FedEx Cup finale...Cards-Reds this afternoon...Davenport wins again

ATLANTA (AP) Round one of the PGA Tour Championship is under way at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. It's the finale of the inaugural FedEx Cup competition.

CINCINNATI (AP) The only matinee on today's abbreviated major league schedule has the Cincinnati Reds hosting the St. Louis Cardinals. The visiting Redbirds have dropped seven straight and have fallen four games back of co-leaders Chicago and Milwaukee in the National League Central race.

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) Lindsay Davenport beat fellow American Julie Ditty 6-1, 6-4 in today's second-round play at the Bali Open. It was just the second singles match in nearly a year for the former world number one, who took time off to have a baby.

BEIJING (AP) U.S. Open semifinalist Nikolay Davydenko (NIH'-koh-ly dah-vee-DENK'-oh) failed to make it to the quarterfinals of this week's China Open, dropping today's second-round match to an unseeded player from Croatia. The loss in Beijing comes ahead of the Russian's expected meeting with investigators after a British online gambling company tracked bettors putting 10 times the usual amount of money on a match he played in August.

PARIS (AP) Championship leader Lewis Hamilton joined team officials at a hearing today that could lead to heavy sanctions against McLaren in the Formula One spy scandal. The World Motor Sports Council is meeting for the second time in two months to consider allegations that McLaren used secret technical documents acquired from F1 rival Ferrari.

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