SOCCER

League OKs proposed sale of Liverpool to Sox owners

The Premier League has approved the proposed sale of Liverpool to the American owners of the Boston Red Sox.

The English league said Friday that New England Sports Ventures, which runs the Red Sox, met its requirements for team ownership.

But the $476-million takeover is not yet final and will be settled in court.

Liverpool’s American co-owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr., are opposed to the Red Sox bid, which they say “dramatically undervalues” the club.

They are challenging the authority of Liverpool’s three other board members to go through with the sale.

U.S. MEN: A French newspaper is reporting that American forward Charlie Davies, who nearly died in a car crash last year, was caught speeding at 125 miles per hour last weekend.

PREP SCHOOLS

BOYS’ SOCCER: Chris Wild scored a pair of goals and had an assist to lead Berwick Academy (8-0, 7-0) to a 5-2 victory over the Pingree School (2-3-1, 2-2-1) in an Eastern Independent League game at Hamilton, Mass.

Jordan Sanford and Trestan Matel also scored goals for Berwick Academy.

COLLEGES

BASEBALL: Tyler Kelly singled home Dave Boagrt, and then scored on a fielder’s choice, to break a 2-2 second-inning tie during Southern Maine Community College’s 10-3 victory over the University of New Hampshire club team in the play-in game of the YSCA tournament at The Ballpark in Old Orchard Beach.

Andrew Watt pitched six innings of one-hit ball for SMCC.

GOLF

PGA TOUR: David Toms shot a 4-under 66 to take a two-stroke lead over Joe Durant in the McGladrey Classic in St. Simons Island, Ga.

Toms, 43, coming off a first-round 64, had a 10-under 130 total. Durant followed his opening 65 with a 66 in perfect conditions.

CHAMPIONS TOUR: Buoyed by birdies on the first five holes, Russ Cochran shot a course-record 6-under 64 to take a one-shot lead at the Senior Players Championship in Potomac, Md.

LPGA: Mika Miyazato shot a 9-under 63 for a share of the second-round lead in the Navistar LPGA Classic with Na Yeon Choi and Cristie Kerr at Prattville, Ala.

EUROPEAN TOUR: John Parry shot a 7-under 65 on the Old Course at St. Andrews to take a four-shot lead in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in St. Andrews, Scotland.

BASKETBALL

NBA: Mavericks Coach Rick Carlisle collapsed at practice and was briefly taken to a Dallas hospital.

Carlisle, 50, will not travel to the Mavericks’ exhibition today in California against Phoenix, team president Donnie Nelson said.

Carlisle is a former UMaine player who spent five NBA seasons with Boston, New York and New Jersey. He is about to begin his third season with the Mavericks.

• Los Angeles International Airport police say three-time NBA all-star Steve Francis, 33, was arrested for public drunkenness.

HOCKEY

QMJHL: Olivier Dame-Malka collected two goals and one assist and Jess Tanguy added one goal and two assists to lead the Lewiston Maineiacs as they cruised to a 7-2 victory over the Victoriaville Tigres in Lewiston.

The Maineiacs, who led 7-1 after two periods, also got one goal and one assist apiece from Samuel Carrier and Antoine Houde-Caron.

TENNIS

CHINA OPEN: Top-seeded Novak Djokovic beat Gilles Simon 6-3, 6-2 to reach the semifinals in Beijing.

On the women’s side, second-seeded Vera Zvonareva beat Francesca Schiavone 6-0, 6-2 to reach the semifinals.

JAPAN OPEN: Gael Monfils outlasted Andy Roddick in a hard-fought 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-6 (6) victory to earn a spot in the semifinals in Tokyo.

PLAYER RANKINGS: Caroline Wozniacki will replace Serena Williams as No. 1 in the world when the new rankings are released Monday.