Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB--Suspended Cincinnati manager Dusty Baker for two games for making contact with an umpire, N.Y. Yankees manager Joe Girardi for one game for kicking dirt at an umpire and San Diego hitting coach Wally Joyner for one game for coming on the field to argue with an umpire and fined them. American League
Nikolay Davydenko, Juan Monaco and Ivan Ljubicic reached the semifinals of the Hypo Group International on Thursday along with Igor Kunitsyn of Russia.
Olympic gold-medal sprinter Antonio Pettigrew on Thursday admitted taking performance-enhancing substances during a long, successful track career in which he passed all drugs tests. The admission came during testimony in the trial of his former coach Trevor Graham , who is accused of lying to federal authorities investigating doping. Graham has pleaded not guilty. Pettigrew, now an assistant
DENVER -- Tony Granato once stepped aside as Colorado coach because he thought it was in the best interest of the Avalanche. Now, he's back in charge. Granato returned as coach of the Avalanche, four years after he was demoted from the job. In other hockey news: Stars owner Tom Hicks decided his co-general manager experiment was working. So it's not an experiment anymore. The team said that
Poertschach: Sweden advanced to the World Team Cup final on Thursday by taking a 2-0 lead over the United States in the Red Group. Robin Soderling maintained his unbeaten streak at the tournament by defeating James Blake 5-7, 6-3, 6-0
The American doubles team of Wayne Odesnik and Bobby Reynolds defeated Lucas Arnold and Sebastian Prieto of Argentina 6-3, 6-7 (5), 10-7 Wednesday at the World Team Cup.