September 2004 in sports
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See also: Other events in September 2004
- Tennis: Roger Federer
defeats Lleyton Hewitt 6-0, 7-6, 6-0 to win the U.S. Open mens singles title in Flushing, New York. (ESPN) (http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/usopen04/news/story?id=1880295) (The Australian (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10750408%255E2722,00.html)
- American football: Most National Football League teams play their Week 1 games:
- Cricket, ICC Champions Trophy: In pool B,
South Africa beat Bangladesh by 9 wickets at Edgbaston. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/other_international/fixtures/default.stm)
- Formula One, Italian Grand Prix: Rubens Barrichello
wins his first race of the season, with Ferrari team-mate Michael Schumacher second and Jenson Button third. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/3649206.stm)
- World Cup of Hockey: Vincent Lecavalier scores at 3:45 in overtime as Canada advances
to the final with a 4-3 win over the Czech Republic in Toronto. The Canadians will take on Finland in
the championship game, also in Toronto on September 14. (WCH website) (http://wch2004.com/scores/recaps/118_6_recap.html)
- Cricket, ICC Champions Trophy: In the
uncompleted pool D match from yesterday, England beat
Zimbabwe by 152 runs. In pool C, India beat Kenya by 98 runs. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/other_international/fixtures/default.stm)
- Boxing: Miguel Cotto defeats
Kelson Pinto by TKO, crowning himself world
champion of the WBO 140 pounds division, while
Daniel Santos retains his
WBO super welterweight crown after
defeating Antonio Margarito by technical decision after ten rounds, at the same undercard, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico.(Boxing central) (http://www.boxing-central.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4906)
- US Open: In an all-Russian women's singles final, Svetlana
Kuznetsova beats Elena Dementieva 6-3 7-5 to win her first
Grand Slam title. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/3646642.stm)
- Horse racing: Rule of Law wins the St. Leger Stakes, the final leg of the English Triple Crown, at Doncaster.
(BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/3639262.stm)
- Baseball: Barry Bonds does
not become the third player in baseball history to hit 700 home-runs by going one for one with a single against the Arizona Diamondbacks, but he does break his own record for walks in
a single season, getting three walks to top the 198 walks he had in 2002, in a Giants 5-3 win.
- Basketball: The University of South Florida announces that female
basketball player Andrea Armstrong will be allowed to play wearing
her muslim attires.
- Vijay Singh wins golf's Deutsche
Bank Championship to go to the top of the world rankings. He ends Tiger Woods
reign of five years and four weeks. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/golf/3633256.stm)
- Rugby union: England national team coach Sir Clive Woodward resigns, after having been dissuaded from doing so yesterday. Andy Robinson is named acting coach of England. Woodward has expressed his
interest in switching codes to soccer. The media reports that
he may be appointed to a role at Southampton Football Club.
(BBC (1)) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/international/3613610.stm), (BBC (2)) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/3616864.stm)
- World Cup of Hockey: Russia wins its opening North American pool match
against the United States by a 3-1 score in St. Paul, Minnesota, dropping the Americans to 0-2. Finland records a 3-0 win against Germany in a
European group match in Cologne, improving
the Finns to 2-0 and ensuring home-ice advantage for themselves and Sweden in the
quarter-finals. The Germans drop to 0-2.
(AP) (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1841&ncid=1841&e=4&u=/cpress/20040902/ca_pr_on_sp/hky_wcup_ger_fin)
(CP) (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1820&ncid=1820&e=1&u=/cpress/20040903/ca_pr_on_ho/hky_wcup_rus_us)
- Horse racing: In early morning raids by 130 officers in three counties,
British police arrest three jockeys including champion jockey Kieren Fallon, a trainer, and twelve other people as part of a long-running
investigation into race-fixing. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/3616748.stm)
Past sports events by month
2004 in sports: June July August (for earlier sports events, see May 2004 and preceding months)
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