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MLBBASEBALL World Series, San Francisco Giants at Kansas City Royals, Game 7:5p.m.,FOX. NBA BASKETBALL Chicago Bulls at New York Knicks: 5p.m., ESPN. Golden State Warriors at Sacramento Kings: 7 p.m., CSNBA. Ontheair Guber responded to the email: "I'm taking rosetta stone to learn Hungarian Serbian Australian swahili and hoodish This year. But it's nice." Guber sent a follow- up email saying, "Some- one just brought to my at- tention that an email I re- sponded to earlier contains the word 'hoodish,' which I don't even think Is a Word, and certainly not the one I intended to use. I intended to type Yiddish. Either my mobile fone autocorrected or it was typed wrong. In any event I regret if any- one was unintendedly of- fended." Guber is chairman and CEO of Mandalay Enter- tainment Group. He joined Joe Lacob's group to buy the Warriors in 2010 for $450 million, which was then an NBA record. Guber also owns a minority stake in the Los Angeles Dodgers. The email snafu comes at a time when the NBA is reeling from other league executives making racially charged statements. Bruce Levenson an- nounced last month that he would sell his control- ling interest in the Atlanta Hawks and apologized for talking about race in an email in August 2012. In that email, Levenson said the Hawks struggle with attendance because "the black crowd scared away the whites and there are simply not enough affluent black fans to build a signif- icant season ticket base." Levenson's email came after an investigation into comments Hawks gen- eral manager Danny Ferry made while reading from a scouting report about free agents. On a conference call, Ferry described for- ward Luol Deng, who now plays for Miami, as some- one who "has a little Afri- can in him." Ferry has taken an indef- inite leave of absence. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver also banned then-Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life in April after recorded comments surfaced of him asking a female companion not to bring black people to games or publicly associ- ate with them. Former Mi- crosoft CEO Steve Ballmer bought the Clippers from the Sterling family for a re- cord $2 billion earlier this year. Warriors FROM PAGE 1 are still four games re- maining matching those SEC West rivals, starting with Saturday's matchup of Auburn and Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi. The final rankings will be released Dec. 7, the day after the most of the con- ference championships are decided. "Everyone on the selec- tion committee recognized that our rankings will change over the next six weeks," Long said. "I think that's important for us to emphasize. We expect our rankings to change over the next six weeks. One week's rankings won't influence the next week's rankings." TCU was seventh, Michi- gan State was eighth, Kan- sas State ninth and Notre Dame was 10th. Mississippi State and defending national cham- pion Florida State are the only undefeated teams left among the Big Five confer- ences. "It's cool," Mississippi State quarterback Dak Prescott said. "That's something you can never take away from the univer- sity or this program. First- ever ranking, first team to be No. 1, so that's pretty cool for the university." The Bulldogs and Semi- noles also hold the first two spots in the AP Top 25. No. 3 was where the differences started between the play- off rankings and the me- dia poll. The AP voters had Ala- bama at No. 3 and Auburn at No. 4. Oregon was fifth, Notre Dame was sixth and Ole Miss was seventh after losing for the first time this season at LSU on Saturday. Ole Miss beat Alabama at home earlier this month. This is the first year for the playoff format in col- lege football, and the list is the first indication of how the committee is evaluat- ing teams' playoff potential. While Ole Miss received a better ranking than Ala- bama, head-to-head victo- ries weren't always the de- ciding factor for the com- mittee. Arizona, which won at Oregon, is 12th. Baylor, which beat TCU, is 13th. Long said in both cases the head-to-head loser had thebetteroverallresume.He said Oregon's wins against Michigan State and UCLA stood out. And Baylor's lack of quality opposition so far held back the Bears. "They have not had a strong schedule outside of their win against TCU," Long said. The committee creates small groups of teams, debates their merits and ranks the teams using as many votes as needed to come up with a consensus. Members are given reams of data on each FBS team and each member is al- lowed to judge those num- bers however they deter- mine is best. The committee mem- bers gathered Monday at the Gaylord Texan Hotel in Grapevine, Texas. Football FROM PAGE 1 Eric Hosmer ripped a sin- gle to left. Travis Ishikawa slipped while fielding the ball but Cain held up at third despite the fact that the throw went back into second, not toward the plate. His lapse would be forgotten an inning later. The Royals set franchise postseason records with eight hits and seven runs in the 33-minute second inning, and they did dam- age off both Peavy and long man Yusmeiro Petit, who had previously been per- fect in the postseason. The nightmare frame started innocently enough, with a broken-bat single by Alex Gordon. Salva- dor Perez followed with a rocket to right-center and Petit immediately got up in the bullpen. Mike Mousta- kas hit a bouncer just in- side the first base line that was a couple of inches away from a diving Brandon Belt's glove and went for an RBI double. At that point, Javier Lopez joined Petit on the bullpen mound. The late-innings lefty would sit down soon enough as the game quickly got out of hand. Alcides Escobar hit a hard grounder to first and Belt moved toward home, ready to throw Perez out. But the catcher stayed at third, and when Belt turned back toward first, he didn't have enough time to beat the speedy Escobar to the bag. With the bases loaded, Nori Aoki fouled off four pitches before lining a single into left. That was it for Peavy, who has a 7.98 career ERA in the postseason and has allowed nine runs in 6 1/3 innings this series. Man- ager Bruce Bochy tries to save Petit for the start of innings, but he put him in the jam and the wheels came off. Cain hit a single to cen- ter that scored two. The Giants pulled the infield in for Hosmer and he bounced a ball off the dirt in front of the plate and over shortstop Brandon Crawford. Hosmer hustled for a double as two more runs scored. Billy But- ler scorched a double that made it 7-0. Petit allowed just four hits to the first 42 batters he faced this post- season; the Royals wel- comed him with three in a row. Peavy got just four outs and Petit was pulled af- ter getting two as Bochy started to set his bullpen up for Game 7. Jean Machi tied a ca- reer-high with three in- nings out of the bullpen, but he gave up two more runs while soaking up outs. Hunter Strickland pitched two innings and allowed a solo homer. He is the first reliever in MLB history to give up six homers in one postseason. Vogelsong came on for the eighth and pitched a scoreless inning. The Giants had just three hits off Ventura, the fireball-throwing right- hander who fully embraced the moment. They threat- ened to make the night in- teresting just once, and it came right after the long bottom of the second. Ven- tura walked the bases loaded with one out in the top of the third, with the third free pass coming on an 11-pitch battle with Joe Panik, who fouled off six pitches. Buster Posey swung at the first pitch he saw and hit a double-play grounder to short. The Royals had no con- cerns about Ventura's abil- ity to handle the moment. On Monday, manager Ned Yost said he was confident the 23-year-old would guarantee a Game 7. "Primarily with young pitchers, they're going to get overwhelmed by the enormity of the situation. I've got absolutely no con- cern that that's going to happen with him," Yost said. "We know what kind of stuff he has. We know his ability to compete. We know his athleticism on the mound. His confidence is just staggering. I mean, you walk in that clubhouse, and he looks you square in the eye with that glint that says, 'I'm ready for this.'" Ventura was, and his seven shutout innings al- lowed the Royals to rest their bullpen stars, too, set- ting up a wonderfully in- triguing Game 7. Series FROM PAGE 1 Scoreboard Baseball MLB WorldSeries (Best-of-7) SanFrancisco3,KansasCity3 Tuesday,Oct.21: San Francisco 7, Kansas City 1 Wednesday,Oct.22: Kansas City 7, San Francisco 2 Friday,Oct.24: Kansas City 3, San Francisco 2 Saturday,Oct.25: San Francisco 11, Kansas City 4 Sunday,Oct.26: San Francisco 5, Kansas City 0 Tuesday,Oct.28: Kansas City 10, San Francisco 0 Wednesday,Oct.29: San Francisco (Hudson 9-13) at Kansas City (Guthrie 13-11), 5:07 p.m. Royals10,Giants0 SanFran KansasCity AB R H B AB R H B GBlanc cf 4 0 0 0 AEscor ss 5 1 2 1 Panik 2b 3 0 1 0 Aoki rf 3 1 1 1 Posey c 3 0 0 0 JDyson cf 1 0 0 0 Susac c 1 0 0 0 Cain cf-rf 3 1 2 3 Sandovl 3b 3 0 1 0 Hosmer 1b 5 1 2 2 Arias 3b 0 0 0 0 Butler dh 4 0 1 1 Pence rf 4 0 1 0 AGordn lf 4 1 1 0 Belt 1b 4 0 1 0 S.Perez c 4 1 2 0 Morse dh 4 0 0 0 Mostks 3b 4 2 2 2 Ishikaw lf 2 0 0 0 Infante 2b 4 2 2 0 J.Perez lf 1 0 1 0 BCrwfr ss 2 0 1 0 MDuffy ss 1 0 0 0 Totals 32 0 6 0 371015 10 SanFran 000 000 000 — 0 Kan sa sC it y 07 1 01 0 10 x — 10 DP: San Francisco 2, Kansas City 1; LOB: San Francisco 10, Kansas City 7; 2B: Pence (3), A.Escobar (3), L.Cain (2), Hosmer (2), B.Butler (1), Moustakas (2), Infante (3);HR: Moustakas (1). IP H R ER BB SO SanFrancisco Peavy L,0-211/3 6 5 5 1 2 Petit 2/3 3 2 2 0 0 Machi 3 5 2 2 1 2 Strickland 2 1 1 1 1 0 Vogelsong 1 0 0 0 1 1 KansasCity Vntura W,1-0 7 3 0 0 5 4 Frasor 1 2 0 0 0 1 Collins 1 1 0 0 0 2 WP: Y.Petit. Umpires: Home, Jeff Kellogg, First, Jeff Nelson. Second, Eric Cooper. Third, Jim Reynolds. Left, Ted Barrett. Right, Hunter Wendelstedt. T: 3:21;A: 40,372 (37,903). Football AMERICANCONFERENCE WESTDIVISION W L T Pct PF PA Denver 6 1 0 .857 224 142 San Diego 5 3 0 .625 205 149 Kansas City 4 3 0 .571 176 128 Oakland 0 7 0 .000 105 181 EASTDIVISION W L T Pct PF PA New England 6 2 0 .750 238 177 Buffalo 5 3 0 .625 178 165 Miami 4 3 0 .571 174 151 N.Y. Jets 1 7 0 .125 144 228 SOUTHDIVISION W L T Pct PF PA Indianapolis 5 3 0 .625 250 187 Houston 4 4 0 .500 185 166 Tennessee 2 6 0 .250 137 202 Jacksonville 1 7 0 .125 118 218 NORTHDIVISION W L T Pct PF PA Cincinnati 4 2 1 .643 161 164 Baltimore 5 3 0 .625 217 131 Pittsburgh 5 3 0 .625 205 196 Cleveland 4 3 0 .571 163 152 NATIONALCONFERENCE WESTDIVISION W L T Pct PF PA Arizona 6 1 0 .857 164 139 San Francisco4 3 0 .571 158 165 Seattle 4 3 0 .571 172 150 St. Louis 2 5 0 .286 136 210 EASTDIVISION W L T Pct PF PA Dallas 6 2 0 .750 213 167 Philadelphia 5 2 0 .714 203 156 N.Y. Giants 3 4 0 .429 154 169 Washington 3 5 0 .375 171 200 SOUTHDIVISION W L T Pct PF PA Carolina 3 4 1 .438 167 208 New Orleans 3 4 0 .429 199 188 Atlanta 2 6 0 .250 192 221 Tampa Bay 1 6 0 .143 133 223 NORTHDIVISION W L T Pct PF PA Detroit 6 2 0 .750 162 126 Green Bay 5 3 0 .625 222 191 Chicago 3 5 0 .375 180 222 Minnesota 3 5 0 .375 139 173 Thursday,Oct.30 New Orleans at Carolina, 5:25 p.m. Sunday,Nov.2 Arizona at Dallas, 10 a.m. Philadelphia at Houston, 10 a.m. N.Y. Jets at Kansas City, 10 a.m. Washington at Minnesota, 10 a.m. Tampa Bay at Cleveland, 10 a.m. Jacksonville at Cincinnati, 10 a.m. San Diego at Miami, 10 a.m. St. Louis at San Francisco, 1:05 p.m. Oakland at Seattle, 1:25 p.m. Denver at New England, 1:25 p.m. Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 5:30 p.m. Open: Atlanta, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay, Tennessee Monday,Nov.3 Indianapolis at N.Y. Giants, 5:30 p.m. COLLEGEFOOTBALLPLAYOFF RANKINGS Oct. 28, 2014 Record 1. Mississippi St. 7-0 2. Florida St. 7-0 3. Auburn 6-1 4. Mississippi 7-1 5. Oregon 7-1 6. Alabama 7-1 7. TCU 6-1 8. Michigan St. 7-1 9. Kansas St. 6-1 10. Notre Dame 6-1 11. Georgia 6-1 12. Arizona 6-1 13. Baylor 6-1 14. Arizona St. 6-1 15. Nebraska 7-1 16. Ohio St. 6-1 17. Utah 6-1 18. Oklahoma 5-2 19. LSU 7-2 20. West Virginia 6-2 21. Clemson 6-2 22. UCLA 6-2 23. East Carolina 6-1 24. Duke 6-1 25. Louisville 6-2 The College Football Playoff Selection Committee will issue weekly rankings each Tuesday, with the final rankings being announced Sunday, Dec. 7. The playoff semifinals will match the No. 1 seed vs. the No. 4 seed, and No. 2 will face No. 3. The semifinals will be hosted at the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1, 2015. The championship game will be on Jan. 12, 2015 at Arlington, Texas. Basketball WESTERNCONFERENCE PacificDivision W L Pct GB Golden State 0 0 .000 — Clippers 0 0 .000 — Lakers 0 0 .000 — Phoenix 0 0 .000 — Sacramento 0 0 .000 — SouthwestDivision W L Pct GB San Antonio 1 0 1.000 — New Orleans 1 0 1.000 — Houston 0 0 .000 ½ Memphis 0 0 .000 ½ Dallas 0 1 .000 1 NorthwestDivision W L Pct GB Denver 0 0 .000 — Minnesota 0 0 .000 — Oklahoma City 0 0 .000 — Portland 0 0 .000 — Utah 0 0 .000 — EASTERNCONFERENCE AtlanticDivision W L Pct GB Boston 0 0 .000 — Brooklyn 0 0 .000 — New York 0 0 .000 — Philadelphia 0 0 .000 — Toronto 0 0 .000 — SoutheastDivision W L Pct GB Atlanta 0 0 .000 — Charlotte 0 0 .000 — Miami 0 0 .000 — Washington 0 0 .000 — Orlando 0 1 .000 ½ CentralDivision W L Pct GB Chicago 0 0 .000 — Cleveland 0 0 .000 — Detroit 0 0 .000 — Indiana 0 0 .000 — Milwaukee 0 0 .000 — Monday'sgames No games scheduled Tuesday'sgames New Orleans 101, Orlando 84 San Antonio 101, Dallas 100 Houston at Lakers, (n.) Wednesday'sgames Philadelphia at Indiana, 4 p.m. Milwaukee at Charlotte, 4 p.m. Washington at Miami, 4:30 p.m. Atlanta at Toronto, 4:30 p.m. Brooklyn at Boston, 4:30 p.m. Minnesota at Memphis, 5 p.m. Chicago at New York, 5 p.m. Detroit at Denver, 6 p.m. Houston at Utah, 6 p.m. Lakers at Phoenix, 7 p.m. Golden State at Sacramento, 7 p.m. Oklahoma City at Portland, 7:30 p.m. NHL WESTERNCONFERENCE PACIFICDIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 10 8 2 0 16 31 19 Los Angeles 9 6 1 2 14 24 15 Calgary 10 5 4 1 11 26 22 San Jose 10 5 4 1 11 32 28 Vancouver 8 5 3 0 10 27 26 Edmonton 9 4 4 1 9 26 32 Arizona 8 3 4 1 7 21 32 CENTRALDIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GA Nashville 8 5 1 2 12 19 16 Chicago 9 5 3 1 11 22 15 Dallas 9 4 2 3 11 32 33 Minnesota 8 5 3 0 10 27 14 St. Louis 8 4 3 1 9 20 18 Winnipeg 9 4 5 0 8 19 24 Colorado 9 2 4 3 7 20 29 EASTERNCONFERENCE ATLANTICDIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 9 7 2 0 14 25 25 Tampa Bay 10 6 3 1 13 34 26 Ottawa 8 5 2 1 11 22 17 Detroit 8 4 2 2 10 18 17 Boston 11 5 6 0 10 29 28 Toronto 9 4 4 1 9 25 25 Florida 7 2 2 3 7 10 16 Buffalo 10 2 8 0 4 11 33 METROPOLITANDIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GA N.Y. Islanders 9 6 3 0 12 35 31 Pittsburgh 8 5 2 1 11 33 22 Washington 8 4 2 2 10 25 19 N.Y. Rangers 9 5 4 0 10 27 30 Philadelphia 9 4 3 2 10 29 32 New Jersey 9 4 3 2 10 28 33 Columbus 9 4 5 0 8 25 30 Carolina 7 0 5 2 2 14 29 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Monday'sgames N.Y. Rangers 5, Minnesota 4 Edmonton 3, Montreal 0 Tuesday'sgames Minnesota 4, Boston 3 Winnipeg 4, N.Y. Islanders 3 Philadelphia 3, Los Angeles 2, OT Pittsburgh 8, New Jersey 3 Ottawa 5, Columbus 2 Toronto 4, Buffalo 0 Tampa Bay 7, Arizona 3 Anaheim 1, Chicago 0 St. Louis 4, Dallas 3, OT San Jose at Colorado, (n.) Montreal at Calgary, (n.) Carolina at Vancouver, (n.) Wednesday'sgames Detroit at Washington, 4:30 p.m. Nashville at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Tennis WORLDTOURBNPPARIBAS MASTERSRESULTS Tuesday At Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy Paris Purse: $3.66 million (Masters 1000) Surface: Hard-Indoor Singles FirstRound Jeremy Chardy, France, def. Kenny de Schepper, France, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4). Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay, def. Leonardo Mayer, Argentina, 7-6 (3), 1-0, retired. Tommy Robredo, Spain, def. Vasek Pospisil, Canada, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (5). Gael Monfils, France, def. Joao Sousa, Portugal, 6-1, 6-4. David Goffin, Belgium, def. Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-3. Lucas Pouille, France, def. Ivo Karlovic, Croatia, 6-1, 6-4. SecondRound Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Philipp Kohlschreiber, Germany, 6-3, 6-4. Tomas Berdych (5), Czech Republic, def. Adrian Mannarino, France, 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-2. Kevin Anderson (14), South Africa, def. Santiago Giraldo, Colombia, 6-4, 7-6 (8). Fernando Verdasco, Spain, def. Gilles Simon (15), France, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. WTAGARANTIKOZA TOURNAMENTOFCHAMPIONS RESULTS Tuesday At Armeec Arena Sofia, Bulgaria Purse: $750,000 Surface: Hard-Indoor RoundRobin Singles GroupSerdika Flavia Pennetta (3), Italy, def. Alize Cornet (6), France, 6-1, 6-2. Standings: Pennetta, 1-0 (2-0); Ekaterina Makarova, 0-0 (0-0); Garbine Muguruza, 0-0 (0-0); Cornet, 0-1 (0-2). GroupSredets Dominika Cibulkova (2), Slovakia, def. Tsvetana Pironkova (8), Bulgaria, 6-3, 7-6 (6). Carla Suarez Navarro (5), Spain, def. Andrea Petkovic (4), Germany, 6-0, 6-4. Standings: Suarez Navarro, 1-0 (2-0); Cibulkova, 1-0 (2-0); Pironkova, 0-1 (0-2); Petkovic, 0-1 (0-2). Soccer MLSPLAYOFFGLANCE KNOCKOUTROUND EasternConference Thursday,Oct.30 Sporting Kansas City at New York, 5 p.m. WesternConference Wednesday,Oct29 Vancouver at FC Dallas, 6 p.m. CONFERENCESEMIFINALS EasternConference New England vs. Columbus Leg1—Saturday,Nov.1: New England at Columbus, 1 p.m. Leg2—Sunday,Nov.9: Columbus at New England, 2 p.m.^ D.C. United vs. New York-Sporting Kan- sas City winner Leg1—Sunday,Nov.2: D.C. United at New York-Sporting Kansas City winner, 1 p.m. Leg2—Saturday,Nov.8: New York-Sporting Kansas City winner at D.C. United, 11:30 a.m. WesternConference LA Galaxy vs. Real Salt Lake= Leg1—Saturday,Nov.1: LA Galaxy at Real Salt Lake, 5 p.m. Leg2—Sunday,Nov.9: Real Salt Lake at LA Galaxy, 4:30 p.m. Seattle vs. FC Dallas-Vancouver winner Leg1—Sunday,Nov.2: Seattle at FC Dallas-Vancouver winner, 6 p.m. Leg2—Saturday,Nov.8: FC Dallas-Vancouver winner at Seattle, 7:30 p.m.^ CONFERENCECHAMPIONSHIP Teams TBD MLSCUP Sunday,Dec.7 Conference champions, noon Odds GLANTZ-CULVERLINE For Oct. 29 MajorLeagueBaseball WorldSeries Favorite Line Underdog at Kansas City -115/+105 San Francisco NCAAFootball TOMORROW Favorite Today(O/U) Underdog at Georgia S. 23 25½ Troy Florida St. 7 3½ at Louisville FRIDAY at Memphis 21½ 24 Tulsa Cincinnati 2½ 4½ at Tulane SATURDAY Notre Dame 15½ 14 Navy-x at Virginia Tech 5 3 Boston College East Carolina 7 7 at Temple UCF 13 12 at UConn at Rutgers OFF OFF Wisconsin at Syracuse 4½ 3½ NC State at Pittsburgh Pk 4 Duke at Penn St. 3 3½ Maryland at Miami 11 17 North Carolina at App. St. 7 10 Georgia St. Air Force 3½ 3½ at Army Cent. Michigan 17 16½ at E. Michigan at Iowa 5 4 Northwestern at Texas Tech OFF OFF Texas at Nebraska 23½ 23½ Purdue at Baylor 35½ 36 Kansas W. Michigan 6 6½ at Miami at Mississippi 3 2½ Auburn at Missouri 7 6½ Kentucky at Miss. St. 11½ 11 Arkansas at Loui. Tech 5½ 6½ W. Kentucky at Texas A&M 31½ 32½ Loui.-Monroe BYU 7 3½ at Middle Tenn. at S. Carolina 8 7 Tennessee Georgia 13 13 Florida-y Southern Cal 8½ 7 at Washington St. at Oregon 11½ 9 Stanford Oklahoma 16 16 at Iowa St. at Kansas St. 13½ 14 Oklahoma St. at Michigan 8 7 Indiana at Georgia Tech 4½ 3½ Virginia Arkansas St. 16 14½ at Idaho at La.-Lafayette 5½ 6½ South Alabama at Vanderbilt 10 7½ Old Dominion Rice 7½ 6 at FIU Washington 6 4 at Colorado at Oregon St. 4 3 California at UCLA 4½ 6 Arizona Colorado St. 7 7 at San Jose St. at Arizona St. 4½ 5½ Utah TCU 5 5½ at West Virginia Houston 10 9½ at South Florida at FAU OFF OFF UAB at UTEP 5 7 Southern Miss. at UNLV Pk Pk New Mexico Texas St. 8½ 7½ at N. Mexico St. at Ohio St. 28½ 28 Illinois at Fresno St. 10½ 12 Wyoming at Nevada 5 3½ San Diego St. Utah St. 2 3 at Hawaii x-at Landover, Md. y-at Jacksonville, Fla. OFFKEY Rutgers QB questionable Texas Tech QB questionable UAB QB questionable NFL TOMORROW Favorite Today(O/U) Underdog New Orleans 2½ (48½) at Carolina SUNDAY at Miami 2 (44) San Diego at Cincinnati 11½ (43½) Jacksonville at Cleveland 6½ (43½) Tampa Bay at Minnesota 2½ (45) Washington Philadelphia 2 (48½) at Houston at Kansas City 9½ (41½) N.Y. Jets at Dallas 4 (48) Arizona at 49ers 9½ (44) St. Louis Denver 3 (55) at New England at Seattle 15 (43) Oakland at Pittsburgh Pk (48) Baltimore MONDAY Indianapolis 3 (51) at N.Y. Giants NBA Favorite Line(O/U) Underdog at Charlotte 8 (188) Milwaukee at Indiana 7 (200) Philadelphia Brooklyn 1 (191) at Boston at Toronto 5 (200) Atlanta at Miami 6 (188½) Washington at New York 1 (188½) Chicago at Memphis 8½ (193) Minnesota at Denver 8½ (215) Detroit Houston 6 (204) at Utah at Phoenix 9 (210½) Lakers Golden State 3 (205) at Sacramento at Portland 8½ (203½) Okla. City NHL Favorite Line Underdog at Washington -125/+105 Detroit Nashville -120/+100 at Edmonton Transactions BASEBALL AmericanLeague TorontoBlueJays: Claimed IB Justin Smoak off waivers from Seattle. NationalLeague WashingtonNationals: Reinstated RHP Ross Ohlendorf from the 60-day DL and assigned him outright. Announced Ohlendorf refused his outright assign- ment and elected free agency. BASKETBALL NationalBasketballAssociation NewYorkKnicks: Exercised its third- year contract option on G Tim Hardaway Jr. and the same mentality of competitiveness as we did in Anaheim." The Sharks stormed their way out of the gate, outshooting the Avalanche 23-8 in the first period and taking a 1-0 lead at 9:23 when Burns tipped a shot from the blue line by rookie Mirco Mueller past the Av- alanche netminder. Varlamov continued making strong save after save in the second period, keeping the Avalanche in the game single-hand- edly. With the Sharks on a power play, he robbed Pav- elski at the doorstep and 32 seconds later the Ava- lanche got a short-handed goal from Tanguay to make it a 1-1 game at 13:24. The Sharks continued to fire the puck, but Var- lamov frustrated them by robbing Marleau at the side of the net and Tommy Wingels in the slot on that same power play. By the end of the second period, San Jose had 41 shots on net — four more than their season high for an entire game. Colorado took a 2-1 lead at 3:04 of the third period when Landeskog skated around Burns down the left side and beat Niemi. Just under two minutes later, however, San Jose tied it up when a shot by Justin Braun clanked off the post and Couture pot- ted the rebound. The teams continued to exchange scoring chances, but no goals with Niemi making the most dramatic save of the night when he snagged a quick shot by Ryan O'Reilly all alone in the slot. The Sharks ended up out-shooting Colorado, 51- 33. Sharks FROM PAGE 1 | SPORTS | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2014 2 B