>> we're getting you ready for the football season. do not miss the blitz preseason special, we'll be breaking down all 32 nfl t ♪ ♪ >> coming up on espnews. coors and cable cars -- take your pick. we check in on colorado and san fran in the wild card chase. after punching an opponent, oregon's star running back gets suspended for the season. but there is a catch. brett favre didn't take any hits in friday's game -- well, except one big hit to the wallet. and, the williams sisters dance their way into the sweet 16 at the u.s. open. espnews coming your way now.

♪ captioning by captionmax >> welcome inside the espnews studios. with mike yam, anish shroff here to keep you current. we head into the labor day weekend with the rockies the wild card leader but plenty of work to do. >> anish, if you talk to colorado rockies fans they'll tell you the postseason is not right now but every game they play is absolutely crucial. heading into play, colorado came with a one-game lead in the wild card standings over san francisco, bottom seven, rockies down 4-2. not any longer. seth smith to center field. he was 4-5 with two doubles. this would score two and tie the game at 4-4. he had seven r.b.i.'s in his last seven games. bottom eighth. still the same score. pinch-hitter jason giambi, the power of the mustache. had a clutch hit on wednesday against the mets. when it's all said and done, the

rockies have now won three of their last four. franklin morales his second career save. huston street dealing with tendinitis. >> pressure on the giants. they entered friday a game behind the rockies in the wild card hunt. san fran visiting milwaukee, top eighth, 2-2 game, bengie molina. his 17th of the season. san fran goes up 3-2. he's got four r.b.i.'s in his last five games. it's the ball park not the beach. bottom nine, brian wilson gets casey mcgee to pop out, and san francisco, down 2-0 in this game, they come back for a 3-2 win. give credit to the giants bullpen. six relievers combined for five innings of three-hit ball. san fran has now won five of seven. >> trying to inch closer to the wild card spot, the braves. they have the reds. top of the sixth. brandon phillips.

r.b.i. opportunity to be had, and he comes up with it in a big way. joey votto comes in to score. reds have won a season-high five straight, 10 of their last 12. bronson arroyo -- he's dealing. a 1.17 e.r.a. over his last five starts. >> the oh, so functional marlins visiting the nats, florida entered play four out in the wild card chase, john "home run" baker, two-run shot to left, his ninth of the year. the fish beat the nats 9-6. baker 3-5. he ties a career high with four r.b.i.'s. florida has won three in a row, the nats have lost seven straight. we look at the wild card standings in the national league.

>> adam wainwright's been dominant in the second half of the season, looking to become baseball's first 17-game winner. he needs a little offense, so the machine, albert pujols, coming up big for him in the sixth, to left field, his 43rd of the year. for the career, number 362. passing joe dimaggio for 69th all time. moving to the eighth, ryan ludwick, dead center. it is gone. a three-run shot. he was 5-5, two home runs, five r.b.i.'s. it's his first career five-hit game. the cardinals, the 14 runs, that's a season high. the four home runs ties a season high, and ad-- adam wainwright allows six earned on the fifth. snaps a streak of 12 straight starts allowing two or fewer runs but he still gets the win. wainwright is one of several pitchers battling for the n.l. cy young award. tim lincecum having another great season. he's the reigning cy young winner and trying to become the first back-to-back n.l. winner since randy johnson won four straight from 1999 to 2002.

>> the college football season began thursday night. friday afternoon, it ended for oregon running back legarrette blount. the university suspended blount for the remainder of the season. in the aftermath of oregon's loss to boise state, blount was taunted by broncos defensive end byron hout. blount responded by punching hout in the face. blount did apologize. he said, "it was just something i shouldn't have done. i lost my head." blount who scored a school record 17 t.d.'s last year will remain on scholarship and will practice with the team, but for the senior, his playing days are over. >> it is my belief, and this university's belief, that playing football at the university of oregon is a privilege and with that privilege goes responsibility. legarrette blount will still be on our team. legarrette blount will just not play for us on saturdays. legarrette blount needs this football program. he needs structure. i think he's taking this very hard, and he understands that he made a mistake, and that he has to pay for that mistake, but we're not going to throw

legarrette blount out on the street. i love legarrette blount. and what i told legarrette, when we met together, was that i don't want people to see the legarrette blount that they saw last night. that's not him. and that that moment last night will not define him as a person. we will provide him with the structure that's necessary for him to succeed. he's going to practice with this football team. he's going to get the student-support services. he's going to go to class. and we're going to make sure legarrette gets a degree. and if this is a teachable moment for him, that he can bounce back from this and that legarrette blount won't just be a youtube clip of just what happened to him on september 3rd in boise, idaho. there is a lot more to legarrette blount, but he understands his actions last night are unacceptable. and that we will not put up with that. that is not the university of oregon football. that is not the university of oregon.

>> chris fowler and the "gameday" crew weigh in on blount's suspension. >> legarrette blount, who was a junior-college transfer, his career is over at oregon. it's a nightmarish situation for chip kelly in his head-coaching debut at any level, his offense was terrible. his team lost what was supposed to be a payback game. now he has to deal with this tough situation. what about the severity of the punishment against blount? >> i was actually surprised, but i guess when you think about what happened after he punched hout, and then he tried to attack a fan in the stands, i think that's what warranted a year's suspension. he's a senior.

his college career is finished. i hope that punch was worth it for blount. >> it definitely was not worth it. for oregon to have the night that they had against boise state, and then to lose their best offensive player, and as chris said, for chip kelly, who the last few years was one of the great minds in college football, all of a sudden he becomes a head coach, and he gets this thrown in his lap, oregon goes from a contender to a pretender in the pac-10. >> where they go from here interesting to watch. blount cost himself a lot of money if you believe the nfl personnel people with that one punch on thursday night. >> byron hout, the instigator in this, won't be suspended.

>> still to come on espnews, we'll tell you how the nfl punished brett favre for an illegal block. >> plus, four of the favorites to win a u.s. open title were on the hard courts. two cruised in round four while two had a hiccup. we'll tell you who did what. two hottest pitchers in baseball. @d i heard this bar is crazy.

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(men in background) let's go! dude this place is a sausage fest. alright you guys go get a cab excuse me; can i get five pounds of kielbasa? hey, you guys made it! oh look they brought food! (announcer) there are captains in every crew. calling all captains. drink responsibly. >> this one's for all the hosiery lovers out there, wild card leading red sox visiting the white sox. >> i'm a sandals guy. >> you don't wear socks? >> i thought that was in. >> what am i, 50 years old?

>> attacks's scott feldman looking to become the first rangers pitcher in more than 19 years to win seven straight away from home. he's in baltimore. need a little offense, nelson cruz, his 31st of the year. four home runs, 10 r.b.i.'s in his last six games. rangers win their fourth straight and improve to 25-17 against the a.l. east this season. feldman becomes the first rangers pitcher to reach 15 wins since kevin millwood and vicente padilla did it in 2006. >> crucial 10-game stretch for the rays -- the tigers, yanks and red sox in succession. begins with detroit, top sixth, miguel cabrera feasts on that,

his 28th of the year. tied at 1-1 at the trop. we go to the bottom of the seventh, tied at 1-1, two outs, justin verlander, 98-mile-per-hour heater gets evan longoria. verlander eight innings, one earned run, seven strikeouts. in the ninth, adam everett. tigers scored three in the top of the ninth. go up 4-1. gets interesting in the bottom of the ninth. fernando rodney gets willie aybar to ground out. tigers hold on for a 4-3 win. detroit ends a four-game losing streak at the trop. justin verlander gets his 16th win of the year. that ties him with cc sabathia of the yankees for most in the american league. here is your a.l. wild card picture -- the red sox lose, the rangers win. texas two back. tampa misses a chance. they are six back and fading fast. >> yankees looking for their eighth straight win, taking on toronto. roy halladay -- he's been struggling as of late, lost five

of his last seven. wouldn't know it, though, watching this game -- a complete-game one-hitter. he struck out nine, did halladay -- the last pitcher to throw a one-hit shutout against a team on a winning streak of seven or more games, jimmy key of the blue jays in 1986. key, by the way, did play for the yankees. the complete game was the sixth of the season for halladay tying him with kansas city's zack greinke for the major league lead. aaron hill two r.b.i.'s and six r.b.i.'s in the last six games. >> the nfl fined brett favre 10 grand for his crackback block during monday's preseason game, when lining up at receiver in the wildcat formation favre crouched down and threw his body at the feet of houston defensive back eugene wilson. on the play, wilson injured his knee. favre a spectator in the vikings preseason finale, minnesota hosting dallas, first quarter, it's tarvaris jackson.

improvising, and finds jeff dugan, his tight end. 36-yard touchdown. third t.d. pass of the preseason for jackson. he was 2-4, 42 yards and that score. third quarter, cowboys down two touchdowns, sage rosenfels picked off. patrick watkins, 23 yards. dallas within seven. 21-14. later in the third, john david booty, picked off by steve octavien. he's returning it 44 yards for the score. that tied it up at 21-21. dallas with two interception returns in the third quarter. they win 35-31. >> u.s. open tennis, number three seed rafael nadal going up against nicolas kiefer. first set, nadal up 2-0, rafa whipping that one. takes the first set 6-0. second set. kiefer up 4-2, this part of a

23-shot rally. kiefer in the second set had 18 winners, nadal 11, and kiefer wins the second set 6-3. third set, now. nadal working. kiefer at the baseline, and nadal, pumped up, breaks kiefer and wins the third set. into the fourth. match point. nadal a four-set winner. he's moving on to round number three. men's number two seed, andy murray taking on paul capdeville from chile, after winning the first set, murray having some trouble in the second, backhand winner, capdeville, murray the first man among the top-10 seeds to drop a set. third set now, murray takes control, the forehand winner -- nice. murray 44 winners in the match, cruising in the third, murray would end up winning the set 6-0.

advances to the fourth set. murray just dealing. on the hottest day of the tourney. andy moving on in four. >> venus williams battling knee trouble. she had to face slovenia's magdalena rybarikova in round three, first set venus the big forehand finish, she would take the first set 6-2, has the brace on the left knee, still. looks like the knee is not bothering venus here. great court coverage and she puts it away with the backhand volley, venus up 4-3 in the second. match point now for venus. she would finish it off at net. venus wins despite double faulting seven times. she will face kim clijsters in the fourth round -- clijsters the 2005 champ. sister serena facing maria jose martinez sanchez. they met in the french open. when they played in france, serena called sanchez a cheat. serena won the first set 6-3.

second set, serena, one of her 30 winners. this wasn't that much of a contest. serena got a little bit of a challenge in the second set, but she would take this in straight sets 6-3, 7-5. serena 28-1 in her last five majors. after the win, serena, the defending champ, said, "can't spell dynasty without nasty." coming up on espnews. we whet our appetite for college football's first saturday with a friday battle in the big easy. >> it was a rough day for tiger. see where the world's best golfer fell short. >> keeping you current on espnews. (announcer) what does greatness taste like? round of miller lite. (announcer on call) ...here it comes... watch this now... got it! my goodness!

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>> "college football overdrive is back. it's year four on espnews. every saturday from 3:00 to 8:00 eastern, we take you live to the most exciting games from across the country. we offer expert analysis from kordell stewart and shaun king. our kickoff is september 5th, 3:00 eastern on espnews. >> notable games this saturday. >> green wave just six wins >> green wave just six wins the last two seasons, taking on tulsa in a conference u.s.a. battle.

first quarter, golden hurricane up 3-0, you can add a couple more points, g.j. kinne, play action, 15-yard touchdown, quarterback had 77 yards rushing. first play of tulane's ensuing possession, joe kemp's pass picked off, tulane down to the five yard line, tulsa would score on the next play to make it 17-0. fourth quarter, damaris jackson fields the punt, 66 yards -- he is gone for the score. tulsa, they've now won five straight against the green wave making them looking more like a little splash. >> round one, deutsche bank championship from t.p.c. boston. second of four fedexcup events, tiger woods the leader in the fedexcup points standings, knocks down the birdie putt on 14, moves to even par. he struggled from short distance, though -- tiger missed five birdie putts inside 12 feet. he said, "i didn't really do much of anything positive today." he can go home with this.

on eight, tiger a 35-foot birdie attempt. bingo. he finishes the day with one under. tiger shot a 70. tiger paired up with steve stricker. after the second hole, tiger said to his caddie, "stricker's going to shoot a 62." close. stricker fired a 63. this his tee shot on 12. part of a five-birdie streak. stricker shot an eight-under 63, your first-round co-leader with jim furyk. furyk's second shot on 17. he hit every green in regulation. furyk also shot an eight-under 63 -- his lowest round of the year. tough ninth hole for lefty. phil mickelson misses the short par putt. now looking at a bogey putt the other way. he would four-putt for double bogey. lefty finishes at even par for the day. stricker and furyk your co-leaders at eight under. they have a two-shot lead, stricker seeking his third win on tour this season.

furyk seeking his first tour win since 2007. >> cliff lee coming off his >> daddies and dodgers. jim thome making his debut as a pinch-hitter. not bad for a first impression. base knock into right center puts men at the corners. dodgers down 2-0, san diego calls for its closer -- heath bell. bell would get the four-out save. gets james loney to fly out to end the threat in the eighth. pads win 2-0. san diego's won four in a >> phillies and astros. cliff lee, six earned runs allowed. he's given up now 12 earned in his last two starts. the phillies have scored only three runs in their last four games. angels and royals, the angels top kansas city. jered weaver a career high 14th win of the season.

angels only have 13 hits in their last three games. vlad guerrero, two r.b.i.'s >> if you're an offensive coordinator in the nfl, make sure that resume is up to date. friday the bills canned their o.c., turk schonert. the third offensive coordinator fired this week. bills quarterback coach alex van pelt will assume the play-calling duties for buffalo. north carolina the alumni game, dean smith, michael jordan, roy williams, who's who, 2009 championship banner unveiled, 1998, vince carter's last year wearing the uniform. a who's who list. m.j.'s on the bench. he could still do this. maybe not the dunks. >> he said everybody in the media still thinks i can play."

>> our top stories on the way. the game day" crew debates the suspension of oregon running back legarrette blount. i heard this bar is crazy. i know. this is sausage! (men in background) let's go! dude this place is a sausage fest. alright you guys go get a cab excuse me; can i get five pounds of kielbasa? hey, you guys made it! oh look they brought food! (announcer) there are captains in every crew. calling all captains. drink responsibly.

calling all captains. it's back to being hit with all the stresses of work. how was your weekend? it's day one of that 3 o'clock lull. and that guy who always asks, mind if i jump in? but monday night football is returning to espn, where adrian's moves will be making the guys in the booth say lean back! re-donk-ulous! play on playa! so relax and run steady. because on monday nights you roll with us- three deep in the booth. >> matthew berry here, from espn.com fantasy with a couple of really deep, late-round, wide receiver sleepers for you, and how about troy williamson of the

jacksonville jaguars, one of the leading receivers in the preseason and whatever you think of williamson, he's better than they had last year in jacksonville when david garrard was top 10 in the nfl in passing yards. david clowney of the jets has won that starting job off jerricho cotchery, he has under 300 yards -- i like him as a safety valve for mark sanchez. the jets are going to throw more than people think. clowney could be a nice sleeper in deep leagues. finally, a guy you want to spend -- a late-round player on malcolm kelly of the redskins. he's 6'4" and they really like him a lot. jason campbell needs that big target in the red zone and i think malcolm kelly could be it -- he's now the starter for the redskins. fantasy news available free on espn.com.

>> we're getting you ready for the football season. do not miss the blitz preseason special, we'll be breaking down all 32 nfl t ♪ ♪ >> coming up on espnews. coors and cable cars -- take your pick. we check in on colorado and san fran in the wild card chase. after punching an opponent, oregon's star running back gets suspended for the season. but there is a catch. brett favre didn't take any hits in friday's game -- well, except one big hit to the wallet. and, the williams sisters dance their way into the sweet 16 at the u.s. open. espnews coming your way now.

♪ captioning by captionmax >> welcome inside the espnews studios. with mike yam, anish shroff here to keep you current. we head into the labor day weekend with the rockies the wild card leader but plenty of work to do. >> anish, if you talk to colorado rockies fans they'll tell you the postseason is not right now but every game they play is absolutely crucial. heading into play, colorado came with a one-game lead in the wild card standings over san francisco, bottom seven, rockies down 4-2. not any longer. seth smith to center field. he was 4-5 with two doubles. this would score two and tie the game at 4-4. he had seven r.b.i.'s in his last seven games. bottom eighth. still the same score. pinch-hitter jason giambi, the power of the mustache. had a clutch hit on wednesday against the mets. when it's all said and done, the

rockies have now won three of their last four. franklin morales his second career save. huston street dealing with tendinitis. >> pressure on the giants. they entered friday a game behind the rockies in the wild card hunt. san fran visiting milwaukee, top eighth, 2-2 game, bengie molina. his 17th of the season. san fran goes up 3-2. he's got four r.b.i.'s in his last five games. it's the ball park not the beach. bottom nine, brian wilson gets casey mcgee to pop out, and san francisco, down 2-0 in this game, they come back for a 3-2 win. give credit to the giants bullpen. six relievers combined for five innings of three-hit ball. san fran has now won five of seven. >> trying to inch closer to the wild card spot, the braves. they have the reds. top of the sixth. brandon phillips.

r.b.i. opportunity to be had, and he comes up with it in a big way. joey votto comes in to score. reds have won a season-high five straight, 10 of their last 12. bronson arroyo -- he's dealing. a 1.17 e.r.a. over his last five starts. >> the oh, so functional marlins visiting the nats, florida entered play four out in the wild card chase, john "home run" baker, two-run shot to left, his ninth of the year. the fish beat the nats 9-6. baker 3-5. he ties a career high with four r.b.i.'s. florida has won three in a row, the nats have lost seven straight. we look at the wild card standings in the national league.

>> adam wainwright's been dominant in the second half of the season, looking to become baseball's first 17-game winner. he needs a little offense, so the machine, albert pujols, coming up big for him in the sixth, to left field, his 43rd of the year. for the career, number 362. passing joe dimaggio for 69th all time. moving to the eighth, ryan ludwick, dead center. it is gone. a three-run shot. he was 5-5, two home runs, five r.b.i.'s. it's his first career five-hit game. the cardinals, the 14 runs, that's a season high. the four home runs ties a season high, and ad-- adam wainwright allows six earned on the fifth. snaps a streak of 12 straight starts allowing two or fewer runs but he still gets the win. wainwright is one of several pitchers battling for the n.l. cy young award. tim lincecum having another great season. he's the reigning cy young winner and trying to become the first back-to-back n.l. winner since randy johnson won four straight from 1999 to 2002.

>> the college football season began thursday night. friday afternoon, it ended for oregon running back legarrette blount. the university suspended blount for the remainder of the season. in the aftermath of oregon's loss to boise state, blount was taunted by broncos defensive end byron hout. blount responded by punching hout in the face. blount did apologize. he said, "it was just something i shouldn't have done. i lost my head." blount who scored a school record 17 t.d.'s last year will remain on scholarship and will practice with the team, but for the senior, his playing days are over. >> it is my belief, and this university's belief, that playing football at the university of oregon is a privilege and with that privilege goes responsibility. legarrette blount will still be on our team. legarrette blount will just not play for us on saturdays. legarrette blount needs this football program. he needs structure. i think he's taking this very hard, and he understands that he made a mistake, and that he has to pay for that mistake, but we're not going to throw

legarrette blount out on the street. i love legarrette blount. and what i told legarrette, when we met together, was that i don't want people to see the legarrette blount that they saw last night. that's not him. and that that moment last night will not define him as a person. we will provide him with the structure that's necessary for him to succeed. he's going to practice with this football team. he's going to get the student-support services. he's going to go to class. and we're going to make sure legarrette gets a degree. and if this is a teachable moment for him, that he can bounce back from this and that legarrette blount won't just be a youtube clip of just what happened to him on september 3rd in boise, idaho. there is a lot more to legarrette blount, but he understands his actions last night are unacceptable. and that we will not put up with that. that is not the university of oregon football. that is not the university of oregon.

>> chris fowler and the "gameday" crew weigh in on blount's suspension. >> legarrette blount, who was a junior-college transfer, his career is over at oregon. it's a nightmarish situation for chip kelly in his head-coaching debut at any level, his offense was terrible. his team lost what was supposed to be a payback game. now he has to deal with this tough situation. what about the severity of the punishment against blount? >> i was actually surprised, but i guess when you think about what happened after he punched hout, and then he tried to attack a fan in the stands, i think that's what warranted a year's suspension. he's a senior.

his college career is finished. i hope that punch was worth it for blount. >> it definitely was not worth it. for oregon to have the night that they had against boise state, and then to lose their best offensive player, and as chris said, for chip kelly, who the last few years was one of the great minds in college football, all of a sudden he becomes a head coach, and he gets this thrown in his lap, oregon goes from a contender to a pretender in the pac-10. >> where they go from here interesting to watch. blount cost himself a lot of money if you believe the nfl personnel people with that one punch on thursday night. >> byron hout, the instigator in this, won't be suspended.

>> still to come on espnews, we'll tell you how the nfl punished brett favre for an illegal block. >> plus, four of the favorites to win a u.s. open title were on the hard courts. two cruised in round four while two had a hiccup. we'll tell you who did what. two hottest pitchers in baseball. i heard this bar is crazy. i know. this is sausage! (men in background) let's go! dude this place is a sausage fest. alright you guys go get a cab excuse me; can i get five pounds of kielbasa? hey, you guys made it! oh look they brought food! (announcer) there are captains in every crew. calling all captains. drink responsibly. and what are they talking about in that huddle? football. what are we talking about in this huddle? jason and wayne: football.

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>> this one's for all the hosiery lovers out there, wild card leading red sox visiting the white sox. >> i'm a sandals guy. >> you don't wear socks? >> i thought that was in. >> what am i, 50 years old?

>> attacks's scott feldman looking to become the first rangers pitcher in more than 19 years to win seven straight away from home. he's in baltimore. need a little offense, nelson cruz, his 31st of the year. four home runs, 10 r.b.i.'s in his last six games. rangers win their fourth straight and improve to 25-17 against the a.l. east this season. feldman becomes the first rangers pitcher to reach 15 wins since kevin millwood and vicente padilla did it in 2006. >> crucial 10-game stretch for the rays -- the tigers, yanks and red sox in succession. begins with detroit, top sixth, miguel cabrera feasts on that,

his 28th of the year. tied at 1-1 at the trop. we go to the bottom of the seventh, tied at 1-1, two outs, justin verlander, 98-mile-per-hour heater gets evan longoria. verlander eight innings, one earned run, seven strikeouts. in the ninth, adam everett. tigers scored three in the top of the ninth. go up 4-1. gets interesting in the bottom of the ninth. fernando rodney gets willie aybar to ground out. tigers hold on for a 4-3 win. detroit ends a four-game losing streak at the trop. justin verlander gets his 16th win of the year. that ties him with cc sabathia of the yankees for most in the american league. here is your a.l. wild card picture -- the red sox lose, the rangers win. texas two back. tampa misses a chance. they are six back and fading fast. >> yankees looking for their eighth straight win, taking on toronto. roy halladay -- he's been struggling as of late, lost five

of his last seven. wouldn't know it, though, watching this game -- a complete-game one-hitter. he struck out nine, did halladay -- the last pitcher to throw a one-hit shutout against a team on a winning streak of seven or more games, jimmy key of the blue jays in 1986. key, by the way, did play for the yankees. the complete game was the sixth of the season for halladay tying him with kansas city's zack greinke for the major league lead. aaron hill two r.b.i.'s and six r.b.i.'s in the last six games. >> the nfl fined brett favre 10 grand for his crackback block during monday's preseason game, when lining up at receiver in the wildcat formation favre crouched down and threw his body at the feet of houston defensive back eugene wilson. on the play, wilson injured his knee. favre a spectator in the vikings preseason finale, minnesota hosting dallas, first quarter, it's tarvaris jackson.

improvising, and finds jeff dugan, his tight end. 36-yard touchdown. third t.d. pass of the preseason for jackson. he was 2-4, 42 yards and that score. third quarter, cowboys down two touchdowns, sage rosenfels picked off. patrick watkins, 23 yards. dallas within seven. 21-14. later in the third, john david booty, picked off by steve octavien. he's returning it 44 yards for the score. that tied it up at 21-21. dallas with two interception returns in the third quarter. they win 35-31. >> u.s. open tennis, number three seed rafael nadal going up against nicolas kiefer. first set, nadal up 2-0, rafa whipping that one. takes the first set 6-0. second set. kiefer up 4-2, this part of a

23-shot rally. kiefer in the second set had 18 winners, nadal 11, and kiefer wins the second set 6-3. third set, now. nadal working. kiefer at the baseline, and nadal, pumped up, breaks kiefer and wins the third set. into the fourth. match point. nadal a four-set winner. he's moving on to round number three. men's number two seed, andy murray taking on paul capdeville from chile, after winning the first set, murray having some trouble in the second, backhand winner, capdeville, murray the first man among the top-10 seeds to drop a set. third set now, murray takes control, the forehand winner -- nice. murray 44 winners in the match, cruising in the third, murray would end up winning the set 6-0.

advances to the fourth set. murray just dealing. on the hottest day of the tourney. andy moving on in four. >> venus williams battling knee trouble. she had to face slovenia's magdalena rybarikova in round three, first set venus the big forehand finish, she would take the first set 6-2, has the brace on the left knee, still. looks like the knee is not bothering venus here. great court coverage and she puts it away with the backhand volley, venus up 4-3 in the second. match point now for venus. she would finish it off at net. venus wins despite double faulting seven times. she will face kim clijsters in the fourth round -- clijsters the 2005 champ. sister serena facing maria jose martinez sanchez. they met in the french open. when they played in france, serena called sanchez a cheat. serena won the first set 6-3.

second set, serena, one of her 30 winners. this wasn't that much of a contest. serena got a little bit of a challenge in the second set, but she would take this in straight sets 6-3, 7-5. serena 28-1 in her last five majors. after the win, serena, the defending champ, said, "can't spell dynasty without nasty." coming up on espnews. we whet our appetite for college football's first saturday with a friday battle in the big easy. >> it was a rough day for tiger. see where the world's best golfer fell short. >> keeping you current on espnews. hello! hey! hey! it's jimmy football with bud light. and i'm gonna turn your next tailgate... into an awesome-gate! it all starts right here! with these tailgate-tested treasures. natural fake grass can coozies? we got 'em! speaker in a box? kapow!

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>> "college football overdrive is back. it's year four on espnews. every saturday from 3:00 to 8:00 eastern, we take you live to the most exciting games from across the country. we offer expert analysis from kordell stewart and shaun king. our kickoff is september 5th, 3:00 eastern on espnews. >> notable games this saturday. >> green wave just six wins >> green wave just six wins the last two seasons, taking on tulsa in a conference u.s.a. battle.

first quarter, golden hurricane up 3-0, you can add a couple more points, g.j. kinne, play action, 15-yard touchdown, quarterback had 77 yards rushing. first play of tulane's ensuing possession, joe kemp's pass picked off, tulane down to the five yard line, tulsa would score on the next play to make it 17-0. fourth quarter, damaris jackson fields the punt, 66 yards -- he is gone for the score. tulsa, they've now won five straight against the green wave making them looking more like a little splash. >> round one, deutsche bank championship from t.p.c. boston. second of four fedexcup events, tiger woods the leader in the fedexcup points standings, knocks down the birdie putt on 14, moves to even par. he struggled from short distance, though -- tiger missed five birdie putts inside 12 feet. he said, "i didn't really do much of anything positive today." he can go home with this.

on eight, tiger a 35-foot birdie attempt. bingo. he finishes the day with one under. tiger shot a 70. tiger paired up with steve stricker. after the second hole, tiger said to his caddie, "stricker's going to shoot a 62." close. stricker fired a 63. this his tee shot on 12. part of a five-birdie streak. stricker shot an eight-under 63, your first-round co-leader with jim furyk. furyk's second shot on 17. he hit every green in regulation. furyk also shot an eight-under 63 -- his lowest round of the year. tough ninth hole for lefty. phil mickelson misses the short par putt. now looking at a bogey putt the other way. he would four-putt for double bogey. lefty finishes at even par for the day. stricker and furyk your co-leaders at eight under. they have a two-shot lead, stricker seeking his third win on tour this season.

furyk seeking his first tour win since 2007. >> cliff lee coming off his >> daddies and dodgers. jim thome making his debut as a pinch-hitter. not bad for a first impression. base knock into right center puts men at the corners. dodgers down 2-0, san diego calls for its closer -- heath bell. bell would get the four-out save. gets james loney to fly out to end the threat in the eighth. pads win 2-0. san diego's won four in a >> phillies and astros. cliff lee, six earned runs allowed. he's given up now 12 earned in his last two starts. the phillies have scored only three runs in their last four games. angels and royals, the angels top kansas city. jered weaver a career high 14th win of the season.

angels only have 13 hits in their last three games. vlad guerrero, two r.b.i.'s >> if you're an offensive coordinator in the nfl, make sure that resume is up to date. friday the bills canned their o.c., turk schonert. the third offensive coordinator fired this week. bills quarterback coach alex van pelt will assume the play-calling duties for buffalo. north carolina the alumni game, dean smith, michael jordan, roy williams, who's who, 2009 championship banner unveiled, 1998, vince carter's last year wearing the uniform. a who's who list. m.j.'s on the bench. he could still do this. maybe not the dunks. >> he said everybody in the media still thinks i can play."

>> our top stories on the way. the game day" crew debates the suspension of oregon running back legarrette blount. i heard this bar is crazy.

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excuse me; can i get five pounds of kielbasa? hey, you guys made it! oh look they brought food! (announcer) there are captains in every crew. calling all captains. drink responsibly. >> matthew berry here, from espn.com fantasy with a couple of really deep, late-round, wide receiver sleepers for you, and how about troy williamson of the

jacksonville jaguars, one of the leading receivers in the preseason and whatever you think of williamson, he's better than they had last year in jacksonville when david garrard was top 10 in the nfl in passing yards. david clowney of the jets has won that starting job off jerricho cotchery, he has under 300 yards -- i like him as a safety valve for mark sanchez. the jets are going to throw more than people think. clowney could be a nice sleeper in deep leagues. finally, a guy you want to spend -- a late-round player on malcolm kelly of the redskins. he's 6'4" and they really like him a lot. jason campbell needs that big target in the red zone and i think malcolm kelly could be it -- he's now the starter for the redskins. fantasy news available free on espn.com.

>> we're getting you ready for the football season. do not miss the blitz preseason special, we'll be breaking down all 32 nfl t ♪ ♪ >> coming up on espnews. coors and cable cars -- take your pick. we check in on colorado and san fran in the wild card chase. after punching an opponent, oregon's star running back gets suspended for the season. but there is a catch. brett favre didn't take any hits in friday's game -- well, except one big hit to the wallet. and, the williams sisters dance their way into the sweet 16 at the u.s. open. espnews coming your way now.

♪ captioning by captionmax >> welcome inside the espnews studios. with mike yam, anish shroff here to keep you current. we head into the labor day weekend with the rockies the wild card leader but plenty of work to do. >> anish, if you talk to colorado rockies fans they'll tell you the postseason is not right now but every game they play is absolutely crucial. heading into play, colorado came with a one-game lead in the wild card standings over san francisco, bottom seven, rockies down 4-2. not any longer. seth smith to center field. he was 4-5 with two doubles. this would score two and tie the game at 4-4. he had seven r.b.i.'s in his last seven games. bottom eighth. still the same score. pinch-hitter jason giambi, the power of the mustache. had a clutch hit on wednesday against the mets. when it's all said and done, the

rockies have now won three of their last four. franklin morales his second career save. huston street dealing with tendinitis. >> pressure on the giants. they entered friday a game behind the rockies in the wild card hunt. san fran visiting milwaukee, top eighth, 2-2 game, bengie molina. his 17th of the season. san fran goes up 3-2. he's got four r.b.i.'s in his last five games. it's the ball park not the beach. bottom nine, brian wilson gets casey mcgee to pop out, and san francisco, down 2-0 in this game, they come back for a 3-2 win. give credit to the giants bullpen. six relievers combined for five innings of three-hit ball. san fran has now won five of seven. >> trying to inch closer to the wild card spot, the braves. they have the reds. top of the sixth. brandon phillips.

r.b.i. opportunity to be had, and he comes up with it in a big way. joey votto comes in to score. reds have won a season-high five straight, 10 of their last 12. bronson arroyo -- he's dealing. a 1.17 e.r.a. over his last five starts. >> the oh, so functional marlins visiting the nats, florida entered play four out in the wild card chase, john "home run" baker, two-run shot to left, his ninth of the year. the fish beat the nats 9-6. baker 3-5. he ties a career high with four r.b.i.'s. florida has won three in a row, the nats have lost seven straight. we look at the wild card standings in the national league.

>> adam wainwright's been dominant in the second half of the season, looking to become baseball's first 17-game winner. he needs a little offense, so the machine, albert pujols, coming up big for him in the sixth, to left field, his 43rd of the year. for the career, number 362. passing joe dimaggio for 69th all time. moving to the eighth, ryan ludwick, dead center. it is gone. a three-run shot. he was 5-5, two home runs, five r.b.i.'s. it's his first career five-hit game. the cardinals, the 14 runs, that's a season high. the four home runs ties a season high, and ad-- adam wainwright allows six earned on the fifth. snaps a streak of 12 straight starts allowing two or fewer runs but he still gets the win. wainwright is one of several pitchers battling for the n.l. cy young award. tim lincecum having another great season. he's the reigning cy young winner and trying to become the first back-to-back n.l. winner since randy johnson won four straight from 1999 to 2002.

>> the college football season began thursday night. friday afternoon, it ended for oregon running back legarrette blount. the university suspended blount for the remainder of the season. in the aftermath of oregon's loss to boise state, blount was taunted by broncos defensive end byron hout. blount responded by punching hout in the face. blount did apologize. he said, "it was just something i shouldn't have done. i lost my head." blount who scored a school record 17 t.d.'s last year will remain on scholarship and will practice with the team, but for the senior, his playing days are over. >> it is my belief, and this university's belief, that playing football at the university of oregon is a privilege and with that privilege goes responsibility. legarrette blount will still be on our team. legarrette blount will just not play for us on saturdays. legarrette blount needs this football program. he needs structure. i think he's taking this very hard, and he understands that he made a mistake, and that he has to pay for that mistake, but we're not going to throw

legarrette blount out on the street. i love legarrette blount. and what i told legarrette, when we met together, was that i don't want people to see the legarrette blount that they saw last night. that's not him. and that that moment last night will not define him as a person. we will provide him with the structure that's necessary for him to succeed. he's going to practice with this football team. he's going to get the student-support services. he's going to go to class. and we're going to make sure legarrette gets a degree. and if this is a teachable moment for him, that he can bounce back from this and that legarrette blount won't just be a youtube clip of just what happened to him on september 3rd in boise, idaho. there is a lot more to legarrette blount, but he understands his actions last night are unacceptable. and that we will not put up with that. that is not the university of oregon football. that is not the university of oregon.

>> chris fowler and the "gameday" crew weigh in on blount's suspension. >> legarrette blount, who was a junior-college transfer, his career is over at oregon. it's a nightmarish situation for chip kelly in his head-coaching debut at any level, his offense was terrible. his team lost what was supposed to be a payback game. now he has to deal with this tough situation. what about the severity of the punishment against blount? >> i was actually surprised, but i guess when you think about what happened after he punched hout, and then he tried to attack a fan in the stands, i think that's what warranted a year's suspension. he's a senior.

his college career is finished. i hope that punch was worth it for blount. >> it definitely was not worth it. for oregon to have the night that they had against boise state, and then to lose their best offensive player, and as chris said, for chip kelly, who the last few years was one of the great minds in college football, all of a sudden he becomes a head coach, and he gets this thrown in his lap, oregon goes from a contender to a pretender in the pac-10. >> where they go from here interesting to watch. blount cost himself a lot of money if you believe the nfl personnel people with that one punch on thursday night. >> byron hout, the instigator in this, won't be suspended.

>> still to come on espnews, we'll tell you how the nfl punished brett favre for an illegal block. >> plus, four of the favorites to win a u.s. open title were on the hard courts. two cruised in round four while two had a hiccup. we'll tell you who did what. two hottest pitchers in baseball. i heard this bar is crazy.

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>> this one's for all the hosiery lovers out there, wild card leading red sox visiting the white sox. >> i'm a sandals guy. >> you don't wear socks? >> i thought that was in. >> what am i, 50 years old?

>> attacks's scott feldman looking to become the first rangers pitcher in more than 19 years to win seven straight away from home. he's in baltimore. need a little offense, nelson cruz, his 31st of the year. four home runs, 10 r.b.i.'s in his last six games. rangers win their fourth straight and improve to 25-17 against the a.l. east this season. feldman becomes the first rangers pitcher to reach 15 wins since kevin millwood and vicente padilla did it in 2006. >> crucial 10-game stretch for the rays -- the tigers, yanks and red sox in succession. begins with detroit, top sixth, miguel cabrera feasts on that,

his 28th of the year. tied at 1-1 at the trop. we go to the bottom of the seventh, tied at 1-1, two outs, justin verlander, 98-mile-per-hour heater gets evan longoria. verlander eight innings, one earned run, seven strikeouts. in the ninth, adam everett. tigers scored three in the top of the ninth. go up 4-1. gets interesting in the bottom of the ninth. fernando rodney gets willie aybar to ground out. tigers hold on for a 4-3 win. detroit ends a four-game losing streak at the trop. justin verlander gets his 16th win of the year. that ties him with cc sabathia of the yankees for most in the american league. here is your a.l. wild card picture -- the red sox lose, the rangers win. texas two back. tampa misses a chance. they are six back and fading fast. >> yankees looking for their eighth straight win, taking on toronto. roy halladay -- he's been struggling as of late, lost five

of his last seven. wouldn't know it, though, watching this game -- a complete-game one-hitter. he struck out nine, did halladay -- the last pitcher to throw a one-hit shutout against a team on a winning streak of seven or more games, jimmy key of the blue jays in 1986. key, by the way, did play for the yankees. the complete game was the sixth of the season for halladay tying him with kansas city's zack greinke for the major league lead. aaron hill two r.b.i.'s and six r.b.i.'s in the last six games. >> the nfl fined brett favre 10 grand for his crackback block during monday's preseason game, when lining up at receiver in the wildcat formation favre crouched down and threw his body at the feet of houston defensive back eugene wilson. on the play, wilson injured his knee. favre a spectator in the vikings preseason finale, minnesota hosting dallas, first quarter, it's tarvaris jackson.

improvising, and finds jeff dugan, his tight end. 36-yard touchdown. third t.d. pass of the preseason for jackson. he was 2-4, 42 yards and that score. third quarter, cowboys down two touchdowns, sage rosenfels picked off. patrick watkins, 23 yards. dallas within seven. 21-14. later in the third, john david booty, picked off by steve octavien. he's returning it 44 yards for the score. that tied it up at 21-21. dallas with two interception returns in the third quarter. they win 35-31. >> u.s. open tennis, number three seed rafael nadal going up against nicolas kiefer. first set, nadal up 2-0, rafa whipping that one. takes the first set 6-0. second set. kiefer up 4-2, this part of a

23-shot rally. kiefer in the second set had 18 winners, nadal 11, and kiefer wins the second set 6-3. third set, now. nadal working. kiefer at the baseline, and nadal, pumped up, breaks kiefer and wins the third set. into the fourth. match point. nadal a four-set winner. he's moving on to round number three. men's number two seed, andy murray taking on paul capdeville from chile, after winning the first set, murray having some trouble in the second, backhand winner, capdeville, murray the first man among the top-10 seeds to drop a set. third set now, murray takes control, the forehand winner -- nice. murray 44 winners in the match, cruising in the third, murray would end up winning the set 6-0.

advances to the fourth set. murray just dealing. on the hottest day of the tourney. andy moving on in four. >> venus williams battling knee trouble. she had to face slovenia's magdalena rybarikova in round three, first set venus the big forehand finish, she would take the first set 6-2, has the brace on the left knee, still. looks like the knee is not bothering venus here. great court coverage and she puts it away with the backhand volley, venus up 4-3 in the second. match point now for venus. she would finish it off at net. venus wins despite double faulting seven times. she will face kim clijsters in the fourth round -- clijsters the 2005 champ. sister serena facing maria jose martinez sanchez. they met in the french open. when they played in france, serena called sanchez a cheat. serena won the first set 6-3.

second set, serena, one of her 30 winners. this wasn't that much of a contest. serena got a little bit of a challenge in the second set, but she would take this in straight sets 6-3, 7-5. serena 28-1 in her last five majors. after the win, serena, the defending champ, said, "can't spell dynasty without nasty." coming up on espnews. we whet our appetite for college football's first saturday with a friday battle in the big easy. >> it was a rough day for tiger. see where the world's best golfer fell short. >> keeping you current on espnews. hey, it's jimmy football, hey. do you know what's wrong with your cooler? i'll tell you what. it's not a grill. i want you to say hello to the bud light grooler! it's a grill and a cooler. ring, ring, ring, ring. it's the future. are we here? ( crowd gasps )

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>> "college football overdrive is back. it's year four on espnews. every saturday from 3:00 to 8:00 eastern, we take you live to the most exciting games from across the country. we offer expert analysis from kordell stewart and shaun king. our kickoff is september 5th, 3:00 eastern on espnews. >> notable games this saturday. >> green wave just six wins >> green wave just six wins the last two seasons, taking on tulsa in a conference u.s.a. battle.

first quarter, golden hurricane up 3-0, you can add a couple more points, g.j. kinne, play action, 15-yard touchdown, quarterback had 77 yards rushing. first play of tulane's ensuing possession, joe kemp's pass picked off, tulane down to the five yard line, tulsa would score on the next play to make it 17-0. fourth quarter, damaris jackson fields the punt, 66 yards -- he is gone for the score. tulsa, they've now won five straight against the green wave making them looking more like a little splash. >> round one, deutsche bank championship from t.p.c. boston. second of four fedexcup events, tiger woods the leader in the fedexcup points standings, knocks down the birdie putt on 14, moves to even par. he struggled from short distance, though -- tiger missed five birdie putts inside 12 feet. he said, "i didn't really do much of anything positive today." he can go home with this.

on eight, tiger a 35-foot birdie attempt. bingo. he finishes the day with one under. tiger shot a 70. tiger paired up with steve stricker. after the second hole, tiger said to his caddie, "stricker's going to shoot a 62." close. stricker fired a 63. this his tee shot on 12. part of a five-birdie streak. stricker shot an eight-under 63, your first-round co-leader with jim furyk. furyk's second shot on 17. he hit every green in regulation. furyk also shot an eight-under 63 -- his lowest round of the year. tough ninth hole for lefty. phil mickelson misses the short par putt. now looking at a bogey putt the other way. he would four-putt for double bogey. lefty finishes at even par for the day. stricker and furyk your co-leaders at eight under. they have a two-shot lead, stricker seeking his third win on tour this season.

furyk seeking his first tour win since 2007. >> cliff lee coming off his >> daddies and dodgers. jim thome making his debut as a pinch-hitter. not bad for a first impression. base knock into right center puts men at the corners. dodgers down 2-0, san diego calls for its closer -- heath bell. bell would get the four-out save. gets james loney to fly out to end the threat in the eighth. pads win 2-0. san diego's won four in a >> phillies and astros. cliff lee, six earned runs allowed. he's given up now 12 earned in his last two starts. the phillies have scored only three runs in their last four games. angels and royals, the angels top kansas city. jered weaver a career high 14th win of the season.

angels only have 13 hits in their last three games. vlad guerrero, two r.b.i.'s >> if you're an offensive coordinator in the nfl, make sure that resume is up to date. friday the bills canned their o.c., turk schonert. the third offensive coordinator fired this week. bills quarterback coach alex van pelt will assume the play-calling duties for buffalo. north carolina the alumni game, dean smith, michael jordan, roy williams, who's who, 2009 championship banner unveiled, 1998, vince carter's last year wearing the uniform. a who's who list. m.j.'s on the bench. he could still do this. maybe not the dunks. >> he said everybody in the media still thinks i can play."

>> our top stories on the way. the game day" crew debates the suspension of oregon running back legarrette blount. i heard this bar is crazy. i know. this is sausage! (men in background) let's go! dude this place is a sausage fest. alright you guys go get a cab excuse me; can i get five pounds of kielbasa? hey, you guys made it! oh look they brought food! (announcer) there are captains in every crew. calling all captains. drink responsibly.

calling all captains. it's back to being hit with all the stresses of work. how was your weekend? it's day one of that 3 o'clock lull. and that guy who always asks, mind if i jump in? but monday night football is returning to espn, where adrian's moves will be making the guys in the booth say lean back! re-donk-ulous! play on playa! so relax and run steady. because on monday nights you roll with us- three deep in the booth. >> matthew berry here, from espn.com fantasy with a couple of really deep, late-round, wide receiver sleepers for you, and how about troy williamson of the

jacksonville jaguars, one of the leading receivers in the preseason and whatever you think of williamson, he's better than they had last year in jacksonville when david garrard was top 10 in the nfl in passing yards. david clowney of the jets has won that starting job off jerricho cotchery, he has under 300 yards -- i like him as a safety valve for mark sanchez. the jets are going to throw more than people think. clowney could be a nice sleeper in deep leagues. finally, a guy you want to spend -- a late-round player on malcolm kelly of the redskins. he's 6'4" and they really like him a lot. jason campbell needs that big target in the red zone and i think malcolm kelly could be it -- he's now the starter for the redskins. fantasy news available free on espn.com.

>> we're getting you ready for the football season. do not miss the blitz preseason special, we'll be breaking down all 32 nfl t ♪ ♪ >> coming up on espnews. coors and cable cars -- take your pick. we check in on colorado and san fran in the wild card chase. after punching an opponent, oregon's star running back gets suspended for the season. but there is a catch. brett favre didn't take any hits in friday's game -- well, except one big hit to the wallet. and, the williams sisters dance their way into the sweet 16 at the u.s. open. espnews coming your way now.

♪ captioning by captionmax >> welcome inside the espnews studios. with mike yam, anish shroff here to keep you current. we head into the labor day weekend with the rockies the wild card leader but plenty of work to do. >> anish, if you talk to colorado rockies fans they'll tell you the postseason is not right now but every game they play is absolutely crucial. heading into play, colorado came with a one-game lead in the wild card standings over san francisco, bottom seven, rockies down 4-2. not any longer. seth smith to center field. he was 4-5 with two doubles. this would score two and tie the game at 4-4. he had seven r.b.i.'s in his last seven games. bottom eighth. still the same score. pinch-hitter jason giambi, the power of the mustache. had a clutch hit on wednesday against the mets. when it's all said and done, the

rockies have now won three of their last four. franklin morales his second career save. huston street dealing with tendinitis. >> pressure on the giants. they entered friday a game behind the rockies in the wild card hunt. san fran visiting milwaukee, top eighth, 2-2 game, bengie molina. his 17th of the season. san fran goes up 3-2. he's got four r.b.i.'s in his last five games. it's the ball park not the beach. bottom nine, brian wilson gets casey mcgee to pop out, and san francisco, down 2-0 in this game, they come back for a 3-2 win. give credit to the giants bullpen. six relievers combined for five innings of three-hit ball. san fran has now won five of seven. >> trying to inch closer to the wild card spot, the braves. they have the reds. top of the sixth. brandon phillips.

r.b.i. opportunity to be had, and he comes up with it in a big way. joey votto comes in to score. reds have won a season-high five straight, 10 of their last 12. bronson arroyo -- he's dealing. a 1.17 e.r.a. over his last five starts. >> the oh, so functional marlins visiting the nats, florida entered play four out in the wild card chase, john "home run" baker, two-run shot to left, his ninth of the year. the fish beat the nats 9-6. baker 3-5. he ties a career high with four r.b.i.'s. florida has won three in a row, the nats have lost seven straight. we look at the wild card standings in the national league.

>> adam wainwright's been dominant in the second half of the season, looking to become baseball's first 17-game winner. he needs a little offense, so the machine, albert pujols, coming up big for him in the sixth, to left field, his 43rd of the year. for the career, number 362. passing joe dimaggio for 69th all time. moving to the eighth, ryan ludwick, dead center. it is gone. a three-run shot. he was 5-5, two home runs, five r.b.i.'s. it's his first career five-hit game. the cardinals, the 14 runs, that's a season high. the four home runs ties a season high, and ad-- adam wainwright allows six earned on the fifth. snaps a streak of 12 straight starts allowing two or fewer runs but he still gets the win. wainwright is one of several pitchers battling for the n.l. cy young award. tim lincecum having another great season. he's the reigning cy young winner and trying to become the first back-to-back n.l. winner since randy johnson won four straight from 1999 to 2002.

>> the college football season began thursday night. friday afternoon, it ended for oregon running back legarrette blount. the university suspended blount for the remainder of the season. in the aftermath of oregon's loss to boise state, blount was taunted by broncos defensive end byron hout. blount responded by punching hout in the face. blount did apologize. he said, "it was just something i shouldn't have done. i lost my head." blount who scored a school record 17 t.d.'s last year will remain on scholarship and will practice with the team, but for the senior, his playing days are over. >> it is my belief, and this university's belief, that playing football at the university of oregon is a privilege and with that privilege goes responsibility. legarrette blount will still be on our team. legarrette blount will just not play for us on saturdays. legarrette blount needs this football program. he needs structure. i think he's taking this very hard, and he understands that he made a mistake, and that he has to pay for that mistake, but we're not going to throw

legarrette blount out on the street. i love legarrette blount. and what i told legarrette, when we met together, was that i don't want people to see the legarrette blount that they saw last night. that's not him. and that that moment last night will not define him as a person. we will provide him with the structure that's necessary for him to succeed. he's going to practice with this football team. he's going to get the student-support services. he's going to go to class. and we're going to make sure legarrette gets a degree. and if this is a teachable moment for him, that he can bounce back from this and that legarrette blount won't just be a youtube clip of just what happened to him on september 3rd in boise, idaho. there is a lot more to legarrette blount, but he understands his actions last night are unacceptable. and that we will not put up with that. that is not the university of oregon football. that is not the university of oregon.

>> chris fowler and the "gameday" crew weigh in on blount's suspension. >> legarrette blount, who was a junior-college transfer, his career is over at oregon. it's a nightmarish situation for chip kelly in his head-coaching debut at any level, his offense was terrible. his team lost what was supposed to be a payback game. now he has to deal with this tough situation. what about the severity of the punishment against blount? >> i was actually surprised, but i guess when you think about what happened after he punched hout, and then he tried to attack a fan in the stands, i think that's what warranted a year's suspension. he's a senior.

his college career is finished. i hope that punch was worth it for blount. >> it definitely was not worth it. for oregon to have the night that they had against boise state, and then to lose their best offensive player, and as chris said, for chip kelly, who the last few years was one of the great minds in college football, all of a sudden he becomes a head coach, and he gets this thrown in his lap, oregon goes from a contender to a pretender in the pac-10. >> where they go from here interesting to watch. blount cost himself a lot of money if you believe the nfl personnel people with that one punch on thursday night. >> byron hout, the instigator in this, won't be suspended.

>> still to come on espnews, we'll tell you how the nfl punished brett favre for an illegal block. >> plus, four of the favorites to win a u.s. open title were on the hard courts. two cruised in round four while two had a hiccup. we'll tell you who did what. two hottest pitchers in baseball. i heard this bar is crazy. i know. this is sausage! (men in background) let's go! dude this place is a sausage fest. alright you guys go get a cab excuse me; can i get five pounds of kielbasa? hey, you guys made it! oh look they brought food! (announcer) there are captains in every crew. calling all captains. drink responsibly.

>> this one's for all the hosiery lovers out there, wild card leading red sox visiting the white sox. >> i'm a sandals guy. >> you don't wear socks? >> i thought that was in. >> what am i, 50 years old?

>> attacks's scott feldman looking to become the first rangers pitcher in more than 19 years to win seven straight away from home. he's in baltimore. need a little offense, nelson cruz, his 31st of the year. four home runs, 10 r.b.i.'s in his last six games. rangers win their fourth straight and improve to 25-17 against the a.l. east this season. feldman becomes the first rangers pitcher to reach 15 wins since kevin millwood and vicente padilla did it in 2006. >> crucial 10-game stretch for the rays -- the tigers, yanks and red sox in succession. begins with detroit, top sixth, miguel cabrera feasts on that,

his 28th of the year. tied at 1-1 at the trop. we go to the bottom of the seventh, tied at 1-1, two outs, justin verlander, 98-mile-per-hour heater gets evan longoria. verlander eight innings, one earned run, seven strikeouts. in the ninth, adam everett. tigers scored three in the top of the ninth. go up 4-1. gets interesting in the bottom of the ninth. fernando rodney gets willie aybar to ground out. tigers hold on for a 4-3 win. detroit ends a four-game losing streak at the trop. justin verlander gets his 16th win of the year. that ties him with cc sabathia of the yankees for most in the american league. here is your a.l. wild card picture -- the red sox lose, the rangers win. texas two back. tampa misses a chance. they are six back and fading fast. >> yankees looking for their eighth straight win, taking on toronto. roy halladay -- he's been struggling as of late, lost five

of his last seven. wouldn't know it, though, watching this game -- a complete-game one-hitter. he struck out nine, did halladay -- the last pitcher to throw a one-hit shutout against a team on a winning streak of seven or more games, jimmy key of the blue jays in 1986. key, by the way, did play for the yankees. the complete game was the sixth of the season for halladay tying him with kansas city's zack greinke for the major league lead. aaron hill two r.b.i.'s and six r.b.i.'s in the last six games. >> the nfl fined brett favre 10 grand for his crackback block during monday's preseason game, when lining up at receiver in the wildcat formation favre crouched down and threw his body at the feet of houston defensive back eugene wilson. on the play, wilson injured his knee. favre a spectator in the vikings preseason finale, minnesota hosting dallas, first quarter, it's tarvaris jackson.

improvising, and finds jeff dugan, his tight end. 36-yard touchdown. third t.d. pass of the preseason for jackson. he was 2-4, 42 yards and that score. third quarter, cowboys down two touchdowns, sage rosenfels picked off. patrick watkins, 23 yards. dallas within seven. 21-14. later in the third, john david booty, picked off by steve octavien. he's returning it 44 yards for the score. that tied it up at 21-21. dallas with two interception returns in the third quarter. they win 35-31. >> u.s. open tennis, number three seed rafael nadal going up against nicolas kiefer. first set, nadal up 2-0, rafa whipping that one. takes the first set 6-0. second set. kiefer up 4-2, this part of a

23-shot rally. kiefer in the second set had 18 winners, nadal 11, and kiefer wins the second set 6-3. third set, now. nadal working. kiefer at the baseline, and nadal, pumped up, breaks kiefer and wins the third set. into the fourth. match point. nadal a four-set winner. he's moving on to round number three. men's number two seed, andy murray taking on paul capdeville from chile, after winning the first set, murray having some trouble in the second, backhand winner, capdeville, murray the first man among the top-10 seeds to drop a set. third set now, murray takes control, the forehand winner -- nice. murray 44 winners in the match, cruising in the third, murray would end up winning the set 6-0.

advances to the fourth set. murray just dealing. on the hottest day of the tourney. andy moving on in four. >> venus williams battling knee trouble. she had to face slovenia's magdalena rybarikova in round three, first set venus the big forehand finish, she would take the first set 6-2, has the brace on the left knee, still. looks like the knee is not bothering venus here. great court coverage and she puts it away with the backhand volley, venus up 4-3 in the second. match point now for venus. she would finish it off at net. venus wins despite double faulting seven times. she will face kim clijsters in the fourth round -- clijsters the 2005 champ. sister serena facing maria jose martinez sanchez. they met in the french open. when they played in france, serena called sanchez a cheat. serena won the first set 6-3.

second set, serena, one of her 30 winners. this wasn't that much of a contest. serena got a little bit of a challenge in the second set, but she would take this in straight sets 6-3, 7-5. serena 28-1 in her last five majors. after the win, serena, the defending champ, said, "can't spell dynasty without nasty." coming up on espnews. we whet our appetite for college football's first saturday with a friday battle in the big easy. >> it was a rough day for tiger. see where the world's best golfer fell short. >> keeping you current on espnews. (announcer) what does greatness taste like?

a miller lite. (announcer on call) ...he throws it across the field. he's got something! 30...40...50...he's got it! 40! he's got it! 20...10...he's got it! 5!...endzone! touch down! there are no flags on the field! it's a miracle! (announcer) that's what greatness tastes like. triple hops brewed. great pilsner taste. miller lite. taste greatness.

>> "college football overdrive is back. it's year four on espnews. every saturday from 3:00 to 8:00 eastern, we take you live to the most exciting games from across the country. we offer expert analysis from kordell stewart and shaun king. our kickoff is september 5th, 3:00 eastern on espnews. >> notable games this saturday. >> green wave just six wins >> green wave just six wins the last two seasons, taking on tulsa in a conference u.s.a. battle.

first quarter, golden hurricane up 3-0, you can add a couple more points, g.j. kinne, play action, 15-yard touchdown, quarterback had 77 yards rushing. first play of tulane's ensuing possession, joe kemp's pass picked off, tulane down to the five yard line, tulsa would score on the next play to make it 17-0. fourth quarter, damaris jackson fields the punt, 66 yards -- he is gone for the score. tulsa, they've now won five straight against the green wave making them looking more like a little splash. >> round one, deutsche bank championship from t.p.c. boston. second of four fedexcup events, tiger woods the leader in the fedexcup points standings, knocks down the birdie putt on 14, moves to even par. he struggled from short distance, though -- tiger missed five birdie putts inside 12 feet. he said, "i didn't really do much of anything positive today." he can go home with this.

on eight, tiger a 35-foot birdie attempt. bingo. he finishes the day with one under. tiger shot a 70. tiger paired up with steve stricker. after the second hole, tiger said to his caddie, "stricker's going to shoot a 62." close. stricker fired a 63. this his tee shot on 12. part of a five-birdie streak. stricker shot an eight-under 63, your first-round co-leader with jim furyk. furyk's second shot on 17. he hit every green in regulation. furyk also shot an eight-under 63 -- his lowest round of the year. tough ninth hole for lefty. phil mickelson misses the short par putt. now looking at a bogey putt the other way. he would four-putt for double bogey. lefty finishes at even par for the day. stricker and furyk your co-leaders at eight under. they have a two-shot lead, stricker seeking his third win on tour this season.

furyk seeking his first tour win since 2007. >> cliff lee coming off his >> daddies and dodgers. jim thome making his debut as a pinch-hitter. not bad for a first impression. base knock into right center puts men at the corners. dodgers down 2-0, san diego calls for its closer -- heath bell. bell would get the four-out save. gets james loney to fly out to end the threat in the eighth. pads win 2-0. san diego's won four in a >> phillies and astros. cliff lee, six earned runs allowed. he's given up now 12 earned in his last two starts. the phillies have scored only three runs in their last four games. angels and royals, the angels top kansas city. jered weaver a career high 14th win of the season.

angels only have 13 hits in their last three games. vlad guerrero, two r.b.i.'s >> if you're an offensive coordinator in the nfl, make sure that resume is up to date. friday the bills canned their o.c., turk schonert. the third offensive coordinator fired this week. bills quarterback coach alex van pelt will assume the play-calling duties for buffalo. north carolina the alumni game, dean smith, michael jordan, roy williams, who's who, 2009 championship banner unveiled, 1998, vince carter's last year wearing the uniform. a who's who list. m.j.'s on the bench. he could still do this. maybe not the dunks. >> he said everybody in the media still thinks i can play."

>> our top stories on the way. the game day" crew debates the suspension of oregon running back legarrette blount. i heard this bar is crazy. i know. this is sausage! (men in background) let's go! dude this place is a sausage fest. alright you guys go get a cab

excuse me; can i get five pounds of kielbasa? hey, you guys made it! oh look they brought food! (announcer) there are captains in every crew. calling all captains. drink responsibly.

monday. the longest day of the week. which gives you time to reflect on your unfortunate job history. he looks like a villain from a soap opera. boss: (clears throat) but with monday comes monday night football on espn. which is the closest you'll ever get to your dream job... what? i cut the sleeves off because it looks awesome... get your head in the game! so keep that day job. because on monday nights, football does all the work. >> matthew berry here, from espn.com fantasy with a couple of really deep, late-round, wide receiver sleepers for you, and how about troy williamson of the

jacksonville jaguars, one of the leading receivers in the preseason and whatever you think of williamson, he's better than they had last year in jacksonville when david garrard was top 10 in the nfl in passing yards. david clowney of the jets has won that starting job off jerricho cotchery, he has under 300 yards -- i like him as a safety valve for mark sanchez. the jets are going to throw more than people think. clowney could be a nice sleeper in deep leagues. finally, a guy you want to spend -- a late-round player on malcolm kelly of the redskins. he's 6'4" and they really like him a lot. jason campbell needs that big target in the red zone and i think malcolm kelly could be it -- he's now the starter for the redskins. fantasy news available free on espn.com.

>> we're getting you ready for the football season. do not miss the blitz preseason special, we'll be breaking down all 32 nfl t ♪ ♪ >> coming up on espnews. coors and cable cars -- take your pick. we check in on colorado and san fran in the wild card chase. after punching an opponent, oregon's star running back gets suspended for the season. but there is a catch. brett favre didn't take any hits in friday's game -- well, except one big hit to the wallet. and, the williams sisters dance their way into the sweet 16 at the u.s. open. espnews coming your way now.

♪ captioning by captionmax >> welcome inside the espnews studios. with mike yam, anish shroff here to keep you current. we head into the labor day weekend with the rockies the wild card leader but plenty of work to do. >> anish, if you talk to colorado rockies fans they'll tell you the postseason is not right now but every game they play is absolutely crucial. heading into play, colorado came with a one-game lead in the wild card standings over san francisco, bottom seven, rockies down 4-2. not any longer. seth smith to center field. he was 4-5 with two doubles. this would score two and tie the game at 4-4. he had seven r.b.i.'s in his last seven games. bottom eighth. still the same score. pinch-hitter jason giambi, the power of the mustache. had a clutch hit on wednesday against the mets. when it's all said and done, the

rockies have now won three of their last four. franklin morales his second career save. huston street dealing with tendinitis. >> pressure on the giants. they entered friday a game behind the rockies in the wild card hunt. san fran visiting milwaukee, top eighth, 2-2 game, bengie molina. his 17th of the season. san fran goes up 3-2. he's got four r.b.i.'s in his last five games. it's the ball park not the beach. bottom nine, brian wilson gets casey mcgee to pop out, and san francisco, down 2-0 in this game, they come back for a 3-2 win. give credit to the giants bullpen. six relievers combined for five innings of three-hit ball. san fran has now won five of seven. >> trying to inch closer to the wild card spot, the braves. they have the reds. top of the sixth. brandon phillips.

r.b.i. opportunity to be had, and he comes up with it in a big way. joey votto comes in to score. reds have won a season-high five straight, 10 of their last 12. bronson arroyo -- he's dealing. a 1.17 e.r.a. over his last five starts. >> the oh, so functional marlins visiting the nats, florida entered play four out in the wild card chase, john "home run" baker, two-run shot to left, his ninth of the year. the fish beat the nats 9-6. baker 3-5. he ties a career high with four r.b.i.'s. florida has won three in a row, the nats have lost seven straight. we look at the wild card standings in the national league.

>> adam wainwright's been dominant in the second half of the season, looking to become baseball's first 17-game winner. he needs a little offense, so the machine, albert pujols, coming up big for him in the sixth, to left field, his 43rd of the year. for the career, number 362. passing joe dimaggio for 69th all time. moving to the eighth, ryan ludwick, dead center. it is gone. a three-run shot. he was 5-5, two home runs, five r.b.i.'s. it's his first career five-hit game. the cardinals, the 14 runs, that's a season high. the four home runs ties a season high, and ad-- adam wainwright allows six earned on the fifth. snaps a streak of 12 straight starts allowing two or fewer runs but he still gets the win. wainwright is one of several pitchers battling for the n.l. cy young award. tim lincecum having another great season. he's the reigning cy young winner and trying to become the first back-to-back n.l. winner since randy johnson won four straight from 1999 to 2002.

>> the college football season began thursday night. friday afternoon, it ended for oregon running back legarrette blount. the university suspended blount for the remainder of the season. in the aftermath of oregon's loss to boise state, blount was taunted by broncos defensive end byron hout. blount responded by punching hout in the face. blount did apologize. he said, "it was just something i shouldn't have done. i lost my head." blount who scored a school record 17 t.d.'s last year will remain on scholarship and will practice with the team, but for the senior, his playing days are over. >> it is my belief, and this university's belief, that playing football at the university of oregon is a privilege and with that privilege goes responsibility. legarrette blount will still be on our team. legarrette blount will just not play for us on saturdays. legarrette blount needs this football program. he needs structure. i think he's taking this very hard, and he understands that he made a mistake, and that he has to pay for that mistake, but we're not going to throw

legarrette blount out on the street. i love legarrette blount. and what i told legarrette, when we met together, was that i don't want people to see the legarrette blount that they saw last night. that's not him. and that that moment last night will not define him as a person. we will provide him with the structure that's necessary for him to succeed. he's going to practice with this football team. he's going to get the student-support services. he's going to go to class. and we're going to make sure legarrette gets a degree. and if this is a teachable moment for him, that he can bounce back from this and that legarrette blount won't just be a youtube clip of just what happened to him on september 3rd in boise, idaho. there is a lot more to legarrette blount, but he understands his actions last night are unacceptable. and that we will not put up with that. that is not the university of oregon football. that is not the university of oregon.

>> chris fowler and the "gameday" crew weigh in on blount's suspension. >> legarrette blount, who was a junior-college transfer, his career is over at oregon. it's a nightmarish situation for chip kelly in his head-coaching debut at any level, his offense was terrible. his team lost what was supposed to be a payback game. now he has to deal with this tough situation. what about the severity of the punishment against blount? >> i was actually surprised, but i guess when you think about what happened after he punched hout, and then he tried to attack a fan in the stands, i think that's what warranted a year's suspension. he's a senior.

his college career is finished. i hope that punch was worth it for blount. >> it definitely was not worth it. for oregon to have the night that they had against boise state, and then to lose their best offensive player, and as chris said, for chip kelly, who the last few years was one of the great minds in college football, all of a sudden he becomes a head coach, and he gets this thrown in his lap, oregon goes from a contender to a pretender in the pac-10. >> where they go from here interesting to watch. blount cost himself a lot of money if you believe the nfl personnel people with that one punch on thursday night. >> byron hout, the instigator in this, won't be suspended.

>> still to come on espnews, we'll tell you how the nfl punished brett favre for an illegal block. >> plus, four of the favorites to win a u.s. open title were on the hard courts. two cruised in round four while two had a hiccup. we'll tell you who did what. two hottest pitchers in baseball. i heard this bar is crazy. i know. this is sausage! (men in background) let's go! dude this place is a sausage fest. alright you guys go get a cab excuse me; can i get five pounds of kielbasa? hey, you guys made it! oh look they brought food! (announcer) there are captains in every crew. calling all captains. drink responsibly.

>> this one's for all the hosiery lovers out there, wild card leading red sox visiting the white sox. >> i'm a sandals guy. >> you don't wear socks? >> i thought that was in. >> what am i, 50 years old?

>> attacks's scott feldman looking to become the first rangers pitcher in more than 19 years to win seven straight away from home. he's in baltimore. need a little offense, nelson cruz, his 31st of the year. four home runs, 10 r.b.i.'s in his last six games. rangers win their fourth straight and improve to 25-17 against the a.l. east this season. feldman becomes the first rangers pitcher to reach 15 wins since kevin millwood and vicente padilla did it in 2006. >> crucial 10-game stretch for the rays -- the tigers, yanks and red sox in succession. begins with detroit, top sixth, miguel cabrera feasts on that,

his 28th of the year. tied at 1-1 at the trop. we go to the bottom of the seventh, tied at 1-1, two outs, justin verlander, 98-mile-per-hour heater gets evan longoria. verlander eight innings, one earned run, seven strikeouts. in the ninth, adam everett. tigers scored three in the top of the ninth. go up 4-1. gets interesting in the bottom of the ninth. fernando rodney gets willie aybar to ground out. tigers hold on for a 4-3 win. detroit ends a four-game losing streak at the trop. justin verlander gets his 16th win of the year. that ties him with cc sabathia of the yankees for most in the american league. here is your a.l. wild card picture -- the red sox lose, the rangers win. texas two back. tampa misses a chance. they are six back and fading fast. >> yankees looking for their eighth straight win, taking on toronto. roy halladay -- he's been struggling as of late, lost five

of his last seven. wouldn't know it, though, watching this game -- a complete-game one-hitter. he struck out nine, did halladay -- the last pitcher to throw a one-hit shutout against a team on a winning streak of seven or more games, jimmy key of the blue jays in 1986. key, by the way, did play for the yankees. the complete game was the sixth of the season for halladay tying him with kansas city's zack greinke for the major league lead. aaron hill two r.b.i.'s and six r.b.i.'s in the last six games. >> the nfl fined brett favre 10 grand for his crackback block during monday's preseason game, when lining up at receiver in the wildcat formation favre crouched down and threw his body at the feet of houston defensive back eugene wilson. on the play, wilson injured his knee. favre a spectator in the vikings preseason finale, minnesota hosting dallas, first quarter, it's tarvaris jackson.

improvising, and finds jeff dugan, his tight end. 36-yard touchdown. third t.d. pass of the preseason for jackson. he was 2-4, 42 yards and that score. third quarter, cowboys down two touchdowns, sage rosenfels picked off. patrick watkins, 23 yards. dallas within seven. 21-14. later in the third, john david booty, picked off by steve octavien. he's returning it 44 yards for the score. that tied it up at 21-21. dallas with two interception returns in the third quarter. they win 35-31. >> u.s. open tennis, number three seed rafael nadal going up against nicolas kiefer. first set, nadal up 2-0, rafa whipping that one. takes the first set 6-0. second set. kiefer up 4-2, this part of a

23-shot rally. kiefer in the second set had 18 winners, nadal 11, and kiefer wins the second set 6-3. third set, now. nadal working. kiefer at the baseline, and nadal, pumped up, breaks kiefer and wins the third set. into the fourth. match point. nadal a four-set winner. he's moving on to round number three. men's number two seed, andy murray taking on paul capdeville from chile, after winning the first set, murray having some trouble in the second, backhand winner, capdeville, murray the first man among the top-10 seeds to drop a set. third set now, murray takes control, the forehand winner -- nice. murray 44 winners in the match, cruising in the third, murray would end up winning the set 6-0.

advances to the fourth set. murray just dealing. on the hottest day of the tourney. andy moving on in four. >> venus williams battling knee trouble. she had to face slovenia's magdalena rybarikova in round three, first set venus the big forehand finish, she would take the first set 6-2, has the brace on the left knee, still. looks like the knee is not bothering venus here. great court coverage and she puts it away with the backhand volley, venus up 4-3 in the second. match point now for venus. she would finish it off at net. venus wins despite double faulting seven times. she will face kim clijsters in the fourth round -- clijsters the 2005 champ. sister serena facing maria jose martinez sanchez. they met in the french open. when they played in france, serena called sanchez a cheat. serena won the first set 6-3.

second set, serena, one of her 30 winners. this wasn't that much of a contest. serena got a little bit of a challenge in the second set, but she would take this in straight sets 6-3, 7-5. serena 28-1 in her last five majors. after the win, serena, the defending champ, said, "can't spell dynasty without nasty." coming up on espnews. we whet our appetite for college football's first saturday with a friday battle in the big easy. >> it was a rough day for tiger. see where the world's best golfer fell short. >> keeping you current on espnews. (announcer) what does greatness taste like? a miller lite. (announcer on call) ...he throws it across the field. he's got something! 30...40...50...he's got it! 40! he's got it! 20...10...he's got it! 5!...endzone! touch down! there are no flags on the field! it's a miracle!

(announcer) that's what greatness tastes like. triple hops brewed. great pilsner taste. miller lite. taste greatness.

>> "college football overdrive is back. it's year four on espnews. every saturday from 3:00 to 8:00 eastern, we take you live to the most exciting games from across the country. we offer expert analysis from kordell stewart and shaun king. our kickoff is september 5th, 3:00 eastern on espnews. >> notable games this saturday. >> green wave just six wins >> green wave just six wins the last two seasons, taking on tulsa in a conference u.s.a. battle.

first quarter, golden hurricane up 3-0, you can add a couple more points, g.j. kinne, play action, 15-yard touchdown, quarterback had 77 yards rushing. first play of tulane's ensuing possession, joe kemp's pass picked off, tulane down to the five yard line, tulsa would score on the next play to make it 17-0. fourth quarter, damaris jackson fields the punt, 66 yards -- he is gone for the score. tulsa, they've now won five straight against the green wave making them looking more like a little splash. >> round one, deutsche bank championship from t.p.c. boston. second of four fedexcup events, tiger woods the leader in the fedexcup points standings, knocks down the birdie putt on 14, moves to even par. he struggled from short distance, though -- tiger missed five birdie putts inside 12 feet. he said, "i didn't really do much of anything positive today." he can go home with this.

on eight, tiger a 35-foot birdie attempt. bingo. he finishes the day with one under. tiger shot a 70. tiger paired up with steve stricker. after the second hole, tiger said to his caddie, "stricker's going to shoot a 62." close. stricker fired a 63. this his tee shot on 12. part of a five-birdie streak. stricker shot an eight-under 63, your first-round co-leader with jim furyk. furyk's second shot on 17. he hit every green in regulation. furyk also shot an eight-under 63 -- his lowest round of the year. tough ninth hole for lefty. phil mickelson misses the short par putt. now looking at a bogey putt the other way. he would four-putt for double bogey. lefty finishes at even par for the day. stricker and furyk your co-leaders at eight under. they have a two-shot lead, stricker seeking his third win on tour this season.

furyk seeking his first tour win since 2007. >> cliff lee coming off his >> daddies and dodgers. jim thome making his debut as a pinch-hitter. not bad for a first impression. base knock into right center puts men at the corners. dodgers down 2-0, san diego calls for its closer -- heath bell. bell would get the four-out save. gets james loney to fly out to end the threat in the eighth. pads win 2-0. san diego's won four in a >> phillies and astros. cliff lee, six earned runs allowed. he's given up now 12 earned in his last two starts. the phillies have scored only three runs in their last four games. angels and royals, the angels top kansas city. jered weaver a career high 14th win of the season.

angels only have 13 hits in their last three games. vlad guerrero, two r.b.i.'s >> if you're an offensive coordinator in the nfl, make sure that resume is up to date. friday the bills canned their o.c., turk schonert. the third offensive coordinator fired this week. bills quarterback coach alex van pelt will assume the play-calling duties for buffalo. north carolina the alumni game, dean smith, michael jordan, roy williams, who's who, 2009 championship banner unveiled, 1998, vince carter's last year wearing the uniform. a who's who list. m.j.'s on the bench. he could still do this. maybe not the dunks. >> he said everybody in the media still thinks i can play."

>> our top stories on the way. the game day" crew debates the suspension of oregon running back legarrette blount. i heard this bar is crazy. i know. this is sausage! (men in background) let's go! dude this place is a sausage fest. alright you guys go get a cab excuse me; can i get five pounds of kielbasa? hey, you guys made it! oh look they brought food! (announcer) there are captains in every crew. calling all captains. drink responsibly.

calling all captains. it's back to being hit with all the stresses of work. how was your weekend? it's day one of that 3 o'clock lull. and that guy who always asks, mind if i jump in? but monday night football is returning to espn, where adrian's moves will be making the guys in the booth say lean back! re-donk-ulous! play on playa! so relax and run steady. because on monday nights you roll with us- three deep in the booth. >> matthew berry here, from espn.com fantasy with a couple of really deep, late-round, wide receiver sleepers for you, and how about troy williamson of the

jacksonville jaguars, one of the leading receivers in the preseason and whatever you think of williamson, he's better than they had last year in jacksonville when david garrard was top 10 in the nfl in passing yards. david clowney of the jets has won that starting job off jerricho cotchery, he has under 300 yards -- i like him as a safety valve for mark sanchez. the jets are going to throw more than people think. clowney could be a nice sleeper in deep leagues. finally, a guy you want to spend -- a late-round player on malcolm kelly of the redskins. he's 6'4" and they really like him a lot. jason campbell needs that big target in the red zone and i think malcolm kelly could be it -- he's now the starter for the redskins. fantasy news available free on espn.com.

>> we're getting you ready for the football season. do not miss the blitz preseason special, we'll be breaking down all 32 nfl t ♪ ♪ >> coming up on espnews. coors and cable cars -- take your pick. we check in on colorado and san fran in the wild card chase. after punching an opponent, oregon's star running back gets suspended for the season. but there is a catch. brett favre didn't take any hits in friday's game -- well, except one big hit to the wallet. and, the williams sisters dance their way into the sweet 16 at the u.s. open. espnews coming your way now.

♪ captioning by captionmax >> welcome inside the espnews studios. with mike yam, anish shroff here to keep you current. we head into the labor day weekend with the rockies the wild card leader but plenty of work to do. >> anish, if you talk to colorado rockies fans they'll tell you the postseason is not right now but every game they play is absolutely crucial. heading into play, colorado came with a one-game lead in the wild card standings over san francisco, bottom seven, rockies down 4-2. not any longer. seth smith to center field. he was 4-5 with two doubles. this would score two and tie the game at 4-4. he had seven r.b.i.'s in his last seven games. bottom eighth. still the same score. pinch-hitter jason giambi, the power of the mustache. had a clutch hit on wednesday against the mets. when it's all said and done, the

rockies have now won three of their last four. franklin morales his second career save. huston street dealing with tendinitis. >> pressure on the giants. they entered friday a game behind the rockies in the wild card hunt. san fran visiting milwaukee, top eighth, 2-2 game, bengie molina. his 17th of the season. san fran goes up 3-2. he's got four r.b.i.'s in his last five games. it's the ball park not the beach. bottom nine, brian wilson gets casey mcgee to pop out, and san francisco, down 2-0 in this game, they come back for a 3-2 win. give credit to the giants bullpen. six relievers combined for five innings of three-hit ball. san fran has now won five of seven. >> trying to inch closer to the wild card spot, the braves. they have the reds. top of the sixth. brandon phillips.

r.b.i. opportunity to be had, and he comes up with it in a big way. joey votto comes in to score. reds have won a season-high five straight, 10 of their last 12. bronson arroyo -- he's dealing. a 1.17 e.r.a. over his last five starts. >> the oh, so functional marlins visiting the nats, florida entered play four out in the wild card chase, john "home run" baker, two-run shot to left, his ninth of the year. the fish beat the nats 9-6. baker 3-5. he ties a career high with four r.b.i.'s. florida has won three in a row, the nats have lost seven straight. we look at the wild card standings in the national league.

>> adam wainwright's been dominant in the second half of the season, looking to become baseball's first 17-game winner. he needs a little offense, so the machine, albert pujols, coming up big for him in the sixth, to left field, his 43rd of the year. for the career, number 362. passing joe dimaggio for 69th all time. moving to the eighth, ryan ludwick, dead center. it is gone. a three-run shot. he was 5-5, two home runs, five r.b.i.'s. it's his first career five-hit game. the cardinals, the 14 runs, that's a season high. the four home runs ties a season high, and ad-- adam wainwright allows six earned on the fifth. snaps a streak of 12 straight starts allowing two or fewer runs but he still gets the win. wainwright is one of several pitchers battling for the n.l. cy young award. tim lincecum having another great season. he's the reigning cy young winner and trying to become the first back-to-back n.l. winner since randy johnson won four straight from 1999 to 2002.

>> the college football season began thursday night. friday afternoon, it ended for oregon running back legarrette blount. the university suspended blount for the remainder of the season. in the aftermath of oregon's loss to boise state, blount was taunted by broncos defensive end byron hout. blount responded by punching hout in the face. blount did apologize. he said, "it was just something i shouldn't have done. i lost my head." blount who scored a school record 17 t.d.'s last year will remain on scholarship and will practice with the team, but for the senior, his playing days are over. >> it is my belief, and this university's belief, that playing football at the university of oregon is a privilege and with that privilege goes responsibility. legarrette blount will still be on our team. legarrette blount will just not play for us on saturdays. legarrette blount needs this football program. he needs structure. i think he's taking this very hard, and he understands that he made a mistake, and that he has to pay for that mistake, but we're not going to throw

legarrette blount out on the street. i love legarrette blount. and what i told legarrette, when we met together, was that i don't want people to see the legarrette blount that they saw last night. that's not him. and that that moment last night will not define him as a person. we will provide him with the structure that's necessary for him to succeed. he's going to practice with this football team. he's going to get the student-support services. he's going to go to class. and we're going to make sure legarrette gets a degree. and if this is a teachable moment for him, that he can bounce back from this and that legarrette blount won't just be a youtube clip of just what happened to him on september 3rd in boise, idaho. there is a lot more to legarrette blount, but he understands his actions last night are unacceptable. and that we will not put up with that. that is not the university of oregon football. that is not the university of oregon.

>> chris fowler and the "gameday" crew weigh in on blount's suspension. >> legarrette blount, who was a junior-college transfer, his career is over at oregon. it's a nightmarish situation for chip kelly in his head-coaching debut at any level, his offense was terrible. his team lost what was supposed to be a payback game. now he has to deal with this tough situation. what about the severity of the punishment against blount? >> i was actually surprised, but i guess when you think about what happened after he punched hout, and then he tried to attack a fan in the stands, i think that's what warranted a year's suspension. he's a senior.

his college career is finished. i hope that punch was worth it for blount. >> it definitely was not worth it. for oregon to have the night that they had against boise state, and then to lose their best offensive player, and as chris said, for chip kelly, who the last few years was one of the great minds in college football, all of a sudden he becomes a head coach, and he gets this thrown in his lap, oregon goes from a contender to a pretender in the pac-10. >> where they go from here interesting to watch. blount cost himself a lot of money if you believe the nfl personnel people with that one punch on thursday night. >> byron hout, the instigator in this, won't be suspended.

>> still to come on espnews, we'll tell you how the nfl punished brett favre for an illegal block. >> plus, four of the favorites to win a u.s. open title were on the hard courts. two cruised in round four while two had a hiccup. we'll tell you who did what. two hottest pitchers in baseball. i heard this bar is crazy. i know. this is sausage! (men in background) let's go! dude this place is a sausage fest. alright you guys go get a cab excuse me; can i get five pounds of kielbasa? hey, you guys made it! oh look they brought food! (announcer) there are captains in every crew. calling all captains. drink responsibly.

>> this one's for all the hosiery lovers out there, wild card leading red sox visiting the white sox. >> i'm a sandals guy. >> you don't wear socks? >> i thought that was in. >> what am i, 50 years old?

>> attacks's scott feldman looking to become the first rangers pitcher in more than 19 years to win seven straight away from home. he's in baltimore. need a little offense, nelson cruz, his 31st of the year. four home runs, 10 r.b.i.'s in his last six games. rangers win their fourth straight and improve to 25-17 against the a.l. east this season. feldman becomes the first rangers pitcher to reach 15 wins since kevin millwood and vicente padilla did it in 2006. >> crucial 10-game stretch for the rays -- the tigers, yanks and red sox in succession. begins with detroit, top sixth, miguel cabrera feasts on that,

his 28th of the year. tied at 1-1 at the trop. we go to the bottom of the seventh, tied at 1-1, two outs, justin verlander, 98-mile-per-hour heater gets evan longoria. verlander eight innings, one earned run, seven strikeouts. in the ninth, adam everett. tigers scored three in the top of the ninth. go up 4-1. gets interesting in the bottom of the ninth. fernando rodney gets willie aybar to ground out. tigers hold on for a 4-3 win. detroit ends a four-game losing streak at the trop. justin verlander gets his 16th win of the year. that ties him with cc sabathia of the yankees for most in the american league. here is your a.l. wild card picture -- the red sox lose, the rangers win. texas two back. tampa misses a chance. they are six back and fading fast. >> yankees looking for their eighth straight win, taking on toronto. roy halladay -- he's been struggling as of late, lost five

of his last seven. wouldn't know it, though, watching this game -- a complete-game one-hitter. he struck out nine, did halladay -- the last pitcher to throw a one-hit shutout against a team on a winning streak of seven or more games, jimmy key of the blue jays in 1986. key, by the way, did play for the yankees. the complete game was the sixth of the season for halladay tying him with kansas city's zack greinke for the major league lead. aaron hill two r.b.i.'s and six r.b.i.'s in the last six games. >> the nfl fined brett favre 10 grand for his crackback block during monday's preseason game, when lining up at receiver in the wildcat formation favre crouched down and threw his body at the feet of houston defensive back eugene wilson. on the play, wilson injured his knee. favre a spectator in the vikings preseason finale, minnesota hosting dallas, first quarter, it's tarvaris jackson.

improvising, and finds jeff dugan, his tight end. 36-yard touchdown. third t.d. pass of the preseason for jackson. he was 2-4, 42 yards and that score. third quarter, cowboys down two touchdowns, sage rosenfels picked off. patrick watkins, 23 yards. dallas within seven. 21-14. later in the third, john david booty, picked off by steve octavien. he's returning it 44 yards for the score. that tied it up at 21-21. dallas with two interception returns in the third quarter. they win 35-31. >> u.s. open tennis, number three seed rafael nadal going up against nicolas kiefer. first set, nadal up 2-0, rafa whipping that one. takes the first set 6-0. second set. kiefer up 4-2, this part of a

23-shot rally. kiefer in the second set had 18 winners, nadal 11, and kiefer wins the second set 6-3. third set, now. nadal working. kiefer at the baseline, and nadal, pumped up, breaks kiefer and wins the third set. into the fourth. match point. nadal a four-set winner. he's moving on to round number three. men's number two seed, andy murray taking on paul capdeville from chile, after winning the first set, murray having some trouble in the second, backhand winner, capdeville, murray the first man among the top-10 seeds to drop a set. third set now, murray takes control, the forehand winner -- nice. murray 44 winners in the match, cruising in the third, murray would end up winning the set 6-0.

advances to the fourth set. murray just dealing. on the hottest day of the tourney. andy moving on in four. >> venus williams battling knee trouble. she had to face slovenia's magdalena rybarikova in round three, first set venus the big forehand finish, she would take the first set 6-2, has the brace on the left knee, still. looks like the knee is not bothering venus here. great court coverage and she puts it away with the backhand volley, venus up 4-3 in the second. match point now for venus. she would finish it off at net. venus wins despite double faulting seven times. she will face kim clijsters in the fourth round -- clijsters the 2005 champ. sister serena facing maria jose martinez sanchez. they met in the french open. when they played in france, serena called sanchez a cheat. serena won the first set 6-3.

second set, serena, one of her 30 winners. this wasn't that much of a contest. serena got a little bit of a challenge in the second set, but she would take this in straight sets 6-3, 7-5. serena 28-1 in her last five majors. after the win, serena, the defending champ, said, "can't spell dynasty without nasty." coming up on espnews. we whet our appetite for college football's first saturday with a friday battle in the big easy. >> it was a rough day for tiger. see where the world's best golfer fell short. >> keeping you current on espnews. here's another "nattyism" with natty light. today's word is "natapult." natapult. the act... of launching a natty light... for the purpose of eliminating time spent walking. as in... tom,

natapult me a cold one... so these vultures... don't take my seat. natty light. now you're talkin'. i'll be honest with you... that whole et favre thing was really hard to keep track of. so we had to come up with a system. you're sure? he's coming back! he's coming back. he's coming back. he's coming back.

he's coming back. so is it one if retired... two if un-retired? i think it's the other way around. that makes sense.

>> "college football overdrive is back. it's year four on espnews. every saturday from 3:00 to 8:00 eastern, we take you live to the most exciting games from across the country. we offer expert analysis from kordell stewart and shaun king. our kickoff is september 5th, 3:00 eastern on espnews. >> notable games this saturday. >> green wave just six wins >> green wave just six wins the last two seasons, taking on tulsa in a conference u.s.a. battle.

first quarter, golden hurricane up 3-0, you can add a couple more points, g.j. kinne, play action, 15-yard touchdown, quarterback had 77 yards rushing. first play of tulane's ensuing possession, joe kemp's pass picked off, tulane down to the five yard line, tulsa would score on the next play to make it 17-0. fourth quarter, damaris jackson fields the punt, 66 yards -- he is gone for the score. tulsa, they've now won five straight against the green wave making them looking more like a little splash. >> round one, deutsche bank championship from t.p.c. boston. second of four fedexcup events, tiger woods the leader in the fedexcup points standings, knocks down the birdie putt on 14, moves to even par. he struggled from short distance, though -- tiger missed five birdie putts inside 12 feet. he said, "i didn't really do much of anything positive today." he can go home with this.

on eight, tiger a 35-foot birdie attempt. bingo. he finishes the day with one under. tiger shot a 70. tiger paired up with steve stricker. after the second hole, tiger said to his caddie, "stricker's going to shoot a 62." close. stricker fired a 63. this his tee shot on 12. part of a five-birdie streak. stricker shot an eight-under 63, your first-round co-leader with jim furyk. furyk's second shot on 17. he hit every green in regulation. furyk also shot an eight-under 63 -- his lowest round of the year. tough ninth hole for lefty. phil mickelson misses the short par putt. now looking at a bogey putt the other way. he would four-putt for double bogey. lefty finishes at even par for the day. stricker and furyk your co-leaders at eight under. they have a two-shot lead, stricker seeking his third win on tour this season.

furyk seeking his first tour win since 2007. >> cliff lee coming off his >> daddies and dodgers. jim thome making his debut as a pinch-hitter. not bad for a first impression. base knock into right center puts men at the corners. dodgers down 2-0, san diego calls for its closer -- heath bell. bell would get the four-out save. gets james loney to fly out to end the threat in the eighth. pads win 2-0. san diego's won four in a >> phillies and astros. cliff lee, six earned runs allowed. he's given up now 12 earned in his last two starts. the phillies have scored only three runs in their last four games. angels and royals, the angels top kansas city. jered weaver a career high 14th win of the season.

angels only have 13 hits in their last three games. vlad guerrero, two r.b.i.'s >> if you're an offensive coordinator in the nfl, make sure that resume is up to date. friday the bills canned their o.c., turk schonert. the third offensive coordinator fired this week. bills quarterback coach alex van pelt will assume the play-calling duties for buffalo. north carolina the alumni game, dean smith, michael jordan, roy williams, who's who, 2009 championship banner unveiled, 1998, vince carter's last year wearing the uniform. a who's who list. m.j.'s on the bench. he could still do this. maybe not the dunks. >> he said everybody in the media still thinks i can play."

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i know. this is sausage! (men in background) let's go! dude this place is a sausage fest. alright you guys go get a cab excuse me; can i get five pounds of kielbasa? hey, you guys made it! oh look they brought food! (announcer) there are captains in every crew. calling all captains. drink responsibly.

calling all captains. it's back to being hit with all the stresses of work. how was your weekend? it's day one of that 3 o'clock lull. and that guy who always asks, mind if i jump in? but monday night football is returning to espn, where adrian's moves will be making the guys in the booth say lean back! re-donk-ulous! play on playa! so relax and run steady. because on monday nights you roll with us- three deep in the booth. >> matthew berry here, from espn.com fantasy with a couple of really deep, late-round, wide receiver sleepers for you, and how about troy williamson of the

jacksonville jaguars, one of the leading receivers in the preseason and whatever you think of williamson, he's better than they had last year in jacksonville when david garrard was top 10 in the nfl in passing yards. david clowney of the jets has won that starting job off jerricho cotchery, he has under 300 yards -- i like him as a safety valve for mark sanchez. the jets are going to throw more than people think. clowney could be a nice sleeper in deep leagues. finally, a guy you want to spend -- a late-round player on malcolm kelly of the redskins. he's 6'4" and they really like him a lot. jason campbell needs that big target in the red zone and i think malcolm kelly could be it -- he's now the starter for the redskins. fantasy news available free on espn.com.

>> we're getting you ready for the football season. do not miss the blitz preseason special, we'll be breaking down all 32 nfl t ♪ ♪ >> coming up on espnews. coors and cable cars -- take your pick. we check in on colorado and san fran in the wild card chase. after punching an opponent, oregon's star running back gets suspended for the season. but there is a catch. brett favre didn't take any hits in friday's game -- well, except one big hit to the wallet. and, the williams sisters dance their way into the sweet 16 at the u.s. open. espnews coming your way now.

♪ captioning by captionmax >> welcome inside the espnews studios. with mike yam, anish shroff here to keep you current. we head into the labor day weekend with the rockies the wild card leader but plenty of work to do. >> anish, if you talk to colorado rockies fans they'll tell you the postseason is not right now but every game they play is absolutely crucial. heading into play, colorado came with a one-game lead in the wild card standings over san francisco, bottom seven, rockies down 4-2. not any longer. seth smith to center field. he was 4-5 with two doubles. this would score two and tie the game at 4-4. he had seven r.b.i.'s in his last seven games. bottom eighth. still the same score. pinch-hitter jason giambi, the power of the mustache. had a clutch hit on wednesday against the mets. when it's all said and done, the

rockies have now won three of their last four. franklin morales his second career save. huston street dealing with tendinitis. >> pressure on the giants. they entered friday a game behind the rockies in the wild card hunt. san fran visiting milwaukee, top eighth, 2-2 game, bengie molina. his 17th of the season. san fran goes up 3-2. he's got four r.b.i.'s in his last five games. it's the ball park not the beach. bottom nine, brian wilson gets casey mcgee to pop out, and san francisco, down 2-0 in this game, they come back for a 3-2 win. give credit to the giants bullpen. six relievers combined for five innings of three-hit ball. san fran has now won five of seven. >> trying to inch closer to the wild card spot, the braves. they have the reds. top of the sixth. brandon phillips.

r.b.i. opportunity to be had, and he comes up with it in a big way. joey votto comes in to score. reds have won a season-high five straight, 10 of their last 12. bronson arroyo -- he's dealing. a 1.17 e.r.a. over his last five starts. >> the oh, so functional marlins visiting the nats, florida entered play four out in the wild card chase, john "home run" baker, two-run shot to left, his ninth of the year. the fish beat the nats 9-6. baker 3-5. he ties a career high with four r.b.i.'s. florida has won three in a row, the nats have lost seven straight. we look at the wild card standings in the national league.

>> adam wainwright's been dominant in the second half of the season, looking to become baseball's first 17-game winner. he needs a little offense, so the machine, albert pujols, coming up big for him in the sixth, to left field, his 43rd of the year. for the career, number 362. passing joe dimaggio for 69th all time. moving to the eighth, ryan ludwick, dead center. it is gone. a three-run shot. he was 5-5, two home runs, five r.b.i.'s. it's his first career five-hit game. the cardinals, the 14 runs, that's a season high. the four home runs ties a season high, and ad-- adam wainwright allows six earned on the fifth. snaps a streak of 12 straight starts allowing two or fewer runs but he still gets the win. wainwright is one of several pitchers battling for the n.l. cy young award. tim lincecum having another great season. he's the reigning cy young winner and trying to become the first back-to-back n.l. winner since randy johnson won four straight from 1999 to 2002.

>> the college football season began thursday night. friday afternoon, it ended for oregon running back legarrette blount. the university suspended blount for the remainder of the season. in the aftermath of oregon's loss to boise state, blount was taunted by broncos defensive end byron hout. blount responded by punching hout in the face. blount did apologize. he said, "it was just something i shouldn't have done. i lost my head." blount who scored a school record 17 t.d.'s last year will remain on scholarship and will practice with the team, but for the senior, his playing days are over. >> it is my belief, and this university's belief, that playing football at the university of oregon is a privilege and with that privilege goes responsibility. legarrette blount will still be on our team. legarrette blount will just not play for us on saturdays. legarrette blount needs this football program. he needs structure. i think he's taking this very hard, and he understands that he made a mistake, and that he has to pay for that mistake, but we're not going to throw

legarrette blount out on the street. i love legarrette blount. and what i told legarrette, when we met together, was that i don't want people to see the legarrette blount that they saw last night. that's not him. and that that moment last night will not define him as a person. we will provide him with the structure that's necessary for him to succeed. he's going to practice with this football team. he's going to get the student-support services. he's going to go to class. and we're going to make sure legarrette gets a degree. and if this is a teachable moment for him, that he can bounce back from this and that legarrette blount won't just be a youtube clip of just what happened to him on september 3rd in boise, idaho. there is a lot more to legarrette blount, but he understands his actions last night are unacceptable. and that we will not put up with that. that is not the university of oregon football. that is not the university of oregon.

>> chris fowler and the "gameday" crew weigh in on blount's suspension. >> legarrette blount, who was a junior-college transfer, his career is over at oregon. it's a nightmarish situation for chip kelly in his head-coaching debut at any level, his offense was terrible. his team lost what was supposed to be a payback game. now he has to deal with this tough situation. what about the severity of the punishment against blount? >> i was actually surprised, but i guess when you think about what happened after he punched hout, and then he tried to attack a fan in the stands, i think that's what warranted a year's suspension. he's a senior.

his college career is finished. i hope that punch was worth it for blount. >> it definitely was not worth it. for oregon to have the night that they had against boise state, and then to lose their best offensive player, and as chris said, for chip kelly, who the last few years was one of the great minds in college football, all of a sudden he becomes a head coach, and he gets this thrown in his lap, oregon goes from a contender to a pretender in the pac-10. >> where they go from here interesting to watch. blount cost himself a lot of money if you believe the nfl personnel people with that one punch on thursday night. >> byron hout, the instigator in this, won't be suspended.

>> still to come on espnews, we'll tell you how the nfl punished brett favre for an illegal block. >> plus, four of the favorites to win a u.s. open title were on the hard courts. two cruised in round four while two had a hiccup. we'll tell you who did what. two hottest pitchers in baseball.

>> this one's for all the hosiery lovers out there, wild card leading red sox visiting the white sox. >> i'm a sandals guy. >> you don't wear socks? >> i thought that was in. >> what am i, 50 years old?

>> attacks's scott feldman looking to become the first rangers pitcher in more than 19 years to win seven straight away from home. he's in baltimore. need a little offense, nelson cruz, his 31st of the year. four home runs, 10 r.b.i.'s in his last six games. rangers win their fourth straight and improve to 25-17 against the a.l. east this season. feldman becomes the first rangers pitcher to reach 15 wins since kevin millwood and vicente padilla did it in 2006. >> crucial 10-game stretch for the rays -- the tigers, yanks and red sox in succession. begins with detroit, top sixth, miguel cabrera feasts on that,

his 28th of the year. tied at 1-1 at the trop. we go to the bottom of the seventh, tied at 1-1, two outs, justin verlander, 98-mile-per-hour heater gets evan longoria. verlander eight innings, one earned run, seven strikeouts. in the ninth, adam everett. tigers scored three in the top of the ninth. go up 4-1. gets interesting in the bottom of the ninth. fernando rodney gets willie aybar to ground out. tigers hold on for a 4-3 win. detroit ends a four-game losing streak at the trop. justin verlander gets his 16th win of the year. that ties him with cc sabathia of the yankees for most in the american league. here is your a.l. wild card picture -- the red sox lose, the rangers win. texas two back. tampa misses a chance. they are six back and fading fast. >> yankees looking for their eighth straight win, taking on toronto. roy halladay -- he's been struggling as of late, lost five

of his last seven. wouldn't know it, though, watching this game -- a complete-game one-hitter. he struck out nine, did halladay -- the last pitcher to throw a one-hit shutout against a team on a winning streak of seven or more games, jimmy key of the blue jays in 1986. key, by the way, did play for the yankees. the complete game was the sixth of the season for halladay tying him with kansas city's zack greinke for the major league lead. aaron hill two r.b.i.'s and six r.b.i.'s in the last six games. >> the nfl fined brett favre 10 grand for his crackback block during monday's preseason game, when lining up at receiver in the wildcat formation favre crouched down and threw his body at the feet of houston defensive back eugene wilson. on the play, wilson injured his knee. favre a spectator in the vikings preseason finale, minnesota hosting dallas, first quarter, it's tarvaris jackson.

improvising, and finds jeff dugan, his tight end. 36-yard touchdown. third t.d. pass of the preseason for jackson. he was 2-4, 42 yards and that score. third quarter, cowboys down two touchdowns, sage rosenfels picked off. patrick watkins, 23 yards. dallas within seven. 21-14. later in the third, john david booty, picked off by steve octavien. he's returning it 44 yards for the score. that tied it up at 21-21. dallas with two interception returns in the third quarter. they win 35-31. >> u.s. open tennis, number three seed rafael nadal going up against nicolas kiefer. first set, nadal up 2-0, rafa whipping that one. takes the first set 6-0. second set. kiefer up 4-2, this part of a

23-shot rally. kiefer in the second set had 18 winners, nadal 11, and kiefer wins the second set 6-3. third set, now. nadal working. kiefer at the baseline, and nadal, pumped up, breaks kiefer and wins the third set. into the fourth. match point. nadal a four-set winner. he's moving on to round number three. men's number two seed, andy murray taking on paul capdeville from chile, after winning the first set, murray having some trouble in the second, backhand winner, capdeville, murray the first man among the top-10 seeds to drop a set. third set now, murray takes control, the forehand winner -- nice. murray 44 winners in the match, cruising in the third, murray would end up winning the set 6-0.

advances to the fourth set. murray just dealing. on the hottest day of the tourney. andy moving on in four. >> venus williams battling knee trouble. she had to face slovenia's magdalena rybarikova in round three, first set venus the big forehand finish, she would take the first set 6-2, has the brace on the left knee, still. looks like the knee is not bothering venus here. great court coverage and she puts it away with the backhand volley, venus up 4-3 in the second. match point now for venus. she would finish it off at net. venus wins despite double faulting seven times. she will face kim clijsters in the fourth round -- clijsters the 2005 champ. sister serena facing maria jose martinez sanchez. they met in the french open. when they played in france, serena called sanchez a cheat. serena won the first set 6-3.

second set, serena, one of her 30 winners. this wasn't that much of a contest. serena got a little bit of a challenge in the second set, but she would take this in straight sets 6-3, 7-5. serena 28-1 in her last five majors. after the win, serena, the defending champ, said, "can't spell dynasty without nasty." coming up on espnews. we whet our appetite for college football's first saturday with a friday battle in the big easy. >> it was a rough day for tiger. see where the world's best golfer fell short. >> keeping you current on espnews.

i'll be honest with you... that whole et favre thing was really hard to keep track of. so we had to come up with a system. you're sure? he's coming back! he's coming back. he's coming back. he's coming back.

he's coming back. so is it one if retired... two if un-retired? i think it's the other way around. that makes sense.

>> "college football overdrive is back. it's year four on espnews. every saturday from 3:00 to 8:00 eastern, we take you live to the most exciting games from across the country. we offer expert analysis from kordell stewart and shaun king. our kickoff is september 5th, 3:00 eastern on espnews. >> notable games this saturday. >> green wave just six wins >> green wave just six wins the last two seasons, taking on tulsa in a conference u.s.a. battle.

first quarter, golden hurricane up 3-0, you can add a couple more points, g.j. kinne, play action, 15-yard touchdown, quarterback had 77 yards rushing. first play of tulane's ensuing possession, joe kemp's pass picked off, tulane down to the five yard line, tulsa would score on the next play to make it 17-0. fourth quarter, damaris jackson fields the punt, 66 yards -- he is gone for the score. tulsa, they've now won five straight against the green wave making them looking more like a little splash. >> round one, deutsche bank championship from t.p.c. boston. second of four fedexcup events, tiger woods the leader in the fedexcup points standings, knocks down the birdie putt on 14, moves to even par. he struggled from short distance, though -- tiger missed five birdie putts inside 12 feet. he said, "i didn't really do much of anything positive today." he can go home with this.

on eight, tiger a 35-foot birdie attempt. bingo. he finishes the day with one under. tiger shot a 70. tiger paired up with steve stricker. after the second hole, tiger said to his caddie, "stricker's going to shoot a 62." close. stricker fired a 63. this his tee shot on 12. part of a five-birdie streak. stricker shot an eight-under 63, your first-round co-leader with jim furyk. furyk's second shot on 17. he hit every green in regulation. furyk also shot an eight-under 63 -- his lowest round of the year. tough ninth hole for lefty. phil mickelson misses the short par putt. now looking at a bogey putt the other way. he would four-putt for double bogey. lefty finishes at even par for the day. stricker and furyk your co-leaders at eight under. they have a two-shot lead, stricker seeking his third win on tour this season.

furyk seeking his first tour win since 2007. >> cliff lee coming off his >> daddies and dodgers. jim thome making his debut as a pinch-hitter. not bad for a first impression. base knock into right center puts men at the corners. dodgers down 2-0, san diego calls for its closer -- heath bell. bell would get the four-out save. gets james loney to fly out to end the threat in the eighth. pads win 2-0. san diego's won four in a >> phillies and astros. cliff lee, six earned runs allowed. he's given up now 12 earned in his last two starts. the phillies have scored only three runs in their last four games. angels and royals, the angels top kansas city. jered weaver a career high 14th win of the season.

angels only have 13 hits in their last three games. vlad guerrero, two r.b.i.'s >> if you're an offensive coordinator in the nfl, make sure that resume is up to date. friday the bills canned their o.c., turk schonert. the third offensive coordinator fired this week. bills quarterback coach alex van pelt will assume the play-calling duties for buffalo. north carolina the alumni game, dean smith, michael jordan, roy williams, who's who, 2009 championship banner unveiled, 1998, vince carter's last year wearing the uniform. a who's who list. m.j.'s on the bench. he could still do this. maybe not the dunks. >> he said everybody in the media still thinks i can play."

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jacksonville jaguars, one of the leading receivers in the preseason and whatever you think of williamson, he's better than they had last year in jacksonville when david garrard was top 10 in the nfl in passing yards. david clowney of the jets has won that starting job off jerricho cotchery, he has under 300 yards -- i like him as a safety valve for mark sanchez. the jets are going to throw more than people think. clowney could be a nice sleeper in deep leagues. finally, a guy you want to spend -- a late-round player on malcolm kelly of the redskins. he's 6'4" and they really like him a lot. jason campbell needs that big target in the red zone and i think malcolm kelly could be it -- he's now the starter for the redskins. fantasy news available free on espn.com.

>> we're getting you ready for the football season. do not miss the blitz preseason special, we'll be breaking down all 32 nfl t ♪ ♪ >> coming up on espnews. coors and cable cars -- take your pick. we check in on colorado and san fran in the wild card chase. after punching an opponent, oregon's star running back gets suspended for the season. but there is a catch. brett favre didn't take any hits in friday's game -- well, except one big hit to the wallet. and, the williams sisters dance their way into the sweet 16 at the u.s. open. espnews coming your way now.

♪ captioning by captionmax >> welcome inside the espnews studios. with mike yam, anish shroff here to keep you current. we head into the labor day weekend with the rockies the wild card leader but plenty of work to do. >> anish, if you talk to colorado rockies fans they'll tell you the postseason is not right now but every game they play is absolutely crucial. heading into play, colorado came with a one-game lead in the wild card standings over san francisco, bottom seven, rockies down 4-2. not any longer. seth smith to center field. he was 4-5 with two doubles. this would score two and tie the game at 4-4. he had seven r.b.i.'s in his last seven games. bottom eighth. still the same score. pinch-hitter jason giambi, the power of the mustache. had a clutch hit on wednesday against the mets. when it's all said and done, the

rockies have now won three of their last four. franklin morales his second career save. huston street dealing with tendinitis. >> pressure on the giants. they entered friday a game behind the rockies in the wild card hunt. san fran visiting milwaukee, top eighth, 2-2 game, bengie molina. his 17th of the season. san fran goes up 3-2. he's got four r.b.i.'s in his last five games. it's the ball park not the beach. bottom nine, brian wilson gets casey mcgee to pop out, and san francisco, down 2-0 in this game, they come back for a 3-2 win. give credit to the giants bullpen. six relievers combined for five innings of three-hit ball. san fran has now won five of seven. >> trying to inch closer to the wild card spot, the braves. they have the reds. top of the sixth. brandon phillips.

r.b.i. opportunity to be had, and he comes up with it in a big way. joey votto comes in to score. reds have won a season-high five straight, 10 of their last 12. bronson arroyo -- he's dealing. a 1.17 e.r.a. over his last five starts. >> the oh, so functional marlins visiting the nats, florida entered play four out in the wild card chase, john "home run" baker, two-run shot to left, his ninth of the year. the fish beat the nats 9-6. baker 3-5. he ties a career high with four r.b.i.'s. florida has won three in a row, the nats have lost seven straight. we look at the wild card standings in the national league.

>> adam wainwright's been dominant in the second half of the season, looking to become baseball's first 17-game winner. he needs a little offense, so the machine, albert pujols, coming up big for him in the sixth, to left field, his 43rd of the year. for the career, number 362. passing joe dimaggio for 69th all time. moving to the eighth, ryan ludwick, dead center. it is gone. a three-run shot. he was 5-5, two home runs, five r.b.i.'s. it's his first career five-hit game. the cardinals, the 14 runs, that's a season high. the four home runs ties a season high, and ad-- adam wainwright allows six earned on the fifth. snaps a streak of 12 straight starts allowing two or fewer runs but he still gets the win. wainwright is one of several pitchers battling for the n.l. cy young award. tim lincecum having another great season. he's the reigning cy young winner and trying to become the first back-to-back n.l. winner since randy johnson won four straight from 1999 to 2002.

>> the college football season began thursday night. friday afternoon, it ended for oregon running back legarrette blount. the university suspended blount for the remainder of the season. in the aftermath of oregon's loss to boise state, blount was taunted by broncos defensive end byron hout. blount responded by punching hout in the face. blount did apologize. he said, "it was just something i shouldn't have done. i lost my head." blount who scored a school record 17 t.d.'s last year will remain on scholarship and will practice with the team, but for the senior, his playing days are over. >> it is my belief, and this university's belief, that playing football at the university of oregon is a privilege and with that privilege goes responsibility. legarrette blount will still be on our team. legarrette blount will just not play for us on saturdays. legarrette blount needs this football program. he needs structure. i think he's taking this very hard, and he understands that he made a mistake, and that he has to pay for that mistake, but we're not going to throw

legarrette blount out on the street. i love legarrette blount. and what i told legarrette, when we met together, was that i don't want people to see the legarrette blount that they saw last night. that's not him. and that that moment last night will not define him as a person. we will provide him with the structure that's necessary for him to succeed. he's going to practice with this football team. he's going to get the student-support services. he's going to go to class. and we're going to make sure legarrette gets a degree. and if this is a teachable moment for him, that he can bounce back from this and that legarrette blount won't just be a youtube clip of just what happened to him on september 3rd in boise, idaho. there is a lot more to legarrette blount, but he understands his actions last night are unacceptable. and that we will not put up with that. that is not the university of oregon football. that is not the university of oregon.

>> chris fowler and the "gameday" crew weigh in on blount's suspension. >> legarrette blount, who was a junior-college transfer, his career is over at oregon. it's a nightmarish situation for chip kelly in his head-coaching debut at any level, his offense was terrible. his team lost what was supposed to be a payback game. now he has to deal with this tough situation. what about the severity of the punishment against blount? >> i was actually surprised, but i guess when you think about what happened after he punched hout, and then he tried to attack a fan in the stands, i think that's what warranted a year's suspension. he's a senior.

his college career is finished. i hope that punch was worth it for blount. >> it definitely was not worth it. for oregon to have the night that they had against boise state, and then to lose their best offensive player, and as chris said, for chip kelly, who the last few years was one of the great minds in college football, all of a sudden he becomes a head coach, and he gets this thrown in his lap, oregon goes from a contender to a pretender in the pac-10. >> where they go from here interesting to watch. blount cost himself a lot of money if you believe the nfl personnel people with that one punch on thursday night. >> byron hout, the instigator in this, won't be suspended.

>> still to come on espnews, we'll tell you how the nfl punished brett favre for an illegal block. >> plus, four of the favorites to win a u.s. open title were on the hard courts. two cruised in round four while two had a hiccup. we'll tell you who did what. two hottest pitchers in baseball.

>> this one's for all the hosiery lovers out there, wild card leading red sox visiting the white sox. >> i'm a sandals guy. >> you don't wear socks? >> i thought that was in. >> what am i, 50 years old?

>> attacks's scott feldman looking to become the first rangers pitcher in more than 19 years to win seven straight away from home. he's in baltimore. need a little offense, nelson cruz, his 31st of the year. four home runs, 10 r.b.i.'s in his last six games. rangers win their fourth straight and improve to 25-17 against the a.l. east this season. feldman becomes the first rangers pitcher to reach 15 wins since kevin millwood and vicente padilla did it in 2006. >> crucial 10-game stretch for the rays -- the tigers, yanks and red sox in succession. begins with detroit, top sixth,

miguel cabrera feasts on that, his 28th of the year. tied at 1-1 at the trop. we go to the bottom of the seventh, tied at 1-1, two outs, justin verlander, 98-mile-per-hour heater gets evan longoria. verlander eight innings, one earned run, seven strikeouts. in the ninth, adam everett. tigers scored three in the top of the ninth. go up 4-1. gets interesting in the bottom of the ninth. fernando rodney gets willie aybar to ground out. tigers hold on for a 4-3 win. detroit ends a four-game losing streak at the trop. justin verlander gets his 16th win of the year. that ties him with cc sabathia of the yankees for most in the american league. here is your a.l. wild card picture -- the red sox lose, the rangers win. texas two back. tampa misses a chance. they are six back and fading fast. >> yankees looking for their eighth straight win, taking on toronto. roy halladay -- he's been struggling as of late, lost five

of his last seven. wouldn't know it, though, watching this game -- a complete-game one-hitter. he struck out nine, did halladay -- the last pitcher to throw a one-hit shutout against a team on a winning streak of seven or more games, jimmy key of the blue jays in 1986. key, by the way, did play for the yankees. the complete game was the sixth of the season for halladay tying him with kansas city's zack greinke for the major league lead. aaron hill two r.b.i.'s and six r.b.i.'s in the last six games. >> the nfl fined brett favre 10 grand for his crackback block during monday's preseason game, when lining up at receiver in the wildcat formation favre crouched down and threw his body at the feet of houston defensive back eugene wilson. on the play, wilson injured his knee. favre a spectator in the vikings preseason finale, minnesota hosting dallas, first quarter, it's tarvaris jackson.

improvising, and finds jeff dugan, his tight end. 36-yard touchdown. third t.d. pass of the preseason for jackson. he was 2-4, 42 yards and that score. third quarter, cowboys down two touchdowns, sage rosenfels picked off. patrick watkins, 23 yards. dallas within seven. 21-14. later in the third, john david booty, picked off by steve octavien. he's returning it 44 yards for the score. that tied it up at 21-21. dallas with two interception returns in the third quarter. they win 35-31. >> u.s. open tennis, number three seed rafael nadal going up against nicolas kiefer. first set, nadal up 2-0, rafa whipping that one. takes the first set 6-0. second set. kiefer up 4-2, this part of a

23-shot rally. kiefer in the second set had 18 winners, nadal 11, and kiefer wins the second set 6-3. third set, now. nadal working. kiefer at the baseline, and nadal, pumped up, breaks kiefer and wins the third set. into the fourth. match point. nadal a four-set winner. he's moving on to round number three. men's number two seed, andy murray taking on paul capdeville from chile, after winning the first set, murray having some trouble in the second, backhand winner, capdeville, murray the first man among the top-10 seeds to drop a set. third set now, murray takes control, the forehand winner -- nice. murray 44 winners in the match, cruising in the third, murray would end up winning the set 6-0.

advances to the fourth set. murray just dealing. on the hottest day of the tourney. andy moving on in four. >> venus williams battling knee trouble. she had to face slovenia's magdalena rybarikova in round three, first set venus the big forehand finish, she would take the first set 6-2, has the brace on the left knee, still. looks like the knee is not bothering venus here. great court coverage and she puts it away with the backhand volley, venus up 4-3 in the second. match point now for venus. she would finish it off at net. venus wins despite double faulting seven times. she will face kim clijsters in the fourth round -- clijsters the 2005 champ. sister serena facing maria jose martinez sanchez. they met in the french open. when they played in france, serena called sanchez a cheat. serena won the first set 6-3.

second set, serena, one of her 30 winners. this wasn't that much of a contest. serena got a little bit of a challenge in the second set, but she would take this in straight sets 6-3, 7-5. serena 28-1 in her last five majors. after the win, serena, the defending champ, said, "can't spell dynasty without nasty." coming up on espnews. we whet our appetite for college football's first saturday with a friday battle in the big easy. >> it was a rough day for tiger. see where the world's best golfer fell short. >> keeping you current on espnews.

>> "college football overdrive is back. it's year four on espnews. every saturday from 3:00 to 8:00 eastern, we take you live to the most exciting games from across the country. we offer expert analysis from kordell stewart and shaun king. our kickoff is september 5th, 3:00 eastern on espnews. >> notable games this saturday. >> green wave just six wins >> green wave just six wins the last two seasons, taking on tulsa in a conference u.s.a. battle.

first quarter, golden hurricane up 3-0, you can add a couple more points, g.j. kinne, play action, 15-yard touchdown, quarterback had 77 yards rushing. first play of tulane's ensuing possession, joe kemp's pass picked off, tulane down to the five yard line, tulsa would score on the next play to make it 17-0. fourth quarter, damaris jackson fields the punt, 66 yards -- he is gone for the score. tulsa, they've now won five straight against the green wave making them looking more like a little splash. >> round one, deutsche bank championship from t.p.c. boston. second of four fedexcup events, tiger woods the leader in the fedexcup points standings, knocks down the birdie putt on 14, moves to even par. he struggled from short distance, though -- tiger missed fiveve birdie putts inside 12 feet. he said, "i didn't really do much of anything positive today." he can go home with this.

on eight, tiger a 35-foot birdie attempt. bingo. he finishes the day with one under. tiger shot a 70. tiger paired up with steve stricker. after the second hole, tiger said to his caddie, "stricker's going to shoot a 62." close. stricker fired a 63. this his tee shot on 12. part of a five-birdie streak. stricker shot an eight-under 63, your first-round co-leader with jim furyk. furyk's second shot on 17. he hit every green in regulation. furyk also shot an eight-under 63 -- his lowest round of the year. tough ninth hole for lefty. phil mickelson misses the short par putt. now looking at a bogey putt the other way. he would four-putt for double bogey. lefty finishes at even par for the day. stricker and furyk your co-leaders at eight under. they have a two-shot lead, stricker seeking his third win on tour this season.

furyk seeking his first tour win since 2007. >> cliff lee coming off his >> daddies and dodgers. jim thome making his debut as a pinch-hitter. not bad for a first impression. base knock into right center puts men at the corners. dodgers down 2-0, san diego calls for its closer -- heath bell. bell would get the four-out save. gets james loney to fly out to end the threat in the eighth. pads win 2-0. san diego's won four in a >> phillies and astros. cliff lee, six earned runs allowed. he's given up now 12 earned in his last two starts. the phillies have scored only three runs in their last four games. angels and royals, the angels top kansas city. jered weaver a career high 14th win of the season.

angels only have 13 hits in their last three games. vlad guerrero, two r.b.i.'s >> if you're an offensive coordinator in the nfl, make sure that resume is up to date. friday the bills canned their o.c., turk schonert. the third offensive coordinator fired this week. bills quarterback coach alex van pelt will assume the play-calling duties for buffalo. north carolina the alumni game, dean smith, michael jordan, roy williams, who's who, 2009 championship banner unveiled, 1998, vince carter's last year wearing the uniform. a who's who list. m.j.'s on the bench. he could still do this. maybe not the dunks. >> he said everybody in the media still thinks i can play."

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monday. the longest day of the week. which gives you time to reflect on your unfortunate job history. he looks like a villain from a soap opera. boss: (clears throat) but with monday comes monday night football on espn. which is the closest you'll ever get to your dream job... what? i cut the sleeves off because it looks awesome... get your head in the game! so keep that day job. because on monday nights, football does all the work. >> matthew berry here, from espn.com fantasy with a couple of really deep, late-round, wide receiver sleepers for you, and

how about troy williamson of the jacksonville jaguars, one of the leading receivers in the preseason and whatever you think of williamson, he's better than they had last year in jacksonville when david garrard was top 10 in the nfl in passing yards. david clowney of the jets has won that starting job off jerricho cotchery, he has under 300 yards -- i like him as a safety valve for mark sanchez. the jets are going to throw more than people think. clowney could be a nice sleeper in deep leagues. finally, a guy you want to spend -- a late-round player on malcolm kelly of the redskins. he's 6'4" and they really like him a lot. jason campbell needs that big target in the red zone and i think malcolm kelly could be it -- he's now the starter for the redskins. fantasy news available free on espn.com.