Ridden by Manuel Aguilar, Built Up ran the 6.5 furlongs in 1:17.40 and paid $3.40, $2.40 and $2.20. Swift Replica paid $3.40 and $3. Lavender's Lad paid $3.20 to show in a field of seven.

In his last nine starts, Built Up has won five times -- four of them stakes -- and has three third-place finishes. He also finished second in last year's Groomstick. The Florida-bred owned by Raymond Susi has career earnings of $533,526.

Island Fashion, ridden by John Velazquez, was running her first race for trainer Barclay Tagg, who also handles Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Funny Cide.

The 3-year-old gray filly gave Tagg a measure of revenge against Frankel, who won the Belmont Stakes with Empire Maker and spoiled Funny Cide's Triple Crown bid.

Spoken Fur, the morning line favorite, was attempting to win the Triple Tiara, known as the filly Triple Crown, and a $2 million bonus that came with sweeping the series. Spoken Fur, owned by John Amerman, won the Mother Goose Stakes in June and the Coaching Club American Oaks in July.

Island Fashion, winner of the Delaware Oaks on July 19 under former trainer Nick Canani, paid $18.60, $8.80 and $2.30.

Awesome Humor was second and returned $12.20 and $2.40. Spoken Fur was third and paid $2.10 to show.

Winning time for the 1 1/4-mile race was 2:05.08.

Awesome Humor took the early lead, with Island Fashion running comfortably in second. The horses ran close until Velazquez pushed his filly near the lead into the far turn. Spoken Fur was still five lengths behind.

Coming off the final turn, Island Fashion broke free from Awesome Humor with a burst of speed and was never challenged.

In the $300,000 Saratoga Breeders' Cup Handicap , Puzzlement came from the back of the pack to overtake Volponi and win by 3 1/4 lengths.

"I always thought he was going to make something of himself," said trainer Allen Jerkens. "He didn't really prove me right until today."

Volponi, ridden by Jerry Bailey, has finished second in five straight races since winning the $4 million Breeders' Cup Classic last October.

Fair Grounds president Bryan Krantz said Friday's filing was necessary because the amount of the court judgment could be greater than the value of the track. Krantz said Saturday that racing will be unaffected and will start as scheduled, on Thanksgiving Day, as track officials pursue both the court case and a settlement with the horse owners.

"Basically, the Fair Grounds is financially sound except for the effect of this court decision," he said.

In April, the Louisiana Supreme Court ordered a state district judge to reconsider a 1994 lawsuit filed by the Louisiana Horsemen's Benevolent Protective Association against the Fair Grounds and Louisiana Downs in Bossier City.

The horse owners say the tracks are making too many deductions from video poker proceeds before paying horsemen in the form of additional purse money. The law requires the tracks to pay 50 percent of their net video poker revenue to horsemen after deductions.

In the suit, the horse owners said the tracks and state police, the agency which collects the revenue, improperly allowed five deductions before splitting profits with the horsemen.

Central to the case is what can be deducted. The tracks argued that franchise fees and contract fees for the machines should be among the amount not included in the horsemen's split.

In March 2001, a state district judge ruled in favor of the horsemen, but an appeals court ruled in favor of the tracks.

Krantz said the track will continue to argue its case in the lower court, despite the Supreme Court ruling. During the appeals process, the track will also try to reach a settlement with the horsemen, he said.

Louisiana's other race tracks -- Louisiana Downs, Evangeline Downs and Delta Downs -- have reached settlements with the horsemen.

Those tracks are all owned by casino companies; the Fair Grounds has been owned by Krantz's family since 1986.

BASEBALL

Espinosa's home run easily cleared the center field wall. Manjarrez, batting next, sent a homer over the wall in left.

Moscow pulled within 2-1 in the third when Alexey Kozin scored on an infield error. Kozin had a line drive single to right field, advanced to third on Kirill Starodubov's single to right, then scored when Espinosa, Mexico's third baseman, bobbled a ball in the infield.

Manjarrez then earned a save, taking over for the last out of the game. With one man on, Manjarrez struck out Anton Chekalin.

Christian Lopez (1-0) earned the win; Kozin (0-1) took the loss.

Delaware took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first when Vince Russomagno's fly ball to left was dropped and Kip Skibicki hit a two-out double to right.

Arizona answered back in the first when Cory Bernard hit a solo home run to right field.

Kem broke the deadlock in the fifth with a home run to center to give Arizona a 2-1 lead. Bernanrd and Tim Fowler followed with back-to-back doubles for another run before Potter capped the inning with a two-run home run for the 5-1 advantage.

Delaware threatened in the fifth when Cory Firmani and Kevin Czachorowski singled with no outs. But winning pitcher Justin Rosales got Jared Carney to hit into a forceout before striking out Constantine Fournaris. David Mastro lined out to right to end the threat.

Dougherty struck out nine batters in a losing effort.

Travis Darnaud and Travis Costin each doubled for Heartwell-Lakewood.

Humacao was forced to finish a game against the Bronx, New York, earlier in the day because their Friday game was suspended in the fourth inning by rain. Humacao beat the Bronx team 13-2.

Adalberto Alvira hit a solo homer in the championship game for Humacao in the second inning.

Humacao came within a run in the sixth inning on an RBI single by Jonathan Ortiz but couldn't score again.

BASKETBALL

The win moved Connecticut into a tie with the Cleveland Rockers for third in the Eastern Conference with four games to play. New York fell into a fourth-place tie with the Indiana Fever with five games to go. Only the top four teams make the playoffs.

The Rockers are playing at Washington, while the Fever will host Charlotte later Saturday.

Connecticut (15-15) and New York (13-16) had their respective games on Thursday postponed due to the blackout that affected the Northeast, Ohio and Canada. The Sun's game at Cleveland will be made up on Tuesday, while the Liberty's home game against Houston was rescheduled for Monday.

The Sun arrived at Madison Square Garden an hour and a half before the game after a 16.5-hour bus ride back from Cleveland. But they didn't appear weary.

Connecticut led by as 15 points in the first half and finished the half shooting 57 percent (17-for-30) from the field.

Sales scored 12 points in the half on 5-for-9 shooting. She finished the game 6-for-14.

Vickie Johnson led New York with 19 points, with 10 coming in the second half. Tamika Whitmore added 13 points and Tari Phillips chipped in 12 for the Liberty, who shot 46 percent (27-of-59) for the game.

The Sun led 40-29 at the half, and maintained their double-digit advantage the rest of the way.

Connecticut's reserves outscored New York's substitutes 36-18. Wendy Palmer led the way with 20 points for the Sun, who finished the game shooting 51 percent (27-for-53).

With the interrupted schedule, the Liberty will be playing three games in as many days. This is the first time in WNBA history that this will occur. The last time an NBA team played three consecutive games in three days was during the 1998-99 lockout season.

The Liberty will visit Cleveland Sunday, then return to face the Comets on Monday. New York is 1-4 in the second of back-to-back games this season.

BOXING

Green was leading on the judges' scorecards when it was ruled that he intentionally knocked heads with Beyer on a deep cut above the German's left eye.

Green (16-1) floored Beyer in the first and second rounds with powerful right uppercuts.

"I'm disappointed, I'm really upset," Green said. "That was not intentional."

American referee Bill Clancy initially ruled that Green should be penalized two points, sending the fight to the scorecards. That probably would have made Green the new champion.

But after a long discussion among the judges and a WBC representative, Green was disqualified. The ring doctor ruled Beyer could not continue because he couldn't see out of his left eye.

"He intentionally butted him -- you'll see it on the tape," Clancy said.

Beyer is 28-1 with 11 knockouts.

Green, who knocked out all 16 of his previous opponents, sent Beyer to the canvas with 46 seconds left in the first round of a fight held under a tent at the Nuerburgring Formula One track.

He tagged Beyer with a left, then a short right that sent the German sprawling on his back.

Another right shot put Beyer down again with 44 seconds left in the second round, when the deep cut first opened.

But Beyer rattled Green with a couple of unanswered lefts in the fifth round. That appeared to set up a wide open fight.

Green, close in and not moving forward, then yanked his shoulders and head upward, sending Beyer reeling backward with the head butt, leading to the abrupt end.

Beyer won the title in April in a close fight against Eric Lucas of Canada.

FOOTBALL

OFFENSE ROLLS AT YSU

Youngstown State coach Jon Heacock said he was pleased with Thursday's intersquad scrimmage in steamy conditions at Stambaugh Stadium.

"The first thing I was pleased to see was that we came away without injuries," Heacock said. "Our kids played hard and overall it was a good scrimmage. We took care of the football and that was a plus. Our offense is more a more experienced unit then our defense and they should play well."

Senior tailback Daruis Peterson scored two touchdowns and sophomore quarterback Aaron Marshall threw for another as the White Offensive squad rolled to a 44-23 victory over the Red Defensive team.

Peterson finished the game with 99 yards on 18 carries, while scoring touchdowns from 1 and 15 yards out. Marshall was 10 of 17 for 100 yards and one touchdown.

Another offensive star was sophomore wide receiver Kyle Smith, who caught five passes for 74 yards, including a one-handed two-yard touchdown grab. He caught a leaping 31-yarder from Marshall to set up his touchdown.

Youngstown State helps to kickoff the 2003 district schedule by playing host to NCAA Division II Edinboro on Aug. 28.

Will Hargrove also reached the end zone for the Power, courtesy of a 31-yard pass from Toby Boyd. Hargrove finished the game with three receptions for 104 yards.

The Power will host the Buffalo Warriors at Graham Field next Saturday.

The league announced it assumed control after co-owners David Macdonald and George Grant failed to come up with the $130,000 required to meet the payroll.

CFL commissioner Tom Wright will be the team's interim general manager, overseeing day-to-day operations.

"The board of governors have given their strong support to the ownership project in southern Ontario," Wright said. "We will emerge a stronger league on all fronts and in all nine CFL markets at the conclusion of the efforts."

It marked the second time in a week that the club defaulted on the payment. Grant and Macdonald first failed to meet payroll Tuesday, a violation of the league's collective bargaining agreement that stipulates players be paid within 48 hours of games. Hamilton lost to the Montreal Alouettes 30-17 on Aug. 8.

The CFL took the first step toward assuming control of the team Wednesday, issuing a notice of default to the franchise for not paying its players on time.

The Tiger-Cats were to play the Montreal Alouettes on Saturday afternoon.

The league took over the Toronto Argonauts this month after owner Sherwood Schwarz stopped paying the team's bills.

GYMNASTICS

Hatch was hurt performing a vault, and was taken to the hospital to be evaluated. Her status for Sunday, when the Americans take the floor in preliminaries, wasn't known Saturday afternoon. The U.S. team had until 7 p.m. PDT to announce its lineup.

"The injury to Annia is an unfortunate accident," team coordinator Martha Karolyi said. "We hope for a positive prognosis."

Already, world balance beam champion Ashley Postell was scratched because of stomach flu. National champion Courtney Kupets also had a stomach bug, but will compete.

Karolyi replaced Postell with Chellsie Memmel, the 10th-place finisher at nationals in June and all-around champion at the Pan Am Games. The other alternate is Terin Humphrey, who finished sixth at nationals.

The injury to Hatch, who won the gold medal in the vault at nationals, added to a growing sense of disarray among a team that was supposed to contend for gold this year.

Even before Hatch went down in a practice that wasn't open to the public, Karolyi was forced to tinker with her lineup, and try to figure out where Kupets and Memmel would fit in.

"We will evaluate our team situation following training and determine our lineup at that time," Karolyi said.

Before injuries and illness set in, the women were viewed as a major threat to win the team competition.

Carly Patterson, who missed nationals in June with a fractured elbow, has won every meet she's entered since last year's nationals. Kupets is the reigning world champion on uneven bars. Tasha Schwikert is a solid, glitzy veteran -- a two-time national champion rounding back into top form.

Being at home helps, too. This is, after all, only a freeway ride from Los Angeles, where Americans cleaned up at the 1984 Olympics. These are the first world championships in the United States since 1991, when Kim Zmeskal won the all-around title.

Whether the Americans remain confident, however, is a mystery because they're not talking. Karolyi abruptly canceled a routine news conference Friday, instead showing up with two of her coaches for 20 minutes in which she explained that everything was going to be fine.

"It's better to do less (interviews) before the competition," Karolyi said. "And after the competition, as much as we all can take."

Instead of interviews, USA Gymnastics offered a bunch of canned, one-line statements from the gymnasts.

Schwikert: "We're really excited that worlds are in our country this year."

Patterson: "I'm really excited to be representing the USA at my first World Championships."

Memmel: "I'm really excited to be a part of this team."

And so on.

In some ways, it was reminiscent of the days leading to the Sydney Olympics, when injuries and turmoil left the Americans scurrying to make lineup changes and convince everyone -- especially themselves -- that everything was OK. They finished fourth, which led to Martha Karolyi's replacing her husband, Bela, as leader of the team.

A more streamlined, harmonious atmosphere took over, and the American women slowly built momentum.

Led by Schwikert, they won bronze at 2001 world championships. Postell and Kupets both got better and won gold medals last year at worlds to establish themselves as major players in international meets.

"Everyone's mind-set is different now," Schwikert said after nationals in June. "We're not just going there maybe to get bronze. Everyone's going there to get gold this time. Everyone knows we're good. We have more of a reputation now."

Two months, one bad stomach virus and an injured knee later, however, nobody is talking like that.

"We told them to hold their heads up high. We're going to pull back from this," U.S. coach Kelli Hill said Friday. "They're actually coming around and dealing with this."

TENNIS

Roddick trailed 5-1 in the tiebreaker before reeling off six straight points to take the first set.

"He was playing at a super high level," Roddick said. "In the first set, he was going great. I don't think it's a secret he has a very good serve."

Roddick, who's risen to No. 4 in the ATP Tour rankings, is trying to win his second straight hard-court title heading into the U.S. Open, which starts Aug. 25.

He's 19-1 on the American hard-court circuit this summer.

In Sunday's final, he'll play No. 8-seeded Rainer Schuettler or unseeded Mardy Fish.

Krasnoroutskaya earlier upset No. 1-ranked Kim Clijsters in the third round of the hard-court tuneup for the U.S. Open.

Krasnoroutskaya, ranked 38th, will meet either her doubles partner, Elena Dementieva, or French Open champion Justine Henin-Hardenne in today's final.

Krasnoroutskaya was a French Open quarterfinalist at age 17 in 2001, but she missed most of the 2002 season with ankle and knee injuries.

OFF THE FIELD

Bliss, who resigned Aug. 8 after the investigation into Patrick Dennehy's death, has admitted being involved in paying players' tuition and acknowledged the attempted cover-up to both the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, which obtained the tapes, and to The Dallas Morning News.

"The bizarre circumstances painted me into a corner and I chose the wrong way to react," Bliss told the Star-Telegram. Since resigning, he said, "I have cooperated completely and will continue to do so because I know I have disappointed a lot of people."

Earlier this month, Baylor President Robert B. Sloan Jr. said an internal review committee had found that two players had received improper tuition payments and that Bliss had admitted involvement. The NCAA is also investigating.

The review committee found no evidence Dennehy was involved in drug dealing, committee chairman and law professor Bill Underwood said.

A former teammate, Carlton Dotson, has been charged with murder.

The tapes of Bliss speaking with players were secretly recorded by assistant coach Abar Rouse, the Star-Telegram reported. In them, the newspaper says, Bliss is heard telling his players what to say to investigators.

"I think the thing we want to do -- and you think about this -- if there's a way we can create the perception that Pat may have been a dealer," Bliss is heard saying on one tape, according to the newspaper. "Even if we had to kind of make some things look a little better than they are, that can save us."

Bliss suggested that players tell investigators they saw Dennehy with a "tray" of drugs and with a roll of $100 bills. Bliss said Dennehy couldn't deny the allegations because he was dead.

The tapes also apparently show that Bliss knew some players smoked marijuana and that Baylor coaches lied when they denied knowledge another player, Harvey Thomas, had threatened Dennehy.

In one conversation, Bliss indicated Thomas would be willing to lie because Baylor coaches had publicly said they knew nothing about the threats.

"Harvey will do anything," Bliss told Rouse. "And the reason is because we did it for Harvey."

Thomas has denied the threats or any involvement in Dennehy's death.

Rouse, who joined Baylor on June 1, said he made the secret recordings July 30-31 and Aug. 1 after Bliss told him he would lose his job if he didn't help carry out the deception. He made the tapes available to the Star-Telegram on Friday before he met with an NCAA enforcement official and Baylor's investigative committee.

Bliss later met with the investigative committee.

In a statement Friday night, Sloan said he felt betrayed by Bliss' attempt "to suppress and conceal the truth."

Kirk Watson, counsel for the review committee, said members were stunned.

"These tapes are evidence of a desperate person trying to cover up his activities. It is shocking. But the good news is it failed," Watson said.

Underwood told the Morning News that the review committee also found that Bliss wrote scripts for players and coaches to review before talking with authorities. The scripts included fabrications alluding to drug use by Dennehy.

Dennehy's stepfather, Brian Brabazon, said he was outraged.

"With all that we have been through, and now this? I cannot believe he would do something like that just to save his face. ... Somebody's got to pay," said Brabazon, adding that he plans to hire a lawyer.

Dennehy, who disappeared in mid-June, was found dead in a field outside Waco on July 25 with two gunshot wounds to the head. Dotson, his roommate and former teammate, is charged with the slaying.

Dotson was arrested July 21 after calling 911, saying he needed help because he was hearing voices, authorities said. He told FBI agents in Maryland that he shot Dennehy after the player tried to shoot him, according to the arrest warrant affidavit. But after his arrest, Dotson told The Associated Press that he "didn't confess to anything."

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