Injury-Time Goals Give Manchester United Title

Two rapid-fire goals with the clock officially run out Wednesday gave Manchester United the most prized title in European club soccer and a rare spot in the sport’s long history.

In an amazing finish, substitutes Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solksjaer scored during injury time as United beat Bayern Munich, 2-1, for the Champions League title in Barcelona, Spain.

“I can’t believe it,” United Manager Alex Ferguson said. “That’s football. You never give in.”

It was the first top European championship for the storied team from England since 1968 and left it the first team from soccer’s birthplace to win the league, Football Assn. Cup and Champions Cup in the same year.

Only three other clubs--Celtic Glasgow in 1967, Ajax Amsterdam in 1972 and PSV Eindhoven in 1988--have swept the triple crown.

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Dallas’ Jorge Rodriguez scored with five minutes remaining to give the Burn a 2-1 Major League Soccer victory over the Miami Fusion before 7,529 in Dallas.

Olympics

A new International Olympic Committee ethics commission will examine 14 “minor allegations” of misconduct by members during past Olympic bids.

The panel, set up in the wake of the Salt Lake City bribery scandal, studied replies from national Olympic committees for information on any improprieties during the bid process.

The names of the IOC members involved and details of the allegations were not disclosed.

The IOC said the ethics panel has drafted a code of conduct that will be submitted for approval at the committee’s general assembly in Seoul, South Korea, next month.

Six IOC members were expelled and four resigned after being accused of receiving improper inducements during Salt Lake’s winning bid for the 2002 Winter Games.

Motor Racing

Bobby Labonte upstaged everyone in first-round qualifying for the Coca-Cola 600. Dale Earnhardt Jr. settled for upstaging The Intimidator.

Labonte won the pole for NASCAR’s longest race with a fast lap of 185.230 mph at Concord, N.C. Earnhardt, trying to make the field for his first Winston Cup race, had a 184.407 in his only allotted lap around Lowe’s Motor Speedway. That made him eighth fastest, seven spots ahead of his father.

Golf

PGA Tour player Brad Faxon will be sidelined six to eight weeks after falling from a ladder and breaking his left wrist over the weekend at his home in Barrington, R.I. Faxon is a five-time winner on the tour but has missed the cut in four of 12 tournaments this year.

Jenny Chuasiriporn, a leading member of the Duke women’s team that won the NCAA championship last Saturday, will play her first tournament as a pro next week in the U.S. Open in Richmond, Va. Chuasiriporn lost to Se Ri Pak on the second sudden-death playoff hole in last year’s U.S. Open, setting an amateur record in the tournament with a 72-hole score of 290.

Tennis

USC’s sixth-seeded Ditta Huber defeated Texas’ Sandy Sureephond, 6-3, 6-1, to reach the semifinals of the NCAA women’s championships at Gainesville, Fla.

Today, Huber will play San Diego’s top-seeded Zuzana Lesenarova, who defeated her doubles partner Katarina Valkyova, 5-7, 6-2, 6-3.

UCLA’s Annica Cooper and Amanda Basica lost, 6-1, 6-2, to Duke’s Karen Goldstein and Vanessa Webb in the doubles quarterfinals.

Miscellany

Dick Dull, the athletic director at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pa., for the last year, was hired to fill that position at Cal State Northridge starting July 1.

Seattle Seahawk defensive coordinator Fritz Shurmur is seriously ill and will take a leave of absence, Coach Mike Holmgren said.

Lynette Woodard, the all-time women’s collegiate scoring leader and first woman to play for the Harlem Globetrotters, will return to Kansas as an assistant coach to Marion Washington.

Italy’s Mario Cipollini won a duel of leading sprinters in the 12th stage of the Tour of Italy. Cipollini edged countryman Ivan Quaranta and Jeroen Blijlevens of the Netherlands at the finish line in Sassuolo after a 104.1-mile ride on a mostly flat course from Cesenatico. France’s Laurent Jalabert remained the overall leader by four seconds over Italy’s Marco Pantani.

USC senior goalie Bernice Orwig, who led the Trojans to the national title, was named player of the year by U.S. Water Polo.

Former tennis player Andrea Jaeger has won the 1999 Henry P. Iba Citizen Athlete award for her devotion to helping sick children. Jaeger created a retreat in Aspen, Colo., for children battling cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. She will be honored June 21 in Tulsa.