IN BRIEF

❚ The Seattle Seahawks released quarterback Trevone Boykin on Tuesday, minutes after a Dallas TV station’s report of a domestic violence incident that allegedly occurred last week. A woman described as Boykin’s girlfriend, Shabrika Bailey, told WFAA that an argument at Boykin’s home in Mansfield, Texas, became physical after she refused to unlock her phone. Bailey alleged that Boykin choked her and that she “woke up in a puddle of blood on the kitchen floor” after she blacked out. Boykin said the accuser’s allegations were “fabricated” and he “will be vindicated.” Bill Yale, a spokesperson for the Mansfield police, told USA TODAY that the department is investigating the alleged incident. While no charges have been filed, Boykin said in a statement he does “understand the Seahawks’ decision” to release him. “The story that was reported casts a bad light on the organization and on me,” Boykin said in a statement to NFL Network. “I want to be clear that the story is false.”

❚ Louisville and Chris Mack have agreed to terms on a seven-year deal to make Mack the school’s new men’s basketball coach, sources with direct knowledge of the deal told The (Louisville) Courier-Journal on Tuesday. Mack, previously the head coach at Xavier, was long considered the favorite to land the job. He met with interim Louisville athletics director

Vince Tyra on Saturday. ESPN reported Mack’s deal was worth “about $4 million” a year in salary. CBS Sports reported Mack is expected to bring Xavier assistant coaches Mike

Pegues and Luke Murray, the son of actor Bill Murray, with him to Louisville. Calling the past week “one of the toughest of my life,” Mack tweeted a goodbye Tuesday afternoon to Xavier.

❚ Pittsburgh announced the hiring of Duke assistant Jeff Capel as basketball coach. Capel, 43, has spent the past seven seasons on Duke’s coaching staff and the past four as Blue Devils head coach Mike Krzyzew

ski’s associate head coach. He previously was head coach at Virginia Commonwealth and Oklahoma.