IN BRIEF

OLYMPICS

Pettigrew to return gold from 2000 Games

Antonio Pettigrew agreed Tuesday to return the Olympic 1,600-meter relay gold medal he won in 2000 after admitting to doping during the Sydney Games.

During last month's trial involving former track coach Trevor Graham, Pettigrew came clean about using EPO and human growth hormone from 1997 to 2003. Graham was found guilty of lying to federal investigators about his relationship to a steroids dealer.

Pettigrew's decision came a day after one of his relay teammates at the Sydney Olympics, Michael Johnson, said he would voluntarily give his medal back in the wake of Pettigrew's testimony.

Also: Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, fresh off setting the world record (9.72 seconds) in the 100 meters last weekend, backed off from his earlier guarantees that he'll run the 100 at the Olympics in August.

A specialist in the 200 who just recently got serious about the 100, Bolt said he still plans to run both races in the Jamaican nationals at the end of the month to keep his options open. But he stopped short of saying he'd be in the 100 at the Olympics, contradicting what he had said in a statement released by his agent Monday.

Ashley Harkleroad will turn down a berth on the U.S. Olympic tennis team to focus on improving her ranking during the summer hard-court season.

With Harkleroad stepping aside, Jill Craybas is likely to make the U.S. team for the first time.

HOCKEY

Tortorella fired as coach of Lightning

John Tortorella was fired as coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning, four years after leading the team to its only Stanley Cup championship.

The Lightning was 239-222-36-38 and made the playoffs four times in 61/2 seasons under Tortorella.

Also: Philadelphia Flyers right wing Sami Kapanen retired from the NHL and plans to return to Finland and play for a team he owns there. A two-time All-Star, Kapanen, 34, had 189 goals and 269 assists in his 12-year career with the Flyers and Hartford-Carolina.

MISCELLANEOUS

Arizona State wins first NCAA softball title

Kaitlin Cochran hit a three-run homer and Katie Burkhart pitched a four-hitter as Arizona State routed Texas A&M 11-0 in Oklahoma City to win its first college softball title.

The margin ended up matching the second-most lopsided game in Women's College World Series history. Only Arizona's 12-0 defeat of Fresno State in the first round of the 1989 World Series was a bigger blowout.

Also: New UNLV women's basketball coach Kathy Olivier has agreed to a five-year, $950,000 backloaded contract. The deal goes before the Board of Regents for approval at the June 12 and 13 meetings.

Olivier is a former Lady Rebels standout who spent the previous 15 seasons as UCLA's coach.

UNLV track and field junior Brittney Bullocks and the 4x100 meter relay team were named to the All-West Region team. To be considered All-Region, an athlete must place in the top eight of an event.

Bullocks ran 400 meters in 55.00 seconds Saturday, finishing seventh, two spots from a trip to the NCAA Championships.

The 4x100 meter relay team finished third at the NCAA West Regional with a time of 44.91 and advanced to the NCAA Championships.

Max Mosley overcame a sex scandal and won a vote of confidence to remain FIA president in a decision that threatens to divide motor racing's governing body.

Mosley won a secret ballot 103-55 -- with seven abstentions and four invalid votes -- at the specially convened assembly in Paris.

Mosley, who has been president since 1994, called the vote after refusing to resign when the News of the World reported he had engaged in Nazi-themed sex acts with prostitutes.