RECORD SET: A British pilot broke a land-speed record Tuesday for driving a car powered by diesel engines faster than anyone else in the world.
Andy Green broke the supercharged diesel streamliner world record on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats by more than 90 mph by reaching an average land speed of 328.767 mph.
The former record for land speed using diesel engines was 235.756 mph, set by Virgil Snyder on the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1973.
Soccer
APPEAL REJECTED: Appeals by former Juventus executives Luciano Moggi and Antonio Giraudo in Italy's match-fixing scandal were rejected Tuesday by an administrative court. Moggi, Juventus' former general manager, and Giraudo, the club's former chief executive, each received five-year bans from soccer under sentences handed down by a sports court last month.
Hockey
BRUINS SIGN BERGERON: The Boston Bruins re-signed Patrice Bergeron, their top scorer from last year, to a multiyear contract. Bergeron had 31 goals and 42 assists to become the youngest player in team history to record a 30-goal season.
Cycling
BASSO DONE?: Team CSC manager Bjarne Riis doesn't believe Ivan Basso can race again unless he is acquitted in the doping scandal that barred the cyclist from the Tour de France. CSC suspended Basso after he was among nine riders pulled from the Tour on the eve of the race. They were implicated in an alleged blood-doping program.
Track & field
PHILLIPS OUT: Olympic and world champion long jumper Dwight Phillips pulled out of the Intersport Gugl on Tuesday because of a thigh injury.
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