Chicago Half Marathon 2009 Results

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Chicago Half Marathon 2009 Results :Pittsburgh Steelers All-Pro safety Troy Polamalu sprained the medial collateral ligament in his left knee late in the first half of their 13-10 overtime victory against Tennessee on Thursday night. Coach Mike Tomlin said the injury usually sidelines a player from three to six weeks. “They are reading the scans and so forth,” Tomlin said. “It is speculation [how long Polamalu will be out] at this point.” Polamalu was injured when a Titans player fell on him as Steelers defensive end Aaron Smith blocked a 31-yard field goal attempt by Rod Bironas with about three minutes left in the half. Polamalu was attempting to pick up the ball. Before getting hurt, Polamalu made a one-handed interception and led both teams in tackles with six. Tomlin said there is a chance the injury could be worse once further tests are run. “I’m sure there’s a possibility of it, but I don’t have any concrete evident that there is anything more than that,” Tomlin said. A two-time All-Pro safety, Polamalu was chosen for the past five Pro Bowls. He is considered one of the NFL’s premier defensive players. “We definitely were aware of him not being in there,” said Titans quarterback Kerry Collins, who led a touchdown drive immediately after Polamalu was hurt. “You calls the plays based on coverage, and sure we’d like to say, ‘Hey, he’s out of the game’ and do a couple of different things.”

Scott Blair had never thrown a touchdown pass. Scratch that one off the list. He’d never kicked a game-winner for Georgia Tech. Took care of that one, too. Blair threw a touchdown pass off a fake field goal, then booted a 36-yard kick with 57 seconds remaining as the 15th-ranked Yellow Jackets rallied to beat Clemson 30-27 after squandering a 24-point lead Thursday night. “I was just trying to treat it like a normal kick, not psych myself out,” Blair said. “I wasn’t paying attention to the score at all. I didn’t want to think at the time that it was a game-winner. It was just another kick.” Hardly. Georgia Tech (2-0, 1-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) pulled itself back from the brink of a potentially devastating loss that looked like an easy victory early on. The Yellow Jackets raced to a 24-0 lead 4½ minutes into the second quarter. But Clemson (1-1, 0-1) scored 27 straight points, taking its first lead of the night on Richard Jackson’s 53-yard field goal with 11:33 to go. “I’m proud of the way we played against a top 15 team on the road,” C.J. Spiller said. “We kept thinking we would come back and get back in the game. You have to believe. You have to have faith.”

New York Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum has acknowledged he made a mistake handling Brett Favre’s biceps tendon injury last season, and should’ve listed the quarterback on the team’s injury report. Tannenbaum and the Jets could face disciplinary action from the NFL for not listing Favre’s torn biceps tendon on the weekly report following the injury with four or five games remaining. Tannenbaum said Favre should’ve appeared on the report as “probable.” “I’ll take responsibility for that,” he said. “As the GM of this team, I should’ve handled that differently and listed him on the report. We didn’t, just because he wasn’t getting treatment every day and we knew he was going to play. But, looking back on it now, I should’ve listed him as probable, and we didn’t, and I’ll take responsibility for that.” Tannenbaum called the league offices and spoke to Ray Anderson, the NFL’s executive vice president of football operations, about the issue. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello confirmed the league is looking into the situation. “I’ll just say that we’ll cooperate with them,” Tannenbaum said, “and we’ll go from there.” Favre led the Jets to a terrific start as the team soared into first place in the AFC East at 8-3 with consecutive road wins at New England and Tennessee. But Favre’s injury hampered him and he threw nine interceptions down the stretch as the team lost four of its last five games and missed the playoffs.

A bankruptcy judge raised the possibility Thursday of rejecting both bids to buy the Phoenix Coyotes. Judge Redfield T. Baum called the possibility “more than theoretical” during a marathon court hearing kicking off the two-day auction of the franchise. Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie’s bid is contingent on moving the team to Hamilton, Ontario, over the overwhelming opposition of the NHL. The other bid is by the NHL, which has said it will resell the team, either to an owner who would keep the team in Glendale or, failing that, to someone who would relocate the franchise. Balsillie and NHL commissioner Gary Bettman were in the crowded courtroom. Both had been scheduled to be questioned by attorneys on Friday. However, attorneys for the NHL and Glendale said at the end of Thursday’s hearing they would not need to question Balsillie. Bettman will be questioned by Balsillie’s aggressive attorney Jeff Kessler.

Juan Martin Del Potro was aching for a second crack at a Grand Slam semifinal, a second chance to prove he has what it takes to win at that stage. By early Thursday evening, he knew he’d get that opportunity at the U.S. Open, thanks to a wind-swept 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-1 quarterfinal victory over 16th-seeded Marin Cilic of Croatia. What the sixth-seeded Del Potro still did not know several hours later, as rain washed over Flushing Meadows: The opponent he will have to beat to reach his first Grand Slam final. That’s because the quarterfinal between six-time major champion Rafael Nadal and 2007 Australian Open runner-up Fernando Gonzalez was postponed by showers during the second set. The first delay, of about 75 minutes, came at 2-2 in the second set, after Nadal won the opening set in a tiebreaker. The second interruption came at about 10:20 p.m., with Nadal holding a 3-2 lead in the second-set tiebreaker. At midnight, tournament officials suspended play for the night, sending Nadal and Gonzalez home. And leaving Del Potro still waiting. The Nadal-Gonzalez match was scheduled to resume Friday, not before 2 p.m. — following the first women’s semifinal, between Serena Williams and Kim Clijsters, which was to begin at 12:30 p.m.