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2B – Daily News – Friday, October 29, 2010 UFC absorbs lower-weight WEC, adds 2 championships LOS ANGELES (AP) — The UFC absorbed its lower-weight World Extreme Cagefighting pro- motion on Thursday, adding two championship belts and about 70 fighters to mixed martial arts’ dominant pro- motion. UFC president Dana White is eager to showcase the WEC’s fighters at 155 pounds and under to a larger audience on the UFC’s higher-profile shows, putting every fighter under contract to the UFC’s parent company under a single banner. ‘‘What’s exciting for these lighter-weight guys, they’re finally on the biggest stage in the world now,’’ GIANTS (Continued from page 1B) Derek Holland relieved with a man on and forced in a run with three straight walks, the last to Aubrey Huff, and Mark Lowe forced in another run with a walk to Uribe. Renteria, whose 11th- inning single won Game 7 of the 1997 Series for Florida against Cleve- land, followed with a two-run single to left. Pinch-hitter Aaron Rowand hit a two-run triple against Michael Kirkman, and Andres Torres doubled in a run. Cain allowed four hits in 7 2-3 innings, struck out two and walked two — one intentional. With the Giants ahead 2-0, left- handed specialist Javier Lopez retired Josh Hamil- ton on a lazy flyout to strand a runner on second in the eighth. As fans stood cheer- ing, Guillermo Mota completed the four-hitter. Forty of the previous 51 teams to take a 2-0 lead have gone on to win the title, including seven straight and 13 of the last 14. The last to overcome a 2-0 deficit was the 1996 New York Yankees against Atlanta. The Giants have won each time they took a 2-0 lead: in 1922, 1933 and 1954. San Francisco improved to 11-0 against Texas at AT&T Park and got its third shutout in nine postseason wins. The Giants sent the high- octane Rangers offense to its first shutout since Sept. 23. But after a day off, the Series resumes for the first time in Arlington, Texas. Colby Lewis starts Game 3 for the Rangers on Saturday night against Jonathan Sanchez. Much of the pitching buzz coming into the Series was over Texas’ Cliff Lee, who had been unbeaten in postseason play before getting hit hard Wednesday. Cain has been even sharper, pitching 21 1-3 innings in three postsea- son starts without allow- ing any earned runs. Sparkling but not surpris- ing, given the Giants led the major leagues in ERA during the regular season. Cain credited rookie catcher Buster Posey. ‘‘I think it’s a little bit of everything,’’ Cain said. ‘‘Buster’s doing a great job of putting down the right fingers. He’s been calling the right pitches.’’ Cain pitched out of trouble a few times against Texas, which went 0 for 9 with runners in scoring position. Ian Kinsler’s drive on an 0-2 pitch leading off the fifth hit flush off the top of the fence, just to the left of the 399-foot sign in center field, bounded up and was caught by Torres, who held him to a double. At first it was unclear whether the ball had gone over the wall, but relays showed umpires got the call correct. Kinsler was stranded when David Murphy lined to shortstop, Matt White said. ‘‘A lot of people haven’t seen the lighter guys, and when we move these guys up into the UFC, I think people are going to be glad to see them.’’ The merger will happen gradually in 2011, with every WEC employee mov- ing over to work for the UFC, which has more than 200 fighters under contract. ‘‘It’s always been our goal to have every weight class,’’ White said. ‘‘We’re looking at taking everybody in right now. We like to have those divisions deep. We’ll be bringing in more guys, too.’’ Jose Aldo, the WEC’s dominant 145-pound cham- pion, will be recognized as Treanor grounded to shortstop and — follow- ing an intentional walk — Wilson grounded weakly to first. Renteria led off the bottom half by pulling an 0-1 pitch at the letters down the left-field line, where it landed about eight rows deep, next to an alleyway. Renteria had gone 53 straight at-bats without a home run since connecting off the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Ted Lilly on Sept. 4 and had not homered at AT&T Park since July 27 against Florida’s Brian Sanches. One-out singles by Michael Young and Hamilton followed by a wild pitch put runners at second and third in the sixth. But Nelson Cruz fouled out to first and Kinsler popped out to short right. Washington made a few changes after a slop- py defeat in the opener. He benched Vladimir Guerrero, who made two errors in right field. Cruz shifted to his regular spot in right, with Murphy replacing Cruz in left. Treanor took over from Bengie Molina behind the plate. Elvis Andrus and Cruz failed to get hits, stopping their 12-game postseason hitting streak. NOTES: Former 49ers QB Joe Montana was at the game and was shown on the videboard, as was Journey’s Steve Perry... The ceremonial first pitch was thrown out by Megan Armstrong and Nancy Mitchell, daughters of Bobby Thomson, who died in August. Thomson’s Shot Heard Round the World won the 1951 NL pennant for the New York Giants over the Brooklyn Dodgers. ... Texas hadn’t forced in two runs in an inning with bases-loaded walks since Rich Harden did it on April 7 against Toronto, according to STATS LLC. WORLD SERIES San Francisco leads series 1-0 Game 1:San Francisco 11, Texas 7 Game 2 Thursday’s result San Francisco 9, Texas 0 Game 3 Saturday San Francisco (Sanchez 13-9) at Texas (Lewis 12-13), 3:57 p.m. Game 4:Sunday, at Texas, 5:50 p.m. Game 5:Monday, Nov.1 at Texas, 4:57 p.m. Game 6:Wednesday, Nov.7 at S.F., 4:57 p.m. Game 7:Thursday, Nov.4 at S.F., 4:57 p.m. the UFC featherweight champ, while WEC 135- pound champion Dominick Cruz will fight Scott Jor- gensen on Dec. 16 for the new UFC bantamweight title. WEC lightweight champion Ben Henderson will fight the winner of UFC 155-pound champ Frankie Edgar’s Jan. 1 bout with Gray Maynard. The UFC bought the WEC in December 2006 and ran it as a separate pro- motion, eliminating two higher-weight WEC belts in December 2008 but keeping overlapping lightweight MLS First Round Playoffs Home-and-home New York vs. San Jose Saturday: at San Jose, 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4: at New York, 5 p.m. Columbus vs. Colorado Thursday’s result:Colorado 1, Columbus 0 Saturday, Nov. 6: at Columbus, 1 p.m. Real Salt Lake vs. FC Dallas Saturday: at Dallas, 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 6: at Real Salt Lake, 7 p.m. Los Angeles vs. Seattle Sunday: at Seattle, 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7: at Los Angeles, 6 p.m. NCAABASKETBALL Preseason Top Twenty Five By The Associated Press The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’pre- season 2010-11 college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, final 2009-10 record, total points based on 25 points for a first- place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and 2009-10 final ranking: Record Pts Pvs 35-5 1.Duke (55) NBA WESTERN CONFERENCE Pacific Division WARRIORS 101.000 — Lakers WL Pct GB 1 0 1.000 — KINGS 101.000 — Clippers 0 1 .000 1 Phoenix 0 1 .000 1 Southwest Division WL Pct GB 1 0 1.000 — Dallas New Orleans 1 0 1.000 — San Antonio 1 0 1.000 — Memphis 0 1 .000 1 Houston 0 2 .000 1.5 Northwest Division WL Pct GB Portland 2 0 1.000 — Denver 1 0 1.000 .5 Okla. City 1 0 1.000 .5 Minnesota 0 1 .000 1.5 Utah 0 1 .000 1.5 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division WL Pct GB New Jersey 1 0 1.000 — New York 1 0 1.000 — Boston 1 1 .500 .5 Philadelphia 0 1 .000 1 Toronto 0 1 .000 1 Southeast Division WL Pct GB 1 0 1.000 — Atlanta Orlando 1 0 1.000 — Miami Charlotte 0 1 .000 1 Washington 0 1 .000 1 Central Division WL Pct GB Cleveland 1 0 1.000 — Chicago 0 1 .000 1 Detroit 0 1 .000 1 Indiana 0 1 .000 1 Milwaukee 0 1 .000 1 ————————————————— Thursday’s results Orlando 112, Washington 83 Phoenix at Utah, 7:30 p.m., late Today’s games Sacramento at New Jersey,4 p.m.,CSNC Clippers at Golden State,7:30 p.m.,CSNB Atlanta at Philadelphia, 4 p.m. Cleveland at Toronto, 4 p.m. Indiana at Charlotte, 4 p.m. New York at Boston, 4:30 p.m. Denver at New Orleans, 5 p.m. Milwaukee at Minnesota, 5 p.m. Oklahoma City at Detroit, 5 p.m. Orlando at Miami, 5 p.m., ESPN Memphis at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 7:30 p.m., ESPN Wednesday’s late results Golden State 132, Houston 128 Portland 98, L.A. Clippers 88 1 1 .500 .5 ODDS Glantz-Culver Line For Oct.29 World Series Saturday at Texas -130SanFrancisco + 120 NCAAFootball Today West Virginia 6 (45.5) atConnecticut Saturday at Cincinnati OFF(OFF) at Southern Miss. 9.5 (53.5) at Illinois Miami at Pittsburgh at Iowa at Maryland N.Illinois 17 (42) 15 (51) 9.5 (56) Northwestern 3 (59) Clemson Syracuse UAB Purdue at Virginia Louisville 6.5 (50.5) MichiganSt. at Indiana 7(41) at BostonCollege 5.5 (51.5) WakeForest 8.5 (54) atW.Michigan at South Carolina 17.5(49) Tennessee at Arkansas 20.5 (54.5) Vanderbilt at Mississippi St. 6.5(56.5) Kentucky Auburn at Texas at Iowa St. at Temple at Kent St. 7 (60.5) atMississippi 7.5 (53.5) 19 (56.5) 29.5 (48.5) 10 (43) 3 (52) 8 (53.5) Baylor Kansas Akron BallSt. San Diego St. 10(48.5) atWyoming at Notre Dame 8.5(62.5) at Marshall SMU Tulsa UTEP at Tulane NHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Pacific Division Kings Dallas WL OT Pts GF GA 7 3 0 14 31 24 5 4 0 10 28 27 SHARKS 43 1 9 24 23 Phoenix 3 3 3 9 23 26 Ducks Central Division 4 5 1 9 26 35 WL OT Pts GF GA Nashville 5 1 3 13 21 20 Chicago 6 4 1 13 32 29 St. Louis 5 1 2 12 22 14 Columbus 6 3 0 12 23 24 Detroit Calgary 6 3 0 12 26 21 Minnesota 4 3 2 10 25 24 Vancouver 4 3 2 10 24 24 Colorado 4 4 1 9 28 33 Edmonton 2 4 2 6 21 29 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division WL OT Pts GF GA FOOTBALL Week 9 Schedule Today’s games Biggs at Los Molinos, 7:30 p.m. Central Valley at Corning, 7:30 p.m. Red Bluff at Oroville, 7:30 p.m. Anderson at West Valley, 7:30 p.m. Chester at Maxwell, 7:30 p.m. Chico at Foothill, 7:30 p.m. Durham at Mt. Shasta, 7:30 p.m. Esparto at East Nicolaus, 7:30 p.m. Fall River at Modoc, 7:30 p.m. Gridley at Winters, 7:30 p.m. Hamilton at Colusa, 7:30 p.m. Las Plumas at Lassen, 7:30 p.m. Pleasant Valley at Enterprise, 7:30 p.m. Shasta at Paradise, 7:30 p.m. Sutter at Wheatland, 7:30 p.m. Tulelake at Burney,k 7:30 p.m. University Prep at Live Oak, 7:30 p.m. Weed at Etna, 7:30 p.m. Williams at Quincy, 7:30 p.m. Willows at Pierce, 7:30 p.m. Yreka at Orland, 7:30 p.m. Today’s 8-man games Big Valley at Dunmsuir, 5 p.m. Happy Camp at Butte Valley, 6 p.m. Hayfork at Greenville, 7 p.m. Herlong at Champion Christian, 7 p.m. Loyalton at Elk Creek, 6 p.m. Princeton at Westwood, 7 p.m. Saturday’s game St. Bernard’s at Portola, 2 p.m. Pittsburgh 5 4 1 11 30 25 N.Y. Islanders4 3 2 10 29 28 N.Y. Rangers 4 3 1 9 26 26 Philadelphia 4 4 1 9 25 24 New Jersey 2 7 1 5 17 35 Northeast Division WL OT Pts GF GA Montreal 6 2 1 13 25 21 Toronto 5 3 1 11 23 21 Boston Ottawa Buffalo 5 2 0 10 20 11 4 5 1 9 26 31 3 6 1 7 27 30 Southeast Division WL OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 6 2 1 13 32 30 Washington 6 4 0 12 27 23 Atlanta Carolina 4 4 0 8 21 24 Florida ————————————————— Thursday’s results Boston 2, Toronto 0 Columbus 3, Edmonton 2, SO Los Angeles 5, Dallas 2 Minnesota 2, Washington 1 Ottawa 5, Florida 3 Phoenix 4, Detroit 2 St. Louis 3, Nashville 0 Colorado at Calgary, late Today’s games Carolina at N.Y. Rangers, 4 p.m. Montreal at N.Y. Islanders, 4 p.m. Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m., NHLN Buffalo at Atlanta, 4:30 p.m. Edmonton at Chicago, 5:30 p.m., CSNC New Jersey at Anaheim, 7 p.m. Wednesday’s late result San Jose 5, New Jersey 2 4 4 1 9 29 33 3 5 0 6 21 20 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. at Charlotte at Toronto at Boston Milwaukee Denver at Dallas at N.Y.Jets at St.Louis at Cincinnati at Cent.Michigan 11.5(51.5) Bowling Green Stanford Georgia-x at UCF Arizona Oklahoma St. 5 (66.5) at Kansas St. at Nebraska 7.5 (55.5) at Oklahoma 23.5 (54.5) Miami (Ohio) 2.5 (45) 13.5 (55) at Nevada San Jose St. 7 (63) atWashington 2.5 (47.5) Florida 7 (53.5) EastCarolina 9 (49.5) atUCLA Missouri Colorado at Buffalo at Texas A&M 7 (59) Texas Tech at Navy Toledo 10.5 (56.5) at E.Michigan 26 (60) UtahSt. at Colorado St. 16 (52) NewMexico at Oregon St. 2.5 (53) at Arizona St. 21 (57) WashingtonSt. Houston Utah 14(58.5) atMemphis 7 (54.5) 5 2 1 11 25 22 Northwest Division WL OT Pts GF GA Ohio St. Michigan Oregon TCU at Hawaii at Ohio 25.5 (54.5) at Minnesota 3 (53) 14.5 (64.5) 3(46.5) atNew Mexico St. California 7 (70) atSouthern Cal 35(54.5) Idaho at W.Kentucky 6 (52) NorthTexas Troy Fla.International 4.5(47.5) atFla.Atlantic x-at Jacksonville, Fla.Off Key Cincinnati QB questionable NFL Sunday San Francisco-x 1 (41.5) at Dallas at Detroit at Kansas City 7.5 (46) at New England 6 (44) at New Orleans 1 (44) Monday at Indianapolis 5.5 (50) x-at London Off Key Minnesota QB questionable NBA Today at New Jersey 4 Atlanta 5 2 3 8 Oklahoma City 5 at Miami at Golden State 5 L.A.Lakers 6.5 3 10 4 Indiana Sacramento atPhiladelphia Cleveland New York at Detroit Orlando 1 atNewOrleans L.A.Clippers NHL Today at N.Y.Islanders-130 at Pittsburgh -155 at N.Y.Rangers-130 Buffalo -115 at Chicago -280 at Anaheim -125 Montreal+110 Philadelphia+135 Carolina+110 at Atlanta -105 Edmonton+230 NewJersey +105 atMinnesota Memphis atPhoenix Denver 6.5 (42.5) Jacksonville 2.5(44.5) Washington 6 (42.5) Green Bay 3 (37) 2 (43.5) Carolina Miami Buffalo at San Diego 3 .5 (44) Tennessee at Arizona at Oakland 3 (39.5) Tampa Bay 2.5 (42) Minnesota Pittsburgh Houston Seattle 14 .5 (52.5) La.-Lafayette 16(55) at Louisiana-Monroe at Air Force atPenn St. at UNLV Sunday, 1:15 p.m., FOX OPENING LINE — Oakland by 1 1/2 RECORD VS. SPREAD — Seattle 4-2, Oakland 3-4 SERIES RECORD — Raiders lead 28-24 LAST MEETING — Seahawks beat Raiders 16-0, Nov. 6, 2006 LAST WEEK — Seahawks beat Cardinals 22-10; Raiders beat Broncos 59-14 SEATTLE OFFENSE — OVERALL (27), RUSH (24), PASS (20) SEATTLE DEFENSE — OVERALL (19), RUSH (2), PASS (29) PASS (25) RAIDERS OFFENSE — OVERALL (14), RUSH (3), RAIDERS DEFENSE — OVERALL (16), RUSH (28), PASS (5) STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES — Teams have met only twice since Seattle left AFC West following 2001 season, splitting two games. ... Seattle WR Mike Williams has 32 catches in six games. He had just seven in six games with Raiders in 2007. ... Seahawks allowing just 3.3 yards per carry, second best mark in the NFL. ... Seat- tle K Olindo Mare has made 30 straight FG attempts, tied for sixth longest streak ever. ... Seahawks have allowed just eight TDs in 23 trips inside 20 by opposition, third best mark in NFL. ... Oakland became just fourth team since 1970 merger to score at least eight touchdowns a week after being held to zero. Last team to accomplish that feat, the 2007 Eagles, followed the outburst with another zero touchdown performance. ... Raiders have not won consecutive games since end of 2008 season. Oak- land 0-7 following wins past two years, being outscored by 19 points per game and managing just three touch- downs. ... Raiders RB Darren McFadden rushed for 165 yards last week and tied franchise record with four TDs. ... Oakland’s Zach Miller needs one catch to become fourth Raiders tight end to reach 200 mark in career. Duke SEATTLE (4-2) at OAKLAND (3-4) 2.Michigan St.(8) 28-9 3.Kansas St.(2) 4.Ohio St. 5.Pittsburgh 6.Villanova 7.Kansas 10.Syracuse 11.Kentucky 12.Gonzaga 13.Illinois 14.Purdue 15.Missouri 16.Baylor 17.Butler 18.Washington 19.Memphis 23.Tennessee 24.BYU 29-8 29-8 25-9 25-8 33-3 1,613 3 1,558 13 1,414 7 1,368 5 1,310 18 1,198 9 1,172 1 8.North Carolina 20-17 1,034 — 9.Florida 21-15 773 — 29-6 21-13 997 — 30-5 35-3 27-7 23-11 700 — 28-8 33-5 771 10 625 19 607 11 26-10 572 — 24-10 551 — 20.Georgetown 23-11 363 14 21.Virginia Tech 25-9 288 — 22.Temple 29-6 28-9 30-6 25.San Diego St. 25-9 265 12 252 15 198 17 158 — Others receiving votes: Wisconsin 126, Texas 107, Georgia 67, West Virginia 65, Minnesota 55, Florida St. 28, Wichita St. 28, UNLV 21, Richmond 17, Murray St. 15, Vanderbilt 14, N.C. State 10, Arizona 8, Connecticut 8, Col- orado 7, Mississippi St. 7, UCLA 5, Miami 4, Ohio 4, Utah St. 4, Xavier 4, Dayton 3, Old Dominion 2, Georgia Tech 1, New Mexico 1, Wofford 1. 920 4 917 2 889 22 titles. While the UFC does roughly one pay-per-view show per month, the WEC concentrated on lower-pro- file regional shows typically aired on the Versus channel, doing just one pay-per-view show. White also announced the UFC will add four fight cards to Versus next year, but the elimination of the WEC actually reduces the number of free fights on cable television in 2011. The UFC’s non-pay-per- view shows air on Spike TV. White cited MMA’s con- NCAAFOOTBALL Thursday’s Top 25 game N.C. State 28, No. 16 Florida State 24 Today’s televised game West Virginia at Connecticut, 5 p.m., ESPN2 tinuing globalization as a prime reason behind the move. The UFC is attempt- ing to put on shows in India, China and Mexico, and it hopes to attract the attention of those countries’ fans and smaller fighters alike by pre- senting a single competitive league. ‘‘Everybody wanted this to happen for the last couple of years now, but it was a timing thing,’’ White said. ‘‘As we start to open up these other markets and start to do these things, it was time.’’ Aldo, the Brazilian feath- erweight champion, arguably is the WEC’s top fighter. He has won 11 straight bouts, including eight in a row since joining the WEC in June 2008. The WEC’s biggest star in recent years has been Uri- jah Faber, the former feath- erweight champion who draws huge crowds to his West Coast fights. Faber is scheduled to make his ban- tamweight debut against Takeya Mizagaki next month, headlining the penultimate WEC show. SAN FRANCISCO (1-6) vs. DENVER (2-5) Sunday, 10 a.m., CBS, at London OPENING LINE — Pick-em RECORD VS. SPREAD — Denver 2-5; San Francis- co 3-4 SERIES RECORD — Tied 6-6 LAST MEETING — 49ers beat Broncos 26-23 OT, Dec. 31, 2006 LAST WEEK — Raiders beat Broncos 59-14; Pan- thers beat 49ers 23-20 49ERS OFFENSE — OVERALL (21), RUSH (27), PASS (16) 49ERS DEFENSE — OVERALL (13), RUSH (14), PASS (15) BRONCOS OFFENSE — OVERALL (10), RUSH (32), PASS (3) BRONCOS DEFENSE — OVERALL (25), RUSH (30), PASS (10) STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES — Fourth overseas NFL regular season game. ... San Francisco’s last interna- tional trip was Oct. 2, 2005, when the team faced Arizona in Mexico City. It was the NFL’s first international regular season game. ... 49ers TE Vernon Davis has TD in four straight games. ... San Francisco played preseason games at Wembley Stadium in 1988 and ’92. ... With QB Alex Smith out (separated left shoulder), 49ers will go with 2006 Heisman Trophy winner Troy Smith, who hasn’t started a game in three seasons. ... RB Frank Gore faces Broncos defense that gave up whopping 328 yards on ground to Raiders. ... PK Joe Nedney connected on 8 of 10 field goals for Denver during a three-game stretch in 2000 as fill-in for injured Jason Elam. ... Broncos surren- dered 59 points against Raiders, tying the club record. They gave up that many points to Kansas City in 1963. ... Broncos QB Kyle Orton ranks second in NFL with 2,140 yards passing. ... Denver making second trip to London, playing L.A. Rams in an exhibition game Aug. 9, 1987. .. LB D.J. Williams is lone player to lead team in tackles (63) and sacks (3 1/2). ... WR Brandon Lloyd is second in league in yards receiving (709). ... Broncos coach Josh McDaniels said S Darcel McBath (ankle), LB Robert Ayers (foot) and LB Wesley Woodyard (hamstring) are out for game.