unification. Both men were exchanging a brutal amount of punishment throughout the fight, before a dramatic tenth round in which Corrales scored a TKO after getting knocked down twice. The fight was highly regarded as one of the greatest of all-time and won Ring Magazine fight of the year.

[edit] Cricket

See also 2005 in cricket and 2005 English cricket season.

[edit] Cycling

[edit] Field Hockey

[edit] World Competitions


[edit] Regional Competitions


[edit] Figure skating

[edit] Football (American)

[edit] January

Day Score Winner Loser Event
1 24 - 21 Georgia Bulldogs Wisconsin Badgers Outback Bowl in Tampa
38 - 7 Tennessee Volunteers Texas A&M Aggies Cotton Bowl
30 - 18 Florida State Seminoles West Virginia Mountaineers Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida
30 - 25 Iowa Hawkeyes LSU Tigers Capital One Bowl
38 - 37 Texas Longhorns Michigan Wolverines Rose Bowl
35 - 7 Utah Utes Pittsburgh Panthers Fiesta Bowl in Sun Devil Stadium
3 16 - 13 Auburn Tigers Virginia Tech Hokies Sugar Bowl
4 55 - 19 USC Trojans Oklahoma Sooners Orange Bowl to win the NCAA Division I-A Football National Championship
8 27 - 20 St. Louis Rams Seattle Seahawks NFC Wildcard Round playoffs
20 - 17 OT New York Jets San Diego Chargers AFC Wildcard Round playoffs
9 49 - 24 Indianapolis Colts Denver Broncos AFC Wildcard Round playoffs
31 - 17 Minnesota Vikings Green Bay Packers NFC Wildcard Round playoffs
15 20 - 17 OT Pittsburgh Steelers New York Jets AFC Divisional Round playoffs
47 - 17 Atlanta Falcons St. Louis Rams NFC Divisional Round playoffs
45 - 17 East team West team East-West Shrine Game in San Francisco
24 - 21 South team North team Gridiron Classic in Orlando
16 27 - 14 Philadelphia Eagles Minnesota Vikings NFC Divisional Round playoffs
20 - 3 New England Patriots Indianapolis Colts AFC Divisional Round playoffs
22 20 - 13 East team West team Hula Bowl in Kahului, Hawaii
23 27 - 10 Eagles Falcons NFC Championship Game in Philadelphia
41 - 27 Patriots Steelers AFC Championship Game in Pittsburgh

[edit] February

Day Score Winner Loser Event
6 24 - 21 Patriots Eagles Super Bowl XXXIX in Jacksonville, Florida
13 38 - 27 AFC NFC Pro Bowl

[edit] June

Day Score Winner Loser Event
11 27 - 21 Amsterdam Admirals Berlin Thunder World Bowl XIII in Dusseldorf, Germany
11 16 - 16 Toronto Argonauts Hamilton Tiger-Cats Touchdown Atlantic
12 51 - 48 Colorado Crush Georgia Force ArenaBowl XIX in Las Vegas

[edit] November

Day Score Winner Loser Event
27 38 - 35 Edmonton Eskimos Montreal Alouettes 93rd Grey Cup in Vancouver, British Columbia

[edit] Football (Australian rules football)

[edit] Football (rugby league)

[edit] Football (Rugby Union)

[edit] Football (Soccer)

For fuller coverage, see: 2005 in football (soccer).

[edit] Gaelic Athletic Association

[edit] Golf

For fuller coverage see 2005 in golf.

Major championships

Women's majors

Money list/order of merit winners

Other happenings

  • 6 March: Tiger Woods wins the Ford Championship at Doral and returns to Number 1 in the Official World Golf Rankings.
  • 20 March: Vijay Singh's tied second place finish at the Bay Hill Invitational restores him to Number 1 after just two weeks.
  • 22 May: Vijay Singh returns to Number 1. Neither he nor Woods played the previous weekend, but Singh lost fewer old points than did Woods, enabling him to surpass Woods.
  • 13 June: Woods and Singh exchange places atop the World Rankings once again.

[edit] Handball

[edit] Ice hockey

[edit] Lacrosse

[edit] Major League Lacrosse (US):

[edit] National Lacrosse League:

[edit] NCAA Division I (US Collegiate):

[edit] Other

  • November 10 - Austrian Lacrosse Association (ÖLAXV) is founded.

[edit] Motorcycle sport

[edit] Radiosport

[edit] Skiing

[edit] Snooker

[edit] 2004/05 season

[edit] 2005/06 season

[edit] Sumo

  • Asashoryu Akinori wins all six basho (tournament) in 2005 (a new record) and wins eighty-four bouts (out of ninety) setting a new record for victories in a single year. His seventh straight basho championship is also a new record.

[edit] Swimming



[edit] Tennis

[edit] Thoroughbred Horse Racing

[edit] Flat races

Triple Crown Races

  • Japan
    • Satsuki Sho(Japanese 2000 Guineas) (April 17) - Deep Impact
    • Tokyo Yushun(Japanese Derby) (May 29) - Deep Impact
    • Kikuka Sho(Japanese St.Leger) (October 23) - Deep Impact

[edit] Steeplechases

[edit] Water Polo

[edit] General sporting events


[edit] Deaths

[edit] January-March

[edit] April-June

[edit] July

[edit] August — September

[edit] October — December

[edit] See also

he:2005 בספורט nl:Sportjaar 2005 ja:2005年のスポーツ sv:Sportåret 2005 zh:2005年體育

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