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THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2014 SPORTS Late Matuidi goal gives labored PSG 1-0 victory

PARIS: struck in the 89th minute to give Paris Saint-Germain a 1-0 win against struggling Evian at the Parc des Princes yester- day and take the capital club to the brink of the title. It looked like PSG would have to settle for a point against their 10-man opponents until Lucas played in fellow substitute Matuidi and the France midfielder slotted the ball through the legs of goalkeeper Jesper Hansen at the near post. The result leaves the reigning champions 10 points clear of nearest challengers Monaco with only four games remaining and means they can clinch a second consecutive title with a win NAPLES: In this March 1959 photo, members of the LPGA International team pose away to Sochaux on Sunday, or 24 hours earlier for their first group photo at the Titleholders Golf Tourney. Kneeling in the front row if Monaco lose at relegated Ajaccio. from left to right are, , St. Andrews, Ill.; Bonnie Randolph, Naples, Fla.; Fresh from winning the League Cup by beat- , Sea Island, Ga.; , Delray Beach, Fla. and Wiffie Smith, St. ing Lyon 2-1 in the final last Saturday, Laurent Clair, Mich. Standing in back row from left are, , Lake Worth, Fla.; Blanc’s side were looking for revenge on Evian, , San Diego, Ca.; , San Antonio, Texas; Marilyn Smith, who beat them 2-0 in the reverse fixture back in Wichita, Kansas; , Indio, Calif., and , Wichita, Kansas. December. Beverly Hanson, rear, second from right, who died April 12, won 17 times and three Evian are still scrapping to avoid relegation majors in the first decade of the LPGA Tour. —AP but they have performed well against the lead- ing lights in this season, taking four points out of a possible six against Monaco and Beverly Hanson, forgotten also holding Lille. They were unlucky not to take an early lead pioneer in women’s golf as well, Danish international Daniel Wass hitting the crossbar from a long-range free-kick in the NEW YORK: It didn’t take Beverly Hanson long addressing the ball, it started to roll. We wore fifth minute. to realize that playing golf was more rewarding skirts in those days, and I can still see her pulling Wass then forced home goalkeeper Salvatore than writing about it. The pay was better, too. her up her skirt and looking between her legs Sirigu into a good save from a header shortly Equipped with a journalism degree from watching her ball roll away. She was the class after, as a PSG team still missing injured top scor- North Dakota, she went to work at The Fargo clown, so to speak, so good-natured. She was a er Zlatan Ibrahimovic and showing seven Forum for 50 cents an hour and was assigned to good kid.” changes from that which beat Lyon struggled to cover a men’s golf tournament. Her first byline Hanson won her third major at the find their rhythm. was under the name “Ben Hanson” because the Titleholders in 1958, the year she claimed the When they did, Hansen raced off his line to PARIS: Evian’s French midfielder Olivier Sorlin (right) vies with Paris Saint-Germain’s French editor assumed the writer made a typo. LPGA money title with $12,639 and the Vare deny Ezequiel Lavezzi and young midfielder midfielder during the French League football match. —AFP Then, she was playing golf in Florida that Trophy for the lowest scoring average. She fired over as the first half ended winter in 1944 when Hanson discovered lawn retired three years later when she married goalless. Abdallah picked up a second yellow card for a just a minute remaining, Matuidi struck his attendants were making more money. “That’s Andrew Sfingi, and they raised two sons. The early kick-off meant the Parc des Princes foul on Lucas Digne. fourth goal of the season much to the relief of how I decided to be a golfer,” Hanson told The Hanson stayed active as the women’s golf stands did not really fill up until the second half, Visiting coach Pascal Dupraz shook his head the home fans. Forum years later. instructor at Eldorado Country Club in Indian but most of the drama was saved for after the on the touchline, mindful of the onslaught that Meanwhile, Lyon had to settle for a 0-0 draw Hanson died April 12 in Twin Falls, Idaho, Wells, Calif., for 35 years. restart. was to come, but Hansen saved from Lavezzi away to Toulouse, a result which leaves Remi from complications of Alzheimer’s and chronic Golf author and historian Rhonda Glenn saw Lavezzi was unable to convert a Rabiot cut- and Matuidi somehow missed the target after Garde’s side in fifth spot, two points behind obstructive pulmonary disease. She was 89. Hanson at the USGA’s centennial celebration in back from inside the six-yard box before Evian the Evian defence made a hash of dealing with a rivals Saint-Etienne and three clear of Marseille Louise Suggs twice finished runner-up to 1995. Hanson was still making them laugh with were reduced to 10 men with an hour played low ball across goal by the Argentine forward. in sixth. OL must finish in the top five to qualify Hanson in major championships. She’s troubled a story about Jones presenting her the trophy at when former Marseille defender Kassim It looked as if Evian would hold on until, with for next season’s Europa League.—AFP that Hanson’s career has largely been over- East Lake. looked, even in death. “She said, ‘When I was presented that trophy “I’m surprised nobody picked up on the fact from Robert T. Jones Jr., I stood there with a she passed away,” Suggs said Tuesday from her smile on my face bigger than when I got mar- Cyclist Rogers cleared to race after doping case home in St. Augustine, Fla. “I knew Bev from the ried, bigger than when I came home from my very beginning. We played amateur golf togeth- honeymoon. It was the greatest day in my life,’” AIGLE: Former world time trial champion Michael Japanese race but consulted the World Anti- Rogers’ teammate, Alberto Contador, was er. She was a clever person, always quick on the Glenn said. “She was so smart, and so funny.” Rogers can race again after cycling’s governing Doping Agency before deciding “he should not be stripped of the 2010 Tour de France title and draw. She was a great addition to the tour.” Glenn put together an obituary for the body accepted that meat he ate in China likely sanctioned any further.” served a two-year ban after testing positive for Hanson was a key link to the formative years USGA’s website. The LPGA Tour has made no caused his positive doping test. Rogers, an Olympic “Over the past four months, my family and I clenbuterol in the final week of the race. of the LPGA Tour, even though she was not mention of Hanson’s passing on its website. bronze medalist, helped persuade the International have endured a very difficult time,” Rogers said in a Contador claimed he ate a contaminated steak among its 13 founding members. The year the Mark Johnson returned to his roots in North Cycling Union that he was not intending to cheat. statement. “The UCI’s decision means I can return bought in Spain where the substance is banned LPGA was formed in 1950, Hanson won the U.S. Dakota nine years ago when he became head “Upon careful analysis of Mr. Rogers’s explana- to racing immediately, and I am looking forward to but could not prove his case at the Court of Women’s Amateur at East Lake - pro at Fargo Country Club, where Hanson’s tions and the accompanying technical reports the getting back to work, competing in the sport I Arbitration for Sport. Still, the court panel decided presented her the trophy - went 3-0 in the father long ago was a member. He recalls see- UCI found that there was a significant probability love.” Rogers had been provisionally suspended last he ingested clenbuterol in a supplement and had and finished the year by beating ing a framed photograph in a short hallway that that the presence of clenbuterol may have resulted December from racing for Team Tinkoff-Saxo. not intended to dope. China and Mexico have been Patty Berg in the Texas Women’s Open as an leads to a dining room in the clubhouse. It was from the consumption of contaminated meat from “I wish to show my gratitude to the board of identified for several years as a risk for athletes to amateur. She won her first event after turning Hanson posing with the U.S. Women’s Amateur China,” the governing body said in a statement. Tinkoff-Saxo for the professional manner with eat meat because of clenbuterol use in farming. pro in 1951 by beating Babe Zaharias in the trophy. Rogers raced last October in China, where clen- which this ambiguous ordeal has been handled,” he In 2011, FIFA found that players from 19 of the Eastern Open. Hanson won 15 more times over “I thought that was pretty neat,” Johnson buterol is widely administered to livestock to build said. Rogers won three straight world titles from 24 teams at the Under-17 World Cup played in the next decade, including three majors. That said. “In visiting with older members, they muscle and reduce fat. The 34-year-old Australian 2003-05. In 2012, he was upgraded to bronze in the Mexico tested positive for the substance. “It is not a included the inaugural LPGA Championship in would talk about her, but not give any detail. tested positive days later at the Japan Cup. 2004 Athens Olympics time trial after winner Tyler problem of doping, but a problem of public health,” 1955 when she beat Suggs twice in one week. She won the Amateur. The photo was taken at The UCI said it disqualified Rogers from the Hamilton was disqualified for doping. FIFA medial officer Jiri Dvorak said then. —AP Hanson finished three shots ahead in stroke Fargo Country Club. That was really the extent play in Fort Wayne, Ind., and then won 4 and 3 of my research.” in between the top two medalists. Sports Illustrated in 1999 published a list of “She was a powerful hitter of the ball, and each state’s top 50 athletes ever. The only golfer Michelle Wie ready to ride she had a powerful temper,” former U.S. from North Dakota was Shane McMenamy at Women’s Amateur champion Barbara Romack No. 40. He won the U.S. Junior Amateur in 1996, said Tuesday. “I remember we were paired the first 16-year-old winner since Tiger Woods. momentum from last win behind their group and she hit this booming These days, any buzz about golf and North drive on the second hole, a duck hook that Dakota is about Amy Anderson, an LPGA rookie went down a hillside in the trees. Now she’s real- from tiny Oxbow, ND, who tied for seventh in DALY CITY: A beaming Michelle Wie explained her over- ly mad. She was walking down the fairway pick- Hawaii one week after Hanson died. sized visor as a necessary new addition after recently dis- ing up rocks in the rough. She picked up her Johnson, meanwhile, plans to take that covering wrinkles at age 24, then good-naturedly defend- golf ball, unknowingly, and tossed it down the framed photo of Hanson and create a promi- ed her unique, hunched-over putting stroke because Jack canyon in the water. She was quite a player, and nent display at Fargo Country Club for everyone Nicklaus uses it. quite a character.” Suggs laughed when she to see, allowing members to appreciate heard that story, and then added one of her Hanson’s career and her contributions. “I Improved sun protection and short game aside, Wie is own. “We were in Gatlinburg, Tenn., and the showed it to my 14-year-old daughter,” Johnson riding high after a comeback win in her home state of front nine is very hilly,” Suggs said. “She hit a ball said, “and the next day she was out here practic- Hawaii last week. Now, she returns to familiar ground in up on the side of the mountain, and as she was ing for four hours.”—AP the Bay Area looking to build on her first US LPGA Tour victory in nearly four years when she competes in the inaugural Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic - just up the road from her former university, Stanford. After arriving in town early Monday, Wie took a nap before visiting the university, where she “wanted to hug every single freshman I saw.” She enjoyed a tour of new athletic facilities and is determined to represent Stanford well in her first visit back to San Francisco since graduat- ing in the spring of 2012. “I really believe we are a bunch of nerds, but at the same time we’re kinda cool,” Wie joked on Tuesday, refer- ring to Stanford’s Nerd Nation theme. “I’m so proud I’m a Stanford grad.” Her fellow golfers were quick to offer hugs and con- gratulations to the former teen phenomenon for winning the LPGA LOTTE Championship. It marked her first win since 2010 and first since gradu- ating from Stanford. Her rivals say it’s hard to cheer against Wie, so well-respected and liked on and off the DUNBLANE: British tennis player Andy Murray (left) receives the Freedom of Stirling golf course. presented to him by Stirling Council Provost Mike Robbins during a special council “She’s a smart girl. There aren’t very many girls who meeting at his old school Dunblane High. —AP have completed four solid years at Stanford while playing on the LPGA Tour,” world No. 2 said. Murray in tears at “That takes a huge effort. For her to finally be able to con- centrate on golf full-time has helped her golf, for sure. If Scottish ceremony you ask me, Michelle has underachieved. She has every shot in the bag.” DUNBLANE: Andy Murray burst into tears yes- the University of Stirling, whose courts he Pettersen herself hopes for a rally of sorts at Lake terday as he accepted a civic honor in his practiced on as a youngster. Merced Golf Club this week. This marks her first start since Scottish hometown of Dunblane. Murray, who “Tennis players don’t really come from she was forced to pull out of last month’s Kia Classic with a was granted “the freedom of Stirling” from the Scotland, so it’s a strange story, but shows that back injury and missed the past three events, with a pre- local council, stopped to compose himself and anything can happen if you believe and you scription of rest to heal. wipe his eyes several times during the ceremo- dream and work hard, then you can achieve “I’m here, which is a good sign. I never would have ny at Dunblane High School. “I think everyone whatever you want to,” he said. Dunblane, a been here if I wasn’t feeling good,” the Norwegian said. “I knows I’m extremely proud of where I come cathedral town, was the site of a mass shoot- from,” he said, his voice cracking. “Moving away ing in 1996. Murray was 8 when a gunman love the Bay Area. It’s definitely one of my favorite spots in was one of the sacrifices I had to make for my opened fire at his elementary school, killing 16 America after New York.” job and every time I come back it’s quite emo- children and a teacher. He didn’t witness the The Swinging Skirts Classic starts on Thursday with a tional.” actual carnage, but hid under a desk in the field including world No. 1 , Stacy Lewis, Karrie Murray’s parents, grandparents and girl- headmaster’s study. Murray, gold medalist at Webb, , 16-year-old Lydia Ko, and local fan friend Kim Sears were among those in atten- the 2012 London Olympics and the 2012 U.S. favorites , Natalie Gulbis and . dance. “I apologize for this behavior,” he said Open champion, became the first British man The Swinging Skirts is the first U.S. LPGA Tour event in the after again being overcome with emotion. since 1936 to win Wimbledon last year when Murray also received an honorary degree from he beat Novak Djokovic in the final.-—AP United States led by a Taiwanese organization.—AP Michelle Wie reacts in this file photo