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Brock Berlin, the Florida quarterback who rode the bench most of the last two seasons behind fellow sophomore Rex Grossman, said he is transferring to the University of Miami.

Fresno State has pulled out of two scheduled games against Oregon State so the Bulldogs can play at Michigan next season.

Fresno State was scheduled to play in Corvallis, Ore., on Sept. 21 but instead will play at Michigan on that date.

Tennis

Greg Rusedski ended a seven-year, nine-match losing streak against Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic with a 6-2, 0-6, 6-3 victory to reach the semifinals of the Heineken Open at Auckland, New Zealand.

Top-seeded Marat Safin of Russia lost, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, in the second round to Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden.

Martina Hingis advanced to the semifinals of the Adidas International at Sydney, beating France’s Sandrine Testud, 6-4, 6-2, and will play fifth-seeded Kim Clijsters, a 7-6 (5), 6-2 winner over Justine Henin.

Alexandra Stevenson lost to fellow American Meghann Shaughnessy, 6-4, 6-1. She will face Serena Williams.

In the men’s draw, Andy Roddick overcame South Korea’s Lee Hyung-taik, 6-7 (3), 6-3, 7-5.

Andre Agassi beat Sweden’s Thomas Enqvist, 6-2, 6-7 (6), 6-3 at the Kooyong Classic round-robin exhibition tournament at Melbourne.

Israel’s Anna Smashnova closed in on her second title in as many weeks with a 6-3, 6-0 quarterfinal victory over France’s Emelie Loit at the Canberra Women’s Classic in Australia.

Miscellany

A second drug sample from former Olympic high-jump champion Javier Sotomayor tested positive for the steroid nandrolone, track and field’s governing body said.

A grand jury indicted former NFL lineman Nate Newton on federal drug-trafficking counts.

Two-time Olympic gold medalists Lisa Leslie, Dawn Staley and Sheryl Swoopes, 2000 gold medalists Chamique Holdsclaw, who plays for the WNBA’s Washington Mystics, DeLisha Milton of the Sparks and Natalie Williams of the Utah Starzz were selected to play for the U.S. World Championship women’s basketball team.

Passings

Ernie Jones, regarded as one of the best punters in the country when he played at USC in the early 1960s, has died of cancer in Long Beach, the school said. He was 61. Jones owned an insurance agency in Brea and Long Beach.