South Korea women win curling bronze
South Korea’s Eunji Gim defeated Italy’s Stefania Constantini 6-3 on Sunday to win bronze at the world women’s curling championship in Sydney, N.S.
Gim made a double-takeout to score three points in the 10th end to reach the world podium for the first time in five career appearances.
Canada’s Rachel Homan was scheduled to play defending champion Silvana Tirinzoni of Switzerland in the final later in the day.
Milwaukee Brewers righthander Brandon Woodruff says he won’t pitch this season while he recovers from surgery to his throwing shoulder.
When Woodruff had the surgery in October, the Brewers said the two-time all-star was expected to miss most, if not all, of the season.
Woodruff told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he won’t pitch this year and is targeting a return in 2025.
Woodruff, 31, went 5-1 with a 2.28 earned-run average in 11 starts last year despite missing four months with a subscapularis strain in his shoulder.
He hurt the shoulder again late in the season, preventing him from playing in the Brewers’ National League wild-card series loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Woodruff rejoined the Brewers in February on a backloaded Us$17.5-million, two-year contract that includes a mutual option for the 2026 season.
Under terms of his new contract, Woodruff will receive $2.5 million this year and $5 million in 2025. The deal includes a $20-million mutual option for 2026 with a $10-million buyout, half payable on Jan. 15, 2026, and the remainder on July 15, 2026.
Woodruff has spent his entire career in Milwaukee and owns a 46-26 record with a 3.10 ERA and 788 strikeouts in 6801/3 innings.
Third-ranked Coco Gauff came from behind in the first set to beat Oceane Dodin 6-4, 6-0 and advance to the fourth round of the Miami Open for the second time in her career.
Gauff won 10 straight games after Dodin took a 4-2 lead in the opening set, thanks partly to nine doublefaults by Dodin at critical moments.
On Sunday, Canadian Leylah Fernandez (31) lost 7-5, 6-4 to No. 5 seed Jessica Pegula of the U.S. Fernandez, of Laval, Que., dispatched Colombia’s Emiliana Arango 6-4, 6-2 on Saturday.
In other tennis action on Saturday, Montreal’s Felix Auger-aliassime lost to fourth-seeded German Alexander Zverev Saturday night, 6-2, 6-4. On Sunday, Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., was to face Italy’s Matteo Arnaldi.
In women’s doubles on Sunday in the round of 16, second-seeded Gabriela Dabrowski of Ottawa and partner Erin Routliffe of New Zealand defeated Aldila Sutjiadi of Indonesia, and Miyu Kato of Japan, 6-4, 6-4.