In Brief
NEW YORK - Toronto Blue Jays manager Carlos Tosca was fired Sunday and replaced by first-base coach John Gibbons.
Struggling through a disappointing season, the Blue Jays fired Tosca less than an hour after they were beaten by the New York Yankees for their fifth straight loss.
Gibbons will be the interim manager for the rest of the season.
Tosca is the third major league manager to be fired this season, following Houston's Jimy Williams and Arizona's Bob Brenly.
SYLVANIA, Ohio - Meg Mallon birdied three of the last four holes, including a 10-footer at the 18th, for a one-stroke victory over Karen Stupples and defending champion Se Ri Pak at the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic.Mallon overcame a four-stroke deficit on the final six holes to move past Stupples, closing with a 3-under 68 for a 7-under 277 to win her third event of the year. She also won the U.S. Women's Open and Canadian Open last month.Stupples and Pak narrowly missed birdie putts at the 18th that would have forced a playoff.Stupples had a 2-over 73 and Pak closed with a 68 at Highland Meadows Golf Club.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Annika Sorenstam won her sixth title of the year, making two eagles in a course-record 8-under-par 64 for a two-stroke victory at the HP Open - a short drive from where the Hall of Famer grew up.Sorenstam, who bettered the course record by three strokes, won the event for the fourth time. She was two shots behind entering the final round and finished at 13-under 275 on the tough lakeside layout in Ullna.Countrywoman Carin Koch, who shared the lead with Becky Morgan of Wales entering Sunday, closed with a 68 and for a 277. Morgan (70) was at 279 and Scotland's Janice Moodie (68) was at 280.
BLAINE, Minn. - Tom Kite made three birdies over the final seven holes in a 3-under 69 for a one-stroke victory at the 3M Championship and his first Champions Tour victory in 21 months.One week after losing the lead on the final four holes at the U.S. Senior Open, Kite moved ahead at No. 13 and secured the win by rolling a 60-foot putt within two feet and tapping in for birdie at No. 18. He finished at 13-under 203, one stroke ahead of Craig Stadler, who missed a 15-foot eagle putt on the final hole at the TPC of the Twin Cities.Third-round leader Tom Purtzer, Larry Nelson and Vicente Fernandez tied for third at 10 under. Nelson made six birdies between the second and 12th hole and closed with a 6-under 66.
MUNICH, Germany - Marion Jones won twice Sunday in her first competition in more than three weeks, capturing the long jump and running the second leg for a U.S. 400-meter relay team that had the best time in the world this year.Jones helped lead the United States to victory in a meet against Germany and France. The meet was used by U.S. coaches mostly as a chance to practice relays before the Athens Games, which begin Friday.Jones leaped 22 feet, 41/2 inches on her last attempt to win the long jump. That was much shorter than the 23-4 she jumped to win at the U.S. Olympic trials in July, and was just the ninth-best jump in the world this year.
MASON, Ohio - A resurgent Andre Agassi defeated tenth-seeded Lleyton Hewitt 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 on Sunday to win the Cincinnati Masters tournament.Agassi, the 11th seed, beat 21-year-old Andy Roddick in the semifinals, then wore down the 23-year-old Australian on Sunday.He broke Hewitt's serve three times, after Hewitt had been broken only once in five matches.