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Thursday September 2, 2010
| | Baseball MLB: San Francisco 2, Colorado 1 SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- Darren Ford scored in the eighth inning Wednesday due to bad throws by both the Colorado pitcher and catcher, bringing San Francisco a 2-1 win over the Rockies.
San Francisco capitalized on the pair of mistakes to win its second straight and climb within three games of first-place San Diego in the National League West. The Padres have dropped seven in a row.
Ubaldo Jimenez, who failed for the fifth time to earn his 18th win of the season, walked Mike Fontenot leading off the eighth in a 1-1 game. Ford came in to run for Fontenot and moved to second on a sacrifice by pitcher Tim Lincecum.
With Andres Torres at the plate, Jimenez threw a ball in the dirt that was partially blocked by Miguel Olivo. Ford headed for third on the wild pitch and Olivo quickly collected the ball. His throw to third, however, sailed high and down the left field line while Ford dashed home with what turned out to be the winning run.
Jimenez fell to 17-6 and Lincecum improved to 12-9. It was Lincecum's first win since July 30 and he got it by giving up a run on five hits in eight innings.
Brian Davis worked a perfect ninth for his 38th save.
Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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| | Football Mich., OSU separated in Big Ten alignment CHICAGO (UPI) -- The Big Ten Conference Wednesday revealed its post-expansion divisional alignment for football, which separates rivals Ohio State and Michigan.
The split into two divisions is a first for the conference, which grew to 12 teams following the acceptance of Nebraska into its ranks this year.
League officials Wednesday unveiled two divisions of six teams each, starting with the 2011 season, with longtime rivals Michigan and OSU finding themselves in separate lineups.
The winners of the two divisions will meet in the inaugural Big Ten Football Championship Game, scheduled for Dec. 3, 2011, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. As before, the Big Ten champ will then participate in either the Rose Bowl or BCS National Championship Game.
Michigan, Nebraska, Michigan State, Iowa, Northwestern and Minnesota will make up one division while Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin, Purdue, Indiana and Illinois will be in the other.
Although the Wolverines and Buckeyes will be separated, their annual game is among the match-ups protected under the new plan, Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delaney said.
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| | Hockey Report: Sharks to sign goalie Niemi CHICAGO (UPI) -- The San Jose Sharks are close to signing former Chicago Blackhawks goalie Antti Niemi to a 1-year, $2 million deal, sources told ESPN.com Wednesday.
Citing an unnamed NHL source, the sports broadcaster said Niemi will join the team he helped defeat in last year's Western Conference finals, when the Blackhawks triumphed en route to a Stanley Cup championship.
The Blackhawks, facing a cash crunch, decided to let the Finnish netminder leave the team as a free agent rather than pay a reported arbitrator's award of $2.75 million for the upcoming season.
He thus became a goalie without a team only months after winning the Stanley Cup.
Splitting time with Cristobal Huet last season, Niemi compiled a 26-7-4 record with a 2.25 goals-against average, seven shutouts and a .912 save percentage. He followed that up by going 16-6 with a 2.63 GAA and two shutouts in the playoffs.
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| | Other UPI Sports Calendar for Thursday, Sept. 2 (All times Eastern)
Football
NFL pre-season
Buffalo at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.
Cincinnati at Indianapolis, 7 p.m.
New England at N.Y. Giants, 7 p.m.
Atlanta at Jacksonville, 7:30 p.m.
Carolina at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.
N.Y. Jets at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.
Baltimore at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Chicago at Cleveland, 8 p.m.
Denver at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Green Bay at Kansas City, 8 p.m.
Miami at Dallas, 8 p.m.
New Orleans at Tennessee, 8 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Houston, 8 p.m.
San Diego at San Francisco, 10 p.m.
Seattle at Oakland, 10 p.m.
Washington at Arizona, 10 p.m.
Baseball
American League
Oakland at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m.
Boston at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.
Detroit at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.
Cleveland at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.
National League
Philadelphia at Colorado, 7:10 p.m.
N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.
Men's & Women's Tennis
U.S. Open, New York
Golf
European
Omega European Masters at Crans-sur-Sierre, Switzerland
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| | Tennis Roddick suffers another early departure NEW YORK (UPI) -- Andy Roddick completed a disappointing year of grand slam events Wednesday by falling to Janko Tipsarevic in the second round of the U.S. Open.
Roddick, seeded ninth, failed to get past the quarterfinals in any of the four major tournaments this year.
Tipsarevic eliminated Roddick 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) in a late-night match at the U.S. Tennis Center.
Andy Murray, playing in the heat of a scorching afternoon, cruised past Lukas Lacko 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 in another highlight attraction and will meet Dustin Brown in the third round.
Tomas Berdych, runner-up at Wimbledon and seeded seventh in this event, was also a surprise victim Wednesday. He lost his first-round match to Michael Llodra 7-6 (7-3), 6-4, 6-4.
In addition to his early departure at the U.S. Open, Roddick lost in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open to Marin Cilic, fell in the third round at the French Open to Teimuraz Gabashvili and was knocked out in the fourth round at Wimbledon by Yen-Hsun Lu in five sets.
Ryan Harrison, making his U.S. Open debut at age 18, upset 15th seeded Ivan Ljubicic 6-3, 6-7 (4-7), 6-3, 6-4. Sam Querrey was a 6-3, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 winner over Bradley Klahn in the only first-round match between two Americans.
Other winners Wednesday included John Isner, Gael Monfils, Stanislas Wawrinka, Nicolas Almagro, Juan Ignacio Chela and Sergiy Stakhovsky.
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