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Jason Brown is U.S. figure-skating king

Brown, 20, won his first U.S. title Sunday when Rippon’s stellar long program couldn’t make up a big deficit and Farris’ mistake might have cost him the championship. Brown, the runner-up a year ago to earn an Olympic berth, handled the pressure of being the favorite with aplomb. Leading Rippon by 8.65 points after the short program, Brown had no massive mistakes in the free skate to finish with 274.98 points, a record for the event and enough to beat Rippon by 2.5. Scott Dixon drove a gritty and lengthy final leg Sunday, leading the “star car” to Chip Ganassi Racing’s record-breaking sixth victory in the Rolex 24 at Daytona. The three-time IndyCar champion relieved Kyle Larson, NASCAR’s reigning Rookie of the Year, with 3 hours, 32 minutes remaining in the twice-round-the-clock endurance race. Ganassi beat defending race winner Action Express Racing, which was driven by Joao Barbosa, Christian Fittipaldi and Sebastien Bourdais, by 1.33 seconds. Dixon totaled more than seven hours behind the wheel of the Target/Ford EcoBoost Riley Prototype, and had teammates Larson, Daytona 500 winner Jamie McMurray and Indianapolis 500 winner Tony Kanaan watching with little worry as he closed out the victory. Arsenal is looking to retain the trophy and, as the fifth-place team in the top tier, is the highest-ranked club guaranteed a spot in the last 16. [...] Diafra Sakho came off the bench and scored an 81st-minute header to send West Ham to a 1-0 victory at Bristol City, which is second in English soccer’s third tier, and Villa won at home 2-1 against second-tier leader Bournemouth.

 

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