Wrigley Field was rocking in anticipation of a Cubs’ victory. Then Andre Ethier tuned out the noise, turned off the crowd and sent the Los Angeles Dodgers to a stunning victory. Ethier connected on a three-run, pinch-homer in the ninth off closer Ryan Dempster, and the Los Angeles Dodgers used a four-run rally to beat the Cubs 7-4.
One inning from another costly loss, the Detroit Tigers rallied against Bobby Jenks. Sean Casey and Placido Polanco hit run-scoring singles off the White Sox closer in the ninth inning, leading the Tigers over Chicago 3-2 Thursday in Gary Sheffield’s return from the disabled list. “Obviously, this is huge,” Tigers manager Jim Leyland said.
David Garrard’s last game against Tennessee was memorable for all the wrong reasons. He threw three interceptions and fumbled once, a turnover-filled performance that prompted Jacksonville to give Byron Leftwich another chance at the starting job. Now, after a surprising turn of events, Garrard gets another shot at the Titans.
Thomas Jones looks and sounds ready to play in the New York Jets’ season opener against the New England Patriots. The running back, acquired from Chicago in the offseason, has been practicing this week for the first time since straining his right calf on Aug. 12. “I feel a lot better than I felt the past couple of weeks,” Jones said Wednesday in his first public comments since Aug.
Commissioner Roger Goodell has no knowledge that any other NFL personnel are involved in an Internet drug operation being investigated by the Albany (N.Y.) District Attorney’s office. The investigation led to the recent suspensions of New England Patriots safety Rodney Harrison and Dallas Cowboys quarterbacks coach Wade Wilson.
It’s not a rivalry as intense and divisive as the one between Joe Gibbs’ Washington Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys.
Not long after inducting its newest class, the Basketball Hall of Fame will take a road trip. The “Hoop Hall Experience” kicks off a 30-city tour Nov. 2 in Knoxville, Tenn. and continues through December 2008, giving fans an opportunity to view basketball history without traveling to the game’s birthplace in Springfield, Mass.
They opened the season in snow piled up to their stirrups following a freakish storm. Five months later, as summer’s final days dwindle, the Cleveland Indians stand alone atop the AL Central. And in the on-deck circle for the playoffs. With an unmatched starting rotation and a lineup stocked with young players mostly unknown outside Ohio’s borders, the Indians, drawing on painful lessons learned in…
