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Soccer: Fergie admits Keane wrong
After initially saying Roy Keane had done nothing wrong, Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has changed his mind. Ferguson now admits that his captain deserved a red card for elbowing fellow Irishman Jason McAteer in Saturday's 1-1 draw at Sunderland. Keane was sent off for the 10th time in his career after a last-minute challenge on his former Ireland teammate. The two had tangled earlier in the second half. In a post-match television interview, Ferguson described Keane's actions as ``innocuous'' and accused McAteer of play-acting. But, after further reviewing television replays, Ferguson said the referee made the right decision. ``Roy is the first United player to be sent off for this offense and I have said recently the use of the elbow is a growing problem in our game,'' Ferguson was quoted as saying in the The Sun newspaper. ``We won't appeal, the referee had no choice but to send him off. The replay I was shown immediately after the match was misleading. When I saw the TV pictures from a different angle, I saw the referee had no choice.'' Keane was sent home from Ireland's World Cup training camp after falling out with manager Mick McCarthy. McAteer has since taken over the Ireland captaincy from Keane.

Swimming: Welsh breaks 50m record
Matt Welsh broke the 50m backstroke short-course world record at the Australian swimming championships yesterday. Welsh finished in 23.31 seconds, 11-100ths of a second faster than the former record in a 25m pool. On March 16, 2000, American Neil Walker set the previous world mark of 23.42 at Athens, Greece.

Soccer: Korea goodwill match on
North Korea notified South Korea yesterday of plans to send 21 players and five coaching staff to Seoul this week for a soccer friendly, South Korean soccer officials said. The North Korean team will arrive Thursday for a goodwill match with South Korea at Seoul's Sangam World Cup stadium on Saturday and plans to return home on Sunday, said the officials at the South Korean Football Association. The North Korean delegation, which will also include journalists, will be headed by Minister of Foreign Trade Gun Ri-kwang , who also serves as chairman of the North's national soccer association, the officials said. The two countries held similar friendly soccer matches in their respective capitals in 1990. North Korea also has agreed to send a delegation to the 14th Asian Games to be held in South Korea's southern city of Busan on Sept. 29-Oct. 14.

US Football: Freshman player shot dead
Hours after his first college football game, a Minnesota player was shot dead near a downtown bar following a confrontation with three men. ``We lost a family member,'' Gophers coach Glen Mason said Sunday at a news conference to announce the death of Brandon Hall, a 19-year-old redshirt freshman. Hall was shot about eight blocks from the Metrodome during a dispute between a group of teammates and three other men about 2am local time, police said. The players had accused the men of robbing another player, police spokeswoman Cyndi Barrington said. As the players approached, the three man began walking away and went into a van, Barrington said. One of them got out of the van and began walking toward the players. ``At that point, someone in the group said, 'He's got a gun!' and they scattered,'' Barrington said.

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