CHARLOTTE, N.C. - NASCAR fined Carl Edwards $20,000 on Tuesday for intentionally hitting Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s car at the end of the Busch Series race at Michigan International Speedway.
Edwards was also placed on probation until the end of the year but was not docked any points for Saturday's altercation.
Edwards was leading the race when Earnhardt spun him out of his way with one lap to go. Earnhardt went on to win the race under caution, and as he was making that final lap, Edwards drove onto the track and rammed into the side of Earnhardt's car. Earnhardt's hand was hanging out his window when Edwards bashed into his car, and he had to quickly pull it back in to avoid injury.
Edwards later went to Victory Lane, where Earnhardt was being uncharacteristically booed by the fans, and the two had a heated argument during the postrace ceremonies.
SPEED RECORD: Andy Green broke the supercharged diesel streamliner world record on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats by more than 90 mph by reaching an average land speed of 328.767 mph.
BASKETBALL
U.S. 3-0 at worlds
Dwyane Wade scored 20 as the United States whipped Slovenia 114-95 and clinched a trip to the second round in the World Championships in Sapporo, Japan.
LeBron James added 19 points, Elton Brand 16 and Carmelo Anthony 14 for the Americans.
PACERS: Indiana acquired Al Harrington, picking up the 6-foot-9 forward and center John Edwards from the Hawks in exchange for a 2007 first-round pick.
SPURS: Guard Tony Parker will miss four to six weeks but won't have surgery on the right index finger he broke playing for France in preparation for the world championship.
TENNIS
Agassi unseeded
Andre Agassi and Serena Williams were not seeded for the U.S. Open because they fell too far in the rankings during injury-interrupted seasons.
Agassi has announced that the tournament, which starts Monday, will be the final one of his career. He has been hampered by a bad back that forced him to withdraw from two events this month.
PILOT PEN: Mara Santangelo upset eighth-seeded Anastasia Myskina 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in New Haven, Conn. In the men's draw, Tampa's James Blake fell to Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo 2-6, 7-6 (6-7), 7-6 (7-4).
FED CUP: Kim Clijsters' wrist injury will keep the Belgian out of next month's final against Italy.
ET CETERA
RUNNING: Race directors for the Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York marathons said they will impose lifetime bans at their races for any runner caught using a banned substance, including minor offenders for drugs such as marijuana.
SOCCER: Appeals by former Juventus executives Luciano Moggi and Antonio Giraudo, who received five-year bans under sentences handed down by a sports court last month in Italy's match-fixing scandal, were rejected by an administrative court.
