Skiing

Vonn wins World Cup downhill

Lindsey Vonn of Vail, Colo., won the World Cup women's downhill event Friday in Lake Louise, Alberta, for her ninth career victory at the Canadian resort.

Vonn finished in 1 minute, 53.19 seconds to beat Liechtenstein's Tina Weirather by 1.95 seconds — the largest victory margin in Vonn's downhill career.

Switzerland's Dominique Gisin was third in 1:55.29.

"I mean, two seconds, that's crazy," Gisin said. "We will try to be a little bit closer to Lindsey tomorrow. That's probably the only thing you can hope for."

Vonn has won at least one race at Lake Louise in eight consecutive years.

"It can't be more peaceful and amazing with the mountains here," said Vonn, fourth on the women's career list with 43 World Cup victories. "I would prefer to have every race here in Lake Louise, but I don't think they'll let me."

Vonn, the reigning Olympic downhill champion, recently confirmed she and her husband of four years, Thomas Vonn, are divorcing. Thomas Vonn had overseen many aspects of her career.

"Right now, skiing is the best thing for me," Lindsey Vonn said. "When I'm on my skis and on the mountain, I feel calm and feel comfortable."

Miller captures men's downhill

Bode Miller of Franconia, N.H., won the men's World Cup downhill in Beaver Creek, Colo., to mark the first time since Dec. 3, 2004, an American man and woman won Cup downhills on the same day.

Miller finished in 1 minute, 43.82 seconds for his 33rd World Cup victory, holding off Beat Feuz of Switzerland by 0.04 seconds.

"The stuff I pulled off today, it doesn't work all the time," Miller said. "Three out of 10 times, you try that and it works. The other six, you end up in the fence."

And the 10th?

"In the hospital," Miller said.

NBA

2 Christmas games are added

Oklahoma City will host Orlando before Blake Griffin and the Los Angeles Clippers visit Golden State on Christmas night, running the league's planned opening-day schedule to five games.

Those games were added to the three that were already set when the 2011-12 schedule was originally unveiled: Boston at New York, Miami at Dallas in a rematch of last season's NBA Finals and Chicago at the Los Angeles Lakers.

Tennis

Spain takes 2-0 Davis Cup lead

Rafael Nadal barely needed to break a sweat in another dominant performance on clay. David Ferrer needed one of the best matches of his career to put Spain on the brink of another Davis Cup title.

Ferrer rallied for a 6-2, 6-7 (2-7), 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory over Juan Martin del Potro to give the host Spaniards a 2-0 lead over Argentina in the best-of-five final in Seville.

"Maybe today was the best match of my career," Ferrer said after leaving Spain on the verge of a third title in four years.

Nadal beat Juan Monaco 6-1, 6-1, 6-2 in the first match.

Soccer

Duke, Stanford reach final

Top-ranked Stanford beat Florida 3-0 to advance to the women's College Cup final, which is Sunday in Kennesaw, Ga.

Freshman Chioma Ubogagu contributed a goal and an assist for the Cardinal (24-0-1), which will face Duke (22-3-1) in the championship match.

Mollie Pathman scored two second-half goals to help the Blue Devils beat Wake Forest 4-1.

Stanford coach Paul Ratcliffe said, "The first 20 minutes, it was a difficult game for us. We had to weather a few storms."

Emily Oliver earned her 11th shutout for Stanford.

Note

• American Brendan Hansen and Kosuke Kitajima of Japan raced each other for the first time since the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the U.S. Winter Nationals swimming competition in Atlanta.

Hansen won the 100-meter breaststroke in 1 minute, 1.18 seconds.

• A spokesman for Muhammad Ali, 69, said the former heavyweight champion is "well, happy and carrying on with his daily routine" at home in Scottsdale, Ariz., after being treated for dehydration last month.

Spokesman Craig Bankey said in a statement Ali was treated Nov. 19, five days after the funeral of Joe Frazier, whom Ali faced in three epic fights.

Jeanie Kahnke, a spokeswoman for the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, says she spoke with Ali's wife, Lonnie, by phone Friday and that "he was right next to her asking for breakfast and that he was doing good."

• Wladimir Klitschko's promoter, Bernd Boente, said the WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight champion has been taken to a Duesseldorf, Germany, hospital because of abdominal pains.

Boente said Klitschko is displaying symptoms of renal colic, a pain sometimes caused by kidney stones.

Boente said Klitschko's bout against French challenger Jean-Marc Mormeck on Dec. 10 is not in danger.

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