BEIJING --- Promise Isaac and Victor Obinna scored to lead Nigeria over a short-handed United States soccer team, 2-1, earning a place in the quarterfinals and eliminating the Americans.
The United States played a man short from the third minute when defender Michael Orozco was ejected for swinging his elbow into Solomon Okoronkwo's chest. Also advancing to the quarterfinals were the Netherlands, Cameroon, Belgium and Ivory Coast.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Lisa Leslie set a U.S. Olympic record going 7-for-7 from the field as the women's team continued its unblemished run through the Beijing Games with a 97-41 victory against Mali. The Americans won their 28th consecutive Olympic contest; the last loss was against the Unified Team in the semifinals of the 1992 Barcelona Games.
BOXING: American Deontay Wilder won his first-round match in heavyweight boxing competition with a 10-4 decision over Abdeoaziz Touiobini of Algeria. Tied after three rounds, Wilder outpointed his opponent 6-0 in the fourth and final round. And light flyweight Luis Yanez won his opening bout with a 12-9 win over Jose Kelvin de la Nieve of Spain.
BASEBALL: The U.S. baseball team lost to Korea, 8-7, in the opening game for both teams.
The Americans scored three times in the ninth to go up 7-6, but Korea scored twice in the bottom half.
DIVING: The Americans are in danger of a second consecutive medal shutout after Chris Colwill and Jevon Tarantino finished fourth. The pair was in third headed into the final round, but Tarantino botched his entry.
CYCLING: Kristin Armstrong became the second American female cyclist to win an Olympic gold, beating Britain's Emma Pooley in the road time trial. Armstrong joined only Connie Carpenter-Phinney, who won the road race at Los Angeles 24 years ago, as U.S. women's cycling gold medalists.
Levi Leipheimer won the bronze in the men's time trial to move USA Cycling within one medal of tying its haul from the 2004 Athens Olympics.
SOFTBALL: Cat Osterman pitched a no-hitter as the U.S. team extended its Olympic winning streak to 16 in a row with a 3-0 win over Australia.
WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL: The U.S. scored a 3-1 victory over Venezuela to improve to 2-1 in preliminary pool play.
WRESTLING: Eighteen-year-old Jake Deitchler, the youngest U.S. Olympic wrestler in 32 years, dropped his opening-round match, then lost again in the repechage round of the Greco-Roman 66-kilogram competition to exit the Olympics with an 0-2 record.
The United States, last year's world Greco champion, hasn't gotten a medal yet in two days in Beijing with three wrestlers to go today.
BEACH VOLLEYBALL: Americans Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers advanced to the beach volleyball medal round with a straight-sets victory over Argentina.
The reigning world champions and heavily favored U.S. team never trailed in the match, winning 21-12, 21-13 in just 39 minutes.
The Americans improved to 2-1 in pool play.
JUDO: Ronda Rousey won the bronze in women's 70-kilogram judo, the first medal for the U.S. since the event made the official Olympic roster in 1992.
The United States women won silver and bronze when judo was a demonstration sport in 1988.
WATER POLO: The U.S. played to a 9-9 tie with Italy after Elisa Casanova scored a power-play goal with 22 seconds left for the Italians.
American Kami Craig got a final shot at victory with 2 seconds to play, but it came up short of the goal.
TABLE TENNIS: The U.S. women's team, ranked No. 9 in the Olympic tournament, was unable to keep up with No. 2 Singapore but later beat the Netherlands. The Chinese women beat Croatia 3-0 in the best-of-five format made up of four singles and a doubles.
ARCHERY: Lee Chang-hwan of South Korea set an Olympic record in his second-round archery win, scoring 117 of a possible 120 points to beat Yusuf Goktug Ergin of Turkey and advance to the third round.
American Vic Wunderle also moved on, beating Italy's Ilario Di Buo' in a shoot-off.
BADMINTON: Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng beat the American duo of Bob Malaythong and Howard Bach in the quarterfinals of the badminton tournament.
The Chinese pair never looked back on their way to a 21-9, 21-10 win.
EQUESTRIAN: Heike Kemmer scored 72.250 percent on Bonaparte to give Germany a commanding lead in grand prix dressage, while the Dutch and American teams appeared locked in a battle for the silver.

