MLB: Bobby V to be Sacred Heart AD
Former Mets and Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine has been hired as the athletics director at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn. His appointment will be announced Tuesday.
Nationals pitcher Gio Gonzalez said tests for performance-enhancing drugs he was given by MLB after Gonzalez was mentioned in a Miami New Times report have come back negative.
SKIING: Vonn healing, but still hot over injury
Lindsey Vonn’s right knee is healing quicker than her feelings over a world championship race she said should have been called off. The four-time overall World Cup champion remains unhappy about how she sustained a season-ending injury — two shredded ligaments and a broken bone — at the world championships in Austria. Vonn said she believes organizers should have postponed the super-G race Feb. 5 because of deteriorating conditions.
In Val Di Fiemme, Italy, American teenager Sarah Hendrickson won the women’s ski jumping title, defeating Sara Takanashi of Japan at the Nordic skiing world championships.
ETC.: Pacers keep on rolling, move past Knicks
In Indianapolis, David West scored 18 points, and the surging Pacers beat the Pistons 114-82 to move past the Knicks as the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference.
Lakers owner Jerry Buss was buried in a private ceremony in front of family and close friends. Buss, 80, died Monday after a long battle with cancer. Also, the Lakers, behind Kobe Bryant’s 40 points, held off the Trail Blazers, 111-107.
Denton Koon scored 23 points and visiting Princeton held Columbia to its lowest point total in four years, winning 65-40. The loss was the Lions’ seventh loss in eight games.
American Stacey Lewis shot a 3-under 69 to keep a three-stroke lead after the second round of the LPGA Thailand.
Matt Birk, 36, has decided to retire after 15 seasons in the NFL, the last winning a Super Bowl title with the Ravens.
Blue Jackets center Artem Anisimov , a former Ranger, was released from a Detroit hospital after a scary hit to the head in a game with the Red Wings on Thursday night.
In Dubai, United Arab Emirates, former Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova defeated Caroline Wozniacki 6-3, 6-4 to reach the final of the Dubai Championships. She will play Sara Errani of Italy, who defeated Roberta Vinci 6-3, 6-3.