Briefly: Mikaela Shiffrin wins seventh slalom in a row

Mikaela Shiffrin dominated the first women's World Cup slalom of 2019, winning Saturday in Zagreb, Croatia, for her seventh slalom victory in a row.

At a night event Tuesday in Austria, Shiffrin can match the all-time record of eight consecutive slalom wins, set by Vreni Schneider of Switzerland in 1989 and repeated by Janica Kostelic of Croatia in 2001.

"When I am skiing my best, it feels something like a dance," she said. "The rhythm is really something that I can feel helps me ski faster in every turn. There were a lot of turns that felt like this dance."

Shiffrin beat Petra Vlhova of Slovakia by 1.25 seconds on the icy Crveni Spust course.

Shiffrin has won 12 of the past 13 and 28 of the past 34 World Cup slaloms in which she has competed and last week set the women's World Cup record of 36 slalom victories. She's closing on Ingemar Stenmark's total of 40.

Roger Federer won the Hopman Cup for a record third time, leading defending champion Switzerland past Germany 2-1 in Perth, Australia.

Switzerland took its fourth Hopman Cup title overall when Federer and Belinda Bencic beat Alexander Zverev and Angelique Kerber 4-0, 1-4, 4-3 (4) in the Fast4 format in mixed doubles. In men's singles, Federer defeated fourth-ranked Zverev 6-4, 6-2.

• Roberto Bautista Agut won the Qatar Open in Doha, beating Tomas Berdych 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. In the tournament, Agut beat three players who have been ranked in the world's top five: current No. 1 Novak Djokovic, Stan Wawrinka and Berdych.

• Top-seeded Kevin Anderson won his sixth ATP title, beating Ivo Karlovic 7-6 (4), 6-7 (2), 7-6 (5) in the Maharashtra Open in Pune, India.

• No. 27-ranked Lesia Tsurenko beat U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka 6-2, 6-4 in the semifinals of the Brisbane International. Tsurenko will play No. 5 seed Karolina Pliskova, who beat Donna Vekic 6-3, 6-4, for the title.

West Virginia hired Neal Brown away from Troy to coach the Mountaineers.

Brown agreed to a six-year, $19.05 million contract to replace Dana Holgorsen, who left to become Houston's coach.

• Iowa defensive back Amani Hooker, a junior from Park Center, said he will enter the NFL draft. Hooker was a first-team All-Big Ten pick and the league's defensive back of the year.

Baseball: The New York Mets acquired Keon Broxton from the Milwaukee Brewers, adding to their outfield options. The Mets sent reliever Bobby Wahl to the Brewers along with a pair of minor leaguers, righthanded reliever Adam Hill and infielder Felix Valerio. Broxton had four home runs, 11 RBI and a .179 batting average in 51 games for Milwaukee last season, but he had 20 home runs and 21 steals in 2017.

Bobsled: Olympic champion Mariama Jamanka of Germany drove to her second World Cup win of the season with partner Annika Drazek, rallying in the second heat in Altenberg, Germany. Americans Elana Meyers Taylor and Lake Kwaza won their second bronze medal of the season.

Luge: Julia Taubitz of Germany won a World Cup race in Koenigssee, Germany, and U.S. slider Summer Britcher won her second silver medal of the season.

Soccer: Manchester United interim manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer collected a record-tying fifth straight victory at the start of his tenure as his team beat second-tier Reading 2-0 in the third round of the FA Cup. The other four victories had come in the Premier League.