AFP - Colombia's football federation announced the sacking of national football coach, Jorge Luis Pinto, Tuesday following the team's poor results in qualifying for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Reuters - Marion Barber's one-yard touchdown run with a little under five minutes remaining completed a wild 41-37 victory for the Dallas Cowboys against the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday.

AP - Marion Barber scored the go-ahead touchdown with 4:35 remaining as the Cowboys knocked off Philadelphia 41-37 in a game that featured seven lead changes. Barber also grabbed a 17-yard scoring pass from Tony Romo to put Dallas ahead 31-30 late in the third quarter.

AP - Former Brewers manager Ned Yost says he feels he accomplished everything he set out to do except for taking Milwaukee to the playoffs.

AP - East Carolina linebacker Quentin Cotton is likely out for the season after injuring his right knee during the Pirates' recent victory over Tulane.

AFP - Spurs problems deepened further on Monday as they were beaten 2-1 by Aston Villa to leave them bottom of the Premiership with just a point after four matches.

AP - Scott Kazmir and the Rays may find it hard to erase the visions of mighty Red Sox swings slicing into their fragile AL East lead.

Reuters - Marion Barber's one-yard touchdown run with a little under five minutes remaining completed a wild 41-37 victory for the Dallas Cowboys against the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday.

AP - Ed Hochuli's acknowledgement that he erred on a call late in Sunday's San Diego-Denver game will mean lower grades for one of the NFL's highest profile referees.

AP - Ted Lilly came close to following Carlos Zambrano's no-hitter with one of his own. Lilly pitched no-hit ball until Mark Loretta's seventh-inning single, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Astros 6-1 Monday to sweep a two-game series moved from Houston by Hurricane Ike.

AP - David Ortiz, Mike Lowell, Jason Bay, Jason Varitek, Kevin Youkilis and, finally, Jacoby Ellsbury. Home run by home run, the surging Boston Red Sox pulled closer to first place in the AL East during a 13-5 victory over the division-leading Tampa Bay Rays and All-Star Scott Kazmir on Monday night.