More than 16,000 people have signed up to a season ticket request list for Oklahoma City's new NBA team.

Officials of the team formerly known as the Seattle SuperSonics said Sunday they have concluded the first phase of a season ticket request list. Those on the list signed up in just 16 days.

Team officials are pleased with the level of support for the NBA in Oklahoma City.

The ticket request list remains open for future ticket opportunities, depending on availability.

Associated press

Kevin Love was held out of the Minnesota Timberwolves' summer league game in Las Vegas for precautionary reasons with an inflamed left Achilles.

He left during the second half of Saturday's game with the same injury, which team official don't consider severe.

Love was expected to practice later Sunday with the U.S. national team at a local high school. He was added to the select team Saturday as an extra body for practice in preparation for the Olympics.

Tennis

Fourth-seeded Pauline Parmentier won the Gastein Ladies final in Bad Gastein, Austria, beating Lucie Hradecka 6-4, 6-4.

It was Parmentier's second WTA Tour title after winning in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, last year.

Gilles Simon won the Indianapolis Tennis Championships, beating Dmitry Tursunov 6-4, 6-4.

Simon, seeded second and ranked 25th, won his fourth title. He had not reached an ATP semifinal in the United States before this tournament.

Qualifier Aleksandra Wozniak became the first Canadian to win a WTA Tour singles title in 20 years, taking an advantage of an injury to Marion Bartoli to win the Bank of the West Classic 7-5, 6-3 in Stanford, Calif.

Wozniak, 20, needed to win eight matches – including three qualifiers – in nine days to become the first Canadian since Jill Hetherington at Wellington in February 1988 to win a women's singles title.

Top-seeded Fernando Verdasco needed nearly three hours to beat Igor Andreev, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4) in the ATP Croatia Open final in Umag, Croatia.

It's the second ATP title for the Spaniard – adding to his victory in Valencia in 2004 – and came on his on his first trip to Umag.

Horse racing

Belmont Park in New York canceled its Sunday card because of ongoing power problems.

A basement transformer fire shut down the grandstand Saturday but racing continued with fans consolidated into the clubhouse.

Key areas of the track still lacked electricity Sunday, causing the cancellation of the final day of the meet.

Racing will shift to Saratoga on Wednesday for six weeks, allowing time to complete the electrical repairs before Belmont resumes in September.

Soccer

Chivas goalkeeper Luis Michel broke his left forearm during a Superliga game and will miss the Mexican Apertura league season.

Michel was injured Saturday night when he went for a rebound and was hit by Gabriel Pereyra during the 89th minute against Atlante in San Jose, Calif.

NFL

Defensive end Chris Long agreed to a multiyear deal with the St. Louis Rams, leaving plenty of time for the second overall pick in the draft to report to training camp.

The Rams project Long will start at right end, beefing up an anemic pass rush. The team did not disclose the terms of the deal.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on its Web site Saturday night that the son of Hall of Famer Howie Long was expected to sign a deal that covers at least five years.

St. Louis also agreed to terms on a three-year contract with seventh-round pick Chris Chamberlain, a linebacker from Tulsa.

WNBA

Taj McWilliams-Franklin scored 22 points and Alana Beard tied a career-high with nine assists as the host Washington Mystics, in their first game following a coaching change, snapped the Seattle Storm's seven-game winning streak with a 89-57 win.

Asjha Jones had 23 points and 10 rebounds to help the host Connecticut Sun snap a five-game losing streak with a 74-67 win against the Chicago Sky.

Kara Lawson's tie-breaking jumper with 39 seconds left helped Sacramento become the first team to win at Detroit this season, as they beat the Shock 88-85.

Triathlon

A 32-year-old man died during the New York City triathlon, the first death in the eight-year history of the event.

Race director Bill Burke said other competitors alerted medical personnel to the man during the 1,500-meter swim in the Hudson River, and he was unconscious when he was pulled from the water just before 8a.m.

Burke said the man's family was in Argentina, and he wasn't being identified by race officials until they were contacted. Observer news services