A champion is served: Roddick wins U.S. Open\nNEW YORK -- Andy Roddick pounded three straight big serves to win the first set of his first Grand Slam final, drawing a standing ovation from the partisan crowd.\nThere was no such celebration from Roddick: He tossed aside a ball he had in his pocket, blew on his fingers, and calmly walked to the sideline to sit down.\nThis is the new Roddick, the more mature Roddick, the major champion Roddick.\nBacked by the game's top serve and impressive on-court patience, Roddick simply overpowered Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain 6-3, 7-6 (2), 6-3 Sunday to win the U.S. Open.\nMILWAUKEE -- Randall Simon homered twice and drove in five runs and Sammy Sosa added a solo shot to help Kerry Wood win for the first time in a month as the Chicago Cubs beat the Milwaukee Brewers 9-2 Sunday.\nWood (12-11), who had three losses in five starts since an Aug. 6 win over San Diego, gave up eight hits and two runs in seven innings and had six strikeouts to raise his major league leading total to 234.\nSosa hit his 34th home run to lead off the seventh for a 7-2 lead. After Aramis Ramirez singled, Simon followed with his second homer and 15th of the season to make it 9-2. Both homers were off reliever Leo Estrella. Simon's homer in the third gave Chicago a 5-0 lead.
White Sox remain atop AL Central\nCHICAGO -- Frank Thomas wasn't about to let a little slump hold him back.\nThomas, in an 0-for-11 slide, came to plate in the seventh with two out, two on and the White Sox trailing Cleveland by a run. He hit the first pitch from reliever Danys Baez into the seats in left field and the White Sox went on to win 7-3 Sunday.\n"All season I've had my little stretches where I've struggled, and I've Doug Davis (2-1), 2-0 with a 0.93 ERA in his first four starts for Milwaukee, allowed five runs on four hits in four innings.\nThe Cubs took a 2-0 lead in the first inning on a groundout by Sosa and a sacrifice fly by Ramirez which was dropped by left fielder Brooks Kieschnick for an error. Kieschnick was making his first major league start in the outfield. Sosa's grounder scored Tom Goodwin, who opened the game with a walk, and Tony Womack, who doubled, came home on the fly ball.\n"come out swinging every time," Thomas said. "That was my whole mind-set. I was not looking for a little single, I was looking to smoke the baseball."\nChicago swept the three-game series and is 10 games over .500 for the first time this season. The White Sox remain tied with Minnesota for first in the AL Central and host the Twins for four games starting Monday.\n"Frank is a big key for us," Chicago manager Jerry Manuel said. "When he goes and gets those big hits the other guys feed off it. And I think it takes some pressure off some guys"
