The 21-year-old from Thornhill

  EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. . -- Finally, wide receiver Jerome Simpson can join the Minnesota Vikings. Simpson is eligible to make his Vikings debut this Sunday at Detroit. He has served his NFL-issued three-game suspension for violating the leagues substance abuse policy, stemming from an off-season felony drug conviction tied to a marijuana shipment to his home. The Vikings are counting on Simpsons speed to stretch the field for fellow wide receiver Percy Harvin and running back Adrian Peterson. . Reyes drove in three runs and the Marlins snapped a four-game losing streak with a 7-3 victory against the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday. . And its not as if there werent plenty of other topics of conversation in the wake of a 42-26 loss to Toronto in a CFL East semifinal Sunday that was nowhere near as close as the score suggested. . -- Orlando Cruz has won his first fight since publicly declaring his homo***uality. . The Pro Bowl linebacker said it "definitely could be" the best team hes played on after sweeping changes during the off-season that sent expectations soaring. . The 21-year-old from Thornhill, Ont., defeated former grand slam finalist David Nalbandian 6-4, 6-4 on Tuesday in just 74 minutes to advance to todays match.Tashkent, Uzbekistan (Sports Network) - Italys Karin Knapp took down top-seeded Monica Niculescu in Tuesdays first-round action at the Tashkent Open. Knapp beat the Romanian Niculescu by a 2-6, 6-3, 7-5 margin in a match that lasted over 2 1/2 hours. In another upset, qualifier Donna Vekic of Croatia defeated fourth-seeded Slovak Magdalena Rybarikova 7-6 (7-3), 6-3 on the hardcourts at Olympic Tennis School. A trio of seeded players managed to avoid the upset bug. Romanian Alexandra Cadantu, the No. 5 seed, outlasted Russian qualifier Ekaterina Bychkova 3-6, 6-4, 7-5, No. 6 seed Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia ggot past German Dinah Pfizenmaier 6-2, 2-6, 6-4, and eighth-seeded Galina Voskoboeva of Kazakhstan beat Serbian qualifier Vesna Dolonc 3-6, 6-1, 6-0. . Other first-round winners Tuesday were Russians Anna Chakvetadze and Vitalia Diatchenko, Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu, Japans Misaki Doi, Greek Eleni Daniilidou and Czech Eva Birnerova, who was last years Tashkent runner-up to Russian Ksenia Pervak. The former top-10 star Chakvetadze topped Ukrainian fellow qualifier Lesia Tsurenko 6-4, 6-3, while Begu beat two-time Tashkent runner-up Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan 6-4, 6-3 on Day 2. ' ' '