Basketball

NBA results on Friday (home team in CAPS)

Orlando 100 CHARLOTTE 79

INDIANA 98 Cleveland 91 (OT)

ATLANTA 105 New Jersey 98

BOSTON 96 Detroit 85

Miami 103 MINNESOTA 101

MEMPHIS 113 Houston 93

Phoenix 93 NEW ORLEANS 78

MILWAUKEE 102 Washington 81

DALLAS 99 Toronto 86

UTAH 102 Philadelphia 99

Chicago 114 LA CLIPPERS 101

Ice Hockey

NHL results on Friday (home team in CAPS)

WASHINGTON 3 Buffalo 1

OTTAWA 4 Calgary 3 (OT)

NY Rangers 4 FLORIDA 1

Nashville 2 ST. LOUIS 1 (SO)

CHICAGO 3 Detroit 2

Soccer

English Premier League

Result on Friday:

Liverpool 3 (Bellamy 29, 67, Gerrard 78) Newcastle 1 (Agger 25-og)

Standings:

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Man City 14 3 1 53 15 45

Man Utd 14 3 1 47 14 45

Tottenham 12 2 3 34 19 38

Chelsea 10 4 4 36 21 34

Liverpool 9 7 3 24 15 34

Arsenal 10 3 5 34 26 33

Newcastle 8 6 5 26 25 30

Stoke 7 4 7 18 28 25

West Brom 6 4 8 19 26 22

Everton 6 3 8 18 20 21

Norwich 5 6 7 27 33 21

Aston Villa 4 8 6 19 23 20

Fulham 4 7 7 19 24 19

Swansea 4 7 7 17 22 19

Sunderland 4 6 8 22 22 18

QPR 4 5 9 18 32 17

Wolverhampton 4 4 10 20 33 16

Wigan 3 5 10 15 35 14

Bolton 4 0 14 22 41 12

Blackburn 2 5 11 25 39 11

Ski jumping

Four Hills

Results from first leg of the Four Hills ski jump tournament here on Friday:

1. Gregor Schlierenzauer (AUT) 283.3 pts (133.0 + 137.5)

2. Andreas Kofler (AUT) 265.2 (131.0 + 133.5)

3. Thomas Morgenstern (AUT) 264.3 (128.0 + 128.5)

4. Severin Freund (GER) 264.0 (129.0 + 127.0)

5. Daiki Ito (JPN) 262.7 (130.0 + 124.0)

6. Anders Bardal (NOR) 258.0 (120.5 + 131.5)

Selected

12. Simon Ammann (SUI) 234.8 (123.5 + 120.0)

World Cup standings (after 8 events):

1. Andreas Kofler (AUT) 588pts, 2. Gregor Schlierenzauer (AUT) 476, 3. Anders Bardal (NOR) 430, 4. Thomas Morgenstern (AUT) 396, 5. Richard Freitag (GER) 374

Selected

11. Simon Ammann (SUI) 160

Tennis

Abu Dhabi exhibition

Results of the second day of the Mubadala world tennis championship exhibition tournament here on Friday:

Novak Djokovic (SRB) bt Roger Federer (SUI) 6-2, 6-1

David Ferrer (ESP) bt Rafael Nadal (ESP) 6-3, 6-2

Hopman Cup

Results from the mixed teams Hopman Cup tennis tournament at Perth's Burswood Dome on Saturday:

France bt China 2-1

Women's singles: Li Na (CHN) bt Marion Bartoli (FRA) 2-6, 6-2, 6-4

Men's singles: Richard Gasquet (FRA) bt Wu Di (CHN) 6-1, 6-3

Mixed doubles: Bartoli/Gasquet (FRA) bt Li/Wu (CHN) 6-1, 6-1

(China Daily 01/01/2012 page11)