Welcome to World Sports, I'm Kim Young.
I hope you had a great weekend and had an even greater Monday.
Let's jump right in to check out what's happening with the slugger, Lee Seung-yeop.
Star slugger Lee Seung-yeop who is off to a great start with the Yomiuri Giants set the bar higher in Nippon Professional Baseball.
Sports Hochi reported earlier today that at the end of the 7th inning during the game between Yomiuri and Hiroshima, 33-year-old Lee set a new record of zero errors in 992 total chances or TC as a first baseman which breaks the old record set in 1980 by Sadaharu Oh when he was with Yomiuri.
Sadaharu Oh was also the head coach and manager of Softbank and set this Central League record in his prime as a player.
Lee Seung-yeop continued to raise the number even further to one,one by the end of the game which went to extra innings.
Lee also hit the first homer in Nippon Professional Baseball or NPB at the Tokyo Dome Stadium against Hiroshima.
Paul Casey has won his first PGA Tour event trophy defeating the American J.B. Holmes in a playoff that only went one-hole.
Casey accomplished the feat with not an eagle or a birdie and not even a par but with a bogey after Holmes shot his drive into the water finishing the playoff hole with a double.
Korean Na Sang-wook landed in 19th place and Korean-American Anthony Kim finished at a rather disappointing four-under-par total of 284 and shared 26th.
In the LPGA, American golfer Brittany Lincicome won the Kraft Nabisco Championship by just one stroke with an eagle on the final hole.
It was her first major title and she won it in a spectacle, eagling the final hole after her second shot landed on the green four feet to the cup.
Lincicome celebrated her win by peforming the traditional pond dive with her father and her caddie.
Five Korean golfers were in the top ten after the first round but only one remained after the final, Kang Ji-min finished with two-under-286 and got a share for 8th.
Japan's Noriyuki Haga is even further up in the Superbike world championship after winning two races at Valencia, Spain.
The Ducati rider dominated both races, taking the lead early on in lap two and after Ben Spies crashed his Yamaha on the 9th, Haga comfortable raced on for his first win.
The second race was pretty much the same with Haga just blistering past his rivals and leaving a five-second gap between first and second.
Haga is leading the standing with 135 points with Spies in second minus 40 points.
And that's called a dominating round.
That's it for sports.
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Good night everyone.
APR 06, 2009
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Wednesday, FEB 10, 2010, (KST) 
