In Brief

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Ex-Michigan QB Forcier transfers
to Miami, will sit until 2012

Former Michigan quarterback Tate Forcier has transferred to Miami.

Forcier signed an aid agreement Wednesday, making the transfer official. Under NCAA rules, he will not be eligible to play for the Hurricanes until 2012.

Forcier completed 219 of 365 passes for 2,647 yards, with 17 touchdowns and 14 interceptions in 20 games for the Wolverines. He announced his intentions to transfer last month on Twitter, and he was academically ineligible for Michigan's trip to the Gator Bowl.

Michigan went 9-11 in games in which Forcier played. He appeared in eight games this past season as Denard Robinson's backup.

Also: Montana coach Robin Pflugrad said NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana met with Grizzlies coaches this week.

Montana's son, Nate, is a backup quarterback at Notre Dame. Pflugrad would not confirm whether Tuesday's meeting surrounded Nate Montana's possible transfer to the school, though he was aware of Nate's situation. Nick Montana was a redshirt freshman at Washington in 2010.

Three Virginia players were suspended indefinitely for their alleged involvement in an assault in Harrisonburg that sent two men to the hospital for their injuries.

Virginia, which suspended the players Tuesday, confirmed the reason following the release Wednesday of a police report on the incident. Starting cornerback Devin Wallace, starting linebacker Ausar Walcott and backup center Mike Price were each charged with three counts of assault, a felony, as well as misdemeanors.

MOTOR SPORTS

Patrick announces plans
to run 12 Nationwide races

Danica Patrick will compete in 12 NASCAR Nationwide Series races this year, starting with the Feb. 19 opener in Daytona Beach, Fla., She also will race in the Sam's Town 300 on March 5 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Patrick returns to Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s JR Motorsports team, for whom she drove in 13 races a year ago. She will continue to compete full time in the IndyCar Series, which returns to Las Vegas for a tentatively scheduled Oct. 16 race on the 1.5-mile speedway oval.

Her best Nationwide finish was 19th in the season finale. She placed 36th a year ago at Las Vegas.

Also: Suspended NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield apologized for blaming his father's death on his estranged stepmother. The public apology was part of a settlement in a slander lawsuit Lisa Mayfield filed against her stepson and his wife.

Mayfield still has a wrongful death lawsuit pending against his stepmother. Mayfield has been suspended since May 2009 for failing a random drug test.

MISCELLANEOUS

Clijsters advances in Paris,
closes in on No. 1 ranking

Kim Clijsters moved within one win of the No. 1 ranking in women's tennis, rallying past Kristina Barrois of Germany 4-6, 6-2, 6-0 in the second round of the Open Gaz de France in Paris.

The Australian Open champion needs to win her quarterfinal match Friday to take the top spot from Caroline Wozniacki.

Also: Andy Murray was upset by Marcos Baghdatis in the first round of the ABN-Amro tournament in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Top-ranked Rafael Nadal can train again after recovering from a leg injury sustained during his quarterfinal loss at the Australian Open.

Pitcher Ross Ohlendorf defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first salary arbitration hearing this year, even after going 1-11 last season.

Ohlendorf was awarded a raise from $439,000 to $2,025,000 by arbitrators Steven Wolf, Fredric Horowitz and Robert Herzog, who heard the case Tuesday. The Pirates had argued he should be paid $1.4 million.

The Milwaukee Brewers and right-hander Shaun Marcum agreed to a $3.95 million, one-year contract on the eve of a scheduled arbitration hearing. The deal fell just short of the midpoint between Marcum's $5 million request and Milwaukee's $3 million offer.

The oldest living former major league baseball player has died at the age of 101. Tony Malinosky was an infielder with the Brooklyn Dodgers for three months in 1937. The Los Angeles Dodgers said he died Tuesday in Oxnard, Calif.

A federal judge ruled in Louisville, Ky., that the woman convicted of trying to extort Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino of millions of dollars has not produced any new evidence and will not get a new trial.

U.S. District Judge Charles R. Simpson III wrote that claims by Karen Cunagin Sypher of newly discovered evidence are merely compilations of items her previous attorney had during her trial.

Christof Innerhofer of Italy mastered a bumpy course to win the men's super-G at the world championships for his first major title. U.S. skiing standout Bode Miller lost a pole and finished 12th in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.