The wild card gap now stands at one game between the Phillies and the Astros. A combination of two Astros wins and/or Phillies losses will clinch the Wild Card for Houston.
College football: Tennessee 30, LSU 27 (OT): Gerald Riggs Jr. completed a comeback by scoring on a one-yard run in overtime to give the 10th-ranked Volunteers a stunning upset over the 4th-ranked Tigers in the first game played after Hurricane Katrina in Baton Rouge which was postponed from Saturday due to Hurricane Rita.
The Yankees now lead the AL East by a half-game over the Red Sox, who are now a half-game behind the Cleveland Indians in the AL wild-card race. The rainout will be made up as part of a doubleheader Tuesday.
The Braves' loss prevented them from clinching their 14th consecutive division title. However, one Braves win or one Phillies loss will clinch the NL East for the Braves.
Valentino Rossi wins his seventh World Championship when he secures the MotoGP championship for the fourth successive year by finishing second in the Malaysian GP. (Superwheels)
Indianapolis Colts 13, Cleveland Browns 6: Edgerrin James runs for 100yards for the first time this season, and the vastly improved Colts defense held their third consecutive team to under 10 points at the RCA Dome. Marvin Harrison and Peyton Manning also break the record for most yardage passing between two teammates with 9,568yards between them, passing Jim Kelly and Andre Reed, who combined for 9,538yards with the Buffalo Bills. Manning passes the 30,000yards passing mark for his career in his 155th contest becoming the second fastest to do so. Only Dan Marino threw for 30,000yards in his career faster, doing so in 154 games.(Yahoo!/AP)
Minnesota Vikings 33, New Orleans Saints 16: Daunte Culpepper throws for 300yards and three touchdowns, one of them on their first play of the game, as the Vikings get their first win of the season against a Saints team that committed fourteen penalties and four turnovers.(Yahoo!/AP)
Miguel Cotto comes off the canvas in the second and knocks out Ricardo Torres in round seven to retain his WBO world Jr. Welterweight title, as part of the Klitschko-Peter undercard. aol.com
Football (soccer): German brewer Bitburg offers 10,000 litres of beer to the supporters of the first team to defeat Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga. The offer will increase by 1,000litres per match until Bayern lose. Bayern are currently on a fifteen match winning streak. (CNN/SI)
The Sydney Swans defeated the West Coast Eagles in a nailbiting AFL Grand Final 8.10 (58) to 7.12 (54), ending the Swans' (both South Melbourne and Sydney incarnations) record 72-year premiership drought. The Eagles' Chris Judd was awarded the Norm Smith Medal for best-on-ground, becoming only the fourth player on the losing team ever to receive that award.
Formula One: Jenson Button will stay at BAR–Honda in 2006. The British racer will have to pay £25million to be released from his Williams contract. Williams is expected to announce its agreement with Button's management within the next week.
Washington Redskins 14, Dallas Cowboys 13: Trailing 13–0 with four minutes left in the game, the Redskins storm back with Mark Brunell TD passes of 39 and 70yards to Santana Moss in a span of little more than a minute. The Skins defense holds off the Cowboys to give them their first win at Texas Stadium since 1995.(AP/Yahoo!)
During this doubleheader, more than $5million (US) was raised by a telethon on both ESPN and ABC for the efforts of those devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
Jason Gore wins his first event on the PGA Tour, the 84 LUMBER Classic. Gore, who had received a "battlefield promotion" from the Nationwide Tour as a reward for winning three tournaments on that tour in 2005, shot a 2-under 70 en route to a 14-under-par final score, one shot ahead of Carlos Franco. (PGATOUR.com)
Seattle Seahawks 21, Atlanta Falcons 18: Matt Hasselbeck throws two TD passes and Shaun Alexander runs for a TD to stake the Seahawks to a 21–0 halftime lead. The Seahawks nearly blow the lead, but their defense stops the Falcons late in the fourth quarter to preserve the win.(AP/Yahoo!)
St. Louis Rams 17, Arizona Cardinals 12: The Rams' Marc Bulger throws two TD passes, and their defense keeps the Cardinals out of the end zone all four times they advanced inside the Rams 12. Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner goes 28-for-41 with 307yards passing against his former team.(AP/Yahoo!)
Cleveland Browns 26, Green Bay Packers 24: Both quarterbacks, the Browns' Trent Dilfer and the Packers' Brett Favre, throw for over 300yards and three TDs apiece, but Favre also throws two interceptions in a closely fought game. Favre becomes the third NFL quarterback, behind Dan Marino and John Elway, to throw for more than 50,000 passing yards. The uniform number 92 of late Packers great Reggie White was retired during halftime ceremonies.(AP/Yahoo!)
Denver Broncos 20, San Diego Chargers 17: The Broncos come back from a 14–3 halftime deficit, sparked by a Champ Bailey interception return for a TD and a defense that holds the Chargers to 41yards of offense in the second half. Jason Elam kicks the winning field goal with 5seconds left. Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson scores both Chargers TDs, giving him a rushing TD in 14 consecutive games, an NFL record.(AP/Yahoo!)
Kansas City Chiefs 23, Oakland Raiders 17: Trent Green was 18-for-28 for 238yards, and Priest Holmes carried the ball 19 times for 75yards and a touchdown, and the rebuilt Chiefs' defense withstood a late game drive by the Raiders in Oakland's home opener. Randy Moss made his official home debut with 5 catches for 127yards and a touchdown, while Kerry Collins was 21-for-35 and 263yards along with the Moss touchdown.(AP/Yahoo!)
The USC Trojans are ranked Number 1 by the AP for the 22nd consecutive poll, breaking the previous record set by the Miami Hurricanes during 2001 and 2002. The streak began with the poll of December 7, 2003. (AP/Yahoo!)
Formula One: BMW and Nick Heidfeld will embark on a joint future in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship in 2006. The Munich automobile manufacturer has concluded a three-year contract with the racing driver from Mönchengladbach (28). This fills the first cockpit in the new team run by BMW.
After hinting that he may come out of retirement, seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong announces that he will remain retired, indicating that he is now preoccupied with addressing recent allegations that he used EPO during his first Tour win in 1999. (AP/Yahoo!)
NFL: Nine players, five from the Atlanta Falcons and four from the Philadelphia Eagles, are fined amounts between US $2,500 and $5,000 for their roles in a fight before the team's Monday night game on September 12. The Falcons' Chad Lavalais is fined US$7,500 for a helmet-first hit on Eagles quarterbackDonovan McNabb, who suffered a bruised sternum on the play. (NFL.com)
Atlanta Falcons 14, Philadelphia Eagles 10: The Falcons got a measure of revenge in their NFC Championship Game rematch at the Georgia Dome. Eagles linebacker Jeremiah Trotter and Falcons cornerback Kevin Mathis were ejected before the game after getting into a fight. Another fight almost breaks out after the Falcons get upset with the Eagles for gathering on their Falcons logo at midfield.(Yahoo!)(NFL.com)
IRL: Dan Wheldon wins his sixth race of the season, setting a new record for victories in an IRL season, also all but clinching the series title.
Formula One: Kimi Räikkönen wins the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps, his sixth this year, tying him with Fernando Alonso for the most this season. The win means Alonso wait at least one more race before he can clinch the World Drivers' Championship with Alonso's lead 25 points. If the margin number stays between 20 and 30 after São Paulo two weeks from now, the title will be his. (Formula1.com)
Solomon Islands 1–2 (0–1) AustraliaAustralia, after winning 9–1 on aggregate, advances to play the 5th placed team in the South American qualification group for a place in the Finals in Germany next June.
Asia: FIFA annul the result of last Saturday's play-off match between Uzbekistan and Bahrain because of an error by referee Toshimitsu Yoshida, when an Uzbekistan penalty was disallowed and Bahrain was awarded a free kick. The tie will be replayed on 8 October with the leg in Bahrain on 12 October. (BBC)
NHL: New Jersey Devils defenseman and captain Scott Stevens retires after 22years in the league. Stevens played on all three of the Devils' Stanley Cup-winning teams to date, and he played more games than any defenseman ever. (Yahoo!)
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NFL: Jerry Rice announces his retirement from football. The 42-year-old declined a role with the Denver Broncos as only a fourth wide receiver. Rice retires holding most of the NFL's career records in receiving. (ESPN)
A successful field goal by Hamilton kicker Jamie Boreham with two minutes remaining in the fourth quarter gives the Tiger-Cats victory over the Toronto Argonauts, 33–30. It is only Hamilton's second win of the season. TSN
Slovenia 2–3 (1–2) NorwayMorten Gamst Pedersen scored the winning goal in the 92nd minute, lobbing over the Slovenian keeper after the hosts had equalised 10minutes earlier
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