CHESS

WORLD CUP

Khanty mansiysk (Russia), Finals, Game I ? Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukr) drew Levon Aronian (Arm)

FOOTBALL

WORLD CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP

Play-offs ? Al Ahly Cairo 1 (Emad Moteb 45) Sydney FC 2 (Dwight Yorke 35, David Carney 66)

UEFA CUP

Group Stage matches, Group A ? Hamburg SV 2 (Sergei Barbarez 9, Emile Mpenza 57) Slavia Prague 0 Monaco 2 (Olivier Kapo 49, Sebastien Squillaci 74) CSKA Sofia 1 (Velizar Dimitrov 83) Group B ? Palermo 3 (Stephen Ayodele Makinwa 26, Leandro Rinaudo 45,89) Brondby 0 Espanyol 1 (Mauricio Pochettino 83) Maccabi Petah Tikva 0 Group C ? Racing Lens 2 (Olivier Thomert 10, Issam Jemaa 90+2) Sampdoria 1 (Francesco Flachi 24) Hertha Berlin 0 Steaua Bucharest 0 Group D ? AZ Alkmaar 1 (Danny Koevermans 70) Grasshoppers 0 Middlesbrough 2 (Massimo Maccarone 80,86) Litex Lovech 0

GOLF

ASIA-OKINAWA OPEN

Okinawa, Round II ? 135 Kiyoshi Miyazato (Jpn) 68 67, Yasuhara Imano (Jpn) 71 64, Kaname Yokoo (Jpn) 65 70 136 Thaworn Wiratchant (Tha) 69 67, Chris Campbell (Aus) 68 68, Ryuichi Oda (Jpn) 69 67 137 Shiv Kapur (Ind) 72 65, Marcus Both (Aus) 70 67, Dinesh Chand (Fij) 65 72, Hiroyuki Fujita (Jpn) 66 71 138 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 71 67, Toru Taniguchi (Jpn) 71 67 139 Unho Park (Aus) 70 69, Gaurav Ghei (Ind) 69 70, Scott Strange (Aus) 70 69 142 Rahil Gangjee (Ind) 71 71 144 Arjun Singh (Ind) 74 70

EPGA TOUR SOUTH AFRICA MEET

Round I ? 68 Tim Clark (RSA), Ross Fisher (GBR) 69 Henrik Nystroem (Swe) 70 Mattias Eliasson (Swe) 70, Charl Schwartzel (RSA) 71 James Kingston (RSA), Jaco van Zyl (RSA), Francesco Molinari (Ita) 72 Oliver Whiteley (GBR), Warrick Druian (RSA), Anton Haig (RSA), David Lynn (GBR), John Bele (RSA), Michael Hoey (GBR), Andrew McLardy (RSA), Gregory Havret (Fra)

HOCKEY

CHAMPIONS TROPHY

Chennai ? Spain 3 (Santi Frexia 4, 47, Ramon Alegre 57) Germany 2 (Niklas Meinert 51, Matthias Witthaus 59) India 1 (Sandeep Singh 66) Netherlands 2 (Roderick Weusthof 51, Taeke Taekema 70)

For the book

nTwo former National Football League players were killed on Thursday when their speeding car slammed into an empty bus, possibly as they were racing another vehicle on a Los Angeles street, police said.Police declined to release the names of the men but local media identified the passenger as 29-year-old Darrell Russell, a former defensive tackle.