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UR will face tough foes at home
Two teams that played in the 2008 NCAA tournament and two that played in the NIT highlight Richmond 2008-09 Atlantic 10 Conference home schedule. The Spiders will host Xavier and Saint Joseph's, along with 2008 NIT participants Charlotte and Rhode Island. Charlotte, George Washington and Saint Louis are the three teams that Richmond will face both home and away.
Other home opponents include Duquesne and St. Bonaventure. Richmond's road conference games also include Dayton, Fordham, La Salle, Massachusetts and Temple. The dates and times of Richmond's Atlantic 10 games are yet to be determined. Richmond's nonconference schedule will be announced at a later date.
TRACK AND FIELD
Isinbayeva sets pole vault world record
ROME - Just when it seemed someone might challenge Yelena Isinbayeva, the Russian responded with her first pole vault world record in nearly three years. Isinbayeva cleared 16 feet, 6 inches (5.03 meters) yesterday at the Golden Gala meet, improving on her previous mark of 16-5¼ (5.01) set at the 2005 world championships in Helsinki, Finland.
NFL
Skins reach terms with Kelly, Brooks
ASHBURN - The Washington Redskins agreed to terms with second-round draft pick Malcolm Kelly and sixth-round selection Durant Brooks.
Kelly, a receiver from Oklahoma, agreed to a four-year contract. Brooks, from Georgia Tech, was the only punter selected in this year's draft. He will compete with Derrick Frost for punting job. In other NFL news:
Judge sides with Redskins
WASHINGTON - The Washington Redskins have won the latest round in a 16-year court battle against a group of American Indians, prevailing on a technicality that again skirts the issue of whether the team's nickname is racially offensive.
In a ruling dated June 25 and first circulated Thursday, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the youngest of the seven Native American plaintiffs waited too long after turning 18 to file the lawsuit that attempts to revoke the Redskins trademarks. The lead plaintiff, Suzan Shown Harjo, said the group will appeal.
NBA
Nets add forwards Najera, Hayes
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - The New Jersey Nets reached agreements with free agent forwards Eduardo Najera and Jarvis Hayes. Terms of the agreements were not released. In other NBA news:
TENNIS
Roddick cites injury, pulls out of match
ST. LOUIS - Andy Roddick has withdrawn from a World Team Tennis match in St. Louis, citing a lingering injury. Roddick was scheduled to play today for the St. Louis Aces in a match against Kansas City. Aces general manager Dani Apted says Roddick's injury is too severe for him to play or travel to St. Louis.
Roddick and James Blake are scheduled to play an exhibition at the Siegel Center on Sept. 12 as part of the Anthem LIVE! event, which is an annual affair to raise money for cancer research.
NHL
Feaster out as Lightning GM
TAMPA, Fla. - Jay Feaster resigned as general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning, four years after the team he helped assemble won the franchise's only Stanley Cup championship, in 2004. In other NHL news:
BASEBALL
Minor-league manager regrets tirade
Sensing his team needed a kick in the pants, Wichita Wingnuts manager Kash Beauchamp set out to get ejected on purpose. He even told his pitching coach to get ready. Beauchamp held true to his word, but took it a little too far, letting loose a spit-flying, shoe-slamming, armpit-showing tirade that left him standing on the field in his red socks and earned him a four-game suspension.
"I regret it, I really do," Beauchamp said after the independent American Association handed down the suspension. "I don't regret getting ejected and I don't regret trying to fire up my team, but I think I went too far, there's no doubt about it." Beauchamp's meltdown came in the nightcap of a doubleheader against Sioux Falls on Wednesday in Kansas.
Orioles scout fired as part of probe
NEW YORK - The Baltimore Orioles fired a high-ranking scout after Major League Baseball's newly formed investigative unit linked him to a gambling probe. MLB was asked for assistance in the gambling inquiry about six months ago by the New York Police Department, a person with knowledge of the investigation said. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because he did not have authority to speak publicly.
