PREFERS TEMPLE'S OFFENSE TO PRINCETON'S
Kentucky Derby- and Preakness-winning trainer Rick Dutrow was suspended for 30 days yesterday for violating doping rules.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission issued the suspension more than a year after tests revealed that Salute the Count had an excessive amount of Clenbuterol in his blood after finishing second in a race at Churchill Downs the day before Dutrow won the Derby with Big Brown.
The Boston Globe reported that Duke's Mike Krzyzewski has agreed to return as U.S. Olympic basketball coach.
U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R., Utah) is calling on the Justice Department to investigate college football's Bowl Championship Series for what he views as violations of antitrust laws.
Utah was bypassed for last season's national title game despite going undefeated in the regular season. The title game pitted Florida against Oklahoma - each with one loss.
Ryan Lochte won the 400-meter individual medley at the U.S. championships in Indianapolis, leading a parade of Olympians who qualified for the world meet this month.
Christine Magnuson (100 butterfly), Peter Vanderkaay (400 freestyle), Julia Smit (200 individual medley), Mark Gangloff (100 breaststroke), and Allison Schmitt (400 freestyle) also won titles.
Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donté Stallworth, a former Eagle, told Miami Beach police in a recorded interview that he drank up to four shots of tequila while partying at a club but did not feel drunk in the hours before he struck and killed a pedestrian with his car on March 14.
The NFL suspended New York Giants linebacker Michael Boley for the first game of the regular season for violating the league's personal-conduct policy.
Boley was with Atlanta when he was arrested in May 2008 and charged with battery on his wife after she accused him of becoming "too physical" after an argument. He pleaded not guilty.
Yahoo Inc. and the NFL Players Association reached a settlement over the use of players' statistics, photos and other data in Yahoo's online fantasy football game, but details were not released.
Penn State's Talor Battle led the United States with 17 points and Villanova's Corey Fisher scored eight in a 68-66 win over host Serbia in the World University Games.
Howard Thompkins III had 14 points and nine rebounds as the United States beat Puerto Rico, 82-61, in the FIBA under-19 world championships in Auckland, New Zealand.
Usain Bolt ran the fourth-fastest 200 meters in history, finishing in 19.59 seconds at the Athletissima meet in Lausanne, Switzerland. Bolt holds the record (19.30).
The Wings gained Kevin Huntley and Bill McGlone, a Ridley High graduate, in a multiple-team deal with Toronto after the National Lacrosse League dispersal draft of the Portland roster.
FIFA suspended U.S. midfielder Michael Bradley for three games for confronting Uruguayan soccer referee Jorge Larriond in the tunnel after the team's upset of Spain.
French tennis player Mathieu Montcourt, 24, who recently was banned for betting on matches, was found dead yesterday by his girlfriend in the stairwell of his Paris apartment. The cause of death was not known.
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