Allyson Felix won the 400 meters at the U.S. championships in Eugene, Ore., on Saturday, setting up the possibility she might compete in two events at the world championships this summer.
Felix already has a spot in the 200 as the defending world champion. She has yet to decide whether she will attempt the difficult 200-400 double at worlds in South Korea in August.
She only got stronger as the race went along Saturday and held off Francena McCorory at the finish. Debbie Dunn was third.
Tony McQuay of the University of Florida won the men's 400 by blowing past former Olympic and world champion Jeremy Wariner on the home stretch. Wariner faded but held off Greg Nixon for second.
NFL: Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review he may eventually need surgery on a broken right foot that bothered him last season.
The NFLPA updated its members on the status of negotiations toward a new collective bargaining agreement by phone on Thursday and Friday.
The players also were told more updates will come next week, when the players and owners meet again at an undisclosed location.
OLYMPICS: A Tokyo bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics would include the regions hardest hit by the March 11 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crises, the Japanese Olympic Committee said Saturday, saying the sites would be a symbol of recovery.
COLLEGES: Defending champion South Carolina and Florida will meet in the College World Series finals starting Monday. The Gamecocks (53-14) and Gators (53-17), both of the Southeastern Conference, will be first teams from the same conference to meet in the finals simce 1998, when Southern Cal beat Pac-10 rival Arizona State.The Gators could become the first SEC school to win national titles in football (1996, 2006, 2008), men's basketball (2006 and '07), and baseball.
NBA: Toronto Raptors guard Leandro Barbosa exercised his contract option to return to Toronto next season. The 6-foot-3 Brazilian averaged 13.3 points, 2.1 assists, and 24.1 minutes in 58 games last season, his first in Toronto, when he made $7.1 million.
ROWING: Malvern Prep's A Quad boat won the High School Event at the Reading Town regatta in England on Saturday.
The Friars beat several Australian, English, and American Quads on the Henley-style, 850-meter course.
Malvern A and Malvern B finished first and second, respectively, in the intermediate quad final, with an Australian crew third.
Malvern B made the final after beating St. Joseph's Prep by 6 feet in the semifinal.
- Staff and wire reports
