In Brief
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Report: Tressel's emails were
forwarded to Pryor's mentor
Ohio State coach Jim Tressel forwarded emails to Terrelle Pryor's mentor that accused the star quarterback of selling memorabilia to a man under federal investigation, the Columbus Dispatch reported Friday.
Citing unnamed sources, the newspaper reported that Tressel sent the information to Ted Sarniak, a businessman in Pryor's hometown of Jeannette, Pa.
Ohio State director of compliance Doug Archie told the paper that Sarniak and Pryor are longtime friends and that Sarniak was the player's primary contact during recruiting.
"As the friendship developed, Mr. Sarniak is someone who Terrelle has reached out to for advice and guidance throughout his high-school and collegiate career," Archie said in an email to the Columbus newspaper.
Tressel will sit out the first five games next season and was fined $250,000 by the university for failing to notify the school about emails he received in April involving two players and questionable activities involving the sale of memorabilia.
Tressel did not share those emails with Ohio State staff or the NCAA.
On the same day the newspaper reported the forwarded emails, a new poll said Ohio voters support Tressel and don't think he should be fired.
The Quinnipiac University poll said 83 percent of those who were aware of the allegations think Tressel should keep his job. Fifty-six percent said he has been punished sufficiently, with 30 percent saying he got off easy.
Also: The man who fatally stabbed Connecticut football player Jasper Howard during an on-campus fight in 2009 tearfully apologized to Howard's family as he was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
John Lomax III, dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit with his hands and feet shackled, sobbed loudly as he told Howard's family that he regretted what he did.
"I know it hurts. I know it hurts," Lomax said to Howard's relatives and friends in a Vernon, Conn., courtroom packed with more than 70 people. "I would never want this to happen to any family. Even though you may despise me, I don't despise you. We're all God's children. I don't hate y'all. I love y'all."
The 22-year-old Lomax, of Bloomfield, had been charged with murder but pleaded no contest to first-degree manslaughter in January. He had faced up to 20 years in prison.
South Carolina's top football recruit Jadeveon Clowney was detained and handcuffed briefly by Columbia police because authorities said he fit the description of a burglar.
Clowney was questioned and released.
To demonstrate -- and downplay -- what happened to Clowney, Gamecocks coach Steve Spurrier was detained and handcuffed briefly by Columbia Police Chief Randy Scott while talking to the media after spring practice.
LOCAL COLLEGES
Pitcher Peters takes first loss
as Rebels fall to New Mexico
Starting pitcher Tanner Peters suffered his first defeat of the season as the UNLV baseball team lost 3-1 to New Mexico in a Mountain West Conference game in Albuquerque.
Peters, who entered the game with a 4-0 record and 0.49 ERA, was tagged for three earned runs in the bottom of the seventh inning. He gave up six hits and walked three, while striking out six, in eight innings.
The Rebels (18-7, 1-3 MWC) were checked on four hits, with their lone run coming in the eighth on a bases-loaded walk.
Also: The UNLV softball team split a pair of games in the Mustang Classic in San Luis Obispo, Calif., beating Fairfield 6-2 and losing to 15th-ranked Oregon 11-3 in five innings.
Ashlii Holland had four hits, including a home run and a triple, and three RBIs on the day for the Rebels (15-11). Stefany Valentino added three hits, including a solo home run.
UNLV scored in the top 16 in two events to stand in 17th place with 49 points after the second day of the three-day NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships in Minneapolis.
The 49 points easily surpasses the previous high for the Rebels at nationals. UNLV finished with 37 points last year to tie for 21st.
The 200-yard medley relay team of David Seiler, Andrew Morrell, Cody Roberts and Steven Nelms placed ninth with a time of 1 minute, 26.19 seconds. Roberts was 14th in the 100 butterfly in 46.69.
Taylor Jones hurled a five-inning no-hitter, striking out seven, as the College of Southern Nevada completed a sweep of a Scenic West Athletic Conference doubleheader with a 15-0 victory over Colorado Northwestern Community College in Rangely.
Tyler Blair, Bobby Shiroky and Cameron Harper had two hits apiece as the Coyotes (14-16, 3-11 SWAC) won the opener, 8-5.
Monet Ormsby and Katie Uriarte cracked three-run homers in the first game and Alicia Firelein added a three-run blast in the second as the College of Southern Nevada softball team split a Scenic West Athletic Conference doubleheader with 12th-ranked College of Southern Idaho at the Russell Road Recreation Complex, winning 16-5 and losing 15-13.
A.J. Woodward had a two-run homer in the second game for the Coyotes (22-18, 15-11 SWAC).
MISCELLANEOUS
Wranglers fall to Bakersfield
for seventh loss in eight games
The Wranglers lost for the seventh time in eight ECHL games, falling to the Bakersfield Condors 3-1 in Bakersfield, Calif.
Joel Broda scored the go-ahead goal for the Condors 4:31 into the third period, and Stephane Goulet added an insurance goal late in the period.
Colin Long scored in the second period for Las Vegas (36-26-5, 77 points), which trails division-leading Bakersfield (39-25-3) by four points.
Also: Andy Murray's post-Australian Open slump shows no sign of ending.
The Scotsman was upset in his opening match at the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Fla., by American qualifier Alex Bogomolov Jr., 6-1, 7-5. Murray hasn't won a set in three matches since he was routed in the final of the Australian Open by Novak Djokovic.
Murray, seeded fifth, lost his opening match at Key Biscayne for the fourth time and for the second straight year.
Meanwhile, Djokovic extended his winning streak by reaching the third round at the Sony Ericsson Open. Seeded second, the Serb improved to 19-0 this year by beating Russia's Denis Istomin, 6-0, 6-1.
On the women's side, the last American was eliminated in the second round when Varvara Lepchenko lost to Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic, 6-1, 6-2.
Bernhard Langer, a two-time Masters champion, had surgery on his left thumb and will miss the next two months, ending his streak of 27 consecutive appearances at Augusta National.
Langer, who has already won on the Champions Tour this year, injured his thumb in a biking accident. He had surgery Wednesday in New York to repair ligaments.
Chad Ochocinco's soccer career has been extended at least two days.
Sporting Kansas City asked the six-time Pro Bowl wide receiver to play in its reserve team's game Monday against a local squad.
Ochocinco, who says he actually preferred soccer to football as a youngster, began a four-day trial with the MLS team Wednesday.
Olympic champion Alain Bernard won't swim the 100-meter freestyle at the world championships this summer after failing to qualify at the French trials in Strasbourg.
Bernard finished fourth in the final won by Fabien Gilot in 48.34 seconds.
