Alonso wins at Monaco for second straight year
Fernando Alonso won the Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday in Monte Carlo, Monaco, becoming the first driver to win back-to-back with different teams.
The 25-year-old Spaniard finished ahead of McLaren teammate Lewis Hamilton with third-place Felipe Massa of Ferrari the only other car on the same lap as Alonso took the checkered flag.
Alonso finished 4.095 seconds ahead of Hamilton and 1:09.114 in front of Massa after 78 laps on the twisting 2.076-mile street circuit.
“For sure, this was one of the easiest and nicest victory so far,” Alonso said.
The two-time Formula One champion won last year’s race for Renault from the pole position after Michael Schumacher was stripped of the honor for hindering him in qualifying. It was Alonso’s 17th overall win and the second this season.
Cycling
Di Luca maintains lead
Riccardo Ricco won the grueling 15th stage of the Giro d’Italia at Tre Cime Di Lavaredo, Italy, and Danilo Di Luca retained the overall lead.
Ricco and Saunier Duval teammate Leonardo Piepoli attacked on the day’s first climb – the San Pellegrino pass – and maintained their lead to the finish.
Ricco covered the 114-mile leg from Trento to Tre Cime di Lavaredo – including four major climbs – in an unofficial time of 5 hours, 47 minutes, 22 seconds. Piepoli was second and Ivan Ramiro Parra Pinto of Colombia was third, 10 seconds behind.
Miscellany
Vandy gets berth
Top-ranked Vanderbilt was one of four SEC schools selected as regional tournament hosts by the NCAA Division I baseball committee.
With star left-hander and possible No. 1 draft pick David Price and slugging third baseman Pedro Alvarez, the Commodores will host one of the 16 four-team regionals for the first time since the NCAA went to the current regional format in 1975.
Each of the 16 host schools are guaranteed berths in the 64-team tournament, which starts Friday. The rest of the field will be announced today.
•Tatiana Lysenko broke her world record in the women’s hammer throw with a toss of 258 feet, 1 1/2 inches at the Russian nationals in Sochi, Russia.
Her previous world record of 255-5 was set last August in Tallinn, Estonia.
•Hilary Bowen helped top-seeded Northwestern become the second team in NCAA history to win three consecutive Division I women’s lacrosse national championships, scoring five goals in a 15-13 victory over second-seeded Virginia at Philadelphia.