Second place just fine with Kildow

Nearly a year after her Olympic hopes were ruined by a scary crash during downhill training, Lindsey Kildow finished second in a World Cup super-giant slalom Friday at San Sicario, Italy, on the same course used at the Turin Games. She came within 0.09 of a second of winner Renate Goetschl.

Kildow, of Vail, Colo., was hospitalized overnight after her crash at the Olympics. She came back and competed in all four of her events -- downhill, combined, super-G and slalom -- but pain limited her performance, and her best result was seventh in super-G.

“It just gives me confidence that I could have done it, and today I did. I wanted to prove something to myself on this hill. I was really excited to get back here,” Kildow said. “It was definitely revenge. I knew I could do it here.”

Goetschl’s victory was her third in four super-G races this season and the 43rd World Cup victory of the Austrian’s career. She completed the course in 1 minute 24.90 seconds. Christine Sponring was third, 0.90 behind.

Julia Mancuso of Olympic Valley, Calif., finished eighth, ending her run of five consecutive top-three finishes. But she picked up points on Austrians Marlies Schild and Nicole Hosp, the two women ahead of her in the overall World Cup standings. Hosp finished 11th and Schild was 18th.

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Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder of France won the ice dancing title by less than half a point at the European figure skating championships in Warsaw.

Delobel and Schoenfelder won the compulsory and original portions of the competition but held only a 1.51-point lead over Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin of Russia entering the free dance.

The Russians scored 100.39 to the French couple’s 99.19 in the free skate, but Delobel and Schoenfelder finished with 199.47 points, just ahead of Domnina’s and Shabalin’s 199.16.

GOLF

Funk shoots 65 for Turtle Bay lead

Fred Funk handled the trade winds and tricky greens with ease at Kahuku, Hawaii, shooting a bogey-free seven-under-par 65 to take the first-round lead in the Turtle Bay Championship.

Tom Kite, coming off a second-place tie in the MasterCard Championship, was two strokes behind with David Eger and John Harris in the Champions Tour’s first full-field event of the year.

Hale Irwin, the MasterCard winner going for an unprecedented seventh victory in the event, shot a 41 on the first nine and fought back to a two-over 74. He had a quadruple bogey on the par-four seventh that dropped him to five over.

JURISPRUDENCE

Judge rules Jackson violated his probation

Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Jackson violated his probation in Michigan when Indiana prosecutors charged him with firing a gun outside a strip club, a judge ruled in Rochester Hills, Mich.

Jackson was serving probation after pleading no contest to misdemeanor assault and battery charges in September 2005 for his role in the 2004 brawl involving Indiana Pacers players and fans at the Palace of Auburn Hills.

Jackson, who was traded to Golden State earlier this month, was charged in Indiana with criminal recklessness -- a felony -- and misdemeanor counts of battery and disorderly conduct. He faces up to 30 days in jail on the probation violation.

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Jake Peavy’s disorderly conduct charge was dismissed after the San Diego Padres pitcher apologized for a confrontation with a security officer when he double parked to unload baseball gear at Mobile (Ala.) Regional Airport.

Peavy was arrested after he parked in front of the airport entrance Jan. 4. He was taking equipment on a church mission to help children in the Dominican Republic.

PRO FOOTBALL

Chargers’ Phillips interviews with Dallas

San Diego defensive coordinator Wade Phillips interviewed with the Dallas Cowboys about replacing retired head coach Bill Parcells.

Phillips, the former head coach at Denver and Buffalo who also had interim stints in New Orleans and Atlanta, said he had a “very encompassing talk” with Cowboys owner and General Manager Jerry Jones. Phillips has a 48-39 coaching record.

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Defensive tackles John Henderson of the Jacksonville Jaguars and Pat Williams of the Minnesota Vikings were selected as injury replacements for next month’s Pro Bowl in Honolulu.

Henderson replaces New England’s lone selection, Richard Seymour, and Williams is filling in for Chicago’s Tommie Harris.

MISCELLANY

Ronaldo undergoes tests for AC Milan

Ronaldo underwent medical tests for AC Milan after the Italian soccer club’s offer to Real Madrid for the Brazilian star.

Ronaldo underwent tests at a private clinic. He then had lunch with Coach Carlo Ancelotti before more tests at the club’s training center. He later returned to Madrid on a private jet, news agency ANSA reported.

Milan has made an undisclosed offer for the 30-year-old striker and club vice president Adriano Galliani said he would travel to Madrid on Monday in the hope of completing the signing.

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Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan was hospitalized in Round Rock, Texas, and was in good condition with an undisclosed ailment, his son said.

The 59-year-old strikeout king checked into Round Rock Medical Center for treatment of recurring symptoms from a pre-existing medical condition, Reid Ryan said.

Reid Ryan declined to specify the condition, but said it was discovered when his father had double-bypass heart surgery in 2000. He added that it was not an emergency.

PASSING

Ken Kavanaugh, 90, former Giants coach

Ken Kavanaugh, a star receiver for the Chicago Bears in the 1940s who spent nearly half a century with the New York Giants as a coach and scout, has died. He was 90.

He died of complications from pneumonia Thursday in Sarasota, Fla., where he had lived since retiring from football in 1999, the Giants said.