Heat’s Wade says he’s returning for one final season

Dwyane Wade is coming back to the Miami Heat, announcing Sunday that he’s returning for a 16th and final NBA season. He basically spent the entirety of the last four months weighing his options, and retirement was an extremely real possibility in his mind.

Instead, he’ll be back in Miami, as the Heat desperately hoped. He’s expected to sign a $2.4 million, oneyear deal this week.

“I’ve always did things my way,” Wade said in an emotional social-media video that he taped Sunday afternoon and released in the evening. “Whether they’ve good or whether they’ve been bad, I got here because I’ve done things the way I feel is right for me and right for my family. And what I feel is right ... I feel it’s right to ask you guys to join me for one last dance, for one last season.

“This is it. I’ve given this game everything that I have, and I’m happy about that, and I’m going to give it for one last season.”

Motor sports

KESELOWSKI WINS CUP PLAYOFF OPENER >> Brad Keselowski raced to his third consecutive NASCAR Cup victory, persevering through a wreck-filled afternoon and roaring away from the field in overtime to claim the playoff opener.

Keselowski secured team owner Roger Penske’s 500th victory across all competitions with a resourceful performance amid trying circumstances and 99-degree Las Vegas heat. Kyle Larson was second, and defending Cup series champion Martin Truex Jr. third after a stopand-start finish to a race that featured 12 cautions.

Eight of the 16 playoff drivers had various problems in the opener of the 10race postseason. Four playoff drivers failed to finish — including co-leader Kevin Harvick, who wrecked with 120 laps to go when he blew his right front tire.

Truex moved into the overall points lead over Kyle Busch and Keselowski, who leapfrogged Harvick.

NHRA >> J.R. Todd took the Funny Car points lead, winning the playoff-opening Dodge NHRA Nationals for his second straight victory.

FORMULA 1 >> Lewis Hamilton won the Singapore Grand Prix from pole position to extend his championship lead over Sebastian Vettel to 40 points.

Tennis

U.S. ELIMINATED FROM DAVIS CUP >> After eight hours of tennis on Sunday, Croatia’s Borna Coric ended a sustained comeback bid from the United States by rallying from two sets to one down to beat Frances Tiafoe 6-7 (0), 6-1, 6-7 (11), 6-1, 6-3 in the fifth and decisive match of a topsyturvy Davis Cup semifinal.

Earlier, Sam Querrey, who was playing in place of Steve Johnson, beat sixth-ranked Marin Cilic 6-7 (2), 7-6 (6), 6-3, 6-4 to even the best-of-five series at 2-2.

Defending champion France will host the Nov. 23-25 final.

College football

LSU ON THE MOVE >> LSU surged to No. 6 in The Associated Press college football poll after its second victory of September against a highly ranked team, and Wisconsin tumbled to No. 18 after becoming the first top-10 team to be upset by an unranked team. Three weeks ago the Tigers were at No. 25.

Top-ranked Alabama strengthened its hold on No. 1 , receiving a seasonhigh 58 first-place votes. Clemson slipped out of the No. 2 spot for the first time this season. Georgia moved up a spot to second. Clemson is third with three first-place votes, followed by No. 4 Ohio State and No. 5 Oklahoma.

Stanford moved up two spots to No. 7

Golf

STANFORD BREAKS THROUGH >> Angela Stanford ended her long wait for a first major title when her 3-under 68 was enough to win the Evian Championship by one shot Sunday after long-time leader Amy Olson made double bogey on the 18th. At age 40, and 15 years after she was runner-up at the U.S. Women’s Open, Stanford’s wild final few holes gave her a 12-under total of 272.

Cycling

YAKES WINS IN MADRID >> Simon Yates won his first Grand Tour title after a largely ceremonial ride into Madrid in the final stage of the Spanish Vuelta, giving British riders a sweep of the season’s three biggest races.

Track and field

RECORD-BREAKING DAY >> Kevin Mayer of France set a decathlon world record in front of a home crowd, just hours after Eliud Kipchoge smashed the marathon world record in Berlin. Competing at the Decastar event in Talence, France, world champion Mayer finished with a total of 9,126 points, improving on the 9,045 set by American athlete Ashton Eaton at the 2015 world championships in Beijing.