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· AUTO RACING: IndyCar Series points leader Dario Franchitti will start today's Firestone Indy 400 in Brooklyn, Mich., right where he'd like to finish -- out front. The Scotsman won his first pole of the season and the fourth of his career, turning a lap of 218.308 mph. . . .
Fernando Alonso was dropped from the pole of the Hungarian Grand Prix and will start sixth. FIA, world motor sport's governing body, overruled stewards and determined that the two-time defending Formula One champion and his McLaren team had delayed teammate Lewis Hamilton during a pit stop. Hamilton gained the pole.
· WNBA: Katie Douglas scored 19 points and the host Connecticut Sun routed the Indiana Fever, 84-59, for its fifth consecutive victory. . . .
Tina Thompson scored 14 of her 26 points in the fourth quarter and the visiting Houston Comets held off the Minnesota Lynx, 80-77. . . .
Shana Crossley came off the bench to lead host San Antonio for the second straight game in scoring with 26 points as the Silver Stars clinched their first playoff berth since moving to Texas with an 86-67 win over the Los Angeles Sparks. . . .
Betty Lennox scored 25 points, Lauren Jackson 23 and Iziane Castro Marques22 to lead the Seattle Storm to a 111-101 win over the Phoenix Mercury.
· ACTION SPORTS: Skateboarder Jake Brown made an appearance at the X Games in Los Angeles, two days after a towering drop that made TV and Web video watchers gasp and left him with a bruised lung and liver and a pair of broken bones.
Fresh from the hospital and walking with a cane, Brown appeared briefly between motorcycle races at the Home Depot Center. "I'm doing great, I'm still walking, that's more than I can ask for," Brown told the crowd. "I can't wait to come back."
· MEMORIAL SERVICE: A memorial service will be held tomorrow at 7 pm. for Arnold W. McKnight at the Southeast Tennis and Learning Center. McKnight, who was the director of the center and the chairman of the D.C. Boxing and Wrestling Commission, died last Tuesday after a month-long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 68.
-- From News Services and Staff Reports
