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■ COLLEGES: Baylor women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey defended the school amid its handling of sexual assault cases Saturday after winning her 500th game as a coach. “If somebody’s around you and they ever say, ‘I will never send my daughter to Baylor,’ you knock them right in the face,” she said while addressing the Waco, Texas, crowd. In her postgame news conference, Mulkey criticized the media attention paid to the investigation, saying she’s “tired of people talking on a national scale that don’t know what they’re talking about.” … Arizona recruit DE My-King Johnson is set to become the first active openly gay scholarship player in major-college football history. “I do feel like when I say that (I’m gay), it can put a target on my back. But whatever,” Johnson told The Arizona Daily Star.
■ GOLF: Rickie Fowler shot a 1-over 71 to win the Honda Classic in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., by four shots. Fowler finished 12under 268. Morgan Hoffmann and Gary
Woodland tied for second. … Darren Fichardt won the weather-affected Joburg Open in Johannesburg with a 4-under 68 for a 1-shot victory over Stuart Manley and
Paul Waring. … Amy Yang shot a 4-under 68 towin the Thailand LPGA tournament by five strokes in Chonburi, Thailand. Yang posted a record 22-under 266 on the Siam Country Club’s Pattaya Old Course. The previous tournament record was 21 under.
■ NFL: Ravens S Matt Elam faces drug and reckless driving charges after being arrested early Sunday in Miami Beach, Fla. He was charged with possession of marijuana, possession of marijuana with the intent to deliver or sell and possession of a controlled substance, oxycodone.
■ SKIING: American Mikaela Shiffrin clinched her first Alpine combined win in Crans Montana, Switzerland. Shiffrin finished 0.7 seconds ahead of Italian Federica Brignone and 0.85 ahead of Slovenian Ilka Stuhec. … Norwegian Kjetil Jansrud secured the men’s World Cup super-G title despite finishing seventh in Kvitfjell, Norway. The reigning Olympic champion leads by 126 points with a maximum of 100 points available at the last race next month.
■ SOCCER: Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a late header to win the League Cup for Manchester United, sealing a 3-2 victory over Southampton after United blew a two-goal lead. ... Real Madrid scored three secondhalf goals in 20 minutes to beat Villarreal 3-2 to stay atop the La Liga table. Elsewhere,
Lionel Messi scored an 86th-minute winner to help Barcelona to a 2-1 win against Atletico Madrid.
■ TENNIS: Top-seeded Milos Raonic withdrew from the Delray Beach Open final after injuring his hamstring on Saturday, giving the title to Jack Sock. … Second-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga won a second title in as many weeks by defeating fellow Frenchman Lucas Pouille 6-4, 6-4 in the Open13 final in Marseille, France.
■ ALSO: WBO world welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao and Amir Khan said they have agreed to terms for a fight on April 23. The boxers’ promoters are yet to announce any details. … Olympic champion Mo
Farah released a statement saying he has always competed cleanly after accusations were published in the Sunday Times that the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency is investigating coach Alberto Salazar, who has been accused of skirting anti-doping rules.