IN BRIEF

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

UMass to hire Memphis assistant as head coach

Massachusetts will hire Memphis assistant and former Minutemen player Derek Kellogg as its basketball coach. He takes over for Travis Ford, who took the Oklahoma State job.

Kellogg, 34, played at UMass from 1991 to 1995 under current Memphis coach John Calipari and was an All-Atlantic 10 player. He has been an assistant coach at Memphis for eight years.

Also: Mississippi State junior point guard Jamont Gordon has declared for the NBA Draft but won't hire an agent. He averaged 17.2 points per game last season and was an All-Southeastern Conference selection.

Clemson swingman K.C. Rivers, who averaged a team-high 14.7 points a game last season, will return for his senior year. Tigers coach Oliver Purnell had said last month that Rivers might declare for the NBA Draft.

Virginia Commonwealth point guard Eric Maynor, the Colonial Athletic Association's player of the year, will return for his senior season rather than enter the NBA Draft. Maynor averaged 17.9 points, 4.2 rebounds and 5.5 assists last season.

Boston College forward Shamari Spears, who averaged 9.6 points and 6.1 rebounds a game last season, will transfer to Charlotte. A spokesman for the North Carolina school said Spears wanted to be closer to his home in Salisbury because of an undisclosed family medical issue.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Seminoles star arrested on gun, drug charges

Florida State star receiver Preston Parker was arrested late Monday in Tallahassee, Fla., and charged with carrying a concealed .45-caliber pistol and a small amount of marijuana.

Parker led the Seminoles with 1,513 all-purpose yards and 62 receptions last season and was named their Most Valuable Player.

Also: Arizona State senior quarterback Rudy Carpenter, who has started 31 straight games, will have minor surgery today on the thumb on his throwing hand. He should be throwing again by June.

Boston College defensive end Brady Smith pleaded not guilty to charges of rape and breaking and entering with an intent to commit a felony for an on-campus incident. The 20-year-old junior started 12 games last season.

MISCELLANEOUS

UNLV baseball falls to UCLA in 11 innings

The UNLV baseball team rallied to force extra innings before losing to UCLA 8-7 in Los Angeles.

Reliever Thomas Whitsett, throwing his second inning, induced two groundouts in the bottom of the 11th before Brandon Crawford doubled. After an intentional walk, Mickey Weisser's RBI single ended the game.

The Rebels (18-21) got a Xavier Scruggs home run in the seventh, then scored three runs in both the eighth and ninth innings to turn a 5-0 deficit into a 7-7 tie.

In the ninth, Bryan Resnick had an RBI double, and Jesse Wight and Braden Walker added RBI singles.

Also: Detroit Red Wings captain Nicklas Lidstrom was named a finalist for the Norris Trophy for the ninth time in 10 years. Dion Phaneuf of Calgary and Zdeno Chara of Boston join him as finalists.

Lidstrom has won the award as the NHL's best defenseman five of the last six years. Only Bobby Orr (eight) and Doug Harvey (seven) have won more Norris trophies.

American sprinter LaTasha Jenkins can compete again after the World Anti-Doping Agency dropped its appeal of a U.S. arbitration ruling that cleared her of a positive drug test. The decision makes it official that Jenkins is the first athlete to beat the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency on a drug charge.

Argentina's Juan Jose Haedo outsprinted Greg Henderson to win the second stage of the Tour de Georgia, and Ivan Dominguez maintained the overall lead.