Scores & Sports Today 08/18/2009

MLB-Red Sox release future Hall of Famer Smoltz. Strasburg has agreed to a four-year contract worth more than $15 million, for the first time in the Nationals brief history.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/ted_keith/08/18 /strasburg.deadline.signs/index.html?eref=T1#ixzz0OXMH1mOq

NFL-PRESEASON-Wilford scores game's lone TD, Miami Dolphins fend off Jacksonville Jaguars. NY Giants return fumble for TD as time expires to beat Carolina Panthers.
http://scores.espn.go.com/nfl/scoreboard?seasonYear=2009&seasonType=1
&weekNumber=3

NCAA FootBall-EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- Syracuse has agreed to play three home games against Notre Dame and Southern California over the next seven years in the new stadium at the Meadowlands.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/football/ncaa/08/17 /syracuse.meadowlands.ap/index.html#ixzz0OXOjfgBj

NBA-Love, Team USA begin courtship, Kevin Love's solid shooting, passing and rebounding are good fits for Team USA.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/scott_howard-cooper/
08/17/love/index.html?eref=T1#ixzz0OXNJbfse

WNBA-Janel McCarville's so-called "ugly" winning shot produced a picture-perfect victory for the New York Liberty.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/more/08/16/sun.wnba.ap/index.
html#ixzz0OXP1gJSJ

NCAA BasketBall-Great Alaska Shootout narrowed to six teams. Men's teams scheduled to play this year are Alaska
Anchorage, Houston, Nicholls State, Oklahoma, San Diego and Washington State.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/basketball/ncaa/08/14 /alaska.ap/index.html#ixzz0OXPkOEOZ

NHL- Kids dominate USA's Olympic camp,Team USA's 34-man roster includes only five veterans with Olympic experience.
U.S. won't have time to become an Olympic force if NHL quits Games in 2014
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/allan_muir/08/17 /team.usa.camp/index.html?eref=T1#ixzz0OXNvYcr9

PGA- Tiger Woods's failure to turn a commanding lead into a PGA Championship win on Sunday left Irish bookmaker Paddy Power about $2.12 million out of pocket.

NASCAR-Flash Gordon, Ryan McGee calls him "Four-Time." As in four-time Sprint Cup Series champion. Jeff Gordonmay be trailing Tony Stewart in points, but he has the top spot in this week's Power Rankings.

Soccer-Once again, Estadio Azteca is where U.S. soccer progress goes on holiday. So now we're off to "another day," and in this case, it's a far, far more important day: Sept. 5, as the United States meets El Salvador.

Tennis-Murray passes Nadal for No. 2 in ATP rankings. Sharapova triumphs, Mauresmo out in Toronto.