New Michigan football coach Rich Rodriguez says he can't guarantee a championship season but promises he'll field a hardworking team.

"I'm not going to make any predictions just yet, other than one thing, if you come into the Big House when the Maize and Blue comes out of the tunnel, I guarantee you that they will play hard and they will play physical," Rodriguez told a sellout Crisler Arena crowd during halftime of the Michigan-Ohio State men's basketball game.

The address capped a weekend in which 300 former Michigan football players returned to campus for a reunion and an opportunity to meet the new Michigan coaching staff.

Rodriguez also thanked Michigan fans for their support and introduced his wife, Rita, son, Rhett, daughter, Raquel, and all of his assistant coaches.

"I've been called a lot things in the last month but the best thing somebody called me, one of the former lettermen last night said 'Coach Rod, you're a Michigan man,' " Rodriguez said.

Coming off a dispiriting quarterfinal loss to Maria Sharapova at the Australian Open, Justine Henin won the title at the Diamond Games in Antwerp, Belgium, by beating Karin Knapp of Italy, 6-3, 6-3. "Played three, won two. I look at the bright side," Henin said of her victories here and in Sydney last month.

• Qualifier Kei Nishikori became the first Japanese man to win an ATP title in 16 years by upsetting top-seeded James Blake, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, in the International Tennis Championships final in Delray Beach, Fla. Nishikori is the youngest player to win an ATP title since Lleyton Hewitt won Adelaide as a 16-year-old in 1998.

• Fourth-seeded Andy Murray beat Mario Ancic of Croatia, 6-3, 6-4, in Marseille, France, to win the Open 13 for his fifth career title. The 20-year-old Briton converted his second match point after Ancic netted a service return.

• Second-seeded Nicolas Almagro of Spain fought off a comeback attempt by countryman Carlos Moya to win the Brazil Open, 7-6 (4), 3-6, 7-5, in Costa Do Sauipe. It took Almagro 2 1/2 hours to defeat the top-seeded Moya.

• WTA Tour players' parents, agents, coaches and other entourage members must agree to allow criminal background checks if they want full access at tournaments. The new policy goes into effect today, when events start in Doha, Qatar, and Bogota, Colombia. It's part of a broader effort to protect players' safety and security.

Five-time Olympic medal winner Natalie Coughlin set a world record in the 100-meter backstroke in Columbia, Mo., during a preliminary race at the Missouri Grand Prix. Coughlin finished in 59.21 seconds, lowering her previous world record in the event by 0.23 seconds.

Katie Hoff set her second American record in as many days when she cruised to a victory in the 200-meter freestyle at the Missouri Grand Prix. Hoff set an American record in the 200, finishing in 1 minute, 56.08 seconds to defeat Coughlin for the second time in two days. On Saturday, Hoff broke the oldest American record, held by Janet Evans, on the books in the 400 freestyle. In the medley, Hoff beat Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe, who a day earlier set a world record in the 200 backstroke.

• Australian Eamon Sullivan broke the 50-meter freestyle world record in Sydney, Australia, finishing in 21.56 seconds to better the mark set by Russian Alexander Popov in 2000. Sullivan took 0.08 seconds off the previous record while swimming in the New South Wales Open.

Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland rode to a nearly five-second victory against Bradley Wiggins of Great Britain in the prologue of the Amgen Tour of California in Palo Alto, Calif. Cancellara, who won the 2007 prologue of the Tour de France, completed the 2.05-mile course that finished at Stanford University in 3 minutes and 51.2 seconds.

The joint bid by Belgium and the Netherlands was the first accepted for the 2018 World Cup. "We have one official candidature, that of Netherlands-Belgium, the papers are already at FIFA [headquarters]," FIFA president Sepp Blatter.

Buffalo Bills receiver Roscoe Parrish was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence. Police said Parrish was taken into custody on a DUI charge after being stopped while driving a 2005 Bentley on MacArthur Causeway, which connects Miami Beach to the mainland. He was released later on $1,000 bond.