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NASCAR yesterday suspended driver Carl Long for the next 12 Sprint Cup races and fined crew chief Charles Swing $200,000, the largest penalty in the sport's history.
Swing also was suspended until Aug. 18 for using an engine that was too big for NASCAR's specifications last weekend at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Charlotte, N.C.
The record fine exceeds the $150,000 Robby Gordon's crew chief, Frank Kerr, received in March 2008.
Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski has been selected for the Army Sports Hall of Fame. A 1969 West Point graduate, Krzyzewski earned three letters as an Army player and then coached the Black Knights for five years. He will be inducted Sept. 11.
Former Temple star Rick Brunson, 36, who played nine seasons in the NBA, was hired as an assistant basketball coach at Hartford. He spent the last two seasons as Virginia's director of basketball operations.
Kansas State filed a lawsuit challenging a secret deal between former athletic director Bob Krause and ex-football coach Ron Prince that would pay Prince $3.2 million in deferred compensation between 2015 and 2020.
Prince's agent said that the lawsuit is without merit, and that the deal between his client and the university is legally binding. Prince was fired in November.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Wallace Dixon in Raleigh, N.C., recommended that a suit by Duke golfer Andrew Giuliani be dismissed. His recommendation will be reviewed by a judge in a higher court.
The golfer, son of former New York City Mayor Rudi Giuliani, claims that Duke's golf coach manufactured accusations against him to justify kicking him off the team in 2008, when he was a junior. He is seeking an unspecified amount of damages.
Elsewhere: Corey Fisher of Villanova was one of 15 players invited to training camp for the World University Games team next month in Colorado Springs. . . . Massachusetts has parted ways with guard Doug Wiggins, a Connecticut transfer suspended briefly last fall after a misdemeanor arrest, coach Derek Kellogg said.
Ryan Blaszczyk of Rutgers was one of 44 players nominated for the Rimington Trophy, given annually to the nation's top center. Blaszczyk is a senior from Shawnee High in Burlington County. . . . Tennessee will self-report another minor recruiting violation after a comment about a recruit was posted to coach Lane Kiffin's Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Jose Maria Olazabal and Seve Ballesteros will be the only Spaniards in the World Golf Hall of Fame.
Olazabal was elected on the International ballot with 56 percent of the vote and will be inducted Nov. 2.
The United States was eliminated from the tennis World Team Cup in Duesseldorf, Germany, after failing to advance out of round-robin play. Mardy Fish and Sam Querrey defeated Sweden's Robert Lindstedt and Robin Soderling, 2-6, 6-2, 10-3, but the United States couldn't overcome losing two singles matches Tuesday.
Elsewhere: Maria Sharapova routed Darya Kustova, 6-2, 6-0, to reach the Warsaw Open quarterfinals.
Chris Pontius scored twice as defending champion D.C. United beat the visiting New York Red Bulls, 5-3, in a play-in game in the U.S. Open Cup.
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