FOOTBALL
Vikings’ Moss moving on
The Minnesota Vikings waived Randy Moss four games after acquiring the seven-times Pro Bowl wide receiver from the New England Patriots, the NFL’s Web site said on Monday. Moss, who did not fly back to Minnesota with the team after their 28-18 loss in New England on Sunday, has 24 hours for a team to claim him and his contract off waivers. The winless Buffalo Bills have the first chance to claim Moss since they have the worst record in the 32-team league. If no team bids for Moss he will become a free agent. In four games with the Vikings, Moss caught 13 passes for 174 yards and two touchdowns. The 33-year-old, who leads all active NFL players with 153 career touchdown receptions, was drafted by the Vikings in the first round of the 1998 draft. The big-play receiver spent his first seven seasons with the Vikings before a two-season stint with Oakland. He joined the Patriots in 2007 and remained with the team until he was traded to the Vikings for a third-round draft pick last month.
ATHLETICS
Miner keen to run marathon
The Chilean miner who jogged in the tunnels while trapped underground will not only attend Sunday’s New York City Marathon — he wants to run it. Marathon officials had invited Edison Pena to watch the race after hearing his story when the miners were rescued last month. They thought he could ride in the lead vehicle or hold the finish line tape, but never expected the Chilean consulate to tell them that Pena wanted to run. “He absolutely, 100 percent wants to participate,” New York Road Runners president Mary Wittenberg said at a luncheon Monday. Marathon organizers still were working to organize Pena’s travel to New York and figure out exactly how to best honor him. Pena was one of the 33 miners whose saga captivated the world when they were trapped for 69 days after an Aug. 5 collapse stranded them about 700m underground.
BOXING
Safety document touted
The World Boxing Council (WBC) wants to eliminate what it called exploitation of boxers by creating a document that lists a fighter’s key information like injuries and total rounds fought. Speaking at a conference in Cancun, Mexico, long-time WBC president Jose Sulaiman said the -passport-type document would list a boxer’s classification, medical authorization, weight category, quality of opponents and total rounds fought. Sulaiman, who said the document would apply to 164 nations affiliated with the WBC and would be up to boxing commissions to enforce, feels the information would eliminate mismatches and prevent boxers from fighting when injured. “The pirates of the gymnasiums leave taking boxers without authorization or any medical examination,” said Sulaiman, who has been WBC president for nearly 35 years. “They take a featherweight and make him fight against a welterweight. They put a boxer who’s been constantly losing against a winner, or a fighter who’s been medically suspended.”
CYCLING
Landis fourth in NZ tour
Disgraced US cyclist Floyd Landis finished 40th after a bunched finish to the third and longest stage of the Tour of Southland in New Zealand, holding fourth place overall. Landis was among a group of 90 riders who finished 14 seconds behind stage winner Joe Cooper of New Zealand on the 165km stage yesterday. Landis is 1:02 behind tour leader Jeremy Yates of New Zealand. The nine-stage, six-day tour finishes in Invercargill on Saturday.
Former world No. 2 Paula Badosa has withdrawn from this week’s Wuhan Open, organizers said on Tuesday, amid a racism row over an online photograph. Tournament organizers said the Spaniard had pulled out of the WTA 1000 tournament, citing a gastrointestinal illness, hours before her first-round match against Australian Ajla Tomljanovic. News outlets including Britain’s the Telegraph earlier reported that Badosa had posted a photo on Instagram in which she appeared to imitate a Chinese face by placing chopsticks on the corners of her eyes. The photo was taken last week in a restaurant in Beijing, where she reached the semi-finals of the
PREDICTION: Last week, when Yu’s father made a wrong turn to the former champions’ parking lot, he said that his son could park there after this year With back-to-back birdies on the 18th hole, Kevin Yu fulfilled his driving range-owning dad’s prediction that he would win the Sanderson Farms Championship and become Taiwan’s third golfer to claim a US PGA Tour title. The Taoyuan-born 26-year-old, who represented Taiwan in the Olympic golf at Paris, saw off Californian Beau Hossler in a playoff at the Country Club of Jackson, Mississippi, on Sunday. Having drained a 15-foot putt to claw his way into the playoff, Yu rolled in from five feet on the first extra hole, ensuring he joined Chen Tze-chung (LA Open in 1987) and Pan Cheng-tsung (RBC
LeBron James and eldest son Bronny James claimed a piece of NBA history on Sunday after making their long-awaited first appearance alongside each other for the Los Angeles Lakers. The duo appeared together at the start of the second quarter in the Lakers’ 118-114 preseason defeat to the Phoenix Suns in Palm Desert, east of Los Angeles. While LeBron James impressed with 19 points in just 16 minutes and 20 seconds on court before sitting out the second half, Bronny found the going harder with zero points in just over 13 minutes on court. The younger James attempted just one
Italian defender Marco Curto has been banned for 10 matches for racially abusing South Korean forward Hwang Hee-chan while playing for Como 1907 against Wolverhampton Wanderers in a pre-season friendly in July. Curto, who is on loan from Como to Serie B club Cesena, would serve half of the punishment immediately with the other half suspended for two years. “The player Marco Curto was found responsible for discriminatory behavior and sanctioned with a 10-match suspension,” a FIFA spokesperson said. “The player is ordered to render community services and undergo training and education with an organization approved by FIFA.” Wolves said the club would
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