■ 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.
Bologna on Thursday advanced past Empoli to reach their first Coppa Italia final in more than half a century. Thijs Dallinga’s 87th-minute header earned Bologna a 2-1 win and his side advanced 5-1 on aggregate. Giovanni Fabbian opened the scoring for Bologna with a header seven minutes in. Then Viktor Kovalenko equalized for Empoli in the 30th minute by turning in a rebound to finish off a counterattack. Bologna won the first leg 3-0. In the May 14 final in Rome, Bologna are to face AC Milan, who eliminated city rivals Inter 4-1 on aggregate following a 3-0 win on Wednesday. Bologna last reached the
If the Wild finally break through and win their first playoff series in a decade, Minnesota’s top line likely will be the reason. They were all over the Golden Knights through the first two games of their NHL Western Conference quarter-finals series, which was 1-1 going back to Minnesota for Game 3 today. The Wild tied the series with a 5-2 win on Tuesday. Matt Boldy had three goals and an assist in the first two games, while Kirill Kaprizov produced two goals and three assists. Joel Eriksson Ek, who centers the line, has yet to get on the scoresheet. “I think the biggest
The Minnesota Timberwolves, with so many promising performances spoiled by late mistakes fresh in their memory bank, sure timed this strong finish well. Jaden McDaniels scored a career playoff-high 30 points and spearheaded Minnesota’s stifling defense on an ailing Luka Doncic, and the Timberwolves beat the Los Angeles Lakers 116-104 to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven Western Conference first-round series in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Friday night. “Jaden never looks tired. He looks like he could play 48 minutes,” said teammate Anthony Edwards, who had 29 points, eight rebounds and eight assists. Julius Randle added 22 points for the Wolves, who outscored
From a commemorative jersey to a stadium in his name, Argentine soccer organizers are planning a slew of tributes to their late “Captain” Pope Francis, eulogized as the ultimate team player. Tributes to the Argentine pontiff, a lifelong lover of the game, who died on Monday at the age of 88, have been peppered with soccer metaphors in his homeland. “Francisco. What a player,” the Argentine Football Federation (AFA) said, describing the first pope from Latin America and the southern hemisphere as a generational talent who “never hogged the ball” and who showed the world “the importance of having an Argentine captain,
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