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SILVIS, Ill. >> Michael Kim didn't just win his first PGA Tour event on Sunday. He dominated in a fashion never seen at TPC Deere Run.Kim's prizes? A little over a million bucks, a two-year exemption on tour and a trip to the British Open.Kim shot a final-round 66 on Sunday to win the John Deere Classic by a record-setting eight strokes.

SPARTA, Ky. >> Martin Truex Jr. is feeling confident after his most dominant performance this season.That's understandable, considering the defending Cup Series champion and his Furniture Row Racing team are slightly ahead of last season's pace, with signs of even better things to come."I feel great about where we're at," Truex said Saturday night after leading 174 laps from the pole to repeat as winner of Kentucky Speedway's 400-mile race .

LONDON >> Novak Djokovic acknowledged that he was worried. His coach was, too.Could Djokovic ever return to the top of tennis? To the heights he'd already reached? Could he put aside the time lost to a painful right elbow that required surgery and the disappointment of poor-for-him results? Could he end a Grand Slam drought that lasted more than two years?All of that fretting seemed misplaced Sunday night.

HOUSTON >> Justin Verlander had a puzzling day on the mound in his first-ever start against his previous team.While Verlander racked up double-digit strikeouts, Detroit hammered four home runs off the former Tiger and snapped a six-game losing streak with a 6-3 win over the Houston Astros on Sunday.

Under a sizzling sun Sunday, Macomb County residents in two local communities sweated out the final day of weekend festivals centering on ethnic heritage and lakeside fun.Organizers of AquaFest in St. Clair Shores, and the Polish-American Festival and Festa Italiana, both in Sterling Heights, said the 90-degree heat coupled with drenching humidity likely impacted attendance at the height of the summer season.

UTICA >> Robb Paller went 2-for-3 with three runs batted in and Jack Hranec drove in two runs with a double, going 2-for-5 as the Birmingham Bloomfield Beavers (11-12) defeated the Westside Woolly Mammoths (13-11), 10-2, on Saturday night at Jimmy John's Field.Tonight was the third consecutive game that the teams played all nine innings within the USPBL 2.

WASHINGTON >> Touki Toussaint was about to settle down for his pregame nap when Atlanta Braves director of player development Dom Chiti called."When I saw his name pop up, I did kind of get nervous," Toussaint said. "You see that name pop up, you're like, 'Oh, snap."'Chiti was calling earlier this weekend to ask the highly touted pitching prospect if he'd like to play in the All-Star Futures Game.

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian protest group Pussy Riot claimed responsibility Sunday for four people who brought the World Cup final to a brief halt by running onto the field dressed in police uniforms.The three women and one man who charged onto the field simultaneously in the 52nd minute of one of the world's most watched sporting events were tackled to the ground by stewards.

For 14 years Kathy Kostas sat and watched her daughter take ballet lessons, dreaming of one day being on the dance floor herself. "I went to every class and watched her, but it was never for me," she said. Due to Lauren Bauer's ballet class at the Rochester Older Persons Commission, Kostas is no longer sitting on the side.

Mary Ellen Dawson, 68, of Rochester Hills, finds her workout invigorating not only because of the yoga and pilates moves she's doing, but because of the location of her workout.Dawson is among a group of regular yogis who workout on the beach at Stony Creek Metropark under the direction of instructor Ivy Schwartz of Shelby Township.