■ Golf
Lewis takes Lumber Classic
J.L. Lewis closed with a career-low and course-record 10-under-par 62 on a marathon on Sunday to capture the PGA Tour's 84 Lumber Classic of Pennsylvania. Lewis' 22-under 266 total established a new tournament record and earned him US$720,000 in prize money. He moved to 17th on the money list -- in position for the Tour Championship -- with 1.91 million dollars. Frank Lickliter, Stuart Appleby of Australia and Tim Petrovic shared second place at 20-under 268, collecting US$298,666 each. Cameron Beckman, Jesper Parnevik of Sweden and Rocco Mediate tied for fifth at 271. Lewis broke the Nemacolin Woodlands Mystic Rock Course record of 64, which was set and matched by several players over the first three rounds. He was 14-under for the day.
■ Cricket
Pakistan gets angry
The Pakistan Cricket Board has threatened it will seek millions of dollars in compensation and push for Asian-bloc boycotts if South Africa's tour of Pakistan doesn't go ahead. South African cricket officials canceled the tour after a small bomb exploded last Friday in the port city of Karachi, where some of the matches had been scheduled for next month. Five people were injured in the blast, which Pakistani police said was motivated by a business dispute and was not an act of terrorism. Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Tauqir Zia wrote to International Cricket Council president Ehsan Mani, saying that the Pakistani board would lose around US$7 million if the South African tour was scrapped. He said the board would also lose about US$3 million if New Zealand also declined to play five limited-overs internationals in November and a further US$11 million if India refused to send a team to Pakistan in February next year.
Revelations of positive doping tests for nearly two dozen Chinese swimmers that went unpunished sparked an intense flurry of accusations and legal threats between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the head of the US drug-fighting organization, who has long been one of WADA’s fiercest critics. WADA on Saturday said it was turning to legal counsel to address a statement released by US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) CEO Travis Tygart, who said WADA and anti-doping authorities in China swept positive tests “under the carpet by failing to fairly and evenly follow the global rules that apply to everyone else in the world.” The
Taiwanese judoka Yang Yung-wei on Saturday won silver in the men’s under-60kg category at the Asian Judo Championships in Hong Kong. Nicknamed the “judo heartthrob” in Taiwan, the Olympic silver-medalist missed out on his first Asian Championships gold when he lost to Japanese judoka Taiki Nakamura in the finals. Yang defeated three opponents on Saturday to reach the final after receiving a bye through the round of 32. He first topped Laotian Soukphaxay Sithisane in the round of 16 with two seoi nage (over-the-shoulder throws), then ousted Indian Vijay Kumar Yadav in the quarter-finals with his signature ude hishigi sankaku gatame (triangular armlock). He
RALLY: It was only the second time the Taiwanese has partnered with Kudermetova, and the match seemed tight until they won seven points in a row to take the last set 10-2 Taiwan’s Chan Hao-ching and Russia’s Veronika Kudermetova on Sunday won the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix women’s doubles final in Stuttgart, Germany. The pair defeated Norway’s Ulrikke Eikeri and Estonia’s Ingrid Neel 4-6, 6-3, 10-2 in a tightly contested match at the WTA 500 tournament. Chan and Kudermetova fell 4-6 in the first set after having their serve broken three times, although they played increasingly well. They fought back in the second set and managed to break their opponents’ serve in the eighth game to triumph 6-3. In the tiebreaker, Chan and Kudermetova took a 3-0 lead before their opponents clawed back two points, but
Taiwanese gymnast Lee Chih-kai failed to secure an Olympic berth in the pommel horse following a second-place finish at the last qualifier in Doha on Friday, a performance that Lee and his coach called “unconvincing.” The Tokyo Olympics silver medalist finished runner-up in the final after scoring 6.6 for degree of difficulty and 8.800 for execution for a combined score of 15.400. That was just 0.100 short of Jordan’s Ahmad Abu Al Soud, who had qualified for the event in Paris before the Apparatus World Cup series in Qatar’s capital. After missing the final rounds in the first two of four qualifier