U.S. flies to opening win in America’s Cup
VALENCIA, Spain — The monster trimaran USA has delivered a huge victory for challenger BMW Oracle Racing against two-time defending champion Alinghi of Switzerland in the dramatic first race of their bitter America’s Cup showdown.

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Sports briefs: U.S. advances in Fed Cup
Pauline Parmentier then beat Christina McHale of the United States 6-4, 6-4 before Liezel Huber and Bethanie Mattek-Sands defeated Stephanie Cohen-Aloro and Alize Cornet 6-2, 6-3 in doubles. The 67 pages, obtained by The Associated Press as part of a Freedom of Information Act request, detail how federal agents in Detroit ordered fingerprint, handwriting and even psycholinguistic analyses as …

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U.S. market not sold on diesels
Automakers still see diesel cars as a tough sell in the U.S. Car buyers in this country have an outdated view of diesels as smoky, clunky and unreliable, said Michelle Krebs, an auto analyst with Edmunds.com. “People have just a bad memory of old diesels that were dirty.”

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Daimler, BMW Reduce U.S. Leasing Businesses, Handelsblatt Says
Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) — Daimler AG and Bayerische Motoren Werke AG reduced their leasing businesses in the U.S. last year because they were unprofitable, Handelsblatt reported today, citing BMW sales chief Ian Robertson and Daimler sales chief Joachim Schmidt.

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U.S. America’s Cup team calls Alinghi skipper a liar
Until now, the Swiss and American teams squabbling over the America’s Cup have been tapping each other on the cheeks with verbal kid gloves. Today, the Americans took the gloves off and delivered a backhanded rap across the chops when they called Swiss skipper Brad Butterworth a liar. The newest round of nastiness came after the Swiss Alinghi and American BMW-Oracle teams met with mediators in …

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