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Sunday October 3, 2010
| | Baseball MLB: Houston 4, Chicago Cubs 0 HOUSTON (UPI) -- Tommy Manzella's two RBI backed Nelson Figueroa's six scoreless innings Sunday in Houston's 4-0 blanking of the Chicago Cubs in the teams' season finales.
Figueroa (7-4) made a start in place of Wandy Rodriguez, who complained of back problems. He responded by holding the Cubs to six hits and two walks while fanning eight.
The Astros finished the season 76-86, good for fourth place in the National League Central.
Cubs starter Ryan Dempster (15-12) surrendered four runs (three earned) on nine hits, striking out seven and walking one to absorb the defeat.
The Cubs ended the year at 75-87 and in fifth in the NL Central.
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More in Baseball:  MLB: Chicago White Sox 6, Cleveland 5
MLB: Boston 8, New York Yankees 4
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MLB: Cincinnati 3, Milwaukee 2
MLB: Toronto 2, Minnesota 1
MLB: Florida 5, Pittsburgh 2
| | Football NFL: Denver 26, Tennessee 20 NASHVILLE (UPI) -- Kyle Orton found Correll Buckhalter on a 6-yard TD pass with 1:33 left Sunday, lifting the Denver Broncos to a 26-20 victory over Tennessee.
Orton put on an impressive passing display, going 35-of-50 through the air for 341 yards and two touchdowns with only one interception for the Broncos (2-2).
Eight of the passes went to Eddie Royal, who compiled 113 yards and a score for Denver.
Brandon Lloyd, meanwhile, had a career-best 11 receptions for 115 yards.
Tennessee (2-2) was led by Vince Young, who tossed for 173 yards and a touchdown.
Titans running back Chris Johnson was held in check by Denver, managing only 53 yards on 19 carries.
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More in Football: NFL: Green Bay 28, Detroit 26
NFL: Baltimore 17, Pittsburgh 14
NFL: Cleveland 23, Cincinnati 20
NFL: Atlanta 16, San Francisco 14
NFL: New Orleans 16, Carolina 14
NFL: New York Jets 34, Buffalo 14
NFL: St. Louis 20, Seattle 3
| | Golf Hallberg's 61 earns him Ensure victory CONOVER, N.C. (UPI) -- Gary Hallberg shot a sizzling 11-under 61 Sunday, tying a course record to claim the Ensure Classic by one shot.
Hallberg collected his first Champions Tour victory with the fine round, finishing with an 18-under 198 -- matching a tournament record and holding off a rally by Fred Couples.
Couples (67) came charging toward the lead late in the day but stalled out on the 18th hole when he couldn't sink an 8-foot birdie putt with a chance to force a playoff, thus handing Hallberg his first victory of any kind since 2002 while on the Nationwide Tour.
Bernhard Langer, the tour money leader, also shot a 67, good for third place at 16-under 200. Langer started the day one shot in back of 36-hole leader Couples.
Bob Tway (62) ended up with sole possession of fourth place at minus-15 and Morris Hatalsky (68) claimed fifth, one shot further back at minus-14.
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| | Other Commonwealth Games open in India NEW DELHI (UPI) -- The Commonwealth Games opened in New Delhi Sunday with eight gold medals to be decided the following day.
Indian President Pratibha Patil and Britain's Prince Charles presided over the opening ceremony. where around 7,000 athletes from 71 nations were represented.
The competition begins Monday with gold medals in swimming, gymnastics and weightlifting to be awarded.
The BBC said the opening ceremonies went off without a hitch, although The Times of India reported plenty of confusion on the part of spectators and media members trying to find their way around the venue.
The opening of the games had been in question this summer due to delays and complaints about the quality of the construction in the athlete village. One British team official told the BBC Saturday that the accommodations were actually pretty comfortable.
Security was heavy with around 100,000 police and paramilitary troops on duty in New Delhi to protect against terrorism and keep things running smoothly.
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| | Racing Biffle wins Kansas; Johnson in points lead KANSAS CITY, Kan. (UPI) -- Greg Biffle wrested the lead with 60 laps remaining Sunday and went on to claim the Price Chopper 400 at Kansas Speedway.
Biffle kept his Sprint Cup Series championship hopes alive with the emphatic victory, while Jimmie Johnson finished second to take over the circuit's points lead from Denny Hamlin.
Biffle grabbed the lead for a second time with less than 30 laps to go after the final round of pit stops under green, finishing 7.6 seconds ahead of Johnson for his second victory of the season and the 16th of his Sprint Cup career.
Hamlin fell into second in the points standings after his 12th-place finish.
Kevin Harvick claimed third place Sunday, followed by Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon.
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| | Tennis Stosur among Beijing first-round upsets BEIJING (UPI) -- Fourth-seeded Samantha Stosur was among four upset victims Sunday in first-round play of the China Open tennis tournament in Beijing.
Anastasija Sevastova ousted Stosur 2-6, 7-6 (7-5), 7-5 turning the match around from a first set dominated by Stosur.
Stosur won more points overall (104-100) in the match, but that was because she swept through the first set in losing only 21points. Sevastova began to solve Stosur's serve and forced 10 break-point situations, winning three of them, including two in the third set.
Roberta Vinci didn't face a break point in the third set of her 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 upset of 10th-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova; Gisela Dulko used two third-set breaks in defeating No. 14-seeded Aravane Rezai 6-4, 2-6, 6-4; and Kaia Kanepi capped a 13-match schedule with a 7-5, 6-1 win over No. 16-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
Local favorite Na Li, the No. 9 seed, routed Alla Kudryavtseva 6-2, 6-0; 12th-seeded Maria Sharapova topped Tsvetana Pironkova 6-4, 7-6 (7-5); and No. 13-seeded Nadia Petrova blitzed Xinyun Han 6-2, 6-2 in advancing to the second round.
Other first-round winners Sunday were: Petra Kvitova, Bojana Jovanovski, Alisa Kleybanova, Dominka Cibulkova, Polona Hercog and Maria Kirilenko.
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