Daily sport news

AP - Kenyon Martin scored 27 points and the Denver Nuggets won again without Carmelo Anthony, beating the San Antonio Spurs 103-89 on Sunday.

AP - Sidney Crosby scored in regulation and the shootout and the Penguins overcame Jimmy Howard's second successive 46-save game to beat the Red Wings 2-1 on Sunday in the rivals' first game since Pittsburgh won Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals in Detroit.

AP - Gabe Knutson scored 31 points to lead Lehigh past Holy Cross 78-60 on Sunday.

AP - On the first day of February, the New Orleans Saints will be preparing for a football game. Think about that for a while: The team once disparagingly called the Aints whose fans wore bags on their heads are heading to South Florida to play in the Super Bowl.

AFP - Manchester United closed the gap on Premier League leaders Chelsea as the champions swept to an impressive 3-1 win against title rivals Arsenal on Sunday.

AP - The vast security operation protecting the Super Bowl and surrounding events ranges from Air Force F-16s patrolling the skies above Miami on game day to a buffer zone extending at least 100 yards out from the stadium.

AFP - England striker Wayne Rooney scored the 100th Premier League goal of his career here on Sunday when he rifled home Manchester United's second goal against titlechasing rivals Arsenal in the first-half.

AP - Swiss skier Didier Cuche says he will be able to challenge for medals at the Vancouver Olympics despite his broken right thumb.

AP - Italian skier Nadia Fanchini has been ruled out of the Vancouver Olympics after crashing in the final World Cup race before the games.

AP - Roger Federer felt awkward for a moment, celebrating his 16th Grand Slam title while Andy Murray cried for Britain.

AFP - Roger Federer said he produced one of his finest performances to repulse the challenge of Andy Murray and win his fourth Australian Open and 16th Grand Slam title on Sunday.

AP - Reinfried Herbst led an Austrian 1-2 finish at a men's World Cup slalom Sunday for his second win in six days.

AP - World champion snowboarder Max Schairer of Austria has been released from the hospital after a nasty wipeout in the Winter X Games snowboardcross semifinals Saturday that left him with a mild concussion.

AP - Shaun White received what a Winter X Games doctor called a thorough medical evaluation before he was cleared to head back down the superpipe after a skull-rattling accident that left him seeing stars.

AP - Lindsey Vonn won a World Cup super-G race to clinch the season title in the discipline with two races left.

AFP - Roger Federer opened a two sets to love lead as he began to dominate Scottish challenger Andy Murray in the Australian Open final on Sunday.

AFP - Roger Federer got the early edge over British fifth seed Andy Murray by taking the opening set in the Australian Open final on Sunday.

AP - Andy Murray understands what it will take to beat Roger Federer in the Australian Open final and finally fulfill the hopes of an entire nation.

AP - Joey Logano raced to his second NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown victory Saturday night, holding off 16-year-old Sergio Pena.

AFP - Serena Williams insisted Sunday she does not think of herself as one of the sport's greats despite claiming her 12th Grand Slam title at the Australian Open.