December 2010 in sports

Deaths in December

 * 29: Avi Cohen
 * 21: Enzo Bearzot
 * 15: Bob Feller
 * 15: Stan Heal
 * 12: Tom Walkinshaw
 * 8: John James
 * 5: Don Meredith
 * 2: Ron Santo

American football 2010

 * National Football League
 * NCAA Division I FBS
 * NCAA Division I FCS

Auto racing 2010

 * V8 Supercar
 * FIA GT1 World Championship

Basketball 2010

 * NBA
 * NCAA Division I men
 * NCAA Division I women
 * Euroleague
 * EuroLeague Women
 * Eurocup
 * EuroChallenge
 * France
 * Germany
 * Greece
 * Israel
 * Italy
 * Philippines
 * Philippine Cup
 * Russia
 * Spain
 * Turkey

Football (soccer) 2010

 * National teams competitions:
 * UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying
 * 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
 * International clubs competitions:
 * UEFA (Europe) Champions League
 * UEFA Europa League
 * UEFA Women's Champions League
 * Copa Sudamericana
 * CAF Confederation Cup
 * CONCACAF (North & Central America) Champions League
 * OFC (Oceania) Champions League
 * Domestic (national) competitions:
 * Argentina
 * Australia
 * Brazil
 * England
 * France
 * Germany
 * Iran
 * Italy
 * Japan
 * Scotland
 * Spain

Golf 2010

 * European Tour
 * LPGA Tour

Ice hockey 2010

 * National Hockey League
 * Kontinental Hockey League
 * Czech Extraliga
 * Elitserien
 * Canadian Hockey League:
 * OHL, QMJHL, WHL
 * NCAA Division I men
 * NCAA Division I women

Rugby union 2010

 * Heineken Cup
 * European Challenge Cup
 * English Premiership
 * Celtic League
 * LV Cup
 * Top 14
 * Sevens World Series

Snooker

 * Players Tour Championship

Winter sports

 * Alpine Skiing World Cup
 * Biathlon World Cup
 * Bobsleigh World Cup
 * Cross-Country Skiing World Cup
 * Grand Prix of Figure Skating
 * Freestyle Skiing World Cup
 * Luge World Cup
 * Nordic Combined World Cup
 * Short Track Speed Skating World Cup
 * Skeleton World Cup
 * Ski Jumping World Cup
 * Snowboard World Cup
 * Speed Skating World Cup

Days of the month


American football

 * NFL news:
 * The Carolina Panthers announce that they will not renew the contract of head coach John Fox for the 2011 season.
 * NCAA bowl games:
 * Meineke Car Care Bowl in Charlotte, North Carolina: South Florida 31, Clemson 26
 * Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas: Notre Dame 33, Miami 17
 * Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennessee: UCF 10, Georgia 6
 * Chick-fil-A Bowl in Atlanta: Florida State 26, South Carolina 17

Cross-country skiing

 * Tour de Ski:
 * Stage 1 in Oberhof, Germany:
 * Men's 3.75 km Freestyle Prologue: Marcus Hellner  7:34.5  Alexei Petukhov  7:36.5  Petter Northug  7:37.4
 * World Cup Distance standings (after 6 of 17 races): (1) Alexander Legkov 333 points (2) Dario Cologna  276 (3) Lukáš Bauer  253
 * World Cup Overall standings (after 10 of 31 races): (1) Legkov 533 points (2) Cologna 503 (3) Hellner 353
 * Women's 2.5 km Freestyle Prologue: Justyna Kowalczyk  6:39.0  Charlotte Kalla  6:40.5  Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen  6:43.8
 * World Cup Distance standings (after 6 of 17 races): (1) Marit Bjørgen 410 points (2) Kowalczyk 365 (3) Kalla 215
 * World Cup Overall standings (after 10 of 31 races): (1) Bjørgen 760 points (2) Kowalczyk 589 (3) Arianna Follis 428

Ice hockey

 * World Junior Championships in Buffalo and Lewiston, United States: (teams in bold advance to the semifinals, teams in italics advance to the quarterfinals)
 * Group A:
 * 0–6 
 * ''' 2–1 '
 * Final standings: United States 11 points, Finland 10, Switzerland 6, Slovakia 2, 1.
 * Group B:
 * ' 5–6 (SO) '''
 * 3–8 
 * Final standings: Sweden 11 points, Canada 10, Russia 6, Czech Republic 3, 0.
 * Spengler Cup in Davos, Switzerland:
 * Final: SKA Saint Petersburg 🇷🇺 4–3 🇨🇦 Team Canada
 * SKA Saint Petersburg win the Cup for the fourth time and the first since 1977.



American football

 * NCAA bowl games:
 * Armed Forces Bowl in University Park, Texas: Army 16, SMU 14
 * Pinstripe Bowl in The Bronx: Syracuse 36, Kansas State 34
 * Music City Bowl in Nashville, Tennessee: North Carolina 30, Tennessee 27 (2OT)
 * Holiday Bowl in San Diego: Washington 19, Nebraska 7

Basketball

 * NCAA women's basketball: Stanford 71, Connecticut 59
 * The Huskies' Division I-record winning streak ends at 90 by the Cardinal, who were also the last team to beat the Huskies.

Cricket

 * Pakistan in New Zealand:
 * 3rd T20I in Christchurch: 🇵🇰 pakistan 183/6 (20 overs); 🇳🇿 new zealand 80 (15.5 overs). Pakistan win by 103 runs; New Zealand win 3-match series 2–1.

Equestrianism

 * Show jumping:
 * FEI World Cup Western European League:
 * 8th competition in Mechelen (CSI 5*-W): Jessica Kürten  on Myrtille Paulois  Gregory Wathelet  on Cortes C  Jos Lansink  on Casper van Spieveld
 * Standings (after 8 of 13 competitions): (1) Kevin Staut 87 points (2) Rolf-Göran Bengtsson  57 (3) Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum  50

Ice hockey

 * World Junior Championships in Buffalo and Lewiston, United States:
 * Group A:
 * 6–4
 * 0–4
 * Standings: United States 8 points (3 games), 7 (3), Switzerland 6 (3), Slovakia 2 (3), Germany 1 (4).
 * Group B:
 * 6–3
 * 8–2
 * Standings:, Sweden 9 points (3 games), Russia, Czech Republic 3 (3), Norway 0 (4).
 * Spengler Cup in Davos, Switzerland:
 * Semifinals:
 * SKA Saint Petersburg 🇷🇺 4–3 (OT) Genève-Servette HC
 * HC Davos 0–4 🇨🇦 Team Canada



Alpine skiing

 * Women's World Cup in Semmering, Austria:
 * Slalom: Marlies Schild  1:42.06  Maria Riesch  1:42.38  Christina Geiger  1:42.58
 * Slalom standings (after 4 of 10 races): (1) Schild 300 points (2) Tanja Poutiainen 250 (3) Riesch 240
 * Overall standings (after 13 of 38 races): (1) Riesch 738 points (2) Lindsey Vonn 617 (3) Poutiainen 430
 * Men's World Cup in Bormio, Italy:
 * Downhill: Michael Walchhofer  1:59.66  Silvan Zurbriggen  1:59.74  Christof Innerhofer  2:00.02
 * Downhill standings (after 3 of 9 races): (1) Walchhofer 245 points (2) Zurbriggen 230 (3) Aksel Lund Svindal 109
 * Overall standings (after 11 of 38 races): (1) Zurbriggen 395 points (2) Walchhofer 394 (3) Ted Ligety 321

American football

 * NCAA bowl games:
 * Military Bowl in Washington, D.C.: Maryland 51, East Carolina 20
 * Texas Bowl in Houston: Illinois 38, Baylor 14
 * Alamo Bowl in San Antonio: Oklahoma State 36, Arizona 10

Cricket

 * England in Australia:
 * Ashes series:
 * Fourth Test in Melbourne, day 4: 🇦🇺 australia 98 & 258 (85.4 overs); 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england 513. England win by an innings and 157 runs; lead 5-match series 2–1.
 * England retain The Ashes for the first time since 1986–87.
 * India in South Africa:
 * 2nd Test in Durban, day 4: 🇮🇳 india 205 & 228; undefined 131 & 215 (72.3 overs). India win by 87 runs; 3-match series level 1–1.

Football (soccer)

 * AFF Suzuki Cup Final, second leg (first leg score in parentheses):
 * 2–1 (0–3) . Malaysia win 4–2 on aggregate.
 * Malaysia win the Cup for the first time.

Ice hockey

 * World Junior Championships in Buffalo and Lewiston, United States:
 * Group A: 5–1
 * Standings: Finland 7 points (3 games), 5 (2),  3 (2),  2 (2), Germany 1 (3).
 * Group B: 1–10
 * Standings: Canada 9 points (3 games), 6 (2),  3 (2),  0 (2), Norway 0 (3).
 * Spengler Cup in Davos, Switzerland:
 * Quarterfinals:
 * Genève-Servette HC 2–0 🇷🇺 HC Spartak Moscow
 * Team Canada 🇨🇦 4–3 (OT) 🇨🇿 HC Sparta Praha

Ski jumping

 * Four Hills Tournament:
 * Stage 1 in Oberstdorf, Germany:
 * HS 137: Thomas Morgenstern  289.6 points  Matti Hautamäki  273.1  Manuel Fettner  264.0
 * World Cup standings (after 8 of 26 events): (1) Morgenstern 705 points (2) Andreas Kofler 525 (3) Hautamäki 431



Alpine skiing

 * Women's World Cup in Semmering, Austria:
 * Giant slalom: Tessa Worley  2:09.66  Maria Riesch  2:10.28  Kathrin Hölzl  2:10.44
 * Giant slalom standings (after 4 of 8 races): (1) Worley 332 points (2) Viktoria Rebensburg 235 (3) Hölzl 200
 * Overall standings (after 12 of 38 races): (1) Riesch 658 points (2) Lindsey Vonn 617 (3) Elisabeth Görgl  416

American football

 * NFL Week 16 (division champion in bold): Minnesota Vikings 24, Philadelphia Eagles 14
 * The result earns the Eagles a home game for the Wild Card round of the playoffs and the Chicago Bears a first-round bye.
 * NCAA bowl games:
 * Champs Sports Bowl in Orlando, Florida: North Carolina State 23, West Virginia 7
 * Insight Bowl in Tempe, Arizona: Iowa 27, Missouri 24

Cricket

 * England in Australia:
 * Ashes series:
 * Fourth Test in Melbourne, day 3: 🇦🇺 australia 98 & 169/6 (66 overs); 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england 513 (159.1 overs; Jonathan Trott 168*, Peter Siddle 6/75). Australia trail by 246 runs with 4 wickets remaining.
 * India in South Africa:
 * 2nd Test in Durban, day 3: 🇮🇳 india 205 & 228 (70.5 overs); undefined 131 & 111/3 (27 overs). South Africa require another 192 runs with 7 wickets remaining.
 * Pakistan in New Zealand:
 * 2nd T20I in Hamilton: 🇳🇿 new zealand 185/7 (20 overs); 🇵🇰 pakistan 146/9 (20 overs). New Zealand win by 39 runs; lead 3-match series 2–0.

Equestrianism

 * Dressage:
 * FEI World Cup Western European League:
 * 6th competition in Mechelen (CDI-W): Edward Gal  on Sisther de Jeu  Hans Peter Minderhoud  on Nadine  Ulla Salzgeber  on Wakana
 * Standings (after 6 of 10 competitions): (1) Salzgeber 74 points (2) Isabell Werth 57 (3) Richard Davison  55

Ice hockey

 * World Junior Championships in Buffalo and Lewiston, United States:
 * Group A:
 * 0–4
 * 6–1
 * Standings (after 2 games): United States 5 points, Finland 4, Switzerland 3, Slovakia 2, 1.
 * Group B:
 * 7–2
 * 2–0
 * Standings (after 2 games): Canada, Sweden 6 points, Czech Republic 3, Russia, 0.
 * Spengler Cup in Davos, Switzerland: (teams in bold advance to the semifinals)
 * Group Torriani: SKA Saint Petersburg 🇷🇺 4–1 🇨🇿 HC Sparta Praha
 * Final standings: SKA Saint Petersburg 6 points, Genève-Servette HC 3, HC Sparta Praha 0.
 * Group Cattini: HC Davos 3–2 🇨🇦 Team Canada
 * Final standings: HC Davos 6 points, Team Canada 3, 🇷🇺 HC Spartak Moscow 0.



American football

 * NFL Monday Night Football, Week 16 (teams assured of playoff berths in italics): New Orleans Saints 17, Atlanta Falcons 14
 * NCAA bowl games:
 * Independence Bowl in Shreveport, Louisiana: Air Force 14, Georgia Tech 7

Cricket

 * England in Australia:
 * Ashes series:
 * Fourth Test in Melbourne, day 2: 🇦🇺 australia 98; 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england 444/5 (136 overs; Jonathan Trott 141*). England lead by 346 runs with 5 wickets remaining in the 1st innings.
 * India in South Africa:
 * 2nd Test in Durban, day 2: 🇮🇳 india 205 (65.1 overs; Dale Steyn 6/50) & 92/4 (30.5 overs); undefined 131 (37.2 overs). India lead by 166 runs with 6 wickets remaining.

Ice hockey

 * World Junior Championships in Buffalo and Lewiston, United States:
 * Group A: 2–1 (OT)
 * Standings: 3 points (1 game),, Slovakia 2 (1),  1 (1), Germany 1 (2).
 * Group B: 2–0
 * Standings:, , Czech Republic 3 points (1 game), 0 (1), Norway 0 (2).
 * Spengler Cup in Davos, Switzerland:
 * Group Torriani: HC Sparta Praha 🇨🇿 3–4 Genève-Servette HC
 * Standings: 🇷🇺 SKA Saint Petersburg 3 points (1 game), Genève-Servette HC 3 (2), HC Sparta Praha 0 (1).
 * Group Cattini: Team Canada 🇨🇦 6–1 🇷🇺 HC Spartak Moscow
 * Standings: HC Davos, Team Canada 3 points (1 game), HC Spartak Moscow 0 (2).



American football

 * NFL Week 16 (division champions in bold, teams assured of playoff berths in italics):
 * Washington Redskins 20, Jacksonville Jaguars 17 (OT)
 * Detroit Lions 34, Miami Dolphins 27
 * St. Louis Rams 25, San Francisco 49ers 17
 * After the game, the 49ers fire head coach Mike Singletary and name defensive line coach Jim Tomsula as interim replacement.
 * Kansas City Chiefs 34, Tennessee Titans 14
 * Chicago Bears 38, New York Jets 34
 * New England Patriots 34, Buffalo Bills 3
 * As well as sealing the AFC East, the Patriots clinch the #1 seeding and home-field advantage for the AFC playoffs.
 * Baltimore Ravens 20, Cleveland Browns 10
 * Denver Broncos 24, Houston Texans 23
 * Cincinnati Bengals 34, San Diego Chargers 20
 * Indianapolis Colts 31, Oakland Raiders 26
 * Green Bay Packers 45, New York Giants 17
 * The Giants' loss clinches the NFC East for the Philadelphia Eagles.
 * Tampa Bay Buccaneers 38, Seattle Seahawks 15
 * The Minnesota Vikings–Philadelphia Eagles game originally scheduled for today was postponed to December 28 because of concerns over public safety in light of an incoming snowstorm that had been due to hit the Philadelphia metropolitan area prior to kick-off.
 * NCAA bowl games:
 * Little Caesars Pizza Bowl in Detroit: FIU 34, Toledo 32
 * First bowl game appearance and first bowl game win for FIU.

Cricket

 * England in Australia:
 * Ashes series:
 * Fourth Test in Melbourne, day 1: 🇦🇺 australia 98 (42.5 overs); 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england 157/0 (47 overs). England lead by 59 runs with 10 wickets remaining in the 1st innings.
 * Australia's score is their second-lowest total at the MCG, and the lowest score in a home Ashes Test since 1936.
 * India in South Africa:
 * 2nd Test in Durban, day 1: 🇮🇳 india 183/6 (56 overs); undefined.
 * Pakistan in New Zealand:
 * 1st T20I in Auckland: 🇵🇰 pakistan 143/9 (20 overs; Tim Southee 5/18); 🇳🇿 new zealand 146/5 (17.1 overs). New Zealand win by 5 wickets; lead 3-match series 1–0.
 * Southee bowls the third hat-trick in Twenty20 International cricket.

Football (soccer)

 * AFF Suzuki Cup Final, first leg:
 * 3–0

Ice hockey

 * World Junior Championships in Buffalo and Lewiston, United States:
 * Group A:
 * 3–4
 * 1–2 (OT)
 * Group B:
 * 3–6
 * 1–7
 * Spengler Cup in Davos, Switzerland:
 * Group Torriani: Genève-Servette HC 1–3 🇷🇺 SKA Saint Petersburg
 * Group Cattini: HC Davos 4–2 🇷🇺 HC Spartak Moscow



American football

 * NFL Christmas game, Week 16: Arizona Cardinals 27, Dallas Cowboys 26

Handball

 * Asian Women's Handball Championship in Almaty, Kazakhstan:
 * 3rd place playoff: 25–26  
 * Final:  33–32
 * Kazakhstan win the title for the second time, repeating their 2002 final victory over South Korea.



American football

 * NCAA bowl games:
 * Hawaii Bowl in Honolulu: Tulsa 62, Hawaii 35

Handball

 * Asian Women's Handball Championship in Almaty, Kazakhstan:
 * 7th place playoff: 20–30 
 * 5th place playoff: –



American football

 * NFL Thursday Night Football, Week 16 (team assured of playoff berth in italics): Pittsburgh Steelers 27, Carolina Panthers 3
 * NCAA bowl games:
 * Poinsettia Bowl in San Diego: San Diego State 35, Navy 14

Basketball

 * Euroleague Regular Season, matchday 10: (teams in bold advance to the Top 16)
 * Group A:
 * Caja Laboral 🇪🇸 87–71 🇷🇸 Partizan Belgrade
 * Asseco Prokom Gdynia 🇵🇱 72–83 🇮🇱 Maccabi Tel Aviv
 * Khimki Moscow 🇷🇺 93–89 (OT) 🇱🇹 Žalgiris Kaunas
 * Final standings: Maccabi Tel Aviv 9–1; Caja Laboral, Žalgiris Kaunas, Partizan Belgrade 5–5; Khimki Moscow 4–6; Asseco Prokom Gdynia 2–8.
 * Group B:
 * Unicaja Málaga 🇪🇸 70–72 🇩🇪 Brose Baskets
 * Real Madrid 🇪🇸 94–45 🇧🇪 Spirou Basket
 * Olympiacos Piraeus 89–82 🇮🇹 Virtus Roma
 * Final standings: Olympiacos Piraeus 7–3; Real Madrid 6–4; Unicaja Málaga, Virtus Roma 5–5; Brose Baskets 4–6; Spirou Basket 3–7.
 * Group C:
 * Fenerbahçe Ülker 🇹🇷 93–61 🇫🇷 Cholet Basket
 * KK Cibona Zagreb 77–94 🇱🇹 Lietuvos Rytas
 * Regal FC Barcelona 🇪🇸 73–72 🇮🇹 Montepaschi Siena
 * Final standings: Montepaschi Siena 8–2; Fenerbahçe Ülker, Regal FC Barcelona 7–3; Lietuvos Rytas, Cholet Basket 4–6; KK Cibona Zagreb 0–10.

Handball

 * Asian Women's Handball Championship in Almaty, Kazakhstan:
 * Semifinals:
 *  29–24
 *  31–26



American football

 * NCAA bowl games:
 * Maaco Bowl Las Vegas in Whitney, Nevada: Boise State 26, Utah 3

Basketball

 * Euroleague Regular Season, matchday 10: (teams in bold advance to the Top 16)
 * Group D:
 * CSKA Moscow 🇷🇺 78–69 🇹🇷 Efes Pilsen Istanbul
 * Power Electronics Valencia 🇪🇸 78–77 🇸🇮 Union Olimpija Ljubljana
 * Panathinaikos Athens 93–62 🇮🇹 Armani Jeans Milano
 * Final standings: Panathinaikos Athens 7–3; Union Olimpija Ljubljana 6–4; Efes Pilsen Istanbul, Power Electronics Valencia 5–5; Armani Jeans Milano 4–6; CSKA Moscow 3–7.

Handball

 * Asian Women's Handball Championship in Almaty, Kazakhstan: (teams in bold advance to the semifinals, and qualify for the 2011 World Championship)
 * Group A:
 *  46–17
 *  35–31
 * Final standings: Kazakhstan 6 points, China 4, North Korea 2, Iran 0.
 * Group B: ' 22–22 '
 * Final standings: South Korea, Japan 5 points, Uzbekistan 2, Thailand 0.



Alpine skiing

 * Women's World Cup in Courchevel, France:
 * Slalom: Marlies Schild  1:34.95  Tanja Poutiainen  1:35.73  Tina Maze  1:36.93
 * Slalom standings (after 3 of 10 races): (1) Poutiainen & Schild 200 points (3) Maria Pietilä Holmner 174
 * Overall standings (after 11 of 38 races): (1) Lindsey Vonn 581 points (2) Maria Riesch  578 (3) Elisabeth Görgl  366

American football

 * NCAA bowl games:
 * Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl in St. Petersburg, Florida: Louisville 31, Southern Miss 28

Basketball

 * NCAA women's basketball: Connecticut 93, Florida State 62
 * The Huskies record their 89th consecutive win, giving them sole possession of the record for longest winning streak in Division I basketball history.

Freestyle skiing

 * World Cup in Beida Lake, China:
 * Moguls men: Mikaël Kingsbury  25.60 points  Guilbaut Colas  24.14  Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau  24.05
 * Moguls standings (after 3 of 11 events): (1) Colas 240 points (2) Patrick Deneen 202 (3) Kingsbury 195
 * Overall standings: (1) Colas 48 points (2) Deneen 40 (3) Kingsbury 39
 * Moguls women: Hannah Kearney  25.34 points  Jennifer Heil  25.26  Kristi Richards  23.83
 * Moguls standings (after 3 of 11 events): (1) Kearney 280 points (2) Heil 200 (3) Richards 146
 * Overall standings: (1) Kearney 56 points (2) Heil 40 (3) Xu Mengtao 36

Handball

 * Asian Women's Handball Championship in Almaty, Kazakhstan: (teams in bold advance to the semifinals, and qualify for the 2011 World Championship)
 * Group A:
 * 33–27
 * 35–13
 * Standings (after 2 matches): Kazakhstan 4 points, China, North Korea 2, Iran 0.
 * Group B:
 *  60–16
 *  38–17
 * Standings: South Korea, Japan 4 points (2 matches), Uzbekistan 2 (3), Thailand 0 (3).

Rugby union

 * Heineken Cup pool stage, matchday 4:
 * Pool 6: Toulouse 🇫🇷 36–10 Glasgow Warriors
 * Standings (after 4 matches): Toulouse 17 points, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 London Wasps 15, Glasgow Warriors 4, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Newport Gwent Dragons 1.

Volleyball

 * FIVB Men's Club World Championship in Doha, Qatar:
 * 3rd place: Paykan Tehran 🇮🇷 3–2 🇦🇷 Drean Bolívar
 * Final: Trentino BetClic 🇮🇹 3–1  🇵🇱 Skra Bełchatów
 * Trentino BetClic win the title for the second straight time.
 * FIVB Women's Club World Championship in Doha, Qatar:
 * 3rd place: Mirador 🇩🇴 1–3 🇮🇹 Bergamo
 * Final: Fenerbahçe 🇹🇷 3–0 🇧🇷  Sollys Osasco
 * Fenerbahçe win the title for the first time.



American football

 * NFL Monday Night Football, Week 15 (division champion in bold): Chicago Bears 40, Minnesota Vikings 14
 * The game was held at the University of Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium due to the collapse of the inflatable roof at the Metrodome.

Cricket

 * India in South Africa:
 * 1st Test in Centurion, day 5: 🇮🇳 india 136 & 459 (128.1 overs; Sachin Tendulkar 111*); undefined 620/4d. South Africa win by an innings & 25 runs; lead 3-match series 1–0.

Equestrianism

 * Show jumping:
 * Olympia London International Horse Show in London (CSI 5*-W):
 * Grand Prix: Pénélope Leprevost  on Myss Valette  Simon Delestre  on Oslo du Chalet   Malin Baryard-Johnsson  on Reveur de Hurtebise

Handball

 * Asian Women's Handball Championship in Almaty, Kazakhstan:
 * Group A: 22–47
 * Group B:
 * 57–22
 * 38–11

Rugby union

 * Heineken Cup pool stage, matchday 4:
 * Pool 1: Edinburgh 24–22 🇫🇷 Castres
 * Standings (after 4 matches): 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Northampton Saints 16 points, Castres 10, Edinburgh 7, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Cardiff Blues 6.
 * Amlin Challenge Cup pool stage, matchday 4:
 * Pool 2: Sale Sharks 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 13–15 🇫🇷 Brive in Galashiels
 * Standings (after 4 matches): Brive 18 points, Sale Sharks 11, 🇮🇹 Petrarca 5, 🇪🇸 El Salvador 4.

Volleyball

 * FIVB Men's Club World Championship in Doha, Qatar:
 * Semifinals:
 * Trentino BetClic 🇮🇹 3–0 🇮🇷 Paykan Tehran
 * Skra Bełchatów 🇵🇱 3–0 🇦🇷 Drean Bolívar
 * FIVB Women's Club World Championship in Doha, Qatar:
 * Semifinals:
 * Fenerbahçe 🇹🇷 3–0 🇩🇴 Mirador
 * Bergamo 🇮🇹 0–3 🇧🇷 Sollys Osasco



Alpine skiing

 * Women's World Cup in Val-d'Isère, France:
 * Super Combined: Lindsey Vonn  2:07.80  Elisabeth Görgl  2:08.26  Nicole Hosp  2:08.49
 * Overall standings (after 10 of 38 races): (1) Vonn 581 points (2) Maria Riesch 578 (3) Görgl 366
 * Men's World Cup in Alta Badia, Italy:
 * Giant slalom: Ted Ligety  2:31.99  Cyprien Richard  2:32.13  Thomas Fanara  2:32.54
 * Giant slalom standings (after 3 of 7 races): (1) Ligety 300 points (2) Aksel Lund Svindal 165 (3) Richard 142
 * Overall standings (after 10 of 38 races): (1) Ligety 321 points (2) Silvan Zurbriggen 315 (3) Didier Cuche  & Michael Walchhofer  294

American football

 * NFL Week 15 (teams assured of playoff berths in italics):
 * Cincinnati Bengals 19, Cleveland Browns 17
 * Dallas Cowboys 33, Washington Redskins 30
 * Tennessee Titans 31, Houston Texans 17
 * Indianapolis Colts 34, Jacksonville Jaguars 24
 * Kansas City Chiefs 27, St. Louis Rams 13
 * Buffalo Bills 17, Miami Dolphins 14
 * Detroit Lions 23, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20 (OT)
 * The Lions win on the road for the first time since, ending the longest road losing streak in NFL history at 26 games.
 * Carolina Panthers 19, Arizona Cardinals 12
 * Baltimore Ravens 30, New Orleans Saints 24
 * Philadelphia Eagles 38, New York Giants 31
 * The Eagles erase a 21-point deficit in the final 8 minutes, capped by DeSean Jackson's punt return touchdown on the game's final play.
 * Atlanta Falcons 34, Seattle Seahawks 18
 * New York Jets 22, Pittsburgh Steelers 17
 * Oakland Raiders 39, Denver Broncos 23
 * Sunday Night Football: New England Patriots 31, Green Bay Packers 27

Basketball

 * Maggie Dixon Classic in New York City: Connecticut 81, Ohio State 50
 * The Huskies women's team ties the UCLA men's team of 1971 to 1974 for the longest winning streak in NCAA Division I history, at 88 games.

Biathlon

 * World Cup 3 in Pokljuka, Slovenia:
 * Mixed Relay:  (Helena Ekholm, Anna Carin Zidek, Fredrik Lindström, Carl Johan Bergman) 1:17:52.0 (0+4+0+6)  🇺🇦 (Olena Pidhrushna, Vita Semerenko, Serhiy Semenov, Serguei Sednev) 1:17:52.3 (0+3+0+4)   (Marie-Laure Brunet, Marie Dorin, Vincent Jay, Martin Fourcade) 1:17:53.3 (0+6+0+4)

Bobsleigh

 * World Cup in Lake Placid, United States:
 * Four-man: Steve Holcomb/Justin Olsen/Steven Langton/Curtis Tomasevicz  1:48.01 (53.70 / 54.31)  Maximilian Arndt/Rene Tiefert/Alexander Rödiger/Martin Putze  1:48.59 (54.23 / 54.36)  Lyndon Rush/Justin Wilkinson/Cody Sorensen/Neville Wright  1:48.63 (54.17 / 54.46)
 * Standings (after 4 of 8 races): (1) Manuel Machata 811 points (2) Holcomb 810 (3) Arndt 804

Cricket

 * England in Australia:
 * Ashes series:
 * Third Test in Perth, day 4: 🇦🇺 australia 268 & 309; 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england 187 & 123 (37 overs; Ryan Harris 6/47). Australia win by 267 runs; 5-match series level 1–1.
 * India in South Africa:
 * 1st Test in Centurion, day 4: 🇮🇳 india 136 & 454/8 (122.2 overs; Sachin Tendulkar 107*); undefined 620/4d. India trail by 30 runs with 2 wickets remaining.
 * Tendulkar hits the 50th century of his Test career.

Cross-country skiing

 * World Cup in La Clusaz, France:
 * Men's 4 x 10 km relay:  (Toni Livers, Dario Cologna, Remo Fischer, Curdin Perl) 1:42:14.6   I (Evgeniy Belov, Alexander Legkov, Petr Sedov, Maxim Vylegzhanin) 1:42:45.4  🇳🇴 I (Eldar Rønning, Martin Johnsrud Sundby, Tord Asle Gjerdalen, Petter Northug) 1:42:48.4
 * Women's 4 x 5 km relay: 🇳🇴 I (Vibeke Skofterud, Therese Johaug, Kristin Størmer Steira, Marit Bjørgen) 58:38.7   (Virginia de Martin Topranin, Marianna Longa, Silvia Rupil, Arianna Follis) 59:35.3   (Sara Lindborg, Anna Haag, Maria Rydqvist, Charlotte Kalla) 1:00:02.8

Equestrianism

 * Show jumping:
 * FEI World Cup Western European League:
 * 7th competition in London (CSI 5*-W): Michael Whitaker  on Amai  Billy Twomey  on Tinka's Serenade   Kevin Staut  on Le Prestige de Hus
 * Standings (after 7 of 13 competitions): (1) Staut 78 points (2) Rolf-Göran Bengtsson 57 (3) Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum  50
 * CSI 4* Frankfurt:
 * Grand Prix (Masters League Final): Janne Friederike Meyer  on Lambrasco  Denis Lynch  on Lantinus  Ludger Beerbaum  on Chaman
 * Dressage:
 * FEI World Cup Western European League:
 * 5th competition in Frankfurt (CDI-W): Ulla Salzgeber  on Herzruf's Erbe  Isabell Werth  on El Santo NRW  Matthias Alexander Rath  on Sterntaler-UNICEF
 * Standings (after 5 of 10 competitions): (1) Salzgeber & Werth 57 points (3) Catherine Haddad 54

Football (soccer)

 * AFF Suzuki Cup Semi-finals, second leg (first leg score in parentheses):
 *  1–0 (1–0) . Indonesia win 2–0 on aggregate.

Freestyle skiing

 * World Cup in Innichen, Italy:
 * Ski Cross men: Scott Kneller   Alex Fiva   John Teller
 * Ski Cross standings (after 2 of 11 races): (1) Patrick Gasser 120 points (2) Kneller 112 (3) Andreas Matt  109
 * Overall standings: (1) Patrick Deneen & Jia Zongyang  36 points (3) Guilbaut Colas  32
 * Ski Cross women: Fanny Smith   Ashleigh McIvor   Heidi Zacher
 * Ski Cross standings (after 2 of 11 races): (1) Anna Holmlund 150 points (2) Smith 145 (3) McIvor 116
 * Overall standings: (1) Hannah Kearney & Xu Mengtao  36 points (3) Holmlund 30

Golf

 * European Tour:
 * South African Open in Durban, South Africa:
 * Winner: Ernie Els 263 (−25)
 * Els wins his 26th European Tour title.

Handball

 * European Women's Championship in Herning, Denmark:
 * Bronze Medal Match: 15–16  
 * Romania qualify for the 2011 World Championship.
 * Final:  25–20
 * Norway win the title for the fourth successive time and fifth overall.
 * Asian Women's Championship in Almaty, Kazakhstan:
 * Group A: 22–25
 * Group B: 25–31

Nordic combined

 * World Cup in Ramsau, Austria:
 * HS 98 / 10 km: Mario Stecher  24:22.3  Tino Edelmann  24:30.9  Eric Frenzel  24:32.5
 * Overall standings (after 6 of 12 races): (1) Jason Lamy-Chappuis 435 points (2) Stecher 386 (3) Mikko Kokslien  355

Rugby union

 * Heineken Cup pool stage, matchday 4:
 * Pool 1:
 * Edinburgh – 🇫🇷 Castres — postponed to December 20 due to heavy snow in Edinburgh
 * Cardiff Blues 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 19–23 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Northampton Saints
 * Standings: Northampton Saints 16 points (4 matches), Castres 9 (3), Cardiff Blues 6 (4), Edinburgh 3 (3).
 * Pool 5: Leicester Tigers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 22–22 🇫🇷 Perpignan
 * Standings (after 4 matches): 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Scarlets 15 points, Leicester Tigers 13, Perpignan 12, 🇮🇹 Benetton Treviso 1.
 * Pool 6:
 * Toulouse 🇫🇷 – Glasgow Warriors — postponed to December 21 due to weather-related travel delays
 * London Wasps 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 37–10 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Newport Gwent Dragons
 * Standings: London Wasps 15 points (4 matches), Toulouse 12 (3), Glasgow Warriors 4 (3), Newport Gwent Dragons 1 (4).
 * Amlin Challenge Cup pool stage, matchday 4:
 * Pool 2:
 * Sale Sharks 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 – 🇫🇷 Brive — postponed to December 20 due to frozen pitch
 * El Salvador 🇪🇸 37–16 🇮🇹 Petrarca
 * Standings: Brive 14 points (3 matches), Sale Sharks 10 (3), Petrarca 5 (4), El Salvador 4 (4).
 * Pool 3: Newcastle Falcons 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 26–24 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Exeter Chiefs in Galashiels
 * Standings (after 4 matches): 🇫🇷 Montpellier 13 points, Exeter Chiefs 11, Newcastle Falcons 8, 🇫🇷 Bourgoin 6.
 * Pool 4: Overmach Parma 🇮🇹 6–44 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Leeds Carnegie
 * Standings (after 4 matches): 🇫🇷 Stade Français 19 points, Leeds Carnegie 14, 🇷🇴 București Oaks 4, Overmach Parma 1.
 * Pool 5: Gloucester 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 18–24 🇫🇷 La Rochelle
 * Standings (after 4 matches): La Rochelle, 🇫🇷 Agen 15 points, Gloucester 11, 🇮🇹 Rovigo 0.

Ski jumping

 * World Cup in Engelberg, Switzerland:
 * HS 137: Andreas Kofler  265.1 points  Thomas Morgenstern  258.8  Adam Małysz  255.1
 * Standings (after 7 of 26 events): (1) Morgenstern 605 points (2) Kofler 480 (3) Matti Hautamäki 351

Swimming

 * World Championships (25 m) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates:
 * Men:
 * 100m freestyle: César Cielo  45.74 CR  Fabien Gilot  45.97  Nikita Lobintsev  46.35
 * 200m backstroke: Ryan Lochte  1:46.68 CR  Tyler Clary  1:49.09  Markus Rogan  1:49.96
 * 100m individual medley: Ryan Lochte  50.86  Markus Deibler  51.69  Sergey Fesikov  51.81
 * 50m breaststroke: Felipe França Silva  25.95 CR  Cameron van der Burgh  26.03  Aleksander Hetland  26.29
 * 200m butterfly: Chad le Clos  1:51.56  Kaio de Almeida  1:51.61  László Cseh  1:51.67
 * 1500m freestyle: Oussama Mellouli  14:24.16  Mads Glæsner  14:29.52  Gergely Gyurta  14:31.47
 * 4 × 100 m medley relay:  (Nick Thoman, Mihail Alexandrov, Ryan Lochte, Garrett Weber-Gale) 3:20.99 CR   (Stanislav Donets 48.95 CR, Stanislav Lakhtyukhov, Yevgeny Korotyshkin, Nikita Lobintsev) 3:21.61   (Guilherme Guido, Felipe França Silva, Kaio de Almeida, César Cielo) 3:23.12
 * Lochte wins his third gold medal of the day and sixth of the championships.
 * Women:
 * 50m backstroke: Zhao Jing  26.27 CR  Rachel Goh  26.54  Mercedes Peris  26.80
 * 200m breaststroke: Rebecca Soni  2:16.39 CR  Sun Ye  2:18.09  Rikke Møller Pedersen  2:18.82
 * Soni wins her third gold medal of the championships.
 * 100m butterfly: Felicity Galvez  55.43 CR  Therese Alshammar  55.73  Dana Vollmer  56.25
 * 50m freestyle: Ranomi Kromowidjojo  23.37  Hinkelien Schreuder  23.81  Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace  24.04
 * Kromowidjojo wins her third gold medal of the championships.
 * 200m freestyle: Camille Muffat  1:52.29 CR  Katie Hoff  1:52.91  Kylie Palmer  1:52.96



Alpine skiing

 * Men's World Cup in Val Gardena, Italy:
 * Downhill: Silvan Zurbriggen  1:57.21  Romed Baumann  1:57.27  Didier Cuche  1:57.31
 * Downhill standings (after 2 of 9 races): (1) Zurbriggen 150 points (2) Michael Walchhofer 145 (3) Klaus Kröll  90
 * Overall standings (after 9 of 38 races): (1) Zurbriggen 315 points (2) Walchhofer 294 (3) Baumann 259
 * Women's World Cup in Val-d'Isère, France:
 * Downhill: Lindsey Vonn  1:51.42  Nadja Kamer  1:52.10  Lara Gut  1:52.22
 * Downhill standings (after 3 of 9 races): (1) Vonn 260 points (2) Maria Riesch 207 (3) Elisabeth Görgl  155
 * Overall standings (after 9 of 38 races): (1) Riesch 533 points (2) Vonn 481 (3) Görgl 286

American football

 * NCAA bowl games:
 * New Mexico Bowl in Albuquerque: BYU 52, UTEP 24
 * Humanitarian Bowl in Boise, Idaho: Northern Illinois 40, Fresno State 17
 * New Orleans Bowl in New Orleans: Troy 48, Ohio 21
 * NCAA Division I Football Championship (FCS) Semifinal (seed in parentheses): (3) Delaware 27, Georgia Southern 10
 * NCAA Division II National Football Championship in Florence, Alabama: Minnesota-Duluth 20, Delta State 17
 * The Bulldogs win their second national championship in three years.
 * NCAA Division III National Football Championship in Salem, Virginia: Wisconsin-Whitewater 31, Mount Union 21
 * The Warhawks win their third national title in four years, taking them to 3–3 in the two teams' six consecutive matchups.

Biathlon

 * World Cup 3 in Pokljuka, Slovenia:
 * Men's 10 km Sprint: Björn Ferry  27:25.9 (0+0)  Tarjei Bø  27:31.0 (1+0)  Michael Greis  27:34.6 (0+0)
 * Sprint standings (after 3 of 10 races): (1) Bø 154 points (2) Emil Hegle Svendsen 127 (3) Ole Einar Bjørndalen  115
 * Overall standings (after 7 of 26 races): (1) Bø 329 points (2) Svendsen 306 (3) Bjørndalen 265
 * Women's 7.5 km Sprint: Magdalena Neuner  23:05.2 (0+2)  Anastasiya Kuzmina  23:16.4 (0+1)  Kaisa Mäkäräinen  23:22.2 (1+0)  Olga Zaitseva  23:22.2 (0+0)
 * Sprint standings (after 3 of 10 races): (1) Mäkäräinen 156 points (2) Darya Domracheva 122 (3) Helena Ekholm  & Kuzmina 116
 * Overall standings (after 7 of 26 races): (1) Mäkäräinen 354 points (2) Ekholm 289 (3) Anna Carin Zidek 257

Bobsleigh

 * World Cup in Lake Placid, United States:
 * Two-man: Simone Bertazzo/Sergio Riva  1:51.40 (55.61 / 55.79)  Alexandr Zubkov/Dmitry Trunenkov  1:51.44 (55.63 / 55.81)  Karl Angerer/Alex Mann  1:51.53 (55.53 / 56.00)
 * Standings (after 4 of 8 races): (1) Manuel Machata 811 points (2) Zubkov 803 (3) Bertazzo 747
 * Women: Sandra Kiriasis/Stephanie Schneider  1:54.08 (57.06 / 57.02)  Cathleen Martini/Christin Senkel  1:54.41 (57.08 / 57.33)  Helen Upperton/Shelley-Ann Brown  1:54.60 (57.34 / 57.26)
 * Standings (after 4 of 8 races): (1) Kiriasis 885 points (2) Martini 827 (3) Bree Schaaf 720

Cricket

 * England in Australia:
 * Ashes series:
 * Third Test in Perth, day 3: 🇦🇺 australia 268 & 309 (86 overs; Michael Hussey 116, Chris Tremlett 5/87); 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england 187 & 81/5 (27 overs). England require another 310 runs with 5 wickets remaining.
 * India in South Africa:
 * 1st Test in Centurion, day 3: 🇮🇳 india 136 & 190/2 (44.1 overs); undefined 620/4d (130.1 overs; Jacques Kallis 201*, Hashim Amla 140, AB de Villiers 129). India trail by 294 runs with 8 wickets remaining.

Cross-country skiing

 * World Cup in La Clusaz, France:
 * Men's 30 km Freestyle Mass Start: Maxim Vylegzhanin  1:18:53.5  Petter Northug  1:18:53.6  Alexander Legkov  1:18:53.9
 * Distance standings (after 5 of 17 races): (1) Legkov 293 points (2) Dario Cologna 244 (3) Vylegzhanin 235
 * Overall standings (after 9 of 31 races): (1) Legkov 493 points (2) Cologna 471 (3) Vylegzhanin 325
 * Women's 15 km Freestyle Mass Start: Marit Bjørgen  42:29.6  Justyna Kowalczyk  42:30.6   Kristin Størmer Steira  42:40.5
 * Distance standings (after 5 of 17 races): (1) Bjørgen 410 points (2) Kowalczyk 315 (3) Therese Johaug 177
 * Overall standings (after 9 of 31 races): (1) Bjørgen 760 points (2) Kowalczyk 539 (3) Arianna Follis 414

Football (soccer)

 * AFF Suzuki Cup Semi-finals, second leg (first leg score in parentheses):
 * 0–0 (0–2) . Malaysia win 2–0 on aggregate.
 * FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates:
 * Third place playoff: Internacional 🇧🇷 4–2 🇰🇷 Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
 * Final: TP Mazembe 🇨🇩 0–3  🇮🇹 Internazionale
 * Internazionale win the Cup for the first time and become the fourth successive European team to win the tournament.

Freestyle skiing

 * World Cup in Beida Lake, China:
 * Aerials men: Qi Guangpu  245.74 points  Jia Zongyang  245.17  Renato Ulrich  232.72
 * Aerials standings (after 2 of 8 events): (1) Jia 180 points (2) Qi 136 (3) Warren Shouldice 130
 * Overall standings: (1) Patrick Deneen & Jia 36 points (3) Guilbaut Colas  32
 * Aerials women: Xu Mengtao  181.53 points  Cheng Shuan  176.95  Xu Sicun  162.14
 * Aerials standings (after 2 of 8 events): (1) Xu Mengtao 180 points (2) Zhang Xin & Cheng 140
 * Overall standings: (1) Hannah Kearney & Xu Mengtao 36 points (3) Zhang & Cheng 28
 * World Cup in Innichen, Italy:
 * Ski Cross men: Patrick Gasser   Andreas Matt   Thomas Zangerl
 * Ski Cross women: Anna Holmlund   Kelsey Serwa   Nikol Kucerova

Handball

 * European Women's Championship in Herning, Denmark:
 * 5th place match: 19–23 
 * Semifinals: (winners qualify for 2011 World Championship)
 * 23–25 
 * 19–29 

Luge

 * World Cup in Park City, United States:
 * Men's singles: Armin Zöggeler  1:30.740 (45.301 / 45.439)  Andi Langenhan  1:30.992 (45.502 / 45.490)  Viktor Kneyb  1:31.097 (45.510 / 45.587)
 * Standings (after 4 of 9 races): (1) Zöggeler 370 points (2) Felix Loch 290 (3) David Möller  264
 * Doubles: Andreas Linger/Wolfgang Linger  1:27.331 (43.710 / 43.621)  Peter Penz/Georg Fischler  1:27.331 (43.656 / 43.675)  Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt  1:27.474 (43.790 / 43.684)
 * Standings (after 4 of 9 races): (1) Wendl 330 points (2) Christian Oberstolz 315 (3) Penz 280

Nordic combined

 * World Cup in Ramsau, Austria:
 * HS 98 / 4 x 5 km: Mario Stecher  25:46.4  Björn Kircheisen  25:47.3  Johannes Rydzek  26:01.9
 * Overall standings (after 5 of 12 races): (1) Jason Lamy-Chappuis 385 points (2) Mikko Kokslien  329 (3) Stecher 286

Rugby union

 * Heineken Cup pool stage, matchday 4:
 * Pool 2: Leinster 24–8 🇫🇷 Clermont
 * Standings (after 4 matches): Leinster 14 points, 🇫🇷 Racing Métro, Clermont 9, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Saracens 6.
 * Pool 3:
 * Ospreys 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 19–15 Munster
 * Toulon 🇫🇷 38–17 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 London Irish
 * Standings (after 4 matches): Toulon 13 points, Munster 11, Ospreys 10, London Irish 5.
 * Pool 4: Bath 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 22–26 Ulster
 * Standings (after 4 matches): 🇫🇷 Biarritz 16 points, Ulster 13, Bath 8, 🇮🇹 Aironi 4.
 * Pool 5: Benetton Treviso 🇮🇹 15–38 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Scarlets
 * Standings: Scarlets 15 points (4 matches), 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Leicester Tigers 11 (3), 🇫🇷 Perpignan 10 (3), Benetton Treviso 1 (4).
 * Amlin Challenge Cup pool stage, matchday 4:
 * Pool 3: Bourgoin 🇫🇷 36–18 🇫🇷 Montpellier
 * Standings: Montpellier 13 points (4 matches), 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Exeter Chiefs 10 (3), Bourgoin 6 (4), 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Newcastle Falcons 4 (3).
 * Pool 5: Agen 🇫🇷 61–11 🇮🇹 Rovigo
 * Standings: Agen 15 points (4 matches), 🇫🇷 La Rochelle 11 (3), 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Gloucester 10 (3), Rovigo 0 (4).

Ski jumping

 * World Cup in Engelberg, Switzerland:
 * HS 137: Thomas Morgenstern  291.0 points  Adam Małysz  288.8  Matti Hautamäki  284.8
 * Standings (after 6 of 26 events): (1) Morgenstern 525 points (2) Andreas Kofler 380 (3) Ville Larinto  321

Snowboarding

 * World Cup in Telluride, United States:
 * Snowboard Cross men (team): Luca Matteotti/Alberto Schiavon   Alex Deibold/Jonathan Cheever   Nick Baumgartner/Jayson Hale
 * Snowboard Cross women (team): Aleksandra Zhekova /Helene Olafsen   Maria Ramberger/Susanne Moll   Lindsey Jacobellis/Callan Chythlook-Sifsof

Swimming

 * World Championships (25 m) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates:
 * Men's:
 * 50m backstroke: Stanislav Donets  22.93 CR  Sun Xiaolei  23.13  Aschwin Wildeboer  23.13
 * 50m butterfly: Albert Subirats  22.40 CR  Andriy Govorov  22.43  Steffen Deibler  22.44
 * Women's:
 * 100m breaststroke: Rebecca Soni  1:03.98 CR  Leisel Jones  1:04.26  Ji Liping  1:04.79
 * 200m individual medley: Mireia Belmonte García  2:05.73 CR  Ye Shiwen  2:05.94  Ariana Kukors  2:06.09
 * Belmonte García wins her third gold medal of the championships.
 * 4 × 100 m freestyle relay:  (Femke Heemskerk, Inge Dekker, Hinkelien Schreuder, Ranomi Kromowidjojo) 3:28.54 CR   (Natalie Coughlin, Katie Hoff, Jessica Hardy, Dana Vollmer) 3:29.34   (Tang Yi, Zhu Qianwei, Pang Jiaying, Li Zhesi) 3:29.81



Alpine skiing

 * Men's World Cup in Val Gardena, Italy:
 * Super-G: Michael Walchhofer  1:34.35  Stephan Keppler  1:35.02  Erik Guay  1:35.16
 * Super-G standings (after 3 of 7 races): (1) Walchhofer 149 points (2) Georg Streitberger 147 (3) Tobias Grünenfelder  130
 * Overall standings (after 8 of 38 races): (1) Walchhofer 249 points (2) Benjamin Raich 238 (3) Aksel Lund Svindal  236
 * Women's World Cup in Val-d'Isère, France:
 * Super-G: Cancelled due to heavy snow.

American football

 * NCAA Division I Football Championship (FCS) Semifinal (seed in parentheses): (5) Eastern Washington 41, Villanova 31

Bobsleigh

 * World Cup in Lake Placid, United States:
 * Women: Sandra Kiriasis/Berit Wiacker  1:53.94 (56.90 / 57.04)  Shauna Rohbock/Valerie Fleming  1:54.31 (57.27 / 57.04)  Cathleen Martini/Kristin Steinert  1:54.58 (57.39 / 57.19)
 * Standings (after 3 of 8 races): (1) Kiriasis 660 points (2) Martini 617 (3) Rohbock 580

Cricket

 * England in Australia:
 * Ashes series:
 * Third Test in Perth, day 2: 🇦🇺 australia 268 & 119/3 (33 overs); 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england 187 (62.3 overs; Mitchell Johnson 6/38). Australia lead by 200 runs with 7 wickets remaining.
 * India in South Africa:
 * 1st Test in Centurion, day 2: 🇮🇳 india 136 (38.4 overs; Morné Morkel 5/20); undefined 366/2 (87 overs; Hashim Amla 116*, Jacques Kallis 102*). South Africa lead by 230 runs with 8 wickets remaining in the 1st innings.

Freestyle skiing

 * World Cup in Beida Lake, China:
 * Aerials men: Jia Zongyang  230.49 points  Warren Shouldice  210.47  Wu Chao  205.10
 * Overall standings: (1) Patrick Deneen 36 points (2) Guilbaut Colas  27 (3) Jia 20
 * Aerials women: Zhang Xin  197.04 points  Xu Mengtao  185.76  Cheng Shuang  164.61
 * Overall standings: (1) Hannah Kearney 36 points (2) Yulia Galysheva  27 (3) Jennifer Heil  24

Luge

 * World Cup in Park City, United States:
 * Women's singles: Tatjana Hüfner  1:27.075 (43.602 / 43.473)  Anke Wischnewski  1:27.159 (43.650 / 43.509)  Alex Gough  1:27.346 (43.718 / 43.628)
 * Standings (after 4 of 9 races): (1) Hüfner 400 points (2) Natalie Geisenberger & Wischnewski 290

Rugby union

 * Heineken Cup pool stage, matchday 4:
 * Pool 2: Racing Métro 🇫🇷 14–19 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Saracens
 * Standings: Leinster 10 points (3 matches), Racing Métro 9 (4), 🇫🇷 Clermont 9 (3), Saracens 6 (4).
 * Pool 4: Biarritz 🇫🇷 34–3 🇮🇹 Aironi
 * Standings: Biarritz 16 points (4 matches), Ulster 9 (3), 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bath 7 (3), Aironi 4 (4).
 * Amlin Challenge Cup pool stage, matchday 4:
 * Pool 1: Connacht 9–15 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Harlequins
 * Standings: Harlequins 14 points (4 matches), 🇫🇷 Bayonne 10 (3), Connacht 6 (4), 🇮🇹 Cavalieri Prato 4 (3).

Skeleton

 * World Cup in Lake Placid, United States:
 * Men: Sergey Chudinov  1:48.51 (54.21 / 54.30)  Martins Dukurs  1:48.55 (54.15 / 54.40)  Kristan Bromley  1:48.74 (54.25 / 54.49)
 * Standings (after 4 of 8 events): (1) Dukurs 819 points (2) Bromley 802 (3) Aleksandr Tretyakov 755
 * Women: Marion Thees  1:51.95 (55.86 / 56.09)  Shelley Rudman  1:52.28 (56.17 / 56.11)  Anja Huber  1:52.48 (56.06 / 56.42)
 * Standings (after 4 of 8 events): (1) Huber 850 points (2) Rudman 814 (3) Thees 802

Ski jumping

 * World Cup in Engelberg, Switzerland:
 * HS 137: Thomas Morgenstern  134.4 points  Andreas Kofler  132.2  Wolfgang Loitzl  128.6
 * Standings (after 5 of 26 events): (1) Morgenstern 425 points (2) Kofler 330 (3) Ville Larinto 276

Snowboarding

 * World Cup in Telluride, United States:
 * Snowboard Cross men: Pierre Vaultier   Seth Wescott   Alex Pullin
 * Snowboard Cross standings (after 3 of 7 races): (1) Vaultier 1590 points (2) Pullin 1450 (3) Luca Matteotti 1280
 * Overall standings: (1) Andreas Prommegger 2540 points (2) Roland Fischnaller  2310 (3) Rok Flander  2110
 * Snowboard Cross women: Dominique Maltais   Aleksandra Zhekova   Maëlle Ricker
 * Snowboard Cross standings (after 3 of 7 races): (1) Maltais 3000 points (2) Ricker 2200 (3) Zhekova 1800
 * Overall standings: (1) Maltais 3000 points (3) Yekaterina Tudegesheva 2890 (3) Fränzi Mägert-Kohli  2750

Swimming

 * World Championships (25 m) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates:
 * Men's:
 * 200m breaststroke: Naoya Tomita  2:03.12 CR  Dániel Gyurta  2:03.47  Brenton Rickard  2:04.33
 * 400m freestyle: Paul Biedermann  3:37.06  Nikita Lobintsev  3:37.84  Oussama Mellouli  3:38.17
 * 50m freestyle: César Cielo  20.51 CR  Frédérick Bousquet  20.81  Josh Schneider  20.88
 * 200m individual medley: Ryan Lochte  1:50.08 WR  Markus Rogan  1:52.90  Tyler Clary  1:53.56
 * Women's:
 * 100m freestyle: Ranomi Kromowidjojo  51.45 CR  Femke Heemskerk  52.18  Natalie Coughlin  52.25
 * 200m backstroke: Alexianne Castel  2:01.67  Missy Franklin  2:02.01  Zhou Yanxin  2:03.22
 * 50m butterfly: Therese Alshammar  24.87 CR  Felicity Galvez  24.90  Jeanette Ottesen  25.24
 * 400m freestyle: Katie Hoff  3:57.07 CR  Kylie Palmer  3:58.39  Federica Pellegrini  3:59.52
 * 100m individual medley: Ariana Kukors  58.95  Kotuku Ngawati  59.27  Hinkelien Schreuder  59.53
 * 4 × 100 m medley relay:  (Zhao Jing, Zhao Jin, Liu Zige, Tang Yi) 3:48.29 CR   (Natalie Coughlin, Rebecca Soni, Dana Vollmer, Jessica Hardy) 3:48.36   (Rachel Goh, Leisel Jones, Felicity Galvez, Marieke Guehrer) 3:48.88



American football

 * NFL Thursday Night Football, Week 15: San Diego Chargers 34, San Francisco 49ers 7

Basketball

 * Euroleague Regular Season, matchday 9: (teams in bold advance to the Top 16)
 * Group A: Maccabi Tel Aviv 🇮🇱 80–76 🇷🇺 Khimki Moscow
 * Standings (after 9 games): Maccabi Tel Aviv 8–1; 🇱🇹 Žalgiris Kaunas, 🇷🇸 Partizan Belgrade 5–4; 🇪🇸 Caja Laboral 4–5; Khimki Moscow 3–6; 🇵🇱 Asseco Prokom Gdynia 2–7.
 * Group C:
 * Montepaschi Siena 🇮🇹 94–65 🇹🇷 Fenerbahçe Ülker
 * Lietuvos Rytas 🇱🇹 88–87 🇪🇸 Regal FC Barcelona
 * Standings (after 9 games): Montepaschi Siena 8–1; Fenerbahçe Ülker, Regal FC Barcelona 6–3; 🇫🇷 Cholet Basket 4–5; Lietuvos Rytas 3–6; KK Cibona Zagreb 0–9.
 * Group D: Armani Jeans Milano 🇮🇹 60–75 🇪🇸 Power Electronics Valencia
 * Standings (after 9 games): Panathinaikos Athens, 🇸🇮 Union Olimpija Ljubljana 6–3; 🇹🇷 Efes Pilsen Istanbul 5–4; Power Electronics Valencia, Armani Jeans Milano 4–5; 🇷🇺 CSKA Moscow 2–7.

Biathlon

 * World Cup 3 in Pokljuka, Slovenia:
 * Men's 20 km Individual: Daniel Mesotitsch  52:05.6 (1+0+0+0)  Benjamin Weger  53:04.0 (0+0+1+0)  Serguei Sednev  53:26.8 (1+0+0+1)
 * Individual standings (after 2 of 4 races): (1) Mesotitsch 91 points (2) Emil Hegle Svendsen 85 (3) Sednev 75
 * Overall standings (after 6 of 26 races): (1) Svendsen 282 points (2) Tarjei Bø 275 (3) Ole Einar Bjørndalen  235
 * Women's 15 km Individual: Tora Berger  42:47.0 (0+0+0+0)  Kaisa Mäkäräinen  42:48.8 (0+0+0+1)  Marie-Laure Brunet  43:22.3 (0+0+0+0)
 * Individual standings (after 2 of 4 races): (1) Brunet 102 points (2) Anna Carin Zidek 96 (3) Valj Semerenko  86
 * Overall standings (after 6 of 26 races): (1) Mäkäräinen 306 points (2) Helena Ekholm 253 (3) Zidek 240

Cricket

 * England in Australia:
 * Ashes series:
 * Third Test in Perth, day 1: 🇦🇺 australia 268 (76 overs); 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england 29/0 (12 overs). England trail by 239 runs with 10 wickets remaining in the 1st innings.
 * India in South Africa:
 * 1st Test in Centurion, day 1: 🇮🇳 india 136/9 (38.1 overs); undefined.

Football (soccer)

 * AFF Suzuki Cup Semi-finals, first leg:
 * 0–1
 * UEFA Europa League group stage, matchday 6: (teams in bold advance to the Round of 32)
 * Group A:
 * Red Bull Salzburg 🇦🇹 0–1 🇵🇱 Lech Poznań
 * Juventus 🇮🇹 1–1 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Manchester City
 * Final standings: Manchester City, Lech Poznań 11 points, Juventus 6, Red Bull Salzburg 2.
 * Group B:
 * Aris 2–0 🇳🇴 Rosenborg
 * Bayer Leverkusen 🇩🇪 1–1 🇪🇸 Atlético Madrid
 * Final standings: Bayer Leverkusen 12 points, Aris 10, Atlético Madrid 8, Rosenborg 3.
 * Group C:
 * Lille 🇫🇷 3–0 🇧🇪 Gent
 * Levski Sofia 🇧🇬 1–0 Sporting CP
 * Final standings: Sporting CP 12 points, Lille 8, Gent, Levski Sofia 7.
 * Group G:
 * Anderlecht 🇧🇪 2–0 Hajduk Split
 * AEK Athens 0–3 🇷🇺 Zenit St. Petersburg
 * Final standings: Zenit St. Petersburg 18 points, Anderlecht, AEK Athens 7, Hajduk Split 3.
 * Group H:
 * Stuttgart 🇩🇪 5–1 Odense
 * Getafe 🇪🇸 1–0 Young Boys
 * Final standings: Stuttgart 15 points, Young Boys 9, Getafe 7, Odense 4.
 * Group I:
 * Debrecen 🇭🇺 2–0 🇮🇹 Sampdoria
 * PSV Eindhoven 0–0 🇺🇦 Metalist Kharkiv
 * Final standings: PSV Eindhoven 14 points, Metalist Kharkiv 11, Sampdoria 5, Debrecen 3.

Handball

 * European Women's Championship in Denmark and Norway: (teams in bold advance to the semifinals)
 * Group I in Herning:
 *  20–35
 * 22–23
 *  29–30
 * Final standings: Denmark 8 points, Romania, Montenegro 6, Russia, Croatia 4, Spain 2.

Rugby union

 * Amlin Challenge Cup pool stage, matchday 4:
 * Pool 4: Stade Français 🇫🇷 35–7 🇷🇴 București Oaks
 * Standings: Stade Français 19 points (4 matches), 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Leeds Carnegie 9 (3), București Oaks 4 (4), 🇮🇹 Overmach Parma 1 (3)

Snowboarding

 * World Cup in Telluride, United States:
 * Parallel giant slalom men: Rok Flander   Kaspar Flütsch   Manuel Veith
 * Parallel slalom standings (after 4 of 12 races): (1) Andreas Prommegger 2540 points (2) Roland Fischnaller  2310 (3) Flander 2110
 * Overall standings: (1) Prommegger 2540 points (2) Fischnaller 2310 (3) Flander 2110
 * Parallel giant slalom women: Fränzi Mägert-Kohli   Isabella Laböck   Yekaterina Tudegesheva
 * Parallel slalom standings (after 4 of 12 races): (1) Tudegesheva 2890 points (2) Mägert-Kohli 2750 (3) Alena Zavarzina 1878
 * Overall standings: (1) Tudegesheva 2890 points (2) Mägert-Kohli 2750 (3) Dominique Maltais 2000

Swimming

 * World Championships (25 m) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates:
 * Men's:
 * 400m individual medley: Ryan Lochte  3:55.50 WR  Oussama Mellouli  3:57.40  Tyler Clary  3:57.56
 * 100m backstroke: Stanislav Donets  49.07 CR  Camille Lacourt  49.80  Aschwin Wildeboer  50.04
 * 100m breaststroke: Cameron van der Burgh  56.80 CR  Fabio Scozzoli  57.13  Felipe França Silva  57.39
 * 100m butterfly: Yevgeny Korotyshkin  50.23  Albert Subirats  50.24  Kaio de Almeida  50.33
 * 4 × 200 m freestyle relay:  (Nikita Lobintsev, Danila Izotov, Yevgeny Lagunov, Alexander Sukhorukov) 6:49.04 WR   (Peter Vanderkaay, Ryan Lochte, Garrett Weber-Gale, Ricky Berens) 6:49.58   (Yannick Agnel, Fabien Gilot, Clément Lefert, Jérémy Stravius) 6:53.05
 * Women's:
 * 50m breaststroke: Rebecca Soni  29.83  Leiston Pickett  29.84  Zhao Jin  29.90
 * 100m backstroke: Natalie Coughlin  56.08 CR  Zhao Jing  56.18  Gao Chang  56.21
 * 800m freestyle: Erika Villaécija García  8:11.61  Mireia Belmonte García  8:12.48  Kate Ziegler  8:12.84

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Basketball

 * Euroleague Regular Season, matchday 9: (teams in bold advance to the Top 16)
 * Group A:
 * Žalgiris Kaunas 🇱🇹 89–95 (OT) 🇪🇸 Caja Laboral
 * Partizan Belgrade 🇷🇸 61–59 🇵🇱 Asseco Prokom Gdynia
 * Standings: 🇮🇱 Maccabi Tel Aviv 7–1; Žalgiris Kaunas, Partizan Belgrade 5–4; Caja Laboral 4–5; 🇷🇺 Khimki Moscow 3–5; Asseco Prokom Gdynia 2–7.
 * Group B:
 * Brose Baskets 🇩🇪 82–75 🇪🇸 Real Madrid
 * Virtus Roma 🇮🇹 81–75 🇪🇸 Unicaja Málaga
 * Standings (after 9 games): Olympiacos Piraeus 6–3; Real Madrid, Unicaja Málaga, Virtus Roma 5–4; 🇧🇪 Spirou Basket, Brose Baskets 3–6.
 * Group C: Cholet Basket 🇫🇷 81–65 KK Cibona Zagreb
 * Standings: 🇮🇹 Montepaschi Siena 7–1; 🇹🇷 Fenerbahçe Ülker, 🇪🇸 Regal FC Barcelona 6–2; Cholet Basket 4–5; 🇱🇹 Lietuvos Rytas 2–6; KK Cibona Zagreb 0–9.
 * Group D:
 * Efes Pilsen Istanbul 🇹🇷 79–78 Panathinaikos Athens
 * Union Olimpija Ljubljana 🇸🇮 81–72 🇷🇺 CSKA Moscow
 * Standings: Panathinaikos Athens, Union Olimpija Ljubljana 6–3; Efes Pilsen Istanbul 5–4; 🇮🇹 Armani Jeans Milano 4–4; 🇪🇸 Power Electronics Valencia 3–5; CSKA Moscow 2–7.

Equestrianism

 * Dressage:
 * FEI World Cup Western European League:
 * 4th competition in London (CDI-W): Adelinde Cornelissen  on Parzival  Laura Bechtolsheimer  on Mistral Hojris  Edward Gal  on Sisther de Jeu
 * Standings (after 4 of 10 competitions): (1) Catherine Haddad 54 points (2) Richard Davison  44 (3) Cornelissen 43

Football (soccer)

 * AFF Suzuki Cup Semi-finals, first leg:
 * 2–0
 * FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates:
 * Fifth place playoff: Al-Wahda 2–2 (2–4 pen.) 🇲🇽 Pachuca
 * Semifinals: Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma 🇰🇷 0–3 🇮🇹 Internazionale
 * UEFA Europa League group stage, matchday 6: (teams in bold advance to the Round of 32)
 * Group D:
 * Dinamo Zagreb 0–1  PAOK
 * Club Brugge 🇧🇪 1–2 🇪🇸 Villarreal
 * Final standings: Villarreal 12 points, PAOK 11, Dinamo Zagreb 7, Club Brugge 3.
 * Group E:
 * AZ 3–0 🇧🇾 BATE
 * Dynamo Kyiv 🇺🇦 0–0 🇲🇩 Sheriff Tiraspol
 * Final standings: Dynamo Kyiv 11 points, BATE 10, AZ 7, Sheriff Tiraspol 5.
 * Group F:
 * Sparta Prague 🇨🇿 1–1 🇷🇺 CSKA Moscow
 * Lausanne-Sport 0–1 🇮🇹 Palermo
 * Final standings: CSKA Moscow 16 points, Sparta Prague 9, Palermo 7, Lausanne-Sport 1.
 * Group J:
 * Karpaty Lviv 🇺🇦 1–1 🇫🇷 Paris Saint-Germain
 * Sevilla 🇪🇸 2–2 🇩🇪 Borussia Dortmund
 * Final standings: Paris Saint-Germain 12 points, Sevilla 10, Borussia Dortmund 9, Karpaty Lviv 1.
 * Group K:
 * Napoli 🇮🇹 1–0 🇷🇴 Steaua București
 * Liverpool 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 0–0 Utrecht
 * Final standings: Liverpool 10 points, Napoli 7, Steaua București 6, Utrecht 5.
 * Group L:
 * Beşiktaş 🇹🇷 2–0 🇦🇹 Rapid Wien
 * Porto 3–1 🇧🇬 CSKA Sofia
 * Final standings: Porto 16 points, Beşiktaş 13, Rapid Wien, CSKA Sofia 3.

Freestyle skiing

 * World Cup in Méribel, France:
 * Dual Moguls Men: Guilbaut Colas   Patrick Deneen   Bryon Wilson
 * Moguls standings (after 2 of 11 events): (1) Deneen 180 points (2) Colas 160 (3) Mikaël Kingsbury 95
 * Overall standings: (1) Deneen 36 points (2) Colas 32 (3) Kingsbury 19
 * Dual Moguls Women: Yulia Galysheva   Hannah Kearney   Justine Dufour-Lapointe
 * Moguls standings (after 2 of 11 events): (1) Kearney 180 points (2) Galysheva 136 (3) Jennifer Heil 120
 * Overall standings: (1) Kearney 36 points (2) Galysheva 27 (3) Heil 24

Handball

 * European Women's Championship in Denmark and Norway: (teams in bold advance to the semifinals)
 * Group II in Lillehammer:
 * 19–31
 *  24–19
 * 13–35 
 * Final standings: Sweden, Norway 8 points, France 6, Netherlands, Hungary 4, Ukraine 0.

Swimming

 * World Championships (25 m) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates:
 * Men's:
 * 200m freestyle: Ryan Lochte  1:41.08 CR  Danila Izotov  1:41.70  Oussama Mellouli  1:42.02
 * 4 × 100 m freestyle relay:  (Alain Bernard, Frédérick Bousquet, Fabien Gilot, Yannick Agnel) 3:04.78 CR   (Yevgeny Lagunov, Sergey Fesikov, Nikita Lobintsev, Danila Izotov) 3:04.82   (Nicholas Santos, César Cielo, Marcelo Chierighini, Nicolas Oliveira) 3:05.74
 * Women's:
 * 200m butterfly: Mireia Belmonte García  2:03.59 CR  Jemma Lowe  2:03.94  Petra Granlund  2:04.38
 * 400m individual medley: Mireia Belmonte García  4:24.21 CR  Ye Shiwen  4:24.55  Li Xuanxu  4:29.05
 * 4 × 200 m freestyle relay:  (Chen Qian, Tang Yi, Liu Jing, Zhu Qianwei) 7:35.94 WR   (Blair Evans, Jade Neilsen, Kelly Stubbins, Kylie Palmer) 7:37.57   (Camille Muffat, Coralie Balmy, Mylène Lazare, Ophélie Cyrielle Etienne) 7:38.33

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Football (soccer)

 * FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates:
 * Semifinals: TP Mazembe 🇨🇩 2–0 🇧🇷 Internacional
 * TP Mazembe become the first African team to reach the final.

Handball

 * European Women's Championship in Denmark and Norway: (teams in bold advance to the semifinals)
 * Group I in Herning:
 *  23–21
 * 30–22
 *  31–19
 * Standings (after 4 matches): Denmark 8 points, Romania 6, Montenegro 4, Spain, Russia, Croatia 2.
 * Group II in Lillehammer:
 * 27–19
 * 21–22
 * 19–32
 * Standings (after 4 matches): Norway, Sweden 6 points, Netherlands, France, Hungary 4, Ukraine 0.

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American football

 * NFL, Week 14:
 * New York Giants 21, Minnesota Vikings 3 in Detroit
 * Brett Favre's 18-year regular season consecutive start streak ends at 297 games, as a sprained SC joint rules him inactive for the Vikings.
 * Monday Night Football: Baltimore Ravens 34, Houston Texans 28 (OT)

Basketball

 * Euroleague Regular Season, matchday 9: (teams in bold advance to the Top 16)
 * Group B: Spirou Basket 🇧🇪 67–80 Olympiacos Piraeus
 * Standings: Olympiacos Piraeus 6–3; 🇪🇸 Real Madrid, 🇪🇸 Unicaja Málaga 5–3; 🇮🇹 Virtus Roma 4–4; Spirou Basket 3–6; 🇩🇪 Brose Baskets 2–6.

Handball

 * European Women's Championship in Denmark and Norway:
 * Group I in Herning:
 * 20–22
 * 31–22
 * 26–20
 * Standings (after 3 games): Denmark 6 points, Romania, Montenegro 4, Russia, Croatia 2, Spain 0.

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Alpine skiing

 * Men's World Cup in Val-d'Isère, France:
 * Slalom: Marcel Hirscher  1:44.70  Benjamin Raich  1:45.01  Steve Missillier  1:45.26
 * Slalom standings (after 2 of 10 races): (1) Jean-Baptiste Grange & Hirscher 100 points (3) Silvan Zurbriggen  90
 * Overall standings (after 7 of 38 races): (1) Aksel Lund Svindal 236 points (2) Ted Ligety  221 (3) Hirscher 200
 * Women's World Cup in St. Moritz, Switzerland:
 * Giant slalom: Tessa Worley  2:10.70  Tanja Poutiainen  2:10.71  Tina Maze  2:11.01
 * Giant slalom standings (after 3 of 8 races): (1) Worley 232 points (2) Viktoria Rebensburg 206 (3) Poutiainen 156
 * Overall standings (after 8 of 38 races): (1) Maria Riesch 526 points (2) Lindsey Vonn  381 (3) Poutiainen 276

American football

 * NFL Week 14 (team assured of playoff berth in italics):
 * Buffalo Bills 13, Cleveland Browns 6
 * Pittsburgh Steelers 23, Cincinnati Bengals 7
 * Detroit Lions 7, Green Bay Packers 3
 * Tampa Bay Buccaneers 17, Washington Redskins 16
 * Atlanta Falcons 31, Carolina Panthers 10
 * Jacksonville Jaguars 38, Oakland Raiders 31
 * San Francisco 49ers 40, Seattle Seahawks 21
 * New Orleans Saints 31, St. Louis Rams 13
 * Miami Dolphins 10, New York Jets 6
 * Arizona Cardinals 43, Denver Broncos 13
 * San Diego Chargers 31, Kansas City Chiefs 0
 * New England Patriots 36, Chicago Bears 7
 * Sunday Night Football: Philadelphia Eagles 30, Dallas Cowboys 27
 * The New York Giants–Minnesota Vikings game originally scheduled for today was postponed to Monday because the Giants were unable to fly to Minneapolis due to a severe winter storm in the area. The game has since been moved to Ford Field in Detroit after the storm caused the roof of the Metrodome to deflate.

Badminton

 * BWF Super Series:
 * Hong Kong Super Series in Hong Kong:
 * Men's singles: Lee Chong Wei def. Taufik Hidayat  21–9, 21–9
 * Women's singles: Saina Nehwal def. Wang Shixian  15–21, 21–16, 21–17
 * Men's doubles: Ko Sung-hyun /Yoo Yeon-seong def. Markis Kido /Hendra Setiawan  21–19, 14–21, 23–21
 * Women's doubles: Wang Xiaoli /Yu Yang def. Cheng Wen-hsing /Chien Yu-chin  21–11, 21–12
 * Mixed doubles: Joachim Fischer Nielsen /Christinna Pedersen def. Zhang Nan /Zhao Yunlei  22–20, 14–21, 22–20

Biathlon

 * World Cup 2 in Hochfilzen, Austria:
 * Men's 4 x 7.5 km Relay: 🇳🇴 (Alexander Os/Ole Einar Bjørndalen/Emil Hegle Svendsen/Tarjei Bø) 1:29:38.2 (1+5+0+2)  🇦🇹 (Daniel Mesotitsch/Tobias Eberhard/Christoph Sumann/Dominik Landertinger) 1:30:31.3 (0+1+0+3)   (Vincent Jay/Jean-Guillaume Béatrix/Lois Habert/Martin Fourcade) 1:33:07.0 (1+5+1+4)
 * Women's 10 km Pursuit: Helena Ekholm  35:17.8 (0+1+0+0)  Kaisa Mäkäräinen  35:49.8 (0+0+0+2)  Darya Domracheva  36:04.1 (0+0+1+2)
 * Pursuit standings (after 2 of 7 races): (1) Mäkäräinen 114 points (2) Ekholm 108 (3) Anna Carin Zidek 83
 * Overall standings (after 5 of 26 races): (1) Mäkäräinen 252 points (2) Ekholm 236 (3) Zidek 204

Cricket

 * Zimbabwe in Bangladesh:
 * 5th ODI in Chittagong: undefined 188/6 (50 overs);  undefined 189/4 (43 overs). Bangladesh win by 6 wickets; win 5-match series 3–1.

Cross-country skiing

 * World Cup in Davos, Switzerland:
 * Men's Sprint Freestyle: Emil Jönsson   Alexei Petukhov   Dario Cologna
 * Sprint standings (after 3 of 11 races): (1) Jönsson 230 points (2) Fulvio Scola 138 (3) Petukhov 136
 * Overall standings (after 8 of 31 races): (1) Cologna 421 points (2) Alexander Legkov 398 (3) Marcus Hellner  301
 * Women's Sprint Freestyle: Marit Bjørgen   Arianna Follis   Kikkan Randall
 * Sprint standings (after 3 of 11 races): (1) Follis 210 points (2) Bjørgen 150 (3) Randall 140
 * Overall standings (after 8 of 31 races): (1) Bjørgen 640 points (2) Justyna Kowalczyk 429 (3) Follis 364

Equestrianism

 * Show jumping:
 * FEI World Cup:
 * Western European League:
 * 6th competition in Le Grand-Saconnex/Geneva (CSI 5*-W): Kevin Staut  on Silvana  Eric Lamaze  on Hickstead  Rolf-Göran Bengtsson  on Quintero
 * Standings (after 6 of 13 competitions): (1) Staut 63 points (2) Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum 50 (3) Bengtsson 49
 * Central European League – North Sub-League:
 * 7th competition in Poznań (CSI 2*-W): Rein Pill  on Virgin Express  Jarosław Skrzyczyński  on Quintera  Vladimir Beleskiy  on Rockelman

Football (soccer)

 * 🇦🇷 Argentine Primera División Apertura, final matchday:
 * Estudiantes (LP) 2–0 Arsenal
 * Racing 0–2 Vélez Sarsfield
 * Final standings: Estudiantes 45 points, Vélez Sársfield 43.
 * Estudiantes win the title for the fifth time.
 * 🇪🇨 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol Serie A Finals, second leg: (first leg score in parentheses)
 * Emelec 1–0 (0–2) LDU Quito. LDU Quito win 2–1 on aggregate.
 * LDU Quito win the championship for the tenth time.

Golf

 * European Tour:
 * Alfred Dunhill Championship in Mpumalanga, South Africa:
 * Winner: Pablo Martín 277 (−11)
 * Martín retains his title, winning his third European Tour title.

Handball

 * European Women's Championship in Denmark and Norway:
 * Group II in Lillehammer:
 * 21–23
 * 25–26
 * 24–19
 * Standings (after 3 games): Sweden 6 points, Norway, Hungary 4, Netherlands, France 2, Ukraine 0.

Nine-ball pool

 * Mosconi Cup
 * Team Europe 11–8 Team USA
 * Mika Immonen 6–1 Rodney Morris
 * Karl Boyes 5–6 Johnny Archer
 * Nick van den Berg 5–6 Dennis Hatch
 * Darren Appleton 6–2 Shane Van Boening
 * Ralf Souquet 6–4 Corey Deuel
 * Europe wins the Cup for the fifth time.

Rugby union

 * Heineken Cup pool stage, matchday 3:
 * Pool 2: Clermont 🇫🇷 20–13 Leinster
 * Standings (after 3 matches): Leinster 10 points, Clermont 9, 🇫🇷 Racing Métro 8, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Saracens 2
 * Pool 3:
 * Munster 22–16 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Ospreys
 * London Irish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 13–19 🇫🇷 Toulon
 * Standings (after 3 matches): Munster 10 points, Toulon 8, Ospreys 6, London Irish 5
 * Pool 6: Newport Gwent Dragons 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 16–23 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 London Wasps
 * Standings (after 3 matches): 🇫🇷 Toulouse 12 points, London Wasps 10, Glasgow Warriors 4, Newport Gwent Dragons 1
 * Amlin Challenge Cup pool stage, matchday 3:
 * Pool 1:
 * Harlequins 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 20–9 Connacht
 * Bayonne 🇫🇷 65–7 🇮🇹 Cavalieri Prato
 * Standings (after 3 matches): Bayonne, Harlequins 10 points, Connacht 5, Cavalieri Prato 4
 * Pool 4: Leeds Carnegie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 55–6 🇮🇹 Overmach Parma
 * Standings (after 3 matches): 🇫🇷 Stade Français 14 points, Leeds Carnegie 9, București Oaks 4, Overmach Parma 1

Short track speed skating

 * World Cup 4 in Shanghai, China:
 * Men's:
 * 500m: Sung Si-Bak  42.246  Thibaut Fauconnet  42.327  Lee Ho-Suk  1:45.278
 * Standings (after 5 of 8 races): (1) Charles Hamelin 1722 points (2) Fauconnet 1635 (3) Han Jialiang  1590
 * 1500m: Noh Jinkyu  2:18.506  Yuzo Takamido  2:18.825  Olivier Jean  2:18.842
 * Standings (after 6 of 8 races): (1) Maxime Chataignier 1920 points (2) Jeff Simon  1850 (3) Kim Cheol-min  1774
 * 5000m relay: 🇰🇷 6:48.747   6:48.832   6:49.912
 * Standings (after 4 of 6 races): (1) Canada 3000 points (2) 2240 (3) Korea 1640
 * Women's:
 * 500m: Zhao Nannan  45.049  Liu Qiuhong  45.122  Jessica Gregg  45.218
 * Standings (after 5 of 8 races): (1) Zhao 3000 points (2) Fan Kexin 2080 (3) Liu 2010
 * 1500m: Cho Ha-Ri  2:32.554  Park Seung-Hi  2:32.607  Zhou Yang  2:32.801
 * Standings (after 6 of 8 races): (1) Katherine Reutter 2800 points (2) Zhou 2440 (3) Cho 1800
 * 3000m relay:  4:16.645  🇰🇷 4:16.795   4:20.487
 * Standings (after 4 of 6 races): (1) China 3000 points (2) 1952 (3)  1850

Ski jumping

 * World Cup in Harrachov, Czech Republic:
 * HS 142: Cancelled due to strong winds.

Snooker

 * UK Championship in Telford, England:
 * Final: John Higgins [4] 10–9 Mark Williams  [5]
 * Higgins wins the title for the third time, and wins his 22nd ranking title.

Speed skating

 * World Cup 5 in Obihiro, Japan:
 * Men's:
 * 500m: Joji Kato  34.96  Keiichiro Nagashima  35.19(3)  Lee Kyu-Hyeok  35.19(8)
 * Standings (after 8 of 12 races): (1) Kato 615 points (2) Lee Kang-Seok 590 (3) Nagashima 488
 * 1000m: Samuel Schwarz  1:09.98  Shani Davis  1:10.15  Jan Bos  1:10.17
 * Standings (after 6 of 8 races): (1) Lee Kyu-Hyeok 402 points (2) Davis 380 (3) Stefan Groothuis  330
 * Women's:
 * 500m: Jenny Wolf  38.03  Lee Sang-hwa  38.21  Yu Jing  38.30
 * Standings (after 8 of 12 races): (1) Wolf 720 points (2) Lee 650 (3) Nao Kodaira 475
 * 1000m: Heather Richardson  1:17.27  Nao Kodaira  1:17.77  Maki Tsuji  1:18.29
 * Standings (after 6 of 8 races): (1) Richardson 490 points (2) Christine Nesbitt 400 (3) Kodaira 339

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Alpine skiing

 * Men's World Cup in Val-d'Isère, France:
 * Giant slalom: Ted Ligety  2:26.26  Aksel Lund Svindal  2:27.31  Massimiliano Blardone  2:27.47
 * Giant slalom standings (after 2 of 7 races): (1) Ligety 200 points (2) Svindal 125 (3) Kjetil Jansrud 106
 * Overall standings (after 6 of 38 races): (1) Svindal 236 points (2) Ligety 221 (3) Mario Scheiber 175
 * Women's World Cup in St. Moritz, Switzerland:
 * Super-G: Cancelled due to strong winds.

American football

 * NCAA Division I FBS:
 * Army–Navy Game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Navy 31, Army 17
 * NCAA Division I FCS:
 * NCAA Division I Football Championship Quarterfinals (seeds in parentheses):
 * Villanova 42, (1) Appalachian State 24
 * Georgia Southern 23, Wofford 20
 * (5) Eastern Washington 38, North Dakota State 31 (OT)
 * SWAC Championship Game in Birmingham, Alabama: Texas Southern 11, Alabama State 6
 * Heisman Trophy: Cameron Newton, Quarterback, Auburn Tigers
 * Newton becomes the third Tiger to win the Trophy, after Pat Sullivan in 1971 and Bo Jackson in 1985.

Biathlon

 * World Cup 2 in Hochfilzen, Austria:
 * Men's 12.5 km Pursuit: Tarjei Bø  36:32.4 (0+0+0+1)  Simon Eder  37:11.1 (0+0+0+0)  Ivan Tcherezov  37:12.4 (1+0+0+1)
 * Pursuit standings (after 2 of 7 races): (1) Bø 103 points (2) Ole Einar Bjørndalen 96 (3) Emil Hegle Svendsen  94
 * Overall standings (after 5 of 26 races): (1) Svendsen 257 points (2) Bø 246 (3) Bjørndalen 235
 * Women's 4 x 6 km Relay:  (Kathrin Hitzer/Magdalena Neuner/Sabrina Buchholz/Andrea Henkel) 1:16:22.5 (0+3+0+6)  🇺🇦 (Oksana Khvostenko/Olena Pidhrushna/Vita Semerenko/Valj Semerenko) 1:17:21.6 (0+4+0+4)  🇳🇴 (Synnøve Solemdal/Ann Kristin Flatland/Fynna Horn/Tora Berger) 1:17:30.9 (0+5+0+4)

Bobsleigh

 * World Cup in Park City, United States:
 * Four-man: Alexandr Zubkov/Philipp Egorov/Dmitry Trunenkov/Nikolay Hrenkov  1:34.62 (47.35 / 47.27)  Manuel Machata/Andreas Bredau/Michail Makarow/Christian Poser  1:34.65 (47.52 / 47.13)  Lyndon Rush/Chris le Bihan/Cody Sorensen/Neville Wright  1:34.72 (47.46 / 47.26)
 * Standings (after 3 of 8 races): (1) Machata 635 points (2) Zubkov 601 (3) Maximilian Arndt 594

Cricket

 * ACC Trophy Challenge in Bangkok, Thailand:
 * 3rd place play-off: 🇶🇦 qatar 223 (48.4 overs); 🇹🇭 thailand 107 (32 overs). Qatar win by 116 runs.
 * Final:  undefined 139 (43.3 overs) vs.  🇲🇻 maldives 140/9 (41.4 overs). Maldives win by 1 wicket.

Cross-country skiing

 * World Cup in Davos, Switzerland:
 * Men's 15 km Classic: Alexey Poltaranin  40:03.5  Alexander Legkov  40:04.4  Lukáš Bauer  40:07.5
 * Distance standings (after 4 of 17 races): (1) Legkov 198 points (2) Dario Cologna 194 (3) Marcus Hellner  165
 * Overall standings (after 7 of 31 races): (1) Legkov 398 points (2) Cologna 361 (3) Hellner 265
 * Women's 10 km Classic: Marit Bjørgen  29:31.6   Justyna Kowalczyk  30:00.9  Therese Johaug  30:10.7
 * Distance standings (after 4 of 17 races): (1) Bjørgen 290 points (2) Kowalczyk 205 (3) Johaug 157
 * Overall standings (after 7 of 31 races): (1) Bjørgen 540 points (2) Kowalczyk 389 (3) Charlotte Kalla 311

Curling

 * European Championships in Champéry, Switzerland:
 * Men:
 * Bronze medal game: Germany 🇩🇪 4–7 
 * Gold medal game: Norway 🇳🇴 5–3
 * Norway win the title for the fourth time.
 * Women:
 * Bronze medal game: Switzerland  9–5
 * Gold medal game: Scotland  6–8  
 * Sweden win the title for a record-extending 18th time.

Figure skating

 * ISU Grand Prix:
 * Grand Prix Final and Junior Grand Prix Final in Beijing, China:
 * Junior Men: Richard Dornbush  219.56  Yan Han  186.05  Andrei Rogozine  181.78
 * Junior Pairs: Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran  159.52  Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov  150.54  Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang  140.58
 * Senior Men: Patrick Chan  259.75  Nobunari Oda  242.81  Takahiko Kozuka  237.79
 * Chan wins the title for the first time.
 * Senior Ladies: Alissa Czisny  180.75  Carolina Kostner  178.60  Kanako Murakami  178.59
 * Czisny wins the title for the first time.
 * Senior Ice Dancing: Meryl Davis / Charlie White  171.58  Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat  162.10  Vanessa Crone / Paul Poirier  139.74
 * Davis/White win the title for the second straight time.
 * Senior Pairs: Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy   210.72  Pang Qing / Tong Jian  189.93  Sui Wenjing / Han Cong  179.04
 * Savchenko/Szolkowy win the title for the second time.

Football (soccer)

 * FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates:
 * Quarterfinals: Al-Wahda 1–4 🇰🇷 Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma

Freestyle skiing

 * World Cup in Rukatunturi, Finland:
 * Men's Moguls: Patrick Deneen  25.23 points  Mikaël Kingsbury  24.89  Guilbaut Colas  24.78
 * Women's Moguls: Hannah Kearney  24.09 points  Jennifer Heil  24.02  Kristi Richards  23.52

Handball

 * European Women's Championship in Denmark and Norway: (teams in bold advance to the main round)
 * Group A in Aalborg:
 *  40–28
 * ' 19–22 '
 * Final standings: Denmark 6 points, Romania 4, Spain 2, Serbia 0.
 * Group B in Aarhus:
 *  30–21
 * ' 28–29 '
 * Final standings: Russia, Montenegro, Croatia 4 points, Iceland 0.

Ice hockey

 * NCAA: Michigan 5, Michigan State 0
 * In an event billed as The Big Chill at the Big House, a crowd of 113,411 packs Michigan Stadium, normally home to the Michigan football team, and sets a new attendance record for the sport.

Luge

 * World Cup in Calgary, Canada:
 * Men's singles: Armin Zöggeler  1:29.651 (44.741 / 44.910)  Viktor Kneyb  1:29.912 (44.867 / 45.045)  Felix Loch  1:29.962 (44.952 / 45.010)
 * Standings (after 3 of 9 races): (1) Zöggeler 270 points (2) Loch & David Möller 230
 * Doubles: Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt  1:28.099 (43.981 / 44.118)  Christian Oberstolz/Patrick Gruber  1:28.172 (44.002 / 44.170)  Hans Peter Fischnaller/Patrick Schwienbacher  1:28.394 (44.092 / 44.302)
 * Standings (after 3 of 9 races): (1) Wendl 260 points (2) Oberstolz 255 (3) Peter Penz 180

Mixed martial arts

 * UFC 124 in Montreal, Canada:
 * Welterweight Championship bout: Georges St-Pierre (c) def. Josh Koscheck  by unanimous decision (50–45, 50–45, 50–45)
 * Heavyweight bout: Stefan Struve def. Sean McCorkle  by TKO (punches)
 * Lightweight bout: Jim Miller def. Charles Oliveira  by submission (kneebar)
 * Lightweight bout: Mac Danzig def. Joe Stevenson  by knockout (punch)
 * Welterweight bout: Thiago Alves def. John Howard  by unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)

Nine-ball pool

 * Mosconi Cup
 * Team Europe 8–6 Team USA
 * Mika Immonen / Karl Boyes  5–1 Dennis Hatch  / Johnny Archer
 * Mika Immonen / Ralf Souquet  2–5 Johnny Archer  / Corey Deuel
 * Karl Boyes 5–2 Rodney Morris
 * Darren Appleton / Nick van den Berg  4–5 Shane Van Boening  / Dennis Hatch
 * Ralf Souquet / Karl Boyes  5–4 Johnny Archer  / Rodney Morris
 * Darren Appleton 5–4 Dennis Hatch
 * Mika Immonen / Nick van den Berg  5–1 Shane Van Boening  / Corey Deuel

Rugby union

 * IRB Sevens World Series:
 * South Africa Sevens in George, Western Cape:
 * Shield: 5–14 
 * Bowl:  26–0
 * Plate:  10–5
 * Cup: 19–22 
 * Standings (after 2 of 8 tournaments): (1) England 44 points (2) New Zealand 40 (3) 36
 * End of year tests:
 * Week 8:
 * 34–13 in Heidelberg
 * Heineken Cup pool stage, matchday 3:
 * Pool 1:
 * Castres 🇫🇷 21–16 Edinburgh
 * Northampton Saints 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 23–15 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Cardiff Blues
 * Standings (after 3 matches): Northampton 12 points, Castres 9, Cardiff Blues 5, Edinburgh 3
 * Pool 2: Saracens 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 21–24 🇫🇷 Racing Métro
 * Standings: Leinster 9 points (2 matches), Racing Métro 8 (3), 🇫🇷 Clermont 5 (2), Saracens 2 (3)
 * Pool 4:
 * Ulster 22–18 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bath
 * Aironi 🇮🇹 28–27 🇫🇷 Biarritz
 * Standings (after 3 matches): Biarritz 11 points, Ulster 9, Bath 7, Aironi 4
 * Pool 5:
 * Perpignan 🇫🇷 24–19 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Leicester Tigers
 * Scarlets 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 35–27 🇮🇹 Benetton Treviso
 * Standings (after 3 matches): Leicester Tigers 11 points, Perpignan, Scarlets 10, Benetton Treviso 1
 * Amlin Challenge Cup pool stage, matchday 3:
 * Pool 2:
 * Petrarca 🇮🇹 37–10 🇪🇸 El Salvador
 * Brive 🇫🇷 18–9 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sale Sharks
 * Standings (after 3 matches): Brive 14 points, Sale Sharks 10, Petrarca 5, El Salvador 0
 * Pool 3: Exeter Chiefs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 36–10 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Newcastle Falcons
 * Standings (after 3 matches): 🇫🇷 Montpellier 13 points, Exeter Chiefs 10, Newcastle Falcons 4, 🇫🇷 Bourgoin 1
 * Pool 4: București Oaks 🇷🇴 20–29 🇫🇷 Stade Français
 * Standings: Stade Français 14 points (3 matches), 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Leeds Carnegie 4 (2), București Oaks 4 (3), 🇮🇹 Overmach Parma 1 (2)
 * Pool 5:
 * Rovigo 🇮🇹 10–33 🇫🇷 Agen
 * La Rochelle 🇫🇷 6–13 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Gloucester
 * Standings (after 3 matches): La Rochelle 11 points, Gloucester, Agen 10, Rovigo 0

Short track speed skating

 * World Cup 4 in Shanghai, China:
 * Men's:
 * 1500m: Kim Cheol-min  2:16.190  Song Weilong  2:16.191  Maxime Chataignier  2:16.315
 * Standings (after 5 of 8 races): (1) Chataignier 1920 points (2) Jeff Simon 1850 (3) Guillaume Bastille  1747
 * 1000m: Noh Jinkyu  1:30.345  Sjinkie Knegt  1:30.402  Lee Ho-Suk  2:10.168
 * Standings (after 5 of 8 races): (1) Thibaut Fauconnet 2800 points (2) Travis Jayner  1702 (3) Anthony Lobello Jr.  1664
 * Women's:
 * 1500m: Yang Shin-young  2:28.216  Hwang Hyun-sun  2:28.449  Kim Dam-min  2:28.534
 * Standings (after 5 of 8 races): (1) Katherine Reutter 2800 points (2) Zhou Yang  2440 (3) Biba Sakurai  1490
 * 1000m: Cho Ha-Ri  1:32.655  Zhou Yang  1:32.916  Liu Qiuhong  1:33.595
 * Standings (after 5 of 8 races): (1) Zhou 2440 points (2) Katherine Reutter 1968 (3) Liu 1690

Ski jumping

 * World Cup in Harrachov, Czech Republic:
 * HS 142: Cancelled due to strong winds.

Snooker

 * UK Championship in Telford, England:
 * Semi-final: Mark Williams [5] 9–8 Shaun Murphy  [8]

Snowboarding

 * World Cup in Limone Piemonte, Italy:
 * Parallel slalom men: Roland Fischnaller   Aaron March   Roland Haldi
 * Parallel slalom standings (after 3 of 12 races): (1) Fischnaller & Andreas Prommegger 2090 points (3) March 1580
 * Overall standings: (1) Fischnaller & Prommegger 2090 points (3) March 1580
 * Parallel slalom women: Patrizia Kummer   Fränzi Mägert-Kohli   Yekaterina Ilyukhina
 * Parallel slalom standings (after 3 of 12 races): (1) Yekaterina Tudegesheva 2290 points (2) Alena Zavarzina  1850 (3) Mägert-Kohli 1750
 * Overall standings: (1) Tudegesheva 2290 points (2) Dominique Maltais 2000 (3) Zavarzina 1850

Speed skating

 * World Cup 5 in Obihiro, Japan:
 * Men's:
 * 500m: Lee Kang-Seok  35.11  Keiichiro Nagashima  35.16(3)  Akio Ota  35.16(8)
 * Standings (after 7 of 12 races): (1) Lee 550 points (2) Joji Kato 515 (3) Nagashima 408
 * 1000m: Shani Davis  1:09.56  Lee Kyu-Hyeok  1:09.80  Denny Morrison  1:10.39
 * Standings (after 5 of 8 races): (1) Lee 342 points (2) Stefan Groothuis 330 (3) Davis 300
 * Women's:
 * 500m: Lee Sang-hwa  38.18  Yu Jing  38.21  Jenny Wolf  38.25
 * Standings (after 7 of 12 races): (1) Wolf 620 points (2) Lee 570 (3) Nao Kodaira 415
 * 1000m: Heather Richardson  1:16.45  Nao Kodaira  1:17.33  Lee Sang-hwa  1:17.87
 * Standings (after 5 of 8 races): (1) Christine Nesbitt 400 points (2) Richardson 390 (3) Margot Boer  260

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American football

 * NCAA Division I Football Championship Quarterfinal (seed in parentheses):
 * (3) Delaware 16, New Hampshire 3

Basketball

 * NBA: Denver Nuggets 123, Toronto Raptors 116
 * In his 1,679th match as a head coach, George Karl becomes the seventh coach to record 1,000 regular season wins.

Biathlon

 * World Cup 2 in Hochfilzen, Austria:
 * Men's 10 km Sprint: Tarjei Bø  28:17.6 (0+0)  Serguei Sednev  28:45.1 (0+1)  Alexis Bœuf  28:50.9 (0+1)
 * Sprint standings (after 2 of 10 races): (1) Emil Hegle Svendsen 103 points (2) Bø 100 (3) Ole Einar Bjørndalen  85
 * Overall standings (after 4 of 26 races): (1) Svendsen 217 points (2) Bjørndalen 199 (3) Bø 186
 * Women's 7.5 km Sprint: Anastasiya Kuzmina  25:30.6 (0+0)  Darya Domracheva  25:50.4 (0+1)  Kaisa Mäkäräinen  25:54.4 (0+1)
 * Sprint standings (after 2 of 10 races): (1) Mäkäräinen 108 points (2) Domracheva 102 (3) Helena Ekholm 80
 * Overall standings (after 4 of 26 races): (1) Mäkäräinen 198 points (2) Ekholm 176 (3) Anna Carin Zidek 164

Bobsleigh

 * World Cup in Park City, United States:
 * Two-man: Alexandr Zubkov/Dmitry Trunenkov  1:37.33 (48.95 / 48.38)  Simone Bertazzo/Sergio Riva  1:37.47 (49.15 / 48.32)  Manuel Machata/Andreas Bredau  1:37.67 (49.30 / 48.37)
 * Standings (after 3 of 8 races): (1) Machata 635 points (2) Zubkov 593 (3) Lyndon Rush & Patrice Servelle  546
 * Women: Cancelled due to snowstorms.

Cricket

 * New Zealand in India:
 * 5th ODI in Chennai: 🇳🇿 new zealand 103 (27 overs); 🇮🇳 india 107/2 (21.1 overs). India win by 8 wickets; win 5-match series 5–0.
 * Zimbabwe in Bangladesh:
 * 4th ODI in Chittagong: undefined vs.  undefined. Match abandoned without a ball bowled; Bangladesh lead 5-match series 2–1.

Curling

 * European Championships in Champéry, Switzerland:
 * Men Semifinal: Switzerland 7–9 
 * Women Semifinal: Russia 🇷🇺 5–7 

Figure skating

 * ISU Grand Prix:
 * Grand Prix Final and Junior Grand Prix Final in Beijing, China:
 * Junior Ice dancing: Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin  136.22  Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin  134.62  Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin  129.94
 * Junior Ladies: Adelina Sotnikova  169.81  Elizaveta Tuktamysheva  160.87  Li Zijun  149.82
 * Senior Ice Dance – Short Dance: (1) Meryl Davis / Charlie White 68.64 (2) Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat  65.66 (3) Nóra Hoffmann / Maxim Zavozin  55.98
 * Senior Men – Short Program: (1) Nobunari Oda 86.59 (2) Patrick Chan  85.59 (3) Daisuke Takahashi  82.57
 * Senior Ladies – Short Program: (1) Alissa Czisny 63.76 (2) Carolina Kostner  62.13 (3) Kanako Murakami  61.47
 * Senior Pairs – Short Program: (1) Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy 74.40 (2) Pang Qing / Tong Jian  68.63 (3) Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov  63.86

Football (soccer)

 * FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates:
 * Quarterfinals: TP Mazembe 🇨🇩 1–0 🇲🇽 Pachuca

Handball

 * European Women's Championship in Denmark and Norway: (teams in bold advance to the main round)
 * Group C in Larvik:
 * ' 25–18 '
 * 23–33
 * Final standings: Sweden 6 points, Netherlands, Ukraine, Germany 2.
 * Group D in Lillehammer:
 * 29–19
 * ' 34–13 '
 * Final standings: Norway 6 points, Hungary 4, France 2, Slovenia 0.

Luge

 * World Cup in Calgary, Canada:
 * Women' singles: Tatjana Hüfner  1:33.658 (46.814 / 46.844)  Anke Wischnewski  1:33.801 (46.912 / 46.889)  Erin Hamlin  1:33.955 (46.969 / 46.986)
 * Standings (after 3 of 9 races): (1) Hüfner 300 points (2) Natalie Geisenberger 230 (3) Wischnewski 205

Nine-ball pool

 * Mosconi Cup
 * Team Europe 3–4 Team USA
 * Darren Appleton / Karl Boyes  6–3 Shane Van Boening  / Johnny Archer
 * Ralf Souquet 5–6 Johnny Archer
 * Ralf Souquet / Darren Appleton  6–5 Rodney Morris  / Corey Deuel
 * Nick van den Berg 5–6 Shane Van Boening

Rugby union

 * Heineken Cup pool stage, matchday 3:
 * Pool 6: Glasgow Warriors 16–28 🇫🇷 Toulouse
 * Standings: Toulouse 12 points (3 matches), 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 London Wasps 6 (2), Glasgow Warriors 4 (3), 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Newport Gwent Dragons 0 (2).

Snooker

 * UK Championship in Telford, England:
 * Semi-final: Mark Allen [12] 5–9 John Higgins  [4]

Snowboarding

 * World Cup in Limone Piemonte, Italy:
 * Parallel giant slalom men: Benjamin Karl   Andreas Prommegger   Manuel Veith
 * Parallel slalom standings (after 2 of 12 races): (1) Prommegger 1800 points (2) Karl 1260 (3) Roland Fischnaller 1090
 * Overall standings: (1) Prommegger 1800 points (2) Karl 1260 (3) Sébastien Toutant 1220
 * Parallel giant slalom women: Yekaterina Tudegesheva   Alena Zavarzina   Svetlana Boldykova
 * Parallel slalom standings (after 2 of 12 races): (1) Tudegesheva 2000 points (2) Zavarzina 1400 (3) Fränzi Mägert-Kohli & Heidi Neururer  950
 * Overall standings: (1) Dominique Maltais & Tudegesheva 2000 points (3) Maëlle Ricker  1600

U.S. college sports

 * Conference realignment: The University of Hawaii announces that it will leave the Western Athletic Conference in July 2012. The Hawaii football program will join the Mountain West Conference, while the school's other teams will join the Big West Conference.

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American football

 * NFL Thursday Night Football, Week 14: Indianapolis Colts 30, Tennessee Titans 28

Basketball

 * Euroleague Regular Season, matchday 8: (teams in bold advance to the Top 16)
 * Group A:
 * Maccabi Tel Aviv 🇮🇱 76–62 🇷🇸 Partizan Belgrade
 * Asseco Prokom Gdynia 🇵🇱 69–72 🇱🇹 Žalgiris Kaunas
 * Caja Laboral 🇪🇸 89–81 🇷🇺 Khimki Moscow
 * Standings (after 8 games): Maccabi Tel Aviv 7–1; Žalgiris Kaunas 5–3; Partizan Belgrade 4–4; Caja Laboral, Khimki Moscow 3–5; Asseco Prokom Gdynia 2–6.
 * Group B:
 * Unicaja Málaga 🇪🇸 76–74 Olympiacos Piraeus
 * Real Madrid 🇪🇸 72–50 🇮🇹 Virtus Roma
 * Standings (after 8 games): Olympiacos Piraeus, Real Madrid, Unicaja Málaga 5–3; Virtus Roma 4–4; 🇧🇪 Spirou Basket 3–5; 🇩🇪 Brose Baskets 2–6.
 * Group C:
 * Lietuvos Rytas 🇱🇹 92–80 🇫🇷 Cholet Basket
 * Fenerbahçe Ülker 🇹🇷 69–75 🇪🇸 Regal FC Barcelona
 * Standings (after 8 games): 🇮🇹 Montepaschi Siena 7–1; Fenerbahçe Ülker, Regal FC Barcelona 6–2; Cholet Basket 3–5; Lietuvos Rytas 2–6; KK Cibona Zagreb 0–8.
 * Group D: Panathinaikos Athens 95–88 🇸🇮 Union Olimpija Ljubljana (OT)
 * Standings (after 8 games): Panathinaikos Athens 6–2; Union Olimpija Ljubljana 5–3; 🇮🇹 Armani Jeans Milano, 🇹🇷 Efes Pilsen Istanbul 4–4; 🇪🇸 Power Electronics Valencia 3–5; 🇷🇺 CSKA Moscow 2–6.

Curling

 * European Championships in Champéry, Switzerland:
 * Men: (teams in bold advance to the play-off; teams in italics qualify for the 2011 World Championship)
 * Draw 9:
 * Netherlands 5–8 
 * Scotland 7–5 
 * Czech Republic 🇨🇿 8–3
 * Denmark 12–5 
 * Russia 🇷🇺 7–8 🇳🇴
 * Final standings: Switzerland, Norway, Germany 7–2, Denmark 6–3, Scotland, Sweden 5–4, Czech Republic, France 3–6, Russia, Netherlands 1–8.
 * Playoffs:
 * 1 vs. 2: Switzerland 4–5 🇳🇴
 * 3 vs. 4: Germany 🇩🇪 5–10 
 * Tie-breaker game: France 🇫🇷 3–8 🇨🇿
 * Women Playoffs:
 * 1 vs. 2: Scotland 9–4
 * 3 vs. 4: Sweden 3–5 

Figure skating

 * ISU Grand Prix:
 * Grand Prix Final and Junior Grand Prix Final in Beijing, China:
 * Junior Ice dance – Short Dance: (1) Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin 55.58 (2) Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin  55.50 (3) Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin  53.59
 * Junior Ladies – Short Program: (1) Adelina Sotnikova 57.27 (2) Elizaveta Tuktamysheva  53.76 (3) Polina Shelepen  53.26
 * Junior Men – Short Program: (1) Richard Dornbush 70.75 (2) Keegan Messing  68.52 (3) Yan Han  67.29
 * Junior Pairs – Short Program: (1) Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran 53.94 (2) Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov  49.63 (3) Taylor Steele / Robert Schultz  48.07

Handball

 * European Women's Championship in Denmark and Norway: (teams in bold advance to the main round)
 * Group A in Aalborg:
 * 23–26
 * 22–25 
 * Standings (after 2 games): Denmark 4 points, Romania, Spain 2, Serbia 0.
 * Group B in Aarhus:
 * 23–26 
 * 30–24
 * Standings (after 2 games): Montenegro 4 points, Croatia, Russia 2, Iceland 0.

Nine-ball pool

 * Mosconi Cup
 * Team Europe 1–2 Team USA
 * Team Europe 6–5 Team USA
 * Nick van den Berg / Ralf Souquet  4–6 Dennis Hatch  / Rodney Morris
 * Mika Immonen 4–6 Corey Deuel

Rugby union

 * Amlin Challenge Cup pool stage, matchday 3:
 * Pool 3: Montpellier 🇫🇷 39–14 🇫🇷 Bourgoin
 * Standings: Montpellier 13 points (3 matches), 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Exeter Chiefs 5 (2), 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Newcastle Falcons 4 (2), Bourgoin 1 (3).
 * The Varsity Match in London: Oxford 21–10 Cambridge

Skeleton

 * World Cup in Park City, United States:
 * Men: Aleksandr Tretyakov  1:38.48 (49.37 / 49.11)  Sandro Stielicke  1:38.49 (49.17 / 49.32)  Martins Dukurs  1:38.50 (49.24 / 49.26)
 * Standings (after 3 of 8 events): (1) Tretyakov 635 points (2) Dukurs 609 (3) Kristan Bromley 602
 * Women: Anja Huber  1:40.62 (50.58 / 50.04)  Shelley Rudman  1:40.80 (50.47 / 50.33)  Amy Gough  1:41.02 (50.68 / 50.34)
 * Standings (after 3 of 8 events): (1) Huber 650 points (2) Rudman 604 (3) Mellisa Hollingsworth 594

Snooker

 * UK Championship in Telford, England, Quarter-finals:
 * Mark Joyce 7–9 Mark Williams  [5]
 * Shaun Murphy [8] 9–7 Neil Robertson  [2]

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Basketball

 * Euroleague Regular Season, matchday 8: (teams in bold advance to the Top 16; teams eliminated from Top 16 contention in strike )
 * Group B: Spirou Basket 🇧🇪 75–61 🇩🇪 Brose Baskets
 * Standings: Olympiacos Piraeus 5–2, 🇪🇸 Real Madrid, 🇪🇸 Unicaja Málaga, 🇮🇹 Virtus Roma 4–3, Spirou Basket 3–5, Brose Baskets 2–6.
 * Group C: KK Cibona Zagreb 66–82 🇮🇹 Montepaschi Siena
 * Standings: Montepaschi Siena 7–1, 🇹🇷 Fenerbahçe Ülker 6–1, 🇪🇸 Regal FC Barcelona 5–2, 🇫🇷 Cholet Basket 3–4, 🇱🇹 Lietuvos Rytas 1–6, KK Cibona Zagreb 0–8.
 * Group D:
 * CSKA Moscow 🇷🇺 73–63 🇪🇸 Power Electronics Valencia
 * Armani Jeans Milano 🇮🇹 84–70 🇹🇷 Efes Pilsen Istanbul
 * Standings: Panathinaikos Athens,  Union Olimpija Ljubljana 5–2, Armani Jeans Milano, Efes Pilsen Istanbul 4–4, Power Electronics Valencia 3–5, CSKA Moscow 2–6.

Curling

 * European Championships in Champéry, Switzerland:
 * Men draw 8: (teams in bold advance to the play-off; teams in italics qualify for the 2011 World Championship)
 * France 🇫🇷 5–4 
 * Netherlands 2–8 🇳🇴
 * Switzerland 6–4 
 * Russia 🇷🇺 4–5 🇨🇿
 * Denmark 4–7 
 * Standings (after 8 games): Switzerland 7–1, Germany, Norway 6–2, Denmark, Sweden 5–3, Scotland 4–4, France 3–5, Czech Republic 2–6, Netherlands, Russia 1–7.
 * Women draw 8:
 * Latvia 5–7
 * Russia 🇷🇺 1–9
 * Sweden 🇸🇪 10–6 🇳🇴
 * Netherlands 5–8
 * Switzerland 8–5 🇫🇮
 * Women draw 9: (teams in bold advance to the play-off; teams in italics qualify for the 2011 World Championship)
 * Russia 🇷🇺 7–5 🇳🇴
 * Germany 🇩🇪 8–7 🇫🇮
 * Denmark 4–3
 * Switzerland 8–6 
 * Netherlands 3–8 
 * Final standings: Scotland 8–1, Russia, Switzerland 7–2, Sweden 6–3, Denmark, Norway 5–4, Germany 4–5, Latvia 2–7, Finland 1–8, Netherlands 0–9.

Football (soccer)

 * AFF Suzuki Cup: (teams in bold advance to the semifinals)
 * Group B in Vietnam:
 * 0–0 
 *  1–0
 * Final standings: Vietnam 6 points, Philippines 5, Singapore 4, Myanmar 1.
 * FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates:
 * Play-off for Quarterfinals: Al-Wahda 3–0 🇵🇬 Hekari United
 * UEFA Champions League group stage, matchday 6: (teams in bold advance to the Round of 16, teams in italics advance to the Europa League Round of 32)
 * Group E:
 * Bayern Munich 🇩🇪 3–0 Basel
 * CFR Cluj 🇷🇴 1–1 🇮🇹 Roma
 * Final standings: Bayern Munich 15 points, Roma 10, Basel 6, CFR Cluj 4.
 * Group F:
 * Marseille 🇫🇷 1–0 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chelsea
 * Žilina 🇸🇰 1–2 🇷🇺 Spartak Moscow
 * Final standings: Chelsea 15 points, Marseille 12, Spartak Moscow 9, Žilina 0.
 * Group G:
 * Real Madrid 🇪🇸 4–0 🇫🇷 Auxerre
 * Milan 🇮🇹 0–2 Ajax
 * Final standings: Real Madrid 16 points, Milan 8, Ajax 7, Auxerre 3.
 * Group H:
 * Arsenal 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 3–1 🇷🇸 Partizan
 * Shakhtar Donetsk 🇺🇦 2–0 Braga
 * Final standings: Shakhtar Donetsk 15 points, Arsenal 12, Braga 9, Partizan 0.
 * Copa Sudamericana Finals, second leg: (first leg score in parentheses)
 * Independiente 🇦🇷 3–1 (0–2) 🇧🇷 Goiás. 3–3 on points, 3–3 on aggregate; Independiente win 5–3 on penalties.
 * Independiente win the Cup for the first time.

Handball

 * European Women's Championship in Denmark and Norway: (teams in bold advance to the main round)
 * Group C in Larvik:
 *  33–25
 * 27–30
 * Standings (after 2 games): Sweden 4 points, Netherlands, Germany 2, Ukraine 0.
 * Group D in Lillehammer:
 * 18–21 
 * 16–32 
 * Standings (after 2 games): Hungary, Norway 4 points, Slovenia, France 0.

Snooker

 * UK Championship in Telford, England, Quarter-finals:
 * Mark Allen [12] 9–7 Stuart Bingham
 * Stephen Maguire [6] 7–9 John Higgins  [4]

Snowboarding

 * World Cup in Lech am Arlberg, Austria:
 * Snowboard Cross men: Luca Matteotti   Alex Pullin   Paul-Henri de Le Rue
 * Snowboard Cross standings (after 2 of 7 races): (1) Nate Holland 1200 points (2) Matteotti 1160 (3) Mario Fuchs  1100
 * Overall standings: (1) Holland 1200 points (2) Matteotti 1160 (3) Fuchs 1100
 * Snowboard Cross women: Dominique Maltais   Maëlle Ricker   Aleksandra Zhekova
 * Snowboard Cross standings (after 2 of 7 races): (1) Maltais 2000 points (2) Ricker 1600 (3) Zhekova 1000
 * Overall standings: (1) Maltais 2000 points (2) Ricker 1600 (3) Yekaterina Tudegesheva & Zhekova 1000

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Cricket

 * England in Australia:
 * Ashes series:
 * Second Test in Adelaide, day 5: 🇦🇺 australia 245 & 304 (99.1 overs; Graeme Swann 5/91); 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england 620/5d. England win by an innings and 71 runs; lead 5-match series 1–0.
 * New Zealand in India:
 * 4th ODI in Bangalore: 🇳🇿 new zealand 315/7 (50 overs); 🇮🇳 india 321/5 (48.5 overs; Yusuf Pathan 123*). India win by 5 wickets; lead 5-match series 4–0.

Curling

 * European Championships in Champéry, Switzerland:
 * Men draw 6:
 * Russia 🇷🇺 2–5 
 * Czech Republic 🇨🇿 3–8 
 * Sweden 🇸🇪 4–6 🇳🇴
 * Netherlands 2–6 
 * France 🇫🇷 2–8 
 * Men draw 7:
 * Norway 🇳🇴 7–9 
 * France 🇫🇷 7–5
 * Denmark 2–5 
 * Germany 🇩🇪 7–6
 * Czech Republic 🇨🇿 7–1
 * Standings (after 7 games): Germany, Switzerland 6–1, Denmark, Norway 5–2, Scotland, Sweden 4–3, France 2–5, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Russia 1–6.
 * Women draw 7:
 * Scotland 7–5
 * Latvia 8–5
 * Switzerland 7–4
 * Norway 🇳🇴 9–3 🇫🇮
 * Denmark 1–7 
 * Standings (after 7 games): Russia, Scotland 6–1, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland 5–2, Denmark 3–4, Germany, Latvia 2–5, Finland 1–6, Netherlands 0–7.

Football (soccer)

 * AFF Suzuki Cup:
 * Group A in Indonesia: (teams in bold advance to the semifinals)
 *  2–1 🇹🇭 thailand
 *  5–1 🇱🇦 lao people's democratic republic
 * Final standings: Indonesia 9 points, Malaysia 4, Thailand 2, Laos 1.
 * UEFA Champions League group stage, matchday 6: (teams in bold advance to the Round of 16, teams in italics advance to the Europa League Round of 32)
 * Group A:
 * Twente 3–3 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tottenham Hotspur
 * Werder Bremen 🇩🇪 3–0 🇮🇹 Internazionale
 * Final standings: Tottenham Hotspur 11 points, Internazionale 10, Twente 6, Werder Bremen 5.
 * Group B:
 * Lyon 🇫🇷 2–2 🇮🇱 Hapoel Tel Aviv
 * Benfica 1–2 🇩🇪 Schalke 04
 * Final standings: Schalke 04 13 points, Lyon 10, Benfica 6, Hapoel Tel Aviv 5.
 * Group C:
 * Manchester United 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1–1 🇪🇸 Valencia
 * Bursaspor 🇹🇷 1–1 Rangers
 * Final standings: Manchester United 14 points, Valencia 11, Rangers 6, Bursaspor 1.
 * Group D:
 * Barcelona 🇪🇸 2–0 🇷🇺 Rubin Kazan
 * Copenhagen 3–1  Panathinaikos
 * Final standings: Barcelona 14 points, Copenhagen 10, Rubin Kazan 6, Panathinaikos 2.
 * Copenhagen becomes the first Danish team that advances to the knock-out stage of the Champions League.

Handball

 * European Women's Championship in Denmark and Norway:
 * Group A in Aalborg:
 * 26–30
 * 25–20
 * Group B in Aarhus:
 * 24–22
 * 35–25
 * Group C in Larvik:
 * 25–27
 * 13–25
 * Group D in Lillehammer:
 * 28–19
 * 33–22

Snooker

 * UK Championship in Telford, England, Last 16:
 * Ding Junhui [1] 8–9 Mark Allen  [12]
 * Stephen Maguire [6] 9–7 Mark Selby  [9]
 * Graeme Dott [11] 8–9 John Higgins  [4]
 * Andrew Higginson 5–9 Neil Robertson  [2]
 * Marco Fu [16] 2–9 Stuart Bingham
 * Mark Joyce 9–7 Judd Trump
 * Stephen Hendry [10] 6–9 Mark Williams  [5]
 * Shaun Murphy [8] 9–8 Ryan Day

Snowboarding

 * World Cup in Lech am Arlberg, Austria:
 * Snowboard Cross men: Nate Holland   Tom Velisek   Mario Fuchs
 * Overall standings: (1) Holland & Andreas Prommegger 1000 points (3) Roland Fischnaller  & Velisek 800
 * Snowboard Cross women: Dominique Maltais   Maëlle Ricker   Yuka Fujimori
 * Overall standings: (1) Maltais & Yekaterina Tudegesheva 1000 points (3) Heidi Neururer  & Ricker 800

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American football

 * NFL Monday Night Football, Week 13: New England Patriots 45, New York Jets 3
 * The Denver Broncos fire head coach Josh McDaniels and name running backs coach Eric Studesville as interim replacement.

Baseball

 * Baseball Hall of Fame balloting:
 * In the first vote of a newly revamped Veterans Committee, which this year only considered individuals whose chief contributions occurred after 1972, Pat Gillick, former general manager of the Toronto Blue Jays, Baltimore Orioles, Seattle Mariners, and most recently the Philadelphia Phillies, is the only candidate elected. Gillick will formally enter the Hall in July 2011.

Cricket

 * England in Australia:
 * Ashes series:
 * Second Test in Adelaide, day 4: 🇦🇺 australia 245 & 238/4 (79.2 overs); 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england 620/5d (152 overs; Kevin Pietersen 227). Australia trail by 137 runs with 6 wickets remaining.
 * Zimbabwe in Bangladesh:
 * 3rd ODI in Mirpur: undefined 246/7 (50 overs);  undefined 181 (48.1 overs). Bangladesh win by 65 runs, lead the 5-match series 2–1.

Curling

 * European Championships in Champéry, Switzerland:
 * Men draw 4:
 * Germany 🇩🇪 3–7 🇳🇴
 * Sweden 🇸🇪 6–1
 * Scotland 7–4 🇨🇿
 * Switzerland 8–7
 * Netherlands 2–8 
 * Men draw 5:
 * Czech Republic 🇨🇿 6–9 
 * Denmark 2–8 
 * Netherlands 5–7 
 * Norway 🇳🇴 6–2
 * Switzerland 8–6
 * Standings (after 5 games): Denmark, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland 4–1, Scotland 2–3, France, Netherlands, Russia 1–4, Czech Republic 0–5.
 * Women draw 5:
 * Denmark 8–6 🇫🇮
 * Switzerland 8–2 🇳🇴
 * Russia 🇷🇺 9–3
 * Scotland 10–2
 * Sweden 🇸🇪 6–1
 * Women draw 6:
 * Netherlands 2–10 
 * Denmark 6–5
 * Finland 🇫🇮 6–9 
 * Russia 🇷🇺 7–5
 * Latvia 1–10 🇳🇴
 * Standings (after 6 games): Russia, Scotland, Sweden 5–1, Norway, Switzerland 4–2, Denmark, Germany 3–3, Finland, Latvia 1–5, Netherlands 0–6.

Snooker

 * UK Championship in Telford, England, Last 32:
 * Marco Fu [16]  9–7 Barry Hawkins
 * Ali Carter [3] 6–9 Mark Joyce
 * Stephen Hendry [10] 9–8 Jimmy White
 * Mark Williams [5] 9–3 Mark Davis
 * Ronnie O'Sullivan [7] 6–9 Stuart Bingham
 * Jamie Cope [14] 6–9 Judd Trump
 * Shaun Murphy [8] 9–5 Patrick Wallace
 * Mark King [15] 8–9 Ryan Day

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Alpine skiing

 * Men's World Cup in Beaver Creek, United States:
 * Giant slalom: Ted Ligety  2:37.67  Kjetil Jansrud  2:38.49  Marcel Hirscher  2:38.91
 * Overall standings (after 5 of 38 races): (1) Mario Scheiber 175 points (2) Didier Cuche  158 (3) Aksel Lund Svindal  156
 * Women's World Cup in Lake Louise, Canada:
 * Super-G: Lindsey Vonn  1:20.72  Maria Riesch  1:21.55  Julia Mancuso  1:21.61
 * Overall standings (after 7 of 38 races): (1) Riesch 514 points (2) Vonn 345 (3) Viktoria Rebensburg 224

American football

 * NFL Week 13:
 * New York Giants 31, Washington Redskins 7
 * Kansas City Chiefs 10, Denver Broncos 6
 * Jacksonville Jaguars 17, Tennessee Titans 6
 * Green Bay Packers 34, San Francisco 49ers 16
 * Cleveland Browns 13, Miami Dolphins 10
 * Minnesota Vikings 38, Buffalo Bills 14
 * Chicago Bears 24, Detroit Lions 20
 * New Orleans Saints 34, Cincinnati Bengals 30
 * Oakland Raiders 28, San Diego Chargers 13
 * Seattle Seahawks 31, Carolina Panthers 14
 * Atlanta Falcons 28, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 24
 * St. Louis Rams 19, Arizona Cardinals 6
 * Dallas Cowboys 38, Indianapolis Colts 35 (OT)
 * Sunday Night Football: Pittsburgh Steelers 13, Baltimore Ravens 10

Auto racing

 * V8 Supercars:
 * Sydney Telstra 500, Race 26 in Sydney, New South Wales: (1) Lee Holdsworth (Holden Commodore) (2) Steven Richards  (Ford Falcon) (3) Shane van Gisbergen  (Ford Falcon)
 * Final drivers' championship standings: (1) James Courtney (Ford Falcon) 3055 points (2) Jamie Whincup  (Holden Commodore) 2990 (3) Mark Winterbottom  (Ford Falcon) 2729
 * Courtney wins his first championship title.

Badminton

 * BWF Super Series:
 * China Open Super Series in Shanghai:
 * Men's singles: Chen Long def. Bao Chunlai  9–21, 21–14, 21–16
 * Women's singles: Jiang Yanjiao def. Wang Shixian  21–16, 21–19
 * Men's doubles: Jung Jae-sung / Lee Yong-dae  def. Chai Biao  / Zhang Nan  21–15, 21–12
 * Women's doubles: Cheng Shu / Zhao Yunlei  def. Ma Jin  / Zhong Qianxin  walkover
 * Mixed doubles: Tao Jiaming / Tian Qing  def. Zhang Nan  / Zhao Yunlei  21–18, 21–17

Biathlon

 * World Cup 1 in Östersund, Sweden:
 * Women's 10 km Pursuit: Kaisa Mäkäräinen  31:57.1 (0+0+0+0)  Miriam Gössner  33:22.4 (0+1+1+1)  Helena Ekholm  33:38.6 (0+1+0+1)
 * Overall standings (after 3 of 26 races): (1) Mäkäräinen 150 points (2) Ekholm 136 (3) Anna Carin Zidek 135
 * Men's 12.5 km Pursuit: Ole Einar Bjørndalen  35:47.7 (0+0+1+1)  Emil Hegle Svendsen  36:13.9 (0+0+1+2)  Jakov Fak  36:48.4 (1+2+0+0)
 * Overall standings (after 3 of 26 races): (1) Svendsen 174 points (2) Bjørndalen 168 (3) Martin Fourcade 136

Cricket

 * England in Australia:
 * Ashes series:
 * Second Test in Adelaide, day 3: 🇦🇺 australia 245; 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england 551/4 (143 overs; Kevin Pietersen 213*, Alastair Cook 148). England lead by 306 runs with 6 wickets remaining in the 1st innings.
 * West Indies in Sri Lanka:
 * 3rd Test in Kandy, day 5: undefined 303/8 (103.3 overs);  undefined. Match drawn; 3-match series drawn 0–0.
 * ICC Intercontinental Shield Final in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, day 4:
 * undefined 79 & 427 (173.1 overs; Saqib Ali 160*, Sarel Burger 5/80); 🇳🇦 namibia 320 & 187/4 (39.4 overs; Craig Williams 113*). Namibia win by 6 wickets.

Cross-country skiing

 * World Cup in Düsseldorf, Germany:
 * Men's Team Sprint Freestyle: 🇳🇴 II (Ola Vigen Hattestad, Anders Gløersen) 19:56.6   I (Mats Larsson, Emil Jönsson) 19:56.8   II (Fabio Pasini, David Hofer) 19:57.6
 * Women's Team Sprint Freestyle:  I (Magda Genuin, Arianna Follis) 10:41.1  🇳🇴 I (Maiken Caspersen Falla, Celine Brun-Lie) 10:42.0   (Daria Gaiazova, Chandra Crawford) 10:43.5

Curling

 * European Championships in Champéry, Switzerland:
 * Men draw 3:
 * Scotland 8–6
 * Germany 🇩🇪 7–5 🇨🇿
 * Norway 🇳🇴 5–6 
 * France 🇫🇷 3–4 
 * Sweden 🇸🇪 6–7 
 * Standings (after 3 games): Denmark, Germany 3–0, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland 2–1, France, Netherlands, Scotland 1–2, Czech Republic, Russia 0–3.
 * Women draw 3:
 * Germany 🇩🇪 11–8
 * Norway 🇳🇴 3–6 
 * Scotland 6–5
 * Latvia 2–9 
 * Finland 🇫🇮 7–8 
 * Women draw 4:
 * Switzerland 8–4
 * Sweden 🇸🇪 9–7
 * Netherlands 3–6 🇫🇮
 * Germany 🇩🇪 3–4 🇳🇴
 * Scotland 6–4
 * Standings (after 4 games): Sweden 4–0, Norway, Russia, Scotland 3–1, Germany, Switzerland 2–2, Denmark, Finland, Latvia 1–3, Netherlands 0–4.

Equestrianism

 * Four-in-hand driving:
 * FEI World Cup:
 * 4th competition in Budapest (CAI-W): Werner Ulrich   Boyd Exell   Daniel Würgler
 * Show jumping:
 * FEI World Cup Central European League – South Sub-League:
 * 6th competition in Budapest (CSI 2*-W): Jerry Smit  on Luis della Caccia  Francesca Arioldi  on Agadir  Make Stroman  on Flashlight
 * CSI 5* Paris-Villepinte – Grand Prix: Marco Kutscher  on Cash  Christian Ahlmann  on Taloubet Z  Simon Delestre  on Napoli du Ry

Football (soccer)

 * AFF Suzuki Cup:
 * Group B in Hanoi, Vietnam:
 * 2–1
 * 2–0
 * Standings (after 2 matches): Philippines, Singapore 4 points, Vietnam 3, Myanmar 0.
 * Caribbean Championship Final Tournament in Fort-de-France, Martinique:
 * Third Place Playoff: 0–1  🇨🇺 cuba
 * Final:  1–1 (4–5 pen.)  🇯🇲 jamaica
 * Jamaica win the title for the second straight time and fifth overall.
 * Arabian Gulf Cup Final in Aden, Yemen:
 * 1–0 (a.e.t.)
 * Kuwait win the Cup for the tenth time after a 12 years break.
 * 🇧🇷 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, final matchday: (teams in bold qualify for Copa Libertadores)
 * Fluminense 1–0 Guarani
 * Goiás 1–1 Corinthians
 * Cruzeiro 2–1 Palmeiras
 * Grêmio 3–0 Botafogo
 * Final standings: Fluminense 71 points, Cruzeiro 69, Corinthians 68, Grêmio 63.
 * Fluminense win the Championship for the second time after a break of 26 years.
 * Chilean Primera División, final matchday: (teams in bold qualify for Copa Libertadores)
 * Universidad Católica 5–0 Everton
 * Colo-Colo 4–2 Universidad de Concepción
 * Final standings: Universidad Católica 74 points, Colo-Colo 71.
 * Universidad Católica win the Championship for the tenth time.
 * 🇪🇨 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol Serie A Finals, first leg:
 * LDU Quito 2–0 Emelec
 * 🇲🇽 Primera División de México Apertura Liguilla Final, second leg: (first leg score in parentheses)
 * Monterrey 3–0 (2–3) Santos Laguna. Monterrey win 5–3 on aggregate.
 * Monterrey win the title for the fourth time.

Golf

 * LPGA Tour:
 * LPGA Tour Championship in Orlando, Florida:
 * Winner: Maria Hjorth 283 (−5)
 * Hjorth wins her fourth LPGA Tour title, and first since 2007.

Luge

 * World Cup in Winterberg, Germany:
 * Women' singles: Tatjana Hüfner  1:54.669 (57.654 / 57.015)  Natalie Geisenberger  1:55.283 (57.854 / 57.429)  Alex Gough  1:55.411 (57.859 / 57.552)
 * Standings (after 2 of 9 races): (1) Hüfner 200 points (2) Geisenberger 170 (3) Anke Wischnewski 120
 * Team relay:  2:26.594 (47.291 / 49.561 / 49.561)   2:27.037 (47.729 / 49.722 / 49.586)  🇦🇹 2:27.152 (47.877 / 49.633 / 49.642)
 * Standings (after 2 of 6 races): (1) Germany 200 points (2) Italy 155 (3) 135

Nordic combined

 * World Cup in Trondheim, Norway:
 * HS 138 / 10 km: Jason Lamy-Chappuis   24:35.5  Mikko Kokslien  24:45.2  Mario Stecher  24:45.3
 * Overall standings (after 4 of 12 races): (1) Lamy-Chappuis 340 points (2) Kokslien 289 (3) Felix Gottwald 260

Short track speed skating

 * World Cup 3 in Changchun, China:
 * Men's:
 * 500 m: Semen Elistratov  43.300  Remi Beaulieu  43.410  Ryosuke Sakazume  43.596
 * Standings (after 4 of 8 races): (1) François-Louis Tremblay 1512 points (2) Liang Wenhao  1475 (3) Han Jialiang  1328
 * 1000 m: Kim Byeong-jun  1:25.474  Thibaut Fauconnet  1:26.208  Maxime Chataignier  1:26.485
 * Standings (after 4 of 8 races): (1) Fauconnet 2800 points (2) Travis Jayner 1702 (3) Anthony Lobello Jr.  1664
 * 5000 m relay:  6:54.065   6:54.180  🇰🇷 7:00.949
 * Standings (after 3 of 6 races): (1) Canada 3000 points (2) United States 2240 (3) 1234
 * Women's:
 * 500 m: Zhao Nannan  44.514  Fan Kexin  44.556  Kim Dam-min  44.687
 * Standings (after 4 of 8 races): (1) Zhao 2410 points (2) Fan 2080 (3) Marianne St-Gelais 2000
 * 1000 m: Yang Shin-young  1:33.419  Marie-Ève Drolet  1:34.343  Zhou Yang  1:34.447
 * Standings (after 4 of 8 races): (1) Katherine Reutter 1968 points (2) Zhou 2080 (3) Lana Gehring  1538
 * 3000 m relay: 🇰🇷 4:16.249   4:16.361   4:20.137
 * Standings (after 3 of 6 races): (1) China 2800 points (2) 1850 (3)  1650

Ski jumping

 * World Cup in Lillehammer, Norway:
 * HS 138: Thomas Morgenstern  283.0 points  Ville Larinto  273.6  Simon Ammann  272.1
 * Standings (after 4 of 26 events): (1) Morgenstern 325 points (2) Larinto 252 (3) Andreas Kofler 250

Snooker

 * UK Championship in Telford, England, Last 32:
 * Graeme Dott [11] 9–5 Martin Gould
 * John Higgins [4] 9–6 Stephen Lee
 * Peter Ebdon [13] 7–9 Andrew Higginson
 * Neil Robertson [2] 9–1 Rory McLeod

Speed skating

 * World Cup 4 in Changchun, China:
 * Men's:
 * 500 m: Tucker Fredricks  35.26  Jan Smeekens  35.27  Lee Kyu-Hyeok  35.32
 * Standings (after 6 of 12 races): (1) Joji Kato 455 points (2) Lee Kang-Seok  450 (3) Lee Kyu-Hyeok 365
 * 1000 m: Stefan Groothuis  1:09.39  Simon Kuipers  1:10.11  Lee Kyu-Hyeok  1:10.13
 * Standings (after 4 of 8 races): (1) Groothuis 330 points (2) Kuipers 290 (3) Lee 262
 * Women's:
 * 500 m: Lee Sang-hwa  38.22  Yu Jing  38.27  Jenny Wolf  38.44
 * Standings (after 6 of 12 races): (1) Wolf 550 points (2) Lee 470 (3) Margot Boer 410
 * 1000 m: Christine Nesbitt  1:16.55  Heather Richardson  1:17.59  Nao Kodaira  1:17.98
 * Standings (after 4 of 8 races): (1) Nesbitt 400 points (2) Richardson 290 (3) Margot Boer 260

Tennis

 * Davis Cup Final in Belgrade, day 3:  3–2
 * Novak Djokovic def. Gaël Monfils  6–2, 6–2, 6–4
 * Viktor Troicki def. Michaël Llodra  6–2, 6–2, 6–3
 * Serbia win the Cup for the first time.

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Alpine skiing

 * Men's World Cup in Beaver Creek, United States:
 * Super-G: Georg Streitberger  1:17.18  Adrien Théaux  1:17.29  Didier Cuche  1:17.31
 * Super-G standings (after 2 of 7 races): (1) Streitberger 118 points (2) Tobias Grünenfelder 110 (3) Cuche 105
 * Overall standings (after 4 of 38 races): (1) Mario Scheiber 175 points (2) Michael Walchhofer  149 (3) Streitberger 136
 * Women's World Cup in Lake Louise, Canada:
 * Downhill: Maria Riesch  1:29.60  Lindsey Vonn  1:29.70  Dominique Gisin  1:30.38
 * Downhill standings (after 2 of 9 races): (1) Riesch 200 points (2) Vonn 160 (3) Elisabeth Görgl 105
 * Overall standings (after 6 of 38 races): (1) Riesch 434 points (2) Vonn 245 (3) Görgl 212

American football

 * NCAA Division I FBS (unbeaten teams in bold):
 * Conference championship games (BCS ranking in parentheses):
 * SEC Championship Game in Atlanta: (1) Auburn 56, (19) South Carolina 17
 * The Tigers finish the regular season with a perfect 13–0 record, and secure a berth in the BCS National Championship Game.
 * Big 12 Championship Game in Arlington, Texas: (9) Oklahoma 23, (13) Nebraska 20
 * ACC Championship Game in Charlotte, North Carolina: (15) Virginia Tech 44, (21) Florida State 33
 * Conference USA Championship Game in Orlando, Florida: UCF 17, SMU 7
 * Other BCS Top 10 teams:
 * The Civil War: (2) Oregon 37, Oregon State 20
 * The Ducks finish the regular season with a perfect 12–0 record, and secure a berth in the BCS National Championship Game.
 * Idle: (3) TCU, (4) Stanford, (5) Wisconsin, (6) Ohio State, (7) Arkansas, (8) Michigan State, (10) LSU
 * Other games:
 * Big East Conference:
 * (24) West Virginia 35, Rutgers 14
 * Pittsburgh 28, Cincinnati 10
 * Connecticut 19, South Florida 16
 * The three winning teams all claim a share of the Big East title, with UConn winning the tiebreaker for the program's first-ever BCS berth.
 * Western Athletic Conference:
 * (11) Boise State 50, Utah State 14
 * (17) Nevada 35, Louisiana Tech 17
 * The Broncos and Wolf Pack share the Conference championship with Hawaii.
 * Sun Belt Conference:
 * Troy 44, Florida Atlantic 7
 * Middle Tennessee 28, FIU 27
 * The Trojans and Golden Panthers share the title.
 * NCAA Division I Football Championship (FCS) Second round (seeds in parentheses):
 * (1) Appalachian State 42, Western Illinois 14
 * Villanova 54, Stephen F. Austin 24
 * (5) Eastern Washington 37, Southeast Missouri State 17
 * North Dakota State 42, (4) Montana State 17
 * (3) Delaware 42, Lehigh 20
 * New Hampshire 45, Bethune–Cookman 20
 * Wofford 17, Jacksonville State 14
 * Georgia Southern 31, (2) William & Mary 15

Auto racing

 * V8 Supercars:
 * Sydney Telstra 500, Race 25 in Sydney, New South Wales: (1) Jonathon Webb (Ford Falcon) (2) Jason Bright  (Holden Commodore) (3) Rick Kelly  (Holden Commodore)
 * Drivers' championship standings (after 25 of 26 races): (1) James Courtney (Ford Falcon) 2992 points (2) Jamie Whincup  (Holden Commodore) 2879 (3) Mark Winterbottom  (Ford Falcon) 2729

Biathlon

 * World Cup 1 in Östersund, Sweden:
 * Men's 10 km Sprint: Emil Hegle Svendsen  25:01.0 (1+0)  Ole Einar Bjørndalen  25:05.8 (0+0)  Martin Fourcade  25:16.2 (0+0)
 * Overall standings (after 2 of 26 races): (1) Svendsen 120 points (2) Bjørndalen 108 (3) Fourcade 96

Bobsleigh

 * World Cup in Calgary, Canada:
 * Four-man: Manuel Machata/Andreas Bredau/Michail Makarow/Christian Poser  1:47.99 (53.94 / 54.05)  Karl Angerer/Gregor Bermbach/Alex Mann/Christian Friedrich  1:48.19 (54.05 / 54.14)  Maximilian Arndt/Rene Tiefert/Martin Putze/Alexander Rödiger  1:48.23 (54.07 / 54.16)
 * Standings (after 2 of 8 races): (1) Machata 425 points (2) Arndt 410 (3) Steve Holcomb 409

Cricket

 * England in Australia:
 * Ashes series:
 * Second Test in Adelaide, day 2: 🇦🇺 australia 245; 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england 317/2 (89 overs; Alastair Cook 136*). England lead by 72 runs with 8 wickets remaining in the 1st innings.
 * New Zealand in India:
 * 3rd ODI in Vadodara: 🇳🇿 new zealand 224/9 (50 overs); 🇮🇳 india 229/1 (39.3 overs; Gautam Gambhir 126*). India win by 9 wickets; lead 5-match series 3–0.
 * West Indies in Sri Lanka:
 * 3rd Test in Kandy, day 4: undefined 303/8 (103.3 overs);  undefined.
 * ICC Intercontinental Cup Final in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, day 3:
 * undefined 212 & 82 (47.3 overs); 🇦🇫 afghanistan 171 & 124/3 (26.4 overs). Afghanistan win by 7 wickets.
 * Afghanistan win the Cup for the first time.
 * ICC Intercontinental Shield Final in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, day 3:
 * undefined 79 & 403/8 (164 overs; Saqib Ali 139*, Sarel Burger 5/80); 🇳🇦 namibia 320. United Arab Emirates lead by 162 runs with 2 wickets remaining.

Cross-country skiing

 * World Cup in Düsseldorf, Germany:
 * Men's Sprint Freestyle: Emil Jönsson   Fulvio Scola   Øystein Pettersen
 * Sprint standings (after 2 of 11 races): (1) Jönsson 130 points (2) Scola 88 (3) John Kristian Dahl 86
 * Overall standings (after 6 of 31 races): (1) Alexander Legkov 318 points (2) Dario Cologna  311 (3) Marcus Hellner  265
 * Women's Sprint Freestyle: Arianna Follis   Kikkan Randall   Vesna Fabjan
 * Sprint standings (after 2 of 11 races): (1) Follis 130 points (2) Randall 80 (3) Fabjan 60
 * Overall standings (after 6 of 31 races): (1) Marit Bjørgen 440 points (2) Charlotte Kalla  311 (3) Justyna Kowalczyk  309

Curling

 * European Championships in Champéry, Switzerland:
 * Men draw 1:
 * Sweden 🇸🇪 8–3
 * Norway 🇳🇴 4–1
 * France 🇫🇷 7–1
 * Czech Republic 🇨🇿 7–8 
 * Germany 🇩🇪 7–2
 * Men draw 2:
 * Denmark 6–3
 * Switzerland 5–3
 * Russia 🇷🇺 6–7 
 * Scotland 5–9 
 * Norway 🇳🇴 7–3 🇨🇿
 * Women draw 1:
 * Finland 🇫🇮 2–9 
 * Scotland 8–5
 * Latvia 3–10 
 * Denmark 5–6 
 * Norway 🇳🇴 7–5
 * Women draw 2:
 * Norway 🇳🇴 6–5
 * Finland 🇫🇮 8–9 
 * Germany 🇩🇪 9–3
 * Sweden 🇸🇪 5–4
 * Russia 🇷🇺 8–5

Equestrianism

 * Show jumping:
 * FEI World Cup North American League – East Coast:
 * 11th competition in Wellington (CSI 2*-W): Paulo Santana  on Taloubet  Charlie Jayne  on Athena  Kate Levy  on Lirving du Volsin

Football (soccer)

 * AFF Suzuki Cup: (team in bold advance to the semi-finals)
 * Group A in Jakarta, Indonesia:
 * 0–0
 * 0–6 
 * Standings (after 2 matches): Indonesia 6 points, Thailand 2, Malaysia, Laos 1.
 * CAF Confederation Cup Final, second leg: (first leg score in parentheses)
 * CS Sfaxien 🇹🇳 2–3 (0–0) 🇲🇦 FUS Rabat. FUS Rabat win 3–2 on aggregate.
 * FUS Rabat win the Cup for the first time.
 * OFC Champions League Group stage, matchday 3:
 * Group A: Amicale 2–0  Koloale
 * Standings: Amicale 6 points (3 matches), Lautoka 6 (2), 🇵🇬 PRK Hekari United 3 (2), Koloale 0 (3).
 * Group B: AS Magenta 🇳🇨 1–1 🇳🇿 Waitakere United
 * Standings (after 3 matches): 🇳🇿 Auckland City FC, Waitakere United 5 points, AS Magenta 4, AS Tefana 1.

Luge

 * World Cup in Winterberg, Germany:
 * Men's singles: Armin Zöggeler  1:44.322 (52.183 / 52.139)  David Möller  1:44.541 (52.256 / 52.285)  Julian von Schleinitz  1:44.601 (52.281 / 52.320)
 * Standings (after 2 of 9 races): (1) Zöggeler 170 points (2) Möller 170 (3) Felix Loch 160
 * Doubles: Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt  1:26.832 (43.415 / 43.417)  Christian Oberstolz/Patrick Gruber  1:26.842 (43.412 / 43.430)  Christian Niccum/Jayson Terdiman  1:27.159 (43.657 / 43.502)
 * Standings (after 2 of 9 races): (1) Oberstolz/Gruber 170 points (2) Wendl/Arlt 160 (3) Niccum/Terdiman 125

Nordic combined

 * World Cup in Trondheim, Norway:
 * HS 138 / 10 km: Mikko Kokslien  24:16.6  Jason Lamy-Chappuis  24:25.0  Felix Gottwald  24:29.9
 * Overall standings (after 3 of 12 races): (1) Lamy-Chappuis 240 points (2) Gottwald 210 (3) Kokslien 209

Rugby union

 * IRB Sevens World Series:
 * Dubai Sevens in Dubai, United Arab Emirates:
 * Shield:  26–0
 * Bowl:  21–0
 * Plate:  19–12
 * Cup: 21–29 
 * End of year tests:
 * Week 7:
 * Barbarians 26–20 in London

Short track speed skating

 * World Cup 3 in Changchun, China:
 * Men's:
 * 500m: Han Jialiang  42.447  Thibaut Fauconnet  42.910  Ryan Bedford  43.002
 * Standings (after 3 of 8 races): (1) François-Louis Tremblay 1512 points (2) Liang Wenhao  1475 (3) Charles Hamelin  1210
 * 1500m: Lee Ho-Suk  2:26.632  Liu Xianwei  2:26.779  Jeff Simon  2:26.880
 * Standings (after 4 of 8 races): (1) Simon 1850 points (2) Guillaume Bastille 1747 (3) Maxime Chataignier  1307
 * Women's:
 * 500m: Zhao Nannan  44.100  Liu Qiuhong  44.228  Fan Kexin  44.388
 * Standings (after 3 of 8 races): (1) Marianne St-Gelais 2000 points (2) Arianna Fontana  1600 (3) Zhao 1578
 * 1500m: Katherine Reutter  2:27.904  Cho Ha-Ri  2:28.008  Biba Sakurai  2:28.394
 * Standings (after 4 of 8 races): (1) Reutter 2800 points (2) Zhou Yang 2440 (3) Sakurai 1490

Ski jumping

 * World Cup in Lillehammer, Norway:
 * HS 138: Thomas Morgenstern  281.4 points  Johan Remen Evensen  276.9  Tom Hilde  272.8
 * Standings (after 3 of 26 events): (1) Morgenstern 225 points (2) Andreas Kofler 200 (3) Ville Larinto  172

Snooker

 * UK Championship in Telford, England, Last 32:
 * Ding Junhui [1] 9–4 Matthew Stevens
 * Mark Allen [12] 9–5 Tom Ford
 * Stephen Maguire [6] 9–6 Ken Doherty
 * Mark Selby [9] 9–6 Ricky Walden

Speed skating

 * World Cup 4 in Changchun, China:
 * Men's:
 * 500 m: Lee Kang-seok  35.10  Joji Kato  35.25  Keiichiro Nagashima  35.30
 * Standings (after 5 of 12 races): (1) Kato 410 points (2) Lee 390 (3) Nagashima 296
 * 1000 m: Stefan Groothuis  1:09.57  Lee Kyu-Hyeok  1:10.10  Simon Kuipers  1:10.27
 * Standings (after 3 of 8 races): (1) Groothuis 230 points (2) Kuipers 210 (3) Shani Davis 200
 * Women's:
 * 500 m: Lee Sang-hwa  38.24  Jenny Wolf  38.29  Nao Kodaira  38.51
 * Standings (after 5 of 12 races): (1) Wolf 480 points (2) Lee 370 (3) Margot Boer 360
 * 1000 m: Christine Nesbitt  1:16.07  Heather Richardson  1:17.49  Judith Hesse  1:18.04
 * Standings (after 3 of 8 races): (1) Nesbitt 300 points (2) Richardson 210 (3) Margot Boer 210

Tennis

 * Davis Cup Final in Belgrade, day 2: 1–2
 * Arnaud Clément / Michaël Llodra def. Viktor Troicki / Nenad Zimonjić  3–6, 6–7(3), 6–4, 7–5, 6–4

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Alpine skiing

 * Men's World Cup in Beaver Creek, United States:
 * Downhill: Cancelled due to strong winds.
 * Women's World Cup in Lake Louise, Canada:
 * Downhill: Maria Riesch  1:28.96  Lindsey Vonn  1:29.08  Elisabeth Görgl  1:29.17
 * Overall standings (after 5 of 38 races): (1) Riesch 334 points (2) Tanja Poutiainen 196 (3) Viktoria Rebensburg  180

American football

 * NCAA Division I FBS (BCS ranking in parentheses):
 * MAC Championship Game in Detroit: Miami (OH) 26, (25) Northern Illinois 21
 * The RedHawks win the championship for the first time since 2003 and 15th time overall.

Biathlon

 * World Cup 1 in Östersund, Sweden:
 * Women's 7.5 km Sprint: Kaisa Mäkäräinen  22:42.1 (0+0)  Miriam Gössner  23:00.8 (0+0)  Darya Domracheva  23:29.2 (0+1)
 * Overall standings (after 2 of 26 races): (1) Anna Carin Zidek 92 points (2) Mäkäräinen 90 (3) Helena Ekholm  88

Bobsleigh

 * World Cup in Calgary, Canada:
 * Two-man: Karl Angerer/Gregor Bermbach  1:50.57 (55.07 / 55.50)  Manuel Machata/Andreas Bredau  1:50.77 (55.25 / 55.52)  Patrice Servelle/Lascelles Brown  1:50.77 (55.28 / 55.49)
 * Standings (after 2 of 8 races): (1) Machata & Angerer 435 points (3) Lyndon Rush 394
 * Women: Cathleen Martini/Berit Wiacker  1:53.57 (57.01 / 56.56)  Sandra Kiriasis/Christin Senkel  1:53.89 (56.92 / 56.97)  Helen Upperton/Shelley-Ann Brown  1:54.08 (57.11 / 56.97)
 * Standings (after 2 of 8 races): (1) Kiriasis 435 points (2) Martini 417 (3) Kaillie Humphries 392

Cricket

 * England in Australia:
 * Ashes series:
 * Second Test in Adelaide, day 1: 🇦🇺 australia 245 (85.5 overs); 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england 1/0 (1 over). England trail by 244 runs with 10 wickets remaining in the 1st innings.
 * West Indies in Sri Lanka:
 * 3rd Test in Kandy, day 3: undefined 244/5 (81 overs);  undefined.
 * Zimbabwe in Bangladesh:
 * 2nd ODI in Mirpur: undefined 191 (46.2 overs; Abdur Razzak 5/30);  undefined 194/4 (39.4 overs). Bangladesh win by 6 wickets; 5-match series level 1–1.
 * ICC Intercontinental Cup Final in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, day 2:
 * undefined 212 & 64/6 (38.3 overs); 🇦🇫 afghanistan 171 (60.1 overs). Scotland lead by 105 runs with 4 wickets remaining.
 * ICC Intercontinental Shield Final in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, day 2:
 * undefined 79 & 200/5 (77 overs); 🇳🇦 namibia 320 (75.2 overs). United Arab Emirates trail by 41 runs with 5 wickets remaining.

Football (soccer)

 * Caribbean Championship Final Tournament in Martinique:
 * Semifinals in Fort-de-France:
 * 1–2 
 *  2–1 (a.e.t.)
 * OFC Champions League Group stage, matchday 3:
 * Group B: AS Tefana 1–1 🇳🇿 Auckland City FC

Tennis

 * Davis Cup Final in Belgrade, day 1: 1–1
 * Gaël Monfils def. Janko Tipsarević  6–1, 7–6(4), 6–0
 * Novak Djokovic def. Gilles Simon  6–3, 6–1, 7–5

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American football

 * NFL Thursday Night Football, Week 13: Philadelphia Eagles 34, Houston Texans 24
 * NCAA Division I FBS BCS Top 25:
 * Territorial Cup: Arizona State 30, (23) Arizona 29 (2OT)

Basketball

 * Euroleague Regular Season, matchday 7 (teams in bold advance to the Top 16):
 * Group A: Žalgiris Kaunas 🇱🇹 68–71 🇮🇱 Maccabi Tel Aviv
 * Standings (after 7 games): Maccabi Tel Aviv 6–1, Žalgiris Kaunas, 🇷🇸 Partizan Belgrade 4–3, 🇷🇺 Khimki Moscow 3–4, 🇪🇸 Caja Laboral, 🇵🇱 Asseco Prokom Gdynia 2–5.
 * Group B:
 * Olympiacos Piraeus 86–69 🇩🇪 Brose Baskets
 * Unicaja Málaga 🇪🇸 75–71 🇪🇸 Real Madrid
 * Virtus Roma 🇮🇹 95–83 🇧🇪 Spirou Basket
 * Standings (after 7 games): Olympiacos Piraeus 5–2, Real Madrid, Unicaja Málaga, Virtus Roma 4–3, Brose Baskets, Spirou Basket 2–5.
 * Group C: Regal FC Barcelona 🇪🇸 76–62 🇫🇷 Cholet Basket
 * Standings (after 7 games): 🇹🇷 Fenerbahçe Ülker, 🇮🇹 Montepaschi Siena 6–1, Regal FC Barcelona 5–2, Cholet Basket 3–4, 🇱🇹 Lietuvos Rytas 1–6, KK Cibona Zagreb 0–7.
 * Group D:
 * Power Electronics Valencia 🇪🇸 62–56 🇹🇷 Efes Pilsen Istanbul
 * Union Olimpija Ljubljana 🇸🇮 82–75 🇮🇹 Armani Jeans Milano
 * Standings (after 7 games): Union Olimpija Ljubljana, Panathinaikos Athens 5–2, Efes Pilsen Istanbul 4–3, Armani Jeans Milano, Power Electronics Valencia 3–4, 🇷🇺 CSKA Moscow 1–6.

Biathlon

 * World Cup 1 in Östersund, Sweden:
 * Men's 20 km Individual: Emil Hegle Svendsen  55:07.7 (0+1+0+1)  Ole Einar Bjørndalen  55:26.8 (0+0+0+2)  Martin Fourcade  55:45.5 (0+1+0+0)

Bobsleigh

 * World Cup in Calgary, Canada:
 * Team:  I (Frank Rommel, Stefanie Szczurek, Kristin Steinert, Anja Huber, Manuel Machata, Florian Becke) 3:47.86 (56.76 / 57.21 / 58.22 / 55.67)   I (Jon Montgomery, Mellissa These, Baadsvik Emily, Amy Gough, Lyndon Rush, Justin Wilkinson) 3:49.35 (57.26 / 57.53 / 58.82 / 55.74)   II (Sergey Chudinov, Anastasiya Skulkina, Yana Vinokhodova, Olga Potelitcina, Alexey Gorlachev, Ilya Ivanov) 3:49.61 (56.68 / 58.10 / 59.00 / 55.83)

Cricket

 * West Indies in Sri Lanka:
 * 3rd Test in Kandy, day 2: undefined 244/5 (81 overs);  undefined.
 * ICC Intercontinental Cup Final in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, day 1:
 * undefined 212 (88.4 overs; Neil McCallum 104*, Hamid Hassan 5/45); 🇦🇫 afghanistan 18/1 (4 overs). Afghanistan trail by 194 runs with 9 wickets remaining in the 1st innings.
 * ICC Intercontinental Shield Final in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, day 1:
 * undefined 79 (25.3 overs, Bernie Burger 7/38); 🇳🇦 namibia 267/3 (61 overs; Craig Williams 116). Namibia lead by 188 runs with 7 wickets remaining in the 1st innings.

Football (soccer)

 * FIFA Executive Committee selects the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup hosts:
 * 2018: Russia win the rights to the tournament, amassing an unassailable 13 of the 22 votes in the second round.
 * 2022: Qatar win the rights to the tournament, defeating the United States by 14 votes to 8 in the final round.
 * Russia and Qatar are both first-time hosts and are the largest (by area) and smallest (by both area and population) countries respectively to host the FIFA World Cup, and also the first hosts from Eastern Europe or Western Asia.
 * AFF Suzuki Cup:
 * Group B in Hanoi, Vietnam:
 * 1–1
 * 7–1
 * UEFA Europa League group stage, matchday 5: (teams in bold advance to the Round of 32)
 * Group D:
 * Villarreal 🇪🇸 3–0 Dinamo Zagreb
 * PAOK 1–1 🇧🇪 Club Brugge
 * Standings (after 5 matches): Villarreal 9 points, PAOK 8, Dinamo Zagreb 7, Club Brugge 3.
 * Group E:
 * Sheriff Tiraspol 🇲🇩 1–1 AZ
 * BATE 🇧🇾 1–4 🇺🇦 Dynamo Kyiv
 * Standings (after 5 matches): Dynamo Kyiv, BATE 10 points, AZ, Sheriff Tiraspol 4.
 * Group F:
 * Palermo 🇮🇹 2–2 🇨🇿 Sparta Prague
 * CSKA Moscow 🇷🇺 5–1 Lausanne-Sport
 * Standings (after 5 matches): CSKA Moscow 15 points, Sparta Prague 8, Palermo 4, Lausanne-Sport 1.
 * Group J:
 * Borussia Dortmund 🇩🇪 3–0 🇺🇦 Karpaty Lviv
 * Paris Saint-Germain 🇫🇷 4–2 🇪🇸 Sevilla
 * Standings (after 5 matches): Paris Saint-Germain 11 points, Sevilla 9, Borussia Dortmund 8, Karpaty Lviv 0.
 * Group K:
 * Utrecht 3–3 🇮🇹 Napoli
 * Steaua București 🇷🇴 1–1 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Liverpool
 * Standings (after 5 matches): Liverpool 9 points, Steaua București 6, Napoli, Utrecht 4.
 * Group L:
 * CSKA Sofia 🇧🇬 1–2 🇹🇷 Beşiktaş
 * Rapid Wien 🇦🇹 1–3 Porto
 * Standings (after 5 matches): Porto 13 points, Beşiktaş 10, Rapid Wien, CSKA Sofia 3.
 * 🇲🇽 Primera División de México Apertura Liguilla Final, first leg:
 * Santos Laguna 3–2 Monterrey

Skeleton

 * World Cup in Calgary, Canada:
 * Men: Martins Dukurs  1:52.14 (56.10 / 56.04)  Aleksandr Tretyakov  1:52.23 (56.17 / 56.06)  Kristan Bromley  1:52.98 (56.54 / 56.44)
 * Standings (after 2 of 8 races): (1) Tretyakov & Bromley 410 points (3) Dukurs 409
 * Women: Anja Huber  1:55.84 (57.93 / 57.91)  Shelley Rudman  1:56.61 (58.15 / 58.46)  Amy Gough  1:56.89 (58.35 / 58.54)
 * Standings (after 2 of 8 races): (1) Huber 425 points (2) Marion Thees 409 (3) Mellisa Hollingsworth  402
 * Team:  I (Frank Rommel, Stefanie Szczurek, Kristin Steinert, Anja Huber, Manuel Machata, Florian Becke) 3:47.86 (56.76 / 57.21 / 58.22 / 55.67)   I (Jon Montgomery, Mellissa These, Baadsvik Emily, Amy Gough, Lyndon Rush, Justin Wilkinson) 3:49.35 (57.26 / 57.53 / 58.82 / 55.74)   II (Sergey Chudinov, Anastasiya Skulkina, Yana Vinokhodova, Olga Potelitcina, Alexey Gorlachev, Ilya Ivanov) 3:49.61 (56.68 / 58.10 / 59.00 / 55.83)

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Basketball

 * Euroleague Regular Season, matchday 7 (teams in bold advance to the Top 16):
 * Group A:
 * Khimki Moscow 🇷🇺 92–65 🇷🇸 Partizan Belgrade
 * Caja Laboral 🇪🇸 75–81 🇵🇱 Asseco Prokom Gdynia
 * Standings: 🇮🇱 Maccabi Tel Aviv 5–1, 🇱🇹 Žalgiris Kaunas 4–2, Partizan 4–3, Khimki Moscow 3–4, Caja Laboral, Asseco Prokom Gdynia 2–5.
 * Group C:
 * Fenerbahçe Ülker 🇹🇷 100–70 KK Cibona Zagreb
 * Montepaschi Siena 🇮🇹 90–72 🇱🇹 Lietuvos Rytas
 * Standings: Fenerbahçe Ülker, Montepaschi Siena 6–1, 🇪🇸 Regal FC Barcelona 4–2, 🇫🇷 Cholet Basket 3–3, Lietuvos Rytas 1–6, Cibona Zagreb 0–7.
 * Group D: CSKA Moscow 🇷🇺 68–72 Panathinaikos Athens
 * Standings: Panathinaikos 5–2, 🇹🇷 Efes Pilsen Istanbul, 🇸🇮 Union Olimpija Ljubljana 4–2, 🇮🇹 Armani Jeans Milano 3–3, 🇪🇸 Power Electronics Valencia 2–4, CSKA Moscow 1–6.

Biathlon

 * World Cup 1 in Östersund, Sweden:
 * Women's 15 km Individual: Anna Carin Olofsson-Zidek  45:26.1 (0+0+0+0)  Marie-Laure Brunet  45:35.0 (1+0+0+1)  Helena Ekholm  46:08.8 (1+0+0+1)

Cricket

 * West Indies in Sri Lanka:
 * 3rd Test in Kandy, day 1: undefined 134/2 (40 overs);  undefined.
 * New Zealand in India:
 * 2nd ODI in Jaipur: 🇳🇿 new zealand 258/8 (50 overs); 🇮🇳 india 259/2 (43 overs, Gautam Gambhir 138*). India win by 8 wickets; lead 5-match series 2–0.
 * Zimbabwe in Bangladesh:
 * 1st ODI in Mirpur: undefined 209 (49 overs);  undefined 200 (49 overs). Zimbabwe win by 9 runs; lead 5-match series 1–0.

Football (soccer)

 * Caribbean Championship Final Tournament in Martinique: (teams in bold advance to the semi-finals and qualify for 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup)
 * Group I in Riviére-Pilote:
 *  1–0 🇦🇬 antigua and barbuda
 * 0–4 🇯🇲 jamaica
 * Final standings: Jamaica 9 points, Guadeloupe 4, Antigua and Barbuda 3, Guyana 1.
 * AFF Suzuki Cup:
 * Group A in Jakarta, Indonesia:
 * 2–2 🇱🇦 lao people's democratic republic
 * 5–1
 * UEFA Europa League group stage, matchday 5: (teams in bold advance to the Round of 32)
 * Group A:
 * Lech Poznań 🇵🇱 1–1 🇮🇹 Juventus
 * Manchester City 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 3–0 🇦🇹 Red Bull Salzburg
 * Standings (after 5 matches): Manchester City 10 points, Lech Poznań 8, Juventus 5, Red Bull Salzburg 2.
 * Group B:
 * Atlético Madrid 🇪🇸 2–3 Aris
 * Rosenborg 🇳🇴 0–1 🇩🇪 Bayer Leverkusen
 * Standings (after 5 matches): Bayer Leverkusen 11 points, Aris, Atlético Madrid 7, Rosenborg 3.
 * Group C:
 * Gent 🇧🇪 1–0 🇧🇬 Levski Sofia
 * Sporting CP 1–0 🇫🇷 Lille
 * Standings (after 5 matches): Sporting CP 12 points, Gent 7, Lille 5, Levski Sofia 4.
 * Group G:
 * Hajduk Split 1–3  AEK Athens
 * Zenit St. Petersburg 🇷🇺 3–1 🇧🇪 Anderlecht
 * Standings (after 5 matches): Zenit St. Petersburg 15 points, AEK Athens 7, Anderlecht 4, Hajduk Split 3.
 * Group H:
 * Odense 1–1 🇪🇸 Getafe
 * Young Boys 4–2 🇩🇪 Stuttgart
 * Standings (after 5 matches): Stuttgart 12 points, Young Boys 9, Getafe, Odense 4.
 * Group I:
 * Metalist Kharkiv 🇺🇦 2–1 🇭🇺 Debrecen
 * Sampdoria 🇮🇹 1–2 PSV Eindhoven
 * Standings (after 5 matches): PSV Eindhoven 13 points, Metalist Kharkiv 10, Sampdoria 5, Debrecen 0.
 * Copa Sudamericana Finals, first leg:
 * Goiás 🇧🇷 2–0 🇦🇷 Independiente

Rugby union

 * sweeps the three major IRB Awards in the last of this year's awards cycle:
 * The All Blacks are named Team of the Year for the fourth time.
 * Head coach Graham Henry is named Coach of the Year for a fourth time.
 * Captain Richie McCaw is named Player of the Year for a third time, and is also the first player to claim the award in consecutive years.

Ski jumping

 * World Cup in Kuopio, Finland:
 * HS 127: Ville Larinto  240.9 points  Matti Hautamäki  240.8  Simon Ammann  238.3
 * Standings (after 2 of 26 events): (1) Andreas Kofler 150 points (2) Larinto 140 (3) Thomas Morgenstern  & Hautamäki 125