A 6-foot-10 guard, Calathes led the 2007-08 Hawks in scoring (17.5 points per game) and rebounding (7.5 per game) in his senior season.

He was named to the all-Atlantic Ten Conference first team.

A second defendant pleaded guilty in Minneapolis to the 2007 beating death of Howard Porter, who led Villanova to the NCAA basketball title game in 1971.

Rashad Raleigh, 29, accepted a plea agreement that calls for him to be sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Porter, 58, disappeared on the night of May 18, 2007, after leaving his St. Paul home. He was found badly beaten in Minneapolis the next morning and died May 26.

Penn decathlete Mike Hall and Villanova middle-distance runner Frances Koons have been named The Inquirer's academic all-area male and female performers of the year. Both were seniors.

The awards are voted on by the sports information directors of the 28 colleges and universities in the Philadelphia area.

A federal judge in Los Angeles approved the settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought by former college athletes who contended the NCAA failed to cover the full costs of their education.

The settlement stemmed from a case brought in 2006 by former Stanford football player Jason White, ex-UCLA football player Brian Polak, and Jovan Harris, who played basketball at the University of San Francisco.

The NCAA will create a $10 million fund over the next three years to reimburse former student-athletes.

Elsewhere. Jeshua Anderson, the NCAA 400-meter hurdles champion who was expected to play a key role for Washington State as a sophomore wide receiver, will be sidelined for at least six weeks after a hernia operation. . . . UCLA quarterback Ben Olson will have surgery today on his broken right foot. He is expected to miss at least five games. . . . Clemson's Rashaad Jackson, a senior defensive tackle, needs surgery to repair a torn tendon in his thigh. He will be out until at least midseason.

Pro basketball

The Charlotte Bobcats traded Kyle Weaver, a 6-6 rookie guard, to Oklahoma City for a second-round choice next year. He was the 38th overall draft pick in June and averaged 12.2 points as a senior at Washington State.

Soccer

The Galaxy feature English star David Beckham and Landon Donovan, but they are winless in their last seven matches.

Noteworthy

There will be a varsity football team at New York's Mount Vernon High School. However, the basketball program is still in danger from cost-cutting after taxpayers rejected the school district's budget.

The district said it has raised nearly $220,000 - almost half of it from actor Denzel Washington, a Mount Vernon native - to revive fall sports programs.

Greg Close, a Conestoga High graduate, won the International Triathlon Union long-course world championship in the 25-29 age group in Geel, Belgium. He was the only American age-group male to earn a medal.

The Los Angeles Kings agreed to terms on a three-year contract with defenseman Drew Doughty, the second overall pick in this year's draft.