Schalken Upsets Agassi for Berth Against Roddick

Sjeng Schalken broke serve to end the second and third sets Saturday night, and upset top-seeded Andre Agassi to advance to the finals of the Legg Mason Tennis Classic at Washington.

Schalken, seeded 10th, overcame a slow start to beat Agassi for the first time in six career meetings. The Dutchman hit 34 winners and forced 32 errors from the tournament’s five-time champion in a 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory.

Today, Schalken will play ninth-seeded Andy Roddick, who defeated Michael Chang, 6-4, 6-3, to reach his third final of the year.

In a rematch from the second round at this year’s French Open, the 18-year-old Roddick took control quickly, breaking Chang’s serve for a 2-0 lead.

Chang broke Roddick’s serve in the next game to get back on serve, but Roddick, who overcame cramps to win the five-set match in Paris, broke again to end the first set.

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Pat Rafter outlasted Marat Safin in a two-hour semifinal at the RCA Championships at Indianapolis, finally winning when the reigning U.S. Open champion hit an easy overhead forehand into the net.

Rafter’s 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (7) victory over Safin sends the Australian to his fourth tournament final this summer. He lost the other three.

Defending RCA champion Gustavo Kuerten’s semifinal against Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic was rained out and will be played today.

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Jennifer Capriati outlasted Germany’s Anke Huber, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, to reach the final of the Rogers AT&T; Cup at Toronto.

The top-seeded Capriati, who won the Canadian WTA event a decade ago at the age of 15, will play Serena Williams in today’s final. Williams ended Monica Seles’ streak of six consecutive finals at the Canadian event, 7-5, 7-6 (5).

Jurisprudence

University of Minnesota officials are investigating a new allegation by a woman who earlier said she was raped by two Gopher football players.

The 19-year-old unidentified woman also said she wrote and typed an English paper on the death penalty for football player Mackenzy Toussaint on July 6, the day she was attacked at a campus apartment.

Toussaint, 20, a sophomore defensive back from Miami, and Steven Watson, 19, a defensive end from Defiance, Mo., were charged Wednesday with first-and third-degree criminal sexual conduct and were suspended from the team.

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Running back Verron Haynes became the fourth Georgia starter to be suspended for the Bulldogs’ Sept. 1 opener against Arkansas State.

Haynes entered a guilty plea this week to three misdemeanor charges stemming from an argument with the mother of his child.

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Cracker Barrel is suing NASCAR and the Fox television network because the company feels it was shortchanged for its sponsorship of a recent race in Atlanta.

Miscellany

Michael Phelps won his second national swimming title in two days with a victory in the 200-meter individual medley at the U.S. National Championships at Clovis, Calif. Phelps, who won the 100 butterfly Friday, won in 2 minutes, 0.86 seconds on the final day of the meet. Christopher Thompson won the 1,500 freestyle in 15:16.23,

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Chris Byrd scored a 12-round unanimous decision over David Tua in an International Boxing Federation heavyweight elimination bout at Las Vegas.

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Former Denver Bronco quarterback John Elway is bringing an Arena Football League team back to the city as the league’s board of directors unanimously approved an application for an expansion team by Elway, Bronco owner Pat Bowlen, and Stan Kroenke, owner of the Colorado Avalanche, the Denver Nuggets and the Pepsi Center.

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Britain’s David Millar, who defeated Lance Armstrong in the opening time trial in last year’s Tour de France, won the Tour of Denmark by seven seconds in Copenhagen.

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The mother of new Ohio State football Coach Jim Tressel died of pancreatic and liver cancer in Columbus, Ohio. Eloise Tressel was 76.