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Big Brown's racing career ended Monday when the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner injured his right front foot during a workout at Aqueduct Race Course in New York. Michael Iavarone of IEAH Stables, co-owners of Big Brown, said the 3-year-old colt tore a three-inch piece of flesh off the foot after it collided with his right rear foot while working over Aqueduct's turf course with stablemate Kip Deville.

IRVING, Texas - The already slumping Dallas Cowboys now must survive a few games without two-time Pro Bowl quarterback Tony Romo, who has a broken finger on his throwing hand.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Tommy Bowden decided he'd done all he could do for Clemson football, telling his athletic director Monday he'd step aside for the future of the program.

DALLAS (Reuters) - Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo could be sidelined for up to four weeks with a broken finger, his team said Monday.

NEW YORK - Texas rode its resounding Red River Rivalry upset right to No. 1. The Longhorns leapfrogged No. 2 Alabama on Sunday and sit atop The Associated Press Top 25 in the regular season for the first time in 24 years after beating Oklahoma 45-35.

1. Won-loss record. Obviously. But even before this season of underachieving -- Clemson is 3-3 after starting the year ranked No. 9 and being picked to win the ACC -- the Tigers under Bowden lost games they should've won and won games they should've lost. That's a sure sign of a program in trouble, and one with little internal direction and leadership. You can't lose to Duke and beat Miami in the same season. Or lose to Wake Forest and beat Tennessee.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Rangers prospect Alexei Cherepanov has died after playing in a league game for Russian club Omsk Vanguard, the NHL team said on Monday.

INDIANAPOLIS - One surgery wasn't enough to fix Peyton Manning's left knee. Colts coach Tony Dungy confirmed Monday, after nearly two months of deflecting questions, that Manning was operated on a second time before returning to the field in late August.

LOS ANGELES - Manny Ramirez and Dodgers teammate Hiroki Kuroda were among four players fined Monday by Major League Baseball for the Game 3 fracas between Los Angeles and the Philadelphia Phillies during the NL championship series.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes champion Big Brown has been retired after suffering an injury during a workout, his handlers said on Monday.

CLEVELAND - Phil Dawson kicked a 28-yard field goal on Cleveland's first possession as the Browns, playing on Monday night for the first time since 2003, took a 3-0 lead over the Super Bowl champion New York Giants.

LOS ANGELES - The Philadelphia Phillies used their favorite staple, the long ball, to move within one win of the World Series.

1. Won-loss record. Obviously. But even before this season of underachieving -- Clemson is 3-3 after starting the year ranked No. 9 and being picked to win the ACC -- the Tigers under Bowden lost games they should've won and won games they should've lost. That's a sure sign of a program in trouble, and one with little internal direction and leadership. You can't lose to Duke and beat Miami in the same season. Or lose to Wake Forest and beat Tennessee.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Matt Stairs belted a pinch-hit two-run homer to lift Philadelphia to a 7-5 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday and a 3-1 lead in the National League Championship Series.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Tommy Bowden decided he'd done all he could do for Clemson football, telling his athletic director Monday he'd step aside for the future of the program.

CINCINNATI (Reuters) - The Cleveland Browns routed the New York Giants 35-14 Monday to hand the defending Super Bowl champions their first defeat of the season.

IRVING, Texas - The already slumping Dallas Cowboys now must survive a few games without two-time Pro Bowl quarterback Tony Romo, who has a broken finger on his throwing hand.

BOSTON - B.J. Upton, Evan Longoria and the rest of the Tampa Bay Rays are bashing their way through their first trip to the playoffs. Upton and Longoria homered off a suddenly shaky Jon Lester, and the power-packed Rays cleared the Green Monster four times to beat the Boston Red Sox 9-1 Monday for a 2-1 lead in the AL championship series.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four players and three coaches received undisclosed fines on Monday after a pitching incident in Game Three of the National League Championship Series.

MOSCOW - A Russian lawmaker said Tuesday that rising hockey star Alexei Cherepanov, a first-round draft pick of the New York Rangers, may have died due to negligence on the part of paramedics who responded to an emergency call.

ATLANTA - Jason Elam made the most of his second chance, kicking a 48-yard field goal on the final play to give the Atlanta Falcons a stunning 22-20 victory over the Chicago Bears on Sunday.

MADRID, Spain - After a career full of miraculous shots — including one from a parking lot during his first British Open win — Seve Ballesteros was preparing for the "hardest challenge" of his life Sunday after announcing he has a brain tumor.

CLEVELAND - The Cleveland Browns may have flipped around their season. Led by tumbling wide receiver Braylon Edwards, who announced his team's return to Monday night after five years by sticking an Olympic-caliber cartwheel and back flip during pregame introductions, Cleveland ended New York's 11-game road winning streak with a 35-14 win over the defending Super Bowl champions.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Rangers prospect Alexei Cherepanov has died after playing in a league game for Russian club Omsk Vanguard, the NHL team said on Monday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. track star Tim Montgomery, an Olympic gold medalist now banned from the sport, was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison on heroin charges.

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (Reuters) - B.J. Upton's sacrifice fly in the 11th inning drove in the winning run for the Tampa Bay Rays for a 9-8 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday, which leveled their American League Championship series at one game apiece.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes champion Big Brown has been retired after suffering an injury during a workout, his handlers said on Monday.

COLUMBIA, Mo. - Oklahoma State snarled Chase Daniel and a Missouri offense that had been scoring at will, intercepting three passes in the second half and upsetting the third-ranked Tigers 28-23 victory on Saturday night.

DALLAS - The Texas Longhorns came into their annual showdown against the Oklahoma Sooners with a quarterback they could trust and a defense playing great under an aggressive new coordinator. Yet even after five solid wins, coach Mack Brown still wondered how good they were. Now, everyone knows.

PHILADELPHIA - A grieving Charlie Manuel was in the dugout for the Philadelphia Phillies' 8-5 win over the Dodgers in Game 2 of the NL championship series Friday, hours after his mother died.