COLLEGE BASKETBALL

BADGERS EXTEND HOME WINNING STREAK TO 38 GAMES Kam Taylor scored the go-ahead basket with 37.3 seconds left and Wisconsin scored the final 11 points yesterday, beating no. 15 Michigan State 62-59 and extending the longest home winning streak in Division I to 38 games.

Clayton Hanson scored 15 points and Sharif Chambliss had 14 to lead the Badgers (12-3, 3-1 Big Ten), who rallied from an eight-point deficit in the final 1:55. Paul Davis scored 20 points to lead Michigan State (10-3, 2-1), which had its 53-game home winning streak snapped by the Badgers on January 12, 2002.

PRO BASKETBALL

WIZARDS’ HUGHES WILL MISS FOUR TO SIX WEEKS

NBA steals leader Larry Hughes was diagnosed yesterday with a broken right thumb and will miss four to six weeks, the first real crisis to hit a Washington Wizards team off to its best start in decades. Hughes was hurt when his thumb was hit by Quentin Richardson while driving for a layup in the final minutes of Saturday night’s victory over the Suns.

Hughes is the only NBA player averaging more than 20 points (21.2), five rebounds (6.1), five assists (5.3), and 2.5 steals (2.82) – all career highs for the seventh-year player from St. Louis.

GOLF

SINGH WINS SONY OPEN

A forgotten figure most of the week despite his no. 1 ranking, Vijay Singh showed up when it counted yesterday with a routine birdie on the final hole to cap off a 5-under 65 and win the Sony Open. Singh never had the lead at breezy Waialae Country Club until he hammered a 300-yard drive on the par-5 18th, hit a utility club just short of the green and took two putts to avoid a playoff against hard-charging Ernie Els.

It was the kind of start to the 2005 season Singh wanted, coming off nine victories last year. And he was still smarting from a final-round triple bogey at Kapalua last week that cost him a chance to win the season-opening Mercedes Championships. Singh finished at 11-under 269, and the $864,000 first-place check returned him to the top of the money list.

– Associated Press