BASEBALL

CWS going to a deciding Game 3 — Surprise starter Adam Haseley and Josh Sborz combined on the shutout, senior utility man Thomas Woodruff drove in two runs, and the Cavaliers defeated Vanderbilt 3-0 on Tuesday night to force a winner-take-all game in the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. For the second year in a row, these two teams will go the distance in the best-of-three finals. Haseley, the Cavaliers’ regular center fielder who not pitched since May 23. worked into the sixth inning. Virginia broke through for three unearned runs in the sixth.

CYCLING

Frank Schleck out of Tour with knee injury — Frank Schleck will not compete in the Tour de France because of a knee injury. Schleck, a top-five Tour finisher three times, has chronic inflammation in his right knee following a crash at Liege-Bastogne-Liege in April. Schleck, from Luxembourg, the older brother of 2010 Tour winner Andy Schleck, will observe a two-week recovery, and hopes to be able to compete in the Spanish Vuelta in August. The Tour de France starts July 4 in Utrecht, Netherlands.

2 Eritreans on 1st African team at Tour — Two Eritrean cyclists will be the first from their country to compete at the Tour de France after being named in the MTN-Qhubeka team’s final lineup Tuesday. The South Africa-based outfit, the first from Africa to gain a place at the Tour, selected 21-year-old climbers Merhawi Kudus and Daniel Teklehaimanot in its nine-man group. Five of the nine are from Africa, with the other three all South Africans. MTN-Qhubeka will also have American sprinter Tyler Farrar and Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen, who have won Tour stages, with Farrar being team leader.

COLLEGE SPORTS

Apsey returns to Boise State as AD — Boise State has named a familiar face as athletic director to replace Mark Coyle: Carroll College’s Curt Apsey. Apsey served in the Boise State athletic department as senior associate athletic director from 1998 to 2014, serving as interim athletic director for four months before Coyle’s hire in December of 2011. His return was announced Monday. Coyle announced Friday that he was leaving the Broncos to lead the athletic department at Syracuse.

FOOTBALL

Brady hearing ends after more than 10 hours — After a 10-hour hearing, Tom Brady now must wait to find out if his appeal of a four-game suspension carried any weight with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Brady was suspended by the league for his role in the use of deflated footballs in the AFC championship game win over Indianapolis. No details of the hearing were available. “I think we put in a very compelling case,” Kessler said, adding that no timetable on a decision by Goodell had been given. Kessler said he would have no further comments Tuesday night, and neither the union nor the league commented.

HOCKEY

NHL planning move to 3-on-3 OT — The NHL plans to play three-on-three overtime next season. The league’s general managers and the NHL Players’ Association agreed Tuesday to change its regular-season overtime period from four-on-four hockey to three-on-three. The Board of Governors still must approve the change today when it meets in Las Vegas. A shootout will still take place if games remain tied after five minutes of three-on-three play, but the change is expected to reduce the number of shootouts. Also Tuesday, the NHL’s salary cap for the upcoming season will be $71.4 million, a $2.1 million increase from this past season.

OLYMPICS

Paris enters race for 2024 Games — The French Olympic Committee announced Tuesday that Paris is bidding for the 2024 Summer Games. The French capital joins Rome, Boston and Hamburg as declared bidders. Budapest is also expected to enter the race, and leaders in Baku, Azerbaijan, said Tuesday it would study the possibility of bidding. The deadline for submission of bids is Sept. 15. The IOC will select the host city in 2017. Paris hosted the Olympics in 1900 and 1924. It bid unsuccessfully for the 1992, 2008 and 2012 Games.

— From staff and wire reports