■ Golf
Mallon takes ADT trophy
After knocking at the door most of the season, Meg Mallon blew it down at Annika Sorenstan's expense. Sorenstam bogeyed the final hole on Sunday at the LPGA Tour's season-ending ADT Championship, allowing Mallon to walk away with her first title of the year. Playing just in front of Sorenstam, Mallon birdied six of the last 11 holes on one of the LPGA Tour's most trying layouts to tie for the lead at seven-under. Sorenstam then missed a 10-foot par putt at the 18th. "You win some and you lose some," said the Swedish superstar, who finished the season with a tour-best six titles. It was the first win in over a year for Mallon, who had posted nine top-10 finishes without a victory this season before capturing her 15th career title.
■ Games
Vietnam opens its doors
With the kickoff to the Southeast Asian Games just a week away, Vietnam said yesterday it is ready to welcome visitors from the region to the country's first major sporting event. The communist country expects 10,000 foreign visitors, including athletes and officials, during the 22nd games that run from Dec. 5-13. Most of the sporting events will be held in the capital of Hanoi and southern Ho Chi Minh City, where workers have been sprucing up the streets. A total of 32 different sports will take place in 11 cities and provinces. "Throughout the sports events at the SEA Games, Southeast Asian countries will closely unite, share cultural values and customs and strengthen mutual understanding with an aim to build a unified region," said Sports Minister Nguyen Danh Thai, head of the SEA Games Organizing Committee. "With that spirit, the organizing committee of the host country has been doing all its best to secure a successful SEA Games."
SSC Napoli’s Italian Serie A title hopes suffered a late setback on Sunday when they were held to a 2-2 draw at home against Genoa, setting up a thrilling season finale with closest rivals Inter just one point behind. The hosts remain top with 78 points, holding a slim lead over Inter, who won 2-0 at Torino earlier on Sunday, with two rounds remaining. To make matters worse for Napoli, midfielder Stanislav Lobotka, struggling with an ankle injury, was forced off just minutes after the match began. Scott McTominay delivered a perfect pass into the box where Romelu Lukaku got
Harry Kane opened the scoring ahead of lifting his first career silverware as Bayern Munich beat Borussia Moenchengladbach 2-0, with veteran Thomas Mueller playing his last home game for the club. Bayern officially won the title on May 4 when defending champions Bayer Leverkusen were held to a 2-2 draw at Freiburg, but were presented with the Bundesliga shield in front of their home fans at full-time. Dripping wet after being showered with beer by teammates, Kane said the title win was “an incredible feeling,” and hoped it would be “the first of many.” “It’s been lot of hard work, a lot of
Taiwanese e-sports veteran Lin “ET” Chia-hung yesterday successfully defended his King of Fighters XV title at this year’s Evolution Championship Series: Japan (EVO Japan), securing his second consecutive championship. Lin claimed victory with a 3-1 win over Japanese pro gamer “mok” in the grand final, repeating his earlier 3-1 win against the same opponent in the winners’ final. The 40-year-old earned a ￥1 million (US$6,897) cash prize at the two-day tournament, which drew 294 competitors. Mok, Lin’s toughest rival in the bracket, took home ￥400,000 as runner-up. Lin remains undefeated in match sets against mok in King of Fighters XV, holding a 10-0 record,
Batting great Virat Kohli yesterday announced his immediate retirement from Test cricket, just days before India name their squad for a tour to England. Kohli, who scored 9,230 runs in 123 matches at an average of 46.85, posted his decision on Instagram five days after India captain Rohit Sharma called time on his own Test career. Since making his debut in 2011, Kohli struck 30 hundreds and 31 fifties with a highest score of 254 not out, mainly batting at number four in the order. “It’s been 14 years since I first wore the baggy blue in Test cricket,” the
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