No. 4 Wake Forest defeats No. 3 North Carolina
Jeff Teague scored a career-high 34 points and No. 4 Wake Forest held on to beat third-ranked North Carolina 92-89 on Sunday night in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Chas McFarland matched a season high with 20 points for the Demon Deacons (14-0, 1-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), who remained one of three unbeatens in Division I and matched the 1980-81 team that also won its first 14 games.
Danny Green scored 22 points and Tyler Hansbrough added 17 on 3-of-12 shooting — he went without a field goal in the second half for the Tar Heels (14-2, 0-2).
In a span of eight days, the once-unanimous No. 1 team in the nation has lost two of three and shares last place in the ACC with Georgia Tech. The Tar Heels have lost their first two league games for the first time since 1996-97, when they started 0-3.
NBA
Allen lifts Celtics
Ray Allen scored a season-high 36 points, including eight 3-pointers, and the Boston Celtics withstood a late Toronto rally to beat the Raptors 94-88 in Toronto, snapping a four-game losing streak.
Allen, who made a career-high 10 3-pointers against Charlotte on April 14, 2002, finished 8 for 10 from 3-point range, making his first six attempts.
•Lakers edge Heat: Andrew Bynum scored a season-high 24 points, including a go-ahead follow shot with 18.5 seconds remaining, and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Miami Heat 108-105 in Los Angeles to become the first Western Conference team to reach 30 victories.
•Stoudemire carries suns: Amare Stoudemire overcame early foul trouble to score 26 points, Jason Richardson and Grant Hill each had 21, and the Phoenix Suns sent the Los Angeles Clippers to their 11th straight loss with a 109-103 victory at Los Angeles.
Tennis
Williams prevails
Serena Williams overcame a glaring mistake by the chair umpire and a partisan crowd to win her first match of the season, a 6-3, 6-7 (4), 7-5 victory over Australian Samantha Stosur at the Sydney International in Sydney, Australia.
Last year’s U.S. Open champion was serving for the match at 6-5 and 30-30 in the second set when the chair umpire failed to notice an obvious let call when Williams’ serve hit the net and into the serving area. Williams didn’t even bother to chase down Stosur’s return, believing it to be a certain let.
Stosur was awarded the point and went on to break Williams and won the ensuing tiebreaker. Williams fought off four match points in the 10th game of the third set before breaking Stosur two games later to win the match.
•Stepanek wins title: Radek Stepanek came from a set down for a third straight match to beat Fernando Verdasco 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 for the Brisbane International title in Brisbane, Australia.
•Cilic victorious in final: Third-seeded Marin Cilic of Croatia won his second ATP Tour title, defeating wild-card Somdev Devvarman of India 6-4, 7-6 (3) in the final of the Chennai Open at Chennai, India.
Winter Sports
White, Clark win
Olympic gold medalist Shaun White won the men’s superpipe final and hometown hero and fellow gold medalist Kelly Clark topped the women’s field in the second stop of the inaugural Winter Dew Tour at West Dover, Vt.
White’s winning run included a backside rodeo 720, a backside 900, back-to-back 1080s into a 720. He finished with an alley-oop rodeo and scored 96.25.
In the women’s event, Clark, from West Dover, executed a frontside air to a backside 520. She continued with a frontside 720, a cab 360 and a frontside 520. She finished with a backside air and earned 90.75 points.
•Miller, Ligety struggle: Reinfried Herbst of Austria won the men’s World Cup slalom race on the Kuonisbaergli course ahead of countryman Manfred Pranger in Adelboden, Switzerland.
Defending overall champion Bode Miller was fourth after the morning run but struggled in the final five gates in the afternoon and placed 16th. Ted Ligety of the United States dropped from eighth to 15th.
•German wins women’s slalom: Maria Riesch of Germany captured her fourth straight World Cup slalom, winning by more than a second at Maribor, Slovenia, to move within one victory of tying the record for consecutive discipline wins.
Defending overall champion Lindsey Vonn of the United States just missed the podium, finishing fourth with a blistering second run that lifted her from 18th after the first.
•Holcomb wins U.S. bobsled title: Steven Holcomb captured the four-man bobsled title at the U.S. Bobsled National Championships in Lake Placid, N.Y., leading all four heats during the two-day meet at the Olympic Sports Complex.
Holcomb piloted his sled to a combined time of 3 minutes, 37.09 seconds.
Miscellany
Beckham debuts
David Beckham made a surprising start in his AC Milan debut in Rome, playing 89 minutes in a solid if not outstanding performance in a 2-2 draw against AS Roma.
The star English midfielder was replaced by Mathieu Flamini in the 89th minute with the score tied. He exited mostly to boos from the Roma crowd.
Beckham joined Milan on a two-month loan from the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer, hoping to stay sharp so he can earn a spot on the English national team.
•Ogilvy holds on for victory: Geoff Ogilvy has opened the PGA Tour season with a six-shot victory in the Mercedes-Benz Championship, overcoming a choppy start at Kapalua by closing with a 5-under 68 at Kapalua, Hawaii.
Anthony Kim nearly made double eagle on the last hole for a 67 to tie for second with Davis Love III, who also had a 67.
•Hansen wins by a stroke: Anders Hansen birdied the final hole to finish at 15-under 269 and beat Andrew McLardy by one stroke at the Joburg Open in Johannesburg, South Africa.
•Allen wins PBA title: Patrick Allen won the Lumber Liquidators PBA National Bowling Stadium Championship, beating Walter Ray Williams Jr. 225-223 when Williams left a pocket 8-10 split on his second shot in the 10th frame at Reno, Nev.