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© St. Petersburg Times, published March 5, 2003
DELRAY BEACH -- Andy Roddick's hopes of winning the tournament close to his hometown came to an abrupt end Tuesday when he twisted his left ankle during his first-round match against friend Mardy Fish of Tampa at the International Tennis Championships.
Roddick, of Boca Raton, was behind 7-6 (7-4), 4-3 when he fell while chasing a shot. "I'm just disappointed right now," said Roddick, who sat out three weeks after the Australian Open in January because of right wrist tendinitis.
"I can't really think of a worse way to win, especially when playing one of your good friends, seeing him go down and retire," said Fish, who spent a year living with Roddick's family as a teenager.
FRANKLIN TEMPLETON CLASSIC: Looking strong after a month off, top-ranked Lleyton Hewitt defeated Fernando Vicente 6-4, 6-3 in the first round at Scottsdale, Ariz.
A nationally televised home game -- the first in Central Florida's 25-year football history -- against Mid-American Conference rival Marshall highlights the Golden Knights' 2003 schedule. The Nov. 19 game on ESPN or ESPN2 will be UCF's first Wednesday game. The schedule includes nonconference games with Virginia Tech, Syracuse and West Virginia.
MIAMI NAMES COACH: Former Hurricane J.D. Arteaga was named pitching coach, replacing Lazaro Collazo, who resigned last week after NCAA sanctions were levied against the program in connection with his pitching academy.
ROBINSON SURGERY: UNLV football coach John Robinson, 67, was treated for a blocked artery and is expected to be out of the hospital this week.
OBITUARY: George Kelly, a 17-year assistant football coach at Notre Dame under Ara Parseghian, Dan Devine and Gerry Faust, died at his South Bend, Ind., home Monday after a short illness. He was 75.
NBA players on Olympic teams will face out-of-competition, random drug tests for the 2004 Athens Games as part of a World Anti-Doping Agency code expected to be approved today at a meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark. Under the system, which applies to athletes in all Olympic sports, drug testers can show up unannounced at a player's house. This is the first time NBA stars will face such testing, U.S. drug officials said.
ANOTHER RESIGNATION: U.S. Olympic Committee chief operating officer Fred Wohlschlaeger resigned Monday, three days after chief executive Lloyd Ward, who hired Wohlschlaeger, quit amid conflict-of-interest charges. Eight officials have quit the troubled organization. Former Olympics wrestler Jim Scherr is guiding operations.
IDITAROD: Robert Sorlie arrived first at the Tanana checkpoint to keep his lead in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska and was the first to leave for Ruby.
BOXING: John Ruiz, who agreed to fight Roy Jones Jr. for a percentage of the profits and no guarantee, is likely to make several million dollars after HBO Sports reported Saturday's pay-per-view revenue was $26.5-million. Ruiz lost his WBA heavyweight title to Jones.
HORSES: Lady's Secret, the 1986 horse of the year, died at Valley Creek Farm in Valley Center, Calif., after delivering a foal. The 21-year-old daughter of Secretariat and Great Lady M was the last filly or mare to win horse of the year honors until Azeri in 2002.
TELEVISION: ABC Sports president Howard Katz has resigned "to pursue other interests" and will be replaced by George Bodenheimer, who will retain duties as president of ESPN. The Disney operations will continue to be run as separate entities, said an officer.