In brief: Horton leads Bruins past Coyotes
Hockey: Nathan Horton scored in the second period and added an assist to help the Boston Bruins to a 3-0 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes on Sunday, splitting the teams’ season-opening, two-game series in Prague.
Milan Lucic scored first halfway through the second period with a slap shot after gathering in Horton’s pass. Horton added his goal on a quick wrister with 33 seconds left.
Tyler Seguin sealed the victory with a breakaway goal in the third.
• Devils forward suspended: New Jersey Devils forward Pierre-Luc Letourneau-LeBlond has been suspended for one game without pay for instigating a fight in a loss to the Washington Capitals.
The NHL said Sunday that Letourneau-LeBlond automatically misses tonight’s game against Pittsburgh and forfeits $2,822.58 in salary. The 6-foot-2, 215-pound Letourneau-LeBlond received an instigator penalty late in the third period of Saturday’s 7-2 loss in Washington.
Tennis: Serena Williams says on her website she is “likely out for the year” because her injured right foot hasn’t healed properly.
In a posting, Williams says she “re-strained” her foot by overtraining.
Williams pulled out of the Generali Ladies Linz tournament that begins today, saying she felt pain while training in Florida on Saturday, and a scan showed her injury hadn’t healed properly.
Williams has been sidelined since July after cutting her foot on broken glass at a restaurant, shortly after winning Wimbledon. She had surgery that month.
She returned to practice in September but already put off her comeback by withdrawing from the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo and the China Open in Beijing.
• Nadal beats Monfils to win Japan Open: Top-ranked Rafael Nadal beat No. 5 seed Gael Monfils of France 6-1, 7-5 to win the Japan Open tennis championships in Tokyo.
Nadal, bouncing back from a semifinal defeat in Bangkok last week, took just 77 minutes to beat Monfils. Nadal roared out in the first set, breaking Monfils in the second and sixth games and sealing it in just 25 minutes.
Monfils took back some of the momentum early in the second set, but Nadal came back in the 11th game, breaking Monfils’ serve and then holding on to finish the match.
Spain’s Freire wins Paris-Tours classic
Cycling: Three-time world champion Oscar Freire of Spain won the Paris-Tours classic in a bunched sprint finish in Tours, France.
Freire made his move at the end of the 144.5-mile route from La Loupe to Tours, overtaking Angelo Furlan of Italy at the line. Gerg Steegmans of Belgium was third.
Freire’s win was a morale boost after the 34-year-old cyclist finished a disappointing sixth at the world championship road race in Geelong, Australia, a week ago.
Freire won his third Milan-San Remo classic in March.
After French rider, Stephane Bonsergent, crashed with about 12.4 miles to go, and fellow Frenchman Geoffroy Lequatre launched a solo attack and forged ahead.
With just a couple miles left on a winding, sinewy finish with few long stretches to pick up speed, Lequatre had opened a lead of 24 seconds on the chasing pack.
Only Italian rider Matteo Tosatto tried to follow him, but he was soon caught up, while Lequatre was overtaken about 400 meters from the finish line.
Lequatre’s best career performance is a stage win at the Tour of Britain in 2008, where he briefly wore the race leader’s yellow jersey.
Ex-NASCAR driver Hmiel injured in crash
Miscellany: Ex-NASCAR driver Shane Hmiel is in critical but stable condition after being injured Saturday night during qualifying for the U.S. Auto Racing Club’s Silver Crown race at Terre Haute (Ind.) Action Track.
Hmiel was banned for life from NASCAR in 2006 after failing three drug tests. The USAC says the 30-year-old driver from Pleasant Garden, N.C., was airlifted to Indianapolis’ Methodist Hospital, where he was in critical condition with head injuries.
A news release from the USAC on Sunday said Hmiel remained in the hospital’s intensive care unit and was expected to have surgery within 24 hours.
The Tribune-Star of Terre Haute reported that Hmiel’s No. 17 car slammed into the outside wall between the third and fourth turns and rolled over several times, damaging the protective roll cage.
Hmiel’s father, Steve, says his son has a “long road to recovery.”
• Brazil wins third straight men’s volleyball worlds: Brazil’s experience carried it to a third consecutive men’s volleyball world title with a 3-0 shutout of Cuba, the youngest team in the tournament.
The 25-22, 25-14, 25-22 victory in Rome solidified Brazil’s status as the top-ranked team in the sport, following its victories in 2002 and 2006. The South Americans also won the Olympic tournament in 2004, then took silver behind the United States in Beijing two years ago.
Brazil becomes the second team to win three straight world titles after Italy won in 1990, 1994 and 1998. The Soviet Union won a record six titles but never more than two in a row.
Earlier, Serbia beat host Italy 3-1 for third place, while the U.S. finished fifth.
• Wanjiru, Shobukhova win Chicago Marathon: Sammy Wanjiru of Kenya and Liliya Shobukhova of Russia repeated as Chicago Marathon champions on a warm Sunday morning.
Wanjiru beat Tsegay Kebede of Ethiopa with a late sprint to finish in 2 hours, 6 minutes, 24 seconds and capture the $75,000 prize.
The win all but assured him of the World Marathon Majors series championship and the $500,000 prize that goes with it – something Shobukhova locked up by clocking a personal-best 2:20:25.
• U.S. takes gold in vaulting: The United States won team gold in vaulting on the final day of the World Equestrian Games in Lexington, Ky.
The competition ended with finals also in vaulting, driving and para dressage.
Germany won silver and Austria received bronze.
The team competition is made up of a compulsory test that requires vaulters to perform seven exercises as well as two freestyle tests. The Americans’ freestyle routine was a loose interpretation of Romeo and Juliet.