October 2004 in Sports - October 21, 2004

October 21, 2004

• Baseball:
  • National League Championship Series, Game 7: The St. Louis Cardinals advance to the World Series with a 5–2 win over the Houston Astros. In the sixth inning, Albert Pujols ties the game with an RBI double, and Scott Rolen gives the Cardinals the lead for good with a two-run homer on the next pitch. Pujols is named Series MVP. (ESPN)
• Basketball: Denver Nuggets guard Carmelo Anthony is cited for possession of marijuana. (ESPN)(TheDenverChannel.com)
• Football: UEFA Cup 2004–05 Group Stage, matchday 1 (UEFA.com):
• Group A:
  • Feyenoord 3 – 0 Hearts
  • Schalke 1 – 1 FC Basel
• Group B:
  • Athletic Bilbao 2 – 0 Parma
  • Steaua Bucharest 2 – 0 Standard Liège
• Group C:
  • Real Zaragoza 2 – 0 FC Utrecht
  • Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 3 – 2 Club Brugge
• Group D:
  • Panionios 0 – 1 Newcastle United
  • Dinamo Tbilisi 0 – 2 Sochaux
• Group E:
  • Egaleo 0 – 1 Middlesbrough
  • Lazio 1 – 1 Villarreal
• Group F:
  • Auxerre 0 – 0 GAK
  • Amica Wronki 0 – 5 Rangers
• Group G:
  • Beveren 1 – 5 VfB Stuttgart
  • Benfica 4 – 2 Heerenveen
• Group H:
  • Alemannia 1 – 0 Lille
  • Zenit St. Petersburg 5 – 1 AEK Athens

• Olympics: A three-judge panel of the Court of Arbitration for Sport upholds the awarding of the gold medal in the gymnastics men's all-around to American Paul Hamm, rejecting the appeal of South Korean Yang Tae-young. (ESPN)