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SOCCER

EIGHT BRAZILIAN SOCCER FANS DIE AFTER BLEACHER COLLAPSES

A section of stands at a soccer stadium in northeastern Brazil gave way yesterday as fans cheered at the end of a game, killing eight people, police said. At least 60,000 were in the stadium for the game at the Fonte Nova stadium in the coastal city of Salvador when the victims fell several stories to the ground after a hole several yards wide opened in the concrete floor of a section of the highest bleachers. At least nine people fell through and eight of them died, said Major Edmilson Tavares of the city’s federal police. He said he could not immediately confirm how many people were hurt.

GOLF

AMES DEFENDS SKINS TITLE WITH $650K PUTT

Stephen Ames chuckled about his mostly mediocre 18 holes of golf. He can laugh all the way to the bank. With $650,000 at stake on no. 18, Ames coolly knocked his 7-foot birdie putt into the center of the cup yesterday to win the Skins Game. The only other hole he won was the first, a day earlier. “That’s the nature of the Skins Game,” Ames said, his smile still as wide at it was when his rich putt dropped. “It’s always been the way you play at the Skins Game.

SCOTLAND BEATS U.S. IN WORLD CUP PLAYOFF

Add the World Cup of Golf to Colin Montgomerie’s long resume. Montgomerie and Marc Warren gave Scotland its first victory in the World Cup, defeating Americans Boo Weekley and Heath Slocum yesterday with a par on the third hole of a playoff in southern China.

The victory at the Mission Hills Golf Club made up for Scotland’s loss last year in Barbados on the first hole of a playoff with Germany’s Bernhard Langer and Marcel Siem. Montgomerie’s tap-in for par on the third extra hole was good enough for the Scots when Weekley missed a 15-foot attempt to save par.


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