■BASEBALL
Jeter sets shortstop record
Yankees captain Derek Jeter passed Hall of Famer Luis Aparicio for most hits by a shortstop in New York’s game against the Seattle Mariners on Sunday. Jeter hit an RBI double in the third inning of the game against the Mariners. His 2,674th hit as a shortstop came two innings after he had singled against Seattle rookie starter Doug Fister leading off the game. “I just try to be consistent year in and year out,” said the 35-year-old Jeter, who claimed to be unaware of the record coming into the weekend. “If you are consistent, good things happen. It’s kind of hard to believe, to say the least.”
■WRESTLING
Angle in strip mall wrangle
Pro wrestler and Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle has been arrested on charges of possessing a human growth hormone and violating an order of protection in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Angle was arrested about 7:50am on Saturday in a Robinson Township strip mall parking lot. His girlfriend, who said she obtained a protection order about an hour and a half earlier after the two fought on Friday night, said that he had circled the lot staring at her as she sat in a coffee shop, a police affidavit states. Police said they found the human growth hormone Hygetropin in Angle’s car, and the wrestler told them he had a prescription for the drug. He also told officers he had not seen the woman and was looking for a hotel because he was barred from his home. Angle, 40, was charged with violating the order of protection, harassment, possession of drugs and paraphernalia and driving with a suspended license. He posted bail and is scheduled to appear for hearings today and tomorrow, a court clerk said.
■BASEBALL
Matsui has knee drained
Hideki Matsui was held out of the New York Yankees’ lineup on Sunday while he had his swollen knee drained and was likely to miss at least one more game. Manager Joe Girardi said after New York lost for just the second time in 14 games on Sunday, 10-3 to Seattle, that the Japanese designated hitter would have his surgically repaired knee re-evaluated today to see if the 35-year-old could play the second game of a series at Oakland, New York’s next stop on its season-long, 10-game road trip. Matsui had arthroscopic surgery on his knee last Sept. 22, then had his knee drained earlier this season.
■CYCLING
American wins in Hamburg
Garmin sprinter Tyler Farrar was celebrating on Sunday when he became the first American to win the Hamburg Cyclassics one-day classic. The 25-year-old Farrar, who finished fifth out of the sprinters contesting the green jersey for the points classification at this year’s Tour de France, was the first home over the 216.4km course here around the north German city. Denmark’s Matti Breschel, of the Saxo Bank team, finished second, while local hope Gerald Ciolek of Milram came third.
■FORMULA ONE
Massa recovering ‘very well’
Felipe Massa is making good progress after suffering a fractured skull in an accident at last month’s Hungarian Grand Prix, Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali said on Sunday. However, Domenicali did not comment on Italian media reports that Massa’s recovery was going so well that he might be back at the Italian Grand Prix on Sept 13. “Felipe is in excellent form and his recovery is going very well,” Domenicali told the Italian team’s Web site, www.ferrari.com, after visiting the 28-year-old in Brazil.
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