September 2007 in Sports - 28 September 2007 (Friday)

28 September 2007 (Friday)

• American football:
  • NCAA Division I FBS AP Top 25:
    • (18) South Florida 21, (5) West Virginia 13
      • The Bulls, a team that has only played Division I football for 10 years, take a 21–3 lead and never look back to give West Virginia its first loss of the year. To add injury to insult, Mountaineers quarterback and Heisman Trophy candidate Pat White suffers an injury in the 2nd quarter that caused him to leave the game.

• Major League Baseball:
  • American League playoff races:
    • Boston Red Sox 5, Minnesota Twins 2
    • Baltimore Orioles 10, New York Yankees 9 (10 innings)
      • The Yankees take a 9–6 lead into the bottom of the ninth, but Mariano Rivera blows the save, and Melvin Mora's bunt single in the 10th drives in the winning run and clinches the AL East for the Bosox. The Division Series are now set, with Boston playing Los Angeles and the Yankees playing Cleveland.
  • National League playoff races:
    • Philadelphia Phillies 6, Washington Nationals 0
    • Florida Marlins 7, New York Mets 4
      • The Phillies take a one-game lead in the NL East, and the Mets fall 2 games behind San Diego in the wild-card race with two games to play.
    • Chicago Cubs 6, Cincinnati Reds 0
    • San Diego Padres 6, Milwaukee Brewers 3
      • With the Brewers' loss, the Cubs win the NL Central. The Padres take a 2-game lead over the Mets for the wild card.
    • Arizona Diamondbacks 4, Colorado Rockies 2
      • The Diamondbacks end the Rockies' 11-game winning streak, stay one game ahead of San Diego, and clinch a playoff berth.
  • Other news:
    • The Houston Astros name interim manager Cecil Cooper as their permanent manager and sign him to a two-year contract. (AP via Yahoo)

• Rugby league:
  • Super League Play-Offs: Qualification Match
    • St Helens 10–8 Leeds Rhinos at Knowsley Road

• Rugby union: 2007 Rugby World Cup in France
  • Pool A: England 36–20 Tonga at Paris
    • In a winner-take-all showdown for second place and a quarterfinal date against Australia, England win comfortably, with Paul Sackey scoring two tries.