August 2007 in Sports - 2 August 2007 (Thursday)

2 August 2007 (Thursday)

• Basketball:
  • FIBA Asia Championship quarterfinals at Tokushima, Japan:
    • Group E: Qatar 87–74 Chinese Taipei
    • Group E: Lebanon 82–60 Iran
      • Lebanon wins group E; both teams advance to the semifinals.
    • Group F: Kazakhstan 75–73 Korea – Clutch free-throws by Anton Ponomarev kept the Kazakhs in contention.
      • With Japan's defeat of Jordan, both Kazakhstan and Korea advance to the semifinals.
    • Group F: Japan 71–68 Jordan – Jordan's Rashiem Wright missed a three-pointer that could've put the game into overtime.
      • Jordan is eliminated from championship contention.

• Major League Baseball
  • A game between the Minnesota Twins and the Kansas City Royals scheduled for today at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, is postponed due to the collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge. The game the previous day began less than an hour after the actual collapse, but officials told the Twins to proceed with that game because cancelling would have sent thousands of vehicles onto the roads and hampered rescue efforts. The groundbreaking ceremony for the new Twins ballpark has also been postponed. (ESPN)