Cycling teams want Phonak suspended

Seventeen of cycling’s top teams asked the governing body to consider suspending Phonak from the Pro Tour following Floyd Landis’ positive doping tests.

The teams also said at a meeting Wednesday the International Cycling Union should study a similar ban on the Astana team, formerly known as Liberty Seguros, which has been implicated in a Spanish doping investigation.

“Prosecutors opened a criminal investigation Thursday in Frankfurt, Germany, of a German doctor suspected of supplying performance-enhancing drugs to a Spanish sports physician at the center of a major doping scandal.

Federal agents and local prosecutors searched the residence and the office of a German doctor and seized “comprehensive evidence,” a statement from the Federal Crime Office, the German equivalent of the FBI, said.

The doctor, who was not identified, is suspected of supplying drugs for the “purpose of doping in sports.”

Basketball

USA names captains

Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade have been named team captains by Mike Krzyzewski for the upcoming World Championships in Japan.

“It’s a big responsibility for us three being captains and going out and representing our country in the right way,” James said in a statement.

“Guard Eddie House signed with the New Jersey Nets after averaging a career-high 9.8 points last season with Phoenix.

“Grady Wallace, a South Carolina star who was the nation’s leading scorer in 1957, died in Columbia, S.C. He was 72.

Tennis

Clijsters will miss Open

Defending champion Kim Clijsters will miss the U.S. Open because of a left wrist injury.

An MRI exam and X-ray showed the problem is worse than originally believed and that the Belgian will be sidelined for the coming weeks.

“Former finalist Mark Philippoussis received a wild card for the U.S. Open.

The other wild cards all went to U.S. players who are 20 or younger.

Hockey

Malkin turns up in L.A.

Evgeni Malkin has surfaced in Los Angeles, five days after slipping away from his Russian Super League team during training camp in Helsinki, Finland.

Malkin was the No. 2 pick in the 2004 NHL draft by Pittsburgh.

His next step is to try to get on the ice for the start of Pittsburgh’s rookie camp in September. Malkin’s agents are working with lawyers to determine when he can join them with contract issues still pending regarding his former Russian team.

“Phil Kessel, 18, the fifth choice in this year’s NHL draft, signed a multiyear contract with the Boston Bruins. The center played one season of college hockey at Minnesota in 2005-06.

Miscellany

Formula One stays put

Formula One racing will return to Indianapolis Motor Speedway for at least one more year.

Speedway chief executive Tony George signed an agreement Wednesday for a yearlong extension of the U.S. Grand Prix, track spokesman Ron Green said.

“Michael Phelps lowered his world record in the 200-meter butterfly at the Pan Pacific Championships in Victoria, British Columbia.

The American came from behind on the final lap to win in 1 minute, 53.80 seconds. He set his old mark of 1:53.93 at the 2003 world championships.

Earlier, Jess Schipper of Australia broke the world record in the women’s 200 butterfly. Schipper won in 2:05.40 seconds to better the 2:05.61 set by Otylia Jedrzejczak of Poland.

“Olympic heptathlon champion Carolina Kluft will miss the rest of the season because of a thigh injury.