Lindsey Vonn completed a hat trick of World Cup victories at Lake Louise for the second straight year on Sunday.

Vonn won the day's super-G in a time of 1 minute, 22.82 seconds, having also triumphed in the two downhill races on Friday and Saturday.

Although Rafa Benitez can't be blamed for Chelsea's current plight in the Champions League, elimination this week would give his many critics further ammunition at the end of a tortuous first two weeks in charge of the club.

Roberto Di Matteo's final act as Chelsea manager was to oversee a 3-0 loss at Juventus that leaves the team on the cusp of becoming the first reigning champion to fail to qualify for the knockout stage of the competition.

Chasing its first title since Diego Maradona played for the club, Napoli thrashed 10-man Pescara 5-1 Sunday to move back within two points of Serie A leader Juventus.

Gokhan Inler and Edinson Cavani each scored twice and Marek Hamsik also found the target for Napoli. Iceland midfielder Birkir Bjarnason scored for last-place Pescara in the 18th minute to briefly make it 2-1, and the match turned back in Napoli's favor when Pescara defender Antonio Bocchetti was sent off for tripping Cavani in the 57th.

Dutch midfielder Wesley Sneijder is available for selection for Inter Milan, coach Andrea Stramaccioni said three days after the Italian club were accused of blackmailing the player.

"Wes has trained well like all the others and just like all the others he could be included in the squad for tomorrow," Stramaccioni told reporters Saturday.

The Brooklyn Nets won their fifth-straight game by beating the Orlando Magic 98-86 Friday night behind the hot hand of Joe Johnson who scored a game-high 22 points.

Johnson shot 10-of-16 from the field while Gerald Wallace nailed five three pointers for the streaking Nets at Amway Center arena.

NBA commissioner David Stern slapped the San Antonio Spurs with a $250,000 fine after the club rested a number of their top players in a game against the Miami Heat on Thursday.

Stern ruled that coach Gregg Popovich's decision not to have Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and Danny Green make the trip to Florida was in violation of league policy against resting players "in a manner contrary to the best interests of the NBA."

Lindsey Vonn, who swept all three races last year at Lake Louise, easily won the downhill here Friday, her 12th World Cup title at the venue, giving credibility to her desire to race the men.

The four-time overall World Cup champion will race her second downhill of the season Saturday and a super-G Sunday.

The Russian Premier League is studying the possibility of organizing a new championship that would involve the other states of the former Soviet Union, its chief said on Friday.

"Several premiership clubs have asked the league to study their proposal to create a CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) football championship," Sergei Pryadkin said in a statement on the league's official website.

A mixed bag of San Antonio Spur bench warmers almost handed the defending NBA champion Miami Heat their first home loss of the season in a matchup that had been billed as a preview of the NBA finals.

The Heat appeared to be headed for a humiliating loss but they survived the mighty scare to beat the Spurs 105-100 behind a 20-8 closing run and 23 points from LeBron James at AmericanAirlines Arena.

Luiz Felipe Scolari believes Brazil have a solemn duty to win the World Cup on home soil in 2014, but admitted that the faltering giants are nowhere near favorites for a sixth world title.

Scolari is used to guiding Brazil through stormy waters having taken over a side struggling even to qualify for the 2002 World Cup before guiding them to their most recent triumph 10 years ago.