Sports News
July 20, 2008Here are the sports results from Sunday:
TORONTO - Kerry Joseph scored on a 13-yard run with 23 seconds remaining to rally the Toronto Argonauts to a thrilling 35-31 win over the Edmonton Eskimos on Sunday.
Joseph marched Toronto 109 yards on 11 plays on their decisive march to lead Toronto to a split of the home-and-home series. Joseph, who led CFL quarterbacks in rushing last year with over 700 yards, finished with a game-high 118 yards rushing. Joseph was 22-of-38 passing for 343 yards and a TD.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Toronto turned key hits into a rare road victory.
Alex Rios and Marco Scutaro homered and the Blue Jays avoided a three-game sweep with a 9-4 victory over the AL East-leading Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday.
STANFORD, Calif. - Qualifier Aleksandra Wozniak became the first Canadian to win a WTA Tour singles title in 20 years, taking an advantage of an injury to Marion Bartoli to win the Bank of the West Classic 7-5, 6-3 on Sunday.
Wozniak, 20, needed to win eight matches - including three qualifiers - in nine days to become the first Canadian since Jill Hetherington at Wellington in February 1988 to win a women's singles title. Wozniak was only five months old at the time.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - When a red-eyed Michelle Wie left the clubhouse at Panther Creek Country Club on Saturday, it looked like she took all the drama the State Farm Classic had to offer with her.
The 18-year-old golfer, on the verge of playing her way onto the LPGA Tour and playing her best golf of the year, was disqualified for failure to sign her scorecard.
PRATO NEVOSO, Italy - Australian cycling fans experienced the highs and lows of cycling's showcase race with Cadel Evans being stripped of the yellow jersey shortly after countryman Simon Gerrans had won a compelling 15th stage.
Gerrans hopes such drama will raise cycling's profile back home.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Simon Lambert-Lemay of Montreal posted Canada's best men's result at the world junior cycling championships this week with a ninth-place finish Sunday in the 136-kilometre road race.
Johan Le Bon of France won the gold medal in three hours 20 minutes and 52 seconds with Mattia Cattaneo of Italy second in 3:20:54. Sebastian Lander of Italy led a group of eight riders that included Lambert-Lemay to grab the bronze in 3:20:55.
PRATO NEVOSO, Italy - Frank Schleck of Luxembourg seized the overall lead in the Tour de France on Sunday, drawing on his strength in the mountains and getting an assist from his brother as the three-week race headed into the Italian Alps.
"For me to take the yellow jersey, it's a childhood dream," Schleck said.
PRATO NEVOSO, Italy - Oscar Pereiro of Spain pulled out of the Tour de France after breaking his shoulder in a crash Sunday.
The Caisse d'Epargne rider, winner of the 2006 Tour after Floyd Landis was stripped of his title for doping, was taken to a hospital in the town of Cuneo as the race headed into Italy for the 15th stage.
SOUTHPORT, England - Padraig Harrington enjoys few moments more than the walk down 18th fairway of a century-old links course, especially with a four-shot lead in the British Open and the engraver putting the final touches on the oldest trophy in golf.
He stopped Sunday to share the moment with Greg Norman, who knows this path all too well.
NEW YORK - Kerri Walsh started talking about playing head games with her beach volleyball opponents when teammate Misty May-Treanor interjected, "It's a secret."
Walsh seemed unconcerned about revealing the duo's attempts to become more creative on defence.
ATHENS, Greece - Germany won the final spot in the 12-team Olympic basketball tournament, getting 32 points from Dirk Nowitzki on Sunday in a 96-82 victory over Puerto Rico.
Croatia and Greece earned the other two men's berths at stake in this qualifying tournament a day earlier.
ST-HYACINTHE, Que. - Julie Warnock of Airdrie, Alta., won the gold medal in double mini trampoline and a bronze in trampoline to finish this weekend's Canada Cup competition with three medals.
On double mini trampoline, Warnock, the reigning world championship silver medallist, was first with 137.00 points. Corissa Boychuk of Airdrie was second at 129.00 and Gillian Bruce of Calgary third at 119.8.
WINNIPEG - Olympic medal hopeful Mike Brown won the gold medal in the men's 200-metre breaststroke then helped the University of Calgary Swim Club beat its national club record in the 4X100 medley relay to conclude the Summer Nationals swimming competition.
In the 4X100 relay, Dan Langlois, Brown, Adam Sioui and Joel Greenshields clocked 3:41.14 for the gold medal and eclipse its previous national club mark of 3:41.86 set at last year's Summer Nationals.
MARSEILLE, France - Federico Hilaire and Cesar Leguizamon scored twice each to give Argentina a 5-2 victory over the United Arab Emirates on Sunday and send it to the quarter-finals of the beach soccer World Cup, while Russia and Spain kept alive their chances of advancing.
In Group D, Brazil routed Japan 8-1 to remain atop Group D, getting a pair of goals from Junior Negao.
LAS VEGAS - Three weeks wasn't enough time to prepare for the last Olympics. So now the United States is trying three years.
The Americans open training camp Monday, but they're much closer to the end of their Olympic preparations than the beginning. With the same coaching staff and many of the same players back for their third straight summer, much of the work has already been done.
BRANDENBURG, Germany - Canada's under-23 men's eight picked up a silver medal Sunday at the U-23 world rowing championship.
Canada overtook Poland to finish second in 5:53.30, leaving the Polish crew to claim bronze in 5:54.57.
EMBRUN, France - British sprinter Mark Cavendish pulled out of the Tour de France before Sunday's 15th stage, featuring major climbs in the Alps.
Cavendish won four stages at this year's race with sprint finishes. Team Columbia manager Bob Stapleton said he and Cavendish had reached a mutual decision after the 23-year-old cyclist complained of tiredness recently.
