Hoffman wins Deutsche Bank with 11 birdies
Golf: Charley Hoffman made 11 birdies Monday, and that was more than enough to win the Deutsche Bank Championship in Norton, Mass.
Hoffman ran off four straight birdies early to make up a four-shot deficit, and he kept right on going on the TPC Boston. He closed with a 9-under 62 for a 22-under total of 262 and a five shot win to move to No. 2 in the FedEx Cup standings.
Tiger Woods shot 68 and tied for 11th. It was enough to keep the No. 1 ranking when Phil Mickelson again blew a good chance to replace him. Mickelson made two double bogeys on the back nine and wound up with a 76.
Sharapova ousted by Wozniacki at Open
Tennis: In New York, No. 1-seeded Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark defeated Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-4 in the fourth round of the U.S. Open at Flushing Meadows.
It’s the first victory for Wozniacki in three career meetings against Sharapova.
Wozniacki carries a 12-match winning streak into her quarterfinal against 45th-ranked Dominika Cibulkova, who ousted 2004 U.S. Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-5, 7-6 (4).
Third-seeded Novak Djokovic reached the men’s quarterfinals for the fourth consecutive year by outclassing No. 19 Mardy Fish 6-3, 6-4, 6-1. Fish’s exit leaves one U.S. man in the tournament, No. 20 Sam Querrey, who is in fourth-round action today against No. 25 Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland.
Another quarterfinal will pit five-time U.S. Open champion Roger Federer against No. 5 Robin Soderling, a two-time French Open finalist whose upset of Federer in that round at Paris this year ended his record streak of reaching the semifinals at 23 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments.
Federer reached the quarterfinals at a 26th major in a row by beating No. 13 Jurgen Melzer of Austria 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-3 in Monday night’s last match.
• McEnroe resigns as U.S. Davis Cup captain: Patrick McEnroe, the younger brother of John McEnroe, resigned as U.S. Davis Cup captain after 10 years and will leave after the Americans’ playoff against Colombia this month.
McEnroe led the United States to a Davis Cup title in 2007. But for the first time since 2005, the Americans must win in the playoffs to secure a spot in the top tier of the Davis Cup competition.
Basketball: In Istanbul, Chauncey Billups scored 19 points, Kevin Durant had 17, and the United States powered into the quarterfinals of the world championship with a 121-66 victory over Angola.
The U.S. forced turnovers that led to easy baskets in transition, and when forced into the halfcourt, shot 18 of 38 from 3-point range, one off the team record for 3s in a world championship game.
Eric Gordon and Rudy Gay scored 17 for the Americans, who will face Russia on Thursday night. Gordon was 5 of 6 behind the arc.
• Russia beats New Zealand: Russia reached the quarterfinals, beating New Zealand 78-56 behind Andrey Vorontsevich’s 18 points and 11 rebounds. The Russians play the U.S. on Thursday.
Timofey Mozgov, Russia’s 7-foot-1 center who recently signed for the New York Knicks, added 16 points and seven rebounds.
Wyoming football player killed, 3 hurt
Miscellany: Authorities say a University of Wyoming football player was killed and three teammates were injured when a pickup drifted off a Colorado highway and crashed.
The Colorado State Patrol says 19-year-old Ruben Narcisse of Miami was killed in the Monday crash.
Nineteen-year-old Trey Fox of Glenwood Springs, Colo., 18-year-old Christian Morgan of Aurora, Colo., and 19-year-old J.J. Quinlan of Everett, Wash., were injured.
Colorado troopers say Fox was driving and apparently fell asleep. Investigators say neither alcohol nor drugs are believed to be factors.
• Dixon wins 10th straight Top Fuel final: Larry Dixon kept his perfect final-round streak going by racing to his 10th win of the season in Top Fuel at the NHRA’s U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis.
Dixon earned his fourth win at Indy and 58th of his career by outrunning Cory McClenathan. Dixon covered the O’Reilly Raceway Park dragstrip in 3.837 seconds at 319.60 mph. McClenathan ran 3.870 at 319.82.
Ashley Force Hood (Funny Car), who beat her father, John, in the final, and Greg Stanfield (Pro Stock) also won.
• Snowboardcross leads Vancouver injury list: Snowboardcross was the most hazardous sport at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, with nearly 75 percent of female athletes sustaining injuries during the rough-and-tumble races.
According to a medical study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, at least 11 percent of all athletes at the games in February sustained injuries.
The study reported a total of 287 injuries among the 2,567 athletes, including the “catastrophic injury” which caused the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili in a training crash a few hours before the opening ceremony.