Snooker: Welsh Open – Holt bt Day 4-0; Ding bt M. Davis 4-0; Trump bt O’Brien 4-0; S. Davis bt Carter 4-3; Murphy bt Joyce 4-2; Ford bt Dott 4-2.
Rugby Sevens: Alafoti Faosiliva scored his second try in the last moments in Las Vegas on Sunday to give Samoa a 26-19 victory over season leaders New Zealand in the final of the US stage of the IRB Rugby Sevens World Series. New Zealand remained atop the Series after the fifth of nine rounds on 92 points to 87 for Fiji with South Africa third on 76, two ahead of England, and the Samoans jumping to fifth in the chase on 69.
Basketball: LeBron James scored 23 points and Dwyane Wade added 21 to power Miami Heat over Atlanta Hawks 107-87 in an NBA rout by the Eastern Conference champions. Chris Bosh contributed 14 points and 16 rebounds for Miami who improved to 21-7 while dropping Atlanta to 18-10. Miami have a three-game lead over the Hawks atop the Southeast division.
Formula One: Hispania have finally completed the final piece in this year’s Formula One driver jigsaw by appointing Dani Clos as reserve. It was believed that after driving for Hispania in the young driver test in Abu Dhabi last November Clos would be given the race seat alongside fellow Spaniard Pedro de la Rosa for 2012. However, Hispania opted for Narain Karthikeyan 11 days ago due to the financial backing the Indian brings with him. It means Madrid-based HRT are not entirely an all-Spanish team.
Figure Skating: Reigning Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir and two-time world junior pairs champions Sui Wenjing and Han Cong, of China, took titles on Sunday at the Four Continents Championships. Canadians Virtue and Moir edged reigning world champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White, of the US, in the free dance to claim the overall title by 182.84-179.40.
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Rugby Union: New Zealand great Jonah Lomu (picture) said that medical tests had confirmed a donated kidney he received eight years ago had failed and he needs a new transplant. The former All Blacks wing said he had lost 30 kilograms since his long-standing health problems re-emerged last September, telling the New Zealand Women’s Weekly “everybody has to die sometime”. Lomu, 36, revealed he needs dialysis three times a week to keep his renal system functioning.
Athletics: Bernard Lagat regained the American indoor 5,000-metre record last weekend with a victory at the 104th Millrose Games, the first in 98 years to be staged outside of Madison Square Garden. Three-time Olympian Lagat won in 13mins 7.15secs, showing his fitness six months before the London Olympics at age 37 by breaking the US mark of 13:11.44 set by Galen Rupp last year in the British city of Birmingham.