Brawn GP take first and second in their first ever race, with Button becoming the first driver since
Juan Manuel Fangio at the
French Grand Prix in
1954 to win from pole in a first drive for a brand new team.
Jarno Trulli finished third in the race, but was given a 25-second penalty post-race for passing Hamilton under the stabilised
safety car conditions, in which the race finished.
Sooners
centerCourtney Paris becomes the first player in
U.S. college basketball history—regardless of governing body, division or gender—with 2,500 points and 2,000 rebounds in her career.
22 spectators die and more than a hundred are injured in a stampede after a wall collapse in
Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium shortly before the kick-off.[1]
Argentina win its first official match with
Diego Maradona as coach, and leap over Brazil into second place on 19 points, 4 points befind leader Paraguay. Uruguay goes into fourth place on 16 pts. Colombia in sixth place on 14 pts.
Team USA comes back from a 2–0 deficit
in San Salvador behind goals from
Jozy Altidore and
Frankie Hejduk, and takes sole possession of first place in the hexagonal with 4 points from 2 matches.
Kim becomes the first ever World champion in figure skating from Korea, and the first woman to score over 200 points. Rochette is the first Canadian woman to win a medal in 21 years.
Australia 166/7 (20/20 ov,
David Hussey 88
*); South Africa 168/6 (19.2/20 ov). South Africa win by 4 wickets with 4 balls remaining, lead 2-match series 1–0.
Standings after 14 draws (teams in bold advance to the playoffs, teams in italics secure at least a tie breaker, teams in strike are eliminated): China 8–1, Canada, Denmark 7–2, Sweden 6–3, Switzerland 5–4, Germany, Russia, Scotland, USA 4–5, Korea 3–6, Italy, Norway 1–8.
Ichiro Suzuki hits a two-run single in the top of the 10th, and
Yu Darvish closes the door on South Korea as Japan successfully defends its
2006 title. Japan's
Daisuke Matsuzaka is named MVP for the second time in two Classics.
The Cardinals inflict on the two-time defending champion Lady Vols their first loss in the first or second round in school history. Tennessee also becomes the first ever defending champion to lose in the first round.
South Africa inflict an innings defeat on Australia for the first time since
India inflicted an innings & 219 runs defeat in March 1998. However, Australia had already won the series.
New Zealand 166 (47.2 ov); England 167/6 (46.1 ov) in
North Sydney. England win by 4 wickets and wins the title for the third time.
Claire Taylor was named player of the tournament.
Ronan O'Gara scores a
drop goal with three minutes remaining to give Ireland their first Six Nations title since
1985, and also their first
Grand Slam since
1948 and fourth
Triple Crown in the last six years.
England 270/7 (50 ov); West Indies 244/7 (46.2 ov). England win by 1 run (
D/L method), lead 5-match series 1–0.
After losing their seventh wicket, the West Indies batsmen are offered the light and take it, believing that they would win the match. However, this turned out to be wrong as the West Indies required a score of 246 after 46.2 overs under the Duckworth–Lewis method in order to win the match.
In an elimination match, Japan defeats their
2006 final opponent for the second time in this pool, and will now face
South Korea for semifinal seeding.
South Korea scores 3 runs in the first inning and cruises into the semifinals. Japan now faces
Cuba, with the winner advancing to the semifinals and the loser going home.
The Ravens win their sixth title in seven years, this time at home. The Ravens will host the Final 8 again next year. Stuart Turnbull was named game MVP in a 22-point outing.
England jumps out to a 29–0 halftime lead and cruises from there. France's loss ends their championship hopes and means that the title will be decided in
next week'sWales–
Ireland match in
Cardiff.
Old Dominion's 62–41 loss to
Drexel in the semifinals of the
CAA tournament ends the Lady Monarchs' NCAA Division I record of 17 consecutive conference tournament titles.
Ireland remain on track for a potential
Grand Slam. A win or draw against Wales next week in
Cardiff will secure them the championship. Wales must win by at least 13 points to win the title. France could also be the winner, if they beat England in
London on Sunday and Italy in
Rome next week, and Wales beat Ireland.
All four English teams –
Chelsea,
Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester United – are through to the quarterfinals, while all Italian teams are out of the competition.
The Bison become the first men's team since Southwestern Louisiana, now
Louisiana–Lafayette, in 1972 to make the "Big Dance" in their first year of postseason eligibility.
Radek Štěpánek beat
Gilles Simon 7–6(2) 6–3 7–6(0) in the fourth rubber to put Czech Republic through to a quarterfinals tie at home against Argentina.
Israel advance to the quarterfinals for just the second time in its Davis Cup history, after wins for
Dudi Sela over
Thomas Johansson and
Harel Levy over
Andreas Vinciguerra, both in five sets. For Sweden it's the first defeat ever after leading 2–1.
Nicolas Kiefer clinch victory for Germany with 7–6(3) 6–4 6–4 win over
Jürgen Melzer in the fourth rubber. Austria lose in the first round for the sixth successive year.
While
Simon Aspelin and
Robert Lindstedt beat
Andy Ram and
Amir Hadad 6–4 1–6 7–6(4) 6–4 in the near-empty arena to give Sweden the lead in the tie, a crowd of 7000 people hold a demonstration against
Israel recent military operation in Gaza Strip near the stadium, and several demonstrators who throw rocks and fire crackers at the police force and try to break into the Baltic Hall are arrested.[2]
Japan begin the defense of its title with a win, thanks to a two-run homer from
Shuichi Murata in the third inning and a no-hitter through four innings by
Yu Darvish.
In front of a Euroleague-record crowd of 22,567 at
Belgrade Arena, Partizan draw level with Panathinaikos atop the group, although PAO holds the tiebreaker.
Northug wins his third title of the championships, and the Norwegian men win five out of six cross country gold medals to finish on top of the medals standings. Angerer wins his third medal of the championships and sixth medal of his career, but none of them is gold.