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Stanford wins at Evian for 1st career major title
EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — 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.
Olson missed a six-foot putt for bogey on the 18th to force a playoff, while Stanford waited near the green signing autographs for dozens of young spectators.
Stanford, who got the last of her five LPGA Tour titles in 2012, put her hands to her mouth on hearing she had won, and was in tears during television interviews.
Stanford earned a $577,500 check for making her 14th career top-10 finish in majors a winning one.
Olson carded a 74 to fall into a four-way tie for second place with fellow Americans Austin Ernst (68) and Mo Martin (70), and Sei Young Kim (72). Martin barely missed with a birdie chance on the 18th to face Stanford in a playoff.
After Olson was outright or joint leader all day — briefly with Stanford at 13 under with four holes to play — she three-putted to end her championship with a career-best result.
“It’s disappointing to finish like that,” said the 26-year-old Olson, whose previous best finish in an LPGA event was tied for seventh in 2014.
Playing in the second-last group, Stanford went eagle-double bogey-birdie from the 15th, then saw her birdie chance brush the hole on No. 18.
She crouched with her hands on her head, tapped in for par, then went to sign autographs out of sight of the playing area.
Seeking a first LPGA title, Olson teed off two shots ahead of Kim and then gave one back at the par-3 2nd hole.
Wade decides to keep playing, will return to Heat
MIAMI — Dwyane Wade’s Hall of Fame career is not over yet.
Wade has decided to return to the Miami Heat and play a 16th NBA season, making his announcement Sunday night. Wade spent the last 2 1/2 months weighing his options, and retirement was a serious possibility.
Instead, he’ll be back in Miami after all — likely on a $2.4 million, one-year deal.
Wade returned to the Heat in a trade last February, after spending the 2016-17 season with Chicago and the start of last season with Cleveland. He appeared in 26 games with Miami last season including playoffs, all off the bench and averaging 12.9 points.
For his career, the 12-time AllStar shooting guard has averaged 22.5 points. He’s the Heat all-time leader in points, assists, steals and games played.
LOS ANGELES — The Arizona Cardinals’ offense ran one play in opposing territory on Sunday, the last play of their 34-0 loss at the Los Angeles Rams.
Not surprisingly, firstyear Cardinals coach Steve Wilks is considering making changes to get an offense that has scored six points in eight quarters headed in the right direction.
“I don’t even know where to start right now,” Wilks said. “It’s just we got to do a much better job running the football. We got to do a much better job protecting.
“Receivers got to get off
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the jam at the line of scrimmage. We got to convert on third down. We’re going to go back and evaluate things as a coaching staff, evaluate the players, make sure we have the best guys out there and put in the right position to make plays moving forward.” The Cardinals had 137 yards against the Rams, 35 of which came on their final possession with Sam Bradford’s 8-yard pass to tight end Ricky Seals-Jones finally putting them on the Rams’ side of the 50.
They had five first downs, one in each of the first three quarters before their final and most successful drive of the game picked up the final two.
Bradford said the offense never gave itself a chance to score.
“I wish that there were one thing I could tell you that if we got that fixed it