Tennis: Berdych sweeps past Fognini into quarter-finals
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Tomas Berdych belied his lowest seeding at a grand slam since 2010 by sweeping into his seventh Australian Open quarter-final with a convincing 6-1 6-4 6-4 victory over Fabio Fognini on Monday.
Golf: Spain’s Rahm wins CareerBuilder after playoff
(Reuters) – Spain’s Jon Rahm survived four playoff holes to capture the CareerBuilder Challenge in southern California on Sunday.
Slopestyle: Americans Goepper, Kenworthy qualify for Pyeongchang
MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN, California (Reuters) – U.S. men’s slopestyle skiers Nick Goepper and Gus Kenworthy will both be returning to the Olympics next month after qualifying for the team during competitions on Sunday in Mammoth Mountain.
Tennis: American Keys storms into last eight at Melbourne Park
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Madison Keys blew French eighth seed Caroline Garcia off the court 6-3 6-2 in a 68-minute display of power tennis to reach the quarter-finals of the Australian Open for the second time on Monday.
Golf: Rahm and Landry in playoff at La Quinta
(Reuters) – Spain’s Jon Rahm and American Andrew Landry were headed for a playoff at the Career Builder Challenge after Landry made a birdie putt at the last hole on Sunday.
Ski lift: North Korea may capitalize on joint Olympics training visit
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s offer to send athletes to a North Korean ski resort for joint training ahead of next month’s Olympics risks giving leader Kim Jong Un’s regime legitimacy and some much needed cash, North Korean defectors and experts say….
Snowboarding: American Kim enjoying the spotlight
MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN, Calif. (Reuters) – Seventeen-year-old American snowboarding prodigy Chloe Kim is enjoying the media frenzy surrounding her first Olympics, where her status as favorite to win gold in halfpipe has made her among the most talked about a…
Snowboarding: White sees himself as favorite in Pyeongchang
MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN, Calif (Reuters) – After recovering from a training crash which left him needing 62 stitches, American snowboarder Shaun White is backing himself to win the halfpipe gold in Pyeongchang next month even though he will be facing off agai…
Ice hockey: Johannson, U.S. Olympic team general manager, dies at 53
(Reuters) – Jim Johannson, the general manager of the 2018 U.S. Olympic men’s ice hockey team and a two-time Olympian, has died, USA Hockey said on Sunday. He was 53.
Mirror, mirror on the phone, am I still the fairest of them all?: asks bloodied Ronaldo
MADRID (Reuters) – Cristiano Ronaldo took his obsession with his image to new heights as he examined his bloodied face on the mobile phone of a Real Madrid doctor while walking off the pitch toward the end of Sunday’s 7-1 win over Deportivo La Coruna.
