The best KHL players played on Red Square The All-Star Game, held on Red Square on the last day of the New Year and Christmas holidays, was the NHL’s response to rumors that the Russian league was experiencing serious financial difficulties and could cease to exist. The game on the main square of the country could amaze only local residents, but not North Americans. The team of foreign players of Jaromir Jagr turned out to be luckier than the Russians named after Alexei Yashin - 7:6.

Former great athletes often make very good, and sometimes even downright wonderful, sports journalists. In my opinion, one of the best and even wonderful is two-time Olympic swimming champion Denis Pankratov. On one of the cable TV channels he hosts an extremely incendiary program, “Challenge of Denis Pankratov.” The first person of the federation or the head coach of the national team for a particular sport is invited to this “nominal” program.

Houston wins without top players Basketball. NBA. Regular season. “Washington” – “Charlotte” – 89:92, “Houston” – “New York” – 96:76, “Utah” – “Detroit” – 99:82, “Minnesota” – “ Milwaukee - 106:104, Chicago - Oklahoma - 98:109 (OT), Portland - Golden State - 113:100. The outsider of the Western Conference, Oklahoma, won only the second victory in 18 away matches.

Zico took charge of CSKA Two days before the start of the first pre-season training camp, the capital's CSKA finally decided on a new head coach. The Russian vice-champions were led by the Brazilian Zico. The former coach of the Japanese national team, Turkish Fenerbahce and Uzbek Bunyodkor signed a contract with the army team for a period of three years. Initially, other specialists were at the top of the list of possible candidates for the post of head coach of CSKA.

FOOTBALL. January 17--18. Commonwealth Champions Cup. Group stage. 1st--2nd rounds. Moscow . The tournament is being held for the 17th time. As a rule, champions of the countries of the former USSR participate in it; in recent years, teams from far abroad have also been invited. True, some clubs compete at the Commonwealth Cup with reserve squads.

Dementieva already managed to win the title in the 2009 season The new tennis season began with the Russian final. At the BTA competition with a prize fund of 220 thousand dollars in Auckland (New Zealand), the first-seeded Elena Dementieva won five fights in a row, defeating her compatriot Elena Vesnina in the final - 6:4, 6:1. Moreover, Dementieva did not give up a single set during the entire tournament.

Maxim Chudov's victory in the sprint was the most striking result of the stage in Oberhof Olympic champion Olga Medvedtseva won silver in the mass start race at the Biathlon World Cup in Oberhof, Germany. Having made two mistakes, the Russian finished with a gap of just over five seconds behind the winner, the owner of the track, Katya Wilhelm. The bronze medalist was Sweden's Helena Jonsson, who, like the other medalists, missed twice at the shooting range.

In the first ten days of January, Super League clubs had a very busy schedule Participants in the men's super league are close to completing the first half of the regular season. Ten clubs have one match left to do this, CSK VVS-Samara and Lokomotiv-Rostov have two each.