BEIJING COLLAPSE Rescuers are trying to reach six workers trapped underground after a subway construction site for the 2008 Beijing Olympics collapsed, but hopes for their survival are slim, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

CALIFORNIA BID In an effort to bolster Los Angeles' bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics, the California Assembly approved legislation under which the state would shoulder up to $250 million of the cost if the Games don't make a profit.

TEAM TRIBUTE Bluffton (Ohio) University baseball players will return to the field today wearing black jerseys instead of purple and white to honor teammates killed early this month when their bus plunged off a highway overpass near Atlanta.

HURT CORNHUSKER Nebraska cornerback Zack Bowman will miss up to six months after having surgery on his right knee.

Bowman missed the 2006 season after surgery on his left knee to repair the anterior cruciate ligament, which was torn on the third day of fall practice. The latest injury is a ruptured patellar tendon.

MARADONA SEDATED Argentine soccer hero Diego Maradona is being treated for alcoholism and excessive eating and smoking in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

A clinic director, Hector Pezzella, said the 47-year-old former player was under sedation to avoid problems with withdrawal from alcohol.

VALUE RISING Soccer's biggest teams rose in value by an average 15 percent in the past year as France's Lyon climbed the most and Manchester United retained its No. 1 status, Forbes magazine reported.

Manchester United is worth $1.45 billion, up 6 percent on its 2006 value, Forbes said. Real Madrid is second, with a valuation of $1.04 billion.

WIGGINS WIN Olympic champion Bradley Wiggins passed defending champion Robert Bartko to take gold in the 4,000-meter Individual Pursuit at the world track cycling championships in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

WEST INDIES FALLS West Indies' cricketers are in danger of missing out on their own World Cup.

The team that dominated the first two competitions in the 1970s, and almost won the third as well, has lost two matches by big margins in two days.

TAYLOR WILL FACE SPINKS Jermain Taylor (26-0-1) will put his World Boxing Council and World Boxing Organization middleweight titles on the line against International Boxing Federation junior middleweight champion Cory Spinks (36-3) on May 19 in Memphis, Tenn.

MASKE RETURN Former IBF champion Henry Maske (30-1) will end a 10-year retirement Saturday against Virgil Hill (50-5), the only fighter to beat the German. Hill's World Boxing Association cruiserweight title won't be on the line in Berlin.

STORAGE BOOST Australia's sports drug agency has developed a deep storage facility capable of holding doping samples for up to eight years, enabling authorities to later scan for drugs not detectable by current testing.