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HORSE RACING

'Lemonade' wins at Saratoga

Somali Lemonade rallied down the middle of the track and held off a late run from Stephanie's Kitten to win the $500,000 Diana by a neck on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course. Ridden by Luis Saez for trainer Michael Matz, the 5-year-old Lemon Drop Kid mare ran 1 1/8 miles in 1:48.51 over the inner turf course in capturing the first of 15 Grade 1 flat races during the six-week meeting. It was the fourth graded-stakes victory and first in a Grade 1 for Somali Lemonade, who paid $24.60, $11 and $7.40. Stephanie's Kitten returned $6.60 and $4.60 for second, and Discreet Marq paid $6.50 for third. In Saturday's co-feature, Big Trouble caught Mr. Z in the shadow of the wire to win the Grade 3 $150,000 Sanford. Coming from off the pace, the Tiz Wonderful colt rallied down the middle of the track in capturing the 100th running of the stakes for 2-year-olds. Trained by Anthony Dutrow for Team D Stable, Big Trouble ran six furlongs in 1:10.64 and won for the second time to start his career and first in a stakes race. He paid $25.60, $10 and $5.60. Mr. Z paid $11.20 and $6.10, while Cinco Charlie returned $3.50 for third. Jockey Rosario Montanez was taken by ambulance and admitted to Albany Medical Center for observation after complaining of pain in his rib and pelvic area following a spill in Saturday's fifth race.

• Northern Irish jockey AP McCoy took his tally of career wins to 4,192 on Saturday, passing a record he shared with former trainer Martin Pipe. The 40-year-old McCoy rode It's A Gimme to victory at a meeting at Market Rasen. Pipe trained 4,191 winners -- many of whom were ridden by McCoy -- before retiring in 2006.

FOOTBALL

Dareus on injury list

Buffalo Bills defensive tackle Marcell Dareus won't be ready for the start of training camp after he was placed on the active/non-football injury list. The move was made Saturday, a day before the Bills hold their first practice in suburban Rochester. The team did not say why he was placed on the list. It's the latest setback for Dareus, who is already dealing with two off-field legal matters. In early May, Dareus was arrested in Alabama and charged with possession of synthetic marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Four weeks later, he crashed his 2012 Jaguar into a tree and was charged with reckless endangerment and ticketed for several traffic violations, including drag-racing.

BASKETBALL

Florida guard out for season

Florida guard DeVon Walker is expected to miss next season because of a knee injury. A junior from Winter Haven, Fla., Walker tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee Friday. Walker played in 35 games last season, including seven starts, and averaged 2.4 points, 1.2 rebounds and 12.1 minutes. He played behind fellow guards Scottie Wilbekin, Michael Frazier II and Kasey Hill. With Wilbekin having graduated, Walker had been expected to play an increased role in 2014-15. Now that Walker is out for the season, former Rutgers guard Eli Carter and freshmen Chris Chiozza and Brandone Francis are likely to see more playing time for the Gators.

• The Washington Wizards have acquired forward Kris Humphries from the Boston Celtics for a protected 2015 second-round draft pick. Humphries appeared in 69 games, averaging 8.4 points and 5.9 rebounds, last season with Boston. In 10 seasons with the Jazz, Raptors, Mavericks, Nets and Celtics, he is averaging 6.8 points and 5.5 rebounds. Humphries had his best season in 2011-12 when he averaged 13.8 points and 11 rebounds for the Nets. He was selected with the 14th pick in the 2004 draft by the Jazz out of Minnesota.

Shoni Schimmel scored an All-Star game record 29 points and had eight assists as the East pulled out a 125-124 victory Saturday over the West in the first WNBA All-Star Game to go into overtime. Tamika Catchings, an All-Star for a record-tying ninth time, made a layup with six seconds to go to give the East the lead and then knocked the ball away from Skylar Diggins on the defensive end to seal the victory. Diggins finished with 27 points and seven assists, leading a furious West rally to force overtime. Brittney Griner, of the host Phoenix Mercury, scored 17 points, including a first-half dunk, for the West.

TENNIS

Mayer, Ferrer in final

Leonardo Mayer of Argentina will play top-seeded David Ferrer in the Hamburg (Germany) Open final after they won straight-sets semifinals over local hopes on Saturday. The 46th-ranked Mayer converted four of his seven break chances to upset the seventh-seeded Philipp Kohlschreiber 7-5, 6-4, and Ferrer eased past 17-year-old Alexander Zverev 6-0, 6-1. The 285th-ranked Zverev, who was playing in his hometown tournament, upset Robin Haase, fifth-seeded Mikhail Youzhny, and 11th-seeded Santiago Giraldo in becoming the first 17-year-old to reach an ATP semifinal since 2006.

Mona Barthel of Germany will face Chanelle Scheepers of South Africa in today's Swedish Open final. Barthel defeated Silvia Soler-Espinosa of Spain 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, after Scheepers beat Jana Cepelova of Slovakia 7-5, 6-2 in the first semifinal on Saturday. Barthel will be playing for her third WTA career title, while Scheepers won her only title in Guangzhou, China, at the end of 2011.

BOXING

Lurie dead at 96

Art Lurie, a top boxing judge and referee in Nevada who worked more than 200 world championship fights, died late Thursday at the age of 96. Former Las Vegas Mayor Ron Lurie told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that his father had been battling cancer and died at a Las Vegas hospice. He says his father would have continued judging because he loved boxing, but his eyesight failed and he could only see out of one eye. He says his father “liked to say he could still judge a fight with one eye better than most of the other judges’ two (eyes).”

BASKETBALL

Leslie leads women's Hall of Fame class

Four-time Olympic gold medalist Lisa Leslie headlines the 2015 women's basketball Hall of Fame induction class announced Saturday.

She is joined by former Houston Comets star Janeth Arcain, University of Georgia standout Janet Harris, former Duke coach Gail Goestenkors, longtime Oregon high school coach Brad Smith and Oklahoma State Coach Kurt Budke, who was killed in a 2011 plane crash in the Ouachia National Forest.

Immaculata University teams that won championships from 1972-74 will receive the Hall's trailblazer award.

Leslie also won two WNBA titles with the Los Angeles Sparks and was the league's MVP three times. She helped the U.S. win gold medals at the 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics.

The group will be inducted in June at the Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Tenn..

Arcain had a stellar career playing for Brazil. She guided the team to a gold medal at the 1994 world championship as well as a silver and bronze at the Olympics. She came to the WNBA in 1997 and was the 13th pick in the draft.

Harris starred at Georgia from 1981-85, earning All-SEC honors all four seasons. She was the first player in NCAA women's basketball history to scored 2,500 points and grab 1,250 rebounds. She helped the Lady Bulldogs win the SEC crown in 1983 and 1984.

Goestenkors guided Duke and Texas to the NCAA Tournament 18 consecutive years, including four trips to the Final Four and two national championship game appearances. Goestenkors is now an assistant with the Los Angeles Sparks.

Smith has won 629 games and 26 league championships while coaching at Oregon City High School over 27 years.

Budke was a successful coach at Louisiana Tech before arriving at Oklahoma State in 2005. He was 80-16 while in charge of the Lady Techsters, leading them to three consecutive NCAA Tournaments. In his five years at Oklahoma State, Budke appeared in three NCAA Tournaments, including a trip to the regional semifinals in 2008. He died on Nov. 17, 2011, in a plane crash near Perryville during a recruiting trip with an assistant coach.

Sports on 07/20/2014

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