Singh Shoots a 68 to Win Delayed Houston Open

Vijay Singh shared the lead with John Huston in the rain-delayed Houston Open going into the last round, but he pulled away with a four-under-par 68 on Monday for his sixth consecutive victory when leading after three rounds.

Singh finished at 11-under 277 for a two-stroke victory over Scott Hoch. It was Singh’s second victory in Houston, where he won two years ago.

“The last few times when I did go into the lead, I’ve been striking the ball well, so when you do that you don’t feel threatened that someone else is going to overtake you,” Singh said.

Hoch closed with a 67, and Huston finished one stroke behind him after shooting a 71 in the final round.

It was the second victory of 2004 for Singh and his 17th on the tour. He has finished in the top 10 six times this year.

Weather problems interrupted play three consecutive days at Redstone Golf Club and pushed the tournament into Monday.

Boxing

Although the announced attendance for Saturday’s Vitali Klitschko-Corrie Sanders heavyweight title fight in Staples Center was 17,320, only 8,475 tickets were purchased, according to figures released by the California State Athletic Commission.

An additional 1,922 were included from the sale of luxury suite packages because the fight was among the included Staples Center events.

The initial attendance figure included 6,923 complimentary tickets, some given to promoters and sponsors by contractual agreement.

Football

Defensive end Leonard Little of the St. Louis Rams was charged with a felony for alleged drunk driving and speeding, five years after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in an accident that killed a woman.

Little was arrested early Saturday morning after he was pulled over for speeding by police in the St. Louis suburb of Ladue. Police said he failed three sobriety tests.

Running back Jarrett Payton of Miami, son of the late NFL Hall of Fame running back Walter Payton, signed as an undrafted free agent with the Tennessee Titans.

The father of New England Patriot defensive tackle Richard Seymour was found dead Sunday in Columbia, S.C., in what authorities called a murder-suicide.

Richard Seymour, 51, shot his girlfriend, 36-year-old Coretta Myers, and himself early Sunday morning, Richland County Coroner Gary Watts said.

Jurisprudence

A prosecutor in the Somerville, N.J., trial of Jayson Williams dismissed the former NBA player’s claim that the shooting death of limousine driver Costas “Gus” Christofi in Williams’ mansion Feb. 14, 2002, was an accident, saying that when people play with deadly weapons, accident is no defense.

Williams, 36, faces eight charges, including aggravated manslaughter, and up to 55 years in prison.

Former Washington softball coach Teresa Wilson filed a sex-discrimination lawsuit in Seattle against the school, saying she was wrongfully fired in December amid accusations a team doctor doled out powerful pain medication to players.

Details of a school internal report, released late Monday, said that Wilson and others -- including former athletic director Barbara Hedges -- should have known that the former team doctor and a trainer improperly were giving out the medication.

Today’s arraignment in Houston of former Rocket guard and basketball Hall of Famer Calvin Murphy, 55, on charges he molested five of his daughters has been rescheduled for May 12 at the request of his attorney.

Miscellany

Eighth-seeded James Blake lost to Sargis Sargsian, 6-4, 7-6 (6), and sixth-seeded Andrei Pavel lost to Nikolay Davydenko, 7-6 (3), 6-4, in the first round of the BMW Open at Munich, Germany.

Phoenix forward Lisa Harrison ended her eight-year playing career and joined the staff of Carrie Graf, the new coach of the WNBA’s Mercury.

Graf also hired former Phoenix Sun forward Cedric Ceballos as a special assistant.

Houston Comet guard Ukari Figgs retired, ending a five-year WNBA career that included a league title in 2001 with the Sparks.

Richard Park and Ryan Malone each scored a power-play goal and the United States tied Slovakia, 3-3, in the hockey world championships at Ostrava, Czech Republic.

Matt Brady, a basketball assistant at Saint Joseph’s for the last 11 seasons, was introduced as coach at Marist.

Brady, 38, replaces Dave Magarity, who resigned last month after 18 years as coach.

Ed Baird rallied on the last leg to win a sudden-death championship race by 1 minute 41 seconds over Terry Hutchinson on Sunday in the 40th Congressional Cup at Long Beach, the only American stop on the eight-event sailing Swedish Match Tour.

Passings

Foster Andersen, who spent nearly 30 years coaching football on eight Southland teams, died in Mission Hills after a long illness. He was 64.

Andersen was an assistant at UCLA, USC, Cal State Northridge and Cal State Los Angeles, among others. He started as offensive and defensive tackle at UCLA from 1959 to 1961.

T.J. Simers has the day off.