http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/15/sports/ncaafootball/louisville-cardinals-duke-blue-devils.html 2016-10-15 08:42:00 Louisville Sews Up Win After a Mistake by Duke A roughing the kicker penalty on a missed field goal set up a touchdown run by Cardinals quarterback Lamar Jackson === Lamar Jackson provided a cushion with a 2-yard touchdown run with 1 minute 32 seconds remaining, and No. 7 Louisville held off visiting The Cardinals caught a break after a 46-yard field goal attempt by Evan O’Hara missed wide left. Duke’s Breon Borders was called for roughing the kicker, and the penalty moved the ball to the 14. Jackson did the rest with a 12-yard run followed by the short score that Louisville (5-1, 3-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) sorely needed. “We didn’t blow them out, but we did win the game,” said Louisville Coach Bobby Petrino, whose team had averaged 58 points coming into the game. “I’ll take it.” Jackson accounted for 325 yards of offense and two touchdowns, hitting Jaylen Smith with a 5-yard scoring pass on the opening drive. Jeremy Smith added an 80-yard touchdown run in the third quarter, and O’Hara kicked a 22-yard field goal. Duke (3-4, 0-3) remained winless in A.C.C. play but gave Louisville more than it had expected. Candace Parker scored 24 points, Nneka Ogwumike added 21, and the Los Angeles Sparks beat the visiting Minnesota Lynx, 92-75, to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five W.N.B.A. finals. The Sparks could win their first league championship since 2002 with a victory in Game 4 on Sunday. They built a 22-point advantage in the opening quarter when the Sparks shot 60 percent in the game. Rebekkah Brunson and Sylvia Fowles led Minnesota with 14 points each. The Lynx had 13 turnovers. ALL-W.N.B.A. TEAM ANNOUNCED Mike Fisher redirected a shot by Roman Josi late in the second period for the go-ahead power-play goal, and the Nashville Predators won at home over Chicago, 3-2, in their season opener. Fisher’s goal was Nashville’s third with the man advantage. P. K. Subban, Nashville’s big off-season addition, scored the first goal of the season. Josi had a power-play goal, and Ryan Johansen had three assists. Marcus Kruger and Niklas Hjalmarsson scored for Chicago, which has lost its first two games this season playing with six rookies in the lineup. Oakland Raiders running back Latavius Murray will miss his second consecutive game because of a toe injury, the team said, leaving the rookies DeAndre Washington and Jalen Richard to split a majority of carries against Kansas City on Sunday. OTHER INJURY NEWS The Washington Nationals said catcher Wilson Ramos had surgery on his right knee, and his rehabilitation was expected to take six to eight months. Ramos was injured last month, during the last week of the regular season. During the surgery, he had his knee’s anterior cruciate ligament reconstructed and the medial meniscus and lateral meniscus repaired. Hertha Berlin’s dogged defense frustrated Borussia Dortmund’s high-scoring attack for 80 minutes before Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored an equalizer for a 1-1 draw in a Bundesliga match in which both teams finished with 10 men. Scott Piercy pitched in for eagle, added two birdies and kept a two-shot lead in the rain-delayed Safeway Open in Napa, Calif., until it was too dark to continue. Piercy, who opened with a course-record 62, was at 14 under par. Bill Haas had a two-under 70 and finished 36 holes in eight-under 136. AMERICAN LEADS IN SOUTH KOREA Novak Djokovic, the defending champion at the Shanghai Masters, rebounded from a dismal opening set to beat Mischa Zverev, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3, and reach the semifinals. INJURY FORCES OUT MUGURZA