Castroneves indicted on tax evasion charges

TENNIS

Venus advances to quarterfinals

Venus Williams reached the Porsche Grand Prix quarterfinals by defeating Kateryna Bondarenko, 6-4, 6-2, at Stuttgart, Germany.

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Andy Roddick and David Ferrer advanced to the quarterfinals of the Japan Open at Tokyo. Top-seeded Ferrer recovered from a slow start to defeat wild card Takao Suzuki, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, and second-seeded Roddick downed Jurgen Melzer, 7-6 (2), 6-2.

MISCELLANY

Probst to succeed Ueberroth

Barely two weeks after being named to the U.S. Olympic Committee board of directors, Lawrence Probst has been elected as its new chairman. He is the chairman of the board of Electronic Arts (EA), the world's leading video games company.

He succeeds Peter Ueberroth as chairman.

Ueberroth, 71, will remain with the USOC as honorary president through the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

He will continue working closely with Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid and probably will have a much larger role in that area than Probst.

Ueberroth took over as USOC chairman in June 2004, after the USOC had been dragged into Congress and told to clean up its act after a decade of turnover in the organization's salaried and volunteer leadership.

--Philip Hersh

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UCLA will play Prairie View A&M about 7 p.m. Nov. 12 at Pauley Pavilion in the first round of the 2K Sports Classic basketball tournament, just after Miami of Ohio plays Weber State at 4:15 p.m. at Pauley.

The winners will play at 8 p.m. Nov. 13 for the right to advance to the tournament semifinals at Madison Square Garden.

The three other first-round host schools in the 16-team tournament are Duke, Michigan and Southern Illinois.

Duke's four-team pod will have Georgia Southern playing Houston and Duke meeting Presbyterian on Nov. 10; Michigan will play Michigan Tech and IUPUI will meet Northeastern on Nov. 11; and Southern Illinois will play California of Pennsylvania with Arkansas Monticello getting Massachusetts on Nov. 11.

The semifinal games in New York will be Nov. 20 at 4 p.m., with the UCLA pod winner against the Michigan winner. The consolation and title games will be Nov. 21 beginning at 2 p.m.

-- Diane Pucin