■ Golf
Arnold Palmer marries
Arnold Palmer married Kathleen Gawthrop in an intimate beachside ceremony on Oahu's North Shore, and the 75-year-old said he felt like a kid again. "I feel like a 25-year-old," he said on Thursday. The couple exchanged nuptials on Wednesday in a beach cottage near the Arnold Palmer Course at the Turtle Bay Resort, where the four-time Masters champion will play in this weekend's Champions Tour event. "She's a great lady. I've known her for a long time. We've been engaged for some time and dated before that," Palmer said. The wedding ceremony was held as the sun set. "The minister, the bride and the groom. That was it," Palmer said.
■ Boxing
Trinidad to fight Wright
Former three-time world boxing champion Felix Trinidad will fight for the second time since coming out of retirement when he meets reigning super welterweight champion Winky Wright on May 14 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The fight, announced on Thursday by promoter Don King, will be held at middleweight 72km with no titles at stake at the MGM Grand Hotel. Trinidad came off a layoff of more than two years to knock out Ricardo Mayorga in the eighth round last October in a middleweight bout. A former champion at 66kg, 69kg and 72kg, he is 41-1 with 34 knockouts, losing only to middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins. Wright (48-3, 25 knockouts) is coming off of back-to-back wins over Shane Mosley.
■ Swimming
Neethling smokes 200m
South Africa's Ryk Neethling beat Igor Berezutsky of Russia by 22-hundredths of a second to win the 200m individual medley in Moscow on Thursday, his third victory in two days at a short course World Cup swim meet at Olympic Stadium. Neethling clocked 1 minute, 57.22 seconds. Vytautas Janusaitis of Lithuania finished third in 1:58.29.
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