McDowell wins in playoff at RBC Heritage

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, South Carolina (AP) ― For all the big moments in Graeme McDowell’s career, his resume was short on PGA Tour victories.McDowell relished what he called his first authentic tour win, defeating fellow U.S. Open champ Webb Simpson in a playoff at the RBC Heritage on Sunday.McDowell’s been at the center of some of golf’s biggest moments, from his rousing triumph at Pebble Beach in 2010 to capturing the winning point for Europe in that year’s Ryder Cup matches. He has six European

GolfApril 22, 2013

Anthony, Knicks handle Celtics

NEW YORK (AP) ― Carmelo Anthony started fast, struggled through the middle and finished with a flurry.And the New York Knicks, after knocking the Boston Celtics from the top of the Atlantic Division, took the first step toward knocking them out of the playoffs.Anthony scored 36 points, leading the Knicks to an 85-78 victory on Saturday in their playoff opener.“It’s a wonderful feeling to know that we got our first win of the series here on our home court, took care of that business,” Anthony sai

More SportsApril 21, 2013

Arsenal gains ground in EPL

LONDON (AP) ― Arsenal moved into third place in the English Premier League, winning 1-0 at Fulham behind Per Mertesacker’s goal on a 43rd-minute header, and Sunderland, Stoke and Norwich came away with victories Saturday that boosted their hopes to avoid relegation.Arsenal had a man advantage at Craven Cottage after Steve Sidwell received a red card in the 12th minute, but the Gunners’ Olivier Giroud was sent off the 90th. Arsenal (18-7-9) moved into third place, two points ahead of Chelsea (18-

SoccerApril 21, 2013

Emotional return to Fenway

BOSTON (AP) ― David Ortiz has been in the middle of some of Fenway Park’s greatest moments. None of them seemed more important to “Big Papi” than his role in one Saturday afternoon.Ortiz helped the Red Sox honor the victims and the survivors of the Boston Marathon bombings then played in his first game since last summer, a 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals capped by Daniel Nava’s three-run homer in the eighth inning.“I try to take the positive side of things and ride with it,” Ortiz said,

BaseballApril 21, 2013

Pettersen downs Salas in playoff for Lotte win

KAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) ― Suzann Pettersen won the LPGA Lotte Championship on Saturday, beating Lizette Salas with a par on the first hole of a playoff after Salas chunked her approach shot into the water.Pettersen, the leader after the second and third rounds at Ko Olina, bogeyed the final hole of regulation to set up the playoff on the par-4 18th. The 32-year-old Norwegian closed with a 5-under 67, and Salas had a tournament-record 62 to finish at 19-under 269.“I thought 20 was going to do it,” P

GolfApril 21, 2013

Pettersen leads Miyazato at Lotte

KAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) ― Suzann Pettersen rebounded from her lone bogey with three back-nine birdies Thursday at wind-swept Ko Olina to take the second-round lead in the LPGA Lotte Championship.The 32-year-old Norwegian, a 10-time LPGA Tour winner ranked sixth in the world, shot a 3-under 69 in her afternoon round to reach 10-under 134. She had consecutive victories late last season in South Korea and Taiwan and won a Ladies European Tour event last month in China.Defending champion Ai Miyazato wa

GolfApril 19, 2013

Choo leads Reds to another win

CINCINNATI (AP) ― Tony Cingrani might have been a little too relaxed for his first big league start. With the way the Reds have been hitting, that’s understandable.Choo Shin-soo singled, doubled and scored twice, helping Cingrani get a victory in his starting debut, and the Reds won their fourth in a row by beating the Miami Marlins 11-1 on Thursday night. Cincinnati’s winning streak has featured stingy starting pitching. The 23-year-old Cingrani needed a lot of pitches, but kept up the trend.Mi

BaseballApril 19, 2013

Lotte Giants losing games, fans in KBO

It didn’t used to be this way for the Lotte Giants in the Korea Baseball Organization. The Busan-based Giants have been the most popular club in the nation’s top baseball league in terms of home attendance and have been to the playoffs every year since 2008.The Giants are the first KBO club to draw more than 1 million fans at home in five straight seasons. That streak is in jeopardy this year, however, as the Giants have been losing fans, not to mention games, at an alarming rate.The Giants were

BaseballApril 19, 2013

Kim Bo-kyung ‘happy’ with team’s EPL promotion

South Korean footballer Kim Bo-kyung said Wednesday he was “happy” to have realized his goal of reaching the English Premier League, after his second-division club earned promotion to the top-flight competition.Earlier in the day, Cardiff City in the Football League Championship, the second-tier English league, secured a spot in next year’s Premier League, following a 0-0 draw with Charlton Athletic. Each season, the top two teams from the Football League Championship, plus a winner of the promo

SoccerApril 17, 2013

Phillies and Reds game suspended due to rain

CINCINNATI (AP) ― The Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds managed only two singles apiece on Tuesday night, staying scoreless until their game was suspended because of heavy rain in the middle of the ninth inning.The game will be picked up at the same point on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., before the teams play the finale of their series no earlier than 7:10 p.m.Phillies reliever Phillippe Aumont was warming up to start the bottom of the ninth when heavy rain prompted the umpires to call for the

BaseballApril 17, 2013

Thunder dispatch Kings to seal No. 1 seed in Western Conference

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ― Kevin Durant scored 29 points, Russell Westbrook had 21 before getting ejected in the final 3 minutes and the Oklahoma City Thunder clinched the top seed in the Western Conference playoffs by beating the Sacramento Kings 104-95 on Monday night.Tyreke Evans, the Kings’ second-leading scorer, did not return after grabbing at his troublesome left knee following a drive to the basket late in the first quarter.Durant hit a 3-pointer and Westbrook set up Serge Ibaka for a two-hand

More SportsApril 16, 2013