Sports News
June 30, 2008Here are the sports results from Monday:
The Tampa Bay Lightning were intent on stealing the show before the curtain was even raised for this year's NHL free agency period.
New owners Oren Koules and Len Barrie continued to make a splash, taking away one of the bigger names off the free-agent list in winger Ryan Malone and trying very hard Monday to do the same with forward Brian Rolston.
DEARBORN, Mich. - Former PGA Championship winners Davis Love III and Rich Beem qualified for the British Open on Monday, but Steve Elkington, winner of the 1995 PGA Championship, bogeyed his final two holes and fell short.
Jeff Overton won the first North American qualifying section at the TPC of Michigan, shooting a 14-under 130 over 36 holes.
WASHINGTON - Not every day at the White House is momentous. Some just have their moments.
Here was President Bush in shirt sleeves, sweat-soaked, out on a summer's day, doing one of his favourite things as leader of the country.
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Dan Cleary, greeted Monday like a king returning to his homeland, fulfilled the hopes of a province that has waited nearly 60 years to see one of its own hoist hockey's greatest prize.
But for the Harbour Grace, N.L., native, the first player from Newfoundland to win the Stanley Cup, the most important stop during his two-day celebration with the trophy was at a local children's hospital.
MADRID, Spain - European champion Spain returned home Monday to hundreds of thousands of jubilant fans, all celebrating its victory over Germany and the country's first major soccer trophy in 44 years.
The overjoyed and animated players emerged from an open-top bus to form a conga line to make their way to a stage at Colon Square. After hoisting coach Luis Aragones into the air several times, they gathered around captain Iker Casillas and the European Championship trophy to sing along to Queen's "We are the champions."
BETHESDA, Md. - Tiger Woods does not know when he can play golf again, but he said Monday his rebuilt left knee has been sore his entire PGA Tour career and he looks forward to playing on two good legs.
"My left knee has been sore for 10 to 12 years," Woods said during a conference call for his AT&T National tournament, his first public comments since reconstructive surgery last Tuesday. "It will be nice to finally have a healthy leg. The doctors have assured me that my long-term health will be a hell of a lot better than it's been over the last decade. I'm really looking forward to that."
HAMILTON - Carl English scored 18 points as Canada's quest for a berth in Beijing began in earnest Monday, with a 89-67 win over Lebanon in the opening game of the Jack Donohue International Classic.
Philadelphia 76ers forward Samuel Dalembert finished with 10 points and 11 rebounds, while Rowan Barrett, playing his first game for Canada after a five-year hiatus, had 16 points, and Olu Famutimi added 14.
WASHINGTON - When Mom is a professional basketball player, the baby-sitting arrangements can be quite unorthodox. Take JaVale McGee, who had a prime seat to watch his mother play for a team in Italy when he was less than a year old.
"He sat in the stroller on the bench with the nanny," Pamela McGee said, "so literally he's been around the game since he was nine months old."
OAKVILLE, Ont. - Mike Weir is tired of seeing Canada's national golf championship get kicked around and criticized.
The former Masters champion attended a luncheon with several of the game's stakeholders Monday and delivered an impassioned message about the upcoming RBC Canadian Open.
LONDON - Second-seeded Elena Jankovic and No. 4 Svetlana Kuznetsova were ousted in the fourth round Monday, leaving Wimbledon without any of the top four women in the quarter-finals for the first time.
A hobbled Jankovic fell 6-3, 6-2 to Tamarine Tanasugarn, while 2004 U.S. Open champion Kuznetsova lost 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 to 19-year-old Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland.
CLEVELAND - Baltimore Ravens cornerback Derrick Martin was cited on a charge of drug abuse after police say he was found in possession of suspected marijuana at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
Police Lt. Thomas Stacho said on Monday he confirmed with Ravens director of security Darren Sanders that Martin was the individual arrested. A day earlier police were not able to confirm whether Martin was a Ravens player.
CHICAGO - His name and face were all over the arena, and a highlight video showed Derrick Rose's best U.S. college and high school moments.
He hit jumpers. He threw down vicious dunks. He twisted his body like a contortionist while flipping in layups and left a long line of defenders staring helplessly.
VIENNA, Austria - Germany lost the European Championship final to a better team and it should have no regrets.
It will now have to get over the disappointment of Sunday's 1-0 loss to a classy Spanish team and start concentrating on qualifying for the World Cup in two years in South Africa.
VIENNA, Austria - The skilful Spanish team that won the European Championship, lifting the country's first trophy since 1964, had been a champion in the making for years.
Several of the players who beat Germany 1-0 in Sunday's final emerged from talented Spanish squads that won European and world titles at the youth level. They include Fernando Torres - who scored the winning goal - goalkeeper Iker Casillas, midfielders Andres Iniesta and Xavi Hernandez and defender Sergio Ramos.
DETROIT - Crews began the process of tearing down historic Tiger Stadium on Monday.
At least one hole was punched in the side of the stadium, which closed following the 1999 season. A backhoe could be seen removing trash and other debris from the interior of the old ballpark.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - If nice guys got all the best NASCAR rides, Casey Mears would have a job for life.
But racing is a results-based business, and Mears simply doesn't have them through 53 races with elite Hendrick Motorsports. So team owner Rick Hendrick had to make the difficult decision to cut ties with a driver he considers part of his family.
Floyd Landis lost his final chance to retain his 2006 Tour de France title Monday, the last step of a long, multimillion-dollar process that poked holes in the anti-doping establishment but ultimately left the American cyclist as just another convicted cheater.
A three-person panel at the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld a previous panel's decision, ruling his positive doping test during the Tour two years ago was, indeed, valid. Landis also must pay US$100,000 toward the legal fees of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
