CHICAGO — Count Bobby Valentine among those who would like to manage the Chicago Cubs.

The ESPN analyst and former New York Mets and Texas Rangers manager said he's interested in taking over for the retiring Lou Piniella after this season.

Valentine, who led the Mets to the NL pennant in 2000, calls the Cubs job "one of the most coveted positions in all of sports."

RALEIGH, N.C. — Kaye Cowher, the wife of former Steelers coach Bill Cowher and a former basketball player at North Carolina State and in the now-defunct Women's Professional Basketball League, has died of skin cancer. She was 54.Cowher died Friday in her native North Carolina, where the family relocated at her urging during Cowher's final year as coach in 2006,.

CARNOUSTIE, Scotland — Bernhard Langer won his first senior major on Sunday, holding off a final-round challenge from Corey Pavin for a one-stroke win in the Senior British Open.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Jennifer Yee hit a two-run home run and Melanie Matthews doubled in two runs as Canada snapped the United States' 22-game winning streak at the World Cup of Softball with a 5-2 victory Sunday.