Chest pains send coach to hospital
TORONTO, May 21 (UPI) -- Coach Pat Quinn, whose Toronto Maple Leafs hosted Carolina Tuesday night in Game Three of their NHL Eastern Conference finals, was taken to a hospital earlier in the day for tests after complaining of pain near his heart.
According to an ESPN report, Quinn, 59, left the hospital in the morning but returned in the afternoon.
Quinn, who also serves as the Maple Leafs' general manager, underwent blood tests in Raleigh, N.C., the day after Game One against the Carolina Hurricanes after complaining of shortness of breath and difficulty sleeping.
Assistant Coach Rick Ley, who replaced Quinn as coach in Vancouver, will guide the Maple Leafs in Quinn's absence.
Tribe releases slumping Brady Anderson
CLEVELAND, May 21 (UPI) -- Three-time All-Star outfielder Brady Anderson, unable to revive his career with the Cleveland Indians, was released Tuesday.
Anderson, 38, batted just .163 (13-for-80) with one homer and five RBI in 34 games this season, his first with the Indians after spending 14 with Baltimore. The Orioles released Anderson in November with one year remaining on his contract.
Anderson enjoyed some banner years with Baltimore, where he hit 209 homers and amassed a club-record 311 stolen bases, garnering All-Star appearances in 1992, 1996 and 1997.
Anderson's best season came in 1996, when he set career highs with a .297 average, a franchise-record 50 homers and 110 RBI. He has never hit more than 24 homers in any other season.
Carter retiring to broadcast booth
NEW YORK, May 21 (UPI) -- Cris Carter, the NFL's second all-time leading receiver with 1,093 catches, is calling it a career and will become a broadcaster.
Carter announced his retirement on Tuesday after 15 NFL seasons and has accepted a position with HBO Sports, where he will serve as a co-host of the
"Inside the NFL" show.
Carter caught 73 passes for 871 yards and six touchdowns last season, his 12th with the Vikings. The 36-year-old Carter is third all time in receiving yards with 13,833 and second in receiving touchdowns with 129.
Carter and Jerry Rice are the only two NFL players with 1,000 career receptions.
Leaf reported headed for Seahawks
BRISTOL, Conn., May 21 (UPI) -- One day after being released by the Dallas Cowboys, quarterback Ryan Leaf was reported Tuesday to have agreed to a contract with the Seattle Seahawks.
According to the report by ESPN.com, Leaf will sign a one-year contract worth $525,000. The deal is contingent on Leaf passing a physical.
On Monday, the Dallas Cowboys became the third team to give up on the oft-maligned quarterback in a year. Leaf became expendable in Dallas with the emergence of Quincy Carter and recent acquisition of Stanford signl caller Chad Hutchinson.
A collegiate star at Washington State, Leaf was the second overall pick in the 1998 by the San Diego Chargers, but never came close to living up to expectations.
U.S. rebounds in World Cup event
DUSSELDORF, Germany, May 21 (UPI) -- The United States evened its record at 1-1 in the Red Group on Tuesday in the ATP World Cup claycourt tennis event.
After enduring a three-match sweep at the hands of France on Sunday, the U.S. rebounded with a 2-1 victory over Argentina.
Andy Roddick started the Americans on the right foot Tuesday with a 6-3, 6-2 victory Jose Acasuso of Argentina.
Pete Sampras then won his first match on European clay this season with a 7-5, 2-6, 7-6 (7-5) triumph over Argentina's Guillermo Canas.
Argentina captured the doubles match as Lucas Arnold and Gaston Etlis recorded a 7-5, 6-2 win over James Blake and Jared Palmer.
The Argentines defeated Sweden, 2-1, on Monday. But on Tuesday, Sweden defeated France by the same score, leaving each team in the Red Group with a 1-1 record.
Kournikova quickly departs Strasbourg
STRASBOURG, France, May 21 (UPI) -- Russia's Anna Kournikova, who appeared to have momentum on her side, suffered another early exit Tuesday as the 21-year-old Russian fell to Hungary's Petra Mandula, 7-6 (7-5), 6-2, in the first round of the $170,000 Strasbourg International claycourt tennis event.
Kournikova, who never has won a tour event, was hoping to build on last week's performance, when she reached the third round of the Italian Open. Instead, she suffered her ninth loss in 12 matches since reaching the semifinals of the Pan Pacific Open in Japan the first week of February.
Kournikova missed most of last season with a fractured foot and has watched her ranking plummet to No. 68 as she tries to get back in shape. The two victories last week marked the first time she won consecutive matches in more than three months.
No. 4 Iroda Tulyaganova of Uzbekistan, the top seed in action, suffered a 6-7 (3-7), 7-5, 7-5 loss to Eleni Daniilidou of Greece.
Gambill advances in Austrian clay event
ST. POLTEN, Austria, May 21 (UPI) -- American Jan-Michael Gambill led three seeded players into the second round of the $381,000 International Raiffeisen Grand Prix claycourt tennis event Tuesday.
Gambill, the fourth seed, outlasted Jan Vacek of the Czech Republic, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, and was joined in the second round by No. 5 Stefan Koubek of Austria and No. 8 Dominik Hrbaty of Slovakia.
Koubek defeated American Bob Bryan, 6-3, 7-5, and Hrbaty overcame a slow start to get past Nikolay Davydenko of Russia, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Top seed Jiri Novak of the Czech Republic withdrew due to a hand injury.
S.Korea attacks disease as World Cup nears
SEOUL, South Korea, May 21 (UPI) -- South Korea, fighting to contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease just 10 days before the World Cup finals, said Tuesday that the epidemic would not disrupt the international soccer festival.
"We are making all-out national efforts to curb the animal disease before the opening of the World Cup tournament," Agricultural Minister Kim Dong-tae told a group of foreign correspondents.
More than 110,000 animals, mainly pigs and cows, have now been culled in affected areas and buried in sealed pits to prevent further spread of the disease, Kim said.
"We are employing a stamp-out policy to slaughter and destroy every pig within a 3-kilometer (1.86-mile) radius around the outbreak epicenter as well as all the cloven-hoofed animals within a 500-meter (547-yard) radius around the outbreak farms," he said. "The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease is under control."
South Korea has been suffered from the highly contagious animal disease since early this month despite government's massive quarantine efforts, casting a shadow over preparations for the May 31-June 30 World Cup.
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