Associated Press
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Enron Field, home of the Houston Astros, sits empty yesterday in Houston. Major league baseball postponed its entire schedule of 15 games Tuesday night, including a scheduled game between the Astros and San Francisco Giants, following terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
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Associated Press
ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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Wednesday September 12, 2001
Auto Racing:
NASCAR canceled qualifying Friday for the New Hampshire 300. Sports Car Club of America postponed the Solo II(r) Nationals held at Forbes Field in Topeka, Kan., until tomorrow morning. NHRA postponed Keystone Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway in Reading, Pa., until Oct. 4-7.
Baseball:
All 15 major league games (Toronto at Baltimore, Minnesota at Detroit, Chicago White Sox at N.Y. Yankees, Boston at Tampa Bay, Cleveland at Kansas City, Seattle at Anaheim, Texas at Oakland, N.Y. Mets at Pittsburgh, Montreal at Florida, Philadelphia at Atlanta, Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, San Francisco at Houston, St. Louis at Milwaukee, Colorado at Arizona, Los Angeles at San Diego). All minor league baseball games scheduled for yesterday were also cancelled.
College Football:
Ohio and North Carolina State game scheduled tomorrow has been rescheduled for Nov. 24, and tomorrow's Texas Tech-UTEP game is temporarily rescheduled for Saturday. Penn State-Virginia game scheduled for tomorrow has also been postponed. Brown canceled Saturday's football game against the University of San Diego in San Diego. Washington-Miami game scheduled for Saturday has been postponed.
Other College Events:
The Atantic Coast Conference canceled all events through tomorrow. Women's volleyball matches between Penn State and Youngstown State, Southeastern Louisiana and Nicholls State, Stephen F. Austin and Louisiana Tech, Louisiana-Monroe and Jackson State, Cal State Northridge and San Diego, Florida State and Florida, Presbyterian and Newberry, UAB and Mississippi State, Loyola, NO and Millsaps College, E. Tennessee State-UNC Asheville, Birmingham Southern-Troy State, Charlotte-Winthrop and those involving Indiana State, Purdue, Valparaiso, Butler, Ball State and Indiana-Purdue-Fort Wayne scheduled for yesterday. Millsaps at Mississippi College men's and women's soccer matches for yesterday. All Big West women's volleyball matches for the week. Valparaiso-Northwestern, Seton Hall-Adelphi, Charleston Southern-Wake Forest and Liberty-High Point men's soccer matches, and Miami-Florida State, Weber State-Louisiana-Monroe and Georgia Southern-Charleston Southern women's soccer matches for today. Big 12 Conference postponed all soccer and volleyball games scheduled for yesterday and today. Southland Conference canceled five volleyball matches yesterday. All sports events in West Virginia and at Amherst and Limestone scheduled for yesterday.
Golf:
PGA Tour canceled tomorrow's starts of the World Golf Championship and two other tournaments.
Hockey:
Toronto Maple Leafs postponed trip to training camp in Newfoundland, and Buffalo Sabres postponed trip to St. Catharines, Ontario. Carolina Hurricanes postponed start of training camp until today. Germany's Nuremberg Ice Tigers, which has three Americans, voted against playing a game yesterday.
Horse Racing:
All live racing around the country. Calder Race Course, Laurel Park and Pimlico Race Course closed at least through tomorrow.
Soccer:
U.S. Women's Cup doubleheader scheduled for yesterday, U.S. vs. Japan, Germany vs. China. Four Major League Soccer games scheduled for today (Dallas at D.C. United, Miami at New York-New Jersey, Columbus at Colorado and San Jose at the Los Angeles Galaxy).
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