Sports Log
Basketball
For the first time in his career, Allen Iverson vows to take the advice of others instead of listening to his body. That means the 10-time All-Star, who says he’s pain free, could miss Memphis’s season opener Wednesday against Detroit as he recovers from a partly torn left hamstring. Iverson indicated there’s a good chance the Grizzlies’ medical staff won’t clear him for the opener because of fears he’s not completely healed . . . Utah forward Kyle Korver will have surgery on his left knee and miss the beginning of the season . . . The Wizards said Antawn Jamison will likely miss the first eight to 13 games because of his partially dislocated right shoulder . . . Guard Bobby Jackson, a 12-year veteran who spent six seasons with Sacramento, retired before the Kings’ preseason finale against visiting Utah . . . Jerold Zaro, an adviser to New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, has crafted a plan that would make Newark’s Prudential Center a venue for sports events, possibly including home games of the Nets while the team awaits a planned move to New York City’s Brooklyn borough.Hockey
Blackhawks’ Toews misses practice
Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews, still recovering after taking a thunderous hit Wednesday, missed his second straight practice. Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said Toews could still play tonight against Nashville and the team should know more by this morning . . . Boston University alumnus Sean Sullivan was recalled by the Phoenix Coyotes from their AHL affiliate, the San Antonio Rampage. The defenseman, a St. Sebastian’s product, has 10 points this season to lead the Rampage . . . Defenseman Davis Drewiske and goalie Jonathan Quick, a UMass product, signed three-year contract extensions with the Los Angeles Kings.Golf
Clearwater, Cochran lead Champions
Champions Tour rookies Keith Clearwater and Russ Cochran each shot 5-under-par 66s in San Antonio to share the first-round lead in the AT&T Championship, the final full-field event of the season. Tom Kite, looking for his first home-state win as a professional, was a stroke back along with fellow Texan Ben Crenshaw, Mark O’Meara, and Andy Bean . . . Matt Every shot a course-record 9-under 63 to take a one-stroke lead in the season-ending Nationwide Tour Championship in Charleston, S.C. Every, 49th on the money list, needs to finish solo third or higher to possibly move into the final top 25 - the cutoff for 2010 PGA Tour cards . . . Rickie Fowler, the 20-year-old former Oklahoma State standout, shares the lead with Greg Owen halfway through the Frys.com Open in Scottsdale, Ariz. Both shot 6-under 64 to reach 11-under 129. Fowler tied for seventh in his first PGA Tour start as a pro last week in Las Vegas.Tennis
Soderling reaches Stockholm semis
Top-seeded Robin Soderling edged Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, 7-6, (7-4), 6-4, in the Stockholm Open quarterfinals. The 10th-ranked Swede, a surprise French Open finalist, will play Marcos Baghdatis, who ousted qualifier Arnaud Clement, 6-4, 6-4. Olivier Rochus will meet Thomaz Bellucci in the other semi. Rochus beat Jarkko Nieminen, 6-3, 2-6, 6-1, and Bellucci fired 18 aces in defeating Joachim Johansson, 7-6 (7-4), 6-3 . . . Yanina Wickmayer defeated Kirsten Flipkens, 7-6 (7-1), 4-6, 6-1, to reach the semifinals of the Luxembourg Open. She will play Timea Bacsinszky, who beat Katarina Srebotnik, 6-7 (3-7), 6-1, 6-4. Shahar Peer upset Daniela Hantuchova, 6-2, 7-6 (7-4). She’ll face Sabine Lisicki, who ousted Patty Schnyder, 6-4, 6-2. Miscellany
Martinek, Rutgers run over Army
Joe Martinek had 139 yards rushing and scored twice and linebacker Steve Beauharnais scored off his own blocked punt as visiting Rutgers beat Army for the sixth straight time, 27-10, at rainswept Michie Stadium . . . Spanish midfielder Albert Celades is retiring from soccer. The 34-year-old says his game today with the New York Red Bulls will be his last . . . Seventeen-year-old Emily Sweeney from Suffield, Conn., won the race-off in the national team trials, the second in a four-event series to determine this season’s USA Luge’s World Cup roster. Former junior world champion Kate Hansen of La Canada, Calif., was second and 2002 Olympian Ashley Walden of Lake Placid and Westborough, Mass., third.
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