Kyle Busch on top in Phoenix
Kyle Busch won yesterday’s NASCAR race in Avondale, Ariz., tying Kevin Harvick for the most victories this season (eight) and setting up a headto-head battle for the series crown.
Busch’s victory at ISM Raceway outside of Phoenix was the final qualifying event for next week’s finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Harvick was the favorite to win and started from the pole, but an early flat tire made the race more eventful than he expected.
The final four for the title are Busch, Harvick, reigning series champion Martin Truex Jr. and Joey Logano . ...
Lewis Hamilton won the Formula One Brazilian Grand Prix in Sao Paulo, helping his Mercedes team take the constructors’ title.
Colleges: BC hangs on
Ky Bowman scored 26 points, Jordan Chatman had four key free throws and finished with 18 points and Boston College pulled away from pesky St. Francis Brooklyn for a 74-69 home victory.
Freshman Wynston Tabbs scored 14 of his 15 points in the second half for the Eagles (2-0). Nik Popovic added 10 points and 10 rebounds.
Jordan Guest scored 15 points, Jack Hemphill added 14 with 12 rebounds and host BU routed Emerson, 94-57 . ... Louisville fired football coach Bobby Petrino with two games left in a spiraling season that includes five blowout losses allowing at least 50 points . ...
The top of the AP Top 25 — Alabama as a unanimous No. 1 followed by Clemson, Notre Dame, Michigan and Georgia — was unchanged.
Golf: Kuchar finally wins
Matt Kuchar ended more than four years without a PGA Tour victory by closing with a 2-under-par 69 and holding on to win the Mayakoba Golf Classic in Playa del Carmen, Mexico . ...
Lee Westwood shot a 64, coming from behind to win the Nedbank Challenge in Sun City, South Africa, denying Sergio Garcia a wire-to-wire victory . ... Vijay Singh rallied from 6 shots back with a 10-under 61 to win the final Champions Tour event in Phoenix, but Bernhard Langer captured the Charles Schwab Cup and its $1 million bonus for the fourth straight season.
Misc.: MLB stars roll
Yadier Molina and J.T. Realmuto both homered to lead the MLB All-Stars to a 7-3 rout of Japan in Tokyo for their first win of the six-game exhibition series . ...
Katerina Siniakova beat Sofia Kenin for the clinching point and the Czech Republic beat the United States in Prague for its sixth Fed Cup tennis title.