Men's tennis streak halts

The No. 39 IU men's tennis team dropped their first match of the season to the No. 26 Vanderbilt Commodores 7-0. The Hoosiers (7-1) were forced to face one of the best one-two combinations in the country on Saturday as the Commodores have two of the top fifteen singles players in the nation. In No. 1 singles action, junior Bobby Reynolds (No. 8 in the nation) defeated IU's junior Jakub Praibis in straight sets 6-1, 6-2. In the No. 2 singles match, the Commodores used their other star, sophomore Chad Harris (No. 14 in the nation) to knock off IU freshman Viktor Libal 6-3, 6-2.\nThe Hoosiers lone win of the day came in the No. 3 doubles match when Praibis and sophomore John Stone defeated the Commodores' Zach Dailey and Jens Pillgram-Larsen, 8-5.\nThe Hoosiers will travel to Muncie, Ind., on Wednesday to take on Ball State, with a start time scheduled for 1 p.m.\nMavericks defeat Wizards in OT\nWASHINGTON -- It took the NBA's top team to overcome Michael Jordan's fourth-quarter and overtime heroics.\nDirk Nowitzki had 29 points and 10 rebounds, Michael Finley had 24 points, and Steve Nash had 22 points and 10 assists as the Dallas Mavericks won their sixth in a row, beating the Washington Wizards 106-101 Sunday.\nJordan finished 14-for-26 from the field and had nine rebounds, but he also had six of Washington's nine turnovers.\nThree skydivers injured before NASCAR race\nROCKINGHAM, N.C. -- Three Army skydivers were injured Sunday when strong wind knocked them to the ground before a NASCAR race.\nA group of eight jumpers from the U.S. Army Special Operations Command Parachute team from Fort Bragg came sailing into the track area, trailing red smoke as part of the pre-race activities for the Subway 400 at North Carolina Speedway.\nWith wind up to 40 mph, one jumper was carried away from his targeted landing on the track and into the infield, where he appeared to bounce off the top of a tractor-trailer before landing on the ground, his chute caught on the antenna of a van.\nHe was airlifted to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte and was in good condition, a nursing administrator said.\nThe hospital did not provide the soldier's name. Messages for spokesmen with the Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg were not immediately returned.\nThe jumpers were taken to Womack Army Hospital in Fayetteville for treatment of minor injuries.