THE HOT CORNER

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Wisconsin running back Antwan Roberts has entered the transfer portal less than three weeks after getting suspended from the team. Roberts, a freshman, hadn’t played in either of the Badgers’ first two games. Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst suspended Roberts and dismissed fellow freshman running back Loyal Crawford from the team Aug. 31 after a fight in a dorm resulted in a citation for Crawford.

AUTO RACING: Indycar’s extended 2 partnership with NBC Sports yielded an additional bonus for next year’s schedule, which was already earmarked to air a record number of races on network broadcast. The three-year extension announced with the network in July touted a record 13 races on main NBC. That number was actually expanded to 14 races on the 17-race schedule released Sunday by Indycar ahead of its race at Laguna Seca.

PRO BASEBALL: Alex Avila, 34,

3 of the Washington Nationals announced Sunday that he will retire at the end of the season. The veteran catcher’s most productive season in the majors came in 2011, when he established personal highs for batting average (.295), hits (137), homers (19) and RBI (82) on the way to being selected an all-star with the Tigers.

CYCLING: Tony Martin, a fourtime

4 time trial world champion from Germany who also won five Tour de France stages, said that he will end his 14-year pro career after the world championships. The 36-year-old Martin secured a sixth-placed finish in Sunday’s individual time trial won by Filippo Ganna of Italy and said he will call it a day after competing in the mixed relay scheduled for next week.

SOCCER: Jimmy Greaves. one of 5

England’s greatest strikers, died on Sunday at the age of 81. There was a minute’s applause before Tottenham played in the Premier League against Chelsea, the club where Greaves started his career.