IN BRIEF

TRACK AND FIELD

U.N. complaint filed in Semenya case

South Africa's minister for women and children has filed a complaint with the United Nations over how Caster Semenya's case was handled.

Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya said the international athletics governing body failed to safeguard the confidentiality of the runner whose sex has been questioned. She said they showed "blatant disregard" for Semenya's "human dignity."

The complaint made Monday asks the U.N. Division for the Advancement of Women to investigate the matter.

The International Association of Athletics Federations has refused to confirm or deny Australian media reports saying sex tests show that the women's 800-meter world champion has male and female characteristics.

Also: Asafa Powell dominated the field to win the 100-meter dash in 9.82 seconds, and Tyson Gay cruised to victory in the 200 at the Pedro's Cup in Szczecin, Poland.

Powell got off to a fast start and was never challenged by the other runners.

Gay skipped the 100 and was pleased with his 200 time of 20.21 seconds, saying it was the first time he'd run the 200 in more than a month.

COLLEGES

UNLV women's golf seventh in Primm event

The UNLV women's golf team tied for seventh in the Golfweek Conference Challenge at Primm Valley Golf Club, shooting 12-over-par 300 for the second straight day to wrap up the three-round tournament.

The 18th-ranked Rebels finished at 40-over 904 to tie Harvard. Pepperdine took the team title at 17-over 881, one shot ahead of California.

Oklahoma State's Caroline Hedwall won the individual title at 9-under 207.

Freshman Ellis Keenan led UNLV, shooting 72 to tie for 18th at 7-over 223 in the season-opening event.

Also: Former Kentucky men's basketball coach Billy Gillispie wants a lawsuit the school filed against him moved to federal court.

Court records show Gillispie filed a request to move the case from circuit court to U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

Gillispie sued the University of Kentucky Athletics Association in federal court in Dallas on May 27, claiming fraud and breach of contract stemming from his March firing. The university countersued in state court.

In court papers, the Texas resident said federal court is the proper venue for several reasons, including that the lawsuits involve parties in more than one state.

Kentucky told the NCAA it disciplined a former men's basketball administrative assistant for a secondary rules violation.

In response to an open records request by The Associated Press, the school released information about the self-reporting of several minor violations from its sports programs. Among them was an admission that Bilal Batley broke NCAA rules when he shagged rebounds with an unnamed student-athlete at a gym.

SOCCER

Costa Rica fires coach as Cup bid takes hit

Costa Rica fired coach Rodrigo Kenton following three straight losses in World Cup qualifying.

Costa Rica, which once led the North and Central American and Caribbean region, is fourth with 12 points following losses to Honduras, Mexico and El Salvador. The United States leads with 16 points, one ahead of Mexico and three in front of Honduras.

Costa Rica will host Trinidad and Tobago on Oct. 10, then closes four days later against the United States at Washington, D.C.

Also: Manchester City striker Emmanuel Adebayor was charged with violent and improper conduct by the Football Association for his alleged stomp on Robin van Persie and for his goal celebration in Saturday's 4-2 English Premier League victory over Arsenal.

Van Persie, Adebayor's former Arsenal teammate, was left with a cut on his face after he had tackled the Man City striker.

The FA also has charged the striker for running the length of the field to celebrate his goal against his former club in front of the Arsenal fans, who reacted violently and had to be kept under control by police and stewards.

MISCELLANEOUS

U.S. Open tennis sets mark for attendance

The U.S. Open tennis tournament, which finished Monday, set an attendance record with 721,059 spectators.

That's slightly above the previous mark of 720,227 set last year.

The tournament also set a Week 1 attendance record of 423,427, including a single-day high of 61,554 for the combined day and night sessions on the first Friday.

Also: The St. Louis Blues exercised their contract option to keep coach Andy Murray through the 2010-11 season.

Murray led St. Louis to a 41-31-10 record last season, including a 25-9-7 second-half surge that put the Blues in the playoffs for the first time since 2004.

Fred Cusick, the radio and television voice of the Boston Bruins for more than four decades, died at age 90, his family said.

Cusick's son, Ted, said his father died at his Barnstable, Mass., home after suffering from cancer.

It's a boy for four-time Olympian Amanda Beard.

The swimmer, married to photographer Sacha Brown, gave birth to her first child, Blaise Ray Brown, in Los Angeles. The boy weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces.

A bad shoulder will keep Olympic silver medalist Samantha Peszek out of next month's world gymnastics championships.

Peszek had been one of 10 gymnasts invited to the U.S. team's final selection camp, which begins Sept. 30.