NASCAR
MONTREAL GETS RACE: NASCAR will hold a Busch Series event in Montreal next summer — another step in covering the entire North American market.
The stock car racing series once centered in the American South will hold a Busch race Aug. 4 at Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve, a track where sleek Formula One cars usually run.
The two-day event announced Monday will feature a Grand-Am Series race Aug. 3, with Busch cars taking over the following day.
"It's a great setting and we're excited to be here next August," said NASCAR chief executive Brian France, who flew in with top executives and a driver from each series for the announcement. France has worked on this project for two years.
Track
PETER NORMAN DIES: Peter Norman, the Australian sprinter who shared the medals podium with Tommie Smith and John Carlos while they gave their black power salutes at the 1968 Olympics, died Tuesday of a heart attack. He was 64.
Norman won the silver medal in the 200 meters at the Mexico City Games. Smith set a world record in winning the gold medal and Carlos took the bronze, and their civil rights protest became a flash point of the Olympics.
Smith and Carlos stood shoeless, each wearing a black glove on his raised, clenched fist. They bowed their heads while the national anthem played.
"It wasn't about black or white," Carlos said Tuesday. "It was just about humanity, faith in God and faith in making it a better world."
Golf
FALDO A LEAD ANALYST: Nick Faldo joined CBS Sports as its lead golf analyst on Tuesday, giving him more air time than any other golf broadcaster but a job that will keep him from playing in the Masters.
Faldo, a three-time Masters and British Open champion, replaces Lanny Wadkins in the tower alongside Jim Nantz.
The Masters is the highest-rated golf tournament, broadcast every year since 1956 by CBS. Faldo said his decision to join the network showed his commitment to his new career as a television analyst.
"I will be in the tower at Augusta for the whole week," he said. "I will not be playing, and that was a major part of my decision. I view this as a fabulous opportunity for me, which may come once every 10 years. But it will seriously curtail my playing career. My playing days aren't completely over, but my priority now is given to CBS."
Tennis
HENMAN ADVANCES: Tim Henman coasted to a 6-2, 6-1 win over unseeded Canadian Frank Dancevic on Tuesday and seventh-seeded Robby Ginepri was ousted in the second round of the Japan Open.
Henman, the 10th seed, broke Dancevic's serve in the second game and needed just 55 minutes to set up a third-round match against 18-year-old Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro, who upset Ginepri 6-2, 6-2.
Hockey
AVALANCHE CLAIM PARROS: The Colorado Avalanche claimed forward George Parros off waivers from the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday, in time for him to play in the season opener on Wednesday.
The Avalanche also reassigned defensemen Jeff Finger and Johnny Boychuk, and left wing Matt Murley to Albany of the AHL.
In order to trim the roster, Colorado placed left wingers Brad May (shoulder) and Cody McCormick (chest), defenseman Jordan Leopold (hernia), and center Pierre Turgeon (shoulder) on the injured list.