Sports briefs March 4, 2013
Golf
Michael Thompson had one of only five rounds under par Sunday to win his first PGA Tour event at the Honda Classic in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
Thompson seized control with a 50-foot eagle putt on the third hole. He stayed in control with superb par saves early on the back nine at PGA National. He made birdie from the bunker on the last hole for a 1-under 69 and a two-shot victory over Geoff Ogilvy.
Ogilvy birdied two of his last three holes for a 69 to finish second, which moves him into the top 50 and gets him into the World Golf Championship next week at Doral.
Tiger Woods closed with a 74 and was tied for 37th.
- American Stacy Lewis won the HSBC Women's Champions in Singapore for her sixth career LPGA title, overcoming two bogeys and some shaky putting on the back nine to hold off South Korea's Na Yeon Choi.
Lewis, the 2012 LPGA Player of the Year, shot a 1-under 71 in the final round at Sentosa Golf Club to finish at 15-under 273, one stroke ahead of Choi.
Baseball
Rangers pitching prospect Martin Perez broke his left forearm after being hit by a line drive and will not throw for about four weeks, and Texas gave up homers to Kendrys Morales and Jesus Montero in a 7-6 loss to the Seattle Mariners in Sruprise, Ariz.
The Mariners host Colorado today in Peoria at noon.
- Yankees outfielder Ichiro Suzuki said he had no soreness, one day after being involved in a traffic accident.
Suzuki was on his way home after Saturday's spring training game against Detroit when the accident occurred a few miles from Steinbrenner Field in Tampa.
Football
Lauren Silberman lined up for a kick at NFL history, took a deep breath and booted the football.
It barely went anywhere, traveling 19 yards, and she grabbed at her right leg.
Still, it was good enough to make her the first woman to try out at a regional combine, even if her day lasted all of two kicks.
With the 36 other kickers - all male - a handful of scouts and more than two dozen media watching in complete silence at the New York Jets' practice facility in Florham Park, N.J., Silberman struggled for about 20 seconds to place the football on the tee before measuring her steps and then trying that second kick.
This one went only about 13 yards.
She then asked to see a trainer and left the practice field after injuring her quadriceps, and appeared to be slightly favoring her right leg.
- A former University of Montana quarterback was acquitted in a rape trial that has played out amid NCAA and federal investigations into how the city and school respond to rape allegations on campus.
The accusations against Jordan Johnson, 20, have drawn much attention in Montana, where UM football is the top sports attraction. Jurors deliberated for less than two hours.
Skiing
Anna Fenninger of Austria upstaged the favorites to win a super-G race in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, while overall World Cup winner Tina Maze was placed under police protection after organizers received a death threat against the Slovenian.
- Aksel Lund Svindal clinched the World Cup super-G title in Kvitfjell, Norway, after winning his first race in Norway.
The Norwegian edged Austria's Georg Streitberger by 0.52 seconds to win in 1 minute, 29.79 seconds. Werner Heel of Italy ended third, 0.57 seconds back.
Tennis
Qualifier Ernests Gulbis beat Edouard Roger-Vasselin 7-6 (3), 6-3 for his second title at the Delray Beach International Championships in Delray Beach, Fla.
Sled dog racing
Dogs aching to run bolted out of the chute to launch the 41st running of Alaska's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Willow, Alaska.
Now 65 teams will be making their way through punishing wilderness toward the finish line in Nome on Alaska's western coast 1,000 miles away.
- The Associated Press