Russian tennis star Nikolay Davydenko was cleared by the ATP after a yearlong investigation into suspicious betting patterns on a match he lost to a low-ranked opponent.
Davydenko, then ranked No.5, pulled out of an Aug.2, 2007 match against the 87th-ranked Martin Vassallo Arguello in the third set, citing a foot injury.
Betfair, an online bookmaker, received about $7million in wagers on the match, 10 times the usual amount. Most of the money was on Arguello, even after he lost the first set.
Olympics
An Olympic gold medalist shooter is offering $5,000 for the return of her shotgun, which she says was stolen from her pickup truck while she was buying shoes for her wedding.
Champion skeet shooter Kim Rhode says she left the gun in a case in her truck Thursday afternoon when she went into a Lake Elsinore, Calif., store.
Rhode says she's used the gun for 18 years and it is irreplaceable.
Rhode, 29, won gold medals in the 1996 and 2004 Olympics, a bronze medal at the 2000 Games and a silver medal at last month's competition in Beijing.
Cycling
Lance Armstrong, the seven-time winner of the Tour de France, rode with about 40 cyclists over more than 60 miles of roads in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec. Each cyclist raised at least $25,000 for a cancer-care fund.
Colleges
Denmark Technical College in Denmark, S.C., has hired Donald Williams, MVP of the 1993 national champion North Carolina Tar Heels, as its men's basketball coach.
Five graduates and a former coach will be inducted into the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame on the weekend of Sept. 26-27. The class includes basketball stars
Randolph Childress '95 and
Tim Duncan '97, Olympic triathlete
Hunter Kemper '98, golfer
Len Mattiace '90, ex-New York Giants general manager
Ernie Accorsi '63 and basketball coach
Dave Odom.
The Charlotte 49ers women's soccer team lost at No. 16 Wake Forest, 3-0, in its first game at the Wake Forest Nike Tournament in Winston-Salem.
Football
Winnipeg's Milt Stegall broke the Canadian Football League's receiving yardage record with a 92-yard reception in the second quarter of the Blue Bombers' game against Toronto.
Hockey
The New Jersey Devils re-signed center Rod Pelley and traded for Kevin Cormier with the Phoenix Coyotes.
Nba
Guard Delonte West signed a multiyear deal with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Portland Trail Blazers center
Raef LaFrentz will have shoulder surgery later this month to repair a tear in the labrum of his right shoulder.
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