Briefly

Sweden finally beat Canada at the world hockey championships, but the gold medal wasn’t at stake this time.

Defenseman Kenny Jonsson scored the winning goal with 6:13 left in the third period in Innsbruck, Austria, as Sweden, which lost the last two finals to Canada, rallied from a two-goal deficit to win 5-4 in a second-round matchup.

With its fourth straight win, Sweden moved atop Group F with six points and closed in on a quarterfinal berth. So did the Czech Republic, which beat Slovakia 5-1 in Group E at Vienna for its fourth straight win.

The Czechs lead Group E with six points, one ahead of Russia. Switzerland and Slovakia each have three points.

Jaromir Jagr, playing with a broken finger, had two assists for the Czechs.

Canada, 3-0 in the first round, kept second place in Group F with four points – one more than the United States and Finland. The top four teams in each group advance to the quarterfinals.

The Americans will play Sweden today, and Canada will face Finland.

Earlier, Latvia shut out Ukraine 3-0 and Belarus blanked Kazakhstan 2-0 in their second-round openers.

•Winger Troy Bodie scored once and set up another as the Kelowna Rockets defeated the Brandon Wheat Kings 4-1 in Western Hockey League playoff action at Kelowna, British Columbia.

Tyler Spurgeon, with his 10th postseason goal, Tyler Mosienko and Darren Deschamps, with his first, also scored for Kelowna, which leads the WHL championship series 2-0.

Backup Kris Westblom, who replaced injured starter Derek Yeomans, made 14 saves for the Rockets, while Tyler Plante made 38 stops for the Wheat Kings.

The best-of-7 series moves to Brandon for Games 3, 4 and 5, if necessary, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.

Tennis

Agassi loses in semifinals

Andre Agassi wonders if he’s done with tennis in Rome.

He lost to Guillermo Coria 7-5, 7-6 (0) in the semifinals of the Rome Masters and made his customary exit with bows and kisses. The sellout crowd responded with a long standing ovation.

Agassi turned 35 a week ago and has not won since his lone title of 2004 at the Cincinnati Masters last August.

He said after every tournament the thought crosses his mind that it could be his last visit.

“I think about it all the time really – 14 times a year the past three or four years,” he said, referring to the number of tournaments he plays each season. “It was a great atmosphere out there. If I can still walk a year from now I’m going to try to come back.”

Today, the ninth-seeded Coria will play for the title against Rafael Nadal in this clay-court tuneup for the French Open this month.

Nadal reached his third straight final by beating Spanish countryman David Ferrer 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 to extend his winning streak to 16 matches. He has a tour-best 30-2 record on clay this year.

•Justine Henin-Hardenne took another formidable step in her comeback, routing Patty Schnyder of Switzerland 6-0, 6-1 in a steady drizzle in Berlin, to reach the German Open final.

The Belgian stretched her winning streak to 16 matches since her return from a virus and injury that sidelined her for seven months.

Henin-Hardenne will play Nadia Petrova of Russia today for the title of the $1.3 million clay-court tuneup for the French Open. Petrova defeated Jelena Jankovic of Serbia-Montenegro 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-3 in the other semifinal.

Running

Moore wins hurdles

Anwar Moore turned in the fastest 110-meter hurdle time by an American this year, winning in 13.23 seconds at the Modesto (Calif.) Relays.

Moore’s time easily surpassed Dominique Arnold’s American-best 13.33 from earlier this season, and was a fraction behind the world best of 13.12 by Liu Xiang, set six hours earlier at the Japan Grand Prix in Osaka.

•Justin Gatlin, the Olympic gold medalist, won the men’s 100 at the IAAF Japan Grand Prix, finishing in 10.15 at Nagai Stadium.

American Brian Lewis was second in 10.28.

In the women’s 100, American Allyson Felix clocked a time of 11.30 to finish .09 seconds ahead of compatriot Angela Daigle. Japan’s Tomoko Ishida was third in 11.73.

Miscellany

Brady signs extension

The New England Patriots have signed quarterback Tom Brady to a six-year extension worth $60 million, a deal that for the first time brings the two-time Super Bowl MVP’s salary in line with his accomplishments.

•Shameka Christon scored 15 points and Becky Hammon had 10 points and seven assists to power the New York Liberty to a 72-58 victory against the defending champion Seattle Storm in the teams’ preseason opener in New York.

•Australia’s Brett Lancaster won the prologue of the Giro d’Italia – a 0.71-mile individual time trial under floodlights – and will wear the pink jersey as overall leader in the opening stage of the Italian cycling marathon in Reggio Calabria, Italy.

•Joe Calzaghe stopped Germany’s Mario Veit in the sixth round in Braunschweig, Germany, for his 17th successful WBO super middleweight title defense.

•UCLA had never lost a championship match at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, before Pepperdine took a 3-2 (30-23, 23-30, 24-30, 30-25, 15-10) win for the 2005 NCAA Division I men’s volleyball national title.