*NBA: Hawks center Al Horford missed Sunday’s game against the 76ers with a bone bruise in his right knee and will miss at least three more games. … Bobcats rookie point guard D.J. Augustin will be out a minimum of 10 days with a strained abdominal muscle. Guard Matt Carroll (sore right Achilles’ tendon) is day-to-day. … Raptors forward Jermaine O’Neal (right knee) missed his seventh consecutive game. … The Celtics were without guard Tony Allen (right ankle) and center Kendrick Perkins (right shoulder).
*TENNIS: Serena Williams overcame a chair umpire’s mistake — a missed let serve — and fought off four match points to beat Samantha Stosur in her season debut in the Sydney International. … Radek Stepanek won the Brisbane International title and Marin Cilic the Chennai Open. … Patty Schnyder lost in the first round of the Hobart International to Tsvetana Pironkova.
*WINTER SPORTS: Reinfried Herbst of Austria won the men’s World Cup slalom race. Defending overall champion Bode Miller was fourth after the first run but struggled in the final five gates of his second run to place 16th. … Maria Riesch of Germany won her fourth straight slalom. Defending overall champ Lindsey Vonn of the U.S. was second. … Gregor Schlierenzauer of Austria won his second ski-jumping meet in as many days. … Magnus Moan of Norway won a nordic combined event to slip past American Bill Demong into second place behind Finland’s Anssi Koivuranta. … Steven Holcomb piloted his four-man team to the title at the U.S. Bobsled National Championships. … Armin Zoeggeler won his third luge title in a row and 43rd of his career.
*WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Jessica Mooney’s 15 points led five Commodores in double figures as No. 24 Vanderbilt beat No. 7 Tennessee 74-58 for only the seventh time in 58 meetings. … North Carolina’s Sylvia Hatchell won her 800th game, 75-66 over North Carolina State. Hatchell, 800-274 in 34 seasons, joins Pat Summitt, Jody Conradt and C. Vivian Stringer in the 800-win club.
*COLLEGE WRESTLING: Iowa’s Brent Metcalf beat D.J. Meagher at 149 pounds for his 51st straight win, and the top-ranked Hawkeyes topped Cornell to win their second straight NWCA National Duals title. Iowa is 14-0 in duals this season and have won 28 straight matches.
*SOCCER: Manchester United beat Chelsea 3-0 to move the defending champions within five points of the Premier League lead. … Raul Gonzalez marked his 500th Spanish league game for Real Madrid, only the sixth player to reach the milestone. … Cristiano Ronaldo is favored to win FIFA’s World Player of the Year for 2008, which will be awarded Monday.
*ALSO: The Wolves dropped their seventh straight AHL game, 4-1 to the Houston Aeros at Allstate Arena. … Phoenix defenseman Kurt Sauer will miss four weeks of NHL action because of a lower-body injury. … Patrick Allen won the Lumber Liquidators PBA National Bowling Stadium Championship by beating Walter Ray Williams Jr. 225-223 when Williams left a pocket 8-10 split on his second shot in the 10th frame. … Michael Phelps is in Beijing to do TV commercials for automaker Mazda, which is reported to be paying him more than $1 million to endorse the brand in China. It’s believed to be the largest single sponsorship deal for a foreign celebrity in the country. … Lance Armstrong arrived in Australia to prepare for the UCI ProTour race, which starts next Sunday. … Anders Hansen birdied the final hole to beat Andrew McLardy by one stroke in the European PGA Joburg Open. … Marco Joseph of Tanzania won the 10-kilometer King’s Run in Brazil. Nancy Quipron of Kenya won the women’s race. … Poorya Nazari, a 22-year-old biochemistry graduate from Toronto, is $3 million richer after winning the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas. He was one of 1,347 entrants in the $10,000 no-limit hold ’em event. … Carlos Sainz of Spain leads the Dakar Rally after eight stages. American Mark Miller is third and NASCAR star Robby Gordon is fifth.
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EDITED BY LEE C. GORDON FROM TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICES
