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Renegades prevail

Jordan Reynolds threw for three touchdowns as the Crestview Renegades defeated the Mon Valley Mayhem 34-15 in a GFL football game.

Ethan Russell’s interception set up the first score, a 5-yard run by Brian Warchol.

Russell, Eric Whittenberger and Nick Lee Carfagna all caught touchdown passes.

Warchol scored twice.

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nation

FC Dallas wins 3-0

CHICAGO — Jeff Cunningham and Kenny Cooper scored and FC Dallas handed the Chicago Fire their first loss of the season with a 3-0 victory on Sunday.

The Eastern Conference-leading Fire’s franchise-record unbeaten streak ended at 11.

The Fire (5-1-6) were trying to match the league-record 12-game streak set by Los Angeles in 1996 and matched by Kansas City in 2000. However, Chicago had trouble against Dallas (2-6-3), which entered the match with the fewest points in the league.

Cunningham’s goal in the 15th minute was enough to end the Fire’s run while giving Dallas a 1-0 lead.

N. Y. Stallion Stakes

NEW YORK — Minnie Punt and Mother Russia won $75,000 divisions of the New York Stallion Stakes for 3-year-olds on the turf at Belmont Park on Sunday.

Minnie Punt pulled off a 28-1 upset in the Spectacular Bid for colts and geldings while Mother Russia prevailed as the even-money favorite in the filly division, the Cupecoy’s Joy.

Minnie Punt beat Uncle T Seven by 21‚Ñ4 lengths for the gelding’s second win in three starts. John Velazquez was aboard for trainer Mike Miceli as Minnie Punt ran the seven furlongs in 1:22.62, paying $58.50 to win.

Ex-NFL players lash out at union

LAS VEGAS — Retired football players angry with the NFL Players Association over disability and pension benefits said Sunday that the executive director of the union may be ahead of himself in seeking their support during upcoming contract talks with the league.

The informal group of former football players lashed out at comments made by NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith, who said Saturday that if there is a lockout by owners in 2011, retired player benefits would be reduced by 80 percent while it lasts.

Several players meeting in Las Vegas about their problems with the union said their benefits are protected by law — lockout or not.

Open Mind Handicap

OCEANPORT, N.J. — Love That Dance earned a wire-to-wire win in the $60,000 Open Mind Handicap at Monmouth Park on Sunday, beating Love For Not by 31‚Ñ2 lengths.

Trained by Ben Perkins Jr., and ridden by Joe Bravo, the 3-year-old filly covered the six furlongs over a fast main track in 1:092‚Ñ5 and paid $14, $5.80 and $4. Love For Not returned $16.60 and $6.60, while Open Skies was 13‚Ñ4 lengths back in third and paid $4.20.

It was the fourth career win and the first this year for Love That Dance, who boosted her overall earnings to $154,549.

Belmont Stakes week

The owners of Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird stopped by the gelding’s barn at Churchill Downs for a quick visit before heading to New York for Belmont Stakes week.

Mark Allen and Dr. Leonard Blach also met with trainer Chip Woolley a day before Mine That Bird’s final workout in preparation for Saturday’s 11‚Ñ2-mile Belmont.

“It looks like he has put on a little weight,” Allen said Sunday after seeing Mine That Bird for the first time since the gelding ran second in the Preakness Stakes on May 16. “For as hard as he has run and the shipping, I am real happy with the way he looks.”

world

Armstrong takes 12th

ROME — Lance Armstrong concluded a relatively quiet Giro d’Italia in 12th place overall Sunday, then jetted home to await the birth of his fourth child.

The seven-time Tour de France winner eased off in the race’s final stage, an individual time trial run through the ancient streets of Rome on uneven cobblestones made even more slippery by rain.

Vindicator staff/wire reports