August 2007 in Sports - 5 August 2007 (Sunday)

5 August 2007 (Sunday)

• Baseball: New York Mets pitcher Tom Glavine wins his 300th game, giving up two runs on six hits in 6⅓ innings in the Mets' 8–3 win over the Chicago Cubs. He is the 23rd — and perhaps last — pitcher to reach the milestone. (AP via Yahoo)

• Auto racing:
  • Formula One: Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest, Hungary.

  (1) Lewis Hamilton (2) Kimi Räikkönen (3) Nick Heidfeld

  • NASCAR: Pennsylvania 500 in Long Pond, Pennsylvania.

  (1) Kurt Busch (2) Dale Earnhardt, Jr. (3) Denny Hamlin

  • IRL: Firestone Indy 400 in Brooklyn, Michigan.

  (1) Tony Kanaan (2) Marco Andretti (3) Scott Sharp

• Football (soccer):
  • FA Community Shield:
    • Manchester United 1–1 Chelsea, Manchester United win 3–0 on penalties.

• Women's Golf:
  • Lorena Ochoa wins the Women's British Open at the Old Course at St Andrews for her first major championship. Ochoa shot +1 for a 4 day total of 287 (−5) and a 4 stroke victory over Jee Young Lee and Maria Hjorth.

• Basketball:
  • FIBA Asia Championship Final round at Tokushima, Japan:
    • 7th place: Qatar 86–82 Japan
    • 5th place: Jordan 97–74 Chinese Taipei
    • 3rd place: Korea 80–76 Kazakhstan
    • Final: Iran 74–69 Lebanon
  • FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Women at Bratislava, Slovakia:
    • Final: United States 99–57 Sweden