In Brief
BASEBALL
Upon further review, MLB puts
off expanded replay until 2013
Major League Baseball has decided expanded replay will have to wait at least another year.
Baseball had hoped to increase video reviews this season to include trapped balls, fair-or-foul calls down the lines and fan interference all around the ballpark.
The additional replay required the approval of MLB and the unions representing the umpires and the players. MLB executive Rob Manfred told The Associated Press on Tuesday that all three sides weren't able to come up with an agreement.
Rather than try to implement more replay in the middle of this season, the sides will work toward adding the extra looks for games in 2013.
Also: Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax is among witnesses scheduled to testify at a trial next week to determine if the New York Mets' owners must give up hundreds of millions of dollars they received from jailed financier Bernard Madoff.
Koufax's name is on a list submitted to a federal judge of a dozen witnesses who Mets' lawyers plan to call to the witness stand at the Manhattan civil trial. Koufax is a childhood friend of Mets chief executive Fred Wilpon and also had an account with Madoff.
UNLV
Klein leaves women's soccer
program for Washington State
Jen Klein resigned as Rebels women's soccer coach to take a position on the Washington State coaching staff.
Klein leaves after two seasons, during which her teams posted a 19-18-4 overall record. That included an 8-10-3 mark last season.
UNLV qualified for the Mountain West tournament both years under her.
Also: Marvin Campbell hit a grand slam in the first inning and finished 3-for-4 with five RBIs and two runs to power UNLV to a 22-12 baseball victory over Southern Utah at Wilson Stadium.
The Rebels (10-7) scored eight runs in the first and six in the second to take a 14-8 lead. Ten UNLV players finished with at least one hit and nine with at least one RBI.
Southern Utah scored six runs in the first off Rebels starter Tyler Iodence, who lasted only two-thirds of an inning and gave up eight runs, all of them earned, on three hits and three walks.
UNLV's Amanda Oliveto was named Mountain West Conference Softball Pitcher of the Week after going 2-2 in five appearances last week.
Oliveto had a 1.31 ERA in 26 2/3 innings and struck out 16.
MISCELLANEOUS
Penguins' Crosby finally set
to return Thursday vs. Rangers
Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby plans to play Thursday against the New York Rangers, his first game in more than three months after a second lengthy bout with concussion-like symptoms.
The 24-year-old went through an arduous workout with his teammates and got bumped around enough that he feels prepared for the grind that awaits in the final month of the regular season and beyond.
The dizziness and headaches that have plagued Crosby since the symptoms resurfaced in early December have abated. Crosby thinks he's in better shape now than he was during a brief comeback from a 10-month layoff last fall, when he collected 12 points in eight games before heading back to injured reserve.
Also: Two Denver Broncos players are suing the NFL seeking to overturn their drug suspensions.
The lawsuit filed in Denver District Court contends the league violated protocol in collecting urine samples from linebacker D.J. Williams and defensive lineman Ryan McBean and refused to clear the players after the collector was fired for not following proper procedures.
Williams and McBean were suspended without pay for Denver's first six games of the 2012 season.
An appeals panel upheld penalties levied against five-time champion Jimmie Johnson's crew chief for failing opening-day inspection at the Daytona 500.
The three-member committee heard testimony from Hendrick Motorsports and NASCAR, then ruled unanimously in favor of the sanctions.
NASCAR said Chad Knaus presented a car that had illegally modified sheet metal between the roof and the side windows, the area known as the C Post. Knaus has maintained NASCAR made that determination with a visual inspection, the No. 48 Chevrolet never even made it to the templates at Daytona, and the car had been used at all four restrictor-plate races in 2011.
The White House said Michelle Obama will lead the official U.S. delegation to the Opening Ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London.
It has become somewhat of a tradition for first ladies to lead the U.S. delegation. Laura Bush headed the delegation to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, and Hillary Rodham Clinton headed the delegation at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway.
