Golf: In the final day's play in the 2004 Ryder Cup, Lee Westwood sinks the putt that ensures that Europe retains the Ryder Cup, and Colin Montgomerie sinks the putt that gives Team Europe an outright victory, as the European team defeats the United States of America 18˝ to 9˝. (BBC)
Golf: After the second day's play in the 2004 Ryder Cup, Europe leads the United States 11-5. The U.S. took the morning's fourballs 2˝ to 1˝, and Europe won the afternoon's foursomes 3-1. Europe needs just three points from Sunday's twelve singles matches to retain the trophy. (BBC)
Golf: Europe leads the United States 6˝ to 1˝ at the end of the first day of the 35th Ryder Cup Matches at Oakland Hills Country Club in suburban Detroit. Europe led the morning's fourball matches 3˝ to ˝ and extended the lead by taking the afternoon foursomes 3 matches to 1. (BBC)(BBC)
Baseball: Frank Francisco of the Texas Rangers gets suspended for the rest of the season, stemming from an altercation where he hit a woman on her nose with a chair in a game against the Oakland A's.
Football (soccer): UEFA announce that their disciplinary panel will meet on 21 September to determine AS Roma's punishment for the violence which caused last night's UEFA Champions League match against Dynamo Kyiv to be abandoned at half time. When there was violence at Roma's ground two years ago at a Champions League match against Galatasaray, also refereed by Anders Frisk, Roma were fined about €350 thousand, leading to speculation that there will be a more severe punishment this time. (BBC)
Match abandoned at half time when referee Anders Frisk was struck by an object. Kyiv were leading 1–0. On September 21, a UEFA disciplinary panel gave Kyiv a 3–0 forfeit win.
Baseball: Barry Bonds does not become the third player in baseball history to hit 700 home-runs by going one for one with a single against the Arizona Diamondbacks, but he does break his own record for walks in a single season, getting three walks to top the 198 walks he had in 2002, in a Giants 5-3 win.
Lisa Leslie of the Los Angeles Sparks records the WNBA's third triple-double in history, scoring 29 points, grabbing 15 rebounds and tying the WNBA's record of ten blocked shots in one game, as the Sparks defeat the defending champion Detroit Shock, 81-63, in Los Angeles. (WNBA)
Vijay Singh wins golf's Deutsche Bank Championship to go to the top of the world rankings. He ends Tiger Woods reign of five years and four weeks. (BBC)
Horse racing: In early morning raids by 130 officers in three counties, British police arrest three jockeys including champion jockey Kieren Fallon, a trainer, and twelve other people as part of a long-running investigation into race-fixing. (BBC)
