Vonn regains World Cup lead with slalom result

Lindsey Vonn moved back to the top of the World Cup standings in La Molina, Spain, on Sunday with a slalom performance that showed she has the all-around talent to become the first American woman to win back-to-back overall titles.

Only Germany’s Maria Riesch was better than Vonn on the Cerdanya Catalunya slalom course, with the 24-year-old German using a blistering final run to secure her first slalom win in nearly five years.

But Vonn’s runner-up performance kept her atop of the slalom standings. She is 30 points ahead of Riesch, her best friend, following a victory at Levi, Finland, and a fourth-place at Aspen.

•Wind snuffs Val D’Isere slalom: The men’s World Cup slalom race was canceled at Val D’Isere, France, because of heavy winds on the Face de Bellevarde course.

NBA

Mayo leads Grizzlies

O.J. Mayo scored 28 points, Rudy Gay added 18 and the Grizzlies beat the Miami Heat 102-86 at Memphis, Tenn., for their fourth straight win.

Memphis’ winning streak is its longest since it won the final five games of the 2005-06 season. Dwyane Wade, who entered averaging a league-best 29.1 points, had his second straight subpar game. He scored 17 on 5-of-16 shooting.

•Parker, Duncan quiet Thunder: Tony Parker scored 22 points, and Tim Duncan had 20 points and 12 rebounds to help the Spurs win their seventh straight game, 109-104 over the Oklahoma City Thunder at San Antonio.

Matt Bonner added 17 points, and Roger Mason had 14 for the Spurs.

Jeff Green led the Thunder (2-23) with 33 points, and Kevin Durant had 28.

•Bryant leads Lakers over T-Wolves: Kobe Bryant had 26 points and five assists, and the Lakers pulled away in the fourth quarter to beat the struggling Minnesota Timberwolves 98-86 at Los Angeles. Pau Gasol had 18 points, 11 rebounds and six assists, Andrew Bynum added 14 points and nine rebounds, and Trevor Ariza scored 14 points for the Lakers. The win was the 13th in the past 14 games for the Lakers.

College basketball

Wake Forest undefeated

Harvey Hale had a season-high 17 points and L.D. Williams added 11 for No. 11 Wake Forest, (9-0), which beat Wright State 66-53 in Winston-Salem N.C., to continue its best start since winning the first 11 games of 2003-04.

Playing its first game after a weeklong break for exams, Wake Forest shot 52 percent and had 22 turnovers.

John David Gardner scored 14 points to lead Wright State (2-7).

Hale came into the game averaging 6.8 points and shooting 7-for-23 (30 percent) from 3-point range. But the senior hit his first five shots — all from behind the arc — to crack double figures in scoring for the first time this season.

•Texas handles Tennessee: Brittainey Raven scored 21 points and No. 6 Texas continued its best start in 20 years with a 73-59 win over No. 7 Tennessee at Austin, Texas.

Raven and Nash made two key 3-pointers in a 10-1 run midway through the second half that broke open a tough game and sent the Longhorns to a win over the highest-ranked opponent in coach Gail Goestenkors’ two seasons.

Golf

Perry, Hoch win Shootout

Kenny Perry and Scott Hoch held off J.B. Holmes and Boo Weekley to win the Merrill Lynch Shootout at Naples, Fla.

Perry eagled No. 17 for the second day in a row, making a 15-foot putt that matched Weekley’s 18-footer to keep him and Hoch up four with one hole to play in the scramble format.

•Clark wins Australian Open: South Africa’s Tim Clark won the Australian Open at Royal Sydney in Sydney, Australia, scrambling for par from a greenside bunker to beat Australia’s Mathew Goggin on the first hole of a playoff.

•Sterne wins Dunhill: Richard Sterne made par on the difficult 18th hole for a 3-under 69 that gave him a one-shot victory over Johan Edfors and Robert Rock at the Alfred Dunhill Championship in Malelane, South Africa.

NHL

Chicago wins 4th straight

Cristobal Huet made 31 saves, and Martin Havlat scored the go-ahead goal midway through the third period to lead the Blackhawks to their fourth straight victory, 3-1 over the Columbus Blue Jackets at Chicago.

Chicago is 5-0-1 in its past six games and 10-1-4 at home.

•Vancouver beats Florida: Pavel Demitra scored twice to erase a two-goal deficit in the Canucks’ 5-3 victory over the Florida Panthers at Vancouver. British Columbia.

The Panthers, who had won five straight road games, scored twice in the opening seven minutes and led 2-1 after the first period.

Miscellany

Kenyans sweep marathon

Patrick Ivuti won the Honolulu Marathon on Sunday, leading a Kenyan sweep of the first five spots.

Running in consistent rain, the 30-year-old Ivuti finished in 2 hours, 14 minutes, 35 seconds for his first victory since the 2007 Chicago Marathon. Stephen Njorge-Kinyanjui finished second, more than three minutes back.

Japan’s Kiyoko Shimahara won the women’s race in 2:32:36.

•Davis sets rink record: Shani Davis of the United States set a rink record in the 1,000 meters at Nagano, Japan to win his second title at the distance in as many days at a World Cup speedskating meet.

Davis won in 1 minute, 8.92 seconds, winning by 0.24 seconds.

•China’s gold rush continues: Cheng Fei won her second gold medal at the World Cup Final in Madrid, Spain.

Cheng, already a winner on vault, took the floor exercise title, giving China five of the 10 gold medals at the two-day World Cup Final. Feng Zhe tied France’s Yann Cucherat for the parallel bars title.

•Page, Woessner win PBA titles: Rhino Page and Jodi Woessner won Professional Bowlers Association titles at the Shark Championship in Baltimore.

Page beat Wes Malott of Argyle, Texas, 197-189 for his second career title. Woessner began with strikes in the first six frames to beat Carolyn Dorin-Ballard of Keller, Texas, 247-189.