Lightning/NHL

Red Wings turn back clock, sign Dominator

By TIMES WIRES
Published August 1, 2006

DETROIT - Dominik Hasek was the final piece of Detroit's championship puzzle in 2001. The Red Wings are now looking for a repeat performance.

Detroit signed the 41-year-old Dominator on Monday to a one-year contract worth $750,000.

Hasek, who helped the Wings to their most recent Stanley Cup title in 2002, is returning to Detroit after an injury-plagued season with the Ottawa Senators. He joins another Red Wings Cup winner, Chris Osgood, who was brought back as a reserve.

"We have no issues with how he's going to play if he's healthy," general manager Ken Holland said. "We think he's one of the best players in the league."

CAPITALS: Washington re-signed left wing Matt Pettinger, who had a career-high 20 goals last season, to a three-year contract.

CYCLING

Test disputes Landis' claim

The New York Times reported that tests show some of the testosterone in Floyd Landis' system at the Tour de France was synthetic and not naturally produced by his body as he claimed.

The French antidoping lab testing the American cyclist's samples determined that some of the hormone came from an external source, the newspaper reported on its Web site Monday night.

The finding undermines the defense that Landis has stood behind since he tested positive for an elevated ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone following the 17th stage of the Tour de France, where he staged a stirring comeback in the Alps to make up for a poor performance the day before.

TENNIS

Safina upset at Acura Classic

Paola Suarez upset 15th-ranked Dinara Safina 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the first round of the Acura Classic in Carlsbad, Calif.

Suarez, ranked 55th in the world, bounced back from the first set to take control of the match against her ninth-seeded opponent.

LEGG MASON CLASSIC: Wesley Moodie rebounded after losing the first set and beat California teenager Sam Querrey 2-6, 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (7-6), in the opening round in Washington, D.C.

PROKOM OPEN: Top-seeded Nikolay Davydenko needed only 54 minutes to beat Christophe Rochus 6-1, 6-2, and former champion Guillermo Coria retired with a right shoulder injury while leading Michal Przysiezny 6-5 in rainy Sopot, Poland.

ET CETERA

GOLF: Al Balding, the first Canadian to win a PGA Tour event, the Mayfair Open in 1955, has died of cancer. He was 82.

NBA: Milwaukee traded center Jamaal Magloire to Portland for guard Steve Blake, forward Brian Skinner and center Ha Seung-Jin. . . . Memphis re-signed former USF guard Chucky Atkins. . . . Chicago signed ex-Mavericks free-agent guard Adrian Griffin.

SHOOTING: The United States' team of Joshua Richmond, Walton Eller and Bill Keever won the team event in men's double trap at the world championships in Zagreb, Croatia.

SOCCER: Players making racist remarks or gestures could be banned for up to five matches, according to new European Federation disciplinary regulations.

SWIMMING: Germany set a world record of 3 minutes, 35.22 seconds in the women's 400-meter freestyle relay at the European Swimming Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Australia set the previous record of 3:35.94 at the 2004 Athens Olympics.

TRACK: Justin Gatlin's coach, Trevor Graham, could face a two-year ban if the Olympic and world champion sprinter is found guilty of a second doping violation, the sport's international governing body said. Gatlin said Saturday he had been informed by the USADA that he tested positive for testosterone or other steroids after a relay race in Kansas in April.

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