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SPORTS / MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 27, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
NFL
Raiders' mistakes costly
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The game was littered with them.
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Fittingly, Arizona's 24-23 victory over Oakland on Sunday ended with a big mistake.
Sebastian Janwikowski's errant 32-yard field goal as the game ended allowed the Cardinals to escape in their home opener, a game Oakland had repeated chances to win in the final minutes.
The kick, after a 39-yard pass interference call against Arizona's Dominique Rodgers-Cartmartie, was wide left. Janikowski missed two others in the game, a 41-yarder and a 58-yarder. Both were wide right.
LaRod, Stephens-Howling returned the opening kickoff 102 yards for a touchdown for Arizona (2-1) and Derek Anderson threw two touchdown passes, including an 8-yarder to Larry Fitzgerald with 1:01 left in the third quarter that proved to be the game winner.
Oakland (1-2) committed 11
penalties for 123 yards, Arizona
seven for 104.
New Raiders starting quarterback Bruce Gradkowski was 17 of 34 for 255 yards and a touchdown with one interception. He threw 12 yards to Darrius Heyward-Bey on fourth-and-10 from his own 36 to keep the final drive alive. But he also was the main culprit in a delay-of-game penalty after another pass interference call — this one against Arizona's Greg Toler — gave the Raiders the ball first-and-goal at the Arizona 1-yard line midway through the fourth quarter.
The penalty pushed the ball back to the 6 and Arizona's defense held, forcing Oakland to settle for Janikowski's 23-yard field goal that cut the lead to 24-23 with 7:59 to play.
Later, Gradkowski's 35-yard pass to Louis Murphy helped Oakland advance to the Arizona 35, where Janikowski — who has a career-long 61-yarder and had booted a 54-yarder earlier in the game — set up for a 53-yard try. But a false start against left tackle Mario Henderson pushed the ball back 5 yards for a much more difficult 58-yarder attempt. Janikowski had
the distance, but was just wide right.
Oakland's Darren McFadden gained 105 yards in 25 attempts.
Two of Oakland's field goals came after Raiders' puns bounced off the legs of an Arizona player — first Matt Ware, then Rodgers-Cromartie.
Anderson completed just 12 of 26 for 122 yards and was intercepted once but was 3 for 3 for 41 yards on the drive to the deciding touchdown. Beanie Wells, in his first game of the season after sitting out two games following arthroscopic knee surgery, gained 24 yards on his first carry and finished with 75 yards and 14 attempts. Teammate Tim Hightower had 40 in 11 carries, including a 13-yarder in the final touchdown drive.
Anderson's 2-yard touchdown pass to Steve Breaston put the Cardinals up 17-13.
The Raiders took a 20-17 half-time lead with a 7-play, 69-yard touchdown drive, culminating with McFadden's two-yard scoring run with 10 seconds left in the half.
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Dressed in red body suits, Patrick Helmick, a freshman from Milford, Del., and Alex Bishop, a freshman from Phoenix, Ariz., celebrate a Kansas touchdown Saturday at Memorial Stadium. "We call ourselves The Red Men," Helmick said.
PGA
Furyk earns $10M, wins FedEx Cup
ATLANTA — Jim Furyk capped off a wild day in the rain with a bunker shot worth $10 million.
In a FedEx Cup that came down to the final hole Sunday in the Tour Championship, Furyk nearly holed a bunker shot and knocked
in the $2\frac{1}{2}$-foot par putt to close with an even-par 70 and a one-shot victory over Luke Donald to capture the big payoff in golf.
Donald, who chipped in from 100 feet for birdie on the 17th hole, was waiting in the scoring trailer when Furyk stood in a bunker.
When he tapped in his par
with cap turned backward, Furyk plucked the ball out of the hole and fired it over the grandstands behind the 18th green at East Lake.
He earned $1.35 million for winning the tournament, and $10 million from the FedEx Cup.
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