In Brief
Karns City graduate Evan Knox scored a goal for the Thiel College men's soccer team in a 4-2 loss to Brockport (N.Y.) Sunday.
Knox is a senior midfielder for the Tomcats.
PITTSBURGH - Pittsburgh Pirates announcer Lanny Frattare returned Monday after sitting out 10 games for undisclosed reasons.Frattare, a Pirates announcer for 29 seasons, missed a three-game home series against St. Louis and a weeklong road trip to Milwaukee and Houston.Before this season, Frattare had never missed as many as three consecutive games since his hiring in 1976, the year after the team fired popular Hall of Fame announcer Bob Prince.
NORTON, Mass. - Vijay Singh won a head-to-head matchup with Tiger Woods to end his record reign atop golf's ultimate leaderboard.Singh shot a 69 to beat Woods and Adam Scott by three strokes in the Deutsche Bank Championship on Monday, clinching the No. 1 ranking in the world with a sixth victory of the year. Woods had been first for more than five years - a record 264 consecutive weeks.
GREEN BAY, Wis. - Quarterback Tim Couch, the top pick in the 1999 NFL draft, was cut Sunday by the Green Bay Packers, who hoped he'd be an upgrade over Doug Pederson as Brett Favre's primary backup.Couch was bedeviled by a sore throwing arm and an inability to grasp the intricate West Coast offense in such a short time and couldn't even unseat Craig Nall as the Packers' third quarterback.
FONTANA, Calif. - Elliott Sadler looked more like a favorite in the Pop Secret 500 Sunday, winning for the second time this season and third time in his career.He easily held off rookie Kasey Kahne and Mark Martin at the end of the 250-lap race - with the help of a couple of late caution flags that slowed the two challengers.But Kahne, who finished second for the fifth time this season, and Martin climbed into the top 10 in the points with only Saturday night's race at Richmond, Va., remaining before NASCAR pares the championship battle to the top 10 drivers for the last 10 races of the season.Kahne is now ninth and Martin 10th, nine points behind. Jamie McMurray finished fourth in the race and moved into 11th, 25 points behind Martin.