IN BRIEF

BASKETBALL

Cavaliers sign West to multiyear contract

Guard Delonte West signed a multiyear deal with the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday, ending concerns the restricted free agent would hold out at training camp.

General manager Danny Ferry didn't disclose terms of the deal.

The Cavaliers acquired West from the Seattle SuperSonics on Feb. 21 as part of a three-team, 11-player trade. West played in 61 games for Seattle and Cleveland and averaged 8.3 points.

West filled a need for a starting point guard. In 26 games, all starts, he averaged 10.3 points, 3.7 rebounds and 4.5 assists with the Cavaliers.

Also: Portland Trail Blazers center Raef LaFrentz will have shoulder surgery this month.

The surgery to repair a tear in the labrum of his right shoulder will be performed Sept. 26 at Kerlan-Jobe Orthopedic Clinic in Los Angeles.

LaFrentz injured his shoulder during a game against Seattle on Feb. 22.

Former Southern California forward Davon Jefferson has signed with the Maccabi Haifa Heat of the Israeli Premier League.

Jefferson averaged 12.1 points and 6.3 rebounds for the Trojans as a freshman last season. He declared for the NBA Draft but wasn't selected.

Northern State's Don Meyer, who is tops on the NCAA wins list among active men's basketball coaches with 891 victories, learned he has cancer of the liver and bowels following his release from intensive care after a car accident.

Meyer, 63, hopes to return this season to the Sioux Falls, S.D., school, though athletic director Bob Olson said it's too early to tell how long recovery will take.

UNLV ATHLETICS

Shoughro's goal lifts women's soccer team

Sophomore forward Ashleigh Shoughro scored her fourth goal of the season, in the 80th minute, to give the Rebels women's soccer team a 1-0 victory over Fairleigh Dickinson in the New Mexico Nike Classic in Albuquerque.

The winning goal for UNLV (5-1-1) came when Shoughro intercepted a misplayed goal kick and blasted the ball in from 15 yards. It was her second game-winning goal of the season.

Junior goalkeeper Alicia Lugo recorded six saves in notching her fourth shutout of the season for UNLV.

Also: The Rebels men's soccer team suffered its first loss of the season, dropping a 2-1 decision to Gonzaga in the UNLV Nike Invitational at Peter Johann Memorial Field.

Senior forward Lamar Neagle had the goal for the Rebels (3-1).

The Rebels volleyball team lost to 12th-ranked Oregon 25-22, 25-21, 22-25, 25-12 in the Oregon Classic in Eugene.

Junior outside hitter Jessica Walters had 15 kills for UNLV (2-5).

MISCELLANEOUS

Physicist: Bolt could've run 9.55-second 100

A Norwegian physicist has done the math, and he says Usain Bolt could have run the 100-meter Olympic final in 9.55 seconds if he had not slowed down to showboat.

"We estimate that he could have finished the race in a time between 9.55 and 9.61," Hans Eriksen of the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Oslo said in a telephone interview.

Bolt won the final at the Beijing Olympics last month in 9.69 seconds, shaving 0.03 seconds off the record he set in May.

Eriksen and his colleagues analyzed TV footage of the race, focusing on Bolt's position, speed and acceleration, as well as that of runner-up Richard Thompson.

Both sprinters slowed before the finish line, but Bolt's chest-beating celebration some 20 meters before the line cut his speed more.

Also: Natalie Du Toit captured her fourth gold medal in swimming at the Beijing Paralympics, taking the 400-meter freestyle in a world-record time for her disability group.

The South African, who lost a leg in a 2001 motorcycle crash, finished in 4 minutes, 43.81 seconds -- 0.15 better than the mark she set three years ago in London.

One of two athletes in the Paralympics who also competed at the Beijing Olympics, Du Toit has set three disability group records in winning four golds.

North Carolina state officials are looking into reports that some police used excessive force on football fans during East Carolina's dramatic win last weekend in Greenville.

The State Bureau of Investigation will consider video that shows fans being knocked down by officers as fans rushed the field following the Pirates' 24-3 upset victory over then-No. 8 West Virginia.

East Carolina also is being fined $10,000 by Conference USA because fans ran onto the field.

West Virginia football coach Bill Stewart signed a six-year contract that will pay him $800,000 this year with an annual increase of $50,000.

The operator of the three thoroughbred racetracks in New York emerged from two years of bankruptcy court protection thanks to a $105 million state bailout.

As part of its deal with the state to keep the racing franchise for the next 25 years, the New York Racing Association is ending its ownership claim to property at Aqueduct, Belmont and Saratoga racetracks.

The state will hold the deeds, ending a dispute that briefly threatened racing in the state.

The New Jersey Devils re-signed center Rod Pelley and acquired forward Kevin Cormier in a trade with the Phoenix Coyotes.

Pelley had two goals and four assists in 58 games with the Devils last season.

New Jersey traded defenseman Sean Zimmerman to get Cormier, who had three goals and two assists in 23 games last season for Arizona of the Central Hockey League.

The Montreal Canadiens acquired forward Robert Lang from the Chicago Blackhawks for a second-round pick in 2010.

The 37-year-old Lang, set to make $4 million in the final season of his contract, had 21 goals and 54 points in 76 games for Chicago last season.