Jerry Crowe Los Angeles Times
USC and Coach Pete Carroll can do us all a favor and perhaps spare us another Ohio State meltdown in the Bowl Championship Series title game by blistering the Buckeyes when the teams meet Sept. 13 at the Coliseum. . . .
Or at the Rose Bowl. . . .
Touchdown Patriots
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Randy Moss split wide and the defence went with him. Then Tom Brady found someone else – everyone else – open.
Moss had just one catch in New England’s 31-20 victory over Jacksonville on Saturday night, but just by being on the field he gave the rest of the Patriots enough running room to pick apart the Jaguars. Brady completed 26 of 28 passes to eight different receivers.
"They did a great job of controlling me, but they did a bad job of controlling the rest of the team," Moss said.
It’s been stormy in Australia and the weather’s not been good either. As the great cricket row rumbled on, torrential rains hit the east coast. The organisers of the Australian Open, the first tennis slam of the year, will hope for Melbourne’s usual climate – 40C, with matching humidity.
Bath are aiming to join an English procession into this season’s European Challenge Cup quarter-finals by producing a ruthless performance today.
Sale, Worcester, Leeds Carnegie and Newcastle are all heading for the last eight, while Bath can make sure of joining them by beating their Italian hosts, Parma. The Bath head coach, Steve Meehan, who agreed a new contract with the club earlier this week, has retained nine of the side that beat Premiership leaders Gloucester in a Recreation Ground mudbath last Friday.
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2008 Season Stats GM PPG RPG APG FG% FT% 29 14.0 7.8 1.3 .589 .481 MIAMI — Miami Heat center Shaquille O’Neal returned to practice Sunday after missing eight games with a hip injury.
Heat coach Pat Riley said O’Neal “is going to be ready for Wednesday” when the Heat play against the Chicago Bulls.
Clermont Auvergne (20) 26
Tries: Mignoni, Ledesma
Cons: James (2)
Pens: James (4)
Munster (6) 19
Tries: Mafi
Cons: O’Gara
Pens: O’Gara (4)
The Spurs gave him enough time and space to write his name on the ball.The second goal came off the boot of Wright-Phillips.The boots of the oppostion remained goalless.
MELBOURNE — Roger Federer has shaken off a stomach virus and is 100 percent fit for the defense of his title at the Australian Open, the Swiss star said on Sunday.
The world No. 1, who will be bidding for his 13th Grand Slam title, will go into the event having not played a competitive match for two months.
Otman Bakkal
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – Otman Bakkal scored in the first half of PSV Eindhoven’s 1-0 win over 10-man Feyenoord Rotterdam in the Dutch first division on Saturday.
Forward Bakkal, handed an unfamiliar midfield role by interim coach Sef Vergoossen, fired a close-range shot in the 40th minute past Feyenoord goalkeeper Henk Timmer.
Second Test, Wellington (day two, stumps): Bangladesh 143 & 51-5 v New Zealand 393
Bangladesh are on the verge of an innings defeat after closing day two of the second Test at 51-5, still 199 runs from making New Zealand bat again.
The Kiwis, who won the first match by nine wickets, were indebted to captains past and present Stephen Fleming and Daniel Vettori, as they posted 393.