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Snooker: Six-time World Championship runner-up Jimmy White (picture) saw his hopes of reaching the Crucible this year come to an end after losing 10-7 to Jack Lisowski in the first qualifying round at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre, Sheffield. The setback for White, 54, means he finishes the season outside the world’s top 64 players, with his last appearance in the World Championship main draw dating back to the 2006 tournament. Losing his tour card does not mean White’s 37-year playing career is automatically at an end. Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry and James Wattana were offered tour wild cards by World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn in 2014.

Motorcycling: Honda’s MotoGP champion Marc Marquez took his first pole position of the season in tricky conditions at the Argentine Grand Prix yesterday with Czech rider Karel Abraham a surprise second fastest on a 2015 Ducati. Britain’s Cal Crutchlow made it two non-factory riders on the front row with third place, just 0.003 seconds slower than Abraham, for the privately-run LCR Honda team. Marquez made the most of the drying Termas de Rio Honda circuit, after earlier rain, to secure the 38th pole of his career in the top flight with a best time of one minute 47.512 seconds.

Ice Hockey: Hilary Knight’s overtime goal gave the United States a 3-2 win over Canada in the final of the women’s World Championship at USA Hockey Arena 1 in Plymouth, Michigan. It was the fourth successive world title for the US women’s team, who had threatened to boycott the event over a wage dispute with USA Hockey that was settled just days before the start of the tournament. In the bronze medal match, Finland defeated Germany 8-0.

Basketball: Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook became the second player in the NBA, and the first in 55 years, to average a triple-double over an entire season yesterday. Westbrook joined Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson who averaged a triple-double in 1961-62. Westbrook was averaging 31.8 points, 10.7 rebounds and 10.4 assists entering the game against Phoenix Suns, leaving him six assists shy with four games left to secure the feat. He had collected them by the early part of the third quarter. Westbrook finished with 23 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists in Thunder’s 120-99 loss to the Suns.