San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
Tottenham’s Son reaches 2 milestones
Son Heungmin reached 100 career goals for Tottenham, which ended a fourgame winless run in the English Premier League on Saturday to move into a tie for third place.
Tottenham joined Leicester City and Everton at 29 points after Son, the South Korean national, scored and got an assist in a 30 victory over Leeds.
Harry Kane, who opened the scoring with a 29thminute penalty, assisted on Son’s goal with a clinical pass that took out two Leeds defenders.
That was the 13th time they had combined for a goal this season, equaling the EPL record by Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton ( 199495 for Blackburn) — and there’s still 22 games to go.
The EPL career record is 36 ( Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard, Chelsea); Son and Kane stand at 32.
“We’re working hard and working on it for a long time,” said Son of his playing relationship with Kane. “Sometimes it is telepathic, sometimes we talk about it.” Marco Asensio and Lucas Vazquez set one another up for goals to help Real Madrid earn a 20 win over Celta Vigo as the defending champions edged one point above Atletico Madrid atop of the Spanish league.
Paris SaintGermain hired Mauricio Pochettino — its former captain — to replace the recently fired Thomas Tuchel as manager. Pochettino, who took Tottenham to the Champions League final in 2019, played 95 games for PSG as a central defender from 200103 and was a fan favorite.
Horse racing: Heavily favored Life Is Good survived a mild threat late from stablemate Medina Spirit and went on to a threequarters of a length victory in the $ 100,000 Sham Stakes at Santa Anita in Southern California.
The 3yearold colt trained by Bob Baffert earned 10 qualifying points for the May 1 Kentucky Derby. .
Hockey: Roni Hirvonen jammed in a wraparound with 25 seconds left to give Finland a 32 victory over Sweden in the world junior championship quarterfinals in Edmonton, Alberta. The U. S. faced Slovakia in the late game, which ended too late for this edition, for the final semifinal slot.
Earlier, defending champion Canada advanced with a 30 victory over the Czech Republic, as did Russia after a 21 victory over Germany.
Hospitalized: Former BYU men’s basketball coach Dave Rose has been hospitalized in Provo, Utah, after a stroke. The school said the 63yearold Rose was stricken Thursday and has been stabilized. Rose coached BYU for 14 seasons before retiring in 2019. He won 348 games, second most in the program, and led the Cougars to the NCAA Tournament eight times.