Los Angeles Times

Finland tops U.S.

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Finland handed the United States its first defeat at the ice hockey world championsh­ip in a 6-2 thumping in Herning, Denmark. Also, defending champion Sweden rallied from a goal down to edge Russia 3-1 in a battle for the top spot in Group A in Copenhagen. The Swedes won all seven preliminar­y-round games and will next play Latvia, which earned the last quarterfin­al berth by edging Denmark 1-0.

Jaromir Jagr plans to play in the Czech Republic next season, his 30th profession­al season.

The wife of former U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover is facing domestic violence charges stemming from an altercatio­n with Glover and his mother after he missed the 54-hole cut at the Players Championsh­ip. Krista Glover was arrested Saturday night and spent a night in the St. Johns County jail in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Glover says he is confident that his wife will be cleared . ... The PGA Tour announced that Doug Ford, the oldest surviving Masters champion and a former PGA player of the year, died Monday in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. He was 95. Details of his death were not immediatel­y available. Ford was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2011. He won the 1955 PGA Championsh­ip, and two years later won the Masters.

Toms Skujins of team TrekSegafr­edo pulled away from Sean Bennett of Hagens Berman Axeon to win his third career stage of the Tour of California in Salinas.

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