Tennis
BLAKE PREVAILS: James Blake beat close friend Mardy Fish 7-5, 6-4 Saturday to win an All-American final at the Pilot Pen.
Top-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova won the women's title when qualifier Agnes Szavay retired with a back injury while leading 6-4, 0-3.
"I'd rather play him and lose to him than anybody else," Fish said. "James is my best friend."
While Fish was playing in his first final of the year, Blake was playing in his second in a week. He lost to Roger Federer in Cincinnati last Sunday.
Blake, who grew up in nearby Fairfield, considers the Connecticut Tennis Center his home court, and had won here in 2005.
This is the second time two Americans have gone for a title this year. Andy Roddick beat John Isner in the other, three weeks ago in Washington.
Prep football
TEXAS STANDOUT SHOT: A Texas high school football standout who orally committed to play at Oklahoma next year was fatally shot with a rifle after getting into a fight at an apartment complex, authorities said.
Police arrested a 19-year-old Louisiana man and charged him with murder.
Herman Mitchell, 17, died Friday of multiple gun shot wounds, Harris County Sheriff's Lt. John Martin said. He was gunned down hours before his teammates at Westfield High School were to play in a scrimmage.
Emile "Rusty" Lewis was taken into custody after the shooting. He was being held in a Harris County jail on $50,000 bond as of late Saturday.
Witnesses reported Mitchell, a 6-foot, 200-pound linebacker, and another teen were fighting in the parking lot before the shooting, Martin said.
Track
DIBABA WINS 10,000: Tirunesh Dibaba successfully defended her 10,000-meter title at the world championships Saturday in Osaka, Japan, rallying from a mid-race collision with Ethiopian teammate Mestawat Tufa that left her clutching her stomach in pain.
She took the lead with a lap to go, kicked for home and beat Turkey's Elvan Abeylegesse for the gold medal with a time of 31 minutes, 55.41 seconds. Kara Goucher of the United States took the bronze.
Boxing
WARREN QUALIFIES AGAIN: Rau'shee Warren became the first American boxer in 31 years to qualify for consecutive Olympic teams by overpowering Qa'id Muhammad on Saturday night in the flyweight championship at the U.S. Olympic trials.
The 20-year-old Warren battered Muhammad from the opening bell and built a 23-1 lead before the referee stopped the fight 1:11 into the second round. Warren becomes the first U.S. boxer to make back-to-back Olympic squads since Davey Lee Armstrong in 1972 and '76.
Auto racing
MASSA TAKES POLE: Felipe Massa took a step toward repeating last year's victory at the Turkish Grand Prix after claiming pole position Saturday.
The Ferrari driver had the fastest time in qualifying for Sunday's race with 1 minute, 27.329 seconds at the 3.316-mile Istanbul Park circuit, where he claimed his first career pole and F1 victory last year.
"It's always a nice start," Massa said. "I was able to put everything together in the last try."