Chivas Guadalajara wins league title

Adolfo Bautista scored the deciding goal Sunday at Toluca, Mexico, to give Chivas Guadalajara its 11th Mexican league title after a 2-1 victory over Toluca in the second leg and a 3-2 aggregate win.

Francisco Rodriguez also scored for Guadalajara, equalizing in the 51st minute, and Bautista scored the winner in the 69th. Bruno Marioni had given the hosts the lead in the 18th.

Chivas, the most popular team in the country, celebrated its centenary with its first title since 1997.

“We came here to play smart, and my father, who’s in heaven, helped us out,” said goalkeeper Oswaldo Sanchez, whose father died before the World Cup. “This team deserved to be a champion.”

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Michael Essien scored off a long shot in the 84th minute, sending Chelsea to a 1-1 tie against Arsenal in the Premier League at London.

BOXING

Maskaev retains his heavyweight title

Oleg Maskaev successfully defended his World Boxing Council heavyweight crown in Moscow with a unanimous decision over Peter Okhello in the first world title fight in Russia.

The 37-year-old Maskaev (34-5, 26 knockouts) won the WBC title in August with a 12th-round knockout of Hasim Rahman. Okhello, a 34-year-old Ugandan who lives in Japan, dropped to 18-8.

GOLF

Germany wins the World Cup in playoff

Trailing by five strokes entering the day, Bernhard Langer and Marcel Siem shot a five-under 66 in the alternate-shot format to grab a share of the lead, then made par on the first playoff hole at St. James, Barbados, to beat Scotland and win Germany’s second World Cup title.

Sweden (72) finished third after finishing 15 under and missing the playoff when Carl Petterson’s tricky downhill par putt from five feet lipped out at the final hole. South Africa (68) was fourth at 14 under, and Spain (69), Argentina (73) and the United States (69) all tied for fifth at 13 under.

WINTER SPORTS

Kostelic wins race; Miller crashes

Olympic silver medalist Ivica Kostelic won a super-combined at Reiteralm, Austria, for his first World Cup victory in three years, and Bode Miller again crashed out of a race.

Kostelic capitalized on a nearly perfect slalom run to finish in 2 minutes 8.09 seconds -- 1.08 seconds ahead of Romed Baumann. Pierrick Bourgeat was third, 1.51 seconds back.

Ted Ligety, the combined Olympic champion, jumped from 23rd to share fourth place despite a broken hand that is still not fully healed. U.S. teammate Steve Nyman was 15th.

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Jan Bos won the 1,000 meters at a World Cup speedskating meet at Nagano, Japan, and Chiara Simionato won the women’s event.... Russia won two biathlon relays, with Germany finishing second both times in the first relays of the World Cup season at Hochfilzen, Austria.

MISCELLANY

Nextel Cup champ Johnson breaks wrist

Nextel Cup champion Jimmie Johnson broke his left wrist when he fell from a golf cart during a celebrity tournament at Lecanto, Fla.

The injury occurred Friday. The injury was to Johnson’s non-shifting hand, and he should be able to participate in preseason testing at Daytona International Speedway next month.

The Citrus County (Fla.) Chronicle reported that Johnson was lying on the roof of the cart when he fell.

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Daymeion Hughes, a cornerback for California, was named the winner of the third annual Lott Trophy.

Hughes is a 6-2, 185-pound senior from Los Angeles Crenshaw. His eight interceptions were second-most in the country, and he was the Pacific 10 Conference defensive player of the year.

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Jessi Miley-Dyer won surfing’s season-ending Billabong Pro Maui, but Layne Beachley won her seventh world surfing title by advancing further than her closest pursuers.

The title was clinched, in six- to eight-foot surf at Honolua Bay, after defending world champion Chelsea Georgeson was eliminated by Claire Bevilacqua in an earlier quarterfinal.

Beachley defeated Rebecca Woods in the subsequent quarterfinal but lost in the semifinals to Miley-Dyer, who defeated Keala Kennelly in the final.

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Synchronized swimmers Christina Jones and Andrea Nott became the first members of the 2008 U.S. Olympic team when they qualified during team competition at Ohio State’s McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion at Columbus.