Florida WR leads South to Senior Bowl victory

Andre Caldwell scored on a 2-yard end around on the final play of the Senior Bowl to cap a 14-play, 86-yard final drive and lift the South to a 17-16 win over the North on Saturday in Mobile, Ala.

The Florida receiver took the handoff from his team’s former rival, Tennessee’s Erik Ainge, and plunged across the goal line.

Ainge, who was invited to the all-star game after Louisville’s Brian Brohm bowed out, took over at his own 14 with 2:48 left after the North was stopped on fourth down. He completed six passes and benefited from a pass interference call and some nice runs for extra yardage by his receivers.

Ainge completed 13 of 21 passes for 159 yards, all in the second half.

Michigan’s Chad Henne accounted for both North touchdowns with a 36-yard pass to Lavelle Hawkins of California in the first half and a 4-yarder to Missouri tight end Martin Rucker with 14:32 left in the game.

The defensive players accounted for many of the big plays before the South’s final drive. Southern California defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis outshined his college quarterback, John David Booty, by sacking Andre’ Woodson of Kentucky to record a safety for the North.

Booty finished with 72 yards passing, second only to Ainge.

Skiing

American gets win

American skier Marco Sullivan won his first World Cup race in his ninth season on the U.S. team, capitalizing on his gliding skills to win the Kandahar downhill in Chamonix, France.

The 27-year-old Sullivan covered the 2.08-mile course in 2 minutes, 0.11 seconds, edging discipline leader Didier Cuche of Switzerland by 0.40 seconds. Andrej Jerman of Slovenia was third and American Bode Miller finished seventh.

•Despite a broken left thumb that made it hard to grip her ski pole, Denise Karbon captured a giant slalom World Cup event in Ofterschwang, Germany, for her fifth victory in six races.

Karbon, who broke the bone during training on Wednesday, finished with a combined time of 2 minutes, 22.26 seconds.

Lindsey Vonn of the United States remained second in the overall rankings by finishing sixth in 2:22.84.

Miscellany

Kostner wins Euro title

Italian Carolina Kostner held off a stiff challenge from Sarah Meier of Switzerland to win her second straight European figure skating title at Zagreb, Croatia.

Kostner finished with 171.28 points overall. Meier scored 169.44 points to win the silver medal.

•Go Between won the $1 million Classic in an upset, giving trainer Bill Mott his third victory of the day and helping Florida-bred horses defeat their California counterparts in the sixth annual Sunshine Millions at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif. Ridden by Garrett Gomez, Florida-bred Go Between covered 1 1/8 miles in 1:45.64.

•Top Fuel drag racer Doug Herbert’s two sons were killed in a traffic accident near their home.

A statement from Herbert’s team said sons Jon, 17, and James, 12, died instantly when the car they were riding in collided with another vehicle in the town of Cornelius, N.C.