Cienfuegos Powers Galaxy Over Chinese National Team
Mauricio Cienfuegos scored in each half as the Galaxy defeated China’s national soccer team, 3-1, in an exhibition Wednesday at Kun Ming City.
Cienfuegos opened the scoring in the 20th minute and added a penalty kick in the 87th minute. Sasha Victorine increased the Galaxy lead to 2-0 in the 70th minute. China’s Zhang Yuning scored his team’s only goal four minutes later.
China lost to the U.S. national team, 2-1, on Jan. 27 at San Jose.
The match was the first of three for the Galaxy on its Asian tour. It will face Verdy Kawasaki of Japan’s J-League on Friday at Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium, and finish the trip Sunday at Urawa.
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Eight-time winner Real Madrid and 1975 runner-up Leeds United made it to the European Champions Cup quarterfinals, and Bayern Munich moved close to a berth in the final eight.
Real Madrid tied Italy’s Lazio, 2-2, in Rome, and Leeds United defeated Belgium’s Anderlecht, 4-1, to clinch top-two finishes in Group D. In Group C, Bayern Munich beat host Spartak Moscow, 3-0, to take a five-point lead in the standings. Arsenal tied visiting Lyon, 1-1.
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Scottish forward John Spencer, 30, has signed with Major League Soccer and will join the Colorado Rapids on a free transfer after finishing his commitment to Motherwell of the Scottish Premier League.
Tennis
Top-seeded Pete Sampras lost to Chris Woodruff, 7-6 (4), 6-2, in his first match at the Kroger St. Jude tournament in Memphis, Tenn. It was Woodruff’s first victory in four tries against Sampras. . . . Jennifer Capriati, playing for the first time since winning the Australian Open last month, beat Venezuela’s Maria Vento, 6-2, 6-1, at the IGA U.S. Indoor Championships at Oklahoma City. . . . Lina Krasnoroutskaya, a 16-year-old Russian, surprised Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, 6-3, 5-7, 6-3, in the $565,000 Dubai Open in the United Arab Emirates. Top-seeded Martina Hingis, fresh off her title in neighboring Qatar, routed 12th-seeded South Africa’s Joanette Kruger, 6-2, 6-1. . . . Tim Henman of Britain had a tough time in his opener against qualifier Jens Knippschild of Germany, but won, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, in the $750,000 ABN AMRO indoor tournament at Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Jurisprudence
Former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe is in jail in Charlotte, N.C., on charges he violated probation after pleading guilty to abducting his wife.
A bail hearing is scheduled for Friday.
A warrant issued Feb. 15 said the 33-year-old boxer violated terms of his probation stemming from his guilty plea last year to abducting his wife, Judy, in February 1998.
Earlier this month, Bowe was charged with assaulting his second wife, Terri, in their Syosset, N.Y., home.
A Montreal judge plans to rule March 16 in the trial of boxer Dave Hilton Jr., the WBC super-middleweight champion who is charged with sexually assaulting two teenage sisters.
Miscellany
Olympics organizer Mitt Romney acknowledged he was letting down fans who are frustrated by busy signals when they call operators with final ticket requests for the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.
Fans dialed the number for tickets a total of 570,000 times but completed only 1,600 ticket orders through Tuesday.
Busy signals were common again Wednesday as overwhelmed operators tried to handle the flood of calls. Only 50 operators were taking the calls.
“Every time we flub up, every time we make a mistake, we hurt our credibility, so we try to get it right, but we’re not always successful,” said Romney, the president of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee.
Mike Tyson received terms from Lennox Lewis for a fight this summer in which he would get half the purse.
Lewis, World Boxing Council and International Boxing Federation champion, however, said he would accept that split only if Tyson paid off his TV network, Showtime.
“It’s a joke, the whole thing,” Shelly Finkel, Tyson’s advisor, said of Lewis’ terms. “They’re looking for Mike to get out of his [Showtime] deal, which he can’t get out of. Mike and Showtime are ready to sit down and begin negotiations for an agreement to make this fight happen as soon as possible.”
Boxer Julio Cesar Chavez, a former WBC junior-welterweight champion, owes $6 million in taxes for fights between 1993-96 that earned him $14.5 million, the Internal Revenue Service says.
Javier Sotomayor, winner of the Olympic high jump silver medal after his reinstatement from a drug ban, won his specialty at an indoor meet in Athens, clearing 7 feet 7 inches.
The Central Hockey League suspended franchises in Topeka, Kan., and Texarkana, Texas, and assigned 19 players from those teams to the remaining 10 clubs through a dispersal draft. The Topeka ScareCrows and Border City Bandits “breached multiple financial obligations,” Commissioner N. Thomas Berry Jr. said.
The Charlotte Sting made Coach T.R. Dunn the WNBA team’s director of scouting and dismissed assistants Susan Yow and Sue Panek.
Jack Brooks, a leading quarter-horse trainer in Albuquerque, was put on a year’s probation and fined $1,500 because one of his horses tested positive for cocaine after a race.
The San Diego Gulls defeated the Ice Dogs, 6-3, at San Diego.
Funeral services for four-time NBA all-star Guy Rodgers will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday at Angelus General Hall, 3875 S. Crenshaw Blvd. Rodgers, 65, died of a heart attack Monday.
