Monday, August 31, 2009

Scores & Sports Today 08/31/2009

MLB-Giants even wild card, Teixeira hits 101 RBIs as Yanks finish sweep, Greinke's 1-hitter leads Royals past Mariners, Wainwright beats Nats for MLB-best 16th win, Red Sox sweep. http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/scoreboard

LLWS-CONGRA-CHULA-TIONS! West region champions from Chula Vista, Calif., outlast Chinese Taipei to gut out 2009 Little League World Series championship.

NFL-By performing admirably in a hostile environment Sunday night, Jay Cutler proved he's ready to lead the Bears. The Pro Bowl passer, who forced a blockbuster trade out of Denver last spring and became the Chicago Bears' first franchise quarterback since Sid Luckman, returned to Invesco Field on Sunday night and led his new team to a 27-17 preseason win over the Broncos.

CFL-Friday 8/28 Calgary Stampeders 23 at Toronto Argonauts 20 and Sat. 8/29 Hamilton Tiger-Cats 30 at Edmonton Eskimos 31 who are leading the CFL West Division.

NCAA FootBall-Alabama's Saban signs extension until 2017. Alamo Bowl, Pac-10 reach deal starting in 2010, Preparing for season-openers, poll watching, BCS forecast and more.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/stewart_mandel/08/30/mandel.overtime/index.html?eref=T1

NBA-NBA suspends Nuggets' Smith, Suns' Richardson. New York Knicks forward Al Harrington and Golden State's Stephen Jackson are promoting an affordable shoe line they started called Protégé.

WNBA-Thompson scores 21 to lead Sparks past Sun, 91-81, Langhorne's 18 lead Mystics past Lynx 81-75, Christon scores 18 points as Liberty top Sky 77-63. Storm beat Dream in double overtime. Hammon leads Silver Stars over Shock, Taurasi leads Mercury past Sun, Monarchs hold off Fever 79-78.

NCAA BAsketBall-With Blake Griffin and Stephen Curry in the NBA, who will be the breakout player this season? Georgetown's Austin Freeman and Memphis' Elliot Williams are right at the top of that list.

NHL- Less than two years after his hiring, Paul Kelly is out as as executive director of the NHL Players' Association.

Golf-PGA-What a turnaround. One week after missing a cut, Heath Slocum avoids a 5-man playoff with a par on 18 to win the Barclays title. Slocum takes down the big boys and edging tiger by 1. U.S. Amateur- Beyong Hun An At 17, he entered the 109th U.S. Amateur in hopes of making it through the stroke-play qualifying portion and into match play. He left with the trophy, the youngest ever to do so.

Tennis-U.S. Open issues tweet warning. Watch what you tweet, telling players and their entourages to be careful about what they post on the social networking site Twitter.

NASCAR- Edwards passes Ambrose for Nationwide victory. And, There's just two races to decide the Chase. The race is tight as ever as a few points separate spots 7-14. It's just the kind of competition NASCAR dreamed of.

Soccer- World Cup-USA at El Salvador 8:11 ET, Honuduras at Trinidad and Tobago 9:00 ET, Mexico at Costa Rica 10 ET.

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