Motor sports
JINXED EFFORT: Mechanical ailments continued to reduce the battle for the land speed record to a skirmish in the Nevada desert.
For American Craig Breedlove, it's a fuel pump.
"We have been chasing a gremlin," he said Sunday after pushing his Spirit of America to 381 mph.
For Briton Andy Green, it's hydraulics and a balky computer.
"You build the world's most complex car, you expect things like this," he said on Saturday.
Green's boss, Richard Noble, 51, is the fastest man on wheels at 633.47 mph, set here nearly 14 years ago. Green, 35, and Breedlove, 60, are trading off runs on the 13-mile track across a dry lake bed 125 miles north of Reno.
Breedlove had to replace the first engine in his jet-powered car after it ingested a motor bolt but was scavenging the remains on Sunday for the fuel pump. It was being flown to Reno. He also had a vibration from the fine sand that was pulled into his wheel bearings from the desert.
The Thrust SSC car driven by Green, a Royal Air Force pilot, shut down 1.4 miles into Saturday's run.
Tennis
SELES TRIUMPHS: Monica Seles got the drop on Arantxa Sanchez Vicario - finally.
"Every time she hit a drop shot, I came back with a winner," Sanchez Vicario said. "I was surprised she did that on match point. It bounced very weird. I tried to go, and the ball went the other way."
On her fourth match point, the top-seeded Seles tried yet another drop shot. This one resulted in a 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (7-5) Toyota Princess Cup triumph, her fourth title in the Tokyo tournament.
For the second straight year, Seles beat Sanchez Vicario in the final. She also won in 1991 and '92.
To win, Seles pulled a page out from Sanchez Vicario's playbook.
After being yanked from side-to-side by Seles' groundstrokes from the baseline, Sanchez Vicario began frustrating her opponent by retrieving everything and counter-punching with slices, drop shots and timely serving.
Baseball
STRIKEOUT MARK SET: Philadelphia's Curt Schilling struck out eight Sunday to equal the National League record for strikeouts by a right-hander, tying the mark of 313 set by J.R. Richard in 1979.
Schilling, who started Sunday against the Chicago Cubs, had to battle to get the record.
He gave up three home runs in the Cubs fifth inning - a pair of two-run shots by Lance Johnson and Mark Grace and a solo homer by Dave Hansen - before he got Brant Brown on a called third strike for No. 313.
Schilling gave up 10 hits over five innings before he was pulled for Ron Blazier.
Schilling did set a Phillies team strikeout record, breaking the old mark of 310 by left-hander Steve Carlton in 1972. Carlton is the only other Phillie pitcher to strike out 300 in one season.
Schilling notched his 311th strikeout when he got Sammy Sosa, the NL leader in strikeouts, to end the third inning. It was Sosa's second strikeout in the game and 167th this season.
SMILEY BREAKS ARM: Cleveland pitcher John Smiley is spending a couple of days in a Kansas City hotel before flying home to Pittsburgh, his season finished by a broken arm.
"He just didn't feel like traveling," Cleveland traveling secretary Mike Seghi said. "He wants to get home. But he's going to take it easy. He was in some discomfort still."
When the bone in the upper part of his left arm snapped Saturday night, Smiley, 32, was in sudden agony. He was throwing a curveball, finishing his warmups and about to make his first start since Aug. 30 after a bout with tendinitis of the left shoulder and elbow.
Bystanders were almost sickened by the sight.
"He threw the pitch and you could hear an enormous crack," pitching coach Mark Wiley said. "He screamed, grabbed his arm. We just kind of held him until the trainers could get out there for him. It almost made me sick. I've heard of it happening before, but I've never experienced that before."
"My stomach turned," said relief pitcher Jason Jacome.
Football
STARR ECLIPSED: In just over five seasons, Brett Favre has supplanted Bart Starr as Green Bay's leader in career touchdown passes - a record it took Starr 16 seasons to set.
Favre's second of five TD tosses Sunday gave him 153, one better than Starr. Favre added three more as Green Bay held on to beat Minnesota 38-32.
Starr, a Hall of Famer whose Packers teams were known for their ground attack, took 191 games to reach his total of 152 TD passes.
Favre took just 83 games to top Starr but gave credit to his team's pass-oriented offense.
Favre hit Antonio Freeman with a 28-yard pass with 10:51 remaining in the second quarter to break Starr's record, set between 1956 and 1971.
Play was stopped so an official could present Favre the football.
Basketball
WALTON SHUNS UTAH: Luke Walton, son of NBA great Bill Walton, has committed to play basketball for defending champion Arizona. That means he'll be competing against his father's alma mater, UCLA.
"My dad didn't put any pressure on me to go to UCLA or anywhere else," Walton said. "He respects coach (Lute) Olson very much, so he was very happy when I told him I was going to Arizona."
Walton, a 6-foot-8, 200-pound forward, attended San Diego University High School and is highly rated by many recruiting services. David Benezra's Recruiting USA rates Walton the 13th-best prospect in Southern California.
Walton also was recruited by Utah, Boston College and Southern California. UCLA recruited him late and was never a serious candidate.