Sports News
May 11, 2008Here are the sports results from Sunday:
QUEBEC - The Swiss are starting to look comfortable among the top eight in international hockey.
Once a B-pool regular, Switzerland displaced Germany in 2003 as the No. 8 team in the world behind the long-established Big-7 - Canada, Russia, the Czech Republic, the United States, Sweden, Finland and Slovakia, in no particular order.
TORONTO - Shaun Saiko scored a second-half goal Sunday, but Canada's under-20 men's soccer team had to settle for a 1-1 draw with Argentina in an international friendly, a game that marked the one-year anniversary of BMO Field.
Jonaton Lopez scored the lone goal for defending U-20 World Cup Argentines.
LONDON - Manchester United won its 10th Premier League title in 16 years and second in a row by beating Wigan 2-0 Sunday on the final day of the season.
Chelsea, which went into its final game even on points with United but way behind on goal difference, was held to a 1-1 draw by Bolton and wound up two points behind in an anticlimactic finish.
ROME - Canadian Daniel Nestor and Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic lost the Rome Masters doubles final after a lengthy tiebreaker Sunday, falling 3-6, 6-4, 10-8 to American twins Bob and Mike Bryan.
It was the second championship loss at the elite Masters level for the second seeds, who also lost in the Indian Wells final last March.
BERLIN - Dinara Safina won the German Open on Sunday by beating ninth-ranked Elena Dementieva 3-6, 6-2, 6-2, the third top-10 player she knocked off en route to the title.
The 17th-ranked Safina also recorded wins against No. 1 Justine Henin and No. 6 Serena Williams at the clay-court event.
CORNWALL, Ont. - Edward Gale scored in the first period and Taylor Nelson stopped all 31 shots he faced as the Humboldt (Sask.) Broncos beat the Camrose (Alta.) Kodiaks 1-0 Sunday to win the RBC Cup junior A hockey championship.
Gale scored at 16:39 of the first frame while on the power play, walking out of the right corner and tucking the puck behind Camrose goaltender Allen York to give the Broncos a lead they would not relinquish.
CLEVELAND - The Toronto Blue Jays-Cleveland Indians game was postponed by rain Sunday and will be made up in a doubleheader on Monday.
Sunday's scheduled starters, Toronto's A.J. Burnett and Cleveland's Fausto Carmona, are scheduled to pitch in the first game beginning at 4:05 p.m.
MILAN, Italy - Hennie Otto won his first European Tour title by shooting a 3-under 69 Sunday to hold off Oliver Wilson by one stroke at the Italian Open.
The South African had four birdies and a bogey at Castello di Tolcinasco Golf and Country Club to finish at 25-under 263. Wilson, an Englishman, shot an 8-under 64, the best round of the day.
Big Brown was so overpowering in winning the Kentucky Derby, none of the 19 rivals he dusted off is showing up for another try in the Preakness Stakes.
This is not an insignificant development.
CLEVELAND - Grady Sizemore gave Indians fans a couple of extra mementoes in addition to those they received at the turnstiles.
With all fans taking home a Sizemore souvenir blanket, Cleveland's centre-fielder sent two baseballs into the seats, too. He homered twice and drove in five runs to support Aaron Laffey's sharp pitching in a 12-0 win over Toronto on Saturday night that sent the Blue Jays to their fourth straight loss.
DETROIT - It was a huge win for the Detroit Red Wings and what surely will turn out to be a costly loss for the Dallas Stars.
The Red Wings surprised everybody just before the second game of the NHL's Western Conference final Saturday night by announcing that Johan Franzen, the leading goal scorer of the NHL playoffs, wouldn't play because he's out indefinitely with concussion-like symptoms, but the setback didn't stall their drive for the Stanley Cup.
HAMBURG, Germany - Ivan Ljubicic was two points from losing the match when he rallied to beat Steve Darcis 6-7 (6), 7-5, 7-6 (4) in a rare Sunday start for the clay-court Hamburg Masters.
In other first-round matches, Ivo Karlovic edged Mischa Zverev 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3) and Gilles Simon defeated Xavier Malisse 6-4, 7-5.
ROME - Two-time champion Amelie Mauresmo withdrew from the Italian Open on Sunday due to a rib injury.
The 19th-ranked Frenchwoman won the clay-court warmup for the French Open in 2004 and '05. She was also the runner-up twice.
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Felipe Massa held off Lewis Hamilton of McLaren to win his third straight Turkish Grand Prix on Sunday and clinch Ferrari's fourth consecutive Formula One victory.
Massa finished 3.7 seconds ahead of Hamilton after 58 laps at Istanbul Speed Park circuit to ensure that no driver has ever lost from pole position in Turkey in the four-year history of the race.
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Tire selection played a major part in Sunday's Turkish Grand Prix. For Lewis Hamilton, the choice took on extra concern since the safety of his car was compromised.
McLaren put Hamilton on a three-stop pit strategy when Bridgestone couldn't guarantee the safety of his tires for the expected two.
CHEBOKSARY, Russia - Denis Nizhegorodov set a world record in the men's 50-kilometre walk at a World Cup meet Sunday, shaving one minute 34 seconds off the old mark.
The Russian finished in three hours 34 minutes 13 seconds on a course alongside the Volga River.
AGRIGENTO, Sicily - Riccardo Ricco won the second stage of the Giro d'Italia on Sunday in a sprint finish, and Franco Pellizotti took the overall lead in the three-week race.
Ricco, who rides for the Saunier Duval, finished the 207-kilometre leg from Cefalu to Agrigento five hours 48 minutes 35 seconds.
