Yani Tseng wins third title of year at Northwest Arkansas Championship

Taiwan’s Yani Tseng won the Northwest Arkansas Championship at Rogers on Sunday for her third LPGA Tour victory of the year, shooting a six-under-par 65 to rally past second-round leader Michelle Wie.

Tseng birdied four of five holes early on the back nine, then held on for a one-stroke victory over Wie with a birdie on No. 18. Tseng finished at 13-under 200.

Wie (69) gave up the lead on the back nine — the same half of the course she played in seven-under 28 during a scintillating stretch Saturday.

Mika Miyazato (64) was third at 10 under at Pinnacle Country Club.

Tseng has five LPGA Tour victories in her career, including three majors. She won the Kraft Nabisco Championship and Women’s British Open this year.

Juli Inkster, who at 50 was trying to become the oldest player to win on the tour, entered the day tied for second but shot 72 and finished seven shots back.

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Russ Cochran won the Songdo Championship at Incheon, South Korea, for his first Champions Tour victory after making a birdie on the opening hole of a playoff with Fred Funk in the 50-and-over circuit’s first event in Asia.

The 51-year-old left-hander finished at 12-under 204 at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea to earn $456,000, the largest purse on tour. He won the 1991 Western Open for his lone PGA Tour title.

Cochran, who shot a final-round 66 to force the playoff, tapped in for the win after hitting a bunker shot just short of the hole.

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Storm takes Game 1 of WNBA finals

Sue Bird made a tiebreaking jump shot from the free-throw line with 2.6 seconds left and the Seattle Storm beat the Atlanta Dream, 79-77, in Game 1 of the WNBA finals at Seattle.

Angel McCoughtry had a last-second try for the Dream, but her long three-point shot from the left side bounced off the far side of the rim at the buzzer.

The best-of-five series resumes Tuesday night in Seattle.

League most valuable player Lauren Jackson had 26 points and eight rebounds for Seattle. Bird finished with 14 points, and Camille Little had 18 points and 11 rebounds.

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Fernando Alonso recovered from a poor start to win the Italian Grand Prix at Monza for home team Ferrari and revive his Formula One title chances.

The Spaniard lost the lead to McLaren’s Jenson Button at the first corner but regained it after the pit stops to hold on for a 2.9-second victory.

Felipe Massa of Ferrari was third, and Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel came in fourth.

Red Bull driver Mark Webber, who finished sixth, leads the overall standings with 187 points.

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Former Missouri football captain Derrick Washington was arrested again.

The Boone County Sheriff’s Department says Washington, who played tailback for the Tigers before he was suspended from the team, was arrested early Sunday on suspicion of third-degree domestic assault, a misdemeanor. Washington posted $1,000 bond.

A message was left seeking comment from Washington’s lawyer, Bogdon Susan.

The 21-year-old Washington was charged in August with sexually assaulting a former tutor. He was permanently suspended from the Missouri team about a week before those formal charges were filed.

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San Francisco Giants outfielder Andres Torres had an appendectomy Sunday and is expected to be out for 10 to 14 days.

Manager Bruce Bochy said Torres was to have a minimally invasive laparoscopic procedure.