Briefly

Zach Parise was stopped on a penalty shot with 1:25 left, but the United States clinched a spot in the quarterfinals of the world hockey championships by tying last-place Ukraine 1-1 Monday in Innsbruck, Austria.

The Americans trailed 1-0 until defenseman Brett Hauer scored a power-play goal 2:45 into the third period. They couldn’t grab the lead despite holding a 39-9 shots advantage.

In the other Group F game, Finland tied Latvia 0-0.

The Americans will have to wait until today’s play is completed to find out who they will face Thursday in the quarterfinals. The U.S. and Sweden have six points each, Canada and Finland have five, and Latvia has three.

In Group E, unbeaten Russia topped Kazakhstan 3-1 and Switzerland defeated Belarus 2-0.

Pro football

Winslow remains hospitalized

Kellen Winslow Jr. remained hospitalized in Cleveland, more than a week after sustaining internal injuries and damage to his right knee in a motorcycle accident.

“He’s still in the hospital and we don’t know when he will be getting out,” Cleveland Browns coach Romeo Crennel said. “We’re hoping that he can recover soon.”

•Minnesota Vikings owner Red McCombs said he’s confident his team will soon be sold to the investor group now headed by New Jersey real estate developer Zygmunt Wilf.

•Former Washington Redskins quarterback Tim Hasselbeck will get a shot to back up Eli Manning with the New York Giants. The Giants were awarded the rights to Hasselbeck after he cleared waivers.

•Miami Dolphins cornerback Will Poole is expected to miss the 2005 season with a knee injury suffered during minicamp last week.

Tennis

Federer wins after layoff

Top-ranked Roger Federer won his first match after a three-week injury layoff, while Andy Roddick lost in the opening round of the Hamburg Masters in Hamburg, Germany, and Rafael Nadal withdrew because of a cut hand.

Federer, recovering from an inflammation to both feet, defeated Fernando Verdasco 6-4, 6-3 in the $2.7 million clay-court tuneup for the French Open, which begins May 23.

Roddick, seeded second, was beaten by Chile’s Nicolas Massu 7-6 (4), 4-6, 7-5. Nadal, the ATP Tour’s hottest player, was joined on the injury list by seventh-seeded Carlos Moya, who pulled out because of an ailing right shoulder.

•Serena Williams wants to get her clay-court game going in Rome.

After a series of injury-related withdrawals since winning the Australian Open in January, Williams says she is fit for the Italian Open, a $1.3 million tuneup for the French Open, which starts in two weeks. She does not plan to play again before Paris.

•The U.S. Tennis Association is buying the rights to the ATP hard-court tournament on Long Island, moving it to New Haven, Conn., and combining it with a WTA event the week before the U.S. Open.

The formation of the new men’s and women’s Pilot Pen Tennis tournament will be announced today at a news conference at city hall in New Haven.

The hard-court tournament will be Aug. 21-28 this year; the U.S. Open starts Aug. 29.

College football

UConn players charged

Five Connecticut football players were charged in Willimantic, Conn., in a case in which the window of a vehicle was shot out by a pellet gun as two cars passed in a parking lot.

The players were suspended from the team, coach Randy Edsall said.

Tyvon Branch, Daniel Davis, Daniel Lansanah and Marvin Taylor were charged with possession of a weapon in a motor vehicle and released after posting $750 bond.

Donta Moore was charged with possession of a weapon in a motor vehicle, second-degree reckless endangerment, third-degree criminal mischief, third-degree assault, unlawful discharge of a firearm. He was released after posting $1,000 bail.

Boxing

Mayorga to be retried

Ricardo Mayorga will be retried on rape charges after an appeals court in Managua, Nicaragua, overturned an earlier decision that cleared the former welterweight champion and ordered a new trial.

The spokeswoman for the Appeals Court of Managua, Ruth Tapia, told the AP that the original decision was voided because “the process wasn’t correct.”

•The Senate voted to establish a federal boxing commission that would seek to ensure the integrity and improve the tarnished image of the sport.

The commission would establish standards for issuing licenses to boxers and managers and take steps to protect boxers’ health and safety.

Miscellany

Basketball player dies

Western Kentucky basketball player Danny Rumph collapsed and died during a pickup game in his hometown of Philadelphia. The 21-year-old junior guard was visiting his family when he died Sunday. The school had no other information about his death.

•Australia’s Robbie McEwen won a close sprint in Santa Maria del Cedro, Italy, to capture the second stage of the Giro d’Italia and take the overall leader’s pink jersey from Olympic champion Paolo Bettini.

•Formula One’s five leading manufacturers plan to form their own organization and throw out the world governing body’s international court of appeal.

•The Little League International Board of Directors has changed the age determination date for its players, starting in 2006. The date in all divisions of Little League Baseball will be April 30 of the current year, moved up from July 31. Previously, a player who turned 13 before August was not eligible to play that season.