Cavaliers sign Danny Green
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The Cleveland Cavaliers have signed rookie forward Danny Green, their second-round pick in this year's NBA draft. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Green averaged a career-best 13.1 points and 4.7 rebounds in 38 games while helping the Tar Heels win the NCAA title this year. He averaged 8.2 points in five games for the Cavaliers in the Las Vegas Summer League.

The 6-6 Green finished his college career at North Carolina as one of the most versatile players in ACC history. He is the only player in conference history to record at least 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 250 assists, 150 3-pointers, 150 blocks and 150 steals.

DONAGHY BACK IN JAIL -- Disgraced former NBA referee Tim Donaghy was back behind bars Tuesday, accused of violating his federal probation by not showing up for work, the U.S. Marshals Service said.

Donaghy was being held without bond a day after his arrest at a halfway house in Tampa where he was finishing his 15-month sentence for gambling charges.

"He was supposed to be at work and he was somewhere else," said Deputy U.S. Marshal Ron Lindbak, who didn't know any more details. Jail records said Donaghy is in sales at the Sarasota-based beverage company ShotPak.

A New York judge sentenced Donaghy last year after the referee said he took thousands of dollars from a professional gambler in exchange for inside tips on NBA games -- including games he worked. Donaghy said he was a gambling addict.

He was released from a federal prison in Pensacola to the halfway house in June. He was scheduled for release in October.

HAWKS INK SMITH -- The Atlanta Hawks signed free agent forward Joe Smith on Tuesday to address the team's lack of inside depth.

Smith, a 14-year veteran out of mayrland, was the NBA's No. 1 overall draft pick in 1995. The Hawks are his 10th NBA home.

Dream 103, Monarchs 83 -- Iziane Castro Marques scored 30 points and Angel McCoughtry added 20 to help Atlanta to its eighth win in the past 10 games.

It was the second time in the two-year franchise history that Atlanta had reached 100 points.

Shock 90, Sun 70 -- Katie Smith scored 19 points for Detroit (12-14), which entered the contest one game out of the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.

Men's soccer

TAR HEELS NO. 1 IN PRESEASON POLL -- North Carolina returned to the top spot in the men's soccer national rankings for the first time since 2006 on Tuesday when Soccer America tabbed the Tar Heels the nation's No. 1 team in its Men's Preseason Top 25.

UNC, which ended the 2008 season as the national runner-up, notched a pair of exhibition wins over the weekend, topping Georgetown 2-1, and VCU 1-0. Newcomers Enzo Martinez and Stephen McCarthy tallied the game winners.

Carolina will face Old Dominion on Thursday at Fetzer Field in its final preseason tune-up before opening the season against UNC Asheville Sept. 1.

UNC returns four of its top six scorers from last year's 15-8-1 squad. The Tar Heels are also bolstered by one of the nation's top recruiting classes.

Paced by Eddie Ababio's 18 points, UNC welcomes back five players that tallied 10 or more points a year ago, including freshman All-America picks Billy Schuler and Kirk Urso. Brooks Haggerty returns in goal after a stellar postseason run in 2008.

Field hockey

unc, duke in top 10-- The North Carolina and Duke field hockey squads are ranked in the top 10 of the Kookaburra/NFHCA preseason poll.

UNC was fourth and Duke was 10th in the poll, which includes all six ACC teams in its top 20. Reigning NCAA champion Maryland was No. 1, and Wake Forest was No. 2.

The Blue Devils will be tested right out of the gate at home Saturday at 11:30 a.m. against No. 13 Louisville. Depending on the result, Duke will match up against Delaware or No. 8 Michigan State on Sunday at either 11 a.m. or 1:30 p.m.

Youth baseball

GIRL IS A BIG HIT AT LLWs -- Katie Reyes' two-run single in the top of the sixth helped Vancouver, British Columbia, rally for a wild 14-13 victory Tuesday over Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany,

Little League president Stephen Keener and other longtime tournament officials said they could not recall a girl getting the game-winning hit before in a World Series game.

"I was excited. I was shaking," the quiet, 13-year-old girl said about going to the plate for her big hit. She finished with three hits and three RBIs.

Otherwise, Tuesday served as an anticlimactic end to the pool-play round. All the teams playing had either already been eliminated, or had already advanced and were elbowing for seeding.

The New Yorkers will play San Antonio, Texas on Wednesday after Texas beat Chula Vista, Calif., 6-3 on Tuesday night. California gets Warner Robins, Ga., in the other U.S. semifinal Thursday.

Playing first, Reyes also caught the last out, stretching for a throw after second baseman Christian Cullen dove to his left to field a tough grounder.

She joined her happy teammates jumping on the mound after Canada won its last game of the series. Both teams had already been eliminated entering Tuesday.

Germany's highlight Tuesday was an 11-run fifth capped by homers by Chris Holba and Matt Zembraski that put the team ahead 13-10. The Ramstein team, made up of children of U.S. soldiers or employees on the base, had not scored in its two previous games.

Canada rallied in the sixth, when Anthony Cusati hit his second homer of the game, a two-run shot that got Canada within 13-12. After loading the bases, Reyes drove in the winning runs.

Fifteen girls have played in the series since 1984, when Victoria Roche of Brussels, Belgium, became the first female to play in South Williamsport.

Reyes wasn't the only girl playing at the series this year -- Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, had 13-year-old Bryn Stonehouse playing first base, too.

The only other time there were two girls in the series in the same year was 2004.

Otherwise, Tuesday served as an anticlimactic end to the pool-play round. All the teams playing had either already been eliminated, or had already advanced and were elbowing for seeding.

Women's tennis

WOZNIACKI PUNCHES OUT VICTORY--Reigning champion Caroline Wozniacki took 43 minutes to win her first-round match at the Pilot Pen in New Haven, Conn., on Tuesday, then credited boxing with helping her score the quick knockout.

The second-seeded Wozniacki dominated Edina Gallovits of Romania 6-0, 6-0, winning 20 of the final 21 points in a 19-minute first set before taking 24 minutes to finish Gallovits off.

The Danish star, who is ranked No. 9 in the world, said her speed and fitness level began improving just after Wimbledon, when friend and super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler suggested she take up boxing.

"You run a lot," she said. "You get strength in your stomach, your back, your shoulders, your arms, all the things that you also need in tennis."

So far, Wozniacki has hit mostly bags, sparring just once with her coach -- and apologizing after she punched him.

"He started yelling at me, 'Why are you saying sorry? It's what the game is about. You have to hit me,"' she said. "It's just fun to get some aggression out some times."
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