Miscellany

Eight cities have put up money in a bid to be the U.S. site for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Baltimore, Cincinnati, Houston, New Orleans, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington sent in the required documents and $100,000 bid fee by the May 1 deadline, the U.S. Olympic Committee announced.

In his first match since announcing he will retire from tennis in the fall, Michael Stich battled through a steady drizzle to a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Karol Kucera at the $2.3 million German Open at Hamburg.