Baseball
Carl Crawford drove in three runs, including a go-ahead RBI double in the seventh, and Tampa Bay beat Florida to tie a major league record with their 13th straight interleague victory. The Devil Rays also became the first team in major league history to climb above .500 at any point in a season after being 18 games below, continuing a surge during which they've compiled baseball's best record -- 26-7 -- since May 20.
The Oakland Athletics placed right-hander Tim Hudson on the 15-day disabled list with a strained left stomach muscle, an injury that isn't considered serious. Hudson expects to miss two starts. This is his first stint on the DL in five major league seasons. Trainer Larry Davis said Hudson will undergo treatment until he is pain-free.
Aaron Boone promises he's finished with basketball, and eager to help the Cleveland Indians rebuild. The free-agent infielder signed a two-year contract with an option for 2006 and said the Indians' prospects for a resurgence with a talented core of young players was a key factor in his decision. Boone, whose 11th-inning homer in Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS put the New York Yankees in the World Series, hasn't played since injuring his left knee during a pickup basketball game in January.
Ray Miller returned to the Baltimore Orioles as their new pitching coach. He replaces Mark Wiley, who was reassigned after his beleaguered staff compiled the worst ERA in the American League. Miller has been out of baseball since the end of the 1999 season. He was in uniform for Saturday's game against the Atlanta Braves. Miller was Baltimore's pitching coach from 1978 to 1985 and in 1997 before being hired as manager in 1998. He lasted two seasons, going 157-167 before being replaced by Mike Hargrove. Under Wiley, the Orioles led the league with 323 walks and ranked last with a 5.34 ERA.
College
James Walley, who lost his job last season as starting running back for Southern Mississippi, has left the team.
Hockey
The Montreal Canadiens swung a three-team trade to acquire Ottawa Senators forward Radek Bonk and Los Angeles Kings goaltender Cristobal Huet. The Senators initially traded Bonk to the Kings for a third-round pick, but Los Angeles quickly dealt him and Huet to Montreal for goalie Mathieu Garon and the Canadiens' third-round choice, No. 95 in Saturday's draft. Bonk, chosen by Ottawa with he third overall pick in 1997, had 12 goals and 32 assists in 66 games with the Senators last season.
Motorsports
Dan Wheldon came from the back of the pack and held off Helio Castroneves in a one-lap sprint to the finish to win the accident-plagued SunTrust Indy Challenge. Wheldon, who started 20th, led Vitor Meira and Castroneves coming out of a caution period with a lap remaining and managed to outsprint Castroneves in the final turn at Richmond International Raceway.
Tennis
Martina Navratilova, Serena and Venus Williams, Jennifer Capriati and Andy Roddick head the U.S. Olympic tennis teams announced Saturday at Wimbledon. Navratilova this week became the oldest woman since 1922 to win a singles match at Wimbledon, where she's also entered in women's doubles and mixed doubles. She'll make her Olympic debut at 47 and will play doubles.
-- From wire reports
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