■ 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.
FRUSTRATION: Alcaraz made several unforced errors over four sets against Bosnian Damir Dzumhur, who had never made it past the third round in a major competition Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz reached the fourth round of the French Open after laboring past Damir Dzumhur 6-1, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in the Friday night session. The second-seeded Spaniard had never before played Dzumhur, a 33-year-old Bosnian who had never been past the third round at any major tournament. “I suffered quite a lot today,” Alcaraz said. “The first two sets was under control, then he started to play more deeply and more aggressively. It was really difficult for me.” Dzumhur hurt his left knee in a fall in the second round, and had treatment on Friday on his right leg during the
‘DREAM’: The 5-0 victory was PSG’s first Champions League title, and the biggest final win by any team in the 70-year history of the top-flight European competition Paris Saint-Germain won the Champions League for the first time as Luis Enrique’s brilliant young side outclassed Inter on Saturday in the most one-sided final ever with teenager Desire Doue scoring twice in an astonishing 5-0 victory. Doue supplied the pass for Achraf Hakimi to give PSG an early lead and the 19-year-old went from provider to finisher as his deflected shot doubled the advantage in the 20th minute. Doue scored again just after the hour mark, ending any doubt about the outcome before Khvicha Kvaratskhelia ran away to get the fourth and substitute Senny Mayulu, another teenager, made it five. Inter were
The Greek basketball league finals between Panathinaikos and Olympiakos were suspended by the government on Monday following on-court scuffles involving rival security teams. The best-of-five series is at 1-1. The third game, scheduled for today, has been postponed. The owners of both clubs were summoned to meet with the country’s sports minister. They “will be asked to provide explicit guarantees that this situation will be brought to an end. If not, this year’s championship will be definitively canceled,” government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis said. “There can be no tolerance for such pathological phenomena of violence and delinquency.” In online posts, the owners of Panathinaikos and
Defender Steph Catley says her UEFA Women’s Champions League title win with Arsenal last week will act as motivation to secure continental glory with Australia when the country hosts the Women’s Asian Cup next year. Catley and compatriots Caitlin Foord and Kyra Cooney-Cross were part of the Arsenal squad that defeated Barcelona in Lisbon on Sunday last week, before flying to Melbourne to feature in the Matildas’ 2-0 win over Argentina on Friday. The game was the first in a two-match series against the South Americans as the Australians continue preparations for the continental championship in March next year, when they would
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