Sports Briefing
Globetrotters use Magic to defeat Michigan State

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The Harlem Globetrotters, with help from Magic Johnson, beat Michigan State 97-83 in a basketball exhibition game yesterday in East Lansing, Mich., and stretched their winning streak to 283 games.

Behind 38 points from former UCLA guard Darrick Martin, including 18 in the last 6-1/2 minutes, the Globetrotters avenged a 72-68 loss to the Spartans in November 2000 that snapped a 1,270-game win streak.

Paul Davis had 19 points to lead Michigan State. But the Spartans' main highlight focused on the return to campus of former NBA superstar Johnson and a weekend reunion of the 1979 NCAA champions.

With ex-Boston Celtic Larry Bird, a friend, on hand as the Globetrotters' honorary coach, Johnson was 2 for 3 from the field and had five points and four assists in 16 minutes.

Soccer

Abby Wambach scored twice off Mia Hamm's assists as the U.S. women's team defeated Mexico 3-1 in Dallas to end its season.

Cindy Parlow scored in the 18th minute to give the United States a 1-0 lead.

• Liverpool beat Fulham 2-1 for its third straight win in the English Premier League. Leicester defeated Blackburn 2-0 to end a five-game losing streak.

Tennis

Britain's Tim Henman ended a disappointing season on a high note, beating Romania's Andrei Pavel 6-2, 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (7-2) to capture the Paris Masters title.

Henman, 29, had slipped to No. 40 in the rankings last month from a career best of No. 4 last year.

• Amelie Mauresmo of France shook off her slow start and beat Anastasia Myskina of Russia 5-7, 6-0, 6-2 to win the Advanta Championships in Villanova, Pa., for her second title this season.

Martina Navratilova and Lisa Raymond, who will play for the United States in the Fed Cup, won the doubles final, beating Cara Black and Rennae Stubbs 6-3, 6-4. Navratilova has 173 career WTA Tour doubles titles.

• Maria Sharapova, a 16-year-old Russian, won the Bell Challenge when Milagros Sequera of Venezuela broke her left ankle early in the second set in Quebec City.

Sharapova won the first set 6-2.

• Venus Williams withdrew from the WTA Championships, citing an abdominal strain that has bothered her since April.

Chanda Rubin will replace Williams in the season-ending tournament that begins Wednesday in Los Angeles.

Figure skating

Russia's Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov, who train in New Jersey, won the ice-dance championship at Skate Canada in Mississauga, Ontario.

Horse racing

The Cliff's Edge and Read the Footnotes won Grade III races for 2-year-olds.

The Cliff's Edge, ridden by Shane Sellers and trained by Nick Zito, took the $113,700 Iroquios Stakes by 7-¾ lengths over Korbyn Gold at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. The favored colt ran a mile in 1 minute, 35-2/5 seconds and paid $6.40 to win.

Read the Footnotes, ridden by Jerry Bailey and trained by Richard Violette, triumphed by 2-¼ lengths over Paddington in the $113,100 Nashua Stakes at Aqueduct in Jamaica, N.Y. He covered a mile in 1:36-2/5 and returned $7.80 to win. Odds-on Value Plus stumbled at the start, unseating jockey John Velazquez; neither was injured.

Volleyball

The United States beat Argentina 25-11, 25-14, 25-14 in Tokyo to improve to 2-0 at the Women's World Cup.

Rugby

New Zealand held off Wales at the Rugby World Cup, winning 53-37 in Sydney, Australia, and setting up a quarterfinal this weekend against South Africa.

A rally by New Zealand prevented what would have been the biggest upset in World Cup history. Wales was trying to beat the All Blacks for the first time in 50 years.

England routed Uruguay 111-13 in Brisbane, Australia, in the day's other game.

— Seattle Times news services

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