2011 October at LinesMaker

Raiders’ Davis Died of Heart Failure Three Days After Throat Surgery

OAKLAND, Calif. — The cause of for­mer Oak­land Raiders owner Al Davis’ death has been deter­mined to have been heart failure. The death cer­tifi­cate issued by Alameda County says Davis died at age 82 at 2:45 a.m. on Oct. 8 from an abnor­mal heart rhythm, con­ges­tive heart fail­ure and a heart mus­cle disease. He died at the Oak­land Air­port Hilton, where he lived dur­ing much of the foot­ball season. Accord­ing to the cer­tifi­cate, Davis also had a form of skin can­cer and had under­gone throat surgery three days before his death. He also under­went heart surgery in 1996. The... 

TCU Builds Big Lead, Holds Off BYU 38–28

ARLINGTON, Texas — Three mishaps on punt snaps were one too many for BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall. The TCU Horned Frogs gladly took advantage. TCU scored 21 points off BYU’s three spe­cial teams mis­cues, build­ing a big first-half lead over BYU and hold­ing on for a 38–28 vic­tory Fri­day night. “I can’t even describe it,” Menden­hall said. “It caught me com­pletely by sur­prise, not only once or twice, but three times. After the first one, you think it’s an acci­dent. After the sec­ond one, you real­ize some­thing isn’t quite right, and the third one is prob­a­bly... 

Oilers Beat Avalanche

DENVER — Tra­di­tion­ally, host­ing the Edmon­ton Oil­ers in the sec­ond game of a back-to-back has been guar­an­teed win night for the Col­orado Avalanche. Never mind the alti­tude and how it may affect vis­i­tors, con­sid­er­ing the fact the Oil­ers got into town well after last call and just hours after an emo­tional vic­tory over the Wash­ing­ton Cap­i­tals, it was always going to be tough sled­ding for Tom Renney’s crew. Yet, the Oil­ers were able to keep the Avalanche at bay until find­ing their skat­ing legs and then held off a late charge to pull out a 3–1... 

Ramsay Maintains Spanish Lead as Garcia Pulls Closer

Scot Richie Ram­say main­tained his advan­tage over the field at the Andalu­cia Mas­ters on Fri­day as windy con­di­tions and tough scor­ing persisted. Ram­say shot 1-over 72 at Valder­rama to main­tain a 2-stroke lead over Gre­gory Havret going into the weekend. The other two of the four play­ers under par through 36 holes are Spaniards. Ser­gio Gar­cia is 2 under in search of his sec­ond con­sec­u­tive Euro­pean Tour win after end­ing a 3-year drought last week at the Castello Mas­ters. Miguel Angel Jimenez is a shot behind Garcia. Gar­cia is tem­per­ing his excite­ment... 

Stosur Routs Li at WTA Championships

Updated Oct 28, 2011 9:22 PM ET ISTANBUL Australia’s Saman­tha Sto­sur beat China’s Li Na 6–1, 6–0 Fri­day to qual­ify for the semi­fi­nals of the WTA Championships. Sto­sur, the US Open cham­pion, dom­i­nated the French Open win­ner, drop­ping only the fifth game of the first set as she extended her career record against Li to 6–0. Sto­sur joined Vic­to­ria Azarenka of Belarus in qual­i­fy­ing from the White Group and will next face Wim­ble­don cham­pion Petra Kvi­tova of the Czech Republic. Kvi­tova had already secured her place in the semis from the Red Group... 

Rams’ Bradford Out Second Straight Week With Ankle Injury

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Games Worth Watching, Week 9

As of today, there are two enor­mous ques­tions hang­ing over Col­lege Foot­ball Nation. Those two ques­tions are this: 1. Can Clem­son keep on win­ning and keep on not being Clemson? 2. Can Michi­gan State keep on win­ning and keep on not being Michi­gan State? These are big ques­tions, folks. Mas­sive ques­tions. His­tor­i­cally impor­tant ques­tions. And this week­end, we shall get some clar­ity on both. What are the answers to those ques­tions? Well, find out here, in this week’s edi­tion of Games Worth Watch­ing. No. 11 Michi­gan State at No. 14 Nebraska (noon,... 

Tony La Russa Expected Back With Cardinals in 2012

Regard­less of what hap­pens in Game 7 tonight Tony La Russa is expected to return as Car­di­nals man­ager next sea­son, accord­ing to Joe Strauss of the St. Louis Post Dis­patch. Offi­cially both La Russa and the Car­di­nals must decide on their respec­tive half of his mutual option within two weeks after the World Series ends, but Strauss expects the 67-year-old man­ager to announce his return within days. Next sea­son would be his 17th as Car­di­nals man­ager and La Russa is just 35 wins from pass­ing John McGraw for sec­ond place on the all-time list behind Con­nie Mack.... 

Hamilton and Perez Penalised for Ignoring Yellow Flags

McLaren’s Lewis Hamil­ton and Sauber’s Ser­gio Perez have both been handed three-place grid penal­ties for Sunday’s Indian race. The New Delhi stew­ards decided Hamil­ton and Perez had ignored dou­ble waved yel­low flags dur­ing Prac­tice One at the Buddh Inter­na­tional Cir­cuit on Fri­day morning. The Briton and the Mex­i­can were caught out right at the very end of the open­ing prac­tice ses­sion by the yel­low flags which had been prompted by Williams’ Pas­tor Mal­don­ado, who had stopped with an engine fail­ure at Turn 16. Hamil­ton fin­ished the ses­sion... 

Nugent-Hopkins Stays in the Bigs

DENVER — The sus­pense is over as the Edmon­ton Oil­ers con­firmed the obvi­ous on Friday. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins will be stay­ing with club for the remain­der of the sea­son and is not going back to his junior team in Red Deer. The first over­all pick in last summer’s NHL Entry draft will play his 10th game of the year Fri­day night in Den­ver against the Col­orado Avalanche, offi­cially trig­ger­ing the first-year of his entry-level contract. “It’s pretty excit­ing for me,” Nugent-Hopkins said. “There can be some doubt when you don’t get told for a while, but I just...