South Korean golfer Park In-bee captured the Wegmans LPGA Championship in a playoff on Sunday in New York, coming from behind to take her fifth career major title.Park edged out Brittany Lincicome with a par on the first hole of their sudden death playoff at Monroe Golf Club in Pittsford, New York.This was Park's fifth career major, which ties her with Pak Se-ri for most LPGA majors won by a South Korean golfer.Park, former world No. 1 and currently ranked third, won three majors last year. Her

PITTSFORD, New York (AP) ― Brittany Lincicome beamed. She had fought off the jitters while leading an LPGA Tour major and it felt oh-so-good.Lincicome, who hadn’t held a second-round lead since 2009 and never in a major, shot a 1-under 71 on Saturday at the LPGA Championship to finish the third round at 10-under 206. That was one shot better than Suzann Pettersen (67) of Norway and defending champion Park In-bee (69) of South Korea.

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ― Albert Pujols and Howie Kendrick homered to give the Angels an early lead, and Los Angeles held on again to beat the Texas Rangers 5-4 on Saturday night.The Angels (72-49) are alone in first place in the AL West for the first time since 2011, but they are only two percentage points ahead of the Oakland Athletics, who lost at Atlanta on Saturday.Los Angeles has won nine in a row over Texas, tying the series record set in 1985 and matched a year later. Angels starter Matt S

South Korea's negotiations with Bert van Marwijk, a former Dutch national head coach who had expressed interest in leading the South Korean national men's senior football team, have broken down due to a disagreement on salary and the length of his stay in the country, according to the local football association Sunday.Officials from the Korea Football Association (KFA) had been in talks with van Marwijk in Amsterdam since early August to fill the national football head coach position that has be

Tiger Woods removed himself from consideration for the Ryder Cup team Wednesday evening with a clear message that he is not healthy enough to play.One day after U.S. captain Tom Watson said he trusted Woods to give him the “straight skinny” on the condition of his back injury and his game, Woods said he called the 64-year-old captain to say he would not be available.The decision spares Watson from having to leave Woods off the team, and it eliminates a distraction over the next three weeks befor

North Korea has submitted a list of members of its athletic delegation to the Asian Games to be held south of the border, the event’s chief organizer said Thursday, despite having recently threatened to back out of the competition.The revelation by Kim Young-soo, president of the organizing committee for the Asian Games in Incheon, located west of Seoul, comes as the two Koreas are still trying to narrow their differences on some logistical issues concerning the North’s participation.“North Kore

The two torches lit in the lead-up to this year's Asian Games came together in the South Korean host city of Incheon on Wednesday, as the month-long relay got underway.The 17th Asian Games will run from Sept. 19 to Oct. 4 in Incheon, with some 13,000 athletes and officials in 36 sports to be on hand.The Asiad's organizers lit two separate torches: one in New Delhi, India, the host of the inaugural Asian Games in 1951, last Saturday, and the other in Incheon on Tuesday. It marked the first time t