three NHL seasons by sweeping the Avalanche in Denver thanks to two Todd Marchant goals. Now they will await the winner of the San José–Edmonton series. Football: The entire board of Juventus resigns only days before the club is expected to win its second successive Serie A championship. There have been days of embarrassing press revelations of collusion in the appointment of referees to Juventus matches. The club's share price falls 10% as prosecutors in Rome, Turin, and Naples investigate referee malpractice and several Serie A clubs. (BBC) (Guardian) Cycling Giro d'Italia: In a Team time trial the Danish Team CSC wins by one second over the German T-Mobile Team. Ukrainian veteran Serhiy Honchar takes the provisional overall lead. 10 May 2006 (Wednesday) Football: 2005–06 UEFA Cup Final, at Eindhoven. Middlesbrough 0–4 Sevilla: Enzo Maresca scored two second half goals and Sevilla wraps up their first major European championship, and give a sad sendoff to Steve McClaren's new job as English manager. (UEFA.com) 9 May 2006 (Tuesday) Cycling Giro d'Italia: Australian sprinter Robbie McEwen wins a bunch sprint to take his second stage of the Giro. Stefan Schumacher retains the overall provisional lead. 8 May 2006 (Monday) Football (soccer) The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, overrules President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's decision in April to permit women to attend football matches, upholding the 27-year-old ban on women attending the games. (ESPN SoccerNet) Cycling Giro d'Italia: Young German Stefan Schumacher wins the 3rd stage in terrible weather conditions, and also takes the overall Leader's Jersey. 7 May 2006 (Sunday) Cricket: New Zealand in South Africa Third Test at Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg: South Africa defeats New Zealand by 4 wickets to win the three-Test series, 2–0. The Test began disastrously for New Zealand, sent into bat by South Africa, with the first three wickets falling with only two runs on the board. The visitors were dismissed for 119 shortly after lunch on Day 1. Makhaya Ntini's bowling figures of 5/35 was the fourteenth time the fast bowler claimed a five-wicket haul in Test cricket. South Africa's reply of 186 was centred on a partnership of 98 runs between Graeme Smith and Hashim Amla. Trailing by 67 runs at the turn of the innings, New Zealand lost early wickets in its second innings before finishing with 283. South Africa overhauled the total with four wickets to spare, the match finishing within three of