THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2015 SPORTS Bae for military service Four Chelsea Coach invited to reapply SEOUL: South Korean golfer Bae Sang-Moon, who has won twice on the PGA Tour, is to SYDNEY: Queensland Reds coach Richard Graham has been invited to reapply for his own return home to complete his military service after losing a legal battle to defer his con- fans banned job as part of a restructuring of the team’s management in the wake of a second successive scription yesterday. season among the Super Rugby cellar dwellers. Graham has managed to retain his job The 29-year-old, who was granted US residency in 2013, was charged in February LONDON: Four Chelsea fans who refused to allow a black man despite the Reds, Super Rugby champions as recently as 2011 and one of the best supported with violating South Korea’s military service regulations after failing to secure an exten- onto the Paris Metro were banned yesterday from attending teams in the competition, finishing 13th out of 15 teams in both of his two full seasons in sion to his overseas travel permit. Bae was allowed to stay in the football matches for between three and five years. charge. The 42-year-old former Queensland fullback could also, however, end United States while his lawsuit against that decision was The incident occurred in February when Chelsea fans were in up in an assistant coaching role after a committee considers all applica- pending but a court in his home city of Daegu on Wednesday the French capital to watch the Champions League match tions. “(We) will call for any final expressions of interest in the roles of backed the Military Manpower Administration (MMA), against Paris St-Germain. head coach and attack and defence coach with a view to finalising Yonhap news agency reported. Video footage showed Chelsea fans refusing to allow those appointments early next month,” read a Queensland Rugby Bae, who was contesting the MMA’s assertion that he had Souleymane Sylla, a black Frenchman, from boarding the train Union statement yesterday. not spent enough time out of South Korea in 2014 to qualify amid chants of “We’re racist and that’s the way we like it”. “Current Reds head coach, Richard Graham, will be included in that as an overseas resident, said he would join the army soon. “I Richard Barklie, from Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, Josh process.” The new head coach will face a serious rebuilding project after completely respect the court’s decision, and I humbly accept Parsons and William Simpson, both from Surrey, were each the departure of scrumhalf Will Genia, flyhalf Quade Cooper and lock the judgment by the law,” he told Yonhap. banned for five years at Thames Magistrates’ Court, the James Horwill-three lynchpins of the 2011 triumph — as well “I am sorry to those who have supported me, includ- Metropolitan Police said. Jordan Munday, from Sidcup in Kent, as former All Blacks loose forward Adam Thomson. ing all my fans and South Koreans, for causing anxi- was banned for three years. All four had denied racist behavior. Whoever is appointed will report to a high perform- ety.” With the country still technically at war with Police Chief Superintendent Colin Morgan said in a statement: ance manager in charge of “strategy and opera- “Violence and racism have no place in football and we will con- the North after the 1950-53 Korean War, all South tions”, who will work with a “Queensland Reds tinue to put offenders before the courts as part of our efforts to Korean men between 18 and 35 must complete Rugby Panel” which will focus on player and make football a safer environment for everyone.”— Reuters staff recruitment and retention.—Reuters two years of military service.—Reuters Rangers rout Rockies, Cubs roll DENVER: Shin-Soo Choo hit for the cycle, Matt Harrison MARINERS 11, TIGERS 9 2/3 innings. Jim Johnson pitched the ninth for his eighth four. Milwaukee has won four consecutive games and 17 of earned his first win in 14 months and the Texas Rangers Franklin Gutierrez’s pinch-hit grand slam in the eighth save in 11 chances. Justin Turner and Yasiel Puig homered for 23 but remains in last place in the NL Central. Cleveland has routed the Colorado Rockies 9-0 on Tuesday night. inning, sending Seattle to the win. The Tigers had come back Los Angeles. Chin-hui Tsao (1-1) got the loss. lost four of six. Indians right-hander Danny Salazar (8-5) Delino DeShields had a career-high four hits and Prince from a 5-1 deficit and led 8-6 when Neftali Feliz (1-3) allowed struck out eight in six innings. He allowed three runs, two hits Fielder homered for the Rangers, who won for only the third five runs in the eighth. Feliz, who was picked up by Detroit METS 7, NATIONALS 2 and walked three. time in 13 games. Choo, who had three RBIs, doubled in the on July 11 after refusing a minor league assignment from Pinch-hitter Eric Campbell put New York ahead with his second inning, homered in the fourth and singled in the Texas, allowed a run on a wild pitch before giving up two-run single in the seventh inning, leading the Mets to the MARLINS 3, DIAMONDBACKS 0 fifth. He completed the cycle with a triple to center leading Gutierrez’s opposite-field drive. There was no activity in the victory. Fresh off his dominant display in the All-Star Game a Mat Latos allowed four hits through seven innings in his off the ninth.It was the eighth cycle in franchise history and Detroit bullpen as Seattle rallied. Joe Beimel (1-1) earned the week ago, Jacob deGrom (10-6) allowed two runs and three third straight strong start and Miami snapped a four-game first since Alex Rios did it on Sept. 23, 2013, against Houston. win, and Carson Smith got four outs for his eighth hits in six innings. He struck out eight in his first win over the losing streak. Michael Morse homered off Jeremy Hellickson Harrison (1-1) allowed seven hits in six innings. Rockies save.Seattle’s Nelson Cruz and Detroit’s J.D. Martinez each hit division-rival Nationals in four tries. Campbell was batting for (6-6) in the Diamondbacks’ seventh loss in their last eight starter Kyle Kendrick (3-11) was charged with 10 hits and six long home runs to center field in the third. Yoenis Cespedes deGrom when he knocked in Wilmer Flores and Kirk games. Adeiny Hechavarria and Christian Yelich each had an runs in 4 1/3 innings. and Nick Castellanos also connected for the Tigers. Nieuwenhuis to give New York a 3-2 lead. Wilson Ramos hit a RBI single. Latos (4-6) struck out seven, matching his season two-run homer for Washington, which leads the NL East by high for the second straight game, and walked one. The 6- CUBS 5, REDS 4 CARDINALS 8, WHITE SOX 5 two games over the Mets. Joe Ross (2-2) gave up three runs - foot-6 right-hander has allowed a combined three runs over Kyle Schwarber hit a tying two-run homer in the ninth Matt Holliday hit his sixth career grand slam, powering two earned - and four hits in 6 1/3 innings. his last three starts - a span of 20 innings. In his previous out- inning, then completed yet another big night at Great Michael Wacha and the Cardinals to the road win. Holliday ing, he gave up one run and one hit in seven innings but American Ball Park with a solo shot in the 13th, rallying the homered for the first time since May 12. He returned last RAYS 1, PHILLIES 0 took the loss against the Cubs in Chicago. Cubs to the road win. Friday after missing 31 games because of a strained right Nathan Karns homered and pitched five innings for A.J. Pollock singled twice for the Diamondbacks. The oth- Schwarber’s homer off Nate Adcock (1-2) gave the rookie quadriceps. Mark Reynolds added a solo shot in the fifth for Tampa Bay, ruining the major league debut of Philadelphia’s er hits off Latos were a single by Paul Goldschmidt and an his first two homer game, right in the ballpark where he infield single by Yasmany Tomas. grew up rooting for the Reds. He finally got to play at Great American in the All-Star Futures game nine days ago and MLB results/standings BLUE JAYS 7, ATHLETICS 1 won the MVP award with a two-run triple. Russell Martin, Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion Jason Motte (7-1) allowed three hits in two innings. Justin NY Yankees 3, Baltimore 2; NY Mets 7, Washington 2; Tampa Bay 1, Philadelphia 0; Seattle 11, Detroit 9; Atlanta 4, LA Dodgers 3; homered to power Toronto. Martin hit a three-run shot to Grimm pitched the 13th for his second save in three Chicago Cubs 5, Cincinnati 4 (13 innings); Milwaukee 8, Cleveland 1; St. Louis 8, Chicago White Sox 5; Kansas City 3, Pittsburgh 1; chase former Blue Jays right-hander Kendall Graveman (6-6) chances. Cincinnati’s Todd Frazier had another big game, Houston 8, Boston 3; Texas 9, Colorado 0; Miami 3, Arizona 0; Toronto 7, Oakland 1; LA Angels 7, Minnesota 0; San Francisco 9, in the sixth. Bautista and Encarnacion each connected for a driving in three runs with a sacrifice fly and a tiebreaking San Diego 3.