■ FOOTBALL
Broncos receiver dies
Denver Broncos wide receiver Kenny McKinley died Monday at the age of 23 in an apparent suicide, police in Colorado said. “It is an ongoing matter, however, our initial investigation indicates he died from a self-inflicted gunshot,” Arapahoe County Sheriff J Grayson Robinson said. The tragedy is the second to hit the Broncos in recent years following the murder of cornerback Darrent Williams in a drive-by shooting in 2007. McKinley, a fifth-round pick in last year’s NFL draft, played in eight games with the Broncos as a rookie. He was placed on injured reserve prior to the start of the 2010 season after suffering a knee injury. “Kenny had a promising future on the football field, but more importantly, he was a great teammate whose smile and personality could light up the room,” Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels said.
■SOCCER
Getafe draw with La Coruna
Mexico forward Javier Arizmendi’s equalizer gave Getafe a 2-2 draw with Deportivo La Coruna in the Spanish league on Monday. Deportivo led 2-1 after winger Andres Guardado scored penalties in the 50th and 57th minutes following teammate Diego Colotto’s own-goal in the 33rd. However, Arizmendi’s left-footed shot in the 69th minute earned a point for Getafe at El Riazor stadium. Valencia leads the standings with nine points, two more than Real Madrid and Sevilla. Defending champion Barcelona has six.
■ WEIGHTLIFTING
Maneza sets women’s record
Maiya Maneza of Kazakhstan has set a world record by lifting 143kg in the clean and jerk in the women’s 63kg category at the world championships in Turkey. Maneza beat the old mark on Monday by 1kg set by Pawina Thongsuk of Thailand in 2006 at the Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. The championships end on Saturday.
■BOXING
Rojos claims title
Mexican fighter Tomas Rojas beat Kohei Kono by a unanimous decision in Saitama, Japan, on Monday to capture the vacant WBC super flyweight title. The 30-year-old Rojas dominated his Japanese opponent in the early rounds and survived being knocked down in the final round to improve to 34 wins, including 23 KOs, against 12 defeats, one draw. Kono dropped to 25-5 with nine knockouts. The title became vacant when Vic Darchinyan moved up to bantamweight to capture the IBO championship. In another match, Takashi Uchiyama defeated Roy Mukhlis of Indonesia on a technical knockout in the fifth round to defend his WBA super featherweight title. Uchiyama sent Mukhlis to the canvas with a right hook before the referee stopped the bout.
■ TENNIS
Robredo goes to next round
Former champion Tommy Robredo of Spain beat Daniel Brands of Germany 6-1, 7-6 (3) to reach the second round at the Open de Moselle in Metz, France, on Monday. Robredo had seven aces and broke serve twice in the second set. In other first-round matches, Michael Berrer beat Rainer Schuettler 7-6 (5), 6-2 and Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan beat Florent Serra 6-4, 6-4. Berrer saved all four break points in the first set and beat Schuettler for the first time after two previous losses. Istomin appeared in control when he broke Serra’s serve to lead 4-1 in the second set, but Istomin lost his next two service games as Serra pulled back to 4-4. Serra then lost his serve for the fourth time in the match and Istomin held his to love to complete the win.
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