On a night when the United States women's soccer team should have been eyeing the upcoming Olympics, they were dealt a crushing blow to their gold medal hopes when Abby Wambach broke her left leg.
Wambach, the team's leading scorer, was carted off the field after a violent collision in the first half of a 1-0 win over Brazil at San Diego. Wambach is expected to be out for 12 weeks and will miss the Olympics, which start in three weeks.
Wambach broke her tibia and fibula and will have surgery today to have a titanium rod inserted into her leg.
Wambach went down hard after a collision with Brazilian defender Andreia Rosa. Wambach began signaling the sideline almost immediately for help. Rosa wasn't injured.
Morgan Hamm's spot on the U.S. Olympic team is secure. USA Gymnastics said that a warning Hamm received earlier this month for getting a prescribed anti-inflammatory shot without proper clearance from anti-doping authorities did not affect his qualification to the team.
USA Boxing reinstated Luis Yanez to the Olympic team more than two weeks after the light-flyweight was kicked off the Beijing roster for missing several weeks of workouts.
Yanez was expected to rejoin his teammates in Colorado Springs today.
Dirk Nowitzki scored a tournament-high 35 points to lead Germany to an 89-71 victory over New Zealand at a men's basketball qualifying tournament at Athens.
Chris Kaman of the Clippers scored 20 points for Germany but sat out the fourth quarter with a sore ankle.
Double-amputee South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius fell short of the 400-meter qualifying time he needed to make the Olympics, though the personal best time could still get him to Beijing in the relay.
Pistorius finished third in his heat in 46.25 seconds, outside the Olympic individual qualifying standard of 45.55.
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Packers accuse Vikings of tampering with Favre
The Green Bay Packers have filed tampering charges against the Minnesota Vikings alleging that the team made inappropriate contact with Brett Favre, a person familiar with the Packers' complaint said Wednesday night.
The person, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject, said Packers officials expressed their belief that interest from the Vikings was driving Favre's sudden change of heart about playing football in 2008.
"They feel like Favre had something [in place], and that's why he was so anxious to get his release all of a sudden," the person said.
