Sports Briefs January 17, 2011
Mark Wilson made it through a marathon Sunday at the PGA's Sony Open in Honolulu without a bogey and held on for a two-shot victory that earns him his first trip to the Masters.
Wilson shot a 5-under 65 in the morning to take a one-shot lead into the afternoon round. He built a four-shot lead at the turn, then had to hang on when Tim Clark and Steve Marino made late runs on different sides of Waialae.
Spokane native Alex Prugh shot a 68 to finish tied for 18th.
Football
Former Oakland Raiders coach Tom Cable has filed a grievance to recover $120,000 that the team fined him during the final year of his contract.
A person familiar with the fines spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.
The person did not say why the Raiders withheld the money from Cable, a former Idaho coach. Al Davis was upset that the Raiders lost two days of organized team activities in June for violating NFL rules.
Baseball
Albert Pujols repeatedly has said he wants to spend his entire career with the St. Louis Cardinals. Staring at a spring training deadline for contract negotiations, the team chairman remains hopeful the three-time NL MVP will get his wish.
Basketball
Washington State starting point guard Reggie Moore has been suspended indefinitely by coach Ken Bone.
Moore was in street clothes as Washington State beat Stanford on Saturday.
Moore last month received two misdemeanor citations in Whitman County involving marijuana and drug paraphernalia. He was cited after a Dec. 11 search of a dormitory room.
Clippers 99, Lakers 92: Although the host Los Angeles Clippers were just a few seconds away from finishing off the Lakers and their seven-game winning streak, Blake Griffin and Lamar Odom refused to stop grinding and digging for one last rebound.
That competition led to a confrontation, which led to a minor shoving match, which led to a major scrum and the ejection of both along with Baron Davis and Ron Artest, as Los Angeles' cross-hallway rivals put a feisty finish on a rivalry game that's only getting more interesting.
Eric Gordon scored 30 points and Griffin had 18 points and 15 rebounds after a slow start in the Clippers' latest stellar performance against the Lakers.
Spurs 110, Nuggets 97: Tony Parker provided 30 points, seven rebounds and four assists to help host San Antonio beat Denver.
Carmelo Anthony scored 12 points on 5-of-17 shooting for the Nuggets.
Capitals 3, Senators 1: John Carlson and Brooks Laich scored in a 45-second span in the third to help host Washington over Ottawa.
Wild 4, Canucks 0: At St. Paul., Minn., Anton Khudobin stopped 32 shots for his first career shutout and Minnesota beat Vancouver.
Flyers 3, Rangers 2: Ville Leino had a goal and assist in the first period, and Mike Richards added a short-handed tally in the second for visiting Philadelphia, which held on to beat New York.
Blackhawks 6, Predators 3: Troy Brouwer scored two goals 40 seconds apart in the third period to push host Chicago past Nashville.
Ducks 3, Oilers 2: Teemu Selanne scored two goals and host Anaheim slipped past Edmonton.
The Ducks won for the seventh time in nine games.
Skiing
Ivica Kostelic of Croatia extended his runaway start to 2011, winning a men's World Cup slalom on the Lauberhorn course in Wengen, Switzerland.
Kostelic had a combined two-run time of 1 minute, 45.28 seconds to stretch his lead in the World Cup overall and slalom standings.
• The women's World Cup slalom race scheduled Maribor, Slovenia, was called off less than two hours before its scheduled start because warm weather damaged the Pohorje course.
- The Associated Press