Federer loses to Simon in second round

Top-ranked Roger Federer was knocked out of the Rogers Cup at Toronto with a 2-6, 7-5, 6-4 loss to Gilles Simon in a second-round match.

Federer was playing his first match since losing the Wimbledon final in five sets to Rafael Nadal.

“The problem was my game today,” Federer said.

It was the biggest surprise of a soggy day at the tournament that saw play disrupted for nearly six hours by thundershowers.

Second-seeded Nadal struggled early on before ousting qualifier Jesse Levine, 6-4, 6-2.

An 8-year-old girl was ejected from a junior tournament on at Wellington, New Zealand, when officials discovered she was wearing a radio earpiece to receive instructions from her father.

Officials found the earpiece hidden under Anastasiya Korzh’s headband, linked by a cord to a receiver under her shirt. Korzh’s father said the earpiece was only being used to help the girl keep score in the under-10 event. She was playing in her first tournament.

HOCKEY

Ducks sign Carlyle to two-year extension

Ducks Coach Randy Carlyle signed a two-year extension for a salary believed to be in the range of $1.2 million to $1.3 million a year. That means he has three years remaining on his contract, running through the 2010-11 season. After the Ducks won the Stanley Cup last year, he agreed to a one-year extension.

“In our view, Randy is one of the top coaches in the NHL,” said Ducks General Manager Brian Burke. “We’ve had an aggressive, hard-working club each of the past three years, largely due to his influence.

“He’s clearly been paramount to our success since taking over the reins.”

Carlyle, 52, will be heading into his fourth season with the club, guiding them to the playoffs the last three.

-- Lisa Dillman

PRO FOOTBALL

Colston agrees to three-year extension

New Orleans Saints wide receiver Marques Colston, whose 168 catches are more than any NFL receiver through his first two seasons, agreed to a three-year extension that could keep him in New Orleans through the 2011 season, Saints General Manager Mickey Loomis said.

Devin Hester, who has electrified the NFL with 11 punt and kickoff returns for touchdowns in his first two seasons, skipped the Chicago Bears’ first training camp practice in a holdout.

“I’m not coming,” Hester told the Chicago Tribune in a phone interview. “I have to make a statement. . . . I can’t go out and play this year making $445,000. Come on, man.”

St. Louis Rams defensive end Claude Wroten was suspended without pay for the season for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy. . . . Denver Broncos receiver Rod Smith is planning to hold a news conference today amid published reports that he will retire. . . . Caleb Campbell will not get a chance to play for the Detroit Lions because of a change in military policy. Campbell was a seventh-round draft pick for the Lions in April. At the time, Army policy would have allowed the West Point graduate to serve as a recruiter if he made the team. But a subsequent Department of Defense policy has superseded the 2005 Army policy.

MISCELLANY

Shock’s Ford is out for the season

Cheryl Ford of the WNBA’s Detroit Shock, who injured her knee during Tuesday’s skirmish at the end of the Sparks-Shock game, tore a ligament in her right knee and will miss the rest of the season.

Terry Horner earned his first national title with a victory on the 1-meter at the U.S. diving national championships at the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center in Pasadena.

Horner totaled 360.80 points, nearly 20 more than second-place finisher Landon Marzullo, who had 341.55.

The women’s 3-meter springboard competition began though members of the U.S. Olympic team were allowed to advance directly to the weekend finals.

Sofia Mulanovich of Peru recorded the highest wave score of the day en route to advancing to Friday’s quarterfinals of the women’s Honda U.S. Open of Surfing at Huntington Beach. Mulanovich, who won the event in 2006, earned a score of 9.87 out of a possible 10 in her round of 48 heat.

Mulanovich later joined Lee Ann Curren of France, Samantha Cornish of Australia, Nikita Robb of South Africa and Bethany Hamilton and Melanie Bartels of Hawaii as round-of-24 heat winners.

-- Dan Arritt

Loyola Marymount Athletic Director Bill Husak announced that Frank Cruz has been released from his position as baseball coach

Unbeaten middleweight boxing champion Kelly Pavlik has finalized a deal to fight Bernard Hopkins on Oct. 18 in Atlantic City.

Colorado second baseman Jayson Nix was picked to round out the U.S. baseball team headed to the Beijing Olympics.

Sprinter Tyson Gay withdrew from Friday’s London Grand Prix while he continues to recover from the hamstring injury he sustained at the U.S. Olympic trials.