Wed, 11 Feb 2004

From: Reuters

JP/9/SKOR

NBA (home team in bold) Monday's results

Cleveland 97 Boston 89 Atlanta 102 Dallas 96

Golf

Leading 2004 U.S. Ryder Cup points standings after Sunday's Pebble Beach National Pro-Am tournament (previous position in brackets) 1. (1) Tiger Woods 1,330.000 points 2. (4) Phil Mickelson 815.250 3. (2) Jim Furyk 789.479 4. (3) Davis Love III 756.250 5. (5) Kenny Perry 625.357 6. (6) David Toms 496.375 7. (7) Jonathan Kaye 446.750 8. (8) Chad Campbell 428.750 9. (9) Chris DiMarco 375.441 10. (10) Jay Haas 364.250 11. (11) Chris Riley 361.786 12. (12) Fred Funk 358.625 13. (13) Jerry Kelly 353.625 14. (14) Bob Tway 290.729 15. (15) Justin Leonard 289.607 16. (32) Jeff Maggert 287.143 17. (16) Rich Beem 284.464 18. (17) Brad Faxon 278.750 19. (18) Rocco Mediate 268.750 20. (19) Steve Flesch 265.937

Leading prize-money winners on the 2004 USA PGA Tour after Sunday's Pebble Beach National Pro-Am tourament (USA unless stated): 1. Vijay Singh (Fij) US$1,966,000 2. Phil Mickelson 1,338,100 3. Jonathan Kaye 1,292,944 4. Stuart Appleby (Aus) 1,060,000 5. Ernie Els (Rsa) 943,000 6. Harrison Frazar 622,543 7. Jeff Maggert 572,400 8. Chris DiMarco 561,600 9. Retief Goosen (Rsa) 549,375 10. Mike Weir (Can) 507,867 11. Skip Kendall 486,000 12. Davis Love III 481,400 13. Steve Flesch 460,517 14. Jesper Parnevik (Swe) 419,067 15. Kirk Triplett 403,543 16. Darren Clarke (Gbr) 400,000 17. Ben Crane 347,714 18. Jay Haas 333,473 19. Frank Lickliter II 310 258 20. Tiger Woods 275,000

Soccer

English premier league Standings ahead of this week's midweek matches:

P W D L F A Pts 1. Arsenal 24 17 7 0 47 16 58 2. Manchester United 24 18 2 4 47 20 56 3. Chelsea 24 16 4 4 44 19 52 4. Newcastle United 24 9 10 5 34 25 37 5. Charlton Athletic 24 10 7 7 32 26 37 6. Liverpool 24 9 8 7 34 26 35 7. Fulham 24 10 5 9 36 33 35 8. Aston Villa 24 9 6 9 28 27 33 9. Bolton Wanderers 24 8 9 7 30 36 33 10. Birmingham City 23 8 8 7 20 26 32 11. Southampton 24 8 7 9 23 21 31 12. Tottenham Hotspur 24 9 3 12 31 36 30 13. Middlesbrough 23 7 7 9 23 27 28 14. Blackburn Rovers 24 7 5 12 35 39 26 15. Everton 24 6 7 11 28 33 25 16. Manchester City 24 5 9 10 32 35 24 17. Portsmouth 24 6 5 13 28 37 23 18. Leicester City 24 4 8 12 32 46 20 19. Wolverhampton Wanderers 24 4 8 12 21 47 20 20. Leeds United 24 4 5 15 19 49 17

Tennis

US$585,000 Paris Open WTA Monday first round results (x denotes seeding) Francesca Schiavone (Ita x5) bt Emilie Loit (Fra) 6-2 4-6 6-3 Silvia Farina Elia (Ita x7) bt Alexandra Stevenson (USA) 6-7 (5- 7) 7-5 6-2 Tina Pisnik (Slo) beat Denisa Chladkova (Cze) 6-2 6-1 Maria Sanchez Lorenzo (Spa) beat Eleni Daniilidou (Gre) 6-2 4-6 6-4

ATP San Jose Monday results

First round Robert Kendrick (USA) bt Lars Burgsmuller (Ger) 6-4, 6-2 K.J. Hippensteel (USA) bt Dmitry Tursunov (Rus) 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 Wesley Moodie (Rsa) bt Todd Martin (USA) 6-4, 7-6 (7/1)