Sports News
October 10, 2008Here are the sports results from Friday:
PHILADELPHIA - Of all those big hitters in Philadelphia's potent lineup, no one ever expected pitcher Brett Myers to put them in control of the NL championship series with his bat.
Myers did better at the plate than on the mound, going 3-for-3 with three RBIs, Shane Victorino drove in four runs and the Phillies overcame another homer by Manny Ramirez to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-5 Friday for a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven NLCS.
MOSCOW - Top-ranked Jelena Jankovic beat Flavia Pennetta of Italy 7-6 (6), 6-3 Friday to advance to the semifinals of the Kremlin Cup, and Marat Safin upset defending men's champion Nikolay Davydenko 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-4 in the quarter-finals.
Jankovic will face Olympic champion Elena Dementieva in the next round, while Dinara Safina will play Vera Zvonareva in the other semifinal match.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Canadian Diane Szmiett won her second medal this season on the Junior Grand Prix figure skating circuit by finishing second at the Skate Safari women's event Friday.
The 17-year-old from Watford, Ont., posted a score of 131.46 to finish behind Alexe Gilles of the United States at 134.11. Another American, Amanda Dobbs, finished third at 128.64.
NORFOLK, Va. - Disgraced former Olympic track star Tim Montgomery, once dubbed "the world's fastest man," was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for dealing heroin to an informant.
"I was blind - I never had a job in my life," Montgomery told U.S. District Judge Jerome B. Friedman. "I did the wrong thing."
MINNEAPOLIS - Magic Johnson criticized a pair of talk show hosts Friday for accusing him of faking AIDS but said he didn't want them to be fired.
Chris Baker and Langdon Perry of KTLK in Minneapolis made the remarks during Baker's conservative radio show on Wednesday. After Johnson condemned the statements, the station said it regretted "some offhand remarks" by the pair.
BERLIN - After four years away from the ring, Vitali Klitschko wants his title back.
The 37-year-old Ukrainian will fight Samuel Peter on Saturday for the WBC heavyweight title at Berlin's 02 World Arena.
TORONTO - Toronto has one fewer competitor in its quest to host the 2015 Pan Am Games.
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's office says the group representing the city of Caracas, Venezuela, announced Friday that it had declined to table its bid.
MONTREAL - The short-track speedskaters knifing through the Maurice Richard Arena ice during practice on Friday are beginning to sense that the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver are not far away.
They are about to enter their last full season of competition before the Games, starting with World Cup meets Oct. 17-19 in Salt Lake City and Oct. 24-26 on the Olympic ice at Vancouver's Pacific Coliseum.
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge on Friday sentenced a former elite cyclist to six months of home confinement for lying to a grand jury about her steroid use.
U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston rejected a federal prosecutor's request that Tammy Thomas be sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison, noting the ringleaders at the center of the BALCO doping investigation received four months in prison or less.
LONDON - NBA commissioner David Stern is counting on the 2012 London Olympics to give the basketball league a foothold in Britain.
For the second straight year, the NBA has brought two teams to the British capital to play a pre-season game - this time between the Miami Heat and the New Jersey Nets.
LONDON - France coach Raymond Domenech is in danger of losing his job only two games into World Cup qualifying. Carlos Queiroz is under pressure barely two months after taking the Portugal job.
The two teams are fourth in their qualifying groups, fully knowing that only those nations finishing atop each group are sure to go to South Africa for the 2010 tournament.
Maurice Edu doesn't need to see the recent sales figure from Europe - more than 1.2 million copies sold in the first week of release - to know the appeal of EA Sports' FIFA Soccer video game.
The former Toronto FC midfielder, now a member of Glasgow Rangers, was a fan of the made-in-Canada game long before he became its North American poster boy.
OMAYA, Japan - Toyota's Timo Glock upstaged the bigger names to claim the fastest time in practice Friday ahead of Sunday's Japan Formula One Grand Prix.
On the track owned by his team's parent company, Glock set a time of 1 minute, 18.383 seconds, putting him ahead of Singapore GP winner Fernando Alonso of Renault and title rivals Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Canadian Diane Szmiett won her second medal this season on the Junior Grand Prix figure skating circuit by finishing second at the Skate Safari women's event Friday.
The 17-year-old from Watford, Ont., posted a score of 131.46 to finish behind Alexe Gilles of the United States at 134.11. Another American, Amanda Dobbs, finished third at 128.64.
OMAYA, Japan - Angered by the decision to drop the Canadian Grand Prix from the Formula One calendar, teams said Friday that they wanted not one but up to three races in North America each season.
The dropping of the Montreal race left the manufacturing teams - which invest in F1 as a marketing tool to sell road cars - without an F1 presence in the world's most important continental car market.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Kentucky racing officials plan to challenge a recommendation that there's insufficient evidence to suspend Big Brown's trainer, Rick Dutrow, for violating doping rules.
The order by hearing officer James Robke indicated the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission was unable to prove Dutrow's horse, Salute the Count, had an excessive amount of the legal drug Clenbuterol in his blood after finishing second May 2 in the Aegon Turf Sprint at Churchill Downs. That was one day before Big Brown won the Kentucky Derby.
PHILADELPHIA - Pat Burrell and Chase Utley cleared the wall with room to spare. Manny Ramirez's drive fell just short and stayed in the park.
Utley and Burrell homered off tiring Derek Lowe in the sixth inning to back a strong performance by Cole Hamels, and the Philadelphia Phillies were a winner in their return to the NL championship series, beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-2 Thursday night.
