September 2008 in Sports - 30 September 2008 (Tuesday)

30 September 2008 (Tuesday)

• American football:
  • For the second time in two days, a National Football League head coach was sacked, this time Lane Kiffin of the Oakland Raiders. Tom Cable, the team's offensive line coach, was named as his interim replacement.

• Football (soccer):
  • UEFA Champions League group stage, week 2:
    • Group E: Aalborg BK 0–3 Manchester United
    • Group E: Villarreal 1–0 Celtic
    • Group F: Fiorentina 0–0 Steaua
    • Group F: Bayern 1–1 Lyon
    • Group G: Fenerbahçe 0–0 Dynamo Kyiv
    • Group G: Arsenal 4–0 Porto
    • Group H: BATE 2–2 Juventus
    • Group H: Zenit St Petersburg 1–2 Real Madrid
  • UEFA Cup, First round, Second leg:
    (first leg result in brackets)
    • CSKA Moscow 1–0 Slaven Belupo (2–1)
    • St Patrick's Athletic 0–0 Hertha Berlin (0–2)

• Baseball:
  • Major League Baseball:
    • Amreican League Central Division Playoff:
      • Chicago White Sox 1, Minnesota Twins 0
        • Jim Thome's 7th-inning solo home run sends the White Sox to face the Tampa Bay Rays in the ALDS starting on Thursday.

• Shooting:
  • 2008 ISSF World Cup Final (shotgun) in Minsk, Belarus:
    • Giovanni Pellielo (ITA) wins the world cup final in trap, and Tore Brovold (NOR) in skeet.