Penske Will Team With Toyota

Roger Penske’s Indy cars will be powered by Toyota engines, starting in 2003.

Penske Racing and Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. announced Tuesday that Penske will join Indy Racing League competitor Kelley Racing in using the engines that will make their debut next season.

Penske, the winningest team in American open-wheel racing with 111 race wins and 11 championships, switched from the CART series to the IRL this season and is using Chevrolet engines.

Toyota, furnishing engines for the CART series this year, also will switch to the IRL next season.

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Joseph Heitzler, former chairman, president and CEO of CART, filed a $20-million defamation lawsuit against racing team owners U.E. “Pat” Patrick and Carl Haas.

The federal civil lawsuit accused the team owners, also members of CART’s board of directors, with conducting a smear campaign that cost Heitzler his job.

Tennis

Mary Pierce, playing her first match since the Australian Open, beat seventh-seeded Ai Sugiyama, 6-3, 6-3, in the Sarasota (Fla.) Open.

Qualifier Brian Vahaly of Atlanta upset No. 1-seeded Michael Chang, 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (6), in the first round of First Serve Entertainment Men’s Championship at Braemar Country Club in Tarzana. The $50,000 event is part of the USTA’s Challenger circuit. Chang, who rallied from a 2-5 third-set deficit, had a match point in the tiebreaker.

Football

The San Francisco 49ers signed free-agent safety Tony Parrish to a five-year, $12-million contract and free-agent defensive lineman Sean Moran to a three-year, $2.4- million contract.

Other signings included wide receiver Ricky Proehl with St. Louis and offensive lineman Kerlin Blaise and defensive lineman Travis Kirschke with Detroit.

Hunter Wall, a tight end with Oklahoma, was dismissed from the team hours after he was arrested on complaints of second-degree burglary and marijuana possession.

Soccer

David Beckham and Ruud van Nistelrooy scored to give Manchester United a 2-0 victory at Deportivo de La Coruna in the first leg of the quarterfinals of the European Champions Cup.

Defending champion Bayern Munich, playing at home against Real Madrid, rallied for a 2-1 victory when Steffan Effenberg and Claudio Pizarro scored in the final 10 minutes.

The NCAA put the University of Tampa on probation for one year and the Tampa women’s soccer team is banned from postseason play because its founding coach, George Fotopoulos, now at Louisiana State, improperly paid players’ tuition and violated recruiting rules, the NCAA said.

His wife, Danielle Fotopoulos, a member of the 1999 women’s World Cup team, was banned from involvement with his teams under the sanctions.

Passings

Joe Jemsek, a pro golfer who later became owner of Cog Hill Golf and Country Club, died at 89. He is credited with originating the movement to have public golf courses mirror the conditions and amenities of private country clubs.