TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2014 SPORTS Sociedad coach axed Emirates ends FIFA deal Marseille restore lead BARCELONA: Real Sociedad have sacked coach Jagoba Arrasate following ZURICH: Dubai-based airline Emirates will not renew its World Cup PARIS: Florian Thauvin scored a goal and set up another as Olympique de their poor start to the season, the La Liga club said on Sunday. sponsorship with FIFA for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments. Emirates Marseille restored their four-point lead at the top of the Ligue 1 standings The Basque outfit were beaten 1-0 at home by Malaga on Saturday was FIFA’s airline partner for three World Cups from 2006 through 2014. with a 2-1 home win against strugglers RC Lens on Sunday. Marseille, who which left them one point off the bottom with six points from 10 games. “This decision was made following an evaluation of FIFA’s contract pro- had lost their last two competitive games, now have 28 points from 12 “Real Sociedad have decided to relieve Jagoba Arrasate of his role as posal which did not meet Emirates’ expectations,” the airline said in a games after Nicolas Nkoulou and Thauvin scored either side of the interval. first-team trainer,” read a statement. “The club would like to thank the pro- statement. Champions Paris St Germain are second on 24 after they beat Lorient 2-1 fessionalism, the effort and dedication shown as much by Jagoba Arrasate FIFA typically retains six top-tier commercial partners signing up for away on Saturday, while Olympique Lyonnais sit in third one point further as his assistants Txema Lumbreras and Bittor Alkiza in their roles with the at least two World Cups. The six 2014 World Cup partners - Adidas, back following their 3-1 win at Nice, also on Saturday. first team.” Real are yet to name his replacement but former Manchester Coca-Cola, Emirates, Hyundai, Sony, Visa - combined to pay about $700 PSG and Marseille face each other at the Parc des Princes United manager David Moyes is among the coaches in the run- million for the four-year commercial cycle, according to figures in FIFA’s next Sunday. Lens, who played some decent football and ning, media reports said. Arrasate was assistant to Philippe annual financial reports. Four have renewed through at least 2022, with equalised through Baptiste Guillaume in the first half, are Montanier and became head coach when the Sony yet to sign. 17th on 11 points. “We played against a very good team,” Frenchman left ahead of the 2013-14 season. Since then Qatar Airways, from the 2022 World Cup host nation, could now OM defender Rod Fanni told Canal Plus. “We made some replace Emirates. FIFA declined to comment on “ongoing negotiations.” he has experienced mixed results. mistakes after opening the scoring and we gave them The governing body said Emirates suggested in 2012 it would restruc- In his first season, Real finished bottom of their hope. It was complicated but we managed to snatch ture its football sponsorship strategy, which was “a decision that FIFA three important points.” Marcelo Bielsa’s team made a Champions League group and ended the La Liga cam- respects.” paign in seventh place. Arrasate’s position was not good start and went ahead in the 10th minute when Emirates has major sponsorship deals with some top European Nkoulou found the back of the net with a diving header helped by the selling of top players like Asier clubs, including Arsenal, Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain. Still, from Thauvin’s corner. Lens, however, levelled in the Illarramendi and Antoine Griezmann to Real Madrid Emirates stated on its website that World Cup sponsorship “sits centrally 31st minute as Guillaume, after being set up by and Atletico Madrid respectively in the to its football strategy.” It hired Pele and Cristiano Ronaldo to front its Pablo Chavarria, beat Steve Mandanda with a last couple of seasons. — Reuters marketing campaign for the 2014 tournament in Brazil. — AP low shot from inside the box. —Reuters Knicks scrape past Hornets NEW YORK: On a night when he joined the NBA’s 20,000-point club, Carmelo Anthony scored 28 points, including the go-ahead basket with 1:23 remaining, and the New York Knicks narrowly defeated the Charlotte Hornets 96-93. Al Jefferson had 21 points, and Gary Neal added 17 points in a reserve role for the Hornets (1-2), who lost their second straight. Charlotte’s guard Michael Kidd-Gilchrist fell awkwardly late in the first quarter and didn’t return to the game. Amar’e Stoudemire had 17 points for the Knicks (2- 1), who won their second straight. Iman Shumpert added 15 points. HEAT 107, RAPTORS 102 Chris Bosh scored 21 points and grabbed 11 rebounds as Miami beat Toronto for the 16th straight time. Dwyane Wade added 19 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists for the Heat (3-0), who are the last unbeaten team in the Eastern Conference. Luol Deng scored 18, Shawne SCOTTSDALE: (Left-right) Tom Pernice Jr., with the Charles Schwab Cup Williams added 16, and Mario Chalmers fin- Championship trophy, and Bernhard Langer of Germany, with the Charles Schwab ished with 12 for Miami. Cup, pose together following the final round of the Charles Schwab Cup DeMar DeRozan scored 30 points for Championship. — AFP Toronto (2-1), which hasn’t beaten Miami since Jan. 27, 2010. Kyle Lowry added 22 points, including a layup that got the Pernice wins playoff in Raptors within four with 21 seconds left. Jonas Valanciunas scored 14, and Greivis Champions Tour finale Vasquez finished with 12 for Toronto, which was outrebounded 43-28. Miami led by as SCOTTSDALE: Tom Pernice Jr. won the his 246-yard approach to the right of the many as 16 late in the third quarter before Champions Tour’s season-ending Charles green and set up the par putt with a long the Raptors came roaring back. Schwab Cup Championship on Sunday, pitch. “Just hit a bad drive,” Pernice said. “I beating Jay Haas with a birdie on the fourth had been aiming down the left side and KINGS 98, CLIPPERS 92 hole of a playoff. The 55-year-old Pernice kind of cutting with the wind and came up DeMarcus Cousins had 34 points and 17 got up-and-down from the left bunker on and out of it and blocked it and so the wind rebounds, and Rudy Gay added 25 points the par-5 18th, holing a 6-foot putt after got it. .... Luckily, I had a shot, but I had to go as Sacramento handed the poor-shooting Haas made a 12-footer for par. backwards quite a ways because I was Los Angeles Clippers their first loss. “I just said, ‘He’s going to make it, so you going in the direction of the washout.” The Kings (2-1) rallied from a 10-point need to be prepared to play it on the right Haas made a 6-foot birdie putt on 18 on deficit in the third quarter and outscored edge. And it rolled right in,” Pernice said. “It the first extra hole after Pernice’s two-putt the Clippers 28-18 in the fourth. was pretty scrappy. I hung in there. Short birdie. In regulation on 18, Haas holed a 35- They took the lead for good on a layup game is part of it as well and my short game foot birdie putt from the fringe to take the by Gay with just under six minutes to play. held up and carried me through.” lead at 11 under. Pernice - playing a group Blake Griffin and Spencer Hawes both Pernice closed with a 3-under 67 - also behind - forced the playoff with his 6-foot scored 17 points to lead five Clippers in making a 6-foot birdie putt on 18 - to match birdie putt. double figures. Chris Paul had 16 points Haas at 11-under 269 on Desert Mountain’s Haas opened with rounds of 66 and 62 and 11 assists, J.J. Redick had 12 points, Cochise Course. The 60-year-old Haas had a to take a four-stroke lead and break the tour and Jordan Farmar 10. 66. “Jay and I have become good friends,” record for consecutive rounds of par or bet- The Clippers (2-1) struggled for the third Pernice said. “I’ve gone back and played in ter at 38, then shot 75 on Saturday to fall a straight game, shooting 33 of 88. They his charity event in Greenville. I hate for any- stroke behind Pernice and Perry. Haas won NEW YORK: Knicks’ Carmelo Anthony (left) passes the ball as he is guarded by Charlotte body to lose.” two weeks ago in North Carolina to become were 9 of 31 from 3-point range, with Matt Barnes, Paul and Redick combining to miss Hornets’ Marvin Williams during the fourth quarter of an NBA basketball game at Madison Pernice earned $440,000 in the event the 18th player to win a Champions Tour Square Garden. — AP limited to the top 30 on the money list. He event at 60 or older. He has 17 Champions a slew in the fourth. Sacramento’s Darren also won a playoff in Iowa in June and has Tour victories after winning nine PGA Tour Collison scored 14 points in his first game four career victories on the 50-and-over titles. “It’s been a wonderful year and, you against his former team. NBA results/standings tour after winning twice on the PGA Tour. “I know, just a shot here or there,” Haas said.