Manchester United will play in Major League Soccer's All-Star game for the second straight year. The game, part of the Red Devils' preseason tour, will be played July 27 at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, N.J. Last July 28, Manchester United beat the MLS All-Stars 5-2 at Houston's Reliant Stadium. # Jeff Agoos, the MLS Defender of the Year with the Earthquakes in 2001 and a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame, has been hired by the league as technical director of competition.
# Six-time Pro Bowl wide receiver Chad Ochocinco seemed willing but unpolished during a practice game Monday, the fifth day of his tryout with the MLS' Sporting Kansas City. He will meet with coach Peter Vermes on Tuesday and neither man sounded optimistic that his hope of playing professionally would go much further than Monday's reserve game against the Kansas City Brass, an area development team.
NFL: Four former NFL players, including Hall of Fame defensive end Carl Eller and former All-Pro running back Priest Holmes, sued the NFL in hope of joining current players in their antitrust fight against the league and halting the lockout. The 44-page complaint filed in federal court in Minneapolis seeks class-action status on behalf of all retired or former NFL players who receive health, retirement or other benefits from the league or its subsidized plans, arguing those benefits will be jeopardized by the # loss of NFL revenue in an extended lockout.
# Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams guarantees the NFL will play the 2011 season. "It's going to be a few months here, but we'll be playing this year," Adams said Monday night in Nashville, Tenn. "I guarantee we'll be playing."
Miscellany: The SaberCats signed three-time All-Arena Football League defensive back Eddie Moten. The team also announced it has placed WR/DB Rodney Wright on reassignment at his request due to family concerns.
# Stanford announced the appointment of Ron Crook as tight ends and offensive tackles coach. Crook, a 22-year college coaching veteran, spent the past eight seasons as offensive line coach at Harvard.
# China Team became the seventh syndicate to publicly announce it will challenge for the America's Cup in 2013 in San Francisco. Thursday is the deadline for entering the 34th America's Cup. The winner of the Louis Vuitton Cup challenger series will meet defending champion Oracle Racing of San Francisco.
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