Auto Racing
For the 3rd consecutive year, Vettel comfy in Canada
MONTREAL Sebastian Vettel earned pole position for Formula Ones Canadian Grand Prix for the third consecutive year.
The championship points leader drove the fastest lap in the final qualifying session with a time of 1 minute, 25.425 seconds.
Lewis Hamilton also will be in the front row for Sundays race on the 2.71-mile course located on the Ile Notre Dame in Montreal.Intermittent rain dampened the course and slowed the cars for the last two of the three qualifying sessions. The forecast Sunday called for a low chance of rain.
Nationwide race postponed until today because of rain
NEWTON, Iowa The NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Iowa Speedway was postponed Saturday night until 9 a.m. Mountain time today because of rain.
The race was set to begin at 6 p.m. Mountain time, but rain began falling about 40 minutes before the scheduled start.
Castroneves finally gets back to victory lane in 2013
FORT WORTH, Texas Helio Castroneves raced to his first IndyCar victory of the season, leading the final 132 laps Saturday night for his fourth career victory at Texas Motor Speedway.
Castroneves also won at the 1½-mile, high-banked track in 2004, 2006 and 2009. Former series champion Sam Hornish Jr. was the only other three-time IndyCar winner at Texas, and his last came for Roger Penske, who now has eight victories at the track.
College Basketball
Mountain West and Pac-12 form an officiating alliance
SAN FRANCISCO The Pac-12 and Mountain West conferences are teaming up to collaborate on mens basketball officiating, putting longtime Mountain West coordinator Bobby Dibler in charge of the programs and of managing a pool of top regional and national officials.
In announcing the officiating alliance Friday, the conferences said the West Coast Conference, Big West Conference and Western Athletic Conference also will take part in the leagues training programs. While those conferences will schedule separately from the Pac-12 and Mountain West, overlapping officials could work additional games with geography a consideration in order to keep officials fresh while also limiting travel.
Womens Basketball Hall of Fame inducts four more
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Texas A&M coach Gary Blair and Chattanooga coach Jim Foster already have plenty in common.
Both have military backgrounds, Blair in the Marines and Foster in the Army. Both have won at three different schools. Each began his head coaching career outside the six major conferences. Now, they share one more bond: Both entered the Womens Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday as part of an induction class that also included former Mississippi player Peggie Gillom-Granderson, former Connecticut guard Jennifer Rizzotti, former Texas player Annette Smith-Knight and former Rutgers star Sue Wicks.
Cycling
Sanchez wins seventh stage; Froome one shy of victory
SUPERDEVOLUY, France Spanish veteran Samuel Sanchez won the seventh stage of the Criterium du Dauphine race Saturday, and British rider Chris Froome kept the yellow jersey with one stage remaining.
The 35-year-old Sanchez held off Danish rider Jakob Fuglsang to secure his 32nd career win and 97th podium place.
Sanchez finished in 5 hours, 26 minutes, 14 seconds over the mountainous 116 miles from Le Pont-de-Claix to Superdevoluy. Fuglsang had the same time, and Australian rider Richie Porte was 15 seconds back in third.
Froome has a comfortable lead in the standings, 51 seconds ahead of Sky teammate Porte and 1:37 clear of Australian rider Michael Rogers, who placed ninth in the stage to move into third overall.
Associated Press
