IN BRIEF

GOLF

O'Hair's bogey on playoff hole
enough to win Canadian Open

Sean O'Hair won the RBC Canadian Open in Vancouver, British Columbia, after tapping in for bogey on the first playoff hole Sunday, then watching fellow American Kris Blanks lip out his bogey putt from 5 feet.

It was the fourth PGA Tour win for O'Hair, but it was his first time in the top 15 this season.

The 29-year-old O'Hair started the day three shots behind leader Bo Van Pelt before shooting 68 to get into the playoff with Blanks (70) at 4-under 276.

John Daly shot 72 to finish in a four-way tie for ninth at 280 with current Masters champion Charl Schwartzel, amateur sensation Patrick Cantley and Spencer Levin, who all closed with 69s. It was Daly's first top-10 finish in six years.

Van Pelt was still atop the leaderboard at 5 under at the turn, but he played the next five holes at 4 over, including a double bogey at the par-4 13th. He finished tied for sixth at 279 along with former Bonanza High School standout Scott Piercy (69) and Woody Austin (68).

Also: Russ Cochran won the Senior British Open by two shots in Walton on the Hill, England, holding off the challenge of fellow Americans Mark Calcavecchia and the fast-finishing Tom Watson to capture his first major title.

The 52-year-old Cochran had six birdies in a 5-under 67, finishing at 12-under 276. Calcavecchia, who shared the overnight lead with Cochran and David Frost, was second at 278, and Watson tied for third at 279.

Alexander Noren of Sweden relied on his huge overnight lead to clinch the Nordea Masters title, finishing seven shots clear despite a 5-over 77 in the final round of the European PGA Tour event in Stockholm.

Noren entered the day with an 11-shot lead after a course-record 63 on Saturday, and he was never threatened, finishing at 15-under 273.

Ai Miyazato won the Evian Masters in Evian-Les-Bains, France, shooting 2-under 70 to protect a two-shot lead and clinch her first title of the year.

Miyazato finished with a 15-under 273 total. American Stacy Lewis also shot 70 to finish two shots back in second, with a trio of players another stroke behind.

SWIMMING

Phelps-led 4x100 relay team
falters at world championships

Michael Phelps got off to a losing start at the world championships, and it wasn't his fault. He put his teammates in second place on the opening leg of the 4x100-meter freestyle relay. They just couldn't move up.

Phelps, kicking off the first of his seven events at the eight-day meet, led off a disappointing bronze-medal showing in the relay at the Oriental Sports Center. It was the first time since 2007 that the American men lost a relay of any worlds or the Olympics.

Australia won the event in 3 minutes, 11.00 seconds, with France second and the U.S. third.

Later, American Ryan Lochte moved on in the preliminaries of the 200-meter freestyle, posting the fastest time at 1:46.34.

Phelps also advanced to the semifinals in fifth at 1:46.98 -- 4.2 seconds off his best time. He finished third in his heat behind Lochte and Sebastiaan Verschuren of the Netherlands, who was second-quickest overall in 1:46.53.

MISCELLANEOUS

U.S. softball rips Great Britain
to reach World Cup title game

Stacy May-Johnson hit a grand slam, and Christi Orgeron had a three-run double in a 10-run fourth inning as the United States advanced to the World Cup of Softball championship game by beating Great Britain 10-0 in Oklahoma City.

Orgeron broke a scoreless tie with a double that hopped to the wall in left field and cleared the bases, and the Americans (4-1) didn't let up until the game ended on the mercy rule.

In today's final, the U.S. will face Japan. Canada (3-2) was in line to reach the championship game for the first time before losing 8-3 to Australia.

That opened the door for Japan (4-1), which beat Great Britain 13-6 and the Czech Republic 9-0 to earn a shot at the title.

Also: Two men suspected of beating a San Francisco Giants fan at Dodger Stadium on the first day of the season are scheduled to be arraigned today.

District attorney's spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said 29-year-old Louie Sanchez and 30-year-old Marvin Norwood, both of Rialto, Calif., will appear in Los Angeles Superior Court.

They are accused of beating 42-year-old paramedic Bryan Stow nearly to death after he attended the March 31 game between the Giants and Dodgers.

The two were charged Friday with one count each of mayhem, assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury, and battery with serious bodily injury. Both are being held on $500,000 bail after being arrested Thursday.

Uruguay won the Copa America for a record 15th time after beating Paraguay 3-0 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, getting two goals by Diego Forlan and another from Luis Suarez.

Suarez scored in the 12th minute, and Forlan hit the target in the 42nd minute and in the final minute of the match.

Joe Hart saved A.J. DeLaGarza's penalty, then scored the winner in the ninth round of a shootout as Manchester City beat the Los Angeles Galaxy 7-6 on penalty kicks after a 1-1 draw in Carson, Calif.

Manchester City, which finished third in the English Premier League's just completed season, played its starters for most of the exhibition match in front of a crowd of 24,897.

Mohamed bin Hammam vowed to overturn his bribery conviction and lifetime ban from soccer, calling the decision an act of "revenge" by FIFA and its president, Sepp Blatter.

"The ban for life, that shows how much these people are angry, how much they are full of revenge," bin Hammam told the BBC's Sportsweek radio program.

FIFA imposed the ban Saturday after finding the suspended Asian Football Confederation president guilty of bribery allegations in his campaign to unseat Blatter as head of the sport's world governing body, just months after he helped secure 2022 World Cup hosting rights for his tiny Gulf homeland of Qatar.

Mardy Fish beat John Isner in the final for the second straight year at the Atlanta Tennis Championships, earning a 3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-2 victory.

Fish, ranked No. 9 in the world, held off two straight match points in the second set to rally from a 5-1 deficit in the tiebreaker.

Gilles Simon became the first Frenchman in 25 years to win the German Open, beating Nicolas Almagro of Spain 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in Hamburg, Germany.

Vera Zvonareva won her second title of the year, beating Ksenia Pervak 6-1, 6-4 in an all-Russian final at the Baku Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Nevada took third in the Junior Golden Gloves Nationals boxing tournament in Mesquite. The team, led by Jo-Jit Butay-Fillion and Ray Daniel Diaz, earned 17 points. California won with 65.