Saturday's sports briefs

Stanford hires Duke great as coach Johnny Dawkins, a longtime assistant coach at Duke, has been hired as Stanford's new men's basketball coach.

Dawkins, 44, was an All-America at Duke and has been on the coaching staff there since the 1997-98 season. He replaces Pac-10 Coach of the Year Trent Johnson, who left for LSU earlier this month, two people close to the situation said Saturday. Both people requested anonymity because Stanford had not made an official announcement.

China upsets American women Miao Lijie scored 26 points as host China upset the United States 84-81 in Saturday's championship game of a pre-Olympic women's basketball test tournament in Beijing.

Katie Smith led the Americans -- the defending Olympic champions -- with 16 points; Sylvia Fowles had 14 and Swin Cash 13.

• International basketball will look more like the NBA after two major rule changes take effect in 2010. The three-point line will move back and the three-second area will change shape, the sport's world governing body announced. After Oct. 1, 2010, FIBA will begin using the new rules for major events such as the Olympics and world and continental championships. The three-point line will move from 20 feet, 6.1 inches to 22 feet, 1.7 inches. The NBA line is 23-9.

• The U.S. men's basketball team will face host China in its first game at the Beijing Olympics. In a draw held Saturday in Beijing, the Americans were drawn into Group B with China, defending world champion Spain and Angola and two other teams to be determined. In the women's draw, the Americans were drawn in Group B with China, Mali and New Zealand.

• Tiffany Snow scored her fifth goal of the tournament, and the U.S. remained undefeated at its field hockey qualifier with a 3-1 victory over the Netherlands Antilles in Kasan, Russia. The Americans (5-0) will face Belgium (3-1-1) in the championship game today with the winner earning a spot in the Games.

Nadal, Federer reach final Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will meet in the Monte Carlo Masters final for the third consecutive year today. Federer advanced from his semifinal after third-seeded Novak Djokovic retired while trailing 6-3, 3-2. Nadal beat Nikolay Davydenko 6-3, 6-2.

• Two Russian stars easily won their singles matches against a depleted U.S. team to take a 2-0 lead in the Fed Cup semifinal in Moscow. Svetlana Kuznetsova beat Ahsha Rolle 6-2, 6-1, and Anna Chakvetadze defeated Vania King 6-4, 7-5 on indoor clay.

Chelsea beats ManU, ties for top Chelsea kept the Premier League title race alive by beating Manchester United 2-1, leaving the teams tied on points with two games to go.

• Amado Guevara's two goals in the second half gave Toronto FC (3-2-0) a 2-0 MLS victory over Kansas City (3-2-1) in Toronto. ... In Columbus, Ohio, Alejandro Moreno's goal kept the Crew (4-1-0) unbeaten at home this season with a 1-0 victory over Houston (0-2-3). ... In Washington, D.C., Jaime Moreno had two goals on penalty kicks and two assists as D.C. United (2-3-0) rolled to a 4-1 victory over Real Salt Lake (1-3-1). ... Two second-half goals by John Thorington carried Chicago (3-1-1) to a 2-1 victory over Colorado (2-3-0) in Chicago. ... Three goals by Landon Donovan and two by Alan Gordon carried the Los Angeles Galaxy (2-2-1) to a 5-2 victory over Chivas USA (1-3-1) in Carson, Calif.

Cycling: Belarus' Kanstantin Sivtsov, competing in the U.S. for the first time, pedaled to a surprising mountain stage victory and became the fourth overall leader in the Tour de Georgia. He leads Trent Lowe of Australia by four seconds overall.

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