Iraq allowed back in Olympics

0 Comments | Oakland Tribune, Jul 29, 2008 | by Anonymous

-- Ai Sugiyama upset 16th-seeded Nicole Vaidisova 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 in the first round of the Rogers Cup in Montreal.

Baseball

Little League Baseball will use instant replay on an experimental basis at next month's World Series in Williamsport, Pa. It will review questionable home runs and other close plays at the outfield fences.

MLS

New York forward Oscar Echeverry will undergo season-ending surgery on his right knee. The Colombian will be out for six months.

Mixed martial arts

Nevada's athletic commission filed a complaint against UFC fighter James "The Sandman" Irvin, alleging he tested positive for two unapproved painkillers after his July 19 loss to Anderson Silva in Las Vegas.

Swimming

Scott Usher opened the U.S. Open in Minneapolis with a meet record in the men's 200-meter breaststroke. The 2004 Olympian finished in 2 minutes, 10.67 seconds.

Yachting

The America's Cup appears to be headed away from a rare one-on- one showdown between American and Swiss crews and back to its traditional multichallenger format following a ruling by a New York appeals court that went against a San Francisco yacht club that backs Larry Ellison.

In the latest 180-degree turn in a yearlong court fight, the New York Supreme Court's Appellate Division ruled 3-2 that Spain's Club Nautico Espanol de Vela should be the Challenger of Record, giving it the right to negotiate terms of the next competition with current America's Cup holder Alinghi of Switzerland.