AP - The Oakland Raiders fired Lane Kiffin on Tuesday just four games into his second season, ending a public feud with owner Al Davis that had been simmering since the start of the year.
AFP - Former world number four Kimiko Date's comeback bid ended in a first-round loss to Shahar Peer on Tuesday in her first appearance in a main draw in 12 years at the Japan Open tennis tournament.
AP - West Virginia basketball players Joe Mazzulla and Cam Thoroughman have pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a July scuffle with police at a Pittsburgh Pirates game. -- read full article
AP - Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Sergei Gonchar will have arthroscopic surgery on his dislocated left shoulder Thursday and miss four to six months of the upcoming season. -- read full article
AFP - Arsenal are hoping to put their embarrassing weekend defeat by newly-promoted Hull City behind them on Tuesday ahead of their Champions League clash with FC Porto.
The Sporting News - To understand why the rotation of the Earth will change and the Chicago Cubs will win the World Series for the first time since 1908 in a few weeks, look no further than the day manager Lou Piniella set up his rotation for the National League Division Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. -- read full article
AP - Jayson Williams' defense team will get access to additional details about a racial slur uttered by an investigator in the manslaughter case against the former NBA star. -- read full article
AP - Former NFL draft bust Tony Mandarich says he used steroids at Michigan State and faked a drug test before the 1988 Rose Bowl. -- read full article
AP - Ricky Williams says he was briefly tempted to smoke marijuana during the Miami Dolphins' bye weekend, an act that could have ended his roller-coaster NFL career. -- read full article
AP - Pitchers Cliff Lee of the Cleveland Indians and Brad Lidge of the Philadelphia Phillies have been honored as Major League Baseball's Comeback Players of the Year. -- read full article
AP - The Oakland Raiders fired Lane Kiffin on Tuesday just four games into his second season, bringing finality to a situation that had been simmering for eight months.
AP - While the Chicago White Sox played and won, the Minnesota Twins could only wait and watch. It's not what the Twins hoped would happen on their strange day off, a rain-delayed 8-2 victory by the White Sox in their makeup game with the Detroit Tigers on Monday.
AP - An attorney for John Daly's estranged wife, Sherrie Daly, says she did not steal the pro golfer's cell phone. Randy Fishman said Monday that "this is a divorce case and people accuse each other of stuff all the time."
