World Sport Briefs

American Football
 The Pittsburgh Steelers manufactured a dramatic late scoring drive to overhaul an upset-minded Arizona Cardinals 27-23 on Sunday, their touchdown in the final minute sealing a record sixth Super Bowl triumph.

American Football
The Pittsburgh Steelers manufactured a dramatic late scoring drive to overhaul an upset-minded Arizona Cardinals 27-23 on Sunday, their touchdown in the final minute sealing a record sixth Super Bowl triumph. Ben Roethlisberger found a leaping Santonio Holmes in the end zone with a six-yard scoring strike with 35 seconds remaining to cap an eight-play, 78-yard drive that shattered Arizona’s dreams of a debut triumph.
Basketball
LeBron James scored 33 points and the Cleveland Cavaliers rallied in the fourth quarter for a 90-80 victory over Central Division rivals the Detroit Pistons Sunday. The win, the sixth in seven games for Cleveland, extended the Cavaliers’ divisional lead over the Pistons to 12 games.
Golf
PGA Tour veteran Kenny Perry shrugged off the disappointment of a bogey on the 72nd hole to win the Phoenix Open in a sudden-death playoff with fellow American Charley Hoffman on Sunday. Both players bogeyed the first extra hole and parred the second before Perry coolly rolled in a 22-foot birdie putt at the third to clinch his 13th Tour title at the TPC Scottsdale.
Swimming
Record-breaking Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps issued an apology on Sunday after a British newspaper published a photograph purportedly showing him smoking marijuana. ”I engaged in behaviour which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment,’ Phelps, the winner of a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics last year, said in a statement after the News of the World published the photograph.
Golf
Charley Hoffman was still able to raise a smile despite losing out to fellow American Kenny Perry in a playoff for the Phoenix Open on Sunday. The San Diego native ultimately failed in his bid to win a second PGA Tour title but thoroughly enjoyed himself with a barrage of birdies on a hot day at the TPC Scottsdale before losing at the third extra hole.
– Nampa-Reuters

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