No. 1. Florida State will play No. 2 Auburn in the final BCS championship game on Jan. 6 at the Rose Bowl.

Florida State wrapped up its spot with a blowout of Duke in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game on Saturday night, and Auburn earned its spot when the Tigers beat Missouri in the Southeastern Conference title game and Ohio State was upset by Michigan State.

Next season the BCS will be replaced by a four-team playoff.

In the other marquee bowls:

Alabama will play Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl.

Clemson will play Ohio State in the Orange Bowl.

Michigan State will play Stanford in the Rose Bowl.

Baylor will play UCF in the Fiesta Bowl.

LOS ANGELES — Nearly eight months after Kobe Bryant limped off the Lakers' home court with a torn Achilles tendon and a career in doubt, he struggled to keep his composure when he finally stepped back onto the same hardwood.Bryant had nine points and eight rebounds in his season debut, but Amir Johnson scored a career-high 32 points in the trade-depleted Toronto Raptors' 106-94 victory over Los Angeles.Bryant began his 18th NBA season by going 2 for 9 with four assists and eight turnovers in 28 minutes.

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Zach Johnson delivered the kind of theatrics that usually belong to Tiger Woods to win the World Challenge.Johnson holed out for par from the drop area on the 18th hole at Sherwood that got him into a playoff, and he won when Woods hit a poor shot into the bunker and missed a 5-foot par putt on the first extra hole.The final World Challenge at Sherwood after 14 years was set up for the perfect sendoff. There was a record crowd and the tournament host was poised to win. Instead, Johnson rallied from four shots down with eight holes to play for his second win this year.

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. — An Olympic gold medal won by Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Games sold for a record $1.4 million in an online auction.SCP Auctions said Pittsburgh Penguins co-owner Ron Burkle paid $1,466,574, the highest price for a piece of Olympic memorabilia.“We just hope that it's purchased by an institution where the public could have access to it, a museum or something like that,” Owens' daughter, Marlene Owens Rankin of Chicago, told The Associated Press before the sale.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The baseball winter meetings are starting with a look back.Joe Torre, Tony La Russa and Bobby Cox were among the candidates considered by the Hall of Fame's expansion era committee. The trio of retired managers was joined on the 12-man ballot by a pair of much-debated figures who died in recent years: New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and pioneering players' union head Marvin Miller.