Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Marat Safin was picked ahead of fifth-ranked Nikolay Davydenko and will open against Andy Roddick on Friday when Russia plays the United States in the Davis Cup semifinals in Moscow.
– Brian Savage retired from the NHL after a 12-year career that included stops in Montreal, Phoenix, St. Louis and Philadelphia. He had 192 goals in 647 games.
– Two months after surgery to remove his stomach, Japanese home run king Sadaharu Oh, 66, left a Tokyo hospital following a long rehabilitation. He has been diagnosed with stomach cancer.
– In Delaware, Ohio, Mr. Feelgood held off Cactus Creek to win the Little Brown Jug, the second leg of the Triple Crown for 3-year-old pacers.
