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• Dierks Bentley's "Home," Church's "Chief," Lady A's "Own the Night" and Blake Shelton's "Red River Blue" join Bryan's "tailgates & tanlines" on the album of the year list. Hit song "I Don't Want This Night To End" nabbed Bryan single and video of the year nominations.
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Crisp's catch backs Anderson, as A's beat Tigers 2-0 to avoid another playoff sweep by Detroit
• OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- The Oakland Athletics will play another day in this improbable season full of remarkable rallies.
• These A's never count themselves out -- down and doubted is their dogma.
• Brett Anderson outdueled fellow postseason first-timer Anibal Sanchez and the upstart Athletics showed off stellar defense all over the diamond, avoiding another playoff sweep by Detroit by beating the Tigers 2-0 Tuesday night in their AL division series.
• The A's cut their deficit in the best-of-five matchup to 2-1.
• Coco Crisp, whose misplay dearly cost Oakland in Game 2, saved a likely home run by Prince Fielder with a leaping catch at the top of the center-field wall in the second inning.
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With giddy celebration on Olympic podium, Shields completes triumph over rough circumstances
• FLINT, Mich. (AP) -- The ferociousness that won Claressa Shields an Olympic gold medal melted away as she climbed on the podium to claim it.
• She giggled and grinned as she caressed it, the prettiest thing the 17-year-old boxer ever had. She shimmied and bounced. She belted out the national anthem with gusto. Finally, unable to contain herself any longer, she held the medal high in the air, threw her head back and laughed.
• "This gold medal," Shields said, "will make my life a lot better."
• Truth is, she can thank herself for that.
• "It took a lot for her to get to where she is, because she so easily could have gone in a different direction," said Mickey Rouse, who along with husband Jason Crutchfield, Shields' coach, has taken Shields in.
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