Friday, September 14, 2001
List of postponed sports events
Selected sports events canceled or postponed because of Tuesday's terrorist attacks:
AUTO RACING — NASCAR postponed the New Hampshire 300 and the Craftsman Trucks Silverado 350 in Fort Worth, Texas scheduled for Sunday. NASCAR also canceled the Featherlite Modified Tour and Busch North Series races in Loudon, N.H. and the Raybestos Brakes Northwest Series in Idaho all scheduled for Saturday. The IRL Chevy 500 in Fort Worth, Texas scheduled for Sunday was postponed. NHRA postponed the Keystone Nationals in Reading, Pa., until Oct. 4-7.
BASEBALL — Major League Baseball postponed all games (91) Tuesday through Sunday. The International, Pacific Coast, Eastern, Southern, California, Midwest, Florida State, and New York-Penn leagues canceled the remainder of their championship series. Other leagues still in playoffs postponed games through Thursday.
NFL — Called off all games for Week 2, 14 games scheduled for Sunday and the Monday night game.
NHL — Canceled the 23 preseason games scheduled for Saturday and Sunday.
BOXING — The undisputed middleweight title fight between Felix Trinidad and Bernard Hopkins, scheduled for Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York, was postponed.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL — All Division I-A games scheduled for Thursday, Friday and Saturday were postponed, including La.-Monroe at Cincinnati, San Diego State at Ohio State and Kentucky at Indiana. Four games were canceled: Navy at Northwestern, Marshall at TCU, Bowling Green at South Carolina, and Appalachian State at Troy State. All but 8 Division I-AA games were postponed for Saturday and 10 games were canceled.
OTHER COLLEGE SPORTS — The Atlantic Coast Conference postponed all events through Thursday. The Big West Conference postponed all events through Thursday and any events involving air travel through Saturday. The Mid-American postponed all conference competition through Saturday. The Big East, Metro Atlantic Athletic, Pac-10 postponed all conference competition through the weekend.
GOLF — All four PGA Tour-sanctioned events, the American Express Championship, Tampa Bay Classic, Vantage Championship and Buy.com Oregon Classic, were canceled. The LPGA canceled the Safeway Classic at Portland, Ore.
HORSE RACING — The Thoroughbred Racing Association canceled all its cards Tuesday, and Wednesday's racing was called off at Arlington Park, Pimlico Race Course and Turfway Park. Belmont Park and Yonkers Raceway, both in New York, called off their cards through Friday.
SOCCER — Major League Soccer canceled the final 10 games of the regular season which were scheduled over Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. A-League playoff games scheduled for this week were postponed. In Europe, 40 UEFA Cup games scheduled for Thursday were postponed.
TENNIS — The BNP Paribas Masters of the Champion's Tour, the season-end championship, scheduled for Sept. 18-23 in New York, was postponed. Six Intercollegiate Tennis Association-sanctioned tennis tournaments scheduled for Sept. 14-16 were postponed. The host schools were: NC State; Cornell; Arkansas; Rice; South Florida and Penn State.
INTERNATIONAL EVENTS — The ICF Slalom World Championships, scheduled for Sept. 20-23 on the Ocoee (Tenn.) River was canceled. U.S. Speedskating canceled plans to send the short-track team to China and Japan. The 16-member team (10 athletes) was scheduled to leave Saturday for World Cup meets in Changchun, China, Sept. 21-23 and in Nobeyama, Japan, Sept. 28-30. The Junior Grand Prix figure skating event scheduled for Scottsdale, Ariz. on Sept. 19-23 was postponed. A total of 75 skaters from 19 countries were scheduled to compete. The Indian government indefinitely postponed the inaugural Afro-Asian Games scheduled to be held in New Dehli, Nov. 3-11.
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List of postponed sports events
