September 2007 in Sports - 13 September 2007 (Thursday)

13 September 2007 (Thursday)

• American football:
  • NCAA Division I FBS AP Top 25:
    • (4) West Virginia 31, Maryland 14
  • National Football League
    • The New England Patriots, confirmed to have spied on the New York Jets' signals with a secret video camera in their season opener, have been fined $250,000USD as a team, with their coach, Bill Belichick, being fined $500,000USD. Also, if they make the playoffs this year, they forfeit their first round draft pick, but if they miss the playoffs, they forfeit their second and third round picks.

• Basketball:
  • EuroBasket 2007 in Spain — quarterfinals
    • Russia 75–71 France
    • Spain 83–55 Germany
  • UAAP men's basketball tournament 2007 elimination round at the Araneta Coliseum.
    • FEU 74–64 UST
      • Far Eastern University avoids elimination as they force the defending champions University of Santo Tomas in a do-or-die affair to determine which team will advance to the playoffs.
    • UE 92–84 La Salle (OT)
      • The University of the East clinches the first Finals berth as they swept the elimination round, the first time a team was able to do so since 1993, by beating De La Salle University-Manila in a mostly tightly-fought contest.

• Cricket:
  • 2007 Twenty20 World Championship
    • Group A
      • Bangladesh 165/4 (18 ov.) beat West Indies 164/8 (20 ov.) by 6 wickets
        • West Indies are eliminated from the tournament. Bangladesh and South Africa go on to the super eights
    • Group B
      • England 188/9 (20 ov.) beat Zimbabwe 138/7 (20 ov.) by 50 runs
    • Group D
      • Match between India and Scotland is abandoned
        • Pakistan go on to the super eights.

• Formula One:
  • Formula One team McLaren have been excluded from the 2007 Formula One Constructors Championship and are to pay a fine of $100 million dollars as part of the 2007 Formula One espionage controversy.