IN BRIEF
LOCAL COLLEGES
UNLV women's swim team gains easy victory
The UNLV women's swimming and diving team closed out the dual meet regular season Friday with a 176-123 victory over Colorado State in Fort Collins, Colo.
The Rebels (6-3, 5-2 Mountain West Conference) won 13 of 16 events. Bailey Kuestermeyer, Amanda Weinbrecht, Kim Bonney, Ana Dangalakova and Marina Sandback each won two events.
Also, three UNLV men competed at the Air Force Diving Invitational in Colorado Springs, Colo. Matt Arb placed 10th on the 3-meter board, Vincent English finished 12th and Eli Tanimoto 16th.
Also: UNLV women's tennis star Elena Gantcheva gained an impressive victory, but the 41st-ranked Rebels lost their first match of the season, 6-1 to No. 2 Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif.
Gantcheva, ranked 30th in the nation, beat No. 21 Jessica Nguyen 6-2, 7-6, but no other UNLV singles player won a set in the other matches.
The 72nd-ranked UNLV men's tennis team gained a 6-1 victory over Southern Mississippi at the Fertitta Tennis Complex.
Elliot Wronski, Wesley Burrows, Luca Barlocci, David Campbell and Bryan Miller gained singles wins for the Rebels.
The College of Southern Nevada softball team dropped to 0-4 at the Great Western Shootout in Yuma, Ariz., losing 3-2 to Glendale Community College and 9-2 to Salt Lake Community College.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
UConn guard Wiggins reinstated to team
Connecticut guard Doug Wiggins has been reinstated to the team, but starting guard Jerome Dyson remains suspended indefinitely, coach Jim Calhoun said.
The 20-year-old sophomores were suspended Jan. 24, the day after campus police say they found them in a car in a parking lot with a bottle of vodka and a bottle of cognac.
Both were cited for possession of alcohol by a minor. Wiggins also was charged with operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license. He is due in court Monday to face that charge.
Wiggins practiced Thursday and Friday and will be on the bench when the Huskies play No. 18 Pittsburgh today, Calhoun said. That doesn't mean he will play, Calhoun said.
Also: Missouri guard Jason Horton was arrested on assault charges connected to a weekend brawl that left a teammate with a broken jaw.
Horton faces a charge of third-degree misdemeanor assault on an unidentified 26-year-old man in connection with the early-morning fight at the Athena nightclub in downtown Columbia, Mo.
The Jan. 27 incident left senior Stefhon Hannah, the Tigers' leading scorer the past two seasons, with a broken jaw. Hannah is out a minimum of one month and could miss the rest of the season.
Niagara's home game against Loyola, Md., was postponed to next week because a winter storm grounded the Greyhounds' flight from Baltimore to Buffalo, N.Y.
The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference game will be played Tuesday at Niagara.
Southern California guard Daniel Hackett's injured right hip isn't as bad as first feared.
The sophomore was injured during USC's 80-69 loss to Arizona on Thursday.
X-rays were negative, and the injury was diagnosed as a hip pointer. Trainer Bobby Walls said Hackett might be able to play for the Trojans today against Arizona State.
HOCKEY
Stars forward Lehtinen returns from injury
The Dallas Stars activated right wing Jere Lehtinen, ending his 33-game absence with an abdominal injury that led to sports hernia surgery.
Lehtinen had been out since Nov. 21. He had six goals and 13 assists in 21 games before the injury.
Lehtinen led the Stars with 26 goals last season.
Also: Forward J.P. Dumont signed a four-year, $16 million contract with the Nashville Predators.
He is second on the team in goals (18) and assists (27).
MISCELLANEOUS
Spurrier to get bonus to stay with Gamecocks
Steve Spurrier has another reason to stick around South Carolina.
The university's Board of Trustees approved a tax-deferred retirement package for Spurrier's contract that would pay the football coach $1 million if he remained with the Gamecocks the next four seasons.
The money would accrue in installments of $250,000 the next four years and would be given to Spurrier if he's still at South Carolina by Dec. 31, 2011. Spurrier would forfeit the package if he left the school before then.
Also: Kurt Johnson is the low qualifier in the NHRA Pro Stock Showdown heading into today's final session at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He completed his best run in 6.687 seconds at 206.16 mph in a Pontiac to take the provisional pole.
Johnson set track records for elapsed time and speed. The previous mark of 6.705 (204.94) was set by Jason Line in October 2006.
The last qualifying session is scheduled for 10 a.m. today, with championship eliminations to follow at noon.
Robby Gordon aligned his race team with Gillett Evernham Motorsports in a partnership that will give the owner/driver the technical, manufacturing and marketing support his single-car operation has lacked.
As part of the agreement, Gordon will field Dodges instead of Fords this season.
Former World Anti-Doping Agency chief Dick Pound has been nominated for president of the highest court in sports.
Pound is one of two candidates put forward by the International Olympic Committee to lead the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The other candidate is Geneva-based lawyer Robert Briner.
David Beckham has returned to the United States to join the Los Angeles Galaxy for training after being left off Fabio Capello's first England squad.
The 32-year-old midfielder was called back for preseason training by his Major League Soccer team after he was omitted from England's 30-man roster for next week's exhibition against Switzerland.
Bernard Lagat won his sixth Wanamaker Mile at the 101st Millrose Games in New York.
The reigning 1,500- and 5,000-meter world champion closed in on Eamonn Coghlan's meet record of seven wins.
