Federer, Henin on top going into U.S. Open

Three-time defending champion Roger Federer was seeded No. 1 at the U.S. Open for the fourth consecutive year, and Justine Henin topped the women’s seedings Monday.

Thirteen players who have won Grand Slam titles are among the 32 men and 32 women seeded for the last major tournament of the year.

That includes men’s No. 2 Rafael Nadal, the three-time French Open champion, and No. 5 Andy Roddick, who won the 2003 U.S. Open and lost to Federer in last year’s final.

Novak Djokovic is seeded No. 3, Nikolay Davydenko – involved in a match that sparked an ATP betting probe this month – is No. 4, and James Blake is No. 6.

Defending champion Maria Sharapova is seeded No. 2 in the women’s field, followed by No. 3 Jelena Jankovic, No. 4 Svetlana Kuznetsova – the 2004 U.S. Open champion – and No. 5 Ana Ivanovic.

Football

Grizzly QB chosen

Cole Bergquist, a junior quarterback with a 6-3 record as a starter, will start in Montana’s season-opener against Southern Utah on Sept. 1, coach Bobby Hauck said.

The 6-foot-2 Bergquist, who is from San Clemente, Calif., played all 12 games as a freshman, and started eight. Last season, he started just one game behind Washington State transfer Josh Swogger, who led the Grizzlies to the NCAA Division I-AA national semifinals.

Hauck said he was happy with all of his quarterbacks but that Bergquist’s experience gave him the edge.

•Two West Virginia University players were arrested over the weekend and charged with transferring and receiving stolen property.

James Thomas, 18, a redshirt freshman linebacker, and Ellis Lankster, 21, a junior defensive back, were arrested early Sunday in Morgantown, W. Va., police said in a news release.

•Kansas State tight end Rashaad Norwood was suspended after being arrested and charged with domestic battery in Manhattan, Kan.

Norwood was released after posting bond.

•Sam Keller will start for Nebraska at quarterback in the season-opener against Nevada on Sept. 1.

Keller, who transferred from Arizona State last year, had been competing with two-year backup Joe Ganz.

Miscellany

Little League on hold

All five games at the Little League World Series were postponed because of rain in South Williamsport, Pa.

The postponements will force the first round of the tournament to be pushed back a day. Monday’s games will be played today and today’s games will be pushed to Wednesday.

The semifinals were initially supposed to start Wednesday, with two games that day and two games Thursday. All four semifinal games will now be played Thursday.

•Free-agent defenseman Jon Klemm, a member of two Stanley Cup champion teams in Colorado, has signed a one-year contract with the Los Angeles Kings.

Klemm had one goal and two assists in 38 regular-season games for the Dallas Stars last season.

•The United States allowed two goals in the last eight minutes and lost to Tajikistan 4-3 at the under-17 World Cup of soccer in Changwon, South Korea.

The U.S. was heading to victory until Nuriddin Davronov made it 3-3 shortly after coming on in the 81st minute and Fatkhullo Fatkhuloev scored the game-winner in the 86th minute.

•The world athletics federation said its call for stiffer penalties for serious doping infractions was likely to be defeated when the World Anti-Doping Agency reviews its rules in November.