On a day dominated by youngsters, including teenage sprinting sensation Allyson Felix, 17, the ageless Regina Jacobs put on quite a show Saturday at the US track and field championships.
Jacobs won her 12th national title in the 1,500m, pulling away from longtime rival Suzy Favor Hamilton on the final straightaway, with a time of 4 minutes, 1.63 seconds that is the fastest in the world this year.
The Stanford alum earned the right to celebrate her 40th birthday this August at the world championships in Paris.
PHOTO: AFP
"It's awesome," Jacobs said of her dozen national titles. "I was very nervous today. I knew Suzy was in great shape."
Asked about the secret to her success, Jacobs joked it was a matter of defying the laws of physics.
"I run around the track in the regular direction," she said, "but I also do a lot of laps in the opposite direction."
Jacobs has won five straight national titles in the 1,500m, and nine of the last 10. Her first US crown in the event came in 1987, when Felix was 1 year old.
Felix, who graduated from Los Angeles Baptist High School on Friday, easily won her first-round heat Saturday in the 200 in 23.19. Already touted as the next great US female sprinter, she has the fastest time in the world this year with 22.11.
Kelli White, who won the 100m on Friday, also easily qualified for the 200m semifinals today.
The race is considered wide open because of the absence of five-time defending champion Marion Jones, who is due to give birth in July.
Sanya Richards, 18, won the women's 400m and her college teammate, Raasin McIntosh, won the 400m hurdles.
Freddie Freeman homered and drove in four runs, Shohei Ohtani also went deep and Roki Sasaki earned his first major league win as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Atlanta Braves 10-3 on Saturday night for their seventh straight victory. The Dodgers have won the first two games of the series to improve to 5-0 against Atlanta this year. Los Angeles’ three-game sweep at home early in the season left the Braves 0-7. Sasaki allowed three runs and six hits over five innings. The 23-year-old right-hander gave up a home run to Ozzie Albies, but received plenty of offensive support in his
FOCUS: ‘We came out here with a goal in mind ... to keep our foot on their throat and on their neck, and continue to play 48 minutes of basketball,’ Donovan Mitchell said The Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday thrashed the Miami Heat to cruise into the next round of the NBA playoffs as the Golden State Warriors battled past the Houston Rockets 109-106 to move to the brink of a series victory. After pounding Miami 124-87 in game three on Saturday, No.1 Eastern Conference seeds Cleveland once again piled on the misery for their outclassed opponents with a crushing 138-83 victory to complete a 4-0 series win. The 55-point drubbing was the largest series-clinching victory in NBA playoff history and sets up a series against either the Indiana Pacers or Milwaukee Bucks in
Bayern Munich on Sunday were crowned German champions for the 34th time, giving striker Harry Kane his first major trophy, after second-placed Bayer 04 Leverkusen drew 2-2 at SC Freiburg. Bayern’s 3-3 draw at RB Leipzig on Saturday, when the Bavarians came from two goals down to take the lead before conceding a stoppage-time equalizer, meant defending Bundesliga champions Leverkusen needed to win at Freiburg to delay the title party. Leverkusen were two goals down before scoring twice in the final 10 minutes, but Xabi Alonso’s side could not find a third, as Bayern reclaimed the title at the first attempt after
Shuttler Lin Chun-yi yesterday kept Taiwan on the board as they faced their first major challenge of the group stage after marching into the last eight at the Sudirman Cup Finals in Xiamen, China. Taiwan were losing 3-1 to South Korea as of press time last night, with only the men’s doubles match remaining. Taiwan and four-time champions South Korea have already progressed to the quarter-finals, after Taiwan on Monday blanked the Czech Republic 5-0 without giving up a single game. Before last night’s tie, Taiwan were undefeated in Group B, with a 9-1 match record, ahead of South Korea, who, although also
RSS