September 2008 in Sports - 25 September 2008 (Thursday)

25 September 2008 (Thursday)

• Cycling:
  • 2008 UCI Road World Championships:
    • Men's Time Trial:
      Bert Grabsch (2) Svein Tuft (3) David Zabriskie

• Baseball:
  • Major League Baseball Pennant Races:
    • American League:
      • Detroit Tigers 7, Tampa Bay Rays 5
      • Boston Red Sox 6, Cleveland Indians 1
        • The Rays fail to clinch the AL East.
      • Minnesota Twins 7, Chicago White Sox 6 (10 innings)
        • Alexi Casilla's RBI single in the bottom of the 10th completes a sweep of the Chisox, putting the Twins atop the AL Central by ½ game.
    • National League:
      • St. Louis Cardinals 12, Arizona Diamondbacks 3
        • The Los Angeles Dodgers clinched the West with the D-Backs' loss.
      • New York Mets 7, Chicago Cubs 6
        • The Mets come back from 3 runs down in the seventh inning, capped off by a walk-off RBI single from Carlos Beltrán. They close to within 1 game of the idle Philadelphia Phillies in the NL East.
      • Milwaukee Brewers 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 1 (10 innings)
        • The Brew Crew stay tied with the Mets in the NL wild card race thanks to a walk-off grand slam from Ryan Braun.
      • Houston Astros 8, Cincinnati Reds 6
        • The Astros still have a pulse in the Wild Card race, and hold off a furious Reds rally in the 9th.

• Basketball
  • 2008 UAAP men's basketball tournament finals at the Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City, Philippines
    • Ateneo Blue Eagles 62–51 De La Salle Green Archers, Ateneo wins series 2–0.

• American college football:
  • NCAA AP Top 10:
    • Oregon State 27, (1) Southern California 21
      • The national championship race is blown wide-open as the Trojans are ambushed in Corvallis for the second straight time and third in their last four visits. This is the first #1 scalp for the Beavers since the 1967 "Giant Killers" team beat a USC team featuring O. J. Simpson.