UNDATED (AP) - The major college football season kicks off
tonight with four teams in the AP Top-25 rankings seeing early
season action. Second-ranked Ohio State is home against Marshall,
No. 13 Miami takes on Florida A&M, 14th-ranked Southern California
travels to Hawaii in coach Lane Kiffin's debut with the Trojans and
15th-ranked Pittsburgh gets an early test by traveling two time
zones to play at Utah in a rematch of the 2004 Fiesta Bowl won by
the Utes.
UNDATED (AP) - It'll be a new-look 12-team Big Ten operating out
of two divisions with a championship game starting in the 2011
season. Michigan, Nebraska, Iowa, Michigan State, Minnesota and
Northwestern will make up one division while Ohio State, Penn
State, Wisconsin, Illinois, Purdue and Indiana are in the other.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - San Francisco's Tim Lincecum
(LINZ'-ih-kuhm) outdueled Colorado fireballer Ubaldo Jimenez
(oo-BAHL'-doh hih-MEHN'-ehz) and ended his career-worst personal
five-game losing streak as the Giants nipped the Rockies 2-1.
Jimenez was denied a Rockies-record 18th victory for his fifth
straight start.
CLEVELAND (AP) - Manny Ramirez got a hit in his fourth at-bat
with the Chicago White Sox in their 6-4 win over Cleveland.
Ramirez, who was batting fifth as a DH in the White Sox lineup, got
hit by a pitch in the ninth inning right after Paul Konerko hit a
go-ahead three-run home run.
NEW YORK (AP) - Last night's ouster of ninth-seed Andy Roddick,
the 2003 U.S. Open champion, leaves Roger Federer as the only past
champion still alive at the U.S. Open. Roddick lost to 44th-ranked
Janko Tipsarevic (YAHN'-koh tihp-SAYR'-oh-vihch) of Serbia 3-6,
7-5, 6-3, 7-6.
