Reuters Sports News Summary
Following is a summary of current sports news briefs.
Alpine skiing: Weirather wins World Cup super-G as Vonn crashes out
Liechtenstein's Tina Weirather's won the season's first World Cup super-G race at Lake Louise on Sunday as American Lindsey Vonn, the all-time biggest winner in the discipline, failed to finish after crashing for her second time in three races. The 28-year-old Weirather, who was last year's super-G crystal globe winner, barreled down the icy course in one minute 18.52 seconds on a chilly day in the Canadian Rockies to wrap up the North American swing of the World Cup tour.
Highlights of Sunday's National Football League games
Highlights of Sunday's National Football League games: Seahawks 24, Eagles 10
Highlights of Sunday's NBA games
Highlights of Sunday's National Basketball Association games: Rockets 118, Lakers 95
Smiling Woods ties for ninth as Fowler wins with 61
Tiger Woods proved he could be competitive again after playing some of the best golf of his comeback with a final-round four-under 68 to tie for ninth at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas on Sunday. No one could match Rickie Fowler, though. The world number nine birdied his first seven holes and won the elite event by four strokes thanks to a course record 11-under par 61 that left him at 18-under 270.
Alpine skiing: Hirscher wins World Cup giant slalom at Beaver Creek
Austrian Marcel Hirscher dominated the World Cup giant slalom event at Beaver Creek on Sunday, winning his 23rd career race in the discipline on a windy and warm day at the Birds of Prey course in Colorado. Showing no lingering issues from the left ankle fracture he suffered in a training fall in August, the 28-year-old completed his two runs in two minutes 37.30 seconds, nearly a second faster than second-place finisher, Norway's Henrik Kristoffersen (2:38.18).
Highlights of Sunday's NHL games
Highlights of Sunday's National Hockey League games: Jets 5, Senators 0
Weightlifting: Surprise win for Chilean, world records for Iran's Moradi
Chile's Arley Mendez returned from more than four years of international competitive exile to defeat Iran's Olympic champion Kianoush Rostami in the men's 85 kilogram class at weightlifting's World Championships on Sunday, while Sohrab Moradi broke two world records in the 94kg class. Mendez, who never returned home after competing for his native Cuba in the Pan American Junior Championships in Santiago in 2013, posted a total of 378kg to win gold ahead of Poland's Krzysztof Zwarycz (359kg). Italy's Antonino Pizzolato lifted 358 kgs to clinch third.
Suburban Detroit stadium still standing tall after implosion fizzles
A plan to demolish a derelict NFL stadium near Detroit went awry on Sunday when a deafening series of blasts failed to topple the Pontiac Silverdome, to the frustration of officials and the bemusement of a crowd gathered to watch the spectacle. Fans of the Detroit Lions, the team that called the Silverdome home until moving to a downtown stadium after the 2001 season, joked on social media that the failed implosion was by no means the first time they found themselves leaving the stadium parking lot disappointed. The Lions have not won a National Football League championship since 1957, the league's second longest title drought.
Major League Baseball roundup
Shohei Ohtani is regarded as the "Babe Ruth of Japan" but he will not playing for the New York Yankees. Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said Sunday night that the agents for Ohtani told him the two-way star is not signing with New York.
Weightlifting: New Zealand transgender lifter bids for gold at worlds
A New Zealand transgender lifter will go for gold against an American Olympic medalist when the super-heavyweight classes bring the weightlifting World Championships to a close on Tuesday. Laurel Hubbard, 39, who competed nationally as Gavin Hubbard, has a perfect record since returning to competition after changing gender four years ago.
