Our search engines are returning this nice AP wire story running today in many USA newspapers (including the San Jose Mercury News) as well as abroad:

SAN FRANCISCO - Several America's Cup skippers are scheduled to sail in the Allianz Cup on San Francisco Bay from Oct. 24-29, the only U.S. stop on the World Match Racing Tour.

Heading the lineup is New Zealander Chris Dickson, skipper and CEO of San Francisco-based BMW Oracle Racing, the only American team entered in the 2007 America's Cup. Dickson is ranked third in the match-racing standings after winning the season-opening Portugal Match Cup in July.

Other confirmed entrants include Ed Baird and Peter Holmberg, two of the helmsmen for Alinghi of Switzerland, which won the America's Cup in 2003. Baird, an American, is tied for fifth in the standings and Holmberg, from the U.S. Virgin Islands, is a past tour champion.

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