■ Golf
Arnold Palmer marries
Arnold Palmer married Kathleen Gawthrop in an intimate beachside ceremony on Oahu's North Shore, and the 75-year-old said he felt like a kid again. "I feel like a 25-year-old," he said on Thursday. The couple exchanged nuptials on Wednesday in a beach cottage near the Arnold Palmer Course at the Turtle Bay Resort, where the four-time Masters champion will play in this weekend's Champions Tour event. "She's a great lady. I've known her for a long time. We've been engaged for some time and dated before that," Palmer said. The wedding ceremony was held as the sun set. "The minister, the bride and the groom. That was it," Palmer said.
■ Boxing
Trinidad to fight Wright
Former three-time world boxing champion Felix Trinidad will fight for the second time since coming out of retirement when he meets reigning super welterweight champion Winky Wright on May 14 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The fight, announced on Thursday by promoter Don King, will be held at middleweight 72km with no titles at stake at the MGM Grand Hotel. Trinidad came off a layoff of more than two years to knock out Ricardo Mayorga in the eighth round last October in a middleweight bout. A former champion at 66kg, 69kg and 72kg, he is 41-1 with 34 knockouts, losing only to middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins. Wright (48-3, 25 knockouts) is coming off of back-to-back wins over Shane Mosley.
■ Swimming
Neethling smokes 200m
South Africa's Ryk Neethling beat Igor Berezutsky of Russia by 22-hundredths of a second to win the 200m individual medley in Moscow on Thursday, his third victory in two days at a short course World Cup swim meet at Olympic Stadium. Neethling clocked 1 minute, 57.22 seconds. Vytautas Janusaitis of Lithuania finished third in 1:58.29.
Kylian Mbappe struck from the penalty spot as Real Madrid beat a dogged CA Osasuna 1-0 on Tuesday to make a winning start in Spanish La Liga under new coach Xabi Alonso. The France striker, last season’s European Golden Shoe winner, scored early in the second half, after he was fouled in the area by Osasuna defender Juan Cruz. It was enough to seal the points in Alonso’s first game in charge at the Santiago Bernabeu, with Madrid now unbeaten in their opening fixture of a league campaign since 2008. “You can see that Kylian wants to do even more
TO THE TOP: After securing the international title on Saturday, Team Taiwan were to face Las Vegas to potentially win their 18th Little League World Series championship A team from Taipei’s Dong Yuan Elementary School won the Little League Baseball World Series’ international title on Saturday by defeating Aruba 1-0 in the annual baseball tournament held in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The Taiwan team, competing under the name Chinese Taipei, were after press time last night to face a team from Las Vegas, Nevada, which beat a team from Fairfield, Connecticut, in the US championship 8-2. Taiwan are seeking to win their first Little League Baseball World Series title since 1996. “Really haven’t taken a moment to data dump right now on Taiwan,” Nevada manager T.J. Fescher said. “They’re a
‘CATASTROPHE’: Despite losing several key forwards in the summer transfer window, Bayern were up 3-0 in the first half before Harry Kane scored a hat-trick in the second Harry Kane hit a hat-trick, Michael Olise a double and newcomer Luis Diaz also scored as Bayern Munich made a “statement” against RB Leipzig 6-0 at home in the Bundesliga season opener on Friday. Bayern’s big-money arrivals, all brought in from the Premier League across the past three seasons, were dominant as the Bavarians begun their title defense in style. Olise scored twice in the first half, either side of a Diaz strike. Not to be outdone, Kane scored three goals in the second half — with two assists coming from Diaz, to bring Bayern’s total to 6-0. Kane told the Bundesliga
Kevin de Bruyne is to lead SSC Napoli’s Serie A title defense today when he makes his full debut at promoted US Sassuolo, but the champions head into the new season rocked by a long-term injury to star striker Romelu Lukaku. De Bruyne was, alongside aging icon Luka Modric, the big new name to arrive in Italy this summer and fans were hoping his linkup with Belgium teammate Lukaku would push Napoli to success both at home and in their return to the UEFA Champions League. The 34-year-old has suffered from hamstring injuries which caused him to miss significant chunks of the
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