Devils trade Malakhov to Sharks
The New Jersey Devils made a major move to get under the NHL salary cap Sunday by sending suspended defenseman Vladimir Malakhov and a conditional first-round draft pick to San Jose for defenseman Jim Fahey and the rights to left wing Alexander Korolyuk.
The deal will save the Devils $3.6 million on their cap – Malakhov’s salary – and it probably won’t cost New Jersey much because Korolyuk will play in Russia again this season and Fahey might not make the roster.
Doping
Tests prone to error
Even athletes who take approved substances risk failing doping tests, experts said in Lausanne, Switzerland, citing a recent study that found banned steroids in nutritional supplements and vitamins.
“The situation in the nutritional supplement market has worsened and the risk of inadvertent doping is increasing,” said Hans Geyer, a researcher at the Cologne Doping Control Laboratory in Germany.
•Anti-doping laboratories are working on a test to detect a powder used to destroy traces of the performance-enhancer EPO in urine samples.
Martial Saugy, the head of the Swiss anti-doping laboratory, said there have been suspicious tests within the last year in which not even traces of natural EPO produced in the kidney is present.
Soccer
U.S. women roll
Abby Wambach had three goals and three assists to lead the United States to a 10-0 rout of Taiwan in a women’s soccer exhibition game in Carson, Calif. Wambach is now in sixth place on the U.S. career scoring list with 62 goals.
Tennis
Blake handles Ljubicic
American James Blake dominated top-seeded Croatian Ivan Ljubicic 6-3, 6-1 to win the Thailand Open final in Bangkok.
•Russia’s Anna Chakvetadze cruised past Spain’s Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-1, 6-4 to win the Guangzhou Open in Beijing.
•Filippo Volandri of Italy won the second title of his career at the Palermo International in Sicily, beating Nicolas Lapentti of Ecuador 5-7, 6-1, 6-3.
•Alona Bondarenko of Ukraine swept past fifth-seeded Francesca Schiavone of Italy 6-3, 6-2 in Luxembourg.
•Eleni Daniilidou of Greece held on for a 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (3) win over fourth-seeded Ai Sugiyama of Japan to win the Korea Open in Seoul.
Miscellany
Rail Link wins
Rail Link held on to win the Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe by a neck in Paris, giving trainer Andre Fabre his seventh win in Europe’s most prestigious horse race.
•Costa Rican boxer Lucas Green Arias was being treated to relieve bleeding in his brain following his loss in a WBC super-middleweight bout. Arias was floored by Jean Pascal Saturday at the Montreal Casino.