Auto Racing
Green, white ... color Busch a Nationwide winner again
LOUDON, N.H. – Kyle Busch overcame three attempts at a green-white checkered finish to keep his lead and win the Nationwide Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Busch won his seventh race of the season Saturday in NASCAR’s second-tier series. He snapped a four-race winless streak and won his 58th career Nationwide race.
He had to go long to win this one. Because of the three green-white checkered attempts, the race went 213 laps. It was scheduled for 200. Busch had enough fuel left in the tank to last the 13 extra laps, allowing him to win from the pole for the fourth time this season.
Joe Gibbs Racing drivers Busch (141), Brian Vickers (63) and Matt Kenseth (nine) led every lap in the race. Vickers finished second.
Austin Dillon finished third. Brian Scott and Michael Annett rounded out the top five.
Dixon makes it two in a row with victory at Toronto
TORONTO – Scott Dixon passed Sebastien Bourdais with nine laps to go Saturday to win on the street course at Toronto.
It’s Dixon’s second consecutive win after picking up his first victory of the season last weekend at Pocono.
The 31st win of his career moved him into a tie for seventh on the all-time win list with teammate Dario Franchitti, Bourdais and Paul Tracy.
Bourdais was second in his first podium finish since the 2007 Champ Car season.
Franchitti was third after giving up the position to Will Power on the last lap, but Power couldn’t make the pass stick as he hit the tire barrier after slipping ahead.
Maro Andretti was fourth, followed by Indianapolis 500 winner Tony Kanaan and IndyCar Series points leader Helio Castroneves.
Power dropped to 15th in the IndyCar race.
Soccer
France beats Uruguay in PKs to win FIFA Under-20 title
ISTANBUL – France won the Under-20 World Cup for the first time, beating Uruguay 4-1 on penalty kicks after a 0-0 tie in Saturday night’s final.
France is the sixth European champion in the 36-year history of the event but only the second in the last 20 years after Spain in 1999. Uruguay lost the 1997 final to Argentina.
Tennis
Hingis the headliner in the 2013 Hall of Fame class
NEWPORT, R.I. – Martina Hingis’ tennis life started right from birth, and her days playing with a racket began barely after she learned to walk. It was only fitting that she became one of the youngest players to be enshrined into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Hingis led a large 2013 class that was inducted Saturday during an on-court ceremony that lasted just more than 90 minutes, including a 25-minute rain delay on Newport’s grass courts.
Hingis, 32, is the fourth youngest to be inducted – behind Tracy Austin (30), Bjorn Borg (31) and Hana Mandlikova (32).
Also enshrined were 94-year-old Australian great Thelma Coyne Long, inducted in the master player category, and industry leaders Ion Tiriac, Cliff Drysdale and Charlie Pasarell.
Sharapova hires Connors to get her game back on track
Maria Sharapova hired Jimmy Connors as her new coach.
A day after announcing she was parting with Thomas Hogstedt, Sharapova posted on her website Saturday that she would work with the eight-time major champion.
Connors coached Andy Roddick for two years before resigning in 2008. He briefly worked with Sharapova before the 2008 Australian Open.
Hogstedt coached Sharapova for nearly three years. She said Friday he wouldn’t be able to travel in the near future, and they agreed she should find a new coach.
A winner of the career Grand Slam, the second-ranked Sharapova was upset in the second round at Wimbledon this year.
Associated Press
