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Park In-bee captures LPGA Championship in playoff

South Korean golfer Park In-bee captured the Wegmans LPGA Championship in a playoff on Sunday in New York, coming from behind to take her fifth career major title.Park edged out Brittany Lincicome with a par on the first hole of their sudden death playoff at Monroe Golf Club in Pittsford, New York.This was Park's fifth career major, which ties her with Pak Se-ri for most LPGA majors won by a South Korean golfer.Park, former world No. 1 and currently ranked third, won three majors last year. Her

GolfAug. 18, 2014

(Photo News) Ryu on DL

The NL West-leading Dodgers placed pitcher Ryu Hyun-jin on the 15-day disabled list with a right hip strain. The move is retroactive to Thursday. He is 13-6 with a 3.28 ERA in 23 starts. (AFP-Yonhap)

BaseballAug. 17, 2014

Athletes of 2 Koreas gather for Youth Games

The flag bearer of South Korea’s delegation parades into the stadium during the opening ceremony of the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games on Saturday. (Xinhua-Yonhap)BEIJING (Yonhap) ― Young athletes of South and North Korea gathered on Saturday for the second Youth Olympics in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, despite tensions sparked by a series of recent rocket launches by Pyongyang. More than 3,700 athletes aged between 15 and 18 are scheduled to take part in the Nanjing Games, with U.N. S

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Athletes of 2 Koreas gather for Youth Games

Lincicome in lead

PITTSFORD, New York (AP) ― Brittany Lincicome beamed. She had fought off the jitters while leading an LPGA Tour major and it felt oh-so-good.Lincicome, who hadn’t held a second-round lead since 2009 and never in a major, shot a 1-under 71 on Saturday at the LPGA Championship to finish the third round at 10-under 206. That was one shot better than Suzann Pettersen (67) of Norway and defending champion Park In-bee (69) of South Korea.

GolfAug. 17, 2014

Ki scores as United upset

MANCHESTER, England (AP) ― Louis van Gaal lost his first Premier League game with Manchester United on Saturday, with Swansea winning 2-1 to become the first away team since 1972 to open the season with a victory at Old Trafford.Gylfi Sigurdsson took advantage of poor defending to score the Welsh club’s winning goal in the 72nd minute. United captain Wayne Rooney had tied the match after Ki Sung-yueng opened the scoring.“We never played as a team, that is our error,” van Gaal told BT Sport telev

SoccerAug. 17, 2014

Choo homers but Rangers fall

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ― Albert Pujols and Howie Kendrick homered to give the Angels an early lead, and Los Angeles held on again to beat the Texas Rangers 5-4 on Saturday night.The Angels (72-49) are alone in first place in the AL West for the first time since 2011, but they are only two percentage points ahead of the Oakland Athletics, who lost at Atlanta on Saturday.Los Angeles has won nine in a row over Texas, tying the series record set in 1985 and matched a year later. Angels starter Matt S

BaseballAug. 17, 2014

S. Korea's negotiations with new football coach candidate break down

South Korea's negotiations with Bert van Marwijk, a former Dutch national head coach who had expressed interest in leading the South Korean national men's senior football team, have broken down due to a disagreement on salary and the length of his stay in the country, according to the local football association Sunday.Officials from the Korea Football Association (KFA) had been in talks with van Marwijk in Amsterdam since early August to fill the national football head coach position that has be

SoccerAug. 17, 2014

Ryu Hyun-jin hurt while taking loss

ATLANTA (Yonhap) ― Ryu Hyun-jin of the Los Angeles Dodgers took his sixth loss of the Major League Baseball season on Wednesday against the Atlanta Braves, while suffering a hip injury in the process.Ryu left the mound after getting two outs in the top of the sixth inning at Turner Field with the injury, as the Braves were clinging to a 3-2 lead. A trainer came out of the dugout as the South Korean pitcher pointed to the back of his right thigh. Jamey Wright relieved Ryu, and the Braves hung on

BaseballAug. 14, 2014

Reigning Korean league MVP named to Asiad soccer squad

Kim Shin-wook, the reigning MVP of the top-flight South Korean soccer league, was selected on Thursday to represent the country at the upcoming Asian Games on home soil.Kim, the striker for Ulsan Hyundai in the K League Classic, was one of the 20 players named to South Korea’s Asiad men’s football team. Head coach Lee Kwang-jong announced his roster at a press conference at the Korea Football Association headquarters in Seoul.Incheon, a metropolitan city west of Seoul, will host the 17th Asian G

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Reigning Korean league MVP named to Asiad soccer squad

Tiger pulls out of Ryder Cup consideration

Tiger Woods removed himself from consideration for the Ryder Cup team Wednesday evening with a clear message that he is not healthy enough to play.One day after U.S. captain Tom Watson said he trusted Woods to give him the “straight skinny” on the condition of his back injury and his game, Woods said he called the 64-year-old captain to say he would not be available.The decision spares Watson from having to leave Woods off the team, and it eliminates a distraction over the next three weeks befor

GolfAug. 14, 2014

N. Korea reveals delegation for Asiad

North Korea has submitted a list of members of its athletic delegation to the Asian Games to be held south of the border, the event’s chief organizer said Thursday, despite having recently threatened to back out of the competition.The revelation by Kim Young-soo, president of the organizing committee for the Asian Games in Incheon, located west of Seoul, comes as the two Koreas are still trying to narrow their differences on some logistical issues concerning the North’s participation.“North Kore

More SportsAug. 14, 2014

(Photo News) Asian Games flame

President of the 2014 Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee Kim Young-soo (right) and Incheon Mayor Yoo Jeong-bok combine two flames for the Games separately lit in New Delhi, India, and at Mount Manisan, Incheon, in a ceremony on Wednesday. The combined flame will be relayed across the nation until the Games open on Sept. 19. (Yonhap)

More SportsAug. 13, 2014

Ronaldo’s double clinches Super Cup

CARDIFF (AP) ― Moving on from a frustrating World Cup, Cristiano Ronaldo began the new season as the last one ended for Real Madrid ― with goals and a trophy.The Portugal forward netted both goals as the European champions convincingly overcame Europa League winner Sevilla with a 2-0 victory to collect the UEFA Super Cup on Tuesday.Ronaldo swept the ball in at the far post in the 30th minute after racing onto Gareth Bale’s cross, and the world player of the year powered in another four minutes i

SoccerAug. 13, 2014

German club refuses to release Son for Asiad

German football club Bayer Leverkusen has refused to release its South Korean star, Son Heung-min, for the upcoming Asian Games, officials here said Wednesday, throwing the host country’s chance of ending its gold medal drought into doubt.In a statement, the Korea Football Association said the Bundesliga team informed the South Koreans that it would not make Son available for the Sept. 19-Oct. 4 continental competition to be held in Incheon, west of Seoul.The KFA said it first received a rejecti

SoccerAug. 13, 2014

German club refuses to release Son for Asiad

Two torches for Asian Games come together as relay begins

The two torches lit in the lead-up to this year's Asian Games came together in the South Korean host city of Incheon on Wednesday, as the month-long relay got underway.The 17th Asian Games will run from Sept. 19 to Oct. 4 in Incheon, with some 13,000 athletes and officials in 36 sports to be on hand.The Asiad's organizers lit two separate torches: one in New Delhi, India, the host of the inaugural Asian Games in 1951, last Saturday, and the other in Incheon on Tuesday. It marked the first time t

More SportsAug. 13, 2014

The flame of Asiad to arrive at Incheon port on Wednesday

The flame of Asiad to arrive at Incheon port on WednesdayFLAME OF ASIAD -- Kwon Kyung-sang (left), secretary general of the 2014 Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee, and Weihai vice mayor Liu Guang Hua hold up a lamp carrying the flame of the Asian Games at the Chinese port city on Tuesday. The flame will arrive at Incheon port on Wednesday. The Incheon Asiad will take place from Sept. 19 to Oct. 4. (Yonhap)

Olympic GamesAug. 13, 2014

Klose retires from German national team

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) ― Miroslav Klose, the top scorer in World Cup history, has retired from Germany’s national squad a month after the team won the title for the fourth time.The 36-year-old Klose scored twice in Brazil, making him the highest-scoring player in the tournament’s history with 16 goals, one ahead of Ronaldo. It was Klose’s fourth World Cup tournament.With a career total of 71 goals, Klose is also the highest-scoring player for Germany. He is also the second most capped Germany p

SoccerAug. 12, 2014

Dodgers clip Braves 6-2

ATLANTA (AP) ― Kevin Correia won in his debut with the Dodgers, outpitching All-Star Julio Teheran and leading Los Angeles over the slumping Atlanta Braves 6-2 on Monday night.Los Angeles has won four of six to increase its NL West lead to five games over idle San Francisco. The Braves have dropped 10 of 12 and fallen four games behind NL East-leading Washington.Correia was tied for the major league lead in losses with a 5-13 record when he was traded from Minnesota to the Dodgers on Saturday fo

BaseballAug. 12, 2014

Korea favored to win baseball gold

Korea manager Ryu Joong-il (Yonhap)Host South Korea should be able to take the gold medal in baseball at the upcoming Asian Games as long as it plays to its capabilities, the national team’s advanced scout said Tuesday. This year’s Asian Games will kick off in Incheon, west of Seoul, on Sept. 19, and South Korea will try to win its second straight baseball gold medal. It recently named its 24-man roster, with 23 players from the top-flight Korea Baseball Organization.Kim Jung-joon, a television

BaseballAug. 12, 2014

Pak Se-ri to have own tournament in Korea

Hall of Fame golfer Pak Se-ri will have a women’s tournament bearing her name open on her native soil this fall, officials announced Tuesday.The 36-year-old will be the host of the “Se Ri Pak Invitational” on the Korean LPGA Tour from Oct. 3-5 at Solmoro Country Club in Yeoju, about 100 kilometers south of Seoul. The tournament will be sponsored by OK Savings Bank.Pak Se-ri (File photo)Pak and the tournament organizers signed off on the naming agreement Tuesday. Pak joins the PGA Tour veteran Ch

GolfAug. 12, 2014

Pak Se-ri to have own tournament in Korea