2006 Sugar Bowl
With 1:26 remaining in the game and facing a 4th-and-6 near midfield, West Virginia's Phil Brady ran for 10 yards on a fake punt to seal the win. West Virginia's freshman running back Steve Slaton was named the game's MVP, having rushed for a Sugar Bowl-record 204 yards and 3 touchdowns, including two separate scores of 52-yards each. Fellow freshman Darius Reynaud, a wide receiver, scored the Mountaineers' other two touchdowns.


2006 Sugar Bowl, Aftermath
West Virginia capped off an 11–1 season ranked #5 in the nation, while Georgia fell to 10–3. The win was the first of four bowl victories for West Virginia QB Pat White.


2006 Sugar Bowl, Aftermath
ESPN ranked the 2006 Sugar Bowl #6 on its list of the best major bowl games of the BCS era.


2006 Sugar Bowl, Aftermath
This was the last Sugar Bowl to host the actual SEC champion until the 2014 season when Alabama played in the national semifinal game. The SEC champion would play in the BCS National Championship Game each of the eight years following the 2006 game.


2006 Sukma Games
The 2006 Sukma Games, officially known as the 11th Sukma Games was a Malaysian multi-sport event held in Kedah from 28 May to 4 June 2006. Negeri Sembilan weightlifter Zulkifli Che Rose and Negeri Sembilan swimmer Lew Yih Wey were announced as Best Sportsman and Best Sportswoman of the event respectively.


2006 Sukma Games, Development and preparation
The 11th Sukma Games Organising Committee was formed to oversee the staging of the event.


2006 Sukma Games, Development and preparation, Venues
The 2006 Sukma Games used a mix of new and existing venues. Most venues were existing public-sporting facilities, while others were newly constructed venues. Some retrofitting work were done in venues which are more than a decade old. They will be revert to public use after the games.


2006 Sukma Games, Development and preparation, Venues
At the centrepiece of the activities was the upgraded 40,000-seat Darul Aman Stadium which hosts most of the events. A games village was not built, instead athletes and officials were housed in Universities throughout Kedah. Besides being physically near to the sport venues, it was hoped that it will add vibe to the city and reduce post-games costs in converting a dedicated games village to other uses.


2006 Sukma Games, Development and preparation, Venues
The 11th Sukma Games had 24 venues for the games. 12 in Kota Setar, 4 each in Kuala Muda and Kubang Pasu respectively and 1 each in Langkawi, Padang Terap and Pendang respectively.


2006 Sukma Games, Marketing, Logo
The logo of the 2006 Sukma Games is an image of a human in movement which represents the activeness and fitness of the athletes participating at the games. The colour Yellow and green represents the games host state, Kedah, the colour red represents the fighting spirit of the athletes and colour blue represents the greatness and sincerity of the athletes.


2006 Sukma Games, Marketing, Mascot
The mascot of the 2006 Sukma Games is a nameless Eagle. It is said that the eagle is the state bird of Kedah and one of the prevalent species in Kedah especially in Langkawi where an eagle sculpture was erected in the Eagle Square (Dataran Helang) to symbolise the island. The adoption of eagle as the games' mascot is to represent the fighting spirit of the athletes participating at the games.


2006 Sukma Games, Marketing, Motto
The official motto of the games is "Sukan Cemerlang Negara Terbilang"  which means Excellence in sports, Glorify the nation.


2006 Sukma Games, Broadcasting
Radio Televisyen Malaysia was responsible for live streaming of several events, opening and closing ceremony of the games.


2006 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
The 2006 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup was the 15th edition of field hockey tournament the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup.


2006 Sultan Qaboos Cup
The 2006 Sultan Qaboos Cup was the 34th edition of the Sultan Qaboos Cup (Arabic: كأس السلطان قابوس), the premier knockout tournament for football teams in Oman.


2006 Sultan Qaboos Cup
The competition began on 19 August 2006 with the Group Stage and concluded on 20 November 2006. Al-Nasr S.C.S.C. were the defending champions, having won their fourth title in 2005. On Monday 20 November 2006, Dhofar S.C.S.C. were crowned the champions of the 2006 Sultan Qaboos Cup when they defeated Sur SC 2-1, hence winning the title for the seventh time.


2006 Sultan Qaboos Cup, Teams
This year the tournament had 31 teams. The winners qualified for the 2007 AFC Cup.


2006 Sultan Qaboos Cup, Group stage, Group Stage Results
The first match played was between Al-Nasr S.C.S.C. and Khasab SC on 19 August 2006. 16 teams advanced to the Round of 16.


2006 Sultan Qaboos Cup, Round of 16
16 teams played a knockout tie. 8 ties were played over one leg. The first match was played between Oman Club and Sur SC on 21 September 2006. 8 teams advanced to the Quarterfinals.


2006 Sultan Qaboos Cup, Quarterfinals
8 teams played a knockout tie. 4 ties were played over two legs. The first match was played between Sur SC and Al-Nahda Club on 28 September 2006. Sur SC, Al-Seeb Club, Dhofar S.C.S.C. and Bahla Club qualified for the Semifinals.


2006 Sultan Qaboos Cup, Semifinals
4 teams played a knockout tie. 2 ties were played over two legs. The first match was played between Sur SC and Al-Seeb Club on 16 October 2006. Sur SC and Dhofar S.C.S.C. qualified for the Finals.


2006 Sultan of Selangor Cup
The 2006 Sultan of Selangor Cup was played on 10 May 2006, at Singapore National Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. This match marks the second time the competition is played in Singapore.


2006 Sultan of Selangor Cup, Veterans
A match between veterans of two teams are also held in the same day before the real match starts as a curtain raiser.


2006 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2006 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place March 3–7, 2006. The tournament took place in Murfreesboro, TN at the Murphy Center on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University. The Semifinals were televised on ESPN Plus with the Championship game being televised on ESPN2.


2006 Sun Belt Conference football season
The 2006 Sun Belt Conference football season was an NCAA football season that was played from August 28, 2008, to January 6, 2009. The Sun Belt Conference consisted of 8 football members:  Arkansas State, Florida Atlantic, Florida International, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana-Monroe, Middle Tennessee, North Texas, and Troy. Troy and MTSU split the Sun Belt Championship, with Troy playing in the New Orleans Bowl where they defeated Rice. Middle Tennessee would play in the Motor City Bowl where they lost to Central Michigan.


2006 Sun Bowl
The 2006 Brut Sun Bowl featured the Oregon State Beavers of the Pac-10 and the Missouri Tigers of the Big 12 Conference.


2006 Sun Bowl
Running back Tony Temple started the scoring for Missouri as he took a handoff and ran 7 yards for a touchdown, to give Missouri an early 7–0 lead. Quarterback Matt Moore threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Sammie Stroughter to tie the game at 7. Matt Moore later ran for a 1-yard touchdown to increase the lead to 14–7.


2006 Sun Bowl
Missouri placekicker Jeff Wolfert kicked a 30-yard field goal to cut the lead to 14–10. Quarterback Chase Daniel threw a 74-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Danario Alexander, to give the lead to Missouri, 17–14.


2006 Sun Bowl
In the third quarter, Matt Moore found all Pac-10 tight end Joe Newton for an 11-yard touchdown pass and a 21–17 Oregon State lead. Tight end Chase Coffman took a handoff, but then threw to a streaking Tommy Saunders for a 29-yard touchdown to give Missouri a 24–21 lead. Tony Temple later broke free on a 65-yard touchdown run to stretch the lead to 31–21.


2006 Sun Bowl
Oregon State kicker Alexis Serna drilled a 29-yard field goal to cut the lead to 31–24. With 12:08 left in the game, Chase Daniel found Chase Coffman in the end zone for an 18-yard touchdown, stretching the lead to 38–24. With 6:02 left in the game, Matt Moore threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to running back Yvenson Bernard, to trim the lead to 38–31. Moore later fired a 14-yard touchdown pass to Joe Newton with only 23 seconds left to make it 38–37. Yvenson Bernard plowed ahead on the two-point conversion attempt, and Oregon State won 39–38.


2006 Sundance Film Festival
The 2006 Sundance Film Festival was held in Utah from January 19, to January 29, 2006. It was held in Park City, with screenings in Salt Lake City; Ogden; and the Sundance Resort. It was the 22nd iteration of the Sundance Film Festival, and the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Sundance Institute. The opening night film was Friends with Money; the closing night film was Alpha Dog.


2006 Sundance Film Festival, Award winners
The official announcement of the winners can be found .


2006 Sundance Film Festival, Juries
The juries at the Sundance Film Festival are responsible for determining the Jury Prize winners in each category and to award Special Jury Prizes as they see fit.


2006 Sunderland City Council election
The 2006 Sunderland Council election took place on 4 May 2006 to elect members of Sunderland City Council in Tyne and Wear, England. One third of the Council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control.


2006 Sunderland City Council election, Campaign
Before the election the council was composed of 60 Labour, 12 Conservative, 2 Liberal Democrat and 1 independent councillors. In the period since the previous local elections in May 2004, there had been two by-elections, in Barnes Ward and Millfield Ward (with seats held by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats respectively), and Doxford councillor Mike Tansey had left the Labour Party to sit as an Independent.


2006 Sunderland City Council election, Campaign
In total 99 candidates stood in the election for the 25 seats that were being contested, with the Labour Party, Conservative Party and British National Party contesting every seat. Other candidates included 22 from the Liberal Democrats and 1 from the Official Monster Raving Loony Party. The council was safe for Labour, but the Conservatives were hoping to make gains in the wards of Doxford, St Peters, Washington East and Washington South.


2006 Sunderland City Council election, Campaign
Sunderland was one of 4 local councils which had early polling stations available so voters could vote up to 2 weeks before the election.


2006 Sunderland City Council election, Election results
The results saw Labour keep a strong majority on the council after finishing just one seat down with 59 councillors. The Labour leader of the council, Robert Symonds, was among those to hold his seat in Castle ward, but the party did lose 2 seats including St Peters to the Conservatives. The other Labour loss was to the Liberal Democrats in Millfield, but Labour also gained Washington South from the Liberal Democrats. This meant the Conservatives had 13 seats, the Liberal Democrats 2 and 1 independent. Meanwhile, the British National Party failed to win any seats, but did win almost 15% of the vote. Overall turnout was 32.2%, with 1,436 voters having used the early voting scheme, while 30,304 people used postal voting, which was 67.54% of those registered to vote by post.


2006 Sunderland City Council election, Election results
Following the election the leader of the Conservative group, Peter Wood, was challenged for the leadership by Lee Martin, but held on by one vote.


2006 Sunfeast Open
2006 Sunfeast Open was the second edition of the WTA tennis tournament held in Kolkata, West Bengal, India from 18 to 24 September 2006 for women's professional tennis. It was a Tier III event with the prize money of US$175,000.


2006 Sunfeast Open, Finals, Doubles
Liezel Huber /  Sania Mirza defeated   Yuliya Beygelzimer /  Yuliana Fedak, 6–4, 6–0


2006 Sunfeast Open, Entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2006 Sunfeast Open – Doubles
Elena Likhovtseva and Anastasia Myskina were the defending champions, but neither chose to participate that year.


2006 Sunfeast Open – Doubles
Liezel Huber and Sania Mirza won the title, defeating Yuliya Beygelzimer and Yuliana Fedak 6–4, 6–0 in the final.


2006 Sunfeast Open – Singles
Anastasia Myskina was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.


2006 Sunfeast Open – Singles
Martina Hingis won the title, defeating Olga Poutchkova 6–0, 6–4 in the final.


2006 Super 14 Final
The Final of the 2006 Super 14 season, a rugby union competition in the Southern Hemisphere, took place on 27 May 2006 at Jade Stadium in Christchurch, New Zealand. The match was won by the Crusaders 19 points to 12 over the visiting Wellington-based side, the Hurricanes. The match featured low-lying sea fog which prevented many in the crowd, as well as the television cameras and commentators, from seeing the action. The match had one try, to Crusaders' centre, Casey Laulala which was scored in the second half. The match has been nicknamed the "Gorillas in the Mist", after the film of the same name.


2006 Super 14 Final, Road to the Final
The Crusaders finished top of the table, following a strong season at home and only one loss, away to the Stormers in Cape Town, which ended their 17-game winning streak. They also had a drawn match in Perth against soon-to-be wooden spooners, the Western Force.


2006 Super 14 Final, Road to the Final
The Hurricanes made the final after back-to-back wins over the Waratahs in round 14, in Sydney, and then the first semi-final, played in Wellington. The Hurricanes finished second on the table, losing only three matches, in the round robin, to the Cheetahs, the Crusaders and the Brumbies. The home semi-final was the first time the Hurricanes franchise hosted a playoffs match.


2006 Super 14 Final, Road to the Final, Pre-game
The game was expected to be centred on the defence of both sides. The Hurricanes entered the final with an average points-against of 15 against New Zealand sides, the Crusaders were slightly better, with 14. The weather was not building up to be a huge factor, with clouds and rain forecast. The Crusaders had finished the 2006 season at the top of the ladder, and defeated the Bulls to claim the home-final as they were the highest ranked side. The Hurricanes finished the season in second position, and defeated the New South Wales Waratahs to meet the Crusaders in the final.


2006 Super 14 Final, Road to the Final, Pre-game
The Crusaders went into the match with no reserve scrum-half after Andrew Ellis went off injured against the Bulls the week before. This meant if starting half Kevin Senio was injured, Cameron McIntyre would come on and Daniel Carter would move into scrum-half.


2006 Super 14 Final, Conditions
About an hour before kick-off at Jade Stadium, an unusual thick fog floated over the stadium. The players and officials were asked whether they wanted to persist with the game, with both parties agreeing that the match should go on, although some speculated it might be pushed over to Sunday. As the sides ran out onto the field the players almost disappeared into the mist. The commentary box could not make out anything on the opposite side of the field from where they were.


2006 Super 14 Final, Conditions
This forced a commentary split, with the sideline commentator taking up the duties when the play was on the opposite side to the commentary box. Some of the television footage was relatively clear with many camera angles and positions different from a normal game broadcast, though many thought they could have done better with more cameras repositioned to the far side of the field.


2006 Super 14 Final, Conditions
The poor visibility prevented much free-flowing play, as players struggled to see one another. Bombs and high kicks created havoc for both teams, with both back lines making unusual mistakes. There were many examples of the ball suddenly appearing below the hanging mist, making it difficult to field many kicks. Overall the crowd at Jade Stadium had a poor view of the match, with most of the south stand turning around to watch the match on the stadium's big-screen. The Sky Sports commentators saw many patrons in the upper levels rushing home or to other establishments to watch coverage on television. Officials admitted that the match would have been postponed if the fog had been any thicker.


2006 Super 14 Final, Match, First half
In one of the opening exchanges, Crusaders wing Rico Gear dropped the ball from a high kick, the resulting play lead to a Hurricanes penalty. David Holwell missed the penalty attempt, it being taken from 30m out and near the touchline. The Hurricanes scored first through a long range Piri Weepu penalty goal in the 12th minute. Daniel Carter had an opportunity to level the scores with a penalty kick, but missed as well. Carter did make two penalties, leaving the half time score 6–3 in favour of the home side. Weepu went down several times in the first half and was momentarily knocked out.


2006 Super 14 Final, Match, Second half
Holwell tied the match up four minutes after the interval, but Carter put the Crusaders back in front with a penalty two minutes later. Holwell was then substituted for Jimmy Gopperth, in what may have been Holwell's final first-class match. Gopperth kicked the Hurricanes' third penalty, once again evening up the scores. The Crusaders struck back though, with a try to Casey Laulala near the right hand upright. Carter converted, put the Crusaders out to a 16–9 lead. Carter then extended the lead out to 19–9 on the 69 minute mark, before Gopperth scored a penalty with ten minutes remaining. The match ended with the Hurricanes attempting to run it out from their own 22, needing a converted try. Reuben Thorne forced a turnover though, and hooker Corey Flynn kicked the ball into touch for the Crusaders' sixth Super rugby title, and first Super 14 title.


2006 Super 14 Final, Criticism
Many after the match criticised the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) and the Canterbury Rugby Football Union (CRFU) for allowing the match to be played in such poor conditions. Former All Black first five-eighth, Grant Fox, defended the decision, citing that the fog came in around 6:30 p.m., around one hour before kick-off, making it a logistical nightmare to attempt to postpone it.


2006 Super 14 Final, Criticism
The decision to allow Weepu to continue playing (after being knocked out) also drew criticism from medical experts, including former All Blacks' doctor, John Mayhew. "Get the player off. Assume that his day is over and go on from there. Whether it's a test match or Super 14 final or a rugby league game", Mayhew told NZPA. Hurricanes doctor, Ian Murphy said on Tuesday 30 May that he was unaware that Weepu was knocked out. "By the time I got to Piri out on the field he was conscious and I could not fault him in terms of his responses to my concussion-related questions" said Murphy. Weepu revealed after the match that he was suffering from amnesia, and could recall very little about the final.


2006 Super 14 Final, Post-match "handbag incident"
Former All Black captain Tana Umaga and Chris Masoe were involved in an altercation after the final in The Jolly Poacher, a bar in Christchurch. Masoe tripped over a male patron's feet whilst walking in the bar. Umaga then intervened, by taking Masoe aside and began hitting him with a nearby women's handbag. The mobile phone inside the bag was broken in the process.


2006 Super 14 Final, Post-match "handbag incident"
After the incident, Masoe was fined NZ$3000 by the NZRU and it was reported that he punched another patron at the bar. All Black coach, Graham Henry said that he believes that the All Black players may have been discussing Umaga's technique. Umaga received no fine from the NZRU, but replaced the broken phone. The handbag that was used by Umaga was placed on the TradeMe auction website after the event, and at the close of bidding was sold for NZ$22,800.


2006 Super 14 Final, Post-match "handbag incident"
The incident was later parodied by the Australian television network, Seven, in the buildup for the 2006 Tri Nations Series, in a television commercial. The commercial featured the All Blacks performing the haka, with digitally enhanced handbags over their shoulders. New Zealand officials later complained about the ad, saying that it was insensitive to Umaga.


2006 Super 14 season
The 2006 Super 14 season started on Friday 10 February 2006. The Grand Final was held on Saturday 27 May 2006. Super 14 is a provincial rugby union competition with 14 teams from New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. This season was the first of the expansion, which saw two new teams, the Western Force and the Cheetahs, join the Super 12/14. The addition of two new teams led to the name change from the Super 12. It was also the first year for a new Super 14 trophy.


2006 Super 14 season
At the start of round one, the Crusaders were the favourite to win this year's title  with a return of A$3.25 for every $1 bet. The Blues were second favourite with a return of A$4.75 for every $1 bet and the Waratahs were third with a return of A$5.00 for every $1 bet. The Cats were favourites for the wooden spoon. These figures are the final odds.


2006 Super 14 season
The season saw the first joint commercial by the three SANZAR unions since 1996. The commercial was filmed in Ukraine and is set in a laundromat. The ad was attempting to draw interest, with the motto More teams, more games and more excitement at the end of the commercial. One player from each of the 14 teams was present, except for the Waratahs. A local extra named "Ouri" filled the role of Mat Rogers who injured his back in a test match for the Wallabies against Wales.


2006 Super 14 season
By the end of round twelve, critics began speculating that the pre-season favourites, the Crusaders, were losing their form after a draw against the winless Western Force and then a shock loss to the Stormers. However they bounced back against the Bulls with a 4 try bonus point victory. After a few results fell in their favour they were able to comfortably beat the Brumbies, and finished for the second consecutive season on top of the ladder. The Crusaders won the Super 14 after defeating the Hurricanes in Christchurch in the final, 19–12 in misty conditions. There was 94 matches held over three and a half months, with each team playing one full round robin against the 13 other teams and the playoffs involving two semi-finals and a final. Every team got one bye over the 14 rounds.


2006 Super 14 season, South African relegation
Originally, the fifth-place South African side was to be replaced by the Spears, who were initially planned to compete in the 2007 and 2008 competitions. However, the South African Rugby Union (SARU) revisited the decision to admit the Spears, and announced on 19 April 2006 that the Spears would not enter the competition.


2006 Super 14 season, South African relegation
On 5 August 2006, the High Court of South Africa threw a potential monkey wrench into the 2007 season when it issued its ruling in the Spears' legal challenge to the decision. It ruled that the Spears had a valid contract with SA Rugby, the commercial arm of SARU, to be included in the 2007 and 2008 Super 14. SA Rugby and SARU are expected to appeal the decision. If the Spears win their court challenge, the Lions, the new name for the Cats, will be relegated for 2007 and will play a test match with the lowest South African team on the 2007 ladder, other than the Spears, for a place in the 2008 competition.


2006 Super 14 season, South African relegation
On 8 September 2006, the Golden Lions Rugby Union, the company that operates the Cats franchise, announced that the franchise would be known in the future as the Lions.


2006 Super Fours
The 2006 Super Fours was the 5th cricket Super Fours season. It took place from May to July and saw 4 teams compete in a 50 over league and a Twenty20 knockout tournament. The competing teams were renamed from the 2005 season, with Braves, Knight Riders, Super Strikers and V Team becoming Rubies, Diamonds, Emeralds and Sapphires, respectively. Sapphires won the 50 over league, whilst Diamonds beat Sapphires in the final of the Twenty20 tournament.


2006 Super Fours, Competition format
In the one day tournament, teams played each other twice in a round-robin format, with the winners of the group winning the tournament. Matches were played using a one day format with 50 overs per side.


2006 Super Fours, Competition format
The group worked on a points system with positions within the divisions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:


2006 Super Fours, Competition format
Win: 15 points. Tie:  6 points. Loss: 0 points. Bonus Points: Up to 5 points available to the winning team.


2006 Super Fours, Competition format
The Twenty20 competition reverted to the 2004 format, involving two semi-finals, with the winners progressing to a Final and the losers playing in a third place play-off.


2006 Super GT Series
The 2006 Autobacs Super GT Series was the fourteenth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the second season as the Super GT series. It is also marked as the twenty-fourth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. It is a series for Grand Touring cars divided into 2 classes: GT500 and GT300.


2006 Super GT Series
It was the first season for Lexus,  as Toyota had decided to retire the Supra and elected to use the Lexus SC430 for their GT500 campaign (although SARD and Toyota Team Tsuchiya continued to use the Supra). The season began on March 19 and ended on November 5, 2006 after 9 races.


2006 Super League Grand Final
The 2006 Super League Grand Final was the 9th official Grand Final and conclusive and championship-deciding game of Super League XI. Held on Saturday, 14 October at Manchester's Old Trafford ground, the game was played between St. Helens, who finished top of the league after the 28 weekly rounds, and Hull FC, who finished second after the weekly rounds.


2006 Super League season results
This article details the 2006 Super League season results. Twelve teams competed in the 11th season of British Summer-era rugby league. In all, 174 matches were played over nine months, from February 2006 to October.


2006 Super League season results, Play-offs
Like all Super League seasons since 1998, the 2006 championship was decided via a play-off series. Teams were introduced according to the play-off's format and their relative places in the league table at the end of all 28 regular rounds. The play-offs had no bearing on the minor premiership (otherwise known as the League Leaders' Shield).


2006 Super League season results, Play-offs, Format
Super League XI followed the top-six play-off system, for its fifth consecutive year. Places were granted to the top six teams in the Super League XI table. Following the final round of matches on the weekend of 15–17 September, all six play-off teams were set (in order of finishing place):


2006 Super League season results, Play-offs, Format
^ a: Bradford deducted 2 points for salary cap breaches


2006 Super League season results, Play-offs, Format
Home field advantage was given by position in the league table at the end of regular rounds, with the lower team playing on the team's ground. The only exception to this rule was the grand final, which was played at Old Trafford following tradition. The format followed the double elimination rule for the first and second placed teams, meaning whichever of the teams lost their qualifying play-off match would have to lose again in order to be knocked-out of the play-offs entirely.


2006 Super League season results, Play-offs, Details
Elimination play-offs: , ;Qualifying semi-final: ;Elimination semi-final: ;Final eliminator: ;Grand Final: .


2006 Superbike World Championship
The 2006 Superbike World Championship was the nineteenth FIM Superbike World Championship season. The season started on 25 February at Losail, and finished on 8 October at Magny-Cours after 12 rounds and 24 races. The original season calendar issued by the FIM included a 13th round scheduled in South Africa on 22 October but the round was cancelled at the request of the series' promoter FGSport.


2006 Superbike World Championship
2006 saw the return of Australian Troy Bayliss in Superbike World Championship after 3 years in MotoGP. The combination of Bayliss and Ducati proved unstoppable and they dominated the season winning 12 races, 8 of them consecutive. Honda's James Toseland and Yamaha's Noriyuki Haga battled for second with the British rider coming on top. Defending champion Troy Corser on a Suzuki was fourth. The manufacturers' championship was won by Ducati.


2006 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000
The 2006 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 was an endurance race for V8 Supercars, held on 8 October 2006 at the Mount Panorama Circuit. It was Round 9 of the 2006 V8 Supercar Championship Series.


2006 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000
The event was the tenth running of the Australia 1000 race, first held after the organisational split over the Bathurst 1000 that occurred in 1997. It was also the 50th race in a sequence of endurance events beginning with the 1960 Armstrong 500 held at Phillip Island.


2006 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000
The race winners were awarded the Peter Brock Trophy, commemorating the recent death of nine time Bathurst winner, Peter Brock. The race was won by Brock's protégé, Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup of the Team Betta Electrical Falcon. It was Whincup's first "Bathurst 1000" win following on from his second place in the 2005 Supercheap Auto 1000. Whincup became the 51st drive to win in the combined history of the race. It was Lowndes second win, achieved ten years after his 1996 AMP Bathurst 1000 win. It was also the first "1000" win for Triple Eight Race Engineering which first contested the event in 1997 and the first for Ford since 1998.


2006 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Entry List
31 cars were entered for the race, with 15 of them Ford Falcons and 16 Holden Commodores. 2005 winners Mark Skaife and Todd Kelly were split between the two factory Holden teams, despite racing as team-mates during the regular season.


2006 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Support race accident
During Race 1 of the Fujitsu V8 Supercars Series There was a multiple-car crash involving Mark Porter, who was seriously injured and would die Monday after the race. Porter qualified the #12 Falcon for Brad Jones Racing. His name was left on the window of the BJR Falcon as a mark of respect.


2006 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Qualifying, Starting grid
The following table represents the final starting grid for the race on Sunday:


2006 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Race results
*Mark Porter practiced in the #12 Falcon, but was injured in a serious crash in a support race on the Friday before the race. Michael Caruso was drafted into the team so the car could race. Porter would die on the Sunday afternoon from the injuries in the crash.


2006 Supercopa de España
The 2006 Supercopa de España was a two-leg Spanish football match played on 17 and 20 August 2006. It was contested by 2005–06 La Liga champions Barcelona and 2005–06 Copa del Rey winners Espanyol. Barcelona won 4–0 on aggregate.


2006 Supercopa de España de Baloncesto
The Supercopa 2006 was disputed in Málaga. The teams that took part in the tournament are:


2006 Supercoppa Italiana
The 2006 Supercoppa Italiana was a match contested by the 2005–06 winners Internazionale and the 2005–06 Coppa Italia runners-up Roma. The Coppa Italia runners-up were chosen to play instead of the winners because of the aftermath of the 2006 Serie A match-fixing scandal. As a result, Juventus, the original league winners, were relegated to Serie B and replaced by Inter as champions. Since the Coppa Italia winners were also the newly appointed league champions, the Super Cup spot was given to the runners-up of the Coppa Italia, Roma. The match resulted in a 4–3 win for Inter after extra time.


2006 Supercupa României
The 2006 Supercupa României was the 9th edition of Romania's season opener cup competition. The match was played in Bucharest at Stadionul Naţional on 22 July 2006, and was contested between Divizia A title holders, Steaua and Cupa României champions, Rapid. Steaua won the trophy after a late goal by Daniel Opriţa.


2006 Superettan, Overview
It was contested by 16 teams, and Trelleborgs FF won the championship.


2006 Supersport World Championship
The 2006 Supersport World Championship was the eighth FIM Supersport World Championship season—the tenth taking into account the two held under the name of Supersport World Series. The season started on 25 February at Losail and finished on 8 October at Magny-Cours after 12 races.


2006 Supersport World Championship
The riders' championship was won by Sébastien Charpentier with a total of 6 race wins. It was Charpentier's 2nd World Supersport Championship. The manufacturers' championship was won by Honda.


2006 Superstars Series
The 2006 Superstars Series season was the third season of the Campionato Italiano Superstars (Italian Superstars Championship). The championship was won by Max Pigoli driving for Jaguar.


2006 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
The 2006 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira was the 28th edition of the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, the annual Portuguese football season-opening match contested by the winners of the previous season's top league and cup competitions (or cup runner-up in case the league- and cup-winning club is the same). The match was contested between the 2005–06 Primeira Liga and 2005–06 Taça de Portugal winners, Porto, and the cup runners-up, Vitória de Setúbal.


2006 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
The match took place at the Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa in Leiria, 19 August 2006. In Portugal, the final was televised live on RTP1. Watched by a crowd of 8,890, Porto defeated the Sadinos, 3–0. Goals from Brazilian striker Adriano, midfielder Anderson and 70-minute substitute Vieirinha clinched Porto their 15th Supertaça.


2006 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, Background
Porto were making their 21st appearance in the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira. Porto went into the match as 14-time winners (1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004). Of their 21 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira appearances, the Dragões had lost 6 times (1979, 1985, 1988, 1995, 1997, 2000). Porto's last Supertaça appearance was in 2004, against Benfica. Porto defeated their Lisbon rivals, 1–0. Vitória de Setúbal were appearing in their second Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira. Their first appearance came in the previous season's edition, where they lost to Benfica 1–0.


2006 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, Background
In Porto's and Vitória de Setúbal's entire history, the two teams had met on 133 different occasions. Porto had accumulated 83 victories while Vitória de Setúbal had accumulated 27 victories; 23 matches had ended in a tie. This encounter in the Supertaça marked the first time these two sides had met in this competition. The last meeting between these two sides, prior to this encounter, was in the domestic cup competition, where the Dragões defeated the Sadinos in the previous season's final of the Taça de Portugal. Porto defeated their opponents 1–0 to claim the cup for a 13th time in their history.


2006 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, Pre-match, Entry
Porto qualified for the 2006 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira by winning the 2005–06 Primeira Liga and the 2005–06 Taça de Portugal. The Primeira Liga title was primarily contested between Porto and Sporting CP. Porto had led the chase the league title for the majority of the season. The Dragões went into game week 32 knowing that victory over already relegated side Penafiel would clinch the league title. Porto defeated Penafiel 1–0, with a second half penalty from Adriano to grant his side a 21st league title. In the same season, Porto also won the Taça de Portugal.


2006 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, Pre-match, Entry
The Azuis e Brancos progressed through four rounds to reach the final. Their first two cup ties saw the Portistas progress with the narrowest of scorelines. Victories over Marco and Naval 1º de Maio saw them book a place in the sixth round. After taking a bye to the quarter-finals due to the odd number of teams at the sixth round stage of the competition, Porto met fellow first division side Marítimo, which they won thanks to a 96th-minute extra-time goal from Benni McCarthy. The semi-finals saw Porto face a penalty shootout against rivals Sporting CP. Lisandro López scored the winning penalty to send his side through to the final. In the final, a 39th-minute Adriano goal saw Porto see off Vitória de Setúbal to seal their 13th cup trophy.


2006 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, Pre-match, Entry
As Porto claimed both league and cup in the same season, Vitória de Setúbal qualified for the Supertaça as the cup runner-up. Vitória de Setúbal faced lower league opposition in the first few rounds of the cup. Despite their opposition being of a lower division, Vitória struggled to overcome their opposition. Their first cup tie, saw the Setúbal side progress by the narrowest of margins against third division side Fafe. Their fourth round tie saw yet another away tie, against Pinhalnovense. Vitória progressed to next round after their fourth round tie went to penalties which they won 5–4.


2006 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, Pre-match, Entry
After claiming a 2–0 victory over Lixa in the sixth round, the Sadinos faced fellow Primeira Liga side Boavista in the quarter-finals. After the match ended 1–1 in normal time, the match proceeded to extra-time. Carlitos scored the winning goal to send his side through to the semi-finals. Vitória de Guimarães were the opponents for the semi-finals. In a match which proceeded to extra-time, Vitória de Guimarães would score first on 110 minutes through Polish striker Marek Saganowski. Vitória de Setúbal would level through center half Auri on 119 minutes which would take the game to a penalty shootout. In the penalty shootout, Guimarães' Paulo Sérgio missed his spot kick and Carlitos converted his to send his side through to their tenth cup final where they lose to their Supertaça opponents.


2006 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, Pre-match, Officials
The match officials for the game were confirmed on the 16 August 2006 by the Portuguese Football Federation. Pedro Proença of Lisbon was named as referee. This was the second time that Proença had officiated a Supertaça match after officiating the 2003 game between Porto and União de Leiria. For the Supertaça, Proença was assisted by Pedro Garcia and José Lima of Lisbon, whilst Hélio Santos of Lisbon was named as the fourth official.


2006 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, Pre-match, Venue
The Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa in Leiria was selected by the Portuguese Football Federation to host the match. This was the first time that the stadium had hosted a SuperCup match. At the time of the event, the Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa was used the home ground of União de Leiria. It holds a capacity of 30,000. The stadium was built in 2003 and was one of the stadiums which histed games at UEFA Euro 2004.


2006 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, Match, Team selection
Caretaker manager Rui Barros selected a group of nineteen players as part of the squad who would be taken to Leiria. Barros' squad selection saw him leave out Bruno Moraes, João Paulo, Lucho González, Pedro Emanuel and Tomo Šokota who were unavailable for the game due to injury. The exclusion of first team regulars like González and Pedro Emanuel saw Barros make the surprise inclusion in the Porto squad of Brazilian full back Ezequias and wingers Diogo Valente and Vieirinha. Rui Barros's squad selection for the Supertaça saw him include three newly acquired players: Diogo Valente, Ezequias and Tarik Sektioui.


2006 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, Match, Team selection
Porto lined up in a very distinct 3–6–1 formation. Barros selected José Bosingwa, Marek Čech and Pepe to comprise the defense while Paulo Assunção was selected to play in the holding role in front of the back line. The major debates in Porto's line-up was whether Moroccan international Tarik Sektioui or Alan would start on the left wing and who would replace Lucho González in midfield. Caretaker manager Barros would select Alan to start on the left wing as well as play Anderson in the attacking midfield role in order to support striker Adriano.


2006 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, Match, Team selection
Just like their opponents, Vitória de Setúbal went into the Supertaça with several players missing. Hélio Sousa was unable to count on Serbian goalkeeper Nikola Milojević and Nigerian forward Kevin Amuneke for the match due to both players waiting for their work permits to come through. The Sadinos were also without captain Bruno Ribeiro, Émile Mbamba and Pedro Russiano who were unavailable for the game due to injury. Hélio Sousa's squad selection saw him include eight newly acquired players: César La Paglia, Hugo, João Paulo, Luís Lourenço, Marcelo Labarthe, Mário Carlos, Sandro and Silvestre Varela.


2006 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, Match, Summary
Porto dominated the match from the beginning. The first half saw Porto dominate possession, but fail to create many clear cut goal scoring opportunities. The best chance of the first half fell to Raul Meireles. The chance came about after Anderson recovered the ball in the middle of the park, and played a diagonal ball to Meireles, who beat Vitória's Nandinho to ball and saw his shot saved by an on rushing Marco Tábuas. Vitória de Setúbal's only goal scoring chance of the first half came from a set piece.


2006 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, Match, Summary
A left wing cross near the middle of the park, saw the ball deflect off Pepe's head, which saw it go towards Helton's direction which forced the Brazilian keeper to tip the ball out for a corner kick. Both sides went into level at the break. The second half started off with a goal for the Portistas. A right sided corner kick saw Vitória fail to clear the ball after two attempts, before the ball fell to Adriano whose bicycle kick beat Vitória's Marco Tábuas to give his side the advantage. Porto's second came on 74 minutes through Anderson.


2006 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, Match, Summary
Adriano's kick free kick found Alan on the right and squared the ball to an on rushing Anderson, doubled his side's lead. Porto closed out the scoring on 89 minutes through Vieirinha. Pepe intercepted the ball in the middle of the park and played the ball to substitute Lisandro López in the final third. López would then find Jorginho, who would play in Vieirinha, who beat a Vitória player and fired the ball from outside of the box into the net to make it 3–0.


2006 Surat flood
The 2006 Surat flood occurred over 7–10 August 2006, which affected Surat, India, and nearby villages. About 80–95% of Surat was flooded.


2006 Surat flood
The sudden release of a large amount of water into the Tapti River from the Ukai Dam caused the flood. The Government of Gujarat described the flood as a natural disaster, while reports from the People's Committee on Gujarat Floods of August 2006 and the Surat Citizens' Council Trust's Committee, described the flood as being the result of mismanagement.


2006 Surat flood, History of floods in Surat
In the 20th century the city of Surat has suffered from some 20 floods. The 1968 flood was one of the major floods with peak water flow of about 15 lakh cubic foot per second (cfs or cusec), while the 1970 flood had a peak flow about 13.14 lakh cfs.


2006 Surat flood, History of floods in Surat
The Ukai Dam was constructed in 1972, flood control was one of the objectives of the dam's construction. After the dam was constructed 90 km upstream from Surat, there were no major floods until 1994. The floods of 1978 and 1979 were effectively managed by the dam.


2006 Surat flood, History of floods in Surat
In the 1998 flood more than 30% area of Surat was flooded due to the release of water from Ukai Dam.


2006 Surat flood, Causes
Due to heavy rainfall during 2006 in upstream basin areas, the inflow at Ukai Dam increased. The water level of the dam reservoir was increasing rapidly. On the morning of 3 August, the reservoir had already crossed the prescribed rule level of 333.60 feet (101.68 m).


2006 Surat flood, Causes
The inflow at dam was 85,958 cfs on 5 August 8 am, then rises to 330,216 cfs on 6 August 8 pm. On the morning of 7 August it became 853,679 cfs. By that time the reservoir was already 90% full, leaving very little empty space left to accommodate the floodwater coming from upstream. The inflow was still increasing. The peak inflow during the flood was about 1,200,000 cfs, but it lasted only for two hours.


2006 Surat flood, Causes
Operating the gates of the dams increased the outflow rapidly. The outflow increased from 124,920 on 6 August, 8 am cfs, to 409,004 cfs on 7 August 8.00 am. Maintaining the same pace of increase the outflow was increased to a peak of 907,316 cfs at 8 pm on 8 August. The heavy outflow of about 900,000 cfs for a prolonged period of time caused the flood in Surat and other downstream villages. The high tide of the sea during the flood further reduced the drainage capacity of the river and worsened the damage due to flooding.


2006 Surat flood, Causes
The Government of Gujarat described the flood as a natural disaster, while reports from the People's Committee on Gujarat Floods of August 2006 and the Surat Citizens' Council Trust's Committee, described the flood as being the result of mismanagement.


2006 Suwon Samsung Bluewings season
The 2006 Suwon Samsung Bluewings season was Suwon Samsung Bluewings's eleventh season in the K-League in Republic of Korea. Suwon Samsung Bluewings is competing in K-League, League Cup and Korean FA Cup.


2006 Suwon Samsung Bluewings season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2006 Svenska Cupen
Svenska Cupen 2006 was the fifty-first season of the main Swedish football Cup. The competition started on 17 March 2006 and concluded on 11 November 2006 with the Final, held at Råsunda Stadium, Solna Municipality in Stockholms län. Helsingborgs IF won the final 2–0 against Gefle IF before an attendance of 3,379.


2006 Svenska Cupen, First round
The 34 matches were played between 17 March and 8 April 2006. There were 68 teams in the first round from Division 1, Division 2 and Division 3, but also including a few teams from Division 4 and Division 5.


2006 Svenska Cupen, Second round
In this round the 34 winning teams from the previous round were joined by 30 teams from Allsvenskan and Superettan. The 32 matches were played between 12 April and 18 May 2006.


2006 Svenska Cupen, Third round
The 16 matches in this round were played between 16 May and 6 July 2006


2006 Svenska Cupen, Fourth round
The 8 matches in this round were played between 22 June and 27 July 2006.


2006 Svenska Cupen, Quarter-finals
The 4 matches in this round were played between 3 August and 31 August 2006.


2006 Svenska Cupen, Final
The final was played on 11 November 2006 at the Råsunda Stadium.


2006 Svenska Cupen Final
The 2006 Svenska Cupen Final took place on November 11, 2006 at Råsunda Stadium in Solna, Sweden. It was contested by Allsvenskan teams Gefle IF and Helsingborgs IF. It was Gefle's first final of all time. Helsingborg, who had won the cup two times before the match, played their latest final in 1998.


2006 Svenska Cupen Final
In this final, Helsingborg were the sharper team and won 2-0, thanks to goals by Luton Shelton and Babis Stefanidis.


2006 Swale Borough Council election
The 2006 Swale Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2006 to elect members of Swale Borough Council in Kent, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2006 Swale Borough Council election, Election result
The Conservatives gained three seats after winning 11 of the 16 seats contested. They took two seats from the Liberal Democrats in Grove and Minster Cliffs wards, while also defeating a Labour councillor in Queenborough and Halfway by 17 votes. This took the Conservatives to 28 seats on the council, compared to 10 for Labour and 8 for the Liberal Democrats.


2006 Swale Borough Council election, Election result
The Kent Campaign Against Increasing Council Tax failed to win any seats after standing in 9 of the 16 wards contested, coming closest in Sheppey Central where they finished second with 540 votes, compared to 636 for the Conservative councillor John Morris. This meant the former Conservative councillor Chris Boden remained the only councillor for the Kent Campaign Against Increasing Council Tax after the election.


2006 Swedish Football Division 2
The following are the statistics of the Swedish football Division 2 for the 2006 season.


2006 Swedish Football Division 3
Statistics of Swedish football Division 3 for the 2006 season.


2006 Swedish Golf Tour
The 2006 Swedish Golf Tour, known as the Telia Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 23rd season of the Swedish Golf Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments held in Sweden and Latvia.


2006 Swedish Golf Tour
Most of the tournaments also featured on the 2006 Nordic Golf League (NGL) and the 2006 Challenge Tour (CHA).


2006 Swedish Golf Tour, Schedule
The season consisted of 17 events played between May and October.


2006 Swedish Golf Tour (women)
The 2006 Swedish Golf Tour, known as the Telia Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 21st season of the Swedish Golf Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments for women held in Sweden and Finland.


2006 Swedish Golf Tour (women)
Anna Berg was the only player to win two events, and Christine Hallström won the Order of Merit.


2006 Swedish Golf Tour (women), Schedule
The season consisted of 16 tournaments played between May and October, where one event was held in Finland.


2006 Swedish Open
The 2006 Swedish Open was the 2006 edition of the men's tennis tournament. The tournament was held on 10–16 July. It was the 59th edition of the Swedish Open and was part of the International Series of the 2008 ATP Tour. Second-seeded Tommy Robredo won the singles title.


2006 Swedish Open, Finals, Doubles
Jonas Björkman /  Thomas Johansson defeated  Christopher Kas /  Oliver Marach, 6–3, 4–6, [10–4]


2006 Swedish Open – Doubles
Jonas Björkman and Joachim Johansson were the defending champions, but Johansson did not participate this year.


2006 Swedish Open – Doubles
Björkman partnered with Thomas Johansson and won in the final 6–3, 4–6, [10–4], against Christopher Kas and Oliver Marach.


2006 Swedish Open – Singles
Tommy Robredo defeated Nikolay Davydenko 6–2, 6–1 to win the 2006 Swedish Open singles event.


2006 Swedish Rally
The 55th Uddeholm Swedish Rally, the second round of the 2006 World Rally Championship season took place from February 3–5, 2006.


2006 Swedish Short Course Swimming Championships
The 2006 Swedish Short Course Swimming Championships took place in Fyrishov, Uppsala on 23-26 November 2006. 44 champions were declared and three national records, eight national junior records, 16 championship records, and seven national club relay records were set.


2006 Swedish Touring Car Championship
The 2006 Swedish Touring Car Championship season was the 11th Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) season. In total nine racing weekends at six different circuits were held; each round comprising one race.


2006 Swedish Touring Car Championship, Teams and drivers
List of starting drivers for the 2006 Swedish Touringcar Championship season.


2006 Swedish general election
General elections were held in Sweden on 17 September 2006, to elect members to the Riksdag, the Swedish national legislature. All 349 seats were up for election: 310 fixed seats in 29 constituencies and 39 adjustment seats, used to ensure that parties have representation in the Riksdag proportional to their share of the national vote. The electoral system used was semi-open list proportional representation using the Sainte-Laguë method of allocating seats. Elections for County and Municipal councils were also held on the same day.


2006 Swedish general election
Fredrik Reinfeldt from the Moderate Party was able to form a majority government together with the Centre Party, Liberal People's Party and the Christian Democrats following the election. The Social Democrats were ousted after twelve years in power. It was the country's first majority government since the second Fälldin cabinet fell in 1981.


2006 Swedish general election
Reinfeldt reached out to working-class votes in the re-branding as the 'New Moderates', which resulted in sizeable gains in historically left-wing locations in densely populated areas. As a result, several municipalities that had never voted blue before in Stockholm County flipped. This, combined with a landslide overall win in the capital region as a whole and strong showings in Scania tipped the balance in favour of the Alliance. The centre-right bloc also flipped the crucial populous municipalities Gothenburg, Linköping, Uppsala and Västerås.


2006 Swedish general election
The Social Democrats recorded around 35% of the overall support, which was the party's worst showing in the post-war era. Although the red-green parties received a higher proportion of the vote than in the 1991 hung parliament loss, the coalition fell short of a majority by seven seats, or two percentage points of the popular vote.


2006 Swedish general election
The Alliance did not reach 50% of the vote, courtesy of several minor parties gathering up 5.67% of the overall vote. This was the final election before the Sweden Democrats entered the Riksdag, with the party getting close to three percent of the vote, falling short by just above one percentage point. The election also saw the party get above 10% in Bjuv Municipality in its Scanian heartlands and above the parliamentary threshold in the country's five southernmost constituencies.


2006 Swedish general election, Results
The final results were published on 21 September 2006 by the Swedish Election Authority (Valmyndigheten). Apart from separating the minor parties, there were no big changes to the preliminary count from the election night. 6,892,009 people were eligible to vote in the election. The results are here compared with the 2002 election. There were 5,551,278 valid ballots cast, a turnout of 82%.


2006 Swedish general election, Results
Three hours after the polls closed, the result was clear enough for Moderate Party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt to declare himself the victor and for Göran Persson to announce his resignation as Prime Minister and as leader of the Social Democratic Party. The four centre-right parties of Alliance for Sweden formed, as expected, a government with Fredrik Reinfeldt as Prime Minister. The Speaker had asked Reinfeldt to begin this formation on 19 September but, as is usual, requested the Cabinet of Göran Persson to stay on as a caretaker government until the Riksdag formally elected a new prime minister. The newly elected Riksdag convened on 2 October and the government was presented on 6 October.


2006 Swedish general election, Results
The election result is historic in being the worst result for the Social Democrats ever in a general election with universal suffrage (introduced in 1921) and the best result for the Moderates since 1928.


2006 Swedish general election, Results
Minor parties, that are not represented in the Riksdag, got a total of 5.7% of the votes, which was an increase of 2.6 percentage points, compared to the 2002 election. Behind this increase lay a great success for the Sweden Democrats, gaining 2.9% (+1.5 percentage points) and thus surpassing the limit (2.5%) for gaining governmental financial support for the next four years. Two new parties, Feminist Initiative (0.7%) and the Pirate Party (0.6%), also contributed to the increase.


2006 Swedish general election, Results
Of the 349 elected Riksdag members, 164 (or 47%) were women.


2006 Swedish general election, Results, By municipality
Votes by municipality. The municipalities are the color of the party that got the most votes within the coalition that won relative majority.


2006 Swedish general election, Results, By municipality
Votes by municipality as a scale from red/Red-green bloc to blue/Alliance for Sweden.


2006 Swedish general election, Results, By municipality
Cartogram of the vote with each municipality rescaled in proportion to the number of valid votes. Deeper blue represents a relative majority for Alliance for Sweden, brighter red represents a relative majority for the Red-Green bloc.


2006 Swedish general election, Results, By municipality
Map showing the voting shifts from the 2002 to the 2006 election. Darker blue indicates a municipality voted more towards the parties that form Alliance for Sweden. Darker red indicates a municipality voted more towards the parties that form the red-green bloc.


2006 Swedish general election, The contenders for government
The minority government of Göran Persson's Social Democratic Party attempted, and failed, to gain enough seats to form a majority government, to continue as a minority or to govern in a red-green coalition government. His party had been in power since the 1994 election, and Persson had been Prime Minister since 1996. The Social Democrats before the election had an agreement with the Left Party and the Green Party that gave them an influence on government policy in exchange for their support. However, both the Left Party and the Green Party insisted that any red-green government formed after the election would need to include them in a coalition.


2006 Swedish general election, The contenders for government
The four centre-right parties – The Moderate Party (m), The Liberal People's Party (fp), The Christian Democrats (kd), and The Centre Party (c) – united in Alliance for Sweden succeeded in gaining enough seats to form a coalition government. The four parties (formerly in opposition) had presented a joint election manifesto (although c, fp, and kd still had individual manifestos). Their candidate for Prime Minister was the Moderate Party leader, Fredrik Reinfeldt.


2006 Swedish general election, The election campaign
The campaigning for the 2006 election began early, as the opposition decided to present itself as a viable alternative government by forming an alliance: Alliance for Sweden. This alliance was negotiated at a meeting held in the village of Högfors, home to the chairman of the Centre Party, Maud Olofsson. The meeting ended on 31 August 2004 with the presentation of a joint declaration outlining the principles under which the four parties intended to run in the election. One year later a similar meeting was held at Bankeryd, home of Göran Hägglund, leader of the Christian Democrats. See Alliance for Sweden for further information.


2006 Swedish general election, The election campaign
The Alliance enjoyed a leading position for over a year over the red-green parties, according to most polls. However the gap between the two blocs (s, v, and mp are assumed to work together) began to close rapidly in January 2006, and the red-green parties took the lead in May 2006; indeed they were ahead of the Alliance in every poll conducted in May and June. However, there was a late shift in opinion back to the Alliance during the summer: in mid-August all polls showed the Alliance leading the red-green parties comfortably.


2006 Swedish general election, Winds of Change
The regime shift that occurred in the 2006 election, however, can be traced to changes in popularity between the party - blocs prior to the campaign really started and to the timing of two extreme natural disasters that combined had a dramatic impact on the Swedish political landscape.


2006 Swedish general election, Winds of Change
In a dissertation from the Department of Government at Uppsala University, entitled "Natural Disasters and National Election", PhD Lina M. Eriksson found in her research that the Indian Ocean’s 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami and 2005 Storm Gudrun (Erwin), which struck only two weeks following the tsunami, impacted on the 2006 historic regime shift that occurred in the 2006 Swedish parliamentary election.


2006 Swedish general election, Winds of Change
The results from this research show that the 2002-2006 incumbent Social Democratic Party's (S) poor crisis response to Gudrun, which is the hitherto most costly natural disaster in Swedish history, alone has an estimated effect of a magnitude that likely was crucial to the 2006 historic regime shift. In the abstract to the thesis one can read "The 2002-2006 incumbent Social Democratic Party (S) received its lowest voter support since 1914 as roughly 150,000, or 8%, of the 2002 S voters went to the main opposition, the conservative Moderate Party (M).


2006 Swedish general election, Winds of Change
This became the most decisive factor in ousting S from power after 12 years of rule. As a result, the M-led Alliance (A) with the People's Party (FP), the Center Party (C), and the Christian Democrats (KD) won the election. Natural Disasters and National Election makes the novel contribution of proposing two natural disasters, the Indian Ocean’s 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami and 2005 Storm Gudrun (Erwin), which struck only two weeks following the tsunami, as major events that impacted government popularity in the 2006 election and contributed to the redistribution of voter support, within and across party-blocs.


2006 Swedish general election, Winds of Change
The core findings from this thesis show that the S government’s poor crisis response to Gudrun, which is the hitherto most costly natural disaster in Swedish history, alone has an estimated effect of a magnitude that likely contributed to the 2006 historic regime shift, while the tsunami also seems to have mattered. The tsunami is particularly interesting, as S’s poor international crisis response to the event constitutes the first natural disaster situation to knowingly have affected an election on the other side of the planet.


2006 Swedish general election, Winds of Change
Moreover, to some degree voters recognized the active opposition by C as effective representation and rewarded the party for its strong stance on the poor handling of both events by S. In fact, the active voice of C concerning these disasters likely helped move the party from the periphery of party politics to becoming the third-largest party in Swedish politics. In sum, this research investigates accountability and effective party representation via retrospective voting, which is an essential mechanism for the legitimacy of democracy.


2006 Swedish general election, Winds of Change
Findings suggest that the average Swedish voter indeed may be voting retrospectively to hold publicly elected officials accountable, which suggest a healthy status of the retrospective voting mechanism and Swedish democracy." Part of the dissertation has also been published in Electoral Studies, which is to be considered the leading scientific journal in election research. In the article long-term effects are also found over the 2010 and 2014 election, which implies that the Storm triggered long-lasting changes in voter support from the left to the right side of the political spectrum. A comprehensive summary of the dissertation is available for download via Uppsala University.


2006 Swedish general election, Winds of Change, Unemployment
The Social Democrat government's perceived failure to reduce unemployment was a major issue in the campaign, especially considering the good performance of the Swedish economy (when compared with that of the rest of Europe). The opposition also argued that "real" unemployment was much higher than the official figure of 4.8% (as of May 2006). They quoted a figure of 1,037,000 (or 17.9% of the labour force in January 2006) for those who are "outside the labour market because they do not have a job or are studying".


2006 Swedish general election, Winds of Change, Unemployment
If those who are "wholly or partially outside the labour market" are included then the figure rises to 1,700,000. This gloomy view of the unemployment situation was raised by Jan Edling, a former economist for the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO). However, compared with other OECD countries Sweden has a low "broad unemployment", as was pointed out by the Green Party's Peter Eriksson in the debate.


2006 Swedish general election, Winds of Change, Unemployment
Alliance for Sweden proposed to address the problem by cutting income tax for the lowest paid (by increasing the tax-free allowance), cutting the payroll tax (and abolishing it for parts of the service sector), and making wages paid for household work tax-deductible. Critics of the proposed tax cuts said that, because they are funded by reducing unemployment benefit and sick pay, they would attack the most needy in society rather than helping them as Alliance for Sweden claimed.


2006 Swedish general election, Winds of Change, Unemployment
In addition the Centre Party proposed a special youth contract of employment for those aged under 26, allowing their term of employment to be ended by their employer up to two years after they begin work. This controversial proposal (not adopted by the Alliance as a whole) was intended to increase youth employment by making taking on new employees less risky for the employer, but it was criticised by the red-green parties as reducing job security for the young. A similar contract introduced by the French government (the Contrat première embauche) caused angry demonstrations and riots in France. In a debate article in Göteborgs-Posten on 21 March 2006 Wanja Lundby-Wedin, Chairperson of LO, wrote:


2006 Swedish general election, Winds of Change, Unemployment
"[Maud Olofsson's] new proposal to abolish job security for the young will not result in more jobs. It will only lead to increased insecurity and an even larger exclusion... More than half of youths under 25 who work already have an insecure job; a time-limited job of some sort. This is most usual among our young female members. The most insecure jobs, 'need-employment' or the so-called 'phone and run locum' is entirely on the employer's terms. Every morning many people sit and wait for their employer to ring. Am I needed today or not? ".


2006 Swedish general election, Winds of Change, Unemployment
"What LO's Chairperson has not understood is that those youths who already have a job are not covered by our proposal. It does however give a new opportunity for the 146,000 youths who are wholly or partially living in the exclusion the Social Democrats have created... One of the main reasons why companies don't take on new staff is that the risk is too large. If the gamble doesn't pay off then the costs are too great.


2006 Swedish general election, Winds of Change, Unemployment
By lowering the threshold for job creation we are convinced that many youths will be able to take their first steps onto a labour market that they today have never been able to set foot on. We are equally convinced that the great majority of these youths will show their employers that they were right to dare to employ them".


2006 Swedish general election, Winds of Change, Unemployment
A survey carried out by the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (Svenskt Näringsliv) indicates that 41% of Swedish companies believe that such a contract would increase their willingness to hire young people "to a great extent" and that 51% believe that it would increase it "to a certain extent". 7% of those surveyed said that they did not think that they would be more willing to hire.


2006 Swedish general election, Winds of Change, Computer break-in by Liberal People's Party members
On 4 September 2006, only two weeks before the general election, the Social Democratic Party reported to the police a computer break-in into its internal network. It has been reported that members of the Liberal People's Party copied secret information, not yet officially released, on at least two occasions for the purpose of counter-attacking Social Democratic political propositions. On 5 September the Liberal Party Secretary Johan Jakobsson voluntarily resigned. Leading members of the party and its youth organization are under police investigation suspected for criminal activity.


2006 Swedish general election, Pre-election opinion polls
The charts below show the results of pre-election polls conducted by the five major polling institutes in Sweden.


2006 Swedish general election, Pre-election opinion polls
TEMO has a summary of all polls conducted since the election in 2002, and is therefore cited as the reference for each poll.


2006 Swedish general election computer infringement affair
The 2006 Swedish election espionage affair, in daily media sometimes called Leijongate, which is created from Watergate and the liberal party leader Lars Leijonborg, was a series of computer break-ins and the subsequent scandal. It all started on September 4, 2006, only weeks before the 2006 general election, the Social Democratic Party reported a computer break-in into the Social Democrats' internal network to the police. It has been reported that members of the Liberal People's Party had copied secret information not yet officially released to counter-attack Social Democratic political propositions on at least two occasions.


2006 Swindon Borough Council election
The 2006 Swindon Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2006 to elect members of Swindon Unitary Council in Wiltshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2006 Swindon Borough Council election, Campaign
19 seats were contested in the election, with a total of 70 candidates standing and 10 sitting councillors not defending their seats. From the parties defending seats in the election these included 19 each from the Conservative and Labour parties and 15 Liberal Democrats. Other candidates included 11 from the Green party, 2 Socialist Unity and 3 independents. The election also saw the British National Party (BNP) stand for Swindon council for the first time, with one candidate, Reg Bates, standing in Gorse Hill and Pinehurst ward. His candidature led a group comprising trade unions, the Labour party, community groups and some independent socialists to form an alliance in opposition to the BNP.


2006 Swindon Borough Council election, Campaign
Issues in the election included regeneration, with the different parties proposing different ideas including a library, art gallery, redeveloped car park and the preservation of green spaces. The Conservatives defended their record in control of the council, saying that they had improved services and increased council tax by lower percentages than Labour had when they had been in control of the council. Labour said they would protect services the Conservatives were cutting, deal with anti-social behaviour and criticised the Conservatives for increasing council tax. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats said they would stand up for local residents and make the town centre attractive for everyone.


2006 Swindon Borough Council election, Campaign
For the election a new website was launched by the council where voters could register in order to get reminders to vote, in an effort to increase turnout.


2006 Swindon Borough Council election, Election result
The results saw the Conservatives strengthen their control of the council after gaining 5 seats to hold 40 of the 59 seats. 3 of the gains came from Labour who were reduced to 14 seats, with both of Labour's Swindon Members of Parliament blaming the defeats on national issues. The other two Conservative gains were from the Liberal Democrats who fell to 3 seats, while the 2 independent councillors were not defending seats in 2006. Overall turnout in the election was 34.21%, up on the 32.7% in the 2004 election.


2006 Swiss Federal Council election
On 14 June 2006, a by-election was held for the vacant seat of Joseph Deiss on the Federal Council, the government of Switzerland.


2006 Swiss Federal Council election
The joint chambers of the Federal Assembly elected Doris Leuthard of the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland in the first round of voting with 133 votes out of 234.


2006 Swiss Federal Council election, Candidates
Doris Leuthard, at that time president of her party and member of the National Council representing the canton of Aargau, was the only official candidate for the seat of Joseph Deiss. Several other members of her party also received votes.


2006 Swiss Figure Skating Championships
The 2006 Swiss Figure Skating Championships (officially named German: Schweizermeisterschaften Elite Kunstlaufen und Eistanzen and French: Championnats Suisses Elite Patinage Artistique et Danse sur Glace) were held in Biasca from December 9 through 10th, 2005. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing.


2006 Swiss Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Men
Tobias Bayer of Germany was a guest competitor who finished 5th with a score of 122.00.


2006 Swiss Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Ladies
Cornelia Bayermann of Germany was a guest competitor who finished 16th with a score of 68.99.


2006 Swiss referendums
Six referendums were held in Switzerland during 2006. The first was held on 21 May on revising article 48a in the Swiss Federal Constitution on education, and was approved by 86% of voters. The second set of three referendums was held on 24 September on proposed amendments to the laws on asylum and foreigners, as well as a popular initiative on diverting profits from the Swiss National Bank into the national pension fund. The two laws were approved, whilst the initiative was rejected.


2006 Swiss referendums
The final two referendums were held on 26 November on laws on assistance to Poland and other poorer EU countries, and family allowances. Both were approved.


2006 Sydney Roosters season
The 2006 Sydney Roosters season was the 99th in the club's history. They competed in the NRL's 2006 Telstra Premiership and finished the regular season 14th (out of 15).


2006 Sydney Swans season
This article covers the 2006 season of the Sydney Swans AFL team.


2006 Sydney Swans season, Captains
On 16 December 2005, the Sydney Swans announced they would use three captains over the season, following on from the 2005 season, where they rotated among six captains after Stuart Maxfield resigned from the captaincy. The three captains are Barry Hall, Brett Kirk and Leo Barry. The captaincy will not be rotated, but each will be captain in each game.


2006 Sydney Swans season, Club list
The 2006 squad consisted of the following players. The list was finalised in December 2005 following a 2nd list lodgement on 18 November, the NAB AFL Draft on 26 November, NAB AFL Pre-season Draft and Rookie Draft on 14 December.


2006 Sydney Swans season, Club list, Player list
Statistics are as of 15 May 2006, after Round 7.


2006 Sydney Swans season, Games, Exhibition and trial games
1: Exhibition game as part of Australia week in the USA2: NAB Regional Challenge game


2006 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
The 2006 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, sponsored by Rolex, was the 62nd annual running of the "blue water classic" Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. As in past editions of the race, it was hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia based in Sydney, New South Wales.


2006 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
As with previous Sydney to Hobart Yacht Races, the 2006 edition began on Sydney Harbour, at noon on Boxing Day (26 December 2006), before heading south for 630 nautical miles (1,170 km) through the Tasman Sea, past Bass Strait, into Storm Bay and up the River Derwent, to cross the finish line in Hobart, Tasmania.


2006 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
The 2006 fleet comprised 78 starters of which 69 completed the race and nine yachts retired.


2006 Sylvania 300
The 2006 Sylvania 300 was an NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race held on September 17, 2006 at New Hampshire International Speedway, in Loudon, New Hampshire. Contested at 300 laps on the 1.058-mile (1.703 km) speedway, it was the 27th race of the 2006 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season. Kevin Harvick of Richard Childress Racing won the race.


2006 Sylvania 300, Background
New Hampshire International Speedway is a 1.058-mile (1.703 km) oval speedway located in Loudon, New Hampshire which has hosted NASCAR racing annually since the early 1990s, as well as an IndyCar weekend and the oldest motorcycle race in North America, the Loudon Classic. Nicknamed "The Magic Mile", the speedway is often converted into a 1.6-mile (2.6 km) road course, which includes much of the oval. The track was originally the site of Bryar Motorsports Park before being purchased and redeveloped by Bob Bahre. The track is currently one of eight major NASCAR tracks owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports.


2006 Syracuse Orange football team
The 2006 Syracuse Orange football team represented Syracuse University during the 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Orange were coached by Greg Robinson and played their home games at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, New York.


2006 Syracuse Orange football team
In 2015, Syracuse vacated the four wins from this season among others from the 2004 to 2006 season, due to the NCAA finding players ineligible for academic fraud.


2006 São Paulo FC season
The 2006 season was São Paulo's 77th season in the club's existence. São Paulo finished in the second position in the Campeonato Paulista, only one point behind the winners Santos. A year after winning the Copa Libertadores, São Paulo once again challenged for the cup, being defeated by Internacional in a second final between Brazilian teams in a row, having beaten Atlético Paranaense in the previous edition. São Paulo lost by 2–1 in the Morumbi and drew in 2–2 on away second leg, thus coming in second place.


2006 São Paulo FC season
As the current champions of Copa Libertadores, São Paulo played the Recopa Sudamericana versus Boca Juniors and was defeated by 4–3 on aggregate. Tricolor won the Campeonato Brasileiro fifteen years after their last title, in 1991 and became national champions for the fourth time, securing the title in 36th matchweek against Atlético Paranaense in the Morumbi with a 1–1 draw.


2006 São Paulo FC season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2006 São Paulo gubernatorial election
The São Paulo state elections of 2006 was held along with Brazilian general elections, on October 1 and on October 29, 2006. Since 1994, as a result of a constitutional amendment which reduced the presidential term to four years, all federal and state elections in Brazil have coincided. The state elections decide Governors and the state deputies for the Legislative Assemblies. Also, the members of the National Congress are elected by state.


2006 São Paulo gubernatorial election, Governor and Vice-Governor
In general, the rules of the presidential ballot also apply to the gubernatorial one. That is, the ballot is taken in two rounds, if no one reaches at least an absolute majority of the valid votes, a second round between the two most voted candidates will be held. All the candidates holding executive posts had to renounce till April 2, 2006 in order to be able to run.


2006 São Paulo gubernatorial election, Governor and Vice-Governor
The candidates for Governor of São Paulo were, in no particular order:


2006 São Paulo violence outbreak
The 2006 São Paulo violence outbreak began on the night of May 12, 2006 in São Paulo, Brazil, the largest city in South America. It was among the worst outbreaks of violence in recorded Brazilian history (and has been called the worst) and was directed against security forces and a few civilian targets. By May 14 the attacks had spread to other Brazilian states including Paraná, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais and Bahia (this without direct links to the PCC criminal organisation).


2006 São Paulo violence outbreak
The violence began after forty São Paulo police officers were killed by gang violence. Subsequently, the police officers sought to find the gang members behind the criminal acts. In the process, a violent situation arose, creating a clash between law enforcement officials and criminals and taking the lives of over 150 people.


2006 São Paulo violence outbreak
The wave of violence, amongst the worst in Brazil's history, received broad national and international media coverage, and this fact allied to the lack of information from the São Paulo state government caused mass panic among the population. The state governor, Cláudio Lembo, was harshly criticized by the press for the slow response to the violence, for the absence of communication between the security forces, for the lack of information, to the press and the general public, and for poor management of the crisis.


2006 São Paulo violence outbreak, The violence
Since early Friday May 12, 2006 there have been 299 attacks against public establishments such as police stations, justice forums, buses, etc. ; which are allegedly organized by the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) criminal organization.


2006 São Paulo violence outbreak, The violence
The violence represented the bloodiest assault, worse than Rio de Janeiro, of its kind in the history of Brazil's richest state, São Paulo, and the news has reached the international media. Related uprisings at 20 prisons across São Paulo were taking place Saturday, May 13. The attacks were not limited, however, to the state of São Paulo, as they have reached other states, such as Bahia, Mato Grosso do Sul and Paraná.


2006 São Paulo violence outbreak, The violence
The attacks came in response to 7 imprisoned PCC leaders, among them, Marcos "Marcola" Willians Herbas Camacho, the leader of the criminal organization who allegedly ordered the attacks, being transferred and placed in solitary confinement in the Presidente Venceslau penitentiary. The practice was used by authorities to sever prisoners' ties to gang members outside prison.


2006 São Paulo violence outbreak, The violence
The power of the PCC has been heightened in recent years by the availability of mobile phones inside their jail cells. The lack of surveillance to prevent prisoners from communicating with criminals on the outside allowed them a powerful tool to spread information and coordinate uprisings and attacks in the state. Measures are being discussed, in the future, they might either remove mobile phone service antennas from the districts with penitentiaries, or increase the quality of surveillance inside jail cells, with metal detectors and other tools that would assist in locating cell phones.


2006 São Paulo violence outbreak, The violence
The waves of attacks were orchestrated by PCC leaders supposedly in jail, using said mobile phones, but it is arguable that the general chaos encouraged other criminals to take advantage of the situation.


2006 São Paulo violence outbreak, The violence
The ministry of Justice, led by Márcio Thomaz Bastos, offered assistance by making available all federal security forces and the army, but São Paulo State Governor Cláudio Lembo said this is not necessary at the moment and that São Paulo can handle the situation without assistance.


2006 São Paulo violence outbreak, The violence
May 15 was a very unusual day in São Paulo. This was the first work day after the attacks had been reported in the media, so the effects were now apparent as ever, with chaos marking the height of the attacks. On one hand, many people decided to stay home in fear of becoming a victim of violence. Also, one third of the public bus fleet stayed in the garages as they are a frequent target for attacks, being burned down and used to barricade streets and establishments.


2006 São Paulo violence outbreak, The violence
Consequently, the residential neighborhoods were ghost towns, whilst the avenues were choked with traffic because of the lack of public transportation. The compulsory carpool law was lifted for the day. Those who did go to work decided to go home early and the roads were congested long before peak hours. The ensuing traffic jams is the greatest of this year (195 km or 122 miles) and that fear was spread to the population mostly due to the massive coverage by the media, who may have exaggerated the situation. In addition, many rumors of attacks and riots are being created by civilians. The situation now is "under control."


2006 São Paulo violence outbreak, Timeline of the violence, July 14–17
The city suffered new attacks and riots by the PCC two months later.


2006 São Toméan legislative election
Legislative elections were held in São Tomé and Príncipe on 26 March 2006.


2006 São Toméan presidential election
Presidential elections were held in São Tomé and Príncipe on 30 July 2006. Incumbent Fradique de Menezes, first elected in 2001, won with more than 60% of the vote, while his main challenger, Patrice Trovoada, son of a former president received just over 38%. The third candidate, Nilo Guimarães, received less than 1% of the vote.


2006 São Toméan presidential election, Campaign
Fradique de Menezes was nominated by the Force for Change Democratic Movement – Liberal Party and supported by the Christian Democratic Front and Social Liberal Party. Patrice Trovoada was nominated by the Independent Democratic Action, but also supported by the Democratic Renovation Party, the MLSTP/PSD, the National Union for Democracy and Progress, the Opposition Democratic Coalition, the Social Renewal Party,  the São Toméan Workers Party, the Social Renewal Party and the Union of Democrats for Citizenship and Development.


2006 TAC Cup season
The 2006 TAC Cup season was the 15th season of the TAC Cup competition. Oakleigh Chargers have won there 1st premiership title after defeating the Calder Cannons in the grand final by 27 points.


2006 TC 2000 Championship
The 2006 TC 2000 Championship was the 28th Turismo Competicion 2000 season.


2006 TC 2000 Championship, Final standings
Bold – Pole positionItalics – Fastest lap† – Retired, but classified


2006 TCU Horned Frogs football team
The 2006 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University in the 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was led by head coach Gary Patterson and played their home games at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas. TCU finished the season with an overall record of 11–2 with a 6–2 mark in the Mountain West Conference, where they placed second behind BYU. The Horned Frogs were invited to the Poinsettia Bowl, where they defeated Northern Illinois, 37–7.


2006 TNA World X Cup Tournament
The TNA 2006 World X Cup Tournament was a professional wrestling X Cup Tournament staged by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in April and May 2006. The tournament pits stables of X Division-style wrestlers from around the world against one another in a series of singles and tag team matches, with the teams earning points for victories.


2006 TNA World X Cup Tournament
Team USA won the World X Cup for the second time in a row after team captain Chris Sabin defeated Team Canada captain Petey Williams to break a 5-5 tie on the May 18, 2006 edition of TNA Impact!. This is Chris Sabin's second World X Cup Championship, as he was a member of Team USA in 2004.


2006 TNA World X Cup Tournament
Several matches leading up to the World X Cup were billed as "World X Cup preview matches", including a six-man tag team match between members of Team USA and Team Japan at Lockdown, in which Team Japan were victorious; and the aforementioned four-way match at Destination X, featuring Chris Sabin, Petey Williams, Puma and Sonjay Dutt, representing the United States, Canada, Japan and India respectively (Puma and Dutt would go on to compete for Mexico and the US).


2006 TNA World X Cup Tournament, History
The 2004 World X Cup took place in May 2004, with Team USA defeating Team Canada, Team Japan, Team Mexico, and Team Britain. In October 2005, TNA website manager Bill Banks announced that, as a result of the working relationship between TNA and the Japanese New Japan Pro-Wrestling promotion, TNA were considering hosting a second World X Cup, this time featuring members of the NJPW roster.


2006 TNA World X Cup Tournament, History
On the February 18, 2006 episode of TNA Impact!, it was announced that the World X Cup was to return in 2006. Later that evening, Jay Lethal defeated "The Prince of Punk" Shannon Moore and Roderick Strong in a three-way match to become the first member of the 2006 Team USA. On the March 11, 2006 episode of Impact!, Chris Sabin became the second member of Team USA when he defeated Sonjay Dutt and Alex Shelley in another three-way match.


2006 TNA World X Cup Tournament, History
On the March 18, 2006 episode of Impact!, Sonjay Dutt defeated Maverick Matt and Elix Skipper in a third three-way match to become the third member of Team USA. On the April 8, 2006 episode of Impact!, Alex Shelley defeated Roderick Strong and Chase Stevens to become the fourth and final member of Team USA.


2006 TNA World X Cup Tournament, History
Team Mexico and Team Japan were quickly announced as competitors in the 2006 World X Cup, much like they were in the 2004 World X Cup. Team UK was planned, but they were replaced by Team Canada, after two of the members, Doug Williams and Nigel McGuinness were already booked to wrestle in Japan. The other members were to be Jonny Storm and Jody Fleisch.


2006 TNA World X Cup Tournament, Results, Round 3 (The Gauntlet) - 5 Points, Entry and elimination order
The order of entry in the gauntlet match included a pattern: Japan, Mexico, Canada, USA. This is identical to the final standings in reverse.


2006 TNA World X Cup Tournament, Standings
The standings for the 2004 and 2006 World X Cups were identical; in both, Team USA was ranked first, Canada second, Mexico third and Japan fourth.


2006 TSFA Season
The 2006 TSFA season was the eighth regular season of the Texas Sixman Football League.


2006 TSFA Season
2006 brought another name change to the Texas Sixman Football Association (TSFA). The reason for this change was the creation of a sister league in Tampa, FL named the Florida Sixman Football Association (FSFA). There was also a large turnover from 2005 with four teams leaving the league and being replaced promptly by other teams.


2006 TSFA Season, Teams
The last remaining original team of the SFA folded prior to the 2006 season. The Red Raiders and Rhinos continued for their seventh seasons. The Bandits, Bucs, Longhorns, Rage and Wolverines entered their sixth year of competition. The Six-Pack entered into their fifth season of play. The Hurricanes, Ruff Ryders and Wrecking Crew returned for their second seasons. The Punishers folded after one season the most of their players went to the Panthers. A large number of Mad Dogs players went over and helped jump-start the Gladiators while the Warriors and Jets joined the league.


2006 TSFA Season, Teams
The Northern Conference consisted of the Bandits, Bucs, Hurricanes, Jets, Longhorns, Panthers, Six-Pack and Warriors. The Southern Conference consisted of the Gladiators, Rage, Red Raiders, Rhinos, Ruff Ryders, Wolverines and Wrecking Crew.


2006 Tabasco state election
A local election was held in the Mexican state of  Tabasco on Sunday, 15 October 2006. Voters went to the polls to elect, on the local level:


2006 Tabasco state election, Gubernatorial Election
Eight political parties participate in the 2006 Tabasco state election; two of them (the PRD and PT) joined forces.


2006 Tabasco state election, Gubernatorial Election
NOTE: Although CD participated in the election the party decided to have no candidate for Governor of Tabasco while the PASDC decided, at the end of the campaign, to support the PRD-PT candidate.


2006 Table Mountain fire
The 2006 Table Mountain fire was a large fire in and around the Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town, South Africa. It broke out at approximately 4 p.m. on 26 January 2006 above Tafelberg Road, and spread quickly due to dry conditions and strong winds of up to 60 knots (110 km/h; 69 mph). It threatened to spread into the densely populated suburbs of Tamboerskloof, Oranjezicht, Vredehoek and Gardens on the north side, as well as Camps Bay and Bantry Bay on the south side.


2006 Table Mountain fire
Janet Chesworth, a 65-year-old British tourist, died from smoke inhalation while hiking near the lower cable station along with her daughter, Linda. A group of three German tourists were found unharmed on the mountain, and two tourists were also airlifted off the mountain while they waited on a rock near the upper cable car station. Up to sixteen hikers were also reportedly stranded on Table Mountain and Signal Hill. A number of homes were destroyed, as well as three cars along Tafelberg Road.


2006 Table Mountain fire
An estimated 7 km2 of fynbos vegetation was destroyed on the first day of the blaze and, according to conservation officials, approximately 40 to 50% of the world's Silver leaf tree population — found only in Stellenbosch, Paarl, Lion's Head and the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden — had perished in the blaze.


2006 Table Mountain fire
Three helicopters from Working on Fire, a government-private poverty alleviation initiative, waterbombed the blaze for most of the afternoon of the 26th, but had to leave the area as darkness fell. At that time, the fire was being fought by 150 firefighters and twenty reserve firefighters as well as volunteer wildfire specialists from the Volunteer Wildfire Services. On the morning of 27 January, waterbombing by six helicopters aided by a spotter plane resumed when daylight returned, and the fire was seemingly under control by early morning. More than one hundred firefighters worked through the night to contain the blaze, with the abating winds helping speed the process.


2006 Table Mountain fire
However, in the early evening of the 27th the wind picked up, fanning hotspots still left over and by nightfall the mountain was ablaze, and, despite extra firefighters brought in from as far afield as Clanwilliam and Mpumalanga, a long night's work was predicted for emergency personnel.


2006 Table Mountain fire
Around 4:30 a.m. on the 28th the fire severed an electrical main line that supplied some of the higher-lying suburbs, leaving them without electricity until late the afternoon. By this time, firefighters also reported that the fire was completely under control. With the wind keeping low during the night, no additional flare-ups occurred.


2006 Table Mountain fire
Many citizens of Cape Town supported the firefighters with refreshments and in one case, fuel.


2006 Table Mountain fire
A 36-year-old British man, Anthony Cooper of Gowerton, was arrested on the 26th after allegedly causing the fire by discarding a burning cigarette butt from his car while stopped on the mountain. In addition to being charged with arson, he faced a potential culpable homicide charge after the death of the British tourist. The City of Cape Town noted its intention to pursue a civil claim against Cooper.


2006 Table Mountain fire
On 23 May, after he failed to appear for an unrelated charge of driving under the influence two days before the fire, magistrate Ingrid Freitag issued a warrant for Cooper's arrest and provisionally forfeited his bail. Cooper claimed that he had phoned the national emergency number when he realized a fire had started, allegedly through his own actions. In January 2008, Cooper was found not guilty of causing the fire, on the basis of reasonable doubt.


2006 Taipei International Invitational Futsal Tournament
The Taipei International Invitational Futsal Tournament (Chinese: 台北國際五人制足球邀請賽) was held from October 27 to October 29, 2006 at Taipei Gymnasium in Taipei, Taiwan. It was the first international futsal event in Taipei after holding the 2004 FIFA Futsal World Championship. Finally, Japanese D.C Asahikawa Futsal Club beat Macau, Chinese Taipei, and Taipei Select team and won the first place.


2006 Taipei International Invitational Futsal Tournament
Before the tournament was held, the organizers originally wanted to invite Korea national team as well as Macau national team and D.C Asahikawa. However, the Korea team declined the invitation, and thus Taipei Futsal Association's select team was included as the replacement.


2006 Taipei International Invitational Futsal Tournament
In December, Chinese Taipei Football Association was fined US$ 10,000 by AFC Disciplinary Committee for failing to seek the AFC’s approval for the tournament which violates Article 11-V (Tournaments) of the Regulations governing the application of AFC Statutes ‘All tournaments involving more than two local or national teams (clubs or representative teams) which belong to difference member associations must be approved by the Confederation.'


2006 Tajik League
Tajik League is the top division of the Tajikistan Football Federation, it was created in 1992. These are the statistics of the Tajik League in the 2006 season.


2006 Tajik presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Tajikistan on 6 November 2006. The result was a victory for incumbent President Emomali Rahmonov, who won a third term in office after receiving 80% of the vote.


2006 Tajik presidential election, Candidates
The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, the Democratic Party, and the Social Democratic Party all boycotted the elections, criticising the country's electoral apparatus as unreliable and refusing to accept the constitutional changes that allowed  Rakhmanov to seek a third term.


2006 Tajik presidential election, Campaign
A rally by opposition parties was broken up. According to the BBC, none of the four candidates opposing Rahmonov have publicly criticised him, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe has said that "[n]o signs of a competitive campaign have been observed thus far".


2006 Tajik presidential election, Conduct
CIS election monitors declared the elections "legal, free and transparent", while the OSCE condemned them, and the election has been called "flawed and unfair but peaceful."


2006 Tajikistan earthquake
On July 29, the 2006 Tajikistan earthquake hit the Khatlon region of Tajikistan. The earthquake doublet killed three people and injured 19.


2006 Tajikistan earthquake
Poor water and sanitation posed an ongoing risk to health, as did malaria, given its prevalence in the region and the fact that some people sleep outdoors without mosquito nets. Damaged roofs made from asbestos posed additional risks to health.