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Manchester United ousts

Man City from FA Cup

Manchester United held off 10-man Manchester City in the second half Sunday, ousting the defending champions from England's FA Cup with a 3-2 victory.

Wayne Rooney scored twice on headers for visiting Man U in the third-round match.

Manchester United's Paul Scholes, 37, returned to action seven months after apparently retiring. He came back because of injuries to United.

"We didn't find out until we got to the dressing room," Rooney said. "It gave everyone a lift. He's a fantastic player."

Danny Welbeck also scored for Manchester United, which led 3-0 at halftime.

Manchester City, which leads the English Premier League by three points over second-place Manchester United, set up a tense finish with goals by Aleksandar Kolarov and Sergio Aguero. City captain Vincent Kompany was red-carded after 12 minutes for a two-footed challenge on Nani.

"We made them better than they were," United manager Alex Ferguson said while discussing the second half. "It was a careless performance."

Manchester City lost at home for the first time since a December 2010 Premier League match against Everton.

Other teams advancing to the fourth round were Chelsea, Sunderland and Sheffield Wednesday.

Queens Park Rangers

fire manager Warnock

Queens Park Rangers fired manager Neil Warnock, nine months after he led the team to promotion into the English Premier League for a first time since 1996. QPR is 17th in the 20-team league.

Baseball

Angels, Kendrick reportedly

agree on 4-year contract

The Los Angeles Angels have reached an agreement with second baseman Howie Kendrick on a four-year contract pending a physical, according to a person who is familiar with negotiations but could not speak publicly about them.

The new contract is thought to be worth $33.5 million, according to a Los Angeles Times report.

All-Star Kendrick, 28, hit .285 with a career-high 18 home runs last season. He made $3.3 million last year.

Short-track speedskating

Gehring, Cho capture

national championships

Lana Gehring of Glenview, Ill., won five of six races over three days to claim the women's title at the U.S. Short Track National Championship in Kearns, Utah.

Simon Cho of Laurel, Md., took the men's championship.

The event helped to determine which skaters will compete at the world championships in Shanghai, China, in March.

A five-member selection committee made Federal Way's J.R. Celski, a two-time Olympic bronze medalist, a discretionary pick.

Celski is recovering from a serious ankle injury suffered a month ago, and will be eligible to compete in individual events in the remaining World Cup events but only in relays at worlds.

Katherine Reutter, four-time defending U.S. women's champion from Champaign, Ill., was fifth. Reutter, 23, announced she will have surgery on both hips and miss the rest of the season. Her hip injuries also have caused back problems.

Skiing

Hirscher, Suter triumph

Marcel Hirscher of Austria extended his perfect start to 2012 by winning a World Cup slalom in Adelboden, Switzerland, to pad his lead in the overall standings

He won for the third time in four days and became the first man to win the first three races of the year since Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark in 1978.

Meanwhile, Fabienne Suter of Switzerland won a World Cup super-giant slalom in Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria.

Lindsey Vonn of Vail, Colo., placed 18th, failing to finish among the top three in a World Cup Super-G for the first time since January 2009.

Vonn, who struggled with a stomach illness last week, leads the overall and Super-G standings.

Elsewhere

• Milos Raonic of Canada beat top-seeded Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (7-4) in the Chennai Open tennis final in India, earning his second career title. The match lasted 3 hours, 16 minutes and didn't include a break of serve.

Raonic, 21, won all 48 of his service games at the tournament. He averages 124 mph on his first serve.

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