(The Sports Xchange) – For the second straight game, the New York Mets tore into Colorado’s starting pitcher and walloped the Rockies 14-9 on Saturday. The win maintained their five-game lead over Washington in the National League East, while the Rockies fell to 6-14. Third baseman Juan Uribe led off the big third inning with his 13th home run and fifth with the Mets.
Lydia Ko refused to let a late bogey ruin her round as the teenage phenom fired a three-under 69 to take a share of the 54-hole lead at the Canadian Women’s Open. The New Zealander was the frontrunner for most of the third round on Saturday and could have had sole possession of the lead heading into Sunday’s final round, but a bobble at 18 snapped her string of 46
World number two Lydia Ko squandered the outright lead with a bogey on her last hole at the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open on Saturday and faces a final round shoot-off for the title with playing partner Candie Kung. The New Zealand teenager, who entered the round two shots adrift of overnight leader Kung, took the lead after a solid front nine at Vancouver Golf Club but the final-hole blip left
World number two Lydia Ko squandered the outright lead with a bogey on her last hole at the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open on Saturday and faces a final round shoot-off for the title with playing partner Candie Kung. The New Zealand teenager, who entered the round two shots adrift of overnight leader Kung, took the lead after a solid front nine at Vancouver Golf Club but the final-hole blip left
By Andrew Both GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) – Tiger Woods, chasing his first victory in two years, made his lone bogey of the day at the final hole to finish two strokes behind third round leader Jason Gore at the Wyndham Championship on Saturday. A stiff and sore Woods, the overnight co-leader, arrived at Sedgefield Country Club about three hours before his round to receive treatment on an undisclosed ailment.
By Marine Pennetier and Catherine MacDonald PARIS/ALGECIRAS, Spain (Reuters) – A gunman who attacked passengers on a high-speed train in France two days ago is “dumbfounded” at having been taken for an Islamist militant and says he only intended to rob people on board because he was hungry, his lawyer said on Sunday. As details emerged of the gunman’s early adult life in Spain, lawyer Sophie David said her client
Iran’s foreign minister said on Sunday it was too early to talk of reopening the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, as Britain restored its diplomatic mission four years after protesters ransacked the British ambassador’s residence. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond attended a ceremony at the opulent 19th century building in the Iranian capital where attackers in 2011 burned Britain’s national flag, slashed portraits of British monarchs and stole goods. Iran’s Foreign
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump today defended his newly released immigration reform plan, which calls for the deportation of millions of undocumented workers in the United States, saying he’ll accomplish the objectives through “management.”In a plan released earlier this month, Trump called for an end to birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants and for the deportation of undocumented workers. He did not offer more specifics as to how
PARIS (AP) — Recounting how he and two other American friends took down a gunman on a high-speed train in France, U.S. airman Spencer Stone said Sunday that he was awakened from a deep sleep before springing into action and subduing the attacker.
North and South Korea resumed top-level talks Sunday on avoiding a threatened military clash, even as Seoul accused Pyongyang of undermining the process with provocative naval and land deployments. The South Korean defence ministry said the North had doubled its artillery units at the border and deployed two-thirds of its total submarine fleet — or around 50 vessels — outside their bases. “The North is adopting a two-faced stance with