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Beanie Wells Will Be a Game-Time Decision

The good news for the Car­di­nals is that run­ning back Beanie Wells was able to do more work in prac­tice on Friday. The bad news is that he wasn’t able to do enough to guar­an­tee him a spot int he lineup for Sunday’s game against the Ravens. Coach Ken Whisen­hunt said that Wells will be a game-time deci­sion because of the knee injury that forced him out of last week’s loss to the Steel­ers. Wells is offi­cially listed as ques­tion­able on the injury reports after lim­ited par­tic­i­pa­tion in prac­tice all week. Alfonso Smith and LaRod Stephens-Howling each scored... 

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...