Sports briefs

     Florida's Jackson will
     miss rest of season
     
      GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Fullback Terry Jackson, the most versatile player for No. 1 Florida, will miss the rest of the season because of a torn knee ligament.
      An MRI on Monday revealed a full tear of his right anterior cruciate ligament. Jackson was injured after catching a 19-yard pass in the first quarter of the Gators' 55-28 victory at Kentucky on Saturday.
     
     Utah State coach OK
     after helicopter lands
     
      LOGAN, Utah -- Utah State football coach John L. Smith was a passenger in a helicopter that had to make an emergency landing in the mountains near Ogden on Tuesday.
      Smith, who wasn't injured, was on his way to a weekly news conference in Salt Lake City with the head coaches of five Utah universities when the helicopter had mechanical problems, according to a Utah State news release.
      Marlow Goble, a Logan-area doctor who pilots the helicopter, landed in the mountains outside of Ogden, about 45 miles south of Logan.
     
     Arizona quarterback
     out with bad shoulder
     
      TUCSON, Ariz. -- A struggling Arizona football team must try to regroup without starting quarterback Keith Smith.
      Wildcats coach Dick Tomey indicated that Ortege Jenkins will start Saturday night's game here against San Diego State due to a shoulder injury Smith sustained in last week's loss at UCLA.
     
     Ex-Michigan booster
     accused of violation
     
      DETROIT -- A former University of Michigan booster once sent airline tickets to the home of a star basketball player, the player's mother said.
      Mary Bullock, mother of junior guard Louis Bullock, said she doesn't recall the price of the tickets or their destination and doesn't know why the now-banned booster sent them to her home in Maryland.
      The gesture, which would have violated NCAA rules, was turned away, Bullock's mother told the Detroit Free Press.
     
     Detroit, Washington
     to get WNBA teams
     
      NEW YORK -- Detroit and Washington will be awarded WNBA expansion teams, and the two franchises already are fighting over which one will be awarded ABL defector Nikki McCray, The Associated Press learned.
      Sources close to the league, speaking on the condition they not be identified, confirmed the selection of the two cities.
     
     U.S. pentathlon team
     awarded gold medal
     
      MONTE CARLO, Monaco -- The United States has won its first gold medal in modern pentathlon in almost two decades, thanks to a positive drug test by a Russian athlete.
      The UIPMB, the worldwide governing body for the sport, said Dmitrii Sergeev tested positive for norandrosterone, a banned steroid, at the world championships in Bulgaria in August.
      The U.S. team of Vakhtang Iagorashvili, Scott Christie and Richard Connors will receive the gold medal.
     
     UNLV's Kocsis claims
     victory in three sets
     
      UNLV's Susie Kocsis defeated Blair Farr of Princeton 6-0, 2-6, 6-1 to advance in the ITA National Clay Court Championships at Orlando, Fla.
      The Rebels' Gee Gee Garvin, who will team with Kocsis in the doubles main draw, lost her singles match to top seed Ana Fernandez of Marquette, 6-3, 6-2.
      UNLV's Veronica Goude and Marcella Valkenhoff lost 7-6, 6-7, 3-6 to Southwestern Louisiana's Val Nebrostova and Anne DeRooj in doubles play.
     
     Ivanisevic loses
     in first round again
     
      BASEL, Switzerland -- Playing in his first tournament since losing in the first round of the U.S. Open, third-seeded Goran Ivanisevic was again toppled in the opening round, this time in the $975,000 Swiss Indoors tennis tournament.
      It took only 75 minutes for Slovakia's Karol Kucera, ranked 32nd in the world, to dispose of Ivanisevic, 6-4, 6-3.
     
     Unranked New York
     boxer wins NABF title
     
      BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. -- Unranked challenger Tony Marshall set the tone with a first-round knockdown and went on to a unanimous decision over Steve Martinez to win the NABF junior middleweight title.
      Marshall, of Albany, N.Y., improved to 26-7-6 as a professional with the 12-round decision. Martinez fell to 36-2.