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US men in first following qualifying Sunday
AFN-Sports, 4 p.m.—Boxing: Tavoris Cloud vs. Jean Pascal for Cloud’s IBF light-heavyweight title (dld). AFN-Xtra, 4 p.m.—Golf: PGA Championship, third round (dld). AFN-Atlantic, 7 p.m.—Olympics: Men’s basketball bronze, Argentina vs. Russia. AFN-Sports, 7 p.m.—Olympics: Track and field, men’s marathon. AFN-Xtra, 8 p.m.—Olympics: Men’s wrestling, freestyle qualifying round. AFN-Atlantic, 8:45 p.m.—Olympics: Men’s handball bronze, Hungary vs. Croatia (joined in progress). AFN-Xtra, 9:30 p.m.—Olympics: Men’s cycling, mountain bike final. AFN-Atlantic, 10 p.m.—Olympics: Women’s modern pentathlon, fencing, swimming. AFN-Atlantic, 10:30 p.m.—Olympics: BY NANCY A RMOUR Men’s water polo bronze, Montenegro The Associated Press vs. Serbia. AFN-Sports, 11 p.m.—Olympics: Men’s basketball final, — U.S. The vs. Spain. LONDON Americans AFN-Xtra, 11 p.m.—Olympics: Events have TBD. insisted for months they can AFN-Atlantic, 11:45 p.m.—Olympics: contend for the Olympic title in Men’s handball final, Sweden vs. France.
men’s gymnastics. Another night like this, and Monday they won’t need say a word. AFN-Sports, 1:30 to a.m.—Olympics: Men’s water polo final, Croatia vs. Italy. The color of their medals will do AFN-Atlantic, 1:45 a.m.—Olympics: all the talking for them. Men’s volleyball bronze, Italy vs. Bulgaria. While perennial gymnastics AFN-Xtra, 2 a.m.—Auto racing: NASpowerhouses China and Japan CAR Sprint Cup series, Finger Lakes 335. AFN-Atlantic, 3:45 a.m.—Olympics: bobbled and wobbled their way Women’s modern pentathlon, riding, combined. qualifying through Saturday, AFN-Sports, 3:45 a.m.—Olympics: the Americans proved they’ve Wrestling, freestyle finals. 4:45 a.m.—Olympics: gotAFN-Atlantic, the big skills to back up their Events TBD. bigAFN-Sports, hopes. They didn’t count a 5 a.m.—Olympics: Men’s volleyball final. single fall, and their final score AFN-Xtra, 5 a.m.—MLB: Washington at of 275.342 is almost three points Arizona. AFN-Atlantic, 7 a.m.—Olympics: ahead of surprising Britain. Boxing, finals (dld). “We’re going to do everything AFN-Sports, 8 a.m.—Olympics: Closing ceremony. we can to make it finish like that,” AFN-Xtra, 8 a.m.—NFL: Preseason, team Jonathan Horton Houstoncaptain at Carolina. AFN-Atlantic, 10 a.m.—MLB: Atlanta at said. “I was actually joking ... earN.Y. Mets (joined in progress). lier, ‘Can we just get thepreseason: medals AFN-Xtra, 11 a.m.—NFL Tennessee Seattle. now?’ Butatwe’ve got one more day AFN-Sports, 3 p.m.—Golf: PGA Championship, finalwe’re round (dld). to go, and pumped about AFN-Xtra, 4 p.m.—MMA: UFC 150, it.” Chris Camozzi vs. Buddy Roberts, Yushin Okami Rousimar Palhares and Jake The vs.team final is Monday. Shields vs. Ed Herman, middleweights; Since when began Donald 2000, Cerrone vs. scoring Melvin Guillard, lightweights; andinBenson Henderson starting anew the final, only vs. Frankie Edgar for Henderson’s lightone first-day winner has failed to weight title (dld). AFN-Sports, 9:30 p.m.—MLB: Detroit at finish atop the podium. Texas (dld). Japan, the11heavy favorite AFN-Xtra, p.m.—MMA: UFCcom150, Chris Camozzi vs. Buddy Roberts, Yushin ing into the meet, is third (270.503) Okami vs. Rousimar Palhares and Jake after several uncharacteristic erShields vs. Ed Herman, middleweights; Donald vs. Melvin rors byCerrone three-time world Guillard, chamlightweights; and Benson Henderson pion KoheiEdgar Uchimura. Defending vs. Frankie for Henderson’s lightweight titlechampion (dld). Olympic China, which also has wonTuesday the last five world titles, is fourth (269.985) after its AFN-Sports, 12:30 a.m.—MLB: San Diego at Pittsburgh splat-filled day.(dld). AFN-Xtra, 8 a.m.—MLB: Texas at N.Y. “We studied a lot about Yankees. 9 a.m.—NFL preseason: theAFN-Sports, American team already,” Dallas at Oakland. said Japanese coach Washington Yasunori AFN-Xtra, 11 a.m.—MLB: at San Francisco (dld). Tachibana, who sent a scouting AFN-Sports, 4 p.m.—MLB: L.A. Dodgers party to last(dld). month’s Olympic triat Pittsburgh 8 p.m.—NFL: als.AFN-Sports, “So we knew it was Preseason, going to Arizona at Kansas City (dld). beAFN-Sports, pretty tough.” 11 p.m.—NFL: Preseason, Tampa Bay at Miami (dld). Germany and Russia compete later All Saturday. times are Japan and Korea Standard; (dld) qualifying, indicates delayed broadcast. Unlike when teams All listings are subject to change. Visit get to drop their lowest score, MyAFN.net for information. there will be no margin of error in Monday’s final. Teams comBoxing pete three gymnasts on each event, and all three scores count. Fight schedule Botch one routine, and it could Aug. 17 beAtthe difference between going Buffalo Run Casino, Miami, Okla., Don George Stevenson, 12, suhome withvs. a Adonis gold medal or just a per middleweights. souvenir T-shirt. Aug. 18 At Ballys Place Hotel Casino, AtBut theParkAmericans believe lantic City, N.J., Joel Diaz vs. Guillermo they’re actually better built for Sanchez, 10, super featherweights. Aug. 24 that high-risk, high-reward forAt Fantasy Springs Resort Casino, Inmula, andRandy this Caballero performance will dio, Calif., vs. Manuel Roman, 12, for Caballero’s NABO that banonly fuel their confidence tamweight title; Michael Perez vs. Fidel they can Jr., join Conner and Maldonado 10, Bart lightweights. Aug. 25 hisAtGolden Gang ofRobert ’84 asStieglitz the only 02 World, Berlin, vs. Arthurteams Abraham, for the Stieglitz’s WBO U.S. to 12, win Olympic super middleweight title. title. Sept. 1 At TBA, Leyva Germany, Felix Sturm vs. Danell and John OroDaniel Geale, 12, for Sturm’s WBA Super zco posted the highest individual World middleweight title and Geale’s IBF middleweight title. scores, and the team had the At Turning Point Casino, Verona, N.Y., highest total on exercise Gennady Golovkin vs. floor Grzegorz Proksa, 12, for Golovkin’s WBA World IBO and high bar. They had onlyand three middleweight titles; Sergiy Dzinziruk vs. Jonathan 10, and juniorcounted middlefalls the Gonzalez, entire day, weights. only four scores below 15.
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EASTERN CONFERENCE A U.S. Open Series event AMERICAN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA Friday East New York 12 7 5 41 40 34 At Rexall Centre W L T Pct PF PA Houston 11 6 7 40 35 27 Toronto New England 1 0 0 1.000 7 6 Sporting KC 12 7 4 40 28 21 Purse: $3.2 million (Masters 1000) Miami 0 1 0 .000 7 20 D.C. 11 7 3 36 35 27 Surface: Hard-Outdoor N.Y. Jets 0 1 0 .000 6 17 Chicago 10 7 5 35 25 24 Singles Buffalo 0 1 0 .000 6 7 Montreal 9 13 3 30 35 43 Third Round South Columbus 8 8 4 28 20 21 Richard Gasquet (14), France, def. Jacksonville 1 0 0 1.000 32 31 Philadelphia 7 11 2 23 22 24 Tomas Berdych (4), Czech Republic, 6-4, Houston 0 0 0 .000 0 0 New England 6 11 5 23 26 28 6-2. Indianapolis 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Toronto FC 5 13 4 19 25 40 Mardy Fish (11), United States, def. Tennessee 0 0 0 .000 0 0 WESTERN CONFERENCE Juan Monaco (7), Argentina, 2-6, 6-1, 6-4. North W L T Pts GF GA Janko Tipsarevic (5), Serbia, def. Marin Baltimore 1 0 0 1.000 31 17 San Jose 13 5 5 44 45 28 Cilic (10), Croatia, 6-2, 6-4. Cincinnati 1 0 0 1.000 17 6 Real Salt Lake 13 8 3 42 35 28 Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Sam Cleveland 1 0 0 1.000 19 17 Seattle 10 5 7 37 31 22 Querrey, United States, 6-4, 6-4. Pittsburgh 0 1 0 .000 23 24 Vancouver 9 7 7 34 26 28 Marcel Granollers, Spain, def. Jeremy West Los Angeles 10 11 3 33 39 39 Chardy, France, 6-1, 6-4. Denver 1 0 0 1.000 31 3 Chivas USA 7 8 5 26 14 21 Tommy Haas, Germany, def. Radek San Diego 1 0 0 1.000 21 13 Colorado 8 14 1 25 29 32 Stepanek, Czech Republic, 2-6, 6-4, 6-1. Kansas City 1 0 0 1.000 27 17 FC Dallas 5 11 8 23 26 32 John Isner (8), United States, def. Oakland 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Portland 5 12 5 20 20 37 Philipp Kohlschreiber (12), Germany, 6-7 NATIONAL CONFERENCE Note: Three points for victory, one (3), 6-4, 6-4. East point for tie. Quarterfinals W L T Pct PF PA Friday’s game Janko Tipsarevic (5), Serbia, def. MarPhiladelphia 1 0 0 1.000 24 23 New York 2, Houston 0 cel Granollers, Spain, 6-4, 6-4. Washington 1 0 0 1.000 7 6 Saturday’s games Richard Gasquet (14), France, def. Dallas 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Real Salt Lake at Vancouver Mardy Fish (11), United States, 5-7, 6-1, N.Y. Giants 0 1 0 .000 31 32 Toronto FC at Columbus, ppd. 6-2. South D.C. United at Sporting Kansas City John Isner (8), United States, def. MiTampa Bay 1 0 0 1.000 20 7 Colorado at FC Dallas los Raonic (16), Canada, 7-6 (9), 6-4. New Orleans 1 1 0 .500 23 17 Seattle FC at San Jose Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. TomCarolina 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Sunday’s games my Haas, Germany, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. Atlanta 0 1 0 .000 17 31 Chicago at Philadelphia Doubles North Montreal at New England Second Round Detroit 0 1 0 .000 17 19 Los Angeles at Chivas USA Bob and Mike Bryan (2), United States, Minnesota 0 1 0 .000 6 17 Wednesday, Aug. 15 def. Ivan Dodig, Croatia, and Marcelo Chicago 0 1 0 .000 3 31 Los Angeles at Columbus Melo, Brazil, 7-5, 6-2. Green Bay 0 1 0 .000 13 21 Portland at Toronto FC Paul Hanley, Austria, and Nenad ZiWest FC Dallas at Vancouver monjic, Serbia, def. Mahesh Bhupathi San Francisco 1 0 0 1.000 17 6 and Rohan Bopanna (6), India, 6-4, 7-6 Seattle 0 0 0 .000 0 0 (6). St. Louis 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Quarterfinals Arizona 0 2 0 .000 27 44 Robert Lindstedt, Sweden, and Horia Thursday’s games Tecau (4), Romania, def. Aisam-ul-Haq Washington 7, Buffalo 6 Houston 0 0—0 Qureshi, Pakistan, and Jean-Julien Rojer Philadelphia 24, Pittsburgh 23 New York 0 2—2 (7), Netherlands, 6-4, 3-6, 10-7 tiebreak. Baltimore 31, Atlanta 17 Second half—1, New York, HolgersJurgen Melzer, Austria, and Leander New England 7, New Orleans 6 son 2 (Cahill, Miller), 61st minute. 2, New Paes (5), India, def. Mariusz Fyrstenberg San Diego 21, Green Bay 13 ERIC G AY/AP York, Solli 3 (Henry, Cahill), 90th+. and Marcin Matkowski (3), Poland, 7-6 Denver 31, Chicago 3 Goalies—Houston, Tally Hall; New (5), 4-6, 10-6. Friday’s games York, Bill Gaudette. The United States’ Candace Parker, right, is grabed from behind by Croatia’s Jelena Ivezic during the Bob and Mike Bryan (2), United States, Tampa Bay 20, Miami 7 Yellow Cards—Kandji, Houston, 28th; def. Paul Hanley, Austria, and Nenad Zisecond half of a preliminary game atLindpere, the Olympics in London. TheNew U.S won the game 81-56. Cincinnati 17, N.Y. Jets 6 New York, 58th; Lade, monjic, Serbia, 7-5, 6-1. Jacksonville 32, N.Y. Giants 31 York, 67th. Cleveland 19, Detroit 17 A—15,730 (25,189) Kansas City 27, Arizona 17 San Francisco 17, Minnesota 6 A U.S. Open Series event Saturday’s games Friday Houston at Carolina At Uniprix Stadium Tennessee at Seattle Montreal Sunday’s game Purse: $2.17 million (Premier) St. Louis at Indianapolis Surface: Hard-Outdoor Monday’s game Singles NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Dallas at Oakland Second Round After Saturday qualifying; race Sunday Thursday, Aug. 16 Caroline Wozniacki (7), Denmark, def. At Watkins Glen International Cleveland at Green Bay Kiki Bertens, Netherlands, 7-5, 6-1. Cincinnati at Atlanta Watkins Glen, N.Y. Angelique Kerber (6), Germany, def. Friday, Aug. 17 Lap length: 2.45 miles Ekaterina Makarova, Russia, 6-3, 6-3. Tennessee at Tampa Bay (Car number in parentheses) Tamira Paszek, Austria, def. Victoria Buffalo at Minnesota 1. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, ChevroAzarenka (1), Belarus, vs. 3-3, retired Jacksonville at New Orleans let, 127.02 mph. Third Round Detroit at Baltimore 2. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 126.928. Petra Kvitova (5), Czech Republic, def. Miami at Carolina 3. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, Marion Bartoli (9), France, 6-1, 6-1. Oakland at Arizona 126.925. Lucie Safarova (16), Czech Republic, Saturday, Aug. 18 4. (2) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, def. Sam Stosur (4), Australia, 7-6 (9), 7N.Y. Giants at N.Y. Jets 126.626. 6 (5). San Francisco at Houston 5. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 126.524. Aleksandra Wozniak, Canada, leads Kansas City at St. Louis 6. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, Christina McHale, United States, 7-6 (5), Washington at Chicago 126.312. 5-2, susp. rain. Dallas at San Diego 7. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, Doubles at Denver cans had their way Seattle on offense in that contest, they BYRound DOUG FEINBERG126.15. Second Sunday, Aug. 19 8. (15) Clint Bowyer,struggled Toyota, 126.061. Sabine Lisicki, Germany, and Peng Saturday. Indianapolis at Pittsburgh The Associated Press 9. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, Shuai, China, def. Natalie Grandin, South Monday, Aug. 20 The U.S. built a 9-0Philadelphia lead earlyatonNew as Croatia 126.049. Africa, and Vladimira Uhlirova, Czech ReEngland missed LONDON 10. (1) Parker Jamie McMurray, public, 7-5, 6-4. — Tina Charles and Candace its firstChevrolet, 14 shots. The Americans could have been up 125.959. Bethanie Mattek-Sands, Unitedand States, each had double-doubles Angel McCoughtry lot more, Ford, but missed a lot of easy shots and turned 11. (98) Michael aMcDowell, and Sania Mirza, India, def. Dominika provided a spark offHantuchova, the benchSloto help the U.S. wom- the ball over. The U.S. finished with 21 turnovers. 125.713. Cibulkova and Daniela vakia,team 6-2, 6-3. 12. Saturday (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, en’s overcome a sloppy performance Vrsaljko finally got the Croatians on the board Nadia Petrova, Russia, and Katarina 125.643. to beat Croatia 81-56 indef. their Olympic opener. Srebotnik (3), Slovenia, Chuang 13. (78) Regan Smith, with a Chevrolet, lay-in with 2 minutes remaining in the first Chia-jung, Taiwan, and Zhang Shuai, ChiGeno had said 125.612. he14.was hoping LPGA na,Coach 6-7 (8), 6-4, 11-9Auriemma tiebreak. The U.S. built its lead to Tour 21-9 and looked (20) Joey Logano,quarter. Toyota, 125.518. Friday Anastasia Rodionova, Australia, anda style that the Americans could play of basket15. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 125.516. poised to take command earlyMeadows before Golf going At Highland Clubcold Galina Voskoboeva, Kazakhstan, def. 16. (88) Dalethe Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, ball that would be help grow Sylvania, Ohio Raquel Kops-Jones andentertaining Abigail Spearsand125.5. from the floor. (6), United game States, internationally. 2-6, 7-6 (6), 10-2 tiePurse: $1.3 million women’s That didn’t happen 17. (22) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, Croatia scored the next 14 points, capped by Luca break. Yardage: 6,428; Par: 71 125.419. Saturday. Klaudia Jans-Ignacik, Poland, and (a-amateur) 18. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 125.409. Ivankovic’s lay-in that gave the team it’s first lead of Kristina Mladenovic, France, def. AnasSecond Round The U.S. struggled for the first three quarters 19. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, the game, 23-21. Ivezic’s three-pointer minutes tasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia, and Lucie Chella Choi 66-67—133later -9 125.389. before away to their consecutive Safarova,pulling Czech Republic, 7-5,win 6-7 (8), 10- 34th20. Inbee Park 69-65—134 -8 (5) Kasey Kahne, made itChevrolet, 26-23. 8 tiebreak. contest. Hee Kyung Seo 68-66—134 -8 Olympic 125.339. Quarterfinals Mika seen Miyazato 66-68—134 -8 Diana Taurasi had enough, hitting consecu(95) Scott Speed, Ford, 125.334. The was farRaymond different the 54-point Liezel victory Huber and Lisa (1), than 21. Hee-Won Han 68-67—135 -7 22. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, tive threes to restore advantage. United States,the def. Sabine Lisicki, GermaSo Yeonthe Ryu Americans’ 67-68—135 -7 pounding Americans gave Croatia 125.199. a week ny, and Peng Shuai, China, 6-5, retired. Karine Icher 66-69—135 -7 The U.S. led 31-28 at the half. 23. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 125.08. earlier. Anastasia Rodionova, Australia, and Pernilla Lindberg 64-71—135 -7 24. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 124.917. It was the second consecutive Olympics the Galina Voskoboeva, Kazakhstan, def. Beatriz Recari 70-66—136 -6 Despite missing its first 14 shots, Croatia hung 25. (32) Boris Said, Ford, 124.791. Chan Hao-ching and Chan Yung-jan, TaiI.K. Kim 69-67—136 -6 Americans struggled in their opener. They trailed 26.Americans (47) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, wan, 6-4, 2-6, 10-8 tiebreak. tough for the first 30 minutes before the Jiyai Shin 69-67—136 -6 124.715. the Czech Republic 13-2 before winning 68-68—136 by 40 at the Jacqui Concolino -6 finally could pull away. 27. (51) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, Angela Stanford 66-70—136 -6 124.455. The U.S., which has dominated its opponents en Beijing Games. Mi Jung Hur 71-66—137 -5 28. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, The U.S. men’s basketball team, who are also Kathleen Ekey 69-68—137 -5 route to the past four gold medals, 124.208. only led 53-49 -5 heavy favorites toSydnee winMichaels the gold, didn’t69-68—137 make the 29.run (43) put Aric the Almirola, Ford, 124.187. early in the fourth quarter before a 16-0 Lindsey Wright 69-68—137 -5 Aug. 12 30. (13) Casey Mears, Ford, 124.131. women’s opener. They had practice at the same Stacy Lewis 68-69—137 -5 1937 out — of Shirley Hanover, driven by game reach. 31. (36) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, Dewi Claire Schreefel 68-69—137 -5 Henry Thomas, wins the Hambletonian marched together in the open124.108. McCoughtry started the burst with consecutive time. The two teams Jessica Korda 73-65—138 -4 Stakes in straight heats. 32. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 123.868. Jennifer 70-68—138 ceremonies, and areJohnson staying in the same hotel-4 1942 — The driven by Ben capped layups, andAmbassador, Tamika Catchings it with a ing 33. (55) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 123.71. Richdale 69-69—138 -4 White, wins the Hambletonian Stakes in up for the Samantha U.S. is Song Angola, which 69-69—138 lost to Tur34. (38) David Gilliland,Next Ford, 123.576. three-point Cash, who Christine -4 the third heat. play that made it 69-49. Swin 35. (83) Landon key Cassill, Jeong Jang 68-70—138 will -4 72-50Toyota, in its Olympic debut. The Americans 1953 — Helicopter, driven Harry hadn’t played in the firstby few quarters, also had a 123.471. Meredith Duncan 66-72—138 -4 Harvey, wins the Hambletonian Stakes in also face China, Turkey and the Czech Republic in 36. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, three-point Numa Gulyanamitta 66-72—138 -4 the third heat. play in the spurt. 123.436. Candie 69-70—139 1978 — Cold Comfort, driven pool play. The U.S. beatKung the Czechs in the finals -3 of McCoughtry finished withby1323points. Charles had Chevrolet, 37. (10) J.J. Yeley, 123.27. Jennie Lee 69-70—139 -3 year-old Peter Haughton, ties the Interthe 2010 world championship the Lon38. (26)with Josh Wise, 122.531. 14 points and 10 of rebounds; 11 Ford, Paula Creamer to qualify for 68-71—139 -3 national Trot mark 2:31 3-5 atParker Roos- finished 39. (33) Stephen Leicht, Chevrolet, Danielle Kang 68-71—139 -3 evelt Raceway, making Haughton the don Games. points and 13 boards. 122.335. Jane Park 68-71—139 -3 youngest driver to win the International. 40. (19) Chris Cook, Toyota, The 118.879. Czech Republic falling -2 to Tiffanylost Joh its pool opener, 71-69—140 Jelena and Marija Vrsaljko 1990 — Ivezic Waynescored Grady 22 of points Australia 41. (49) Jason Leffler, Toyota, 118.742. Belenearly Mozo games Saturday, 71-69—140 -2 sheds his runner-up image with a 3China 66-57. In other Russia added 19 for Croatia, which was making its Olympic 42. (93) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, owner Wendy Ward 71-69—140 -2 stroke victory over Fred Couples in the points. last SatDori Carter Brazil played 70-70—140 -2 PGA Championship. Grady had rallied past Canada 58-53. France and debut. Vrsaljko missed therecorded previous contest 43. (30) Patrick Long, Toyota, 117.551. 29 second-place finishes in his career. Irene Cho 70-70—140 -2
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Soccer Deals
American women roll past Colombia Friday’s Transactions
BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE—Suspended Philadelphia minor league RHP Gabriel Bermudez and Atlanta minor league RHP Darrel Leiva 50 games for violations of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. American League BOSTON RED SOX—Agreed to terms with OF Scott Podsednik on a one-year contract. Optioned OF Ryan Kalish to Pawtucket (IL). Transferred OF Ryan Sweeney from the 15- to the 60-day DL. BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Assigned RHP Joe Rosan and RHP Chris Green to the Gulf Coast Orioles. CHICAGO WHITE SOX—Traded INF Tyler Kuhn to Arizona for cash considerations. Placed 1B Paul Konerko on the 7-day DL. BY JOSEPH WHITE CLEVELAND INDIANS—Released RHP The Associated Press Derek Lowe. OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Reinstated RHPGLASGOW, Brandon McCarthy from — theMegan 15-day Scotland DL. Placed INF Eric Sogard on the 15-day Rapinoe celebrated DL, retroactive to Aug. 7. her goal by TEXAS RANGERS—Reinstated RHP reaching into her sock and pullMark Lowe from the 15-day DL. Designating a birthday for an ed INFout Alberto Gonzalez fornote assignment. TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Recalled RHP injured teammate, part of a domiDavid Carpenter and INF Mike McCoy nantLas and somewhat perforfrom Vegas (PCL) andfeisty then optioned Carpenter back to Las Vegas. Claimed mance kept the U.S.from women’s RHP Juan that Abreu off waivers Houston and optioned to Las Vegas (PCL). football team him unbeaten after two Designated RHP Scott Richmond for asgames at the Olympics. signment. National League The Americans moved closer to ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS—Placed the Josh quarterfinals with RHP Collmenter Saturday on the 15-day DL.a Recalled Brad Bergesenpeppering from Reno 3-0 winRHP over Colombia, (PCL). the opponent’s net from Tim theWilken openCHICAGO CUBS—Promoted to special assistant the president/ ing whistle of a to physical game. general manager. Named Jaron Madison There of was no early letdown — as director amateur scouting. HOUSTON ASTROS—Optioned OF J.D. there had three days earMartinez and been INF Matt Downs to Oklahoma City (PCL). Recalled OF Fernando lier in the come-from-behind win Martinez from Oklahoma City. over France — and the only surLOS ANGELES DODGERS—Reinstated INF Adam Kennedy DL. prise was that from suchthea15-day one-sided NEW YORK METS—Agreed to terms match a more with RHPdidn’t Drew yield Carpenter on alopsidminor league contract and assigned him to ed score. Binghamton (EL). Abby Wambach finally broke PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Reassigned OF Christian Marrero from Indianapolis the game open with a goal(IL) in to Altoona (EL). the minute, making the her ST. 74th LOUIS CARDINALS—Selected contract of INF Ryan Jackson from Memthe (PCL). Americans’ all-time leadphis ing scorer BASKETBALL in Olympic play. Carli National Basketball Association Lloyd, backCAVALIERS—Signed in the starting lineup CLEVELAND C Michael afterEric. an injury to Shannon Boxx, ORLANDO MAGIC—Sent C Dwight scoredGinChris the Duhon 77th. and F Earl Clark Howard, to the L.A. Lakersgoal and Gcame Jason RichardRapinoe’s in the son to Philadelphia. The Lakers sent C 33rd, aBynum play tosetPhiladelphia up whenand Alex Andrew F Josh McRoberts, G Christian Eyenga and Morgan intercepted a pass near a 2017 first-round draft pick to Orlando. the Colombia box. passed Philadelphia sent G-FMorgan Andre Iguodala to Denver and F Moe Harkless, C Nikola to Rapinoe, whose curling 20Vucevic and an undisclosed first-round draft pick to the Magic. sent G yarder sailed overDenver goalkeeper Arron Afflalo, F Al Harrington and the Sandra Sepulveda’s outstretched lower of its 2014 first-round draft picks to the Magic. hand. Rapinoe then reached into FOOTBALL her sock and retrieved National Football League a note BUFFALOa BILLS—Placed RB to Chris wishing happy birthday Ali Douglas on the waived-injured list. Krieger, U.S. defender who CAROLINAthePANTHERS—Placed OT Lee Ziemba on the waived-injured list. is missing these Olympics after Signed G Andre Ramsey. blowing outBUCCANEERS—Waived her knee duringDEa TAMPA BAY Jayme Mitchell. qualifying match. SOCCER Major League Krieger turnedSoccer 28 SaturNEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION—Anday and is sorelyofmissed, but nounced the retirement M Zak Boggs. COLLEGE the Americans are so deep that METRO ATLANTIC ATHLETIC CONthere’s alwaysJordan someone else FERENCE—Named Confessore assistant commissioner for women’s seemingly ready to step in and basketball and NCAA championship opdo an effective job. Boxx injured erations. AUBURN—Named Ty Megahee assisher right hamstring in the 4-2 win tant baseball coach. over France, but veteran Lloyd BAYLOR—Named Adam Revelette director of baseball operations. —FLORIDA—Announced who led the teamWR in minutes at Ja’Juan Story willyear’s transfer.World Cup — started last LSU—Dismissed CB Tyrann Mathieu in Boxx’s place and scored for the from the football team. LOYOLAtime (NO)—Named Beck Flanagan second in two games. women’s assistant basketball coach.
The win all but assured a berth in the quarterfinals for the AmerPro France basketball icans, is in second place in Group G ahead of North Korea on goal difference with three points. WNBA TheEASTERN U.S. has one group game CONFERENCE W North L PctKorea GB remaining against15 Connecticut 4 .789 — in Manchester on Tuesday. Indiana 10 7 .588 4 Atlanta 9 10No. .474 286 in Colombia is ranked Chicago 8 9 .471 6 New 12 .333 8½ theYork world and has6 nine players Washington 4 14 .222 10½ on U.S.WESTERN collegeCONFERENCE teams, but South W squads L Pct genGB American national Minnesota 15 4 .789 — erally play a light13 international San Antonio 5 .722 1½ Los Angeles that gives 15 them 6 .714 little 1 schedule Seattle 9 10 .474 6 chance to develop 4any15 cohesion. Phoenix .211 11 Tulsa 3 15 .167 11½ The Colombians threatened Saturday’s games goalkeeper Hope Solo’s net a few No games scheduled Sunday’s games times, but they remain scoreless No games scheduled Monday’s games in the top all-time in five matches No games scheduled women’s football tournaments —