December 4, 2011 (Sunday) Alpine skiing Men's World Cup in Beaver Creek, United States: Giant slalom: Marcel Hirscher 2:38.45 (1:18.74, 1:19.71) Ted Ligety 2:38.61 (1:18.53, 1:20.08) Fritz Dopfer 2:39.07 (1:19.12, 1:19.95) Giant slalom standings (after 2 of 8 races): (1) Ligety 180 points (2) Hirscher 140 (3) Alexis Pinturault 109 Overall standings (after 6 of 45 races): (1) Aksel Lund Svindal 294 points (2) Didier Cuche 260 (3) Beat Feuz 246 Women's World Cup in Lake Louise, Canada: Super-G: Lindsey Vonn 1:20.21 Anna Fenninger 1:20.40 Julia Mancuso 1:20.92 Overall standings (after 6 of 40 races): (1) Vonn 422 points (2) Viktoria Rebensburg 286 (3) Elisabeth Görgl 243 American football 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season: The 2012 Bowl Championship Series pairings are announced: Rose Bowl, Jan. 2: (10) Wisconsin vs. (5) Oregon Fiesta Bowl, Jan. 2: (3) Oklahoma State vs. (4) Stanford Sugar Bowl, Jan. 3: (13) Michigan vs. (11) Virginia Tech Orange Bowl, Jan. 4: (15) Clemson vs. (23) West Virginia BCS National Championship Game, Jan. 9: (1) LSU vs. (2) Alabama Auto racing V8 Supercars: Sydney Telstra 500 in Sydney, New South Wales (AUS unless stated): Race 28: (1) Mark Winterbottom (Ford Performance Racing; Ford FG Falcon) (2) Craig Lowndes (Triple Eight Race Engineering; Holden VE Commodore) (3) Shane van Gisbergen (Stone Brothers Racing; Ford FG Falcon) Final drivers' championship standings: (1) Jamie Whincup (Triple Eight Race Engineering; Holden VE Commodore) 3168 points (2) Lowndes 3133 (3) Winterbottom 2710 Whincup wins the title for the third time. Biathlon World Cup 1 in Östersund, Sweden: Men's 12.5 km Pursuit: Martin Fourcade 32:56.0 (0+0+0+0) Emil Hegle Svendsen 33:21.5 (0+0+1+1) Jaroslav Soukup 33:22.9 (0+1+0+0) Overall standings (after 3 of 26 races): (1) Fourcade 163 points (2) Carl Johan Bergman & Svendsen 122 Women's 10 km Pursuit: Tora Berger 33:56.9 (0+0+0+1) Kaisa Mäkäräinen 34:30.1 (0+1+0+1) Magdalena Neuner 35:21.3 (0+1+2+1) Overall standings (after 3 of 26 races): (1) Neuner 156 points (2) Mäkäräinen 145 (3) Berger 126 Bobsleigh World Cup in Igls, Austria: Four-man: (Alexandr Zubkov, Filipp Yegorov, Dmitry Trunenkov, Nikolay Hrenkov) 1:43.05 (51.56, 51.49) (Steven Holcomb, Justin Olsen, Steven Langton, Curtis Tomasevicz) 1:43.11 (51.65, 51.46) (Thomas Florschütz, Martin Rostig, Kevin Kuske, Thomas Blaschek) 1:43.41 (51.77, 51.64) Cricket New Zealand in Australia: 1st Test in Woolloongabba, Brisbane, day 4: 295 & 150 (49.4 overs; James Pattinson 5/27); 427 & 19/1 (2.2 overs). Australia win by 9 wickets; lead 2-match series 1–0. Cross-country