IS LEARNING THE PRINCETON OFFENSE
U.S. District Court Judge Graham Mullen issued a temporary injunction yesterday allowing NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield to get behind the wheel this weekend.
NASCAR contended that Mayfield is a danger to the sport after testing positive for high amounts of an illegal drug.
Concluding the "likelihood of a false positive in this case is quite substantial," Mullen ruled in Mayfield's favor in Charlotte, N.C.
Mullen sided with Mayfield's attorney, Bill Diehl, who argued the test results would only be accurate if Mayfield were a habitual user of methamphetamines.
If Mayfield used the drug at the levels the NASCAR test indicated, Diehl suggested, Mayfield would be "either a walking zombie or he's dead."
In an affidavit last week, Mayfield denied ever using methamphetamines. He was suspended in May after failing a random test.
Brazil ended Spain's one-year reign as the world's top soccer team and the United States moved up two spots to No. 12, the highest ranking for the Americans in three years.
The new FIFA rankings reflect last month's Confederations Cup, in which Brazil rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat the United States, 3-2, in Sunday's final.
Spain, upset by the U.S. team, 2-0, in the Confederations Cup, slipped to second.
Florida State says it's unfair to take wins off the individual records of football coach Bobby Bowden and other coaches who had no role in an academic cheating scandal.
In an appeal to the NCAA, the university argued that a proposal to strip the school, its coaches and athletes of victories in several sports is too harsh and should be reversed. The penalty could cost Bowden up to 14 wins.
The coach has 382 career victories, one fewer than Penn State's Joe Paterno.
Temple has oral commitments from Anthony Robey, a 6-foot, 180-pound defensive back at Norristown High; Hershey Walton, a 6-4, 320-pound offensive lineman at Reading High; and Marquise Goods, a 5-11, 175-pound defensive back at Orange High (N.J.). All intend to enter the university in the fall of 2010.
Dara Torres plans to have major surgery on her arthritic left knee at the end of the summer. The 42-year-old swimmer said she might not swim the 100-meter freestyle in next week's U.S. national championships but expects to compete in the 50 free.
Calvin Borel is out as the rider of Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird. Trainer Chip Woolley and the jockey's agent could not agree on a long-term commitment.
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