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B12 TORONTO STAR SUNDAY MARCH 52006 SPORTS GOL SOCCER AUTO RACING Golf ord Championship at Doral AtMiamLIa oar 72 TigerWoods 64 67 68 199 Daniel Chopra 66 67 68 201 RichBeem 65 67 69 201 David Toms 66 66 CamiloVillegas 65 66 71 202 Tag Ridings 68 69 DeanWilson 66 68 Phil Mickelson 65 66 72 203 DavisLovelll 68 69 redrikJacobson 70 67 Chad Campbell 68 66 Lucas Glover 67 67 71 205 Zach Johnson 69 65 71 205 Scott Verplank 66 65 74 205 Greg Owen 70 68 Ernie Els 72 65 Carlos ranco 69 67 Shaun Micheel 69 67 70 206 Troy Matteson 70 64 Jerry Kelly 69 70 Chris DiMarco 71 68 Bubba Watson 69 70 68 207 Padraig Harrington 68 70 LeeJanzen 72 65 70 207 WoodyAustin 69 67 71 207 Harrison razar 69 67 Briny Baird 68 67 72 207 MarkWilson 65 67 75 207 David Howell 69 70 69 208 JoeySnyder III 67 70 71 208 Bo Van Pelt 69 68 71 208 Kevin Na 69 67 CharlesWarren 69 66 Brett Quigley 70 70 69 209 Sean O'Hair 70 69 70 209 Kenny Perry 69 70 70 209 Trevor I mmelman 68 71 70 209 Rocco Mediate 68 70 KentJones 71 67 71 209 Ken Duke 69 69 71 209 Sergio Garcia 69 69 Tom Pernice Jr 69 68 JeffSIuman 69 68 72 209 JeffBrehaut 70 67 72 209 Shane Bertsch 68 67 74 209 Stephen Ames 69 66 Tim Clark 68 67 74 209 Ryan Palmer 65 70 European PGA Indonesia Open At Jakarta Indonesia oar 72 Third Round Simon Dyson 66 68 Andrew Buckle 67 69 65 201 WangTer chang 66 68 Shiv Kapur 72 68 66 206 Thongchai Jaidee 66 68 Stephen Dodd 69 63 David Higgins 66 71 Soccer England GP LGGAPts Chelsea 28 23 3 2 56 17 72 Liverpool 28 16 7 5 33 17 55 Man United 26 16 6 4 52 27 54 Tottenham 27 12 10 5 37 24 46 Arsenal 28 13 5 10 43 22 44 Blackburn 27 13 4 10 34 31 43 Bolton 26 11 9 6 33 27 42 West Ham 27 12 6 9 41 36 42 Wigan 27 12 4 11 32 34 40 Newcastle 28 11 6 11 29 30 39 Man City 27 11 4 12 36 31 37 Everton 28 11 4 13 21 36 37 Charlton 28 10 6 12 32 37 36 Aston Villa 28 8 10 10 33 35 34 Middlesbrough 27 9 7 11 36 44 34 ulham 28 9 5 14 37 43 32 West Brom 28 7 5 16 25 42 26 Birmingham 27 6 5 16 22 38 23 Portsmouth 28 4 6 18 18 48 18 Sunderland 27 2 4 21 18 49 10 Saturday Results West Bromwich Albion 1 Chelsea 2 Aston Vi I la 1 Portsmouth 0 ulham 0 Arsenal 4 Middlesbrough 1 BirminghamO Newcastle3 Bolton 1 WestHamZ Everton2 Liverpool 0 Charlton 0 Spain GP LGGAPts Barcelona 26 19 4 3 63 23 61 Real Madrid 26 16 3 7 50 26 51 Valencia 25 14 8 3 37 21 50 Osasuna 25 14 4 7 33 27 46 CeltaVigo 25 13 3 9 27 25 42 Villarreal 26 11 9 6 36 23 42 Sevilla 25 12 5 8 32 26 41 Dep La Coruna 26 11 7 8 36 30 40 Atletico Madrid 26 10 8 8 36 25 38 Zaragoza 25 7 12 6 33 34 33 Getafe 25 8 7 10 33 33 31 Racing Sant 25 6 10 9 23 29 28 Espanyol 26 7 6 13 25 41 27 Real Betis 25 6 7 12 23 37 25 RealSociedad 25 7 4 14 33 48 25 Cadiz 26 6 7 13 20 35 24 Mallorca 25 6 7 12 26 41 25 Athletic Bilbao 25 5 8 12 27 35 23 Alaves 26 5 8 13 26 44 23 Malaga 25 5 5 15 28 44 20 Saturday Results Villarreal 3 Alaves2 Cadiz 2 Espanyol 0 Real Madrid 2 Atletico Madrid 1 Barcelona 3 Deportivo La Coruna 2 Italy GP LGGAPts Saturday Results ACMilan3EmpoliO SampdoriaOJuventusl Juventus 28 23 4 1 57 18 73 ACMilan 28 20 3 5 63 24 63 InterMilan 27 18 4 5 51 21 58 AS Roma 27 16 6 5 51 25 54 iorentina 27 16 5 6 46 29 53 Livorno 27 11 11 5 29 26 44 ChievoVerona 27 10 10 7 35 30 40 Lazio 27 9 11 7 33 33 38 Sampdoria 28 1 0 7 11 35 37 37 Palermo 27 8 10 9 36 40 34 Ascoli 27 7 11 9 27 31 32 Siena 27 8 8 11 32 41 32 Reggina 27 7 7 13 27 44 28 Udinese 27 7 6 14 27 41 27 Parma 27 6 8 13 30 47 26 Messina 27 4 12 11 25 38 24 Cagliari 27 5 9 13 29 42 24 Empoll 28 6 5 17 28 50 23 Treviso 27 2 9 16 16 40 15 Lecce 27 3 6 18 17 45 15 Germany Bundesliga Saturday Results Bayern Munich 1 Hamburger SV2 Hertha Berlin2Cologne4 Nuremberg! 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Toulouse 1 Nancy 1 Bordeaux at Sochaux snow Scotland Premier League Saturday Results Celtic 3 Aberdeen 0 alkirk 1 Rangers 2 Hibernians Dundee United 1 i Inverness CT OMotherwel II KilmarnocklDunfermlineO HMM MH SfSf 'A Ny wf Bl LYNNE SLADKYAP PGA rookie Camilo Villegas who attracted a lot of attention with flaming pink pants on riday opted for a pink shirt yesterday and used a rather unique stance to line up a putt on third hole during third round play at Doral championship at the Blue Monster course in lorida Woods survives crazy day Record crowd of 37 OOO sees plenty of action The shots were flying all over the 18th hole at the Blue Monster behind banyan trees and corporate chalets in the wa ter on the left and the opposite fairway on the right One guy made a 65 foot putt for birdie Another one missed a three foot putt to take double bogey What was billed as a show down between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson turned into a cir cus yesterday afternoon until Woods restored order with a simple par Carving a 6 iron out of the trees to steer clear of all the trouble around him Woods es caped with a four under 68 to build a two shot lead over Dan iel Chopra and Rich Beem in the ord Championship at Doral in good shape I Woods said after an exhausting day in which he got his mistakes out of the way early recovering from a double bogey at No 9 with three straight birdies on the back nine to emerge from the pack Woods had to wait 25 minutes on the 18th tee while Colombian rookie Camilo Villegas studied his options long enough to or der pizza would have got it when we were on the Woods said He would have had to pay for it because Mickelson was already out $200 after giving a man money for brealdng his watch with an errant 3 wood into the gallery at No 10 Indeed there was no shortage of entertainment for a record crowd of 37000 Villegas was one shot out of the lead saw Woods atop the leaderboard and hit his tee shot squarely behind a banyan tree He played sideways to the first fairway had the gallery moved out of way took a drop away from the chalets then de posited a majestic 8 iron over everything to 30 feet And then he three putted for double bogey and a 71 to fall three shots behind I just missed a short one there to go he said Chopra was lost in the trees and hoping to make par when he grabbed a 5 iron and looked for a way out He went under one tree over another left of a third tree and right of a fourth barely on the green Then he made birdie with a 65 foot putt for 68 ideal he said Mickelson was tied for the lead after nine holes when Woods made his double bogey and thought everything was fall ing his way when he sailed his 3 wood into the gallery and it took a hop toward the green Then he found the man he hit and no ticed his watch was broken Lefty pulled two $100 bills from his bag to pay for it a Mickelson said It his day either He hit a pedestrian pitch and two putted for par then slowly lost ground He finished by hitting a 4 iron off barren land and on to the green with enough spin to send it down the slope off the green and into the water interesting Mickel son said it what I hoped But the great thing about today was it was not the last day one more day As for that pairing with Woods? it was not the final round I really con Mickelson said after his 73 should be now four back and got to make a run 1 When the zaniness subsided as the sun dipped behind the clouds Woods was atop the lea derboard at 17 under 199 and poised to win for the second straight year at the Blue Mon ster Calgary native Stephen Ames was at nine under 209 after a 74 Associated Press Tracy on grid for Busch race Said on pole Chelsea inches closer to title but Mourinho steals the show Wins in his lOOth game in charge Chelsea finished with 10 men in its 2 1 win over West Bromwich Albion in the English Premier League yesterday Jose Mou 100th game in charge At the Hawthorns Didier Drogba and Joe Cole scored for Chelsea Inbetween Arjen Rob ben was sent off for a foul on Jonathan Greening Liverpool moved into second place when it drew 0 0 with Charlton at Anfield Thierry Henry scored twice and Emmanuel Adebayor and Cesc abregas added the others in 4 0 win over ul ham to lift it from seventh to fifth in the standings Chelsea has almost clinched back to back Premier League titles The Blues have 75 points with 10 matches left Liverpool is second with 55 points fol lowed by Manchester United with 54 Tottenham 46 and Ar senal 44 Drogba scored in the 51st min ute with Robben shown the red card by referee Mark Hasley 11 minutes later Mourinho react ed by sarcastically applauding the match officials while stand ing on the touch line Cole who set up one goal and scored the other in 2 1 friendly win over Uruguay on Wednesday scored in the 74th The Portuguese manager cele brated goal by pumping his fists and running down the sideline into West tech TOM HEVEZIAP James Beattie centre in a heading duel with two West Ham players yesterday nical area Security guards es corted Mourinho back to his bench while West Brom man ager Bryan Robson furiously looked on With two minutes left West Brompulledagoalback through NwankwoKanu Mourinho acknowledge Robson after the match walking straight onto the pitch to con gratulate his players No one from Chelsea attended the post match news conference SPAIN: Antonio Cassano and Julio Baptista scored first half goals yesterday as Real Madrid beat crosstown rival Atletico Madrid 2 1 in its first game since club president lorentino Perez resigned Madrid cheered new president ernando Martin com plained of the attitude since taking charge on Monday4 with a committed display which moved it above Valencia into second place Leader Barcelona downed De portivo de La Coruna 3 2 on goals by Ronaldinho Henrik Larsson and Samuel to re gain a 10 point advantage over Madrid Barcelona has 61 points while Madrid has 51 Valencia 50 and Osasuna 46 Valencia visits last place Malaga on Sunday while Osasuna plays at Celta Vigo ITALY: Pavel Nedved headed in a second half winner and de fending champion Juventus beat Sampdoria 1 0 yesterday to stay 10 points clear of second place AC Milan atop the Serie A Juventus hosts Milan at the Stadio delle Alpi next weekend Nedved the Czech Republic midfielder scored off a long cross from Adrian Mutu in the 69th minute at Genoa Marassi stadium With 10 rounds td go before the end of the season Juventus has 73 points AC Milan which scored three late goals within 11 minutes to beat lowly Empoli 3 0 has 63 At San Siro veteran striker il ippo Inzaghi scored two and An driy Shevchenko added another GERMANY: Hamburger SV be came the first team to beat Bayern Munich in its new stadi um when Nigel de Jong scored a late goal in driving snow for a 2 1 victory over the Bundesliga leader Mehmet 83rd minute goal had brought Bayern even after a 16th minute goal by Guy Demel Associated Press MEXICO CITY Paul Tracy in his second Busch Series event placed 23rd in his GeicoBiymak Dodge in a 43 car field yesterday in qualifying for Telcel Motorola 200 Boris Said a road course spe cialist bom in New York won the pole and two Mexican driv ers placed in the top five yester day for the race the second race south of the border in NAS Busch Series Said averaged one minute 28295 seconds while reaching a top speed of 102665 mph Most of the top finishers from practice took the track after him but were unable to post faster times It was second pole in six Busch Series starts His first came during his Busch debut in June 1998 Associated Press Nadia's legacy Nadia Comaneci the origi nal "perfect 10" of gym nastics and husband Bart Conner also an Olympic champion were checking into a hotel recently when they noticed the clerk's name tag "Nadia" a nice name" Conner commented as re i ported by The Los Angeles Times "I was named after the gymnast" said the clerk "This is Nadia" Con i ner replied indicating his wife said the clerk "were you named after the gymnast too?" SPORTS TICKER SPEED SKATING Olympic ace Klassen collects more gold at World Cup event HEERENVEEN Ca i nadian Olympic star Cindy' Klassen has picked up right where she left off The Winnipeg speed skater who collected five medals at the Turin Olympics shrugged off a nasty flu bug to win a 3000 metre World Cup race yester day claiming the overall World Cup title at file distance Klassen won in a track record time of four minutes 279 sec onds eclipsing the previous mark of 4:0346 set by Claudia Pechstein of Germany in 2004 SOCCER Hooper leads Canada over Netherlands VICTORIA Charmaine Hoop er scored two goals to lead Cana national team to a 3 1 win over the Netherlands in an exhibition match yesterday Sophie Schmidt had the other goal for Canada OOTBALL Army to investigate Tillman's death The US Army said yesterday it will launch a criminal investigation into the April 2004 death of Pat Tillman the former NL player who was shot to death by fellow soldiers in Afghanistan in what previous Army reviews had concluded was an accidental shooting Col Joseph Curtin an Army spokesman said the Defence Department office of inspector general had reviewed the matter at the request and con eluded that a criminal probe was warranted LACROSSE Wings dip Rock's winning streak TTrr 7 The Philadelphia' Wings twice rallied from four goal deficits to defeat Toronto 14 12 last night ending the National Lacrosse League winning streak at six Dan Marohl and Jeff Ratcliffe led the Wings with four goals each Colin Doyle scored six for the Rock with Blaine Manning add ingthree Tavares breaks NLL career points record BUALO John Tavares broke the National Lacrosse League career points record when he earned his 1092nd last night Tavares assisted on a goal by Buffalo Bandits teammate Mark Steenhuis during the sec ond quarter of the game against the Minnesota Swarm Swarm won 11 8 Tavares with 531 goals and 561 assists after the historic point passed Gary Gait for the record GYMNASTICS Gerber turns it on to capture bronze medal Aisha Gerber of Cambridge Ont won bronze in the all around yester day producing one of best ever performances at the prestigious American Cup gym nastics event Two time world champion Nastia Liukin won the event TENNIS Nadal stuns ederer to win Dubai Open DUBAI Rafael Nadal play ing in only his second tourna ment in four months beat top ranked Roger ederer 2 6 6 4 6 4 yesterday in the final of the Dubai Open Nadal seeded second ended 56 match hardcourt winning streak The Spaniard won in less than two hours And Daniel Nestor and Mark Knowles lost 1 6 6 2 1 10 to Australian Paul Hanley and Kevin Ullyett of Zimbabwe in the doubles final Mauresmo surprised by Russia's Petrova DOHA Nadia Petrova beat Australian Open champion Amelie Mauresmo 6 3 7 5 yes terday to win the Qatar Open for the second WTA title of her ca reer With files from Star vjre services.