In brief

TRACK AND FIELD

Kenyan Mutai smashes record
in New York City Marathon

Kenya's Geoffrey Mutai shattered the course record in the New York City Marathon on Sunday, no surprise after he ran the fastest marathon ever earlier this year.

Mutai finished in 2 hours, 5 minutes, 6 seconds, crushing the previous mark of 2:07:43 set by Tesfaye Jifar of Ethiopia a decade earlier. In April, Mutai ran the fastest 26.2 miles in history: 2:03:02 in Boston.

In the women's field, Ethiopia's Firehiwot Dado trailed London Marathon champ Mary Keitany by nearly 2½ minutes at the 15-mile mark but passed her with about a mile left. The 27-year-old Dado won in 2:23:15, almost a minute better than her previous personal best.

TENNIS

Former No. 1 Federer ends
title drought with Swiss win

Defending champion Roger Federer beat Kei Nishikori 6-1, 6-3 in the Swiss Indoors final in Basel, Switzerland, claiming his first title in 10 months.

The former top-ranked Swiss was emotional as he thanked his hometown fans after winning for the fifth time in six years at the event where he once worked as a ballboy.

Also: The Czech Republic won its first Fed Cup title in 23 years after Lucie Hradecka and Kveta Peschke beat Maria Kirilenko and Elena Vesnina 6-4, 6-2 in the decisive doubles match to secure a 3-2 win over Russia in Moscow.

GOLF

Kaymer's birdie binge fuels
run to HSBC Champions crown

Martin Kaymer made nine birdies over his last 12 holes and closed with a 9-under 63 to win the HSBC Champions in Shanghai for the biggest comeback ever in a World Golf Championship event.

Starting the final round five shots behind Fredrik Jacobson, with a host of stars around him, Kaymer ran off four straight birdies to start the back nine. The German finally caught Jacobson with a birdie on the 13th, then poured it on with key birdies on the final two holes.

Kaymer finished at 20-under 268, with Jacobson second three shots back.

Also: Jay Don Blake won the Charles Schwab Championship in San Francisco for his second Champions Tour victory of the season following a 20-year drought, and Tom Lehman took the season points title and $1 million annuity.

Blake closed with an even-par 71 for a two-stroke victory in the season finale. He finished at 8-under 276.

Japan's Momoko Ueda won the Mizuno Classic in Shima, Japan, beating China's Shanshan Feng with a 15-foot birdie putt on the third hole of a playoff.

Ueda shot 3-under 69 to match Feng at 16-under 272 in the event sanctioned by the LPGA and Japan LPGA tours.

MISCELLANEOUS

Reeling Blues fire coach Payne,
hire NHL veteran Hitchcock

The St. Louis Blues have changed coaches after a disappointing 6-7 start, firing Davis Payne and hiring veteran coach Ken Hitchcock.

The 40-year-old Payne, the second-youngest coach in the NHL, got only one full season with St. Louis after being hired in January 2010.

The 59-year-old Hitchcock is 534-350-88-70, winning a Stanley Cup with Dallas in 1999-2000 and also coaching at Philadelphia and Columbus.

Also: All Star Heart went from third at the top of the stretch to a comfortable two-length victory over City to City in the $150,000 Las Palmas Stakes, a turf mile for fillies and mares on the closing day of Santa Anita's Oak Tree meeting in Arcadia, Calif.

Cold weather forced postponement of the closing rounds in the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing series event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway's dragstrip. Racing is scheduled to continue today at 9 a.m.

Derek Thorn of Bakersfield, Calif., won Saturday night's 150-lap, Open Comp Fall Classic Super Late Models at the LVMS Bullring. Horn won $10,000 by holding off runner-up Chris Clyne of Las Vegas and Joe Farre of Henderson.

Other feature race winners were: Austin Barnes of Escondido, Calif., Lucas Oil Modifieds; Korbin Thomas of White Rock, B.C., Late Models; Jim Petrie of Henderson, Chargers; Andrew Porter of La Verne, Calif., S2 Late Models; Jason Kiser, Bombers; Donny St. Ours of Upland, Calif., Legends Cars; and Chris Trickle of Las Vegas, Bandoleros.