October 2004 in sports
See also: 2004 in sports, Other events in October 2004
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- Baseball – 2004 World Series, Game 2: The Boston Red Sox achieve another home-field victory over the St. Louis Cardinals 6 to 2. Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling earns another win playing through his ankle injury, despite Boston committing four errors. Games 3 through 5 are slated to be held in St. Louis starting Tuesday. (CNNSI)
- Cross-country skiing: World Cup 2005 season opening in Düsseldorf, Germany: The Ladies' 6×0.8 km Team Sprint relay race is won by the Norwegian No.1 team (Marit Bjørgen, Hilde G. Pedersen), with Germany's No.2 team (Manuela Henkel, Evi Sachenbacher) and Italy's No.1 team (Arianna Follis, Gabriella Paruzzi) taking the 2nd and 3rd place. (FIS-Ski Results) In the Men's 6×1.5 km race, Norway's No.1 team wins (Håvard Bjerkeli, Tor Arne Hetland), while Germany's No.1 team (Tobias Angerer, Axel Teichmann) and No.3 team (Toni Lang, Andreas Stitzl) finish 2nd and 3rd, respectively. (FIS-Ski Results)
- Football (soccer): Manchester United defeat Arsenal 2–0 at United's Old Trafford stadium in Manchester, ending the London club's unbeaten streak in the FA Premier League. Arsenal's unbeaten run had stretched a record 49 matches and included the entire 2003–04 season. (BBC)
- Formula One: In the Brazilian Grand Prix, the last race of the 2004 season, Juan Pablo Montoya wins his final race for the Williams team, holding off future McLaren teammate Kimi Räikkönen. Rubens Barrichello finishes third. Michael Schumacher, who had long since clinched his seventh series championship, finishes seventh. (BBC)
- National Football League Week 7:
- NASCAR: Jimmie Johnson's sixth win of the 2004 NASCAR season, at the Subway 500 at Martinsville Speedway near Martinsville, Virginia, is overshadowed by the crash of a private plane today belonging to his racing team, Hendrick Motorsports. (ESPN) All 10 people on board the plane were killed, including four relatives of team owner Rick Hendrick. (ESPN)
- Ice skating: During an ABC televised competition, skater Tatiana Totmianina suffers a fall after her partner slipped off his right foot. She remains unsconscious for some minutes, and is hospitalized with damage to her head, neck and eyes.
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October 14, 2004
(FIFAWorldCup.Yahoo.com). Next matchday: 17 November.
October 13, 2004
- Baseball:
- Football:
- FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifying
- FIFA World Cup European Qualifying
- FIFA World Cup South American Qualifying
- FIFA World Cup CONCACAF Qualifying
October 12, 2004
- Football:
- FIFA World Cup South American Qualifying
- FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifying
October 11, 2004
October 10, 2004
- Formula One: In a dominating performance, Michael Schumacher wins his 13th race of the season at the Japanese Grand Prix. His brother Ralf holds off Jenson Button for second. (BBC)
- Baseball:
- National Football League Week 5:
- Marathon: Eurasia Marathon: David Kiptanui, (26) from Kenya wins in 2:18:19 before Konstantin Permitin (Константин Пермитин), (36) of Russia (2:18:25) and Yuriy Hychun, (27) from Ukraine (2:18:35). In the women's category, Russian Svetlana Demidenko (Светлана Демиденко), (28) wins in 2:36:44 before her compatriots Zhanna Malkova (Жанна Малкова), (36) in 2:39:36 and Olga Glok (Ольга Глок), (21) in 2:42:45. (Istanbul Marathon)
- WNBA: The Seattle Storm even their best-of-three championship series with the Connecticut Sun at one game apiece, winning 67–65. The Sun's Nykesha Sales sets a WNBA Finals record with 32 points, but misses a three-pointer at the buzzer that would have won the game. Betty Lennox leads the Storm with 27 points; Lauren Jackson racks up a double-double with 15 points and 11 rebounds. (ESPN)
- Football:
- FIFA World Cup South American Qualifying
- FIFA World Cup African Qualifying
- FIFA World Cup North / Central American & Caribbean Qualifying
October 9, 2004
- Baseball:
- Football:
- FIFA World Cup European Qualifying
- FIFA World Cup South American Qualifying
- FIFA World Cup African Qualifying
- FIFA World Cup North / Central American & Caribbean Qualifying
- FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifying
October 8, 2004
October 7, 2004
October 6, 2004
- Baseball:
- Football:
- FIFA World Cup North / Central American & Caribbean Qualifying
October 5, 2004
- Baseball: The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 8–3 in the first game of a best-of-five National League Division Series, while the Boston Red Sox defeat the Anaheim Angels 9–3, and the Minnesota Twins defeat the New York Yankees 2–0, in the opening game of their respective American League Division Series. The Twins break a post-season record with 5 double plays and the Cardinals break an NLDS record with 5 home runs.
- Football: The draw for the group stage of the 2005 UEFA Cup takes place at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. (UEFA.com) Results:
- Group A: Basel, Ferencváros, Feyenoord, Hearts, Schalke
- Group B: Athletic Bilbao, Beşiktaş, Parma, Standard Liège, Steaua Bucharest
- Group C: Austria Vienna, Club Brugge, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Utrecht, Real Zaragoza
- Group D: Dinamo Tbilisi, Newcastle United, Panionios, Sochaux, Sporting Lisbon
- Group E: Egaleo, Lazio, Middlesbrough, Partizan Belgrade, Villarreal
- Group F: Amica Wronki, Auxerre, AZ Alkmaar, Grazer AK, Rangers
- Group G: Benfica, Beveren, Dinamo Zagreb, Heerenveen, VfB Stuttgart
- Group H: AEK Athens, Alemannia, Lille, Sevilla, Zenit St. Petersburg
- Basketball:
- NASCAR: Dale Earnhardt Jr. is fined US$10,000 and penalized 25 championship points for cursing during a television interview after his Sunday win at Talladega Superspeedway. The points penalty knocks him out of the lead in the race for the series championship. (ESPN)
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