Ski: Stage 6 in Toblach, Italy: Women's 5 km Classic: Justyna Kowalczyk 12:37.6 Aino-Kaisa Saarinen 12:49.2 Petra Majdič 12:52.4 Standings (after 6 of 8 stages): (1) Kowalczyk 1:27:32.8 (2) Majdič 1:27:46.9 (3) Arianna Follis 1:27:56.0 Men's 10 km Classic: Daniel Rickardsson 23:14.5 Lukáš Bauer 23:16.2 Petter Northug 23:20.7 Standings (after 6 of 8 stages): (1) Northug 2:40:48.9 (2) Marcus Hellner 2:41:09.0 (3) Axel Teichmann 2:41:18.4 Snowboarding World Cup in Kreischberg, Austria: Men's half-pipe: Daisuke Murakami Patrick Burgener Tore Viken Holvik Standings after 3 of 6 events: (1) Kazuhiro Kokubo 1600 points (2) Kohei Kudo 1140 (3) Murakami 1110 Women's half-pipe: Šárka Pančochová Sun Zhifeng Chen Xu Standings after 3 of 6 events: (1) Cai Xuetong 1240 (2) Pancochova 1100 (3) Sophie Rodriguez 1050 January 6, 2010 (Wednesday) Alpine skiing Men's World Cup in Zagreb, Croatia: Slalom: Giuliano Razzoli Manfred Mölgg Julien Lizeroux Overall standings (after 16 of 34 races): (1) Benjamin Raich 589 points (2) Carlo Janka 575 (3) Didier Cuche 476 Slalom standings (after 3 of 9 races): (1) Reinfried Herbst 245 points (2) Lizeroux 141 (3) Razzoli 140 American football NCAA bowl games: GMAC Bowl in Mobile, Alabama: Central Michigan 44, Troy 41 (2 OT) NFL news: The Washington Redskins name Mike Shanahan, former Super Bowl winning coach of the Denver Broncos, as their new head coach, signing a five-year contract. Baseball MLB news: Andre Dawson is elected to the Hall of Fame. For the first time in history, two players fall less than 10 votes short of induction in the same election—Bert Blyleven, 5 votes short, and Roberto Alomar, 8 votes short. Alomar also receives the highest percentage of votes ever for a first-time candidate who was not elected to the Hall. Basketball Euroleague Regular Season Game 9: (teams in bold advance to the Top-16 stage, teams in strike are eliminated) Group A: Montepaschi Siena 101–58 Fenerbahçe Ülker Istanbul Group B: Partizan Belgrade 97–67 Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius Group C: Caja Laboral Baskonia 73–65 Maroussi Athens Group D: Panathinaikos Athens 74–66 Asseco Prokom Gdynia Real Madrid 73–60 EWE Baskets Oldenburg Biathlon World Cup 4 in Oberhof, Germany: 4 x 6 km Relay Women: Russia (Anna Bogaliy-Titovets, Anna Boulygina, Olga Medvedtseva, Svetlana Sleptsova) 1:14:23.6 (0 penalty, 8 reloads) Germany (Martina Beck, Simone Hauswald, Tina Bachmann, Andrea Henkel) 1:14:23.9 (0, 11) France (Marie-Laure Brunet, Sylvie Becaert, Marie Dorin, Sandrine Bailly) 1:15:24.5 (0, 8) Standings (after 3 of 5 events): (1)