IN BRIEF
LOUDON, N.H. — Ryan Newman won the pole Friday at New Hampshire International Speedway for Sunday's Lenox Industrial Tools 300.
Jeff Burton was the runner-up, followed by Brian Vickers, Kyle Busch, defending race winner Tony Stewart, series points leader Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon, last week's winner at Chicagoland Speedway.
CARCASSONNE, France — American Floyd Landis retained the yellow jersey as the Tour de France's overall leader Friday, finishing well behind stage 12 winner Yaroslav Popovych.The Lancaster County, Pa., native's lead over second-place Cyril Dessel remained at 8 seconds. Russian Denis Menchov is third overall, 61 seconds off the lead.Popovych finished 27 seconds ahead of second-place Alessandro Ballan and 29 seconds in front of Oscar Freire of Spain.
NEW YORK — Bruce Arena is out as coach of the United States men's soccer team less than three weeks after the Americans' first-round exit from the World Cup.U.S. Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati said Friday that Arena's contract would not be renewed when it runs out at the end of the year.Arena, who coached the U.S. for eight years, leaves as the most successful coach in the history of the national team, having won more than twice as many games (71) as any of his predecessors.
SYLVANIA, Ohio — Mi Hyun Kim shot a 5-under 66 for a share of the lead Friday in the suspended second round of the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic.Reilley Rankin (68) also finished at 8-under 134 before rain forced the suspension of play. Natalie Gulbis was 8 under through nine holes when play was stopped.Se Ri Pak and Annika Sorenstam were both 4 under through 11 holes.
ROME — Juventus was demoted to soccer's second division for match-fixing by an Italian sports tribunal and stripped it of its last two Serie A titles.Lazio and Fiorentina also were demoted to Serie B, while AC Milan was spared demotion but given a 15-point penalty and won't play in any European competition this season.Former Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi and former Juventus chief executive Antonio Giraudo received the maximum five-year ban for match-fixing and disloyalty, with a recommendation to the Italian soccer federation to make it a lifetime ban.
