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Softball

USA women come to town

The USA women’s team will play a nine-inning exhibition game at Franklin Park at 7:30 p.m. on July 10, the Spokane Regional Sports Commission announced Friday.

Spokane ASA is holding tryouts May 10 and 17 to form an all-star team to play the national team. Contact Fuzzy Buckenberger of Spokane ASA at 993-8888, 483-4653 or fuzzybuck@comcast.net.

Tickets are on sale at www.ticketswest.com or 1-800-SEAT.

General admission is $20 for adults and $15 for students, youths and seniors older than 60. VIP seating is $30 for adults and $25 for students, youths and seniors older than 60.

Basketball

Yao follows old ways

Yao Ming will seek traditional Chinese medicine to help heal a stress fracture after opting for surgery last month.

The Houston Rockets center was back in China to consult with traditional medicine practitioners about his NBA season-ending foot injury.

He hasn’t decided on a treatment to heal the stress fracture in his left foot, but said he would probably meet with the country’s top traditional doctors early next week. Traditional Chinese medicine can range from acupuncture to herbal teas.

“Traditional Chinese medicine has a history of thousands of years in our country, so there must be something to it,” Yao said.

Soccer

Spend it like Beckham

David Beckham still earns 50 times Major League Soccer’s average salary, even with it rising 12 percent this year to $129,395.

At $6.5 million in guaranteed income, Beckham makes twice as much as the second-highest-paid player in the league, Chicago’s Cuauhtemoc Blanco ($2,666,778), according to figures released by the league’s players union. Beckham joined the Los Angeles Galaxy at midseason last year and brought new attention to the league, which launched in 1996.