FOOTBALL
Marshall stabbed by his wife
Miami Dolphins receiver Brandon Marshall left hospital on Saturday, a day after police said he was stabbed with a kitchen knife by his wife, who was released on bail following her arrest. Police charged Michi Nogami-Marshall with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon late on Friday. An arrest report said Nogami-Marshall told police she had been defending herself. Nogami-Marshall, 26, posted US$7,500 bail and was released from custody on Saturday afternoon. A police report said Marshall told officers he slipped and fell on a broken vase, but authorities noted the evidence did not support his story. Marshall was taken to Broward General Hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery on Friday night. Doctors have told Marshall that he will likely be fine in two to three weeks and that no vital organs were damaged.
CRICKET
Daredevils down Kings
Kings XI Punjab’s Shaun Marsh smashed 95 off just 46 balls, but failed to stop Delhi Daredevils from posting a 29-run win in their Indian Premier League match on Saturday. The Australian hit six sixes and nine fours as Delhi stopped Punjab at 202-6 after scoring 231-4 — the highest total of this year’s tournament — for their second victory in five matches. Punjab’s hopes of achieving a stiff target in the tall-scoring game receded after the dismissal of Marsh, caught by skipper Virender Sehwag off South Africa paceman Morne Morkel in the 18th over. Marsh added 72 for the second wicket with skipper Adam Gilchrist, who hit four successive fours off seamer Ajit Agarkar during his 33-ball 42. It was Punjab’s second defeat in five games of the Twenty20 tournament. Delhi were earlier indebted to Australian David Warner and Sehwag for setting a challenging target, with each scoring 77.
SNOOKER
Trump makes last eight
Giantkiller Judd Trump secured his passage to the quarter-finals with a 13-6 win over Martin Gould at the world championships in Sheffield, England, on Saturday. The Englishman, the winner of this month’s China Open who knocked out defending champion Neil Robertson of Australia in the opening round, led Gould 11-5 overnight and duly picked up the two frames he required to book his place in the last eight. Trump, who faces last year’s runner-up Graeme Dott next, believes this could be his year. “I always knew if I brought a decent game with me I could go out and win it, and I still feel that,” he said. Dott set up a showdown with Trump by overcoming Ali Carter 13-11. On the other table, three-time champion Ronnie O’Sullivan roared into a 6-2 lead against Shaun Murphy. O’Sullivan had breaks of 76, 75 and 86 in the final three frames of the session to open a substantial lead.
GOLF
Colsaerts wins China Open
Nicolas Colsaerts set a tournament record at the China Open yesterday, totaling 24-under to win by four shots from a group of four players. The Belgian, who only regained his European Tour card last year, made six birdies in a six-under 66 to total 264 and beat the old mark by five strokes. Pablo Martin of Spain (63), Peter Lawrie of Ireland (68), Soren Kjeldsen of Denmark (66) and Danny Lee of New Zealand (65) were next at the Luxehills International Country Club in Chengdu. Prayad Marksaeng of Thailand in 1996 and Ed Fryatt of England in 1998 both totaled 19-under to win the tournament.
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