BECKHAM OUT SIX WEEKS David Beckham could miss the rest of the Los Angeles Galaxy's season after being diagnosed with a sprained right knee.

He was expected to be out about six weeks and immediately will begin rehabilitation.

The English midfielder underwent an exam that confirmed he sprained the medial collateral ligament in the knee.

Beckham was injured on a tackle by Pachuca midfielder Fernando Salazar in the first half of Wednesday night's SuperLiga title match.

U.S. FALLS Richard Sukuta-Pasu scored two second-half goals as Germany eliminated the United States from the FIFA Under-17 World Cup soccer tournament with a 2-1 victory in Cheonan, South Korea.

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE DRAW Defending champion AC Milan was given a relatively easy draw for the group stage of the European Champions League soccer tournament, competing against Portugal's Benfica, Scotland's Celtic and Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk.

GIBBS SWITCH? Joe Gibbs Racing has scheduled a news conference for Wednesday and several published reports say the team will announce it has signed a deal to field Toyotas in the Nextel Cup series.

SMITH NEARS DEAL Regan Smith was finalizing a deal to drive the No. 01 for Dale Earnhardt Inc. next season. Smith verbally has agreed to a one-year contract that includes a team option for two more Nextel Cup seasons.

MERCURY EDGES STARS Cappie Pondexter scored 26 points to lift the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury to a 102-100 victory over the San Antonio Silver Stars in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals.

Former Colorado State athlete Becky Hammon scored 32 points for San Antonio.

MEXICO WINS Leandro Barbosa scored 32 points to lead Brazil to a 96-62 victory over Uruguay and a berth in the semifinals of the FIBA Americas tournament in Las Vegas.

In another tournament game, Anthony Pedroza scored 27 points and Mexico snapped a six-game losing streak with a 101-91 win against Venezuela.

ELSON INJURED San Antonio Spurs center Francisco Elson, a former Nuggets player, injured his left eye during a game this summer and will have surgery in the coming week.

NIFONG PLEA Disgraced former Durham, N.C., prosecutor Mike Nifong pleaded not guilty to criminal contempt charges stemming from his failure to turn over complete DNA testing results during the now-discredited Duke lacrosse rape case.

JOKINEN SIGNS The Dallas Stars have re-signed left wing Jussi Jokinen to a two-year deal worth about $1.8 million a season.

SOONER WAIVER The NCAA granted a waiver for the University of Oklahoma to set up a fund to assist with funeral expenses for the family of a slain football recruit Herman Mitchell.

THORPE CLEARED Australia's sports doping agency has cleared champion swimmer Ian Thorpe of charges that arose last year when urine tests showed elevated levels of two banned substances.

SWIM RECORD Exhausted and shriveled from nearly a day and a half in the water, Skip Storch completed a record swim by circling Manhattan three times in 32 hours, 52 minutes and 30 seconds.

ATHLETE EXPOSED Gerard Cavlan, a leading player in Ireland's Gaelic football league, was exposed as a director of an illegal dog-fighting club in Northern Ireland.

Gay captures 200 for second gold

OSAKA, Japan - Tyson Gay completed a historic sprint double Thursday when he caught up with Jamaica's Usain Bolt halfway through the 200 meters and won in a time of 19.76 seconds at the World Track and Field Championships.

"I have two golds and I want the third," Gay said, referring to the 400 relay.

Maurice Greene (1999) and Justin Gatlin (2005) are the only previous male athletes to have won sprint doubles at the championships.

Gay increased the gold count to six for the United States, which leads with 13 medals. Russia has three gold and 10 total. Kenya is third with three gold and eight overall.

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