Bobby Hamilton, a longtime NASCAR driver who won the 2001 Talladega 500 and was the 2004 Craftsman Truck Series champion, died Sunday of cancer at his home near Nashville. He was 49. Hamilton was diagnosed with head and neck cancer in February. Hamilton drove in all of NASCAR’s top three divisions, making 371 starts and winning four times in what is now the Nextel Cup series. He won 10 Truck races and one Busch Series race.
Marc Berthod of Switzerland captured his first World Cup event, winning the slalom in Adelboden, Switzerland. No American finished both runs. Bode Miller lost his right ski midway down the second run and now has not completed a slalom in almost a year. Jimmy Cochran and Ted Ligety did not finish the first run. . . . In Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, Marlies Schild of Austria won her second slalom race in four days and her fifth victory in the discipline this World Cup season.
Third seed Xavier Malisse of Belgium won the second title of his career, defeating Austria’s Stefan Koubek 6-1, 6-3 in the final of the Chennai (India) Open a day after knocking off No. 2 Rafael Nadal.
Germany’s Oliver Kahn, 36, a three-time world goalkeeper of the year, says he expects to retire when his contract with Bayern Munich ends in 2008.
Patrick Allen beat Walter Ray Williams 255-247 to win the PBA H&R Block Classic in Reno.
Buffalo Man, ridden by Eddie Castro, beat Out of Gwedda by a length to win the $100,000 Spectacular Bid Stakes at Gulfstream.
