Arizona Daily Star Sports

The Arizona Wildcats opened the 2008 season with their most lopsided victory in 87 years.

Dear Mr. Football: Who said that if you hang 70 on Idaho you are expected to score 100 a week later?

NEW YORK — Serena Williams wound up and smacked a shot directly at Dinara Safina early in the second set of their U.S. Open semifinal.

TEMPE — Arizona State has swept the last two games against Stanford by a combined 79-6.

MINNEAPOLIS — CBS has filed a federal lawsuit to establish its right to use without charge the statistics that underlie fantasy football leagues.

GREENVILLE, N.C. — With West Virginia's speedy offense coming to town, Skip Holtz jokingly asked East Carolina's groundskeepers to leave the sprinklers on at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium and turn the grass field into a mud pit.

It's never been so good to be bad at college football.

ST. LOUIS — Camilo Villegas and Steve Stricker were excited to be playing golf Friday for different reasons — and it showed during a soggy start to the BMW Championship.

LOS ANGELES — Joe Torre witnessed a lot during memorable stretch runs managing the New York Yankees. The Dodgers are providing him with some fresh memories.

RICHMOND, Va. — Steady rain that began Friday night and expectations that it would continue through today with Tropical Storm Hanna moving in forced NASCAR to postpone tonight's Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond International Raceway.

James Li returned from Beijing, where he served as manager of the United States men's track and field team, on Aug. 28.

The cartoon devil was missing from Sunnyside High School's helmets in their season opener Friday night against Glendale Mountain Ridge. The team took the field with plain royal blue helmets, and left feeling just plain blue.

In Scottsdale, Chaparral's Brandon Martin caught a 32-yard lob in the end zone with 3.9 seconds remaining to to drop Cienega to 1-1.

A disastrous opening 16 seconds for Marana spiraled into a full-blown rout for Jeff Scurran's Santa Rita Eagles.

At Nogales, the Apaches' vaunted offense put up nearly 500 yards of total offense, but it had trouble distancing itself from what Nogales coach Vince Villanucci called a "tough, physical" Douglas squad.

In its first road test of the season, Canyon del Oro won impressively at Sahuaro 28-0 Friday night.

Salpointe Catholic's Christian Ramirez rushed for 108 yards on 23 carries and scored both of the Lancers touchdowns, while QB Trevor Eggleston completed 15 of 22 passes for 196 yards, including eight first downs. The Lancers (1-0) avenged last year's 21-3 loss to Basha.

Ironwood Ridge quarterback Chris Harris mounted as impressive a two-minute drill as any quarterback at any level of football.

In Glendale, the visiting Sabercats won their 13th straight regular-season game dating to 2006.