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On This Day in Sport (16 August 2010): 1930: The first British Empire Games opened in Hamilton, Canada. The Games were renamed the Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954 and the British Commonwealth Games in 1970. 1948: Legendary baseball player Babe Ruth, who made his name with the New York Yankees, died. 1995: US amateur champion Tiger Woods, 19, was named in the American Walker Cup team. 1996: Former world middleweight title contender Herol Graham, after four years out of the ring, was cleared to fight again by the British Boxing Board of Control a month short of his 37th birthday. 1998: Vijay Singh claimed his first major title with victory in the US PGA Championship at the Sahalee Country Club near Seattle. 1999: The IAAF refused to accept a UK Athletics decision to clear Scottish sprinter Dougie Walker of doping allegations. 2000: Gary Butcher claimed four wickets in four balls in a spell of five for 18 in 7.3 overs in a County Championship match for Surrey against Derbyshire at The Oval. 2004: England beat West Indies by seven wickets in the third npower Test at Old Trafford to take a 3-0 lead in the series. 2006: Steve McClaren began his England reign in style with a 4-0 win over Greece. Andy Murray beat world number one Roger Federer for the first time, 7-5 6-4 in the second round of the Cincinnati Masters. Headlines (16 August) : Kaymer claims US PGA Martin Kaymer beats Bubba Watson in a play-off to claim his first major title after a hugely controversial ending to the USPGA Cole off in Arsenal draw Joe Cole and Laurent Koscielny see red as Pepe Reina's late error hands Arsenal a 1-1 draw with Liverpool at Anfield Murray defends Rogers Cup title Andy Murray clinches his first title of 2010 with a magnificent 7-5 7-5 victory over Roger Federer in the final of the Toronto Masters Maradona keen on Villa Former Argentina boss Diego Maradona targets a return to management with Aston Villa, according to his European representative England stick with Cook England keep faith with out-of-form opener Alastair Cook after naming an unchanged team for the third Test against Pakistan Two more golds for GB swimmers Rebecca Adlington and the women's medley relay squad are both crowned European champions as Great Britain claim 18 medals in Budapest Ferdinand still a month away Rio Ferdinand is still a month away from returning to action, according to Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson Rossi confirms Yamaha split Valentino Rossi will part company with Fiat Yamaha at the end of the season in a move that paves the way for the Italian to switch to Ducati International Results Roundup Dateline 15 August 2010 FOOTBALL Barclays Premier League Liverpool 1 Arsenal 1 Scottish Premier Motherwell 2 Hibernian 3 npower Championship Nottm Forest 1 Leeds 1 GOLF USPGA Championship Collated final-round scores (USA unless stated, par 72): 277 Martin Kaymer (Ger) 72 68 67 70, Bubba Watson 68 71 70 68 (Kaymer won after three-hole play-off) 278 Rory McIlroy (NIrl) 71 68 67 72, Zach Johnson 69 70 69 70 279 Jason Dufner 73 66 69 71, Steve Elkington (Aus) 71 70 67 71, Dustin Johnson 71 68 67 73 280 Camilo Villegas (Col) 71 71 70 68, Wen-chong Liang (Chn) 72 71 64 73 281 Matt Kuchar 67 69 73 72, Jason Day (Aus) 69 72 66 74 282 Phil Mickelson 73 69 73 67, Paul Casey (Eng) 72 71 70 69, Bryce Molder 72 67 70 73, Simon Dyson (Eng) 71 71 68 72 283 D.A. Points 70 72 70 71, Robert Karlsson (Swe) 71 71 71 70 284 Nick Watney 69 68 66 81, Steve Stricker 72 72 68 72, Stephen Gallacher (Sco) 71 69 72 72, Charl Schwartzel (Rsa) 73 69 72 70, Ernie Els (Rsa) 68 74 69 73, Stewart Cink 77 68 66 73 RUGBY LEAGUE Super League Salford (6) 18 Hull K R (12) 44 Wakefield (10) 18 Warrington (18) 36 Wigan (10) 16 Huddersfield (0) 18 Co-operative Championship Dewsbury (18) 35 Barrow (0) 6 Halifax (10) 30 Batley (4) 22 Keighley (4) 28 Whitehaven (28) 29 TENNIS ATP Rogers Cup Final: (4) Andy Murray (Gbr) bt (3) Roger Federer (Swi) 7-5 7-5 ATP Western & Southern Masters 1st rd: Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp) bt (11) Marin Cilic (Cro) 6-4 7-5 SWIMMING Rebecca Adlington and the women's medley relay squad were both crowned European champions as Great Britain claimed five medals in the final session to take their overall total to 18 in Budapest. Adlington returned from the disappointment of her seventh place in the 800metres freestyle to win the 400m while the women's 4x100m medley relay successfully defended their title following the disqualification of Russia. MOTOR CYCLING Jorge Lorenzo increased his already commanding lead in the MotoGP World Championship standings with a crushing victory at Sunday's Czech Grand Prix at Brno. The Fiat Yamaha rider made it seven wins out of 10 starts this season to move 77 points clear of nearest rival Dani Pedrosa in the riders' championship.