Sports in Brief: Djokovic upsets No. 1 Nadal

Novak Djokovic beat top-ranked Rafael Nadal, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, to win the BNP Paribas Open title on Sunday in Indian Wells, Calif., keeping the Serbian undefeated this year. Djokovic improved to 18-0, including victories at the Australian Open and in Dubai last month. He will move into the No. 2 spot when the ATP Tour rankings are released Monday, having bumped Roger Federer down to third after he lost to Djokovic in the semifinals. Nadal will remain No. 1 with a 14-3 record. In the women's final, world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki claimed her 14th career title, outlasting France's Marion Bartoli, 6-1, 2-6, 6-3.

NASCAR: Kyle Busch beat Carl Edwards and Jimmie Johnson off pit road after the final stops, then held them off over the closing 60 laps to win the Sprint Cup Series race at the Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee. It gave Busch a sweep of the weekend - he also won the second-tier Nationwide Series race on Saturday - and his fifth consecutive victory at Bristol. Busch, who drives a Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing, dedicated the win to the manufacturer and its employees in Japan still trying to recover from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

RUNNING: Markos Geneti set a Los Angeles Marathon record in winning in his debut at 26.2 miles, while Buzunesh Deba won the women's event to give Ethiopia a sweep. Geneti prevailed in 2 hours, 6 minutes, 35 seconds, the second-fastest marathon in the world this year. He also won the $100,000 gender challenge by making up the 17:03 head start given women.

Mo Farah of England outsprinted Gebre Gebremariam in the final 200 meters of the NYC Half-Marathon, edging the Ethiopian by two seconds in 1:00:23.

At the cross-country world championships in Punta Umbria, Spain, Olympic 10,000-meter bronze medalist American Shalane Flanagan finished third in the women's race to become the first non-African-born medalist since 2004.

WINTER SPORTS: The last of 47 mushers in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race crossed the finish line in Nome on Alaska's western coast. Ellen Halverson of Wasilla finished the 1,150-mile race five days after winner John Baker.

World Cup champion Maria Riesch helped Germany win the season-ending team event in Lenzerdeide, Switzerland, as Germany defeated Italy, 3-1, in a final that involved teams of two men and women racing head-to-head on parallel giant slalom courses. The United States did not enter.

MLS: Juninho scored for the second time in two games, helping the Los Angeles Galaxy forge a 1-1 tie against the New England Revolution in Carson, Calif. Juninho's goal in the 39th minute knotted the score after the Galaxy (1-0-1) had a pair of goals called back. Sharlie Joseph scored the lone goal for the Revolution (0-0-1).

BOXING: Hometown favorite Lucian Bute (28-0) stopped Brian Magee (34-4-1) with an uppercut to the chin at 2:04 of the 10th round Saturday night to retain his IBF super-middleweight title in Montreal.

MIXED MARTIAL ARTS: Jon Jones, 23, demolished light-heavyweight champion Mauricio "Shogun" Rua, stopping him in the third round to become the UFC's youngest champion in Newark, N.J. The former junior collegiate national wrestling champ, now 14-1, blistered the Brazilian throughout.

HOCKEY: Yale has been named the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA hockey tournament. North Dakota, Boston College, and Miami of Ohio are the other top seeds.

- Associated Press