■ 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.
Yu Yao-hsing on Tuesday nabbed Taiwan’s only goal in the final round of qualifiers for the 2027 AFC Asian Cup, as they fell 3-1 to Sri Lanka at Taipei Municipal Stadium. Early goals from Sri Lanka in the first half left Taiwan struggling to get on the board, and Christopher Tiao’s own goal at 53 minutes sealed the team’s fate in the third round of qualifiers. While acknowledging that the defeat, Taiwan’s sixth in Group D, was disappointing, head coach Matt Ross said he saw reasons to stay positive about the team’s development. “There were lots of positive signs in terms of the
Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli yesterday vowed to “keep raising the bar” after winning the Japanese Grand Prix to become the youngest driver in Formula One history to lead the championship standings. The 19-year-old Italian took advantage of a mid-race safety car to jump into the lead after a dreadful start from pole position, crossing the line ahead of McLaren’s Oscar Piastri and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. Antonelli’s Suzuka victory came two weeks after the first grand prix win of his career in China, and sent him top of the championship standings after three races, nine points ahead of team-mate George Russell. Mercedes are struggling to
INDIGESTION: Italy failed to qualify for the World Cup for a third consecutive time after a 4-1 defeat to Bosnia on penalties in a loss Gattuso said was ‘difficult to digest’ Coach Graham Arnold on Tuesday challenged his players to “shock the world” after Iraq became the 48th and final team to qualify for the FIFA World Cup with a nerve-shredding 2-1 win over Bolivia in an intercontinental playoff in Mexico, as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Sweden and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) also secured their places at the finals. Iraq, whose preparations were disrupted by the war in the Middle East, sealed their first appearance at the finals in 40 years and are to play in Group I against France, Senegal and Norway. Goals from Ali al-Hamadi
Teng Kai-wei, the only Taiwanese player on an opening-day roster in this year’s Major League Baseball (MLB) season, took his first win of the year with the Houston Astros in his season debut. Teng entered in relief in the top of the fifth inning against the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday, with the Astros trailing 5-0. He pitched 2-1/3 scoreless innings with two strikeouts, as Houston scored 11 runs during his outing to snatch an 11-9 comeback victory. The win is the Astros’ first of the season and the third of Teng’s MLB career. “It’s my first time pitching for the Astros, so
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