IN BRIEF
Boston pitcher Matt Clement will get the start when the Red Sox play the Chicago White Sox in the opening game of their American League Divisional Series Tuesday.
The Butler native (13-6) will face Jose Contreras (15-7) in Chicago at 4 p.m. on ESPN.
The ties are broken and the matchups all set. Get ready for another postseason with the Yankees AND Red Sox.Just when it looked as though the playoff picture might remain muddled for days, everything was settled Sunday on the final afternoon of the regular season.Boston and Houston wrapped up the wild cards, clinching the final two postseason spots. The playoffs begin Tuesday with the NL West champion San Diego Padres playing in St. Louis at 1:09 p.m. EDT.The Astros will open Wednesday in Atlanta against the NL East champion Braves, coming off their 14th consecutive division title. It's a rematch of their first-round series last year, won by Roger Clemens and the Astros in five games.Boston's first-round series against the AL Central champion White Sox starts Tuesday at 4:09 p.m. in Chicago. They finished with the best record in the league at 99-63 and will be trying to win their first postseason series since the 1917 World Series.The Yankees, who clinched their eighth straight AL East title Saturday at Fenway Park, travel to Anaheim to play the AL West champion Los Angeles Angels beginning Tuesday night at 8:19 p.m. The Angels beat the Yankees in the 2002 division series en route to their only World Series championship.
TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) - Dale Jarrett won the crash-filled race UAW-Ford 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday that shuffled the points standings and moved Tony Stewart back on top of the Nextel Cup leaderboard.Stewart holds a four-point lead over Ryan Newman - who originally thought he was the new points leader - and a 76-point advantage over third-place Rusty Wallace. Jimmie Johnson was involved in two accidents and dropped to fourth - 98 points back.
GREENSBORO, N.C. - South Korea's K.J. Choi won the Chrysler Classic of Greensboro on Sunday for his third PGA Tour victory, closing with a 6-under 66 for a two-shot victory over Shigeki Maruyama.It was Choi's first PGA Tour victory since 2002, when he won two tournaments during a breakthrough season. He finished with a 22-under 266 total, one stroke short of Jesper Parnevik's tournament record from 1999.