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Published on Wednesday, Nov 21, 2007
Associated Press
Andy Roddick will lead the United States against defending champion Russia in the Davis Cup final.
The sixth-ranked Roddick, who has never won a Davis Cup title, was selected along with No. 13 James Blake and the top-ranked doubles pair of Bob and Mike Bryan. The best-of-five series will be played Nov. 30-Dec. 2 on the indoor hard courts of the Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Ore.
The Russian team, which won its second Davis Cup title last year, will be led by No. 4 Nikolay Davydenko, Igor Andreev, Dmitry Tursunov and Mikhail Youzhny, the International Tennis Federation announced Tuesday.
Both Davis Cup teams include the same players from the semifinals, when the United States beat Sweden 4-1 and Russia defeated Germany 3-2.
The United States has won a record 31 Davis Cup titles, but none since 1995, when Pete Sampras led the team to victory over Russia on clay in Moscow.
More tennis: Federer defeats Sampras
In an exhibition match between tennis greats past and present, Roger Federer defeated Sampras 6-4, 6-3 in Seoul, South Korea. The match was the first of three Asian exhibitions, with their next meeting Thursday in Kuala Lumpur before a final get together in Macau on Saturday. If the top-ranked Swiss star expected an easy time against Sampras, he found out early ''Pistol Pete'' still has his powerful serve. Sampras brought cheers from the crowd at Seoul's Olympic Tennis Arena with two aces in his first service game. The balding Sampras proceeded to break his opponent's serve and then moved 4-2 ahead courtesy of a drop shot. ''I feel pretty good,'' Sampras told Korean television after the game. ''I made it competitive, which was my goal. Obviously Roger is the best player in the world and I retired five years ago. I am grateful that he invited me.''
Football: Zook to coach Hula Bowl
Illinois football coach Ron Zook has been picked to coach in the 2008 Hula Bowl. The all-star game is in its 63rd year and will be played January 12th at Aloha Stadium in Hawaii. Zook calls being picked to coach a ''great honor,'' and he says he's looking forward to being able to work with the best players in college football. The Hula Bowl news comes the day after Zook was picked as the Big Ten's Coach of the Year for leading Illinois to a 9-3 record in his third season on the job.
Purdue coach Joe Tiller dismissed junior wide receiver Selwyn Lymon from the team two days after he was arrested on drunken driving and resisting arrest charges. Police said Lymon had a blood-alcohol content of 0.15 percent, nearly double the legal limit for driving in Indiana, when he was stopped about 3:15 a.m. Sunday in West Lafayette.
An assistant football coach at Maryville College was killed on campus when his pickup truck crashed into a tree on a road leading to the school's stadium in Maryville, Tenn. Shawn Jeremiah Cody Bowers, 25, died in the Monday night accident, Police Chief Tony Crisp said. Two passengers were injured, one critically.
A collision involving a car driven by former Alabama football star Siran Stacy killed six people, including Stacy's wife and four of his children, state troopers said Tuesday. The driver of the second vehicle also was killed in Dothan, Ala. Stacy, 39, was listed in stable condition in surgical intensive care at Flowers Hospital in Dothan.
Boxing: Klitschko, Ibragimov to fight
IBF champion Wladimir Klitschko and WBO titleholder Sultan Ibragimov will fight Feb. 23 in Madison Square Garden to unify two of the four heavyweight world titles, Klitschko's management said. Regarded by many as the best of the current heavyweights, Klitschko (49-3, 44 knockouts) tops the independent IBO rankings. Ibragimov (22-0-1, 17 knockouts) pounded out a unanimous decision against Evander Holyfield last month.
Mike Tyson reported to jail to serve his one-day sentence for a DUI conviction in Phoenix. The former heavyweight champion will be at Tent City, an open-air jail near a dog pound and junk yard in Arizona. Tyson, 41, pleaded guilty in September to one count of felony cocaine possession and one misdemeanor count of driving under the influence.
Other: Landis files final appeal
Floyd Landis filed his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Tuesday, setting in motion his last chance to regain the 2006 Tour de France title that was stripped because of a positive doping test.
University of Alabama-Birmingham point guard Paul Delaney III, who led the team in scoring as a junior, will miss the rest of the season with a knee injury.
World ice dancing champion Maxim Staviski has been charged with drunk driving and causing a fatal accident in Sofia, Bulgaria. The 30-year-old skater was charged in an accident that left a man dead and his female companion in a coma, prosecutors said. He faces from three to 10 years in prison. Police said Staviski's blood-alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit.
The United States lost to Spain in four sets at the volleyball Men's World Cup in Matsumoto, Japan, where the top three teams qualify for the Beijing Olympics. Spain won 21-25, 25-20, 27-25, 25-20, dropping the Americans to 1-2.
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