Bernard Hopkins retired once, but it might be several years before he walks away from the ring for good.

Hopkins, 42, is coming out of retirement July 21 to fight 35-year-old Winky Wright (51-3-1, 25 KOs). The site has not been determined.

Hopkins (47-4-1, 32 KOs) beat light-heavyweight champion Antonio Tarver in a 12-round decision last year in Atlantic City, N.J. That fight was supposed to be his last one.

"If people had told me I looked old or slow, I might have made a different decision. I promised my family I was going to retire after the Tarver fight. I feel so good about myself, and they're cool with my decision."

More boxing

Heavyweight Odlanier Solis, flyweight Yan Bhartelemy and featherweight Yuriorkis Gamboa, Olympic champion Cuban boxers who defected, have been refused entry to the United States. The three were to have made their pro debuts tomorrow night in Miami, but the fights were postponed a week, said Antonio Gonzalez, their Miami-based manager. Consular officials at the U.S. embassy in Bogota, Colombia, which the three entered from bordering Venezuela in late December, wouldn't grant them visas because the "State Department still sees it as them wanting to stay in the States," Gonzalez said by telephone. The boxers have signed with a German promoter but so far lack German visas.

Hockey

Micki DuPont and Kyle Brodziak scored in the third period to give Wilkes-Barre/Scranton a regulation tie, but Hershey scored twice in the shootout to pull out a 3-2 win last night in Hershey.

Tennis

Defending champion Justine Henin advanced to the quarterfinals of the Women's Dubai Open in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, beating 16-year-old qualifier Tamira Paszek, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1. Paszek was one point from serving for the match in the second set. Henin will face Eleni Daniilidou in the quarterfinals. Daniilidou beat Ai Sugiyama, 5-7, 6-1, 7-5.

Cycling

Jens Voight of Germany outsprinted race leader Levi Leipheimer to win the third stage of the Amgen Tour of California, a 94.6-mile ride from Stockton to San Jose. Leipheimer gained 6 bonus seconds for finishing second and extended his lead to 3 seconds.

Water polo

The Gannon women's polo team is ranked 10th in the Collegiate Water Polo Association Top 10. Gannon is the only non-Division I school in the poll. Gannon opens the season March 2-4 in the Utica Invitational. Hartwick College was the unanimous No. 1 pick.

Elsewhere

Sports photographer Richard Raphael, who covered all 41 Super Bowls and shot nine Sports Illustrated magazine covers, died in his home Saturday after a sudden illness. He was 68.

Jim Lampley was sentenced to three years of probation after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor charge of violating a restraining order. Lampley, a 57-year-old sports announcer, also was ordered to stay away from Candice Sanders, 28, the woman who claimed he attacked her on New Year's Eve.