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MADRID, Spain -- Villarreal and Granada moved closer to ensuring their topflight status in the Spanish league next season with victories on Tuesday. Jim Brown Limited Jersey . Villarreal ended a three-game winless run with a 3-1 victory at Sporting Gijon, which is still fighting relegation and seven points behind its opponent with two rounds to play. Granada is one point ahead of Villarreal after beating Espanyol 2-1. That means Sporting needs to pass Rayo Vallecano, which is at Mallorca on Wednesday, to stay up. Zaragoza also needs to beat Levante on Wednesday to maintain its slim chances of staying up. Rayo Vallecano is six points head of Zaragoza and Sporting. Also Tuesday, recently relegated Racing Santander salvaged a 1-1 draw at Getafe for its 19th straight game without a win. Santander, which will finish last to go down to the second division, hasnt won a match since Jan. 7. Sporting had won two straight games but trailed in the 19th minute when Bruno Valero gathered the rebound from his saved shot and passed for Mario Gaspar to shoot beyond goalkeeper Juan Pablo Colinas. Sporting equalized in the 39th through Alberto Loras shot from outside the area. But Villarreal led again by the 43rd after Gregory Arnolins poor challenge on Marco Ruben inside the area led to Marcos Sennas penalty. Hernan Perez was allowed space to score past Colinas in the 56th, but Villarreal gave the hosts hope when Cristian Zapata headed a ball straight into the path for Alejandro Galvez to score in the 85th. Police had to intervene to calm the Villarreal bench at the end with tempers running high because some players were hit by objects thrown by the crowd as stoppage time stretched to seven minutes. Villarreal secured an important victory in a difficult season in which it has lost Italy striker Giuseppe Rossi to injury and failed to win a single game in Europe or the Copa del Rey. Granada also moved away from the drop thanks to a pair of first-half goals by Odion Ighalo at its Carmenes Stadium, with Didac Vila giving Espanyol hope when he surprised goalkeeper Julio Cesar with a long-range shot in the 54th. But Cesar was solid after that as Granada took a big step toward remaining in the top flight for a second straight season by moving eight points clear of Sporting Gijon and Zaragoza. Sporting must beat Villarreal later Tuesday to have a realistic chance of staying up, as a loss would give its opponent an insurmountable lead. In Madrid, Venezuela striker Nicolas "Miku" Fedor put Getafe ahead through a 59th-minute penalty after Santanders Pape Diop had struck the woodwork with his own spot kick. Diop made amends for his first-half miss in the 69th minute as the Senegalese midfielder equalized by converting Jairo Samperios pass at the Alfonso Perez Coliseum. Real Madrid can secure its 32nd league title -- and first since 2008 -- with a victory at Athletic Bilbao on Wednesday, when three-time defending champion Barcelona plays Malaga. Madrid leads Barcelona by seven points with three games remaining for both teams. Brandon Weeden Browns Jersey . Dixon hopes the favourable position -- thanks to clocking a track record of 1 minute, 10.3162 seconds Saturday -- will help him snap a five-race winless skid this year. Frostee Rucker Jersey . Darin Downs made his major league debut, striking out one and walking one in a hitless ninth inning, to complete quite a comeback. http://www.clevelandbrownsroom.com/craig-robertson-jerseys . Monday, the Saskatchewan Roughriders head coach and VP of Football Operations announced he is retiring after Fridays game in Edmonton. Miller first entered the CFL in 2002 as a quarterback coach in Toronto, but prior to that spent nearly four decades coaching at the University and high school level in Southern California. Trent Richardson Youth Jersey . John Mayberry Jr. and Erik Kratz hit back-to-back home runs and Hamels tied a season high with 10 strikeouts to help the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-3 Saturday night. Jabaal Sheard Jersey . Its time for others in the NL to recognize the first-place team in the NL East. Aiming for a fifth straight win overall and an eighth consecutive victory against the Phillies, the NL East leaders hope to complete a three-game sweep tonight at Nationals Park. COLUMBIA, S.C. -- NASCAR pioneer Cotton Owens died Thursday morning. The Hall of Famer who made his mark as a driver and owner was 88. Kimberly Meesters of the NASCAR Hall of Fame confirmed Owens passing through his family. Meesters said Owens died peacefully. The Owens family thanked fans for their well wishes, but requested privacy in this difficult time. Owens, who lived in Spartanburg, was part of the Halls class of 2013 that was announced two weeks ago in Charlotte. Hell be inducted in February along with Rusty Wallace, Leonard Wood and the late Buck Baker and Herb Thomas. Owens, whose given name was Everett, won nine times on NACARs top circuit including the Daytona Beach, Fla., road course that marked Pontiacs first win in NASCAR. He was perhaps better known as an owner, fielding cars for Hall of Fame drivers like Junior Johnson and David Pearson. Owens won nine times as a driver and 38 as an owner. "While Cotton was a racing legend with an incredible racing family, we mourn the irreplaceable great granddad, father, uncle, brother-in-law and friend we have all llost," the Owens family said in a statement released through NASCAR. Phil Dawson Jersey. NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France said the sport had lost one of its true pioneers. "But we are all consoled by the fact that Cotton was voted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame before his death," France said. Owens was born in Union on May 21, 1924 and lived most of his life in Spartanburg, where he headquartered his race team. He finished second in the 1959 series championship chase to Lee Petty and was named one of NASCARs 50 greatest drivers in 1998. Owens fielded a whos who of drivers for his cars. Besides Pearson and Johnson, Owens drivers included Ralph Earnhardt, Marvin Panch, Fireball Roberts, Bobby Allison, Buddy Baker and Mario Andretti. Most of Owens success came with Pearson, who won the 1966 series championship and 27 of his career 105 victories driving for Owens. Owens grandson, Brandon Davis, told NASCAR Hall of Fame executive director Winston Kelley that the honour lifted Owens spirit in his final days. "He will be missed," Kelley said. ' ' '
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