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WORLD SPORT
James revenge
as Cavaliers win
team.
Gulf Daily News Sunday, 2nd November 2014
Email: sport@gdn.com.bh
CHICAGO: LeBron
James simply wanted
to shrug off a poor debut with his new, old
How is this for redemption?
James scored 36 points and
the Cleveland Cavaliers beat
Derrick Rose and the Chicago
Bulls 114-108 in overtime on
Friday night.
The first meeting between
two teams expected to challenge each other for supremacy
in the Eastern Conference was
as tight as advertised, with several swings down the stretch
and a superstar carrying his
team in the end.
James was at his best after
struggling the previous night.
He scored eight points in the
extra period, and the Cavaliers
gave coach David Blatt his first
win after opening with a loss at
home to New York.
“It was an opportunity to go
out and redeem ourselves and I
was happy with the outcome,”
James said.
Derrick Rose scored 20
points for Chicago, but his
first meaningful home game in
about a year was spoiled by a
sprained left ankle and a dominant performance by the Cavaliers’ megastar. Rose, sidelined
for most of the past two seasons
by knee injuries, came up hobbling in the first half and headed to the locker room in the
fourth quarter.
“The gods, they’re testing
me right now, man,” said Rose,
who did not think the injury
was serious.
Cleveland rallied from five
down in the closing minute of
regulation after blowing a ninepoint lead to start the fourth
quarter.
James took over in OT, flip-
n Cavaliers’
James
shoots over
Bulls’ Taj
Gibson
ping in a wild reverse layup and
scoring Cleveland’s first eight
points in the extra period.
The Cavaliers were still
clinging to a 106-104 lead after Kirk Hinrich hit two free
throws with 46.8 seconds left.
But Tristan Thompson iced it
moments later with a hard dunk
after rebounding James’ jump-
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association on Friday (home team in CAPS):
Memphis
97 INDIANA
89
Cleveland
114 CHICAGO
108
(OT)
MILWAUKEE
93 Philadelphia
81
PHOENIX
94 San Antonio
89
SACRAMENTO
103 Portland
94
LA Clippers
118 LA LAKERS
111
FIGURE SKATING
Skate Canada, the second ISU Figure
Skating Grand Prix of the season, on
Friday:
Men
Short programme:1. Javier Fernandez
(ESP) 86.36, 2. Takahito Mura (JPN) 82.57, 3.
Konstantin Menshov (RUS) 81.70, 4. Stephen
Carriere (USA) 80.33, 5. Max Aaron (USA)
76.50.
GOLF
Third-round scores in the $7 million
CIMB Classic at Kuala Lumpur Golf and
Country Club (Par 72):
204 - Kevin Na (USA) 69-68-67, Ryan
Moore (USA) 68-69-67; 205 - Sergio Garcia
(ESP) 69-68-68, Billy Hurley III (USA) 67-6771; 207 - Gary Woodland (USA) 71-70-66,
er to make it a four-point game
with 24 seconds left. Thompson
tied a franchise record with 12
offensive rebounds.
James, back with the Cavaliers after leading Miami to two
championships, dominated after a rough opener.
He had eight rebounds, four
steals and just three turnovers
Bae Sang-Moon (KOR) 71-68-68, Kevin
Chappell (USA) 69-68-70, Kevin Streelman
(USA) 68-68-71; 208 - Brendon de Jonge
(ZIM) 70-73-65, Patrick Reed (USA) 70-7068, Angelo Que (PHI) 67-72-69, Cameron
Smith (AUS) 70-69-69, Jeff Overton (USA)
68-69-7w1; 209 - John Senden (AUS)
72-68-69, Prom Meesawat (THA) 68-71-70,
Noh Seung-Yul (KOR) 68-69-72; 210 Davis Love III (USA) 68-71-71; 211 - Greg
Chalmers (AUS) 75-68-68, Danny Lee (NZL)
69-69-73, Brian Stuard (USA) 67-72-72,
Lee Westwood (ENG) 72-65-74.
Round three of the Fubon LPGA Taiwan
Championship in Taipei (par 72).
195 - Park In-Bee (KOR) 64-62-69;
199 - Stacy Lewis (USA) 67-68-64, Feng
Shanshan (CHN) 64-65-70; 203 - Azahara
Munoz (ESP) 68-66-69; 204 - Ryu So-Yeon
(KOR) 66-70-68; 205 - Mariajo Uribe (COL)
71-67-67, Brittany Lang (USA) 70-67-68,
Lydia Ko (NZL) 69-65-71; 206 - Amy Yang
(KOR) 70-68-68, Ji Eun-Hee (KOR) 67-7168; 207 - Suwannapura Thidapa 70-69-68,
Mirim Lee (KOR) 72-62-73; 208 - Mina
Harigae (USA) 72-71-65, Sandra Gal (GER)
71-68-69, Lee Mi-Hyang (KOR) 68-70-70,
Kim I.K. (KOR) 67-71-70, Ayako Uehara
(JPN) 70-66-72; 209 - Caroline Masson
(GER) 72-70-67, Belen Mozo (ESP) 72-68-
after going 5 of 15 from the
floor and coughing the ball up
eight times against the Knicks.
Irving scored 23.
Thompson, who was hoping
to land a contract extension before the deadline, finished with
16 points and 13 rebounds.
Kevin Love added 16 points
and 16 rebounds, and the Cav-
69, Lizette Salas (USA) 72-68-69, Pernilla
Lindberg (SWE) 69-71-69, Kim Kaufman
(USA) 71-68-70, Carlota Ciganda (ESP)
70-69-70, Laura Diaz (USA) 68-71-70, Chella
Choi (KOR) 70-66-73, Choi Na-Yeon (KOR)
68-68-73.
Third round of the European Tour’s $7
million BMW Masters at Lake Malaren
Golf Club in Shanghai (par 72):
194 - Alexander Levy (FRA) 65-66-63; 198
- Jamie Donaldson (WAL) 68-68-62; 199 Marcel Siem (GER) 68-66-65; 201 - Justin
Rose (ENG) 72-65-64; 203 - Emiliano Grillo
(ARG) 66-68-69, Nicolas Colsaerts (BEL)
66-64-73; 204 - Graeme McDowell (NIR)
67-69-68, Romain Wattel (FRA) 66-67-71;
205 - Joost Luiten (NED) 72-69-62, Robert
Karlsson (SWE) 69-70-66, George Coetzee
(RSA) 71-67-67, Ryan Palmer (USA) 7067-68, Mikko Ilonen (FIN) 70-66-69, Ross
Fisher (ENG) 70-67-68, Branden Grace
(RSA) 68-66-71; 206 - Richie Ramsay
(SCO) 69-68-69, Ernie Els (RSA) 69-68-69,
Darren Fichardt (RSA) 69-68-69, Thomas
Bjorn (DEN) 68-67-71.
ICE HOCKEY
National Hockey League on Friday (home
team in CAPS):
Toronto
4 COLUMBUS
1
DETROIT
Anaheim
CALGARY
aliers pounded the Bulls 52-42
on the boards.
For Chicago, Hinrich came
on strong down the stretch to
finish with 20 points. Pau Gasol
scored 15 and Mike Dunleavy
Jr. added 14 points.
Meanwhile, Blake Griffin
used a banking analogy to describe his dominant performance against the Lakers. And
most of the time the Clippers
got the ball to him, he was right
on the money.
Griffin scored 39 points and
went 11 for 12 from the free
throw line, powering the Los
Angeles Clippers to a gritty
118-111 victory over the winless Lakers in the first meeting
of the season between the Staples Center co-tenants.
DeAndre Jordan had 11
points and 13 rebounds during
a foul-plagued 39 minutes. The
two-time defending Pacific
Division champions have won
eight of nine against the Lakers (0-3) since the start of the
2012-13 campaign, including
victories by margins of 36, 48
and 23 points in the final three
meetings last season.
Chris Paul had 12 points, 10
assists and two steals for the
Clippers.
Jordan Hill scored 13 of his
21 points in the third quarter and Kobe Bryant had 21,
but cost the Lakers down the
stretch with his cold shooting.
After stumbling out of the
blocks with an 18-point loss to
Houston and a 20-point defeat
at Phoenix, the injury-riddled
Lakers are 0-3 for the fourth
time since the franchise left
Minneapolis. They also lost
their first three games last season, as well as 1978-79 and
1960-61 — their first season in
Los Angeles.
5 Los Angeles
2 DALLAS
(OT)
4 Nashville
2
1
3
MOTOR RACING
Qualifying from the Formula One United
States Grand Prix at Circuit of the
Americas:
1. Nico Rosberg (Germany) Mercedes
1:36.06; 2. Lewis Hamilton (Britain)
Mercedes 1:36.443; 3. Valtteri Bottas
(Finland) Williams-Mercedes 1:36.906; 4.
Felipe Massa (Brazil) Williams-Mercedes
1:37.205; 5. Daniel Ricciardo (Australia)
RedBull - Renault 1:37.224; 6. Fernando
Alonso (Spain) Ferrari 1:37.610; 7. Jenson
Button (Britain) McLaren 1:37.655; 8. Kevin
Magnussen (Denmark) McLaren 1:37.706;
9. Kimi Raikkonen (Finland) Ferrari 1:37.804;
10. Adrian Sutil (Germany) Sauber - Ferrari
1:38.810; 11. Pastor Maldonado (Venezuela)
Lotus - Renault 1:38.467; 12. Sergio Perez
(Mexico) Force India - Mercedes 1:38.554;
13. Nico Huelkenberg (Germany) Force India Mercedes 1:38.598; 14. Daniil Kvyat (Russia)
Toro Rosso - Renault 1:38.699; 15. Jean-Eric
Vergne (France) Toro Rosso - Renault
1:39.250; 16. Esteban Gutierrez (Mexico)
Sauber - Ferrari 1:39.555; 17. Sebastian
France keep
original team
for Davis Cup
PARIS:
Despite
their poor results at
the Paris Masters,
France captain Arnaud Clement is sticking with
his regular players for the Davis
Cup final against Switzerland.
Clement has picked four
players — Jo-Wilfried Tsonga,
Richard Gasquet, Gael Monfils
and Gilles Simon — for a training camp in Bordeaux ahead of
the final from Nov. 21-23 in the
northern city of Lille.
He can still make changes
to the team ahead of the final
although Clement said it’s unlikely he will call up new players at the last minute.
“I think about other players too, but in my mind today,
those who have a chance of going on court in Lille are the four
players I mentioned, and I want
to focus the preparation on
them,” Clement said at a news
conference yesterday.
No French player advanced
past the third round in Paris but
the French captain is adamant
he is not worried before hosting
a formidable Swiss team led by
the in-form Roger Federer and
Stan Wawrinka.
“The players who had to stop
because of injuries were able
to play,” Clement said. “They
played good matches, and that
was a good thing. I believe this
is positive. Now that they are
reassured about their condition,
they can focus on the Davis
Cup. It is their main goal.”
Gasquet, who played a decisive part in France’s win over
defending champion Czech Republic in the semifinals, lost in
the second round in Paris and
has won just three matches in
his past four tournaments. Simon’s campaign was stopped
immediately by Fernando Verdasco while Tsonga and Monfils
bowed out in the third round,
against Kei Nishikori and Novak Djokovic, respectively.
Monfils, who thought about
pulling out from the event because of a knee injury, showed
signs of improvement during a
tight second set with Djokovic.
“Richard is extremely motivated by this Davis Cup. He
has his mind set on it,” Clement
said. “And I was very pleased
with the level of Gael and Jo.”
Vettel (Germany) RedBull - Renault 1:39.621;
18. Romain Grosjean (France) Lotus - Renault
1:39.679.
1-10: third and final qualifying session
11-14: second qualifying session
15-18: first qualifying session
SOCCER
Argentine championship:
Banfield
3 Olimpo
Australian championship:
Perth Glory
2 Newcastle Jets
0
1
TENNIS
ATP Paris Masters (x denotes seeding):
Semi-finals: Milos Raonic (CAN x7) bt
Tomas Berdych (CZE x5) 6-3, 3-6, 7-5; Novak
Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Kei Nishikori (JPN x6)
6-2, 6-3.
WTA Tournament of Champions in Sofia
(x denotes seeded player):
Semi-finals: Andrea Petkovic (GER x4) bt
Garbine Muguruza (ESP x7) 6-1, 6-4; Flavia
Pennetta (ITA x3) bt Carla Suarez Navarro
(ESP x5) 6-4, 6-2.
UK LOTTERY: Due to delayed draw
missing our deadlines, we are unable to
carry the numbers on the same night.
The winning numbers will be carried in
tomorrow’s edition.