In Brief

PRO BASKETBALL

NBA owners, players fail to
reach deal, will meet Monday

NBA owners and players failed to reach a new labor deal after about seven hours of talks Saturday in New York, mostly about the salary-cap structure.

The sides will meet again Monday, though time is getting short to save the start of the regular season, scheduled to begin Nov. 1.

"We're still miles apart," union executive director Billy Hunter said. "There's a huge bridge, gap, that I don't know if we're going to be able to close it or not."

In their longest bargaining session since the lockout began July 1, the sides focused mainly on one of the two major issues that divides them. Owners want a hard cap, or at least want a number of changes to the current soft cap system, which the players prefer to keep largely intact.

The sides didn't even talk about the division of revenues, the other big obstacle to a labor deal that would end the lockout.

Also: Kevin Durant scored 48 points and Chris Paul 39 to lead the New Orleans guard's team to a 175-146 victory over Dwyane Wade and LeBron James' team in a charity game in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Rudy Gay had 38 points, Wade 32 and James 30.

The game was played in front of a crowd of 3,200 at Winston-Salem State.

HORSE RACING

Belmont's Super Saturday sets
up Breeders' Cup Classic field

In just over an hour at New York's Belmont Park, the Breeders' Cup Classic probably came away with its three favorites. Take your pick: Havre de Grace, Uncle Mo or Flat Out.

Each staked a claim as the horse to beat in the $5 million Classic at Churchill Downs on Nov. 5 with stirring victories on a Super Saturday of racing over a muddy track.

Flat Out won the $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup by 2¼ lengths over 2010 Belmont Stakes winner Drosselmeyer, with Travers winner Stay Thirsty third.

In the previous race, 4-year-old filly Havre de Grace left four rivals in the slop with an 8¼-length romp in the $350,000 Beldame Stakes to remain a leading contender for Horse of the Year.

Uncle Mo led from the start, held off a brief challenge from Jackson Bend and won the $200,000 Kelso Handicap by three lengths to trumpet his return to the big time. Uncle Mo, last year's 2-year-old champion, was sidelined for four months with a life-threatening liver disease and missed the Triple Crown races. He returned in August and was beaten by a nose in the King's Bishop.

In earlier stakes races, Giant Ryan won the six-furlong, $350,000 Vosburgh, 1-2 favorite Stacelita captured the $500,000 Flower Bowl Invitational and 3-5 favorite Cape Blanco took the $500,000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational.

Also: Game On Dude held off the closing bid of Awesome Gem to win the $250,000 Goodwood Stakes at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif., giving him a berth in next month's Breeders' Cup Classic.

Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert went 1-3 in the Grade 1 race, with Coil finishing third.

Game On Dude covered 1 1/8 miles in 1:47.36 seconds under Chantal Sutherland.

The day's biggest shocker came in the $250,000 Lady's Secret Stakes, with 13-10 favorite Blind Luck finishing a stunning last as Zazu rallied to win by a half-length.

Jockey Joel Rosario won three of the four Grade 1 stakes -- with Zazu; Creative Cause in the $250,000 Norfolk; and 2-1 favorite Dubawi Heights in the $250,000 Yellow Ribbon.

Preakness winner Shackleford lost to Wilburn in the Grade II, $500,000 Indiana Derby at Hoosier Park in Anderson, Ind.

Ridden by Jesus Lopez Castanon, Shackleford moved to the front at the top of the stretch, but Wilburn, with jockey Julien Leparoux aboard, found an opening along the rail to take the lead. Wilburn pulled away steadily to win the 1 1/16-mile trip in 1:43.3.

UNLV ATHLETICS

Ernst, Penner spark men's golf
to second win of fall season

The UNLV men's golf team claimed its second consecutive tournament of the fall season, shooting a final-round 1-under-par 287 to win the William H. Tucker Invitational at Albuquerque, N.M.

The Rebels finished the 16-team event with a 54-hole total of 3-over 867 to edge host New Mexico by four strokes.

The victory came two weeks after the Rebels captured the Gene Miranda Falcon Invitational in Colorado Springs, Colo., winning in a one-hole playoff over Colorado.

UNLV's Derek Ernst shot a final-round 1-over 73 to tie for third, six shots behind medalist Zachary Blair of Brigham Young. Kevin Penner tied for fifth, a stroke behind Ernst, after shooting a 67 in the final round.

Also: The UNLV volleyball team wasted a 2-1 set lead and fell to Wyoming 3-2 (25-17, 19-25, 23-25, 25-21, 15-5) in a Mountain West Conference match at Cox Pavilion.

Stephanie Thelen led the Rebels (8-8, 1-2 MWC) with her sixth double-double -- a match-high 37 assists and 15 digs.

The UNLV men's soccer team surrendered two second-half goals and fell to ninth-ranked New Mexico 2-1 in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation opener at Peter Johann Memorial Field.

Salvador Bernal's goal in the 11th minute gave the Rebels (1-7) the early lead.

The UNLV cross country team placed fourth in its Desert Invitational at Veterans Memorial Park in Boulder City.

Utah captured the six-team, 5-kilometer race with all five of its runners finishing in the top 16.

Lauren Peterson was the Rebels' top finisher, placing seventh in 18 minutes, 45 seconds.

MISCELLANEOUS

Huston, Price, Perry share lead
of Champions' SAS tourney

John Huston shot a 6-under-par 66 for a share of the second-round lead with Nick Price and Kenny Perry in the Champions Tour's SAS Championship in Cary, N.C.

Huston, the Dick's Sporting Good Open winner this year, played the last 10 holes in 6 under in windy conditions for the best round of the day.

Price and Perry had 69s to match Huston at 9-under 135.

Also: Michael Hoey moved closer to giving Northern Ireland another big golf victory, taking a three-shot lead after three rounds of the Dunhill Links Championship in Carnoustie, Scotland.

Hoey shot a 6-under 66 that put him at 18-under 198 in the $5 million tournament.

Northern Irishmen Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy -- winners of the last two U.S. Opens -- were in pursuit. McDowell had a third straight 67 and is in second at 15 under.

Louis Oosthuizen shot a 69 and is another stroke behind. McIlroy had a 66 and is among those at 13 under.

Yoan Pablo Hernandez of Cuba defeated champion Steve Cunningham on a split technical decision after six rounds to take the American's IBF cruiserweight title in Neubrandenburg, Germany.

Referee Mickey Vann stopped the bout because of two cuts sustained by the Cuban after the fighters twice clashed heads in earlier rounds.

Sven Tumba, the Swedish sports icon who was honored in 1999 as the country's best ever hockey player and later became a golf pioneer in Sweden and the former Soviet Union, has died. He was 80.

The Swedish Ice Hockey Association said on its website that Tumba, inducted into the International Hockey Hall of Fame in 1997, died overnight in Stockholm after a period of illness.

The Wranglers will host their second annual Black-White game at 5 p.m. today at Fiesta Rancho Ice Arena. All proceeds benefit the Junior Wranglers youth hockey program.

American Donald Young advanced to his first ATP Tour final, rallying to beat ninth-ranked Gael Monfils of France 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5) in the Thailand Open in Bangkok.

Young will play Britain's Andy Murray, who defeated France's Gilles Simon 6-2, 3-6, 6-2, in today's final.

Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska overpowered Vera Zvonareva of Russia 6-3, 6-2 to win the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo for her second title of the year.

Radwanska was down 2-0 but stormed back to win the first set on the back of Zvonareva's 22 unforced errors.

Andre Agassi beat Jim Courier 8-5 to win the Champions Cup at TD Garden in Boston.

Agassi advanced to the final with a 7-5 victory over Ivan Lendl. In the other semifinal, Courier beat Michael Chang, 6-3.