DENVER (AP) ― One of the most storied NFL playoff teams ran into a rejuvenated Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos.Sorry, Pittsburgh Steelers. The magic is back.Tebow connected with Demaryius Thomas on an electrifying 80-yard touchdown pass on the first play of overtime and the Broncos defeated the stunned Steelers 29-23 in the AFC wild-card game on Sunday. Wild doesn’t begin to describe it. The play took 11 seconds and was the quickest ending to an overtime in NFL history.Thomas hauled in a high p

MANCHESTER, England (AP) ― Liverpool apologized Sunday to the opposing player who was racially abused during an FA Cup match but stressed that such actions “do not represent our fans.”Oldham defender Tom Adeyemi was reduced to tears by insults from fans during Friday’s 5-1 loss at Liverpool and had to be comforted by teammates and opposing players toward the end of the third-round match.Merseyside police arrested a 20-year-old man from Aintree on Saturday on suspicion of a racially aggravated pu

The country’s top baseball league may adopt a lottery system for its annual rookie draft as early as next year, officials said Monday.The Korea Baseball Organization is scheduled to hold its first board meeting of 2012 on Tuesday, and the key item on the agenda will be the change to the draft system.Currently, the draft in the eight-team KBO takes place in a reverse-record order, like the NFL. That means the team with the worst record in the previous year automatically earns the first overall pi

KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) ― Hank Haney has written a book about the six years he spent as Tiger Woods’ swing coach, a volatile time in which Woods went from winning nearly half of his tournaments to a scandal that derailed his pursuit of golf history.Without giving away any details until “The Big Miss” goes on sale in the spring, Haney believes the book will be hard to put down.“I get asked all the time about Tiger, what it was like to work with him,” Haney said in a telephone interview. “I felt like

Na tied for fifth, eight shots backKAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) ― Steve Stricker never looked comfortable at Kapalua until he walked off the Plantation Course with the same five-shot margin that he started with Sunday in the Tournament of Champions.Right when he felt as if he was letting everyone back into the hunt, Stricker birdied his last four holes for a 4-under 69 that restored his cushion going into the Monday finish in Maui.Webb Simpson had a 30-foot birdie putt on the 14th hole for a share of th

The prosecution is likely to summon National Assembly Speaker Park Hee-tae as early as next week to investigate whether he attempted to buy votes during the ruling party’s chairmanship election in 2008.Investigators are also expanding their investigation to verify whether more lawmakers are involved in the irregularities that could put the perpetrator behind bars for more than five years. According to the Seoul Central Prosecutors’ Office, Rep. Koh Seung-duk of the ruling Grand National Party at

LAS VEGAS (AP) ― Developing countries like China and India will drive global sales of consumer electronics above $1 trillion this year for the first time, even as cash-strapped shoppers in the U.S. and Western Europe ease off spending for high-tech gear, industry analysts said Sunday.Developing countries will account for 46 percent of global gadget sales in 2012, up from 37 percent four years ago, according to GfK Boutique Research and the Consumer Electronics Association.The groups presented th

Japanese auto giant Nissan and German luxury car maker Mercedes-Benz on Sunday announced a tie-up to produce engines in the United States, hailed as their biggest joint project outside Europe.The two auto firms will jointly produce Mercedes-Benz four-cylinder gasoline engines at an assembly plant in Decherd in the southern U.S. state of Tennessee.Production was expected to begin in 2014, with 250,000 engines being rolled out annually when the plant is up to full capacity, a statement said.“This

IE Business School is offering a free lecture and networking evening with as guest lecturer, the school’s chair of the Entrepreneurship Management Department.Pablo de Holan is a popular professor of strategy at IE Business School and will present the school’s 4th lecture in a series on global business innovations on Jan. 13 from 7 p.m. at the COEX Convention Center Hall C room 318 A in southern Seoul.Titled “The Giant Within: How Businesses Grow Thru Entrepreneurship and Innovation, A review of

The German Chamber of Commerce will offer Korean language lessons for all its members.The courses take place Jan. 11-March 28 every Wednesday except for holidays from 8:00 ― 9:30 a.m.Classes will be held in the German language by a qualified teacher, Park Hye-sook. The basic level course will be taught at the Korean-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry office in Hannam-dong, Seoul.Cost is 550,000 won for 12 sessions and includes beverages and learning materials. For more information or to reg