April 2007 in Sports - 22 April 2007 (Sunday)

22 April 2007 (Sunday)

• Baseball:
  • Manny Ramírez, J. D. Drew, Mike Lowell and Jason Varitek of the Boston Red Sox hit four consecutive home runs against New York Yankees rookie Chase Wright in the third inning of the Sox' 7–6 win. The four players are the fifth quartet in Major League history to hit consecutive homers (AP via Yahoo).

• Athletics: 2007 London Marathon
  • Men's race:

  (1) Martin Lel, 2:07:41 (2) Abderrahim Goumri, 2:07:44 (3) Felix Limo, 2:07:47

  • Women's race:

  (1) Zhou Chunxiu, 2:20:38 (2) Gete Wami, 2:21:45 (3) Constantina Tomescu, 2:23:55

  • Men's wheelchair race:

  (1) David Weir, 1:30:51

  • Women's wheelchair race:

  (1) Shelly Woods, 1:50:41

• Auto racing:
  • Champ Car: Grand Prix of Houston in Houston, Texas, USA.

  (1) Sébastien Bourdais (2) Graham Rahal (3) Robert Doornbos

• Football (soccer):
  • English Premier League 2006–07:
    • Chelsea 0–0 Newcastle United

    Chelsea restores Manchester United's 3-point lead.

    • Aston Villa 0–0 Portsmouth

    Portsmouth retains the UEFA Intertoto Cup berth over Tottenham Hotspur via goal difference.

  • Spanish La Liga 2006–07:
    • Barcelona 0–2 Villarreal
    • Athletic Bilbao 1–4 Sevilla

    Barcelona's loss and Sevilla's win closes the gap between Barca and Sevilla into a point.

    • Celta de Vigo 0–2 Real Zaragoza

    Zaragoza's win puts Celta level with Levante for the final relegation berth. Although Celta currently lead on goal difference, Celta and Levante have a match remaining at Celta—and in Spain, the first tiebreaker is head-to-head result, not goal difference (Celta and Levante drew previously).

  • Italian Serie A
    • Inter Milan 2–1 Siena
    • Atalanta 2–1 Roma

    With Roma losing coupled with an Inter win, Inter Milan wins their second successive scudetto.

  • Dutch Eredivisie
    • Ajax 5–2 Sparta
    • AZ 3–1 Heerenveen
    • FC Utrecht 1–1 PSV

    After previous leaders PSV fail to win, the Eredivisie enters its final weekend with Ajax, Arizona and PSV level on points atop the league. AZ are first on goal difference (+53), with Ajax second (+47) and PSV third (+46).

• Ice hockey:
  • Stanley Cup playoffs:
    • Detroit Red Wings 2, Calgary Flames 1, 2 OT. Red Wings win series, 4–2
  • Flames goaltender Jamie McLennan was suspended for five games, coach Jim Playfair fined $25,000 (US) and the team fined $100,000 (US) after an incident where McLennan slashed the Red Wings' Johan Franzén late in Game Five of their series. With the Flames' elimination, McLennan's suspension will extend into the Flames' first four games of the 2007–08 season.
    • New Jersey Devils 3, Tampa Bay Lightning 2. Devils win series, 4–2