BASEBALL
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Boston Red Sox won their fourth World Series championship in 15 years, beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 in Game 5 Sunday night behind David Price’s pitching and Steve Pearce’s power.
Alex Cora became the first manager from Puerto Rico to guide a team to the title. He’s just the fifth rookie skipper to do it overall.
After posting a team-record 108 wins during the regular season and romping through the AL playoffs, the Red Sox finished off a one-sided Series
Price threw three-hit ball into the eighth inning. Pearce hit two home runs, a night after his homer and three-run double spurred a late rally.
Mookie Betts and J.D. Martinez also connected as the Red Sox hit three homers off Clayton Kershaw.
SOCCER
LEICESTER, England (AP) - Thai billionaire and Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who died when his helicopter crashed in a parking lot next to the soccer club’s stadium, was known to fans as a benevolent man who brought the club its fairytale English Premier League title in 2016. He was 60.
The business world remembers Vichai as the entrepreneur who grew Thailand’s massive King Power duty-free chain.
The sight of his helicopter taking off from the middle of the field - to take Vichai to his English base near London in Berkshire - was a regular feature after the club’s home games.
On Saturday, it turned into a horror scene when the chopper appeared to suddenly lose power, plummeting to the ground in a parking lot outside the empty stadium and bursting into flames.
FOOTBALL
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Adam Vinatieri has made plenty of tougher kicks in his career. The two last-second field goals to win Super Bowls, a 45-yarder through the snow to win a playoff game and 46 field goals from at least 50 yards in the regular season and postseason.
Vinatieri’s 25-yarder at the end of the second quarter in Indianapolis’ 42-28 victory over the Oakland Raiders on Sunday will surely be one he never forgets.
With that kick, Vinatieri passed Hall of Famer Morten Andersen to become the NFL’s all-time leading scorer. He added three extra points in the fourth quarter to give him 2,550 for his career - six more than Andersen.
BASKETBALL
CLEVELAND (AP) - Tyronn Lue didn’t make it through the season’s first month without LeBron James.
The Cleveland Cavaliers fired their coach on Sunday, two people familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. The Cavaliers are off to a 0-6 start without James, who left Cleveland this summer for the second time in his career and signed with the Los Angeles Lakers as a free agent.
The Cavs weren’t showing enough progress under Lue and the team decided it was time for a change before the situation worsened, said the people, who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the team has not commented on the move.
Lue guided the Cavaliers to an NBA title in 2016 - Cleveland’s first pro sports championship since 1964 - and helped the team to four straight Finals.
The 41-year-old Lue has three years left on a five-year, $35 million contract he signed after Cleveland won the title.
AUTO RACING
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Lewis Hamilton won his fifth career Formula One championship with a fourth-place finish Sunday at the Mexican Grand Prix, a race dominated by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.
Hamilton’s season championship was all but assured, and after brief bid for the lead off the start and a scary run off the track late, he finished off the title with a drive further into the F1 record books. The British driver is now tied with the late Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina for second most in F1 history. Only Germany’s Michael Schumacher has more with seven.
The 33-year-old Hamilton won titles with McLaren in 2008 and with Mercedes in 2014, 2015 and 2017. He also clinched last season’s title in Mexico City.
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) - Jimmie Johnson has landed just the second primary sponsor of his career: Ally Financial has partnered with Hendrick Motorsports to back the seven-time NASCAR champion in a two-year deal through the 2020 season.
Lowe’s has been Johnson’s sponsor since his 2001 debut and has been represented in some part on the No. 48 Chevrolet in all 83 of Johnson’s Cup Series victories. The company is leaving NASCAR at the end of the season and Hendrick has been searching for a replacement to step in and sponsor one of the most iconic properties in motorsports.
The two-year deal with Ally is for all 38 races beginning with next year’s Daytona 500.
HORSE RACING
NEW YORK (AP) - W. Cothran “Cot” Campbell, who pioneered the concept of shared ownership of thoroughbred race horses and was a longtime advocate for the American racing industry, has died. He was 91.
He died Saturday at his home in Aiken, South Carolina, the New York Racing Association said Sunday.
Campbell made his mark in 1969 when he introduced syndicated ownership, which features numerous owners sharing a percentage of the costs and the risk. It allowed new people to enter the expensive sport.
He founded Aiken-based Dogwood Stable. Among the champions that carried his green-and-yellow silks were 2013 Belmont Stakes winner Palace Malice, 1990 Preakness winner Summer Squall and 1996 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Storm Song, who won the Eclipse Award as the nation’s champion 2-year-old filly.
Dogwood had eight Kentucky Derby entrants from 1990 to 2013, and its best finish was second with Summer Squall in 1990.
Another Dogwood horse, Inlander, won an Eclipse Award as 1987’s champion steeplechaser.
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