13-year-old Alysa Liu becomes youngest U.S. figure skating champion

Alysa Liu became the youngest person to win an individual title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, stealing the show Friday night in Detroit with two triple axels and taking the title more than six months before her 14th birthday.

Defending champion Bradie Tennell fell during her free skate, and Liu, skating immediately after, took advantage, breezing through her routine after the two early triple axels, one of which was in combination.

Liu was beaming by the end of her program, and when her score of 217.51 was announced, she put her hands over her face, overcome with emotion.

Tara Lipinski was the youngest women's champion at the national championships after winning at age 14 in 1997, and Scott Allen also was 14 when he won in 1964. Now a commentator with NBC, Lipinski was broadcasting Friday when her record fell.

"Records are made to be broken," Lipinski said. "It is quite an honor that she is the one to do it. What a phenomenal talent."

Tennell finished second and Mariah Bell was third.

Earlier, Madison Hubbell and Zach Donohue took a step toward defending their ice dancing title, finishing atop the standings after the rhythm dance.

The Padres became players a week ago, when reports surfaced of a price far lower than expected. Machado's agent denied he would sign for seven years and $175 million, but the market is limited.

• Cleveland re-signed free-agent reliever Oliver Perez, who appeared in 51 games last season for the Indians and had a 1.39 ERA.

• Mike Mussina will not have a team logo on his Hall of Fame plaque, the Hall of Fame announced after consulting with Mussina. Mussina spent his first 10 major league seasons with Baltimore and his last eight with the New York Yankees.

• Nike will succeed Majestic Athletic as Major League Baseball's uniform supplier for the 2020 season, and the swoosh logo will be prominent on jersey fronts. The Majestic logo is on the sleeve.

• Major League Baseball is recommending in the "strongest terms" that players and staff not travel to Venezuela for the Caribbean Series, which is to start Feb. 2. Political unrest has led to violence there.

Doping: Russia's athletics federation dropped its legal challenge against its ban from international track and field competitions for doping. The federation will instead negotiate with the IAAF for reinstatement. … Olympic marathon champion Jemima Sumgong of Kenya was banned for eight years after being accused of lying at a doping hearing. An arbiter ruled she produced false records of a hospital visit to explain a failed drug test.

Soccer: Manchester United beat Arsenal 3-1 in London in the fourth round of the FA Cup. It was United's eighth consecutive victory in all competitions since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer replaced Jose Mourinho as coach in December.

Sled dog racing: Dallas Seavey, the four-time Iditarod champion who skipped last year's race after being accused in a dog doping scandal, will skip the race again this year even though he was cleared of wrongdoing. Seavey will race in the Finnmarkslopet race in Norway a week after the Iditarod starts March 3.