Two Kansas Prep Football Players Die After Hot Practices

Two high school football players died after practicing in 100-degree heat in Kansas, and one of the schools has suspended its practices indefinitely for fear of more heat-related illnesses.

Matthew Blaufuss Whittredge, 15, died Tuesday night in Wichita. A spokeswoman said the death was heat-related but did not give further details.

Practices at Circle High in Towanda were suspended.

Robert Alexander Barrett, 17, also died Tuesday after collapsing Monday while walking to the locker room after a morning workout at Wichita Southeast High, his mother said.

The cause of his death had not been announced.

Tennis

Greg Rusedski returned to the RCA Championships in fine fashion. Defending champion Jonas Bjorkman did not.

Rusedski, playing for the first time since aggravating an ankle injury at Wimbledon in June, upheld his No. 3 seeding by defeating Magnus Larsson, 7-6 (7-2), 6-3, in Indianapolis.

Bjorkman, seeded fourth, lost his second-round match with Australia’s Jason Stoltenberg, 7-5, 6-3.

Rusedski served up three consecutive 132-mph aces, and had a match-high 135-mph serve in the sixth game of the second set.

Andre Agassi routed Australia’s Michael Tebbutt, 6-1, 6-0, and will face Zimbabwe’s Wayne Black in today’s round of 16. The unseeded Black upset 12th-seeded Thomas Muster of Austria, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4.

Top-seeded Pete Sampras allowed Lleyton Hewitt to break him twice and force a tiebreaker before dismissing the young Australian, 6-1, 7-6 (7-4), to advance to the third round of the Pilot Pen International in New Haven, Conn.

Sampras said he was still dwelling on Sunday’s loss to another Australian, Patrick Rafter, in the final of the ATP Championship in Cincinnati, which placed in jeopardy his goal to end the year at No. 1 in the world. The match ended on a serve by Rafter that was first called out, then ruled an ace by the umpire.

“I don’t like losing matches. I don’t like losing, period, especially that way,” Sampras said after recording 12 aces, consistently serving faster than 120 mph.

Rafter defeated Jeff Tarango, 6-2, 6-1; third-seeded Petr Korda of the Czech Republic defeated Andrei Medvedev of Ukraine, 6-3, 2-6, 6-1, and defending champion Yevgeny Kafelnikov of Russia defeated Todd Woodbridge of Australia, 6-0, 6-3, in 48 minutes.

Switzerland’s Martina Hingis began to erase some bad memories of Canada with a 6-4, 6-1 victory over Austria’s Sylvia Plischke at the $1.3-million du Maurier Open.

Hingis had not played in Canada since she was blitzed, 6-0, 6-0, by Mary Pierce in Toronto in 1995, and had not been near Montreal since she was bounced in the first round of a junior tournament in Repentigny, Quebec, five years ago.

Wimbledon champion Jana Novotna of the Czech Republic, riding a three-tournament winning streak, downed Elena Likhovtseva of Russia, 7-5, 6-2, to run her consecutive match victory streak to 17.

Third-seeded Arantxa Sanchez Vicario of Spain, who has played some of her best tennis in Montreal, recovered from first-set service woes to defeat Karina Habsudova of Slovakia, 0-6, 7-5, 6-2.

Track and Field

The second part of sprinter Dennis Mitchell’s urine sample tested positive for testosterone, the International Amateur Athletic Federation confirmed, meaning the 1992 Olympic bronze medalist at 100 meters and a three-time Olympian will be banned for two years unless he wins an appeal before a three-member panel of USA Track & Field.

The original--or A sample--tested positive after an out-of-competition test April 1.

Christine Arron of France smashed the European 100-meter record, clocking 10.73 seconds and boosting her claim as the No. 1 rival to world champion Marion Jones, at the European championships in Budapest, Hungary.

Florence Griffith Joyner, whose world record of 10.49 was set 10 years ago, and Jones (10.71) are the only two women who have run faster than Arron.

Cuba’s Ana Fidelia Quirot finished an unexpected fourth place in the 800-meter run at the Central American and Caribbean Games at Maracaibo, Venezuela. The winner was Suriname’s Letitia Vriesde in 2:00.24.

Soccer

Second-half substitute Henry Gutierrez scored in the 87th minute to give the Miami Fusion a 2-1 Major League Soccer victory over the Dallas Burn before 7,051 at Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Jalal Talebi, the Iranian soccer coach who became a national hero after a World Cup victory over the U.S. team, resigned in Tehran, reportedly because of too much meddling by federation officials.

More than 200 fans were injured in Calcutta, India, when a wooden stand collapsed during a Super League match, police said.

UCLA, the defending NCAA men’s soccer champion, was voted preseason No. 1 by Soccer America magazine.

Jurisprudence

Dontonio Wingfield, 24, a former Portland Trail Blazer, was indicted in Cincinnati by a grand jury on a charge of felonious assault and another charge of assault in an alleged fight with police officers who were called to break up a domestic dispute.

Police said they were called Aug. 13 after Wingfield allegedly knocked over a table at girlfriend Kristina Cornett’s home.

Miscellany

Detroit Red Wing Coach Scotty Bowman had his left knee replaced and is recovering at a New York hospital, the team announced.

The Spanish Olympic Committee said it will demand the resignation of Prince Alexandre de Merode, the International Olympic Committee’s anti-doping chief, unless he retracts accusations that the Spanish were lax in cracking down on drugs in sport. In an interview this week with the French daily Le Figaro, De Merode said many doctors in Spain “have rejected the ethics of their profession.”

Three leading Australian triathletes have returned positive tests because of their asthma medication, according to the sport’s national president, Bill Walker.

Walker said the three women--Loretta Harrop, Nici Andronicus and Nicole Hackett--are all registered asthmatics whose medications are approved for use by inhaler.

Olympic figure skating champions Tara Lipinski and Ilia Kulik will be joining the same professional tour, Scott Hamilton’s Stars on Ice, the Associated Press said.

Frank Wyatt Lewis Sr., who won a gold medal in wrestling in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, died Sunday at 85 in Stillwater, Okla.