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GOLF Kuchar, English win Templeton

Matt Kuchar and Harris English ran away with the Franklin Templeton Shootout in Naples, Fla., shooting a 14-under 58 on Sunday in the final-round scramble to break the tournament course record. Kuchar and English finished at 34-under 182, playing their last 28 holes at Tiburon in 25 under. They opened with a 64 on Friday in modified alternate-shot play and had a 60 on Saturday in better ball. They beat Retief Goosen and Fredrik Jacobsen by seven strokes, matching the tournament record for margin of victory set by Curtis Strange and Mark O’Meara in 1989 in the inaugural event. Kuchar and English, who replaced the injured Brandt Snedeker in the field, each earned $385,000. Goosen and Jacobsen closed with a 61, but had little chance to catch the winners. Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter had a 59 to finish third at 26, and Chris DiMarco and Billy Horschel were fourth at 24 under after a 60.

Stewart and Connor Cink won the Father/Son Challenge on Sunday in Orlando, Fla., making two eagles in their final five holes for a threestroke victory in the scramble event. Connor Cink, a Clemson freshman who preferred hockey over golf as a teen, put the duo in front with a 30-foot eagle at No. 14. His father capped the day with a 20-foot eagle putt at No. 18, the last of nine consecutive 3s in a back-nine 27. They finished with an 11-under 61 for 22-under total. Steve and Sam Elkington and Vijay and Qass Singh tied for second. The Singhs shot 61, and the Elkingtons had a 63.

Army has fired Coach Rich Ellerson after five seasons at West Point and no victories against Navy. Army Athletic Director Boo Corrigan said Ellerson was notified that he would not be retained Sunday night, about 24 hours after the Black Knights (3-9) finished the season with a 34-7 loss to Navy. Ellerson went 20-41 at the U.S. Military Academy and couldn’t snap the Black Knights’ losing streak against their most important rival. The Midshipmen have won 12 in a row in the series, the longest streak by either side.

SOCCER Irish capture NCAA title

Andrew O’Malley and Leon Brown led Notre Dame to its first NCAA men’s soccer title, scoring inthe Fighting Irish’s 2-1 victory over Maryland on Sunday at PPL Park in Chester, Pa. Notre Dame finished the season 17-1-6 to give Coach Bobby Clark, 68, his first title in 27 years of coaching at Dartmouth, Stanford and Notre Dame. Patrick Mullins, the nation’s leading scorer, scored for Maryland (17-4-5). The Terrapins were trying to win their fourth national championship and third under Coach Sasho Cirovski. Harrison Shipp, a finalist for the MAC Hermann Trophy as the nation’s best player, set up O’Malley’s winning goal with a perfectly placed free kick in the 60th minute. O’Malley leaped for Shipp’s kick and directed a header past goalkeeper Zack Steffen’s outstretched arms. Brown tied it at 1-1 in the 40th minute with a tough-angle shot. Mullins, Maryland’s own Hermann Trophy finalist, opened the scoring for the Terrapins in the 35th minute. Moments earlier, Mullins thought a penalty kick was warranted when his shot was cleared off the goal line by what looked to be the arm of Notre Dame’s Patrick Hodan. But Hodan was not called for thehand ball and Mullins was able to collect the rebound and deposit a shot past goalkeeper Patrick Wall. FOOTBALL Murphy leaving Florida

Another quarterback is leaving Florida after the program’s first losing season since 1979. Tyler Murphy, who started six games and may have gotten a shot at the job in 2014, announced Sunday he’s leaving to play his senior year elsewhere. Murphy joins freshman Max Staver as quarterbacks who have left the program after Florida Coach Will Muschamp fired offensive coordinator Brent Pease and offensive line coach Tim Davis. The departures leave the Gators with just two scholarship quarterbacks: injured starter Jeff Driskel and freshman Skyler Mornhinweg. Highly touted recruit Will Grier is expected to enroll in January. Murphy, who graduated Saturday and can play right away at another school, completed 60.5 percent of his passes for 1,216 yards, with 6 touchdowns and 5 interceptions. He also was sacked 22 times.

The next head football coach at North Dakota State said the powerful Football Championship Subdivision program will continue to reload, not rebuild. School officials announced Sunday that Chris Kleiman will be taking over for Craig Bohl, the most successful football coach in school history. Bohl is leaving for Wyoming. The 47-yearold Kleiman is completing his third season as an assistant coach with the Bison, the last two as defensive coordinator. He previously served as an assistant coach for nine years at Northern Iowa. Kleiman said he has talked with Bohl several times over the last few years about being a head coach. Klieman, a native of Waterloo, Iowa, played defensive back at Northern Iowa. The twotime defending FCS champion Bison face New Hampshire in Friday’s FCS semifinal at the Fargodome.

BASKETBALL Two to miss a game

Portland center Meyers Leonard and Philadelphia center Daniel Orton were each suspended for one game without pay by the NBA on Sunday for their altercation Saturday night. Leonard initiated the altercation by slamming Orton to the floor, and Orton retaliated by elbowing Leonard in the mouth in the fourth quarter of Portland’s 139-105 victory in Philadelphia. Leonard sat out Portland’s game at Detroit on Sunday, and Orton will miss Philadelphia’s game at Brooklyn tonight.

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Stadium construction halted

A labor court on Sunday halted construction in part of the World Cup stadium where a 22-year-old man fell 115 feet to his death Saturday and became the fourth worker to die while working on a roofing structure in the jungle city of Manaus, Brazil, further delaying the venue that will host England vs. Italy and three other matches next June. The decision was announced after public prosecutors requested the immediate interruption of work in all areas where laborers need to be high above the ground. Work will only restart after constructors show that all safety measures are in place at the Arena Amazonia, which will also host United States vs. Portugal. The Manaus court said constructors will be fined a daily amount if they don’t abide to the decision.

GOLF Garcia wins Thailand Championship

Sergio Garcia shot a final-round 68 to beat Henrik Stenson by four strokes and win the Thailand Golf Championship at the Amata Spring Country Club on Sunday.

The 33-year-old Spaniard, who held the lead since the second round, turned in a solid final round that featured six birdies and two bogeys to finish on 22-under 266.

The victory is Garcia’s first this year with his last one coming at the Johor Open, an Asian Tour event in Malaysia last December.

“It was great, an amazing week,” said Garcia, who has now won four Asian Tour titles in his career. “I’m very, very happy and I can’t wait to go back home to Switzerland and kind of sleep on it a little bit.

“I knew Henrik was going to make it difficult for me. He’s been playing so amazingly great, and he did. I started well, but he also did. He kept hitting good shot after good shot,” Garcia added.

Garcia raised some eyebrows by playing with his girlfriend, Katharina Boehm, as his caddie this week, but the partnershiphas proved to be effective.

Sweden’s Stenson, who recently made history when he became the first player to win the Race to Dubai and the FedEx Cup, matched Garcia’s 68 in his final round for an 18-under 270 total.

“It was a good week. Especially [because] I’ve had a great year but coming here really on the fumes left in the tank, not too much going for me to perform this week in that sense. But … I was hanging in there and I was just coming up a couple short,” Stenson said.

Alexander Levy of France shot a 69 to finish another four shots back for a 274 total and third place. Last year’s winner, Charl Schwartzel of South Africa, with a second straight 67, was joint fourth on 275 along with Yuki Kono of Japan, US Open champion Justin Rose, and Anirban Lahiri of India.

American Rickie Fowler endured an up and down round that featured six birdies and four bogeys for a 70 and an 11-under 277 to finish in a share of eighth place with Thailand’s Chapchai Nirat.