IN BRIEF

WINTER SPORTS

Musher Mackey wins Iditarod
for fourth consecutive year

Lance Mackey won the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday to become the first musher in the event's 38-year history to win four consecutive races.

Fans in Nome, Alaska, bundled up against subzero temperatures and cheered the 39-year-old throat cancer survivor as his team coasted up the main street of this old Gold Rush town. For winning, Mackey gets a new Dodge truck and $50,400. He finished the race in eight days, 23 hours and 59 minutes.

In the final stretch, Hans Gatt chased Mackey hard, pushing ahead of Jeff King on Monday. Gatt, a four-time winner of the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race, finished second, just over an hour behind Mackey.

King, 54, a four-time Iditarod winner, took third, about 2½ hours behind the winner.

Also: Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Brian Campbell will miss seven to eight weeks with a broken collar bone and a fractured rib, the result of a hit Sunday from Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin.

Blackhawks team doctor Michael Terry said Campbell is expected to make a full recovery. The Blackhawks' regular season ends April 11. Ovechkin got a two-game suspension for the hit.

The family of a Georgian luger will receive an undisclosed insurance settlement after the athlete died in a training crash on the Olympic track hours before the Vancouver Games formally opened last month.

Vancouver organizing officials said Nodar Kumaritashvili's family qualifies for a death benefit. The organizing committee took out insurance on the approximately 5,000 members of the Olympic family, including athletes.

TENNIS

Baghdatis topples Federer
at Indian Wells tournament

Marcos Baghdatis upset top-ranked Roger Federer 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (4) in the third round of the BNP Parabas Open at Indian Wells, Calif., beating the Swiss star for the first time in seven meetings.

Federer, who blew three match points, lost for just the second time in 13 matches this year in his first tournament since winning his 16th Grand Slam title at the Australian Open in January.

Also reaching the fourth round were Andy Roddick, a 6-3, 6-4 winner over Thiemo de Bakker, and No. 4 seed Andy Murray, a 6-3, 7-5 winner over Michael Russell.

Second-seeded Caroline Wozniacki advanced to the women's quarterfinals with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-0 victory over 16th-seeded Nadia Petrova. In other women's play, No. 4 Elena Dementieva beat No. 19 Aravane Rezai 6-3, 6-3, and No. 8 Samantha Stosur beat defending champion Vera Zvonareva, 6-2, 7-5.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Ohio State coach Tressel
gets two-year extension

Ohio State added two more years to coach Jim Tressel's contract and offered him an administrative job when he retires.

The nine-year coach of the Buckeyes had his original contract, signed in 2006 and amended twice more, extended through the 2014 season.

Tressel, 94-21 at Ohio State, makes about $3.5 million a year, depending on incentives and additions. He will be 62 years old when the new extension ends.

Also: A Boise State defensive back suspended from the team this month was arrested and charged with felony aggravated battery.

Boise police arrested Jason Robinson, 21, on Monday on a warrant accusing him of causing bodily harm, permanent disability or permanent disfigurement to another person. Robinson is scheduled to be arraigned March 23.

UNLV

Rebel softball players claim
Mountain West weekly honors

UNLV's Paige Emerson was named Mountain West Conference softball Player of the Week, and Jessica O'Connor claimed the conference's pitching honor after the Rebels went 5-1 last week.

Emerson went 6-for-15 with a triple, three RBIs and seven runs scored. O'Connor was 3-0 with two complete games, allowing 11 hits, six walks and three unearned runs, with 14 strikeouts.

Also: The UNLV baseball team lost to Cal State Northridge 13-7 in Northridge, Calif. Drew Beuerlein led the Rebels (13-6) with a two-run single in the sixth inning and a solo home run in the eighth.

Mandy Incorvaia led the UNLV women's golf team at the Jackrabbit Invitational, finishing 16th at Primm Valley Golf Club. Incorvaia finished at 10-over 226, 13 shots behind winner Olivia Lansing of Drake.