In Brief

COLLEGES

Florida seeded No. 1 for
NCAA baseball tourney

Florida was named the top seed Monday for the 64-team NCAA baseball tournament and will host one of 16 four-team, double-elimination regionals that begin Friday.

The other national seeds, in order, are UCLA, Florida State, Baylor, Oregon, North Carolina, Louisiana State and two-time defending College World Series champion South Carolina.

The 16 regional winners move into the best-of-3 super regionals. Those eight winners advance to the College World Series, which begins June 15 in Omaha, Neb.

Mountain West Conference regular-season co-champions New Mexico and Texas Christian made the field. The Lobos, who won the conference tournament title Saturday at Wilson Stadium, will meet San Diego on Friday in Los Angeles. TCU will play Mississippi on Friday in College Station, Texas.

Also: Southern California's Steve Johnson won his second straight NCAA men's singles tennis title with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Kentucky's Eric Quigley in Athens, Ga. In the doubles final, Ohio State's Chase Buchanan and Blaz Rola beat Texas Tech's Raony Carvalho and Gonzalo Escobar, 7-6 (4), 6-3.

Stanford's Nicole Gibbs defeated teammate Mallory Burdette 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3 to win the NCAA women's singles tennis title in Athens, Ga. Gibbs and Burdette then beat Georgia's Chelsey Gullickson and Nadja Gilchrist 6-2, 6-4 for the doubles championship.

Top-seeded Loyola of Maryland beat unseeded Maryland 9-3 to win the NCAA men's lacrosse title in Foxborough, Mass. Eric Lusby scored four goals for the Greyhounds (18-1) and set a tournament record with 17. The Terrapins (12-6) lost in the final for the second straight year.

MISCELLANEOUS

Boxer Williams paralyzed
after motorcycle wreck

Former boxing champion Paul Williams was paralyzed from the waist down Sunday after being involved in a motorcycle crash in the Atlanta suburbs, and doctors said it is unlikely he will fight again.

Williams, 30, severed his spinal cord after falling on his back and head when he was thrown from his motorcycle in Marietta, Ga. He is listed in serious but stable condition at an undisclosed hospital.

Williams' manager, George Peterson, said his fighter is "100 percent coherent" and "in very good spirits."

Williams was scheduled to fight Saul "Canelo" Alvarez on Sept. 15 at the MGM Grand Garden for Alvarez's WBC 154-pound belt, but that event has been canceled, Peterson said.

Also: Shackleford, the 2011 Preakness winner, held off a furious rush to the finish by Caleb's Posse and won the $750,000 Metropolitan Handicap by a nose at Belmont Park in New York. To Honor and Serve was third. Ridden for the first time by John Velazquez, Shackleford covered the mile in 1:33.30 and returned $8.80 as the 3-1 second choice.

Golfer Phil Mickelson said he has joined one of the five groups trying to buy the San Diego Padres from John Moores, the team's majority owner for the past 18 years. Mickelson is part of the group that includes four grandchildren of former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley.

British Open champion Darren Clarke withdrew from the U.S. Open in San Francisco because of a groin injury. The golf major is June 14 to 17 at the Olympic Club.

Mardy Fish, at No. 10 the highest-ranked American on the ATP Tour, recently had a medical procedure to correct a heart problem and is recovering at his Los Angeles home. He said he hopes to play in a Wimbledon tuneup event that begins June 11.

Chris Lamb of Greensboro, N.C., won all three races he entered to highlight drag and stock-car racing over Memorial Day weekend at the Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.