IN BRIEF

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Indiana guard Jones exits game on stretcher

Indiana guard Verdell Jones III was taken off the court on a stretcher during Sunday's game against Cornell, but he does not appear to be seriously injured, Hoosiers coach Tom Crean said.

Jones was knocked hard to the floor on a pick by Cornell center Jeff Foote during the first half and lay motionless for several minutes before being strapped to the stretcher and wheeled out. He was taken to a hospital, where initial tests were negative, Crean said after Indiana's 72-57 victory.

Jones, a 6-foot-5-inch freshman, has started five of Indiana's six games.

Also: Forward Devereaux Peters will miss the rest of the season for the 14th-ranked Notre Dame women's team after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee for the second time in nine months.

Peters, who first injured her knee Feb. 10 against Pittsburgh, reinjured it Nov. 23 against Boston College, when she fell to the floor and immediately grabbed her knee. She felt better a few minutes later, though, and played about 12 more minutes in a game the Irish won 102-54.

Peters, a sophomore, started one of the three games she played in this season and was averaging 7.3 points and 4.3 rebounds. As a freshman, she played in 23 games and was fourth on the team in scoring at 9.0 points a game and second in rebounding.

WINTER SPORTS

Maier records 54th World Cup victory

Hermann Maier of Austria won a super-G in Lake Louise, Alberta, for his 54th career World Cup skiing win.

Maier, who last won a World Cup race in January 2006 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, finished in 1 minute, 29.84 seconds.

John Kucera of Canada was second in 1:30.43, and Didier Cuche of Switzerland was third in 1:30.52.

Defending overall champion Bode Miller, who finished 16th in Saturday's downhill, lost a ski before the halfway mark and did not finish..

Also: Sarka Zahrobska got her first World Cup victory, taking the slalom in a combined time of 1:39.32 to beat Austrian Nicole Hosp in Aspen, Colo.

The Czech beat Hosp by 0.23 seconds in blustery, icy conditions. Tanja Poutianinen of Finland was third in 1:40.29.

Lindsey Vonn was the top American, taking fourth with a time of 1:40.73 in a solid follow-up to her slalom victory in Finland last month.

MISCELLANEOUS

Sosa stops Rubillar to retain WBC crown

Edgar Sosa retained his WBC light flyweight title late Saturday night with a seventh-round knockout of Juanito Rubillar in Mexico City.

The 29-year-old Sosa (34-5-1, 18 knockouts), who defended his title for the seventh time in 20 months, took control of the fight in the fourth round. A powerful left hook in the seventh rattled Rubillar, and Sosa kept throwing punches until the referee stopped the bout.

Rubillar (46-11-7), a 31-year-old southpaw from the Philippines, was considered a big threat to the Mexican, and he looked like it in the first two rounds. Then Sosa settled down and began dominating the fight at the Arena Mexico.

Sosa won the title with a close decision over Brian Viloria on April 14, 2007.

Also: Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson is backtracking on retirement plans again.

After winning the Premier League and Champions League titles in May, the 66-year-old Ferguson announced plans to quit Old Trafford within three years.

But Ferguson, who had previously announced that the 2001-02 season was his last, is again having second thoughts.

"The retirement issue is completely out of my mind now," Ferguson said ahead of Sunday's game against Manchester City, which United won, 1-0.