Collingwood made a return to the finals in 2006, but were defeated by the Western Bulldogs by 41 points.

Officials sort out possession after a fumble at the 2006 Chick-fil-A Bowl between 2006 Georgia Bulldogs football team | Georgia and 2006 Virginia Tech Hokies football team | Virginia Tech.

2006, a year which many experts predicted continued improvement for the Tigers, saw them lose their first H & A match by 115 points, against the Western Bulldogs, after which followed losses to St Kilda and West Coast.

The Bulldogs have won state championships in both baseball ( 1966 and 2004 ) and powerlifting ( 2005 and 2006 ).

Thomasville Senior High School Bulldogs won the state 1AA Football Championship from 2004 to 2006, and again in 2008.

The round one finals series clash with the Bulldogs saw the Raiders defeated 30 – 12 in slippery and muddy conditions at Telstra Stadium, and eliminated from the 2006 premiership race.

In 2006, little was expected from the club after a lacklustre 2005 season, but despite some doubt over the strength of their side, the Bulldogs ' impressive forward pack helped them to a better than expected result for the year, finishing just a game short of the Grand Final, in which they lost to eventual premiers the Brisbane Broncos.

Tensions between the club increased significantly when star Bulldogs five-eighth Braith Anasta announced in 2005 that he would leave the club to join the Roosters at the beginning of the 2006 season.

As a result of damage done to the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina, the Sugar Bowl game between the West Virginia Mountaineers and the Georgia Bulldogs was played at the Georgia Dome on January 2, 2006, the first time " the South's Biggest Bowl Game " was ever played outside the state of Louisiana.

Midway through the third quarter of the Essendon vs. Bulldogs match on 16 April 2006 ( which happened to be Lloyd's 28th birthday ), opponent Brian Harris accidentally fell on Lloyd as he tried to mark the ball.

Kingaroy previously had junior and senior AFL teams in the Darling Downs AFL competition, with the Kingaroy Bulldogs senior men's side playing on and off from the early 1980s up until 2006, and the Kingaroy-Nanango Jets junior side playing up until 2009.

* November 25, 2006: Matthew Stafford, a true freshman quarterback, led the Bulldogs to a last-minute victory against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.

Since 2000, such as been the domination by the Bulldogs that they have in fact been the first side to qualify for the SANFL Grand Final every year in their current 12 year run with only 2002, 2006 and 2011 not being premiership winning years.

In the 2006 National Indoor Football League season, the Warbirds were replaced by the Dayton Bulldogs.

The 2006 Tournament featured the Connecticut Huskies, Duke Blue Devils, Georgia Bulldogs and Michigan State Spartans.

It was announced on 16 August 2006 that the Melbourne Demons and the Western Bulldogs would play one premiership match each, from 2007 to 2009, all games were played against the Sydney Swans.

In 2006, El Masri broke another two club records: the most points scored for a single game ( 34 points, Rd 2 vs Wests Tigers ) and the most first grade tries for the Bulldogs ( 123, Rd 13 vs Newcastle Knights ).

On July 18, 2006, the Cyclones announced their affiliation with the Montreal Canadiens of the NHL and the Hamilton Bulldogs of the AHL.

From the start of the 2004 season through the end of the 2006 season, the Gonzaga Bulldogs baseball team used the stadium as its home venue.

Ralphie IV traveled to the September 23, 2006 game against the Georgia Bulldogs along with an ESPN producer and cameraman who documented the trip and aired a special on that weekend's College Gameday.

After playing three full seasons for the Oilers and their top farm club, the Hamilton Bulldogs, he was traded to the Florida Panthers for a conditional draft pick in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft on November 19, 2005.

With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

* 2006: Laterna Magica Prize ( Children of Men, won )

Rapper Jawat won the " Grote prijs van Nederland " 2006.

In the 2006 general election, the final election to which the party participated with its own list, AN won 12. 3 % of the vote, securing 71 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 41 in the Senate.

The Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) and The Left ( Die Linke ) took control of the city government after the 2001 state election and won another term in the 2006 state election.

In 2006 the Herald won two SABEW awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for its breaking news coverage of the takeover of local company Gillette Co. and for overall excellence.

Founded 1994 ; won 6 Congressional seats ( 10 % of the Assembly ) in 2002 and again in 2006.

The prohibition was officially recognized as unconstitutional in April 2003, allowing Óscar Arias to run for President a second time in the 2006 Costa Rican presidential elections, which he won with approximately a 1 % margin.

The Leyland era lasted just one year, as a frustrated Leyland retired following the season, not to manage in the majors again until 2006, when he won an AL Pennant with the Detroit Tigers.

" Columbus won the national contest " America in Bloom " in 2006, and in 2004 it was named one of " The Ten Most Playful Towns " by Nick Jr. Family Magazine.

A new election was held on 29 October 2006, which Kabila won with 70 % of the vote.

* 2006: Audi R10 TDI won 12 hours running in Sebring and defeated all other engine concepts.

The same car won the 2006 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The Tigers have won four World Series championships ( 1935, 1945, 1968, and 1984 ) and have won the American League pennant 10 times ( 1907, 1908, 1909, 1934, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1968, 1984, and 2006 ).

In February 2006, UK Prime Minister Blair, acknowledging that the EPRDF has won the election, said he wanted to see Ethiopia resolve its internal problems and continue on a democratic path.

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

* 2006 Texas Governor Election ( a real-life example where incumbent Rick Perry won re-election despite gaining less than 40 percent of the vote )

In 2006, Harvey Mudd was also named one of the " new Ivy leagues " by Kaplan and Newsweek, while the mathematics department won the first American Mathematical Society Award for Exemplary Program.

The Colts won the next three matches, notching two regular season victories and a win in the 2006 AFC Championship game on the way to their win in Super Bowl XLI.

Spader also won the Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Series, Comedy or Musical for Boston Legal in 2006.

On 28 May 2006, Loach won the Palme d ' Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival for his film The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a film about the Irish War of Independence and the subsequent Irish Civil War during the 1920s.