Los Angeles Times (Sunday)

Matsuyama has slim lead at Zozo

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Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama held on to a one-stroke lead at the PGA Tour’s Zozo Championsh­ip after a two-under 68 which included a bogey on his last hole to make things interestin­g heading into the final round in Chiba, Japan.

Cameron Tringale, who also shot 68, trailed by three strokes going to the final hole, but his birdie and Matsuyama’s bogey reduced the lead to just one.

Steve Flesch birdied the par-four 18th hole for a fiveunder 67 and a two-stroke lead over Bernhard Langer and Steven Alker in the Dominion Energy Charity Classic, the first of three PGA Tour Champions playoff events . ... Hee Jeong Lim took a four-stroke lead into the final round of the LPGA Tour’s BMW Ladies Championsh­ip after a seven-under 65 in Busan, South Korea.

The Denver Broncos acquired pass rusher Stephen Weatherly in a trade with the Minnesota Vikings, who also sent the Broncos a 2022 seventh-round draft pick in exchange for a 2023 seventhrou­nd draft pick . ... Green Bay Packers center Josh Myers (knee) was placed on IR . ... New Orleans Saints receiver Chris Hogan, a twotime Super Bowl winner

with the Patriots, was officially placed on the reserve/

retired list.

Mikaela Shiffrin showed two runs of near flawless skiing on one of the toughest hills on the women’s circuit to earn her 70th career win in the season-opening World Cup giant slalom in Solden, Austria.

Ty Gibbs upset the field again, racing to his fourth Xfinity Series victory of the season in Kansas City, Kan., stopping title contenders AJ Allmending­er and Austin Cindric from advancing to the championsh­ip round.

Rebeca Andrade of Brazil added a world title to her Tokyo Olympic gold medal in vault and also won a silver medal in uneven bars at the gymnastics world championsh­ips in Kitakyushu, Japan.

Stephen Nedoroscik won the first pommel horse gold for the U.S. Nicola Bartolini of Italy won gold in the men’s floor exercise.

Alexandra Trusova was on top with 77.69 points in the women’s short program at Skate America in Las Vegas, followed by fellow Russian teenagers Daria Usacheva (76.71 points) and Kseniia Sinitsyna (71.51).

Shakur Stevenson defeated Jamel Herring with a 10th-round TKO for the super-featherwei­ght title . ...

Marvin Vettori scored a unanimous decision over

Paulo Costa in the lightheavy­weight main event of UFC Fight Night . ... Fedor Emelianenk­o knocked out

Tim Johnson in the heavyweigh­t bout of Bellator 269.

Ecuadorian sprinter Alex Quinonez, 32, was fatally shot in Guayaquil, police said.

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