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Cook takes six-stroke

lead at Schwab Cup

Championship

SONOMA, Calif. — John Cook took a six-stroke lead in a bid for his second Champions Tour victory in three weeks, shooting a 5-under 67 in the third round of the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship.

Cook, the Administaff Small Business Classic winner two weeks ago in Texas, had a 19-under 197 total on the Sonoma Golf Club course, the best 54-hole score in a 72-hole tournament since Jack Nicklaus also had a 197 total in the 1990 Senior Players Championship.

World Series Game

3 not complete

as of press time

Associated Press

The New York Yankees were leading the Philadelphia Phillies 8-4 in Game 3 of the World Series at press time.

New York recovered from an early 3-0 Phillies lead, scoring four unanswered runs to take a 4-3 lead.

Look for the complete story in the Monday edition of the Record-Courier.

Poulter, two others

tied after three

at Singapore Open

SINGAPORE — Ian Poulter was 4 over through six holes in the third round of the Singapore Open, dropping the Englishman into a tie for the Singapore Open lead with France’s Thomas Levet and Japan’s Kodai Ichihara.

Poulter, five strokes ahead after completing a second-round 64 in the morning, faltered in the afternoon to fall to 8 under before thunderstorms stopped play.

Ernie Els was in a group at 5 under. He had 10 holes left. Phil Mickelson was 2 under after 15 holes, and Padraig Harrington was 2 over through eight.

Fisher victory sets

up World Match Play

clash with USA’s Kim

CASARES, Spain — England’s Ross Fisher beat Masters champion Angel Cabrera on the 39th hole Saturday to set up a World Match Play Championship final against American Anthony Kim, a 5-and-4 winner over Australia’s Robert Allenby.

Fisher won after Cabrera took five shots to reach the green on the final hole. Fisher hit his second shot from 244 yards to 5 feet at Finca Cortesin.

Kim, who beat Allenby 5 and 3 in the Presidents Cup, overcame an early two-hole deficit, pulling away at the 27th hole when he holed an approach from 101 yards.

PGA Viking Classic

cancelled because

of bad weather

MADISON, Miss. — PGA Tour officials canceled the weather-stricken Viking Classic because of unplayable course conditions.

There will be no makeup date and players will move on to the final event of the season, the Children’s Miracle Network Classic on Nov. 12-15 in Florida.

Annandale Golf Club received 1.75 inches of rain overnight Friday and Saturday, completely soaking an already marginal course that had areas of standing water and large tracts of mud.

Former Iowa coach

Evashevski dead

at 91 years old

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Forest Evashevski, the former Michigan football star coached Iowa to two Rose Bowl victories in the 1950s, has died. He was 91.

Evashevski, the captain of Michigan’s 1940 team, was hired at Iowa in 1952, seven years after Iowa’s last winning season. He inherited a program that had languished in the bottom of the Big Ten.

But by 1956 the Hawkeyes were in the Rose Bowl, defeating Oregon State 35-19. They went again in the 1958 season, beating California 38-12. Evashevski won 52 games at Iowa, where he coached until 1960. He also led the team to three Big Ten championships.

Chiefs’ Johnson

suspended, fined

for Twitter fiasco

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The agent for Kansas City’s Larry Johnson says he and the Chiefs have reached agreement to cut the running back’s two-week suspension in half.

Peter Schaffer told The Associated Press that nothing had been signed, but he expected it to be.

Johnson was suspended for two weeks until Nov. 9 after twice using a gay slur and questioning coach Todd Haley’s qualifications on his Twitter account.