MILWAUKEE (AP) ― Clayton Kershaw has set the bar so high for himself that a six-hit outing over eight innings qualifies as a subpar effort for the two-time Cy Young Award winner.The Los Angeles Dodgers ace walked two and allowed leadoff hitters to reach base in four of his first five innings but still came away with his 11th straight victory in a 5-1 win Sunday over the Milwaukee Brewers. He struck out six, nearly five below his average per nine innings.This equates to “struggling” for Kershaw.

BaseballAug. 11, 2014

BELMONT, Michigan (AP) ― Lee Mi-rim won the Meijer LPGA Classic on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour victory, beating fellow South Korean player Park In-bee with a birdie on the second hole of a playoff.“I (was) nervous 100 percent,” Lee said. “First time in playoff. Park Inbee is like a hero in Korea and all the young girls want to be her now in Korea.”The long-hitting Lee drove into greenside bunker on the second extra hole ― the short par-4 17th ― and blasted out to 5 feet. After Park’s 15-foot

GolfAug. 11, 2014

PITTSFORD, New York (AP) ― Michelle Wie has a finger injury that forced her to withdraw from the LPGA Championship next week at Monroe Golf Club and will sideline her at least three to five weeks.IMG Golf said Saturday that Wie has a stress reaction in a bone in her right index finger. The U.S. Women’s Open champion withdrew from the Meijer LPGA Classic on Thursday in Michigan after playing nine holes in the first round.IMG said she was examined by hand surgeon Dr. Tom Graham of the Cleveland Cl

GolfAug. 10, 2014

MILWAUKEE (AP) ― Mike Fiers held the Los Angeles Dodgers to three hits in his first big league start in more than a year, and Khris Davis and Carlos Gomez homered to give the Milwaukee Brewers a 4-1 win Saturday night.Fiers (1-1) struck out five in eight strong innings, filling in for injured veteran Matt Garza. The Dodgers mustered only a solo homer by Adrian Gonzalez into the second deck in right field.Fiers outdueled former Brewers pitcher Zack Greinke (12-8), who gave up Gomez’s homer off th

BaseballAug. 10, 2014

CARSON, California (AP) ― Landon Donovan, widely considered as America’s best ever footballer, will retire at the end of the MLS season. The 32-year-old LA Galaxy forward is the top goalscorer in MLS history and a five-time league champion. “I feel incredibly blessed and lucky to have played a role in the remarkable growth of MLS and U.S. Soccer during my playing career,” Donovan said in a statement on his Facebook page. “And while my career as a player will soon be over, rest assured I will sta

SoccerAug. 8, 2014

ANAHEIM, California (AP) ―Ryu Hyun-jin yielded two hits over seven dominant innings, Hanley Ramirez had a two-run single and the Los Angeles Dodgers wrapped up the Freeway Series with their third straight win, 7-0 over the Los Angeles Angels on Thursday night.Angel Stadium was filled with its biggest crowd in 16 years, but the blue-clad fans had all the fun as the Dodgers won the Freeway Series for the first time since 2006. Ryu (13-5) was brilliant in his fourth victory in five starts, striking

BaseballAug. 8, 2014

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AP) ― Barely able to tie his shoes three days ago, Tiger Woods is ready to play in the PGA Championship.Woods caused the biggest sensation of the week Wednesday afternoon simply by driving his silver SUV into the parking lot at Valhalla. He has never arrived so late for a major championship and had so little time to prepare ― just nine holes at Valhalla, which he had not seen since winning the PGA Championship in 2000.But at least he’s playing.That much was in doubt Sunday

GolfAug. 7, 2014

TORONTO (AP) ― Top-ranked Novak Djokovic edged Gael Monfils 6-2, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (2) on Wednesday in the second round of the Rogers Cup. After a lopsided tiebreaker, Djokovic fist-pumped and yelled at the end of the match that lasted 2 hours, 40 minutes. Monfils pulled out all the stops by hitting a between-the-legs shot and throwing his racket to hit the ball, and each player tried to ignite the crowd to get louder.“He’s probably the only guy in the world, tennis player, that I would pay a ticket

More SportsAug. 7, 2014

Bert van Marwijk, a former Dutch national head coach, has shown an interest in managing the South Korean men’s senior football team, the sport’s local technical director said Thursday.“Though we have no results to report at the moment, we did confirm van Marwijk’s interest in becoming the next head coach of our men’s senior football team,” Lee Yong-soo, the head of the technical committee at the Korea Football Association, said at a press conference in Seoul.Earlier this week, Lee, who was named

SoccerAug. 7, 2014

MONTREAL (AP) ― Venus Williams rebounded from a shaky second set to defeat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-1, 3-6, 6-2 in the first round of the Rogers Cup on Tuesday.Elena Vesnina stepped in as a replacement for the ailing Andrea Petkovic and beat Camila Giorgi 6-4, 3-6, 6-2. The afternoon matches saw scoreboards go dark due to a long power outage that affected 200,000 customers in the area, but the matches went on uninterrupted.Generators provided lighting as local favorite Eugenie Bouchard took th

More SportsAug. 6, 2014

LOUISVILLE (AFP) ― Tiger Woods was nowhere to be seen Tuesday at the PGA Championship, except for his image on promotional banners, and his status for Thursday’s scheduled start at Valhalla remained uncertain.Former world number one Woods, a 14-time major champion chasing the record 18 majors won by Jack Nicklaus, suffered a back injury Sunday during his final round at the World Golf Championships event in Akron, Ohio.Woods, who underwent back surgery March 31 to ease a pinched nerve, returned i

GolfAug. 6, 2014