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Sports brief

Compiled from Times wires

© St. Petersburg Times, published March 28, 2001

U.S missing four starters for game

Claudio Reyna, Brian McBride and Eddie Pope were dropped from the U.S. roster for today's World Cup soccer qualifier at San Pedro Sula, Honduras, leaving the Americans without four starters.

The United States also is missing forward Joe-Max Moore, who tore a calf muscle Feb. 28 in a 2-0 win over Mexico in the first of 10 games each team plays in the North and Central American and Caribbean region.

Backup forward Landon Donovan was hurt in last week's FIFA Under-20 Championship qualifying and also was dropped.

MORE SOCCER: The Mutiny defeated the Cocoa Expos of the Premier Development League 4-0 Tuesday at the Largo United Soccer Complex. Steve Trittschuh scored two goals, and guest players Paul Schneider and Kent Njoku had one each. ... Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber said that Donovan, who signed with Germany's Bayer Leverkusen but hasn't played, was at league offices in New York trying to work out a contract.

COLLEGES: Shawn Walsh, who has coached Maine to two men's hockey titles, will have a cancerous lung removed this week. ... Florida defeated Brown 6-1 in men's tennis, led by Jeremy Wurtzman, a 6-4, 6-2 winner at No. 1 singles. ... In women's tennis, South Florida lost four of six in singles in a 4-3 loss to Florida Atlantic. Ashlee Callahan and Ildiko Zubor won for USF. ... Matt Lynch pitched seven scoreless innings to help host Florida State defeat the Citadel 3-0 in baseball. ... USF's home game against Stetson was canceled because of a power outage in the second inning. ... Western State (Colo.) College football coach Carl "Duke" Iverson resigned to take the job at Western Oregon.

AUTOS: Michael Andretti, absent from the Indy 500 since the formation of the Indy Racing League five years ago, announced he will return in May with the Motorola-Archipelago Racing team formed by his CART team owner, Barry Green. ... A NASCAR appeals committee upheld the fine and two-race suspension given to Chad Knaus, crew chief for Stacy Compton, over shoulder harness violations. ... The government of Aruba broke promises on a Formula One track project and should pay $20-million in damages, the project's promoter charged in a federal suit in Miami.

CYCLING: Tour de France organizers called for French investigators to speed up their inquiry into allegations that the team of two-time winner Lance Armstrong used banned products. ... Armstrong finished 71st while Sergei Smetanine won the the second stage of the Tour of Catalonia at Empuriabrava, Spain.

TRACK AND FIELD: A federal appeals court on upheld a lower court's dismissal of runner Mary Decker Slaney's lawsuit claiming she was unfairly found to have failed a 1996 drug test.

SKIING: Jonna Mendes won the women's giant slalom at the U.S. Alpine nationals at Whitefish, Mont.

RATINGS: NBC's broadcast of the PGA Tour Players Championship had its highest two-day average since 1987, drawing a 4.7 rating (about 4.8-million TV homes), 18 percent more than last year.

BOXING: Former WBA heavyweight champion Greg Page, hospitalized with head injuries from a bout, was upgraded from serious to fair condition at University Hospital in Cincinnati. Page, 42, was knocked out March 9 by Dale Crowe at Erlanger, Ky.

SWIMMING: Ian Thorpe set his second world record in as many days, breaking Pieter van den Hoogendband's mark in the 200-meter freestyle. He swam in 1 minute, 44.69 seconds at the Australian championships, beating the mark of 1:45.35.

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