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• Sports Briefs

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  ■BASKETBALL

  Landry shot in the leg

  Houston Rockets forward Carl Landry was shot in the left leg while driving near his home early Tuesday. The injury was minor, and the team said Landry was treated at a hospital and released. The Rockets said they expected Landry to return to action in one to three weeks. The shooting occurred about 2:30am, a few hours after the Rockets returned from a game at New Orleans. Houston police said Landry was driving his SUV southbound on a city street, when a northbound car swerved into his path and collided with his vehicle. Landry and the driver of the other vehicle made U-turns and the vehicles collided again and Landry’s SUV hit a utility pole. Landry got out of his SUV and was shot by one of the two occupants of the car, police said.

  ■CYCLING

  Scarponi wins in Italy

  Italy’s Michele Scarponi of the Diquigiovanni team won the week-long Tirreno-­Adriatico race that ended in San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy, on Tuesday. Compatriot Stefano Garzelli was second overall, 25 seconds behind, with 2007 winner Andreas Kloeden of Germany third. Britain’s Mark Cavendish of the Columbia team won the seventh and final stage on Tuesday, beating American Tyler Farrar and Australia’s Baden Cooke in a sprint finish.

  ■SWIMMING

  Miley sets European record

  Britain’s growing strength in women’s swimming was underlined again on Tuesday when 19-year-old Hannah Miley set a new European record in the 200m individual medley at the national championships in Sheffield, England. Miley, already the European record holder in the 400m medley, clocked 2 minutes, 9.59 seconds to break Ukrainian star Yana Klochkova’s nine-year-old record by more than a second. The teenager, who had finished sixth in the 400m medley at the Beijing Olympics, put her record down to a hugely-improved breast stroke. “After the Olympics I just took two weeks off and wanted to get back in the pool and become bigger, faster and stronger,” she said. “It shows what I am doing is working and hopefully I can carry it through and make sure I can keep working. I’ve been working on my breaststroke all my life — it was my worst stroke when I was younger ... We’ve been working 15 years on it.”

  ■YACHTING

  ‘Ericsson 3’ scores four

  Swedish entry Ericsson 3 led the Volvo Ocean Race around Cape Horn on Tuesday to pick up four points at the scoring gate on fifth leg of the event between Qingdao in China and Rio de Janeiro. Its Swedish stablemate vessel and pre-race favorite Ericsson 4 came in second to add 3.5 points to its tally. The treacherous conditions that were feared at the Horn never materialized, with winds in the 25-30 knot range and moderate seas. Ericsson 3 passed the Horn at 12:22pm GMT, more than two hours ahead of Ericsson 4, skippered by Brazilian Olympic gold medalist Torben Grael.

  ■COLLEGE BASKETBALL

  Morehead beat Alabama

  Morehead State never trailed during a 58-43 victory over Alabama State for its first NCAA college basketball victory in 25 years in Dayton, Ohio, on Tuesday. Morehead played its way into a first-round rematch on Friday with top-seeded Louisville. Alabama State hoped to set the tone defensively behind shot blocker Grlenntys Chief Kickingstallionsims Jr, a center whose reach is as long as his name. He swatted away three shots, but wasn’t much help where he was needed most — on the boards.
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