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NBA: Aaron in bid to buy Hawks Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron is part of a group bidding to buy the Atlanta Hawks, according to ESPN.com.
Aaron, baseball’s home run king for 33 years, reportedly has joined a group of team owners from the NBA, MLS, and Italian soccer’s Serie A.
The Hawks franchise hit the market last week after owner Bruce Levenson decided in Sep
tember to sell his controlling interest in the team after a 2012 email surfaced in which he used racial stereotypes to describe the team’s fan base.
HORSES: Big A racing resumes Lady Gracenote beat Touching My Toes by a head Sunday in the $59,000 allowance feature as racing resumed at Aqueduct.
It was the first time this week the Big A offered a full ninerace card. The Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday programs were canceled because of frigid temperatures and high wind. The action was halted Friday after two races because of the chill and blowing snow. Lady Gracenote, an 8yearold trained by
Jason Servis and ridden by Manuel Franco, got her eighth win in 46 starts in the race for New Yorkbred fillies and mares.
GOLF: Sullivan wins playoff In Johannesburg, England’s Andy Sullivan won his first European Tour title, beating South Africa’s Charl Schwartzel with a 12foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff.
Sullivan closed a 5under 67 to match Schwartzel at 11under 277. Schwartzel, five
strokes ahead entering the round, finished with a 74. He had two bogeys and a double bogey in his last five holes.
In Kapalua, Hawaii, Jimmy Walker and Hideki Matsuyama were tied for the lead going into the final round of the Hyundai Tournament of Champions.
SOCCER: Man. U streak ends Southampton ended Manchester United’s 10match unbeaten run in the Premier League with a 10 victory that dislodged Louis van Gaal’s side from third place.
Dusan Tadic clinched Southampton’s first win at Old Trafford in 27 years in the 69th minute to strengthen the southcoast team’s chances of qualifying for the Champions League for the first time.
In Barcelona, Lionel Messi scored one goal and set up two more for Neymar and
Luis Suarez as Barcelona beat defending champion Atletico Madrid 31 on Sunday, rejuvenating its Spanish league title bid.
ETC.: Agassi, Graf donate $1.5 M Andre Agassi and his wife, Steffi Graf, have donated $1.5 million to a Las Vegas care facility for patients with brain diseases.
The Las Vegas couple made the donation to the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.
In Dallas, Kaleena MosquedaLewis broke Diana Taurasi’s UConn career record for 3pointers and the secondranked Huskies beat SMU 8728. MosquedaLewis now has 320 in 118 games. Taurasi made 318 in 144 games at UConn.