Sports in Brief
T'wolves draftee Rubio on the move
Ricky Rubio will leave Spanish basketball club DKV Joventut even if the Minnesota Timberwolves cannot reach a deal to bring the first-round draft pick to the NBA.
Rubio is at odds with his team over a buyout clause that could cost the 18-year-old point guard as much as $6.6 million. The NBA's collective-bargaining rules limit the Timberwolves' contribution to $500,000.
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Former Sixers guard Andre Miller has signed a three-year contract with the Portland Trailblazers.
Regardless of whether Rubio makes the trip across the Atlantic next season, he will not be playing for Joventut.
"I want to continue with the club, but after everything that's happened, I don't think they're too comfortable having me in their squad," Rubio said yesterday.
Rubio signed with Joventut at 14, becoming the youngest player ever to play in a Spanish ACB League game. Minnesota drafted him fifth overall in June.
Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin is expected to be sidelined for three to four weeks because of a strained right shoulder he suffered last week while playing in the Las Vegas Summer League. Griffin will not take part in the U.S. national team's minicamp, which began yesterday in Las Vegas.
Elsewhere: The Indiana Pacers re-signed forward Josh McRoberts to a multiyear contract. Terms were not disclosed. The Pacers also waived point guard Jamaal Tinsley. . . . The Detroit Pistons signed free-agent forward Chris Wilcox to a multiyear contract. . . . Reserve Jamaal Magloire has re-signed with the Miami Heat.
Pro football
Law enforcement officials in Nevada have no intention of opening a criminal investigation into allegations that Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger raped a woman at a Lake Tahoe hotel-casino a year ago, the sheriff's department said.
Douglas County Sheriff's Deputy Teresa Duffy said the accuser would have to file a criminal complaint to trigger an investigation. The 31-year-old Nevada woman has filed a lawsuit saying the quarterback raped her in a hotel room, a claim his lawyer vehemently denies.
Elsewhere: The Detroit Lions traded wide receiver Ronald Curry to the St. Louis Rams for defensive end Orien Harris.
Colleges
Rutgers and Army will play football at the new Yankee Stadium in 2011, the ninth such appearance for the Scarlet Knights, who first played in the original Yankee Stadium on Oct. 22, 1927, against New York University.
Noteworthy
Five-time defending champion Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick are among eight Grand Slam winners in the men's field for the U.S. Open, to be played Aug. 31 to Sept. 13 in New York.
Mexican junior welterweight Marco Antonio Nazareth, 23, died at a hospital in Puerto Vallarta, four days after suffering a brain hemorrhage in a loss to Omar Chavez.
Elsewhere: Center Travis Zajac avoided salary arbitration by signing a multiyear contract with the New Jersey Devils. Terms were not disclosed. . . . Medalist Jordan Spieth of Dallas beat Chris Houston of Gilford, N.H., 6 and 5, in the first round of match play at the U.S. Junior Boys' Amateur Championships at Trump National's New Course in Bedminster, N.J. Medalist Amy Anderson of Oxbow, N.D., took a 4-and-3 victory over Harin Lee of Bayside, N.Y., in the Girls' Championship on the Old Course. . . . Megan Gibson (1-5) earned her first win of the season, scattering seven hits over six innings as the Force beat the USSSA Pride, 7-3, in a National Pro Fastpitch League game in Kissimmee, Fla.
