Showing posts with label horse racing. Show all posts
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Sunday, November 8, 2009

The Sunday News - 11/8/09

Week 10 college football upsets: Northwestern 17 - No. 4 Iowa 10, Stanford 51 - No. 8 Oregon 42, Oregon State 31 - No. 20 Cal 14, Navy 23 - No. 22 Notre Dame 21 [ESPN]

Ty Law is coming out of retirment to sign with the Denver Broncos. [Denver Post]

Cal RB Jahvid Best suffered his second concussion in two weeks in the loss to Oregon State. [Sporting News]

Manny Ramirez has exercised his option to return to the LA Dodgers. [Reuters]

The Philadelphia Phillies picked up their option on Cliff Lee. [MLB.com]

The Milwaukee Brewers traded SS J.J. Hardy to the Minnesota Twins for CF Carlos Gomez. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]

The Arizona Diamondbacks have picked up their option on Brandon Webb. [AZ Central]

Chicago Bulls F Tyrus Thomas is expected to miss 4-6 weeks with a fractured right forearm. [Chicago Sun-Times]

Detroit Pistons F Tayshaun Prince is out indefinitely with a rupture disk in his lower back. [Detroit Free Press]

Memphis Grizzlies G allen Iverson has taken an indefinite leave of absence from the team to handle undisclosed personal issues. [NBA.com]

NY Islanders D Radek Martinek will miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL. Also, one of the Islanders prospects, Bobby Hughes, has been arrested on sexual assault charges. [Examiner.com]

Phil Mickelson has won the WGC-HSBC Champions bye one stroke. [Golf Monthly]

Zenyatta remains undefeated in 14 starts, winning the Breeders' Cup Classic. She is the first mare to win the Classic, and is expected to be retired. [Chicago Tribune]

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Sunday Morning News

US Open upsets: 5 seed Andy Roddick loses to John Isner, 1 seed Dinara Safina loses to Petra Kvitova, Melanie Oudin wins again over Maria Sharapova. [Bloomberg]

More upsets: 3 Oklahoma loses to 20 BYU, 14-13. Heisman Trophy winning OU QB Sam Bradford suffered a sprained shoulder in the loss. He is expected to miss a few weeks, probably ending his chances of winning a second Heisman. [Ball Hype]

Notre Dame and Michigan, two schools whose teams haven't lived up to expectations in recent years, each had run-away victories Saturday, over Nevada and Western Michigan, respectively. They will face each other next week at Michigan. [Rivals.com]

Preakness Stakes winner Rachel Alexandra is the first filly to win the Woodward Stakes. At 8-0, she is so far undefeated for the year. [NYDN]