Yachting

It's win or go home for the Kiwis. America's Cup defender Alinghi pounced on a sudden wind shift yesterday to secure a come-from-behind victory in Valencia, Spain, and take a 4-2 lead in the first-to-five series for the Auld Mug, the oldest trophy in international sport.

"Obviously it's tough," Kiwi skipper Dean Barker said after a third consecutive loss to the Swiss yacht. "You can't lie and say we don't have our backs to the wall here."

Alinghi's 28-second win means that Emirates Team New Zealand must take three races in a row, beginning today, in what has already proved to be one of the closest contests in the 156-year history of the cup.

Football

John Dutton threw for 253 yards and five touchdowns to lead the Colorado Crush into the next round of the Arena Football League playoffs with a 49-42 win against the host Kansas City Brigade.

Matt Nagy threw for five touchdowns and then ran one in himself with seven seconds left to give the Columbus Destroyers a 56-55 playoff win against the host Tampa Bay Storm.

Baseball

Matt Sutton's two-run homer in the first sparked the host Washington Wild Things (20-15)to a 6-1 victory against the Slippery Rock Sliders (9-26) in the Frontier League.

College

Presbyterian College in Clinton, S.C., takes on Division I status today, joining the Big South Conference. The changeover was 15 months in the making, and the full transition will take four years. The men's basketball team will start playing Division I competition this fall.

The Blue Hose will play NCAA runner-up Ohio State along with regional heavyweights North Carolina State, Wake Forest and Georgia.

Soccer

Columbus Crew midfielder Danny Szetela scored on a 16th-minute header and Real Salt Lake goalkeeper Chris Seitz stopped 12 shots in the United States' 1-1 draw against South Korea in the Under 20 World Cup opener for both teams in Montreal.

Swimming

Michael Phelps set a meet record in the 400 freestyle and also won the 200 backstroke, and Australian Leisel Jones barely held off American Olympian Tara Kirk to win the 100 breaststroke at the Santa Clara Grand Prix in California. Phelps, owner of five world records and a winner of seven gold medals at the FINA World Championships in March, made a rare appearance in the 400 but had no problem dominating the race. His time of 3:47.34 was more than 3.49 seconds faster than Michael Klueh, who finished second.

Elsewhere

Champion marathoner Alberto Salazar, 48, collapsed at the Nike World campus in Portland, Ore., and was hospitalized with a heart problem.

Cycling

Joerg Jaksche became the first rider to admit using blood doping prepared by a Spanish doctor in the Operation Puerto scandal. Jaksche told Germany's Spiegel magazine that he used performance-enhancing drugs since 1997, while riding for a number of teams. Jaksche, a German who lives in Austria, was suspended by his team -- Tinkoff Credit Systems -- in May for suspected involvement in Operation Puerto.

Boxing

German Felix Sturm retained his WBA middleweight title with a unanimous decision over Noe Tulio Gonzalez Alcoba in Stuttgart, Germany. Sturm handed Alcoba (14-1) his first loss, dominating the 12-round fight and raising his record to 28-2 with 12 KOs.