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USA wins Gold Cup final CHICAGO – The United States used two second-half goals to rally for a 2-1 victory over Mexico here Sunday in the final of the CONCACAF Gold Cup regional football tournament.

Benny Feilhaber scored the match-winner in the 73rd minute, as he volleyed a deflection off a corner kick from the top of the arc past Mexican goalkeeper Oswaldo Sanchez into the far upper corner of the goal. Landon Donovan had taken the corner, bending a kick in front of the goal that went straight toward Feilhaber off a Mexican defender.Mahan posts first PGA win CROMWELL – Hunter Mahan registered his first PGA Tour victory Sunday, winning the six million-dollar Travellers Championship in a playoff.Mahan, who finished second at this event last year, sank a short birdie putt on the first playoff hole to beat fellow American Jay Williamson.The victory gave Mahan, who finished the tournament at 15-under-par 265, the first prize of 1,008 million dollars.Campbell claims sprint double KINGSTON – Veronica Campbell clocked a world leading 22,39sec to win the women’s 200m Sunday and complete a 100-200 double at the Jamaican athletics championships.Campbell, the Olympic 200m champion, had won the 100m in a season’s best 10,89sec on Saturday, and she returned to win the 200m in similar style.”It was a good race, good competition and I am happy with the result,” said Campbell, who finished ahead of US collegiate champion Kerron Stewart (22.51) and Sheri-Ann Brooks (22.78) (wind 0,8m/sec).Uefa announces smaller qualifying groups LONDON – European teams will play fewer matches to qualify for the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa than they did to reach the 2006 tournament, Uefa has decided.The competition will consist of eight groups of six teams, and one group of five.The nine group winners will qualify directly and the best eight runners-up will play home and away playoff matches for the remaining four places.One group runner-up will fail to make the playoffs with the top eight runners-up chosen following a recalculation after the results of the bottom-placed team in each of the eight larger groups are erased.Nampa-Reuters and AFPLandon Donovan had taken the corner, bending a kick in front of the goal that went straight toward Feilhaber off a Mexican defender.Mahan posts first PGA win CROMWELL – Hunter Mahan registered his first PGA Tour victory Sunday, winning the six million-dollar Travellers Championship in a playoff.Mahan, who finished second at this event last year, sank a short birdie putt on the first playoff hole to beat fellow American Jay Williamson.The victory gave Mahan, who finished the tournament at 15-under-par 265, the first prize of 1,008 million dollars.Campbell claims sprint double KINGSTON – Veronica Campbell clocked a world leading 22,39sec to win the women’s 200m Sunday and complete a 100-200 double at the Jamaican athletics championships.Campbell, the Olympic 200m champion, had won the 100m in a season’s best 10,89sec on Saturday, and she returned to win the 200m in similar style.”It was a good race, good competition and I am happy with the result,” said Campbell, who finished ahead of US collegiate champion Kerron Stewart (22.51) and Sheri-Ann Brooks (22.78) (wind 0,8m/sec).Uefa announces smaller qualifying groups LONDON – European teams will play fewer matches to qualify for the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa than they did to reach the 2006 tournament, Uefa has decided.The competition will consist of eight groups of six teams, and one group of five.The nine group winners will qualify directly and the best eight runners-up will play home and away playoff matches for the remaining four places.One group runner-up will fail to make the playoffs with the top eight runners-up chosen following a recalculation after the results of the bottom-placed team in each of the eight larger groups are erased.Nampa-Reuters and AFP