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Show DAILY AMBRIEFING HERALD ates ts Billings at Orem 7 p.m, 1400 AM TENNIS CORRECTION ‘THERE WAS AN ERROR IN THE LONE PEAK-EASTGIRIS ‘SOOCER STORY IN FRIDAYS HERAID. LONE PEAK JUNIOR ON THE AIR Agassi to face Nadal in final MONTREAL — Andre Agassi beat Greg Rusedski FORWARD Lauren Hair had two assists and one goal in the game. 64, 6 in the semifinals of the Rogers Cup on Saturdaynight, setting up a championship matchup with Baseball diam. Eckersley’s number retired by A’s OAKLAND,Calif. — A year after his election to St. Louis ChiCubs at League the Hall of Fame, pitcher Dennis Eckersley had his NorthwestRegion final Golf number retired by the Oakland Athletics 6n Saturday. ee 6 p.m. Baseball Mid-Atlantic Region final 1 p.m. 8pm against the Minnesota Twins. special as anyt rhing that has hap- NextelCup ley said before Oakland's game “This is a feeling unmatched because this is my hometown. It's as pened to me.” Eckersley wore No. 43 with Oakland, and becamethe fourth A's playerto have his number retired. The others are Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter and Rollie Fingers. Surrounded by former teammates who helped nowit’s easy to look back andrealize it was a great moment. I just got the raw end ofthe deal. “Meanwhile, Kirk Gibsonis a coach with Detroit andI'm in the Hall of Fame.” The best momentoccurred a year later in an earthquake-delayed World Series in San Francisco. “I was lucky enoughto havetheball in my hand after the last out,” Eckersley said. “That's the most incredible momentof my career.” U.S. bounces back in Under21 MARDEL PLATA,Argentina — Villanova’s Allan Ray scored 17 points to help the United States rout Puerto Rico 99-79 on Saturday at the Under-21 World Championships, a day after Canada spoiled the Americans’title defense. The United States fell to Canada 93-90 in a quarterfinal overtime upset Friday that dashed any U.S. chances of repeating its 2001 championship. Now the US.will fight forfifth place today against Argentina, which beat Slovenia 70-43,in the FIBA basketball tournament. a ESPN | ESPN “ESPN2~ ami in March, butlost in five sets Drag racing,NHRA be a very mean ball — hard for a lot of guys to do muchwith,” said Agassi, who wonthe Canadian eventin 1992, '94 and '95. “He movesincredibly well. “I'm going to have to pick my. shots and play greattennis.” Against Mathieu, who beatthird-ranked Andy Rod- 6 p.m. ~~ NBC Mayorga (27-5-1, 22 KOs) had knockdownsin the second and fourth rounds but was unableto-finish off Piccirillo (44-3, 28 KOs). By the endofthe 1th, there were loud boos from the crowd. Mayorga,a former WBCand WBAwelterweight champion, was comingoff an eighth-round TKOloss to Felix Trinidad in October. But that didn’t stop him from sayingPiccirillo was stupid for taking this fight or from calling Oscar De La Hoya and FernandoVargas cowards during the week. Also, former WBC heavyweight championOliver McCall, fightingin his hometownforthefirst time in 17 years, stopped Przemyslaw Saleta at 2:40 of the fourth round. Basketball UVSC = Atoa signs anotherplayer UVSCvolleyball coach Sam Atoa added one more Mayorga wins on unanimous decision Academyclub team andled Creekside to the Reno CHICAGO — Ricardo Mayorga won the vacant WBCsuper welterweight championship Saturday night, unanimously outpointing former IBF welterweight champion Michele Piccirillo at the United Center on the Hasim Rahman-MonteBarrett undercard. “He (Nadal) hits what seems to re Boxing Greece (6-1) reached the Under-21 final for thefirst to top-ranked Roger Federer of Switzerland. ESPN. U. S: Championships Nadal advanced to his first meeting It is the final Nadal said he hoped for all week and an appealing matchup for fans between one of tennis’alltime greats and one of its rising starts. “I hope they're excited,” said Agassi, who has 60 career ATP tournament wins,including eight grand slam titles, in his 19-year career. “I don’t get to be in Tennis _* MastersSeries in Montreal p.m. _ ESPN2 Women's, JPMorgan Chase3 p.m.__ESPN2_ player for 2005 season,signing Camie Manwill to a letter ofintent. Manwill lettered in volleyball, soccer, basketball and track at Paradise High School. She was named All-League andAll-Sectionin volleyball and was voted the section best defensive specialist. Manwill was also named All-League and MVPin soccer, time by beating Canada 74-61 Saturday night and will play Lithuanian, which topped Australia 96-73. The t with Agassi by beating unseeded Paul-Henri Mathieu 64,75 The clay-court specialist, looking for hisfirst hardcourt title, is No,2 in the ATP ae with eight titles this year, including the French Open,but all were on clay. The 19-year-old Spaniard reached the final of a hardcourt event in Mi- IRLin Sparta, Ky. ChampCarin Denver __ ances from 1988-90, Eckersley recounted the worst thousandtimes. At thetimeit was devastating but French Open winner Rafael Nadal. too manyfinals any more. Oaklandto three consecutive World Series appearand best momentsofhis career. Kirk Gibson,in his only plate appearanceofthe '88 World Series, hit a two-run homeroff Eckersley to end Game| in Los Angeles. “It’s one of my worst memories,” Eckersley said.“I never knew it would cometothis; a commercial with a guy crawling to theplate.I've seen the real deal a TBS 9am. PGA Championship__ PGAChampionship Walker Cup mor Auto Racing “This is the topper,” Eckers- Dennis Eckersley oteee 3:30 p.m. basketball, and track. She played for the Creekside Tournament Championship. “Camiehasgreatpotential, workshard,and is still growing. She will comein and learn how to com- pete,” said Atoa. The UVSC volleyball team will openits season on Sept. 1-3 whenit co-hosts the UVSC/BYUChallenge. dick in the opening round, Nadal’s most spectacular moment was on gamepointin the second set, when he lunged and chipped a backhandthatfell behind the 23-year-old Frenchman to makeit 2-2. Mathieu made string of unforced errors to lose hisservein the next game. However, with Nadal serving for the match, Ma- thieu wonfour straight points to hand the Spaniard his first loss in 52 service games of the tournament andtie the set 5-5. Mathieu handed it back the next game, double-faulting on gamepoint, and Nadal served out for his ATP-leading 64th match win of the season. » Hantuchova,Clijsters reach JPMorgan Chasefinal: At Carson, Calif., Daniela Hantuchova mixed solid serves with drop shotsto upset third-seeded Elena Dementieva 6-3, 64 in the JPMorgan Chase Open semifinals Saturday. The. 2-year-old Slovak reached herfirst final in more than a year andjust the fourth of her career. “I'm really excited,” she said.“I feel like I had a great summersofar.I’m really enjoying it.” In today’s final, Hantuchovawill play fifth-seeded Kim Clijsters, who rallied from deficits in both sets to beat No. 13 seed Francesca SchiavoneofItaly 6-2, 6-4. Clijsters will be going forher fifthtitle of the year after coming back from wrist surgery last year. She is 6-0 against Hantuchovain her career. Clijsters improved to 30-1 in the United States, a streak dating back to her victory at the season-ending WTA Championships in 2003. Her only defeat camelast week in the quarterfinals at Carlsbad, whereshelost to Chinese teenager Peng Shuai. LOVE HOPES FOR ANOTHER RAINBOW, SECOND MAJOR PRINGFIELD,N.J. He's not going to beat the drama oflast time. Not even close. That one came complete with a rainbow poking through the clouds onthe final putt and tearful memories of a father who taught him the game.Thatone helped lift one major burden from his shoul- ders. Davis LoveIII thought it was goingto be easy after that day. Hefinally had his major,fulfilling both his promise andhis late father’s dream by winning the PGA Nonship. Hethought he would win more, maybe win them in bunches. The last thing he thought was that he would be playing in the same tournamenteight yearslaterstill searching for his second major championship win. “Youobviously arrogantly think if you win onethatthe rest of them areeasy,” Lovesaid. “The secondoneis just as hard.” Hestill wonders why he hasn’t doneit again, wonders howhistory will treat him if he doesn’t win a handful. He’s been eclipsed by other players who weren't around whenhe started playing for money nearly two decades ago, and he must understandthat at age 41 his chances are beginning to run out. That's why his career and his psyche couldbe in play just as muchas the Wanamaker Cup when Lovegoes off today with his best chance yet to win major No.2. He'll tee off in the afternoon on Baltusrol Golf Club's Lower Course in the final group with Phil She improved to 44-6 this year, the most victories Mickelson, tied for the lead after on the WTA Tour. The Belgian trailed 2-0 before twice breaking Schiavoneatlove to win the first set. She trailed 3-1 in the secondafter getting broken during five-deuce three straight 68s. He'll do it with memories of the game whenshe mis-hit a forehand. 1997 PGA at Winged Foot firmly in the back of his mind.It was a milestonein his life andin his career, a tournamentthat helped him finally shed the dreaded label of United blanks Soccer Continued from D1 Chivas,3-0 streak. After that came two weeksoff. The fresh legs have shown. The Wizards won at New England and Chicago, the two top teams in the MLS Eastern Conference. Saturday night's success story came against the expansion team that has struggled often this year but lost for the first timeonits field turf of Rice-Eccles Stadium. RSL (5-134) used natural grass that was temporarily planted in late May for a World Cup qualifier, and lost both games onit. RSLis 5-1-3 at homeonthe fake stuff Kansas City missed a few point-blank opportunities early, and hardly gave up a decent look to RSL, which had oneshot THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, WASHINGTON— Santino Quaranta and Jamil Walker scored within a two-minute span in thefirst half and the D.C. United went on to beat Chivas USA 3-0 on Saturday, despite playing without the suspended Jaime Moreno and the injured Freddy Adu. Dema Kovalenko also scored for United (11-6-5). Chi- vas USA (3-17-3)fell to 0-10-1 on the road and was shutout for the ninth timethis season. Moreno, Major League Soccer's third-leading scorer, wasforced to sit out the gameafter being ejected in a 3-0 win over the MetroStars on Wednesday. United also on goal(five shots total)in the first 45 minutes. The best chance came from Kreis, who hadanindirect kick from the top of the box late in the first half. Anyfans of the home team that stuck around when the score was lopsided werelikely there to see Kreis try to become the first MLS player to scone 100 goals in his career. ‘The 12,305 fans at the game hadtheir tickets become sou- playedits secondstraight gamewithout Adu, who is out twoto four weeks with a sprained knee. » Fire 2, Galaxy 1: At Chicago, Jesse Marsch and John Thorrington scored first-half goals to lead the Fire past L.A. Chicago (12-9-3) opened the scoring in the 20th minute when Marschfired a penalty kick into the bottom left cornerof the net. Thorrington scored 18 minutes later on venirs when the 32-year-old forward, who has played all 10 MLS seasons,blasted No. 100 on a hardshot to the top right cornerofthe net That came nine minutesafter Jordan Cila scored RSL'sfirst goal. It took until that 63rd minute for RSL to mimictheintensity the Wizardshadin gaining a big lead. a headeroff Justin Mapp's crossing pass. » Revolution 2, FC Dallas 1: At Fricso, Texas, Shalrie Joseph scored the tiebreaking goal in the 80th minute and New Englandbeat FCDallas to extend the Texasclub's winless streak to six games. Clint Dempseyalso scored ) Mathis out: RSL forward Clint Mathis served the second game of a three-game suspension for a red card he received last weekend against Chivas USA. He was also finetl $4,750 for his part for striking an opponent in the face, failure to leavethe field promptly after ejection and among other offenses. He'll also miss next Saturday's game against Western Division leader San Jose. D Jason Franchuk can be reached at ifranchuk@heraldextra.com to help New England (124-6) remaininfirst place in the EasternDivision, Carlos Ruiz scored for FC Dallas (10-6-5). » Rapids 1, Earthquakes 1: At San Jose, Calif., Jean Philippe Pegueroscored in the 56th minute to give Coloradoa tie with SanJose. Ricardo Clark scored for San Jose, San Jose DOUGLASC. PIZAC/AssociatedPress Real Salt Lake defender Rustin Pierce, left, steals the header away from Kansas City Wizards defender Nick Garcia during the first half Saturdav (104-8) extended its Western Conferencelead to three paints aver FC Dallae being the best player never to win a major. On his wayto that win, the son of a PGA teaching professional couldn't help but think what the win would have meantto his father, who was killed in a 1988 planecrash. “Every timeI thought about winning,every time I thought about whatit would mean, every time | thought about whetherI was three strokes or four ahead,” Lovesaid that day, “I started to get choked up.I had to remind myself to keep playing the game.” Whenhe sank the final putt to win byfive strokes, the sun came out and a rainbowspread out abovethe course. Love, and many others,tookit as a sign thathis father was abovelooking out for him. ‘Therearesimilarities this week that could suit him well. Like Winged Foot, this is a PGA Championship. Like Winged Foot, it is in the New York metropolitan area. Andlike Winged Foot, it is a longtraditional golf course that suits Love's gameperfectly. Lovehasn't won a majorin eight years, hasn't wona golf tournamentof any kind in two. But a workout regimen has strengthened him,his back feels better, and he came into the week determined not to let the early rounds get away from him like he has in the other majors, Sports shrink Bob Rotella told him earlier in the week,“If I can get you to Sunday, I know you'll do well,” and Loveis desperate e take that positive thought with jim. “I knowI've played some Sunday rounds that will win this golf tournament,” he said. He'll haveto doit by overcoming both the course and the house favorite. Mickelson will get the roars,the cheers and the adulation. That's because Mickelson smiles his way around the course, while Love walksabout with what seemsto bea perpetual frown and seldom interacts with the crowd. Whenhe does,it’s not always good, Instead ofcelebrating after clinching the 2000 Presidents Cup with a putt on the back nine, Love instead turned to berate a photographerin front of stunned fans. Whenhe played Tiger Woods in the final of the Match Play Championship last year, Love was widely criticized be threatening Seo NAMI RERG ns |