DENVER (AP) ― Dexter Fowler hit two homers off fill-in starter Matt Magill and Jorge De La Rosa pitched seven effective innings, helping the Colorado Rockies to a 7-2 win over the slumping Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday.It was the second multihomer game of the season for Fowler. Todd Helton and Michael Cuddyer added solo homers as the Rockies took two of three from Los Angeles. De La Rosa (7-3) struggled early, but settled down as he allowed six hits and struck out five for his first career win a

BaseballJune 3, 2013

PARIS (AP) ― Chasing a shot, Roger Federer caught his right shoe in the French Open’s red clay, twisting that foot awkwardly and tumbling to the ground.Soon enough, he was in a real rut, in danger of his earliest exit from a Grand Slam tournament in nine years.Federer regrouped and restored order eventually, coming back from a two-sets-to-one deficit to beat 15th-seeded Gilles Simon of France 6-1, 4-6, 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 Sunday in the fourth round to reach his 36th consecutive major quarterfinal. “I

More SportsJune 3, 2013

DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) ― Matt Kuchar was in a good spot Sunday at the Memorial. He had his first multiple-win season, and an audience with tournament host Jack Nicklaus.Needing two putts from 20 feet to hold off a late charge from Kevin Chappell, Kuchar punctuated a remarkably steady final round by making the birdie putt for a 4-under 68 and a two-shot victory at Muirfield Village. He joined Tiger Woods as the only players with more than one win this year on the PGA Tour.Kuchar, who goes to a career-

GolfJune 3, 2013

BEIRUT (Yonhap News) ― Ahead of the team’s World Cup qualifier against Lebanon, South Korean striker Lee Dong-gook said he will try to score early against the Middle Eastern opponent.Lee leads the South Korean national team with 30 career international goals and 10 of them have come against Middle Eastern countries. As the team prepares for the Tuesday showdown in the final Asian qualification for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, head coach Choi Kang-hee has tabbed the 34-year-old as the team’

SoccerJune 3, 2013

Many soccer stars come and go at the British Premier League’s Manchester United, but South Korean player Park Ji-sung is among the stars most missed by the prestigious club’s fans, a U.S.-based sports media outlet reported. San Francisco-based Bleacher Report published an article about the four athletes Manchester United’s fans “wish had never left,” in which it placed the South Korean midfielder at No. 3.“Though Park Ji-Sung has not, and will not, ever be a player as talented as Ronaldo, he was

SoccerJune 3, 2013

Paulinho equalized late on with a volley for Brazil to draw 2-2 with England on Sunday and prevent the 2014 World Cup hosts from losing their opening match at the revamped Maracana stadium.After Fred put Brazil ahead in the 57th minute in Rio de Janeiro, Wayne Rooney teed up Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's leveler and then curled England in front with a deflected goal. But Paulinho's goal in the 82nd minute ensured England would fail to replicate its victory over Brazil at Wembley Stadium four months

SoccerJune 3, 2013

PITTSBURGH (AP) ― Mike Leake continued his recent run of strong pitching by working six scoreless innings Saturday night as the Cincinnati Reds beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0.Leake (5-2) scattered seven hits as the Pirates stranded seven runners during his six innings. He had five strikeouts and one walk. In his last four starts, Leake has gone 3-0 with a 0.27 ERA, allowing only one run in 33 innings.Also, Dexter Fowler’s RBI single down the first base line in the 10th inning lifted the Colorad

BaseballJune 2, 2013

PARIS (AP) ― For the third time in three matches this year in the French Open, Rafael Nadal hardly looked himself for a set.Unlike in the first two rounds, Nadal won his opening set Saturday, albeit barely. The takeaway, even after another victory, was the same: The owner of a record seven titles at Roland Garros is not the dominant force he usually is at the clay-court tournament.“If I want to have any chance,” Nadal acknowledged after beating 27th-seeded Fabio Fognini of Italy 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-

More SportsJune 2, 2013

South Korea will play its upcoming World Cup qualifier in Lebanon as scheduled, despite lingering security concerns in the Middle Eastern country, the South Korean football governing body said.The Korea Football Association said South Korea will face Lebanon in Beirut on Tuesday as scheduled in the final round of the Asian qualification for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.Earlier, the KFA had said Chung Mong-gyu, the KFA chief, was in talks with FIFA officials over “ensuring security” during t

SoccerJune 2, 2013

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (AP) ― Shanshan Feng beat the wind and now has a good chance of beating everyone else in the ShopRite LPGA Classic.Feng, who last year became the first Chinese player to win an LPGA Tour title and a major event in capturing the LPGA Championship, shot a marvelous 4-under 67 before the wind picked up Saturday and grabbed a three-shot lead heading into the final round.The round matched the day’s best and gave the eighth-ranked Feng a 6-under 136 total on the wind-whip

GolfJune 2, 2013

BERLIN (AP) ― Bayern Munich beat Stuttgart 3-2 to seal the club’s first treble by winning the German Cup on Saturday in Jupp Heynckes’ last game in charge.Mario Gomez scored twice and Bayern became the first German side to win a treble of domestic league, cup and European Cup, and only the seventh team overall to achieve the feat.Thomas Mueller opened the scoring with a penalty in the 37th minute, Gomez made it 2-0 three minutes into the second half, and the former Stuttgart striker added his se

SoccerJune 2, 2013

DUBAI (Yonhap News) ― A pair of U.K.-based midfielders for the South Korean men’s national soccer team on Thursday expressed confidence against Lebanon in their upcoming World Cup qualification match.South Korea will face Lebanon in Beirut next Tuesday in the final round of Asian qualification for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. South Korea set up a training camp here in Dubai earlier this week, before flying to Lebanon over the weekend.The kickoff is 8:30 p.m. Tuesday local time, and 2:30 a.

SoccerMay 31, 2013

Korea’s Park In-bee returns to the event where she began her march to world No. 1 at this week’s $1.5 million ShopRite Classic, the last tuneup for next week’s LPGA Championship.Park’s lone LPGA title when she arrived at the 54-hole event last year had come at the 2008 U.S. Women’s Open. She had gone a year without managing a top-10 finish but found her putting form at the layout near Atlantic City, New Jersey.“Last year at this point, I had never finished top-10 in the last year and I already h

GolfMay 31, 2013