Reds say they received damaged goods

Baseball
The Reds have filed a grievance against the Washington Nationals over the trade that brought sore-shouldered reliever Gary Majewski to Cincinnati last season. The Reds contend Nationals general manager Jim Bowden failed to inform them of Majewski's shoulder problems when they got the righthander as part of an eight-player deal last July 13. Majewski has struggled since joining the Reds, and is in the minors this season . . . Cincinnati rookie outfielder Josh Hamilton was taken to a Cleveland hospital early yesterday and diagnosed with gastroenteritis, an inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. Reds manager Jerry Narron, informed of Hamilton's illness, didn't know if Hamilton would be at the ballpark for last night's game against the Indians. "He had a bad stomach ache," Narron said. "He might have eaten 10 hot dogs." . . . Arizona infielder Alberto Callaspo was activated off the restricted list and rejoined the team in Pittsburgh, nine days after he was arrested for allegedly assaulting his wife. Callaspo's reinstatement came two days after the players union filed a grievance on his behalf . . . Jon Lester, Travis Hughes, Craig Hansen and Bryan Corey combined for a one-hitter, Jacoby Ellsbury had three hits, coming within a home run of a cycle, and Michael Tucker hit a two-run double as the Pawtucket Red Sox shut out the Lynx, 4-0, in an International League game in Ottawa.

Basketball

NBA union chief Billy Hunter said the players would support the reinstatement of referee Joey Crawford, who was suspended after he was accused of trying to pick a fight with Tim Duncan during a game. "We hated to see Joey get canned," Hunter told a sports lawyers' convention yesterday. Crawford ejected Duncan from a game last month after calling a second technical foul on the Spurs star while he was laughing on the bench. Duncan said Crawford looked at him and said, "Do you want to fight?" NBA commissioner David Stern suspended Crawford, citing him for "improper conduct" and "inappropriate comments made to Duncan during the game." . . . Suns assistant Marc Iavaroni said that he has had an informal meeting with Memphis owner Michael Heisley about the Grizzlies' vacant head coaching position. The Commercial Appeal in Memphis reported this week that former Knicks coach Larry Brown and the University of Florida's Billy Donovan have also met with Heisley.

Tennis

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal rallied to win their semifinals and set up a showdown between the top-ranked players for the Hamburg Masters championship. Nadal defeated Lleyton Hewitt, 2-6, 6-3, 7-5, to extend his clay-court winning streak to 81 matches and Federer beat Carlos Moya, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 . . . Defending champion Nicole Vaidisova pulled out of next week's French Open tuneup tournament in Strasbourg because of a nagging right wrist injury . . . Venezuela's Milagros Sequera was shut out in the first set, then recovered to beat Romania's Ioana Raluca Olaru, 0-6, 6-2, 7-6 (7-5), and reach the final of the Grand Prix SAR Lalla Meryem in Fez, Morocco. Sequera will play Canada's Aleksandra Wozniak, who defeated Argentina's Maria Emilia Salerni, who retired with Wozniak leading, 6-3, 4-4.

Miscellany

Al Unser Jr. and John Andretti drove other people's backup cars to get into the Indianapolis 500 on the second weekend of qualifying. Unser climbed into A.J. Foyt's second car and posted a four-lap, 10-mile run of 220.876 miles per hour that earned him of starting his 19th 500. Andretti, in the third Panther Racing car, turned an average of 221.756 to qualify for his eighth Indy start and first since 1994. Other third-day qualifiers included Roger Yasukawa (222.654), Alex Barron (220.471), Jon Herb (220.108), Jaques Lazier (219.409), rookie Milka Duno (219.228) . . . Free agent goaltender Johan Holmqvist re-signed with the Tampa Bay Lightning. The 29-year-old native of Sweden, who signed a one-year contract, replaced Marc Denis as the starting goalie late in the season and was in net for all six games of the Lightning's first-round playoff series loss to the New Jersey Devils . . . Spain's Salvador Calvo set a course record of 3:23.10 in the Great Wall Marathon in Kuaihuolin, China. Factoring in the 3,800 steps of the Great Wall that runners hike, climb, and crawl up, Salvo's time is probably equivalent to 2:20 on flat land. Calvo was two minutes faster than the old mark, and 15 minutes ahead of Frederick Zalokar of the United States, who was second in 3:38:14. The first woman was Sara Winter of New Zealand -- fifth overall -- in another course record of 3:50:21. The old record was 4:12:42.