IN BRIEF
HOCKEY
Penguins' Gonchar out with broken wrist
Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Sergei Gonchar will be out four to six weeks with a broken left wrist, his third significant injury in slightly more than a year.
Gonchar, who went into Wednesday's games third in scoring among NHL defensemen with eight points, missed the first 56 games of last season after undergoing left shoulder surgery.
The 35-year-old also played the final two rounds of the Stanley Cup playoffs last spring with a torn medial collateral ligament in his right knee, missing only two games.
Gonchar's latest injury occurred during a collision with a St. Louis Blues player during the second period of the Penguins' 5-1 victory Tuesday. Gonchar will not need surgery.
Also: Boston Bruins scoring leader Marc Savard will miss four to six weeks with a broken left foot.
The team's announcement did not say when Savard injured the foot.
The forward has led the team in scoring each of the past three years. He did not miss a game last season, when he had 25 goals and 63 assists for 88 points. He has four goals and three assists this season.
PRO BASKETBALL
Ex-UNLV player Beck waived by Rockets
The Houston Rockets waived former UNLV standout Romel Beck and Garrett Temple, reducing the roster to 17.
Teams must trim their rosters to 15 players by Monday. Houston opens the regular season Tuesday at Portland.
Beck, a guard, averaged 4.5 points and 1.0 rebound in two games with the Rockets in the preseason. He averaged 16 points and 3.0 assists in the developmental league last season. He played with San Antonio in the summer league before signing a nonguaranteed contract with Houston.
Also: Orlando Magic reserve center Adonal Foyle had arthroscopic surgery on his right knee.
The team said there's no timetable for Foyle's return. Foyle hasn't played in the preseason and has participated in only a few practices because of knee soreness.
Magic coaches have touted the 34-year-old Foyle as a strong practice partner for center Dwight Howard. Foyle probably wouldn't have received much playing time this season behind Howard and backup center Marcin Gortat.
TENNIS
Two UNLV men's players advance in ITA event
Two UNLV players made it through the first day of the ITA Mountain Region Men's Tennis Championships at the Darling Tennis Center.
Fifth-seeded Mehdi Bouras had a first-round bye, then beat New Mexico's Phil Anderson, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1. Eighth-seeded Luca Barlocchi also had a bye before his 6-1, 6-2 victory over UNR's Alex Daruty.
Also: Former top-10 player David Nalbandian is expected to return to the ATP tennis circuit in January at the Heineken Open, ending a nine-month layoff after hip surgery, tournament director Richard Palmer said.
The 27-year-old Argentine player, ranked 20th despite his absence, has won 10 career singles titles.
Top-seeded Nikolay Davydenko of Russia and third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland were upset in the first round of the Kremlin Cup in Moscow.
Davydenko lost to former world No. 1 Marat Safin 4-6, 6-4, 6-2, and Radwanska was ousted by Maria Kirilenko 6-3, 6-3 in the women's draw.
MISCELLANEOUS
U.S. Open champ Glover wins Grand Slam of Golf
U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover briefly gave up the lead to British Open champion Stewart Cink at the PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Southampton, Bermuda. Then Glover ran off three straight birdies around the turn at Port Royal Golf Course to close with a 5-under-par 66 for an 11-under 131 total and a five-shot victory.
Masters champion Angel Cabrera shot 66 and finished second after Cink bogeyed the final hole for a 70. PGA champion Y.E. Yang, still struggling with jet lag after a flight full of delays from South Korea, shot 70 to finish last among the four major champions.
Also: FIFA opened an investigation into Argentina coach Diego Maradona's profanity-filled tirade on live television after a World Cup qualifying win over Uruguay last week.
"The disciplinary case has been opened. We have no further details for the moment," FIFA spokesman Nicolas Maingot said.
Fox Sports won the rights to three more seasons of English Premier League broadcasts in the United States through 2012-13.
Fox has been broadcasting the Premier League in the U.S. since 1998. It has sublicensed its rights in some seasons to Setanta USA and this season gave rights to 48 matches to ESPN2.
Richard Childress Racing will shuffle two crew chiefs after this weekend's race at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway.
Todd Berrier will take over Jeff Burton's No. 31 team, and Doug Randolph will move to Casey Mears' No. 07 team. The changes begin next week at Talladega Superspeedway.
Childress is continuing to evaluate personnel as he attempts to turn around his organization, which had all four drivers shut out of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship this season.
A downturn in wagering as a result of the sluggish economy is forcing Santa Anita to slash its overnight purses by 10 percent at the Oak Tree meeting.
The reductions take effect Saturday.
The meeting began Sept. 30 and runs through Nov. 8, including the Breeders' Cup world championships Nov. 6 and 7, the two richest days in thoroughbred racing.
Olympic champion Liu Zige trimmed 1.6 seconds off the world record in the women's 200-meter butterfly at China's National Games in Jinan, China.
Liu was timed in 2 minutes, 1.81 seconds, domestic news agency Xinhua reported. She eclipsed the previous world record of 2:03.41 set by Australian Jessicah Schipper at the world championships in July.
