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Olympics

China: Boycott would fail

A high-ranking Chinese foreign ministry official said any attempt to boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympics would fail, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Thursday.

Last month, French presidential candidate Francois Bayrou proposed his country’s athletes stay away from the Beijing Games in an effort to make China lean on Sudan’s government. American actress Mia Farrow (above) has called on corporate sponsors of the Beijing Games to pressure China to do more to help stop the violence in Darfur.

“I heard some people are saying they would boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to protest China’s policy over Darfur. They are either ignorant or ill-natured,” assistant foreign minister Zhai Jun said Wednesday following a four-day visit to Sudan.

College basketball

Freshman Nelson leaves Huskies

Phil Nelson, a 6-foot-7 freshman swingman from Keizer, Ore., has told coach Lorenzo Romar that he is transferring from the University of Washington program.

Nelson, one of four highly regarded freshmen for last season’s Huskies, apparently was unhappy with his role at Washington, though he started nine games at midseason.

Meanwhile, the Huskies received a letter of intent from Venoy Overton, Washington’s Class 4A player of the year. Overton is a 6-foot guard from Seattle’s Franklin High.

Hockey

Infomercial trumps overtime

Some television viewers who stayed up late to watch Dallas’ first-round playoff game against Vancouver might have missed Henrik Sedin’s fourth-overtime goal.

The game was televised on Versus, and the network said it received reports the game was switched to an infomercial during the last overtime.

“We are obviously very disappointed to hear that some fans in a few select markets have reported that they did not see the end of this great game,” network spokeswoman Katie Bradshaw said.

Henrik Sedin scored 18:06 into the fourth overtime – at about 12:30 a.m. PDT Thursday – to give Vancouver a 5-4 Game 1 win over the Stars in the sixth-longest playoff game in NHL history.