Chelsea wins, keeps EPL lead

Chelsea and Manchester City enjoyed commanding victories in the English Premier League, while Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool also won on a successful day for the top teams.

John Terry and Diego Costa scored for Chelsea, which beat West Ham 2-0 to retain its three-point lead over City. City scored all of its goals in the first half in a 3-1 victory at West Bromwich Albion played in a snowstorm.

For United, Wayne Rooney scored twice in a 3-1 win over Newcastle that tightened the 20-time champions’ grip on third place — seven points behind City.

Southampton rounds out the top four, as it climbed above West Ham thanks to a 3-1 victory at Crystal Palace, but there are a slew of teams vying for that fourth and final Champions League spot.

Arsenal is two points behind in sixth after beating Queens Park Rangers 2-1.

Liverpool won 1-0 at Burnley on Raheem Sterling’s goal. Baseball: Right-hander Hiroki Kuroda, who was 11-9 with a 3.71 ERA with the New York Yankees this year, has returned to Japan to pitch for his former team.

Kuroda, who will be 40 in February, is 79-79 with a 3.45 ERA in seven major-league seasons. He pitched for the Hiroshima Carp from 1997 to 2007.

Sailing: Seven-time champion Wild Oats XI opened up a 3-nauticalmile lead on American super maxi Comanche on Saturday afternoon about 250 nautical miles into the 628-nautical-mile Sydney to Hobart duel to the Australian island state of Tasmania.

Under current conditions and forecasts, the leaders, who began the race Friday, may not reach Hobart until Monday.