Bruins shut out Flyers 3-0

BOSTON (AP) ― It took the Boston Bruins just over 2 minutes to turn a scoreless tie into a 3-0 lead.The first-period scoring outburst was more than enough offense for the Bruins in a 3-0 shutout over the slumping Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday.Boston played one of its best defensive games of the season, limiting Philadelphia to 23 shots as Tuukka Rask picked up his 13th career shutout despite not seeing the puck during several long stretches as his teammates controlled play at the other end of

More SportsMarch 10, 2013

Nadal, Federer win at Indian Wells

INDIAN WELLS, California (AP) ― Rafael Nadal, playing on a hard court for the first time in almost a year, defeated Ryan Harrison 7-6 (3), 6-2 in a second-round match at the BNP Paribas Open on Saturday.Nadal, a two-time champion at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, had missed seven months because of a left knee injury and hadn’t played on a hard court since March 29, 2012.The Spanish star returned to the ATP Tour a month ago and played three tournaments on clay, winning two of those and saying hi

More SportsMarch 10, 2013

Woods stretches lead on Blue Monster

DORAL, Florida (AP) ― Tiger Woods hit a tee shot that got stuck in a palm tree. That’s about the only thing that didn’t fall his way Saturday in the Cadillac Championship.Woods made seven more birdies on the Blue Monster at Doral, the last one from 15 feet on the 18th hole that gave him a 5-under 67 and a four-shot lead over Graeme McDowell heading into the final round.Woods has made 24 birdies and taken only 74 putts through three rounds, both personal bests in his PGA Tour career.It put him in

GolfMarch 10, 2013

S. Korea picks up four medals on first day of short track championships

South Korea earned four medals, including two titles, on the opening day of the World Short Track Speed Skating Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, on Friday.Park Seung-hi and Shim Suk-hee swept up gold and silver medals in the women's 1,500 meters, the first race of the day. Then in the men's 1,500ｍ, Sin Da-woon and Kim Yun-jae also went first and second. In the women's race, Park came in at 2:23.634, with Shim just behind at 2:23.755. Shim took the lead midway through the race, but Park charge

More SportsMarch 9, 2013

Rivera plans to retire after 2013

The great Mariano Rivera is getting set to close his career.The New York Yankees reliever plans to announce this weekend that he will retire after this season, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Thursday.The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because there was no official statement. A news conference was called for Saturday at the Yankees' spring training complex in Tampa, Florida.The 43-year-old closer is Major League Baseball's saves leader with 608.

BaseballMarch 8, 2013

Korea earns another win in bobsled

South Korean bobsledders Won Yun-jong and Jun Jung-lin claimed their second international victory in two days on Friday.At the Lake Placid America’s Cup event in New York, Won and Jun finished first in the two-race final at the two-man bobsled race with a time of 1:53.65. They beat out the U.S. duo of Codie Bascue and Michael McCarty, who came in second with 1:54.36.A day earlier, Won and Jun ranked first with 1:53.91. They were the fastest tandem in all four races held in the past two days.Befo

GolfMarch 8, 2013

KBL to play out season despite scandal

The nation’s top men’s professional basketball league will play out the season despite the cloud of a match-fixing scandal involving an active coach, the league’s commissioner said Friday.Han Sun-kyo, head of the Korean Basketball League, convened an emergency board meeting Friday to discuss fallouts from the match-fixing allegations surrounding Kang Dong-hee, head coach of the Dongbu Promy.Hours after the KBL meeting, prosecutors filed for an arrest warrant for Kang, who allegedly took cash fro

BaseballMarch 8, 2013

Lawyer: Teen's dad is Jordan, not woman's ex

A lawyer for a woman who says Michael Jordan fathered her teenage son is attacking the basketball hall of famer's allegation that her ex-husband has been established as boy's dad.Pamela Smith last month sued Jordan and asked that he take a paternity test and pay child support. Jordan has said he's not the father and filed motion to have her lawsuit dismissed.A lawyer for Jordan said in a court filing last week that Smith's divorce filings established her ex-husband as the teen's father. The resp

More SportsMarch 8, 2013

Prosecutors to seek arrest warrant for coach Kang

Prosecutors investigating a match-fixing scandal in professional basketball said Thursday they plan to seek an arrest warrant for an active head coach for his role in rigging games.Prosecutors in Euijeongbu, north of Seoul, said they have confirmed star coach Kang Dong-hee's involvement in match fixing and can file for a warrant later Thursday.According to prosecutors, Kang allegedly took cash from two gambling brokers on four occasions during the playoffs in the Korean Basketball League (KBL) i

SoccerMarch 7, 2013

Euro Tour event in Korea to bring together ex-major champs

The Ballantine’s Championship, the only European Tour golf tournament held in South Korea each year, will bring three major champions to the field this spring, organizers said Thursday.Organizers said world No. 6 Louis Oosthuizen will tee off at Blackstone Golf Club in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, from April 25-28. Oosthuizen, the 2010 Open Championship winner from South Africa, is currently the highest-ranked player to have committed to the tournament. Zach Johnson of the U.S., who won the 2007 M

GolfMarch 7, 2013