2001 at a glance

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September

 Sept. 1 -- Rafael Palmeiro drove in three runs for Texas, including a two-run homer in a 8-7 loss to Kansas City. Palmeiro became the fourth player in major league history to record seven straight seasons of at least 35 home runs and 100 RBIs. The other three are Jimmie Foxx (1932-40), Babe Ruth (1926-32) and Sammy Sosa (1995-2001).

 Sept. 1 -- Iowa's Aaron Greving tied an NCAA record by scoring touchdowns on three consecutive carries in a 51-0 victory over Kent State.

 Sept. 1 -- Florida Atlantic, led by former University of Miami coach Howard Schnellenberger, lost 40-7 to Slippery Rock in its first ever football game.

 Sept. 2 -- Michael Schumacher became the winningest driver in Formula One history, winning the Belgian Grand Prix for his 52nd career victory. Schumacher broke the mark shared with Alain Prost and clinched his fourth world championship two weeks earlier.

 Sept. 2 -- New York's Mike Mussina came within one strike of pitching the first perfect game in the 89-year history of Fenway Park in a 1-0 win over Boston. Mussina's bid was broken up by pinch-hitter Carl Everett's clean single. Mussina struck out 13 and finished with his fourth career one-hitter. It was the third time Mussina has taken a perfect game into bid into the eighth inning.

 Sept. 3 -- Bud Smith became the 16th rookie in modern history to throw a no-hitter and the second to do it to San Diego this season in St. Louis' 4-0 win. Smith was making his 11th career start.

 Sept. 3 -- Ausual Suspect overcame a sluggish start to win the $2 million All American Futurity, the world's richest quarter horse race. Ausual Suspect was 10th and last 100 yards into the 440-yard sprint. With jockey Dennis Means whipping him left-handed, the brown colt beat stablemate Tres Seis in the final jumps and won by a neck.

 Sept. 5 -- Alexei Yashin, who sat out an entire season in a contract dispute two years earlier, agreed to the longest deal in NHL history. The New York Islanders and the 27-year-old Russian came to terms on a 10-year contract worth $87.5 million.

 Sept. 5 -- Roger Clemens became just the second player in major league history to win 19 of his first 20 decisions, leading the New York Yankees over Toronto 4-3.

 Sept. 5 -- The Seattle Mariners posted their 100th victory with a 12-6 win over Tampa Bay. The Mariners (100-40) became the eighth team in major league history to reach the 100-win mark in 140 games.

 Sept. 6 -- Barry Bonds became the fifth player in baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season, connecting in the second inning of San Francisco's game against Arizona. He joined Babe Ruth (60 in 1927), Roger Maris (61 in 1961), Mark McGwire (70 in 1998; 65 in 1999) and Sammy Sosa (66 in 1998; 63 in 1999).

 Sept. 6 -- The NFL referees' union rejected the league's latest contract offer, and replacement officials worked the opening weekend of the regular season.

 Sept. 7 -- Venus Williams and Serena Williams reached the finals of the U.S. Open and became the first sisters to play for a Grand Slam championship in more than 100 years. Venus came from behind to defeat Jennifer Capriati 6-4, 6-2, after Serena powered her way past top-seeded Martina Hingis 6-3, 6-2 in 51 minutes.

 Sept. 7 -- Alex Rodriguez broke his own American League record for homers by a shortstop with his career-best 43rd as Texas beat Kansas City 8-2.

 Sept. 7 -- Michael Johnson anchored the United States 1,600-meter relay team to the gold medal at the Goodwill Games, the final championship race of his career. The medal added to Johnson's five Olympic gold medals and nine World Championships gold medals.

 Sept. 8 -- Eastern Kentucky's Roy Kidd joined seven other Division I coaches with 300 victories when the Colonels beat Liberty 30-7.

 Sept. 8 -- James King blocked four Michigan State punts -- two returned for touchdowns -- to tie a Division I-A record, but the Spartans beat Central Michigan 35-21.

 Sept. 8 -- Idaho State's 40-7 home victory over Montana Tech was shortened because of a blackout that hit the Pocatello, Idaho area. With 12:53 to play, the power went out at Holt Arena. Officials, holding flashlights, met with coaches at midfield before deciding to end the game. An announcement was then made over a bullhorn in the darkened indoor stadium that the game wouldn't be completed.

 Sept. 8 -- Georgia Southern's Adrian Peterson ran for 126 yards in a 38-7 win over Delaware to set an NCAA record for consecutive 100-yard, regular-season rushing games with 33. It was Peterson's 45th straight 100-yard game, including playoffs.

 Sept. 8 -- Venus Williams won her second consecutive U.S. Open title by beating her sister Serena 6-2, 6-4 in the first prime-time women's Grand Slam final. The match was the 10th between sisters in a Grand Slam match during the Open era, with the older sister winning every time. It was the first match between sisters for a Grand Slam crown since Maud Watson defeated Lillian Watson at Wimbledon in 1884.

 Sept. 9 -- Lleyton Hewitt ran down Pete Sampras to earn his first Grand Slam title, 7-6 (4), 6-1, 6-1 at the U.S. Open. The final was Hewitt's first and Sampras' 17th. This was the first year since 1992 Sampras has failed to win a major championship.

 Sept. 9 -- Barry Bonds hit three home runs to give him 63 for the season. The third homer was a three-run shot in the 11th inning that lifted the San Francisco Giants over the Colorado Rockies 9-4. Bonds broke Roger Maris' record of 61 for most homers in a season by a left-handed hitter.

 Sept. 11 -- Sports came to a standstill in the wake of terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, with major league baseball postponing a full schedule of regular-season games for the first time since D-Day in 1944.

 Sept. 13 -- The NFL canceled all 15 games of Week 2, saying it was a time to mourn. Major league baseball, several auto racing circuits, college football conferences and the country's largest soccer league all called off events. So did the PGA Tour and the LPGA. After the NFL announcement, the Big Ten, Big 12 and Southeastern conferences reversed field and postponed all of their college football games a day after announcing their teams would play. Major League Soccer canceled the last six games of its regular season.

 Sept. 15 -- Eight University of Wyoming cross country runners were killed in a head-on accident with a pickup truck driven by a fellow student. The athletes' sports utility vehicle struck a one-ton pickup truck that apparently swerved into the northbound lane of U.S. 287.

 Sept. 15 -- Alex Zanardi had his legs amputated following a wreck in the American Memorial 500 in Klettwitz, Germany. The 34-year-old Italian lost control of his car leaving pit lane and was struck broadside by Alex Tagliani's car, which was traveling about 200 mph.

 Sept. 16 -- The Ryder Cup was postponed for one year in the wake of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.

 Sept. 16 -- Jason Bohn shot a 13-under-par 58 at Huron Oaks Country Club to win the Canadian Tour's Bayer Championship by two strokes and go one below the best round ever shot in PGA Tour-sanctioned competition. Bohn matched the 58 shot by Shigeki Maruyama of Japan in qualifying for the 2000 U.S. Open at the par-71 Woodmont Country Club in Rockville, Md. The recognized record of 59 was set by David Duval, Chip Beck and Al Geiberger on the PGA Tour; Doug Dunakey and Notah Begay on the Nike Tour; and Annika Sorenstam on the LPGA Tour.

 Sept. 19 -- Vladimir Guerrero hit his 34th homer to reach 100 RBIs for the fourth straight season as Montreal beat Florida 5-2 before the second-smallest crowd (2,887) in Olympic Stadium history.

 Sept. 19 -- NFL officials ratified a contract agreed to on Sept. 16 and would be back on the field Sept. 23. Replacement officials worked the final week of the preseason and the first week of the regular season.

 Sept. 19 -- Roger Clemens became the first pitcher in major league history to go 20-1, pitching the New York Yankees to a 6-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox.

 Sept. 19 -- Albert Pujols set a National League rookie RBI record as St. Louis beat Milwaukee 8-2. Pujols drove in three runs to give him 120 RBIs, breaking the mark of 119 set by Wally Berger in 1930 for the Boston Braves.

 Sept. 21 -- Albert Pujols hit a grand slam and doubled in a run in St. Louis' 9-5 win over Pittsburgh. The slam gave him the major league record for extra base hits by a rookie (83), one more than Johnny Frederick's total for Brooklyn in 1929.

 Sept. 23 -- Alex Rodriguez hit his 48th home run, breaking Ernie Banks' major league record for shortstops and lifting Texas to a 5-2 win over Anaheim.

 Sept. 23 -- Sammy Sosa became the first player to hit three home runs in a game three times in a season, but Moises Alou's two-run shot rallied Houston to a 7-6 victory over the Chicago Cubs.

 Sept. 23 -- Peyton Manning of Indianapolis passed for 421 yards and tied a career-high with four touchdown passes in a 42-26 win over Buffalo. He also had a 1-yard scamper in the third quarter.

 Sept. 24 -- Green Bay's 37-0 shutout of Washington ended the Redskins' NFL record of scoring in 231 consecutive road games.

 Sept. 24 -- Pittsburgh rookie Craig Wilson tied a major league record with his seventh pinch-hit homer in a 7-6 win over the Cubs. All but one of Wilson's eight pinch hits are homers. Until Dave Hansen hit seven pinch homers for the Dodgers last season, no major leaguer had hit more than six since Johnny Frederick did it for Brooklyn in 1932.

 Sept. 24 -- Tuffy Rhodes, an outfielder for the Kintetsu Buffaloes, hit his 55th home run to tie the Japanese record set by the great Sadaharu Oh in 1964. Rhodes had spent six undistinguished seasons in the majors.

 Sept. 25 -- Michael Jordan announced he will play again in the NBA -- and not just for one season, but two. The 38-year-old Jordan announced he would play for the Washington Wizards through 2003 and donate his first year's salary -- $1 million -- to victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

 Sept. 25 -- The New York Yankees clinched their fourth straight AL East title when Boston lost to Baltimore. The Yankees went on and lost themselves, 4-0 to Tampa Bay. Roger Clemens (20-2) lost for the first time since May 20 at Seattle, ending a 16-game winning streak.

 Sept. 25 -- Richie Sexson and Jeromy Burnitz became the first teammates to hit three home runs apiece in a game as Milwaukee defeated Arizona 9-4. Burnitz hit solo shots in the second, fourth and sixth innings. Sexson had his first career three-homer game and drove in five runs.

 Sept. 25 -- Bret Boone drove in four runs as Seattle set an AL record with their 56th road victory, 13-2 over Texas. The Mariners improved to 56-21 on the road, breaking the league mark set by the 1971 Oakland Athletics.

 Sept. 26 -- Philadelphia's Randy Wolf pitched a one-hitter and struck out eight in an 8-0 shutout of Cincinnati.

 Sept. 27 -- Randy Johnson struck out 16 for his 20th victory as Arizona held on to beat Milwaukee 13-11.

 Sept. 27 -- An Ohio State soccer player died after collapsing during a match at the University of Akron. Amy Myers, Ohio State's team physician for soccer, said it appeared that 18-year-old freshman Connor Senn died from some type of heart problem even though he had no history of coronary illness.

 Sept. 28 -- Barry Bonds hit his 68th homer and drew his 164th walk -- an NL record -- as San Francisco beat San Diego 10-5.

 Sept. 28 -- Alex Rodriguez of Texas hit his 50th homer in an 11-2 victory over Anaheim and became the 20th player to hit 50 homers in a season.

 Sept. 29 -- Fred McGriff, Rondell White and Todd Hundley homered on successive first-inning pitches as Chicago beat Houston 6-2.

 Sept. 29 -- Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki set the major league rookie record for hits in a season but the Mariners fell to Oakland 8-4. Suzuki got his 234th hit breaking the previous rookie mark, set by Shoeless Joe Jackson with Cleveland in 1911. He also tied the AL record of 187 singles in a season, set by Boston's Wade Boggs in 1985.

 Sept. 29 -- Indiana's Antwaan Randle El became the first quarterback in NCAA Division I-A history to rush for 3,000 yards and pass for 6,000 yards in the Hoosiers 27-14 loss to Ohio State.

 Sept. 29 -- Bernard Hopkins stopped Felix Trinidad in the 12th round at Madison Square Garden in New York. Hopkins (40-2-1) went into the ring as the IBF and WBC middleweight champion, and won the WBA title from Trinidad (40-0-1).