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SportsLog: American Ted Ligety wins his first ever super-combined event in the World Cup

WINTER SPORTS

Ligety wins his first super-combined

American Ted Ligety earned his first super-combined victory in the World Cup on Friday in Wengen, Switzerland — a discipline in which he already owns an Olympic and world championship title. Ligety’s combined two-run time was 2 minutes, 44.74 seconds, 0.22 seconds faster than France’s Alexis Pinturault . . . Shaun White moved closer to earning a spot on the US Olympic snowboarding halfpipe team, posting a score of 98.6 at the US Grand Prix at Mammoth Lake, Calif. Scotty Lago finished second and Taylor Gold wrapped up his spot in Sochi by finishing third . . . West Dover, Vt., native Devin Logan is headed to Sochi after winning the skiing slopestyle final at the US Grand Prix in Park City, Utah. Logan scored 87.40 points. Alex Schlopy won the men’s slopestyle final with 92.20 points. Bobby Brown scored 91.80 to finish second and clinch a spot in Sochi . . . Maddie Bowman scored 92.20 points to win the women’s skiing halfpipe final at the US Grand Prix in Park City, Utah . . . Britain’s Lizzy Yarnold topped American Noelle Pikus-Pace in a women’s World Cup skeleton race in Igls, Austria. Yarnold finished two runs in 1:49.04, 0.32 seconds faster than Pikus-Pace . . . Olympic speedskating champ Wang Meng, China’s most decorated Winter Olympian with six medals, broke her ankle Thursday and will likely miss the Olympics.

COLLEGES

Season over for BC big man Clifford

Boston College junior center Dennis Clifford will sit out the remainder of the basketball season because of a chronic arthritic condition in both knees and will petition the NCAA for a medical redshirt. The 7-foot-1-inch Clifford appeared in just two games this season . . . The doctor treating North Carolina women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell for leukemia said Hatchell is in remission . . . Vanderbilt hired Stanford defensive coordinator Derek Mason as its football coach, less than a week after James Franklin left for Penn State.

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MISCELLANY

Mayweather to call it quits in 2015

Floyd Mayweather Jr. says he’ll fight for the last time in September next year. Mayweather told guests at a dinner in South Africa that ‘‘September 2015 will be my last.’’ Mayweather’s next bout will be in May against an undecided opponent. Mayweather has a 45-0 record with 26 knockouts . . . Anaheim Ducks defenseman Sheldon Souray will miss the entire season after another operation on his right wrist to relieve arthritis symptoms . . . Winnipeg Jets defenseman Grant Clitsome is out for the season after undergoing back surgery . . . New York Knicks forwards Amare Stoudemire and Kenyon Martin could miss two weeks because of sprained left ankles sustained Thursday night . . . Registration for the 2014 Boston Athletic Association Distance Medley will run from Jan. 22 at 10 a.m. to Jan. 29 at 5 p.m. Registration will be at www.baa.org and limited to 3,000 entrants . . . The Boston Breakers selected Nkem Ezurike with the eighth overall pick of the National Women’s Soccer League College Draft. The Breakers chose Natasha Anasi in the second round, Jazmine Reeves and Mollie Pathman in the third, and Jami Kranich and Kim DeCesare in the fourth. Former Globe All-Scholastic Hayley Brock, who played at Acton-Boxboro and Maryland, was a third-round pick of the Chicago Red Stars.

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