POTOMAC, Maryland (AP) — Mark O'Meara knocked in a 4-foot par putt on the first playoff hole Sunday to defeat Michael Allen and win the Senior Players Championship, his first individual victory on the Champions Tour.
O'Meara had a three-shot advantage on the back nine at the TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm, but a bogey on No. 16 shrunk his lead, and Allen charged into contention with birdies on three of the …
Results Tuesday from the Kremlin Cup, a $2.085 million ATP and WTA Tour tournament on indoor hard courts at the Olympic Indoor stadium (seedings in parentheses):
Singles
Men
First Round
Wayne Odesnik, United States, def. Victor Hanescu (2), Romania, 5-7, 7-5, 6-4.
Mikhail Kukushkin, Russia, def. Fabio Fognini, Italy, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Sergiy Stakhovsky, Ukraine, def. Mikhail Biryukov, Russia, 6-0, 6-2.
Chrisrophe Rochus, Belgium, def. Marc Gicquel, France, 7-5, retired.
Janko Tipsarevic (6), Serbia, def. Daniel Koellerer, Austria, 6-4, 6-3.
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Bad news. Not only do the Cubs have a long West Coast road tripcoming up, but they have to stop in San Francisco at the end.
The Giants have been baseball's biggest surprise so far thisseason. Their hot start has them in first place in the NationalLeague West. But manager Dusty Baker is not overly enthusiastic.
"I'm enjoying it," he said. "I like winning. I expect to win.Maybe I'm different, but I don't get as high after wins as I get lowafter losses. We haven't really had much time to think about itbecause we've been playing every day. It's too early to rest on ourlaurels.""It's early, man," outfielder Barry Bonds said. "We're playinggood right now. We've just …
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — About the last person anyone expected to see atop the leaderboard at the Senior PGA Championship was Japan's Kiyoshi Murota.
And that includes Murota.
The 55-year-old golf teacher and touring pro surprised even himself by shooting a 6-under 66 on Thursday to overshadow stars such as Mark O'Meara and Tom Watson and grab the first-round lead in the weather-plagued senior major.
Asked if he thought he came to the tournament thinking he might win it, Murota laughed and said through an interpreter, "Nothing. No chance."
So, think you can shoot another 66?
"No. No more," he said to laughter.
Murota had a one-shot lead over alternate …
New York City officials told Congress on Tuesday they are tightening requirements on tower construction cranes after a spate of recent accidents there, as well as others in Las Vegas and Miami.
Robert LiMandri, the city's acting Buildings Commissioner, testified before a House Education and Labor Committee hearing examining whether there are insufficient safeguards in place for cranes used at high-rise construction sites.
LiMandri says the city will impose tougher maintenance and inspection requirements at sites with tower cranes, including documenting a history of maintenance and major repairs to critical crane parts.
"I'm deeply …
A day after Tata Motors announced its takeover of British autoicons Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR) from Ford Motor Company, itsManaging Director Ravi Kant was in Bangkok to launch operations inThailand. Much of the auto world and beyond may have been agog withexcitement, but for Kant, it was business as usual. Asked by themedia how he was planning to run the acquisition, he replied,without any fuss, that Tata Motors would leave the day-to-dayrunning of JLR to its existing management.That small sound byte,largely ignored by the mainstream Indian media, answered thequestion that had consumed analysts and editorial writers worldwidesince Ford chose Tata Motors as the preferred bidder …
Pakistan
Local polyester staple fiber producers raised their prices by almost 4.85% to Rs. 65/kg from Rs. 62 on June 1st, effective immediately. However within a week, the producers split on the fixing of prices as some producers withdrew their increase, while at least two producers lowered their prices further down.
ICI Pakistan and Dewan Salman Fibre did not agree to the upward revision. ICI has not increased its prices, and decided that any price changes should be solely based on its own internal evaluation of business conditions and import costs, and clarified that its selling prices continued to remain at Rs. 62.09, which has not changed since the last revision in …
