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D4 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2019 LATIMES.COM/SPORTS

PRO CALENDAR

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DODGERS

WASH*

6:30

TBS

at Wash.*

4:45

TBS

at Wash.*

3:40**

TBS

RAMS

NEXT: OCT. 13 VS. SAN FRANCISCO, 1 P.M., CH. 11

CHARGERS

DENVER

1

Ch. 2

GALAXY

at Houston

1

SpecSN

LAFC

COLORADO

1

YouTube TV,

UniMas

KINGS

at

Edmonton

7

FSW

at Calgary

6

FSW

DUCKS

SAN JOSE

7

Prime

at Detroit

4:30

Prime

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LAKERS:Saturday at Golden State (exhibition), 5, SpecSN and TNT
CLIPPERS:Sunday vs. Shanghai at Honolulu (exhibition), 4, Prime

TIME EVENT ON THE AIR

AUTO RACING

9:30 a.m. NASCAR Xfinity, Use Your Melon Drive Sober 200,

practice

TV:NBCSN

10:30 a.m. NASCAR Monster Energy, Drydene 400, practice TV:NBCSN

11:30 a.m. NASCAR Xfinity, Use Your Melon Drive Sober 200,

final practice

TV:NBCSN

12:30 p.m. NASCAR Monster Energy, Drydene 400, final

practice

TV:NBCSN

BASEBALL

11 a.m. Tampa Bay at Houston TV:FS1, FOXD

1:30 p.m. St. Louis at Atlanta TV:TBS

4 p.m. Minnesota at New York Yankees TV:MLB

6:30 p.m. Washington at Dodgers TV:TBS R:570,

1020

BASKETBALL

6:30 a.m. Indiana vs. Sacramento TV:NBATV

4:30 p.m. Franca at Brooklyn TV:NBATV

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

5 p.m. University of Central Florida at Cincinnati TV:ESPN

7 p.m. New Mexico at San Jose State TV:CBSSN

COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL

3 p.m. Women, Michigan at Maryland TV:Big Ten

4 p.m. Women, Mississippi at Mississippi State TV:SEC

5 p.m. Women, Northwestern at Purdue TV:Big Ten

6 p.m. Women, Washington State at UCLA TV:Pac-12

7 p.m. Women, Stanford at Oregon TV:ESPN2

8 p.m. Women, Washington at USC TV:Pac-12

GOLF

7 a.m. European PGA Tour, Mutuactivos Open de

Espana, second round

TV:Golf

10 a.m. LPGA Tour, Volunteers of America Classic, second

round

TV:Golf

1 p.m. PGA Tour, Shriners Hospitals for Children Open,

second round

TV:Golf

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

7:30 p.m. Tesoro at San Clemente TV:FSW

HOCKEY

11 a.m. Chicago vs. Philadelphia TV:NHL

4 p.m. Winnipeg at New Jersey TV:NHL

HORSE RACING

1 p.m. Trackside Live! Santa Anita TV:TVG

7 p.m. The Quarters featuring Los Alamitos TV:TVG

LACROSSE

7 p.m. Denver vs. Boston TV:ESPNews

MOTORCYCLE RACING

10:30 p.m. MotoGP, Thailand, qualification TV:beIN1

SOCCER

11:15 a.m. Germany, Hertha Berlin vs. Dusseldorf TV:FS2

11:45 a.m. Spain, Betis vs. Eibar TV:beIN1, beINES

5 p.m. Mexico, Zacatepec vs. Venados TV:GOLTV

6:30 p.m. Mexico, Morelia vs. Necaxa TV:UDN

TENNIS

9 p.m. ATP Tokyo and ATP/WTA Beijing quarterfinals TV:Tennis

TODAY ON THE AIR

The top televised soccer games from Europe this weekend fea-
ture three unbeaten league leaders facing big tests — with two of
them needing wins to assure they remain atop the standings
heading into next week’s international break.

EPL:Liverpool, perfect after seven games in the Premier
League, already has a five-point lead over defending champion
Manchester City. But the biggest surprise in the early going is
that Leicester City (4-1-2) is hot on City’s heels. The Foxes will get
a big test Saturday when they travel to Liverpool to meet the
league leaders with a chance to climb over City and into second in
the EPL standings (NBCSN, Universo, 7 a.m. PDT).

La Liga:Real Madrid (4-0-3) is the lone unbeaten team in the
Spanish league but it hasn’t been able to shake Granada (4-1-2),
which is just a point back in second. That could change this week-
end when the teams meet in Madrid (BeIN Sports, 7 a.m. PDT).
That will be a challenge for the visitors, though: Real Madrid is
20-1-2 in its last 23 La Liga home matches with Granada.

Bundesliga:After stumbling to draws in two of its first four
matches, unbeaten Bayern (4-0-2) has hit its stride and climbed
atop the German standings. But with five teams a point back, its
lead is tenuous heading into Saturday’s home match with mid-
level Hoffenheim (FS1, Fox Deportes, 6:30 a.m. PDT). Hoffen-
heim (1-3-2) is winless in its last four, while Bayern, which is aver-
aging more than three goals a game in league games, is coming
off a 7-2 thrashing of Tottenham in Champions League play.
— Kevin Baxter

WEEKEND SOCCER ON TV

DOHA, Qatar — Faster

than anyone else since 1985,

Salwa Eid Naser stormed past

Shaunae Miller-Uibo to win

the women’s 400 meters at the

world track championships

Thursday.

Competing for Bahrain,

Naser took the lead on the sec-

ond turn and held off Olympic

champion Miller-Uibo of the

Bahamas to win in 48.14 sec-

onds.

“Being world champion

has settled down, but the time

is still mind-blowing,” Naser

said.

Her time was faster than

anyone had run since Marita

Koch of East Germany set the

world record at 47.60.

Naser was born in Nigeria

as Ebelechukwu Agba-

puonwu to a Nigerian mother

and Bahrain father, but

changed her name after mov-

ing to Bahrain.

Naser is competing in

Doha while Bahrain is part of

a regional diplomatic and

economic boycott of Qatar

that has been in place since

2017. Her success was down to
      “hard work, hard work, hard
      work,“ she said.
      Miller-Uibo had wanted to
      win a 400 and 200 double in
      Doha but leaves with a single
      silver after being unable to
      run the 200 due to scheduling
      difficulties. Her wait for world
      gold continues after winning
      400 silver in 2015 and 200
      bronze in 2017.
      Shericka Jackson won
      bronze for Jamaica in 49.47.
      The top five runners all beat
      their personal-best times.
      Just 45 minutes after
      Miller-Uibo’s race, her hus-
      band, decathlete Maicel Uibo
      of Estonia, settled for another
      family silver after Germany’s
      Niklas Kaul dominated the fi-

nal two events to pass him for

gold. Kaul, the youngest

decathlon world champion

ever at 21, threw the javelin

nearly seven meters better

than anyone else.

Kaul was third before the

final event, the 1,500 meters.

He beat Uibo by 15 seconds to

win gold with 8,691 points, 87

more than Uibo. Canada’s

Damian Warner won bronze

with 8,529.

World-record holder Kevin

Mayer of France withdrew in

tears in the eighth event, the

pole vault, with injuries to his

hamstring and Achilles ten-

don.

China’s Gong Lijiao de-

fended her shot put title, while

Jamaica’s surge in the field

events continued with silver.

Gong threw 19.55 meters to

beat Jamaican Danniel

Thomas-Dodd’s 19.47. Thom-

as-Dodd hit the 20-meter tape

with one shot but it was ruled

a foul. Christina Schwanitz

won bronze for Germany with

19.17.

After finishing fifth in the

110-meter hurdles because of a

collision caused by another

hurdler, Spain’s Orlando Or-

tega was awarded the bronze

medal.

His country’s initial appeal

was denied. Ortega shared

third place with Pascal Mar-

tinot-Lagarde of France in a

race won by Grant Holloway

of the United States. Russian

neutral athlete Sergey

Shubenkov took the silver.

Wenjun Xie of China dropped

to fifth place.

SALWA EID NASERof Bahrain reacts after winning the women’s 400-meter final at world championships.

Srdjan SukiEPA/Shutterstock

Naser’s 400 fastest in 34 years

Bahraini holds off

Olympic champion at

world championships

in swift 48.14 seconds.

associated press

Finals results Thursday at the IAAF World Championships

at Doha, Quatar (race distances in meters):

MEN

DECATHLON—1. Nicklaus Kaul, Germany, 8,691

points. 2. Maicel Uibo, Estonia, 8,604. 3. Damian Warn-

er, Canada, 8,529. 4. Ilay Shkurenyov, Russia, 8,494. 5.

Pierce LePage, Canada, 8, 445. 6. Janek Oiglane, Esto-

nia, 8,297.

WOMEN

400—1. Salwa Eid Naser, Brunei, 48.14 seconds. 2.

Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Bahamas, 48.37. 3. Shericka

Jackson, Jamaica, 49.47. 4. Wadeline Jonathas, U.S.,

49.60, personal best. 5. Phyllis Francis, U.S., 49.61, pb.

6. Stephenie Ann McPherson, Jamaica, 50.89.
   SHOTPUT—1. Lijao Gong, China, 64 feet, 1 inch. 2.
   Danniel Thomas-Dood, Jamaica, 63-10. 3. Christina
   Schwanitz, Germany, 62-10. 4. Maggie Ewen, U.S., 59-0.


7. Anita Marton, Hungary, 61-10. 6. Aliona Dubitskaya,
   Belarus, 61-10.

RESULTS

Jack Nicklaus has more

major championships than

Tiger Woods, or any other

golfer for that matter.

But has a rapper ever

named an album after Nick-

laus?

Um, nope. Looks like Tiger

might soon have him beat on

that one.

Hip-hop star Cardi B

revealed Thursday on Insta-

gram Live that she plans to

name her next collection of

music after the 43-year-old

golfer, saying she was in-

spired by his Masters victory

in May — Woods’ 15th major

championship, but his first in

11 years.

“Imma name my album, I

think, ‘Tiger Woods’ because

remember when everybody

was talking ... on Tiger Woods,

like ‘Oh blah blah blah, blah

blah this, blah blah that,’” the

“Bodack Yellow” singer said

in the video. “And then he ...

came and won that green

jacket? That’s what I’m

gonna name my album.”

Incidentally, there does

happen to be a group named

the Jack Nicklaus Tribute

Band, presumably in honor of

the 18-time majors champion.

Their music is rather odd and

doesn’t seem to have much to

do with the 18-time majors

champion.

As for Tiger Woods, the

man is a cultural icon. It was

probably only a matter of

time before someone named

an album after him. The only

real surprise is that it wasn’t

Nickelback.

Hair nyets

Russian track and field

athletes are competing as

neutrals at the world champi-

onships, but their hair is

making a statement.

Mariya Lasitskene isn’t

just the three-time world

champion high jumper, she’s

also the unofficial hair guru

for Russia’s team.

Lasitskene has styled

elaborate braids for her own

successful bid for gold and for

two teammates.

Her husband, Vladas

Lasitskas, said on Twitter

that Lasitskene styled

Anzhelika Sidorova, the

surprise winner of the wom-

en’s pole vault. She branched

out into men’s hair by braid-

ing the hair of decathlete Ilya

Shkurenyov before she flew

back to Moscow. He finished

fourth Thursday, narrowly

missing out on bronze.

Braids and plaits have a

centuries-old significance in

Russian culture. In the Czar-

ist era, unmarried peasant

women traditionally wore a

single braid, parting it into

two for marriage. Lasitskene

and her two styling clients at

the world championships all

wore two braids.

Did we really need

to know that?

It has not been a great

season for folks who prefer to

picture their NFL stars fully

clothed. First, Jaguars run-

ning back Leonard Fournette

announced to the world this

week that Gardner Min-

shew’s nickname is “The

Jockstrap King,” likely be-

stowed upon the rookie

quarterback because of a

story Fournette told report-

ers last month.

According to Fournette,

Minshew has the bizarre

habit of stretching in the

locker room wearing nothing

but an athletic supporter.

“That’s his ritual. I’m used

to it now,” Fournette said

following the Jaguars’ sea-

son-opening loss to the Kan-

sas City Chiefs. “Whatever

make him throw 88%, he can

have it. I’m not gonna stop

him.”

That visual was bad

enough ... then we had to hear

a horrifying tale from Patriots

receiver Julian Edelman

about an awkward hot tub

encounter with coach Bill

Belichick.

“He got up and got out.

And real, real big party foul by

coach,” the Super Bowl LIII

MVP said in a video posted to

YouTube on Wednesday. “I

mean, we’re supposed to have

shorts on. We’re supposed to

have shorts. But I guess at 1 1

o’clock when you’re the

GOAT of coaching, you go

wherever you want, free.

“So I had to hide my abso-

lute face of terror after seeing

what I saw and sit in the hot

tub.”

Seriously, guys, enough

sharing.

MORNING BRIEFING

From green jacket

to a record jacket

By Chuck Schilken

CHARLOTTE, N.C. —

Megan Rapinoe had two as-

sists in her first national

team game since the World

Cup and the United States

beat South Korea 2-0 on

Thursday night for its 17th

straight victory.

Coach Jill Ellis earned

her 106th victory as coach of

the United States, passing

Tony DiCicco for most wins

with the team.

“It’s not what I do this for,

but I’ll take it,” said Ellis,

who has led the U.S. team to

back-to-back World Cup ti-

tles. “Like I’ve said many

times, there’s a lot of peo-

ples’ shoulders I stand on at

this point. But it’s great. Cel-

ebrate this team.”

Allie Long and Mallory

Pugh each scored in the

team’s fifth straight shutout.

Rapinoe, who has been

out with an Achilles injury

since the United States won

the World Cup in France,

served up a free kick that

Long slotted home for the

goal in first-half stoppage

time. It was Long’s eighth

career goal.

“She hit it perfectly and I

was just right there to one-

time it in,” Long said about

her teammate with the

NWSL’s Reign.

Pugh added a goal on a

header in the 76th minute. It

was her 18th career goal,

with Rapinoe getting the as-

sist before she was subbed

out a minute later.

Seven U.S. players were

not available for the game

because of injury, including

Sam Mewis, Kelley O’Hara,

Morgan Brian, Ali Krieger,

Alex Morgan, Tobin Heath

and Lindsey Horan.

The game was the next-

to-last of the team’s post-

World Cup victory tour. The

team will host South Korea

again on Sunday in Chicago.

JESSICA McDONALD, right, fights with South

Korea’s Lee Min-a for the ball during the U.S. victory.

Mike McCarnAssociated Press

U.S. victory gives

coach a record

Rapinoe has two

assists in return to

help Ellis set all-time

mark for team.

UNITED STATES 2

SOUTH KOREA 0

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Major League Baseball

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Favorite Underdog
at Atlanta OFF St. Louis OFF
at DODGERS OFF Washington OFF

AMERICAN LEAGUE
Favorite Underdog
at New York -185 Minnesota +170
at Houston -208 Tampa Bay +188

NHL
Favorite Underdog
at Philadelphia -117 Chicago +107
Toronto -150 at Columbus +140
at NY Islanders -115 Washington +105
at New Jersey OFF Winnipeg OFF
at San Jose OFF Vegas OFF

NFL

SUNDAY

Favorite Line (O/U) Underdog

Baltimore 3 (44^1 ⁄ 2 ) at Pittsburgh

Chicago 51 ⁄ 2 (40^1 ⁄ 2 ) Oakland

at Cincinnati 3 (47^1 ⁄ 2 ) Arizona

at Carolina 31 ⁄ 2 (41) Jacksonville

Minnesota 5 (44) at NY Giants

New England 15 (42^1 ⁄ 2 ) at Washington

at Philadelphia 13 (44) NY Jets

at New Orleans 3 (47) Tampa Bay

at Houston 5 (48^1 ⁄ 2 ) Atlanta

at Tennessee 3 (38^1 ⁄ 2 ) Buffalo

at CHARGERS 61 ⁄ 2 (44^1 ⁄ 2 ) Denver

at Dallas 3 (47) Green Bay

at Kansas City 11 (56) Indianapolis

MONDAY

at San Francisco 4 (46^1 ⁄ 2 ) Cleveland

ODDS