Lynx win WNBA draft lottery, have 2 rst pick

Potential No. 1 pick: LSU’s Seimone Augustus.

Gerald Riggs Jr. will miss the rest of the football season at Tennessee after injuring his right lower leg and ankle. Riggs, the team’s top rusher, was hurt in last week’s 6- 3 loss at Alabama. Doctors were still evaluating Riggs, and of $ cials had no other details about the injuries. He leads the Volunteers with 530 yards rushing.

Bob DuPuy, Major League Baseball’s chief operating of $ cer, left the World Series on Sunday to join talks Tuesday in Lausanne, Switzerland, on howto bring baseball back to the Summer Games. International Baseball Federation President Aldo Notari and Denis Oswald, president of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations, are leading the talks. They coincide with International Olympic Committee executive board meetings. The IOC voted in July against keeping baseball in the Games effective with the 2012 London Games.

Jimmy Shea, who slid to the Olympic gold medal in skeleton at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olymipics, announced his retirement Sunday night after failing to make the four- man U.S. team for the upcoming World Cup season. Shea, 37, $ nished well behind

Eric Bernotas, Zach Lund, Caleb Smith and Kevin Ellis

in a four- run raceoff conducted over the past two weekends in Lake Placid, N. Y., and Calgary. The team was announced Monday. Former World Cup champion Chris Soule is the alternate. Three- time national champion Katie Uhlaender, Katie Koczynski and Lyndsie Peterson make up the women’s team.

Lea Ann Parsley, silver medalist at Salt Lake City, is the alternate. The $ nal women’s team spot was awarded to defending World Cup championNoelle Pikus- Pace, who is recovering from a compound fracture in her right leg,.

Elsewhere

Michelle Kwan, sidelined by a strained hip ligament has pulled out of the Cup of China, the last Grand Prix event before the U.S. nationals and the Olympics. . . . Arkansas seniors Kristin Moore and Adrienne Bush have been suspended from the women’s basketball team. Coach Susie Gardner said theywere unrelated violations of team or school rules. . . . The NCAA named former UCLA men’s basketball

coach John Wooden and former Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana as co- winners of its

Gerald R. Ford Award for leadership on Monday. . . . Silvia Farina Elia

of Italy announced her retirement from tennis after losing in the $ rst round of the Gaz de France on Tuesday. The 33- year-old’s highest ranking was 11th, three years ago, best ever for an Italian woman. . . .

Switzerland’s Marc Rosset, who won the Olympic tennis gold medal at Barcelona, said Tuesday he’s retiring after thisweek’s Swiss Indoors.

The Minnesota Lynxwill get the $ rst pick of the WNBA draft in April that includes LSU star Seimone Augustus and Duke’s Monique Currie.

The Lynxwo n the $ fth annual draft lottery Monday, beating out the last- place Charlotte Sting ( 6- 28) and San Antonio Silver

Stars ( 7- 27) among the $ ve

non- playoff teams.

“ We’ll take it and run,” said

Minnesota coach

Suzie

McConnell

Serio, whose

Lynxwe nt 14- 20 last season.

“ This is big for us, for the franchise and looking forward to

next year.”

The Phoenix Mercury ( 16-

18) will pick second, followed

by the Sting, Silver Stars and

Washington Mystics ( 16- 18).

The new Chicago franchise

will have the sixth pick.

Augustus, the national college player of the year, led LSU

to back- to-back Final Fours.

Currie helped the Blue Devils

to the $ nal eight at NCAA

tournament.

“ We’re a young team,” McConnell Serio said. “ The player we hope to chose with the No. 1 pick will be able to playwith the group we have.”

The draft lottery established the order of selection for the $ rst round, with second- and third- round order based on team records. The date of the draft has not been determined.

World Anti- Doping Agency chief

Dick Pound says U.S. skier Bode Miller

is “ irresponsible” for suggesting doping in sports be liberalized. Miller, the $ rst U.S. man in 22 years to win the overall Alpine World Cup title, last week reiterated his beliefs about drugs and sports, saying the levels for banned substances should be relaxed. He added that he has never used performance-enhancing drugs. “ I don’t even use any creatine or vitamins or supplements or anything,” Miller said. “ The point is that I don’t think it’s a really big deal. I think people should be able to do what they want to do.” Pound said Tuesday, “ He’s free to say what he wants. But it’s irresponsible. It’s just wrong. . . . The reaction he’s had from the sport and from parents shows that.”

uItaly’s health minister and Olympic chief ruled out easing the country’s strict anti-doping laws during the Torino Games. Athletes can face criminal sanctions for doping violations under Italian law, raising the possibility of police raids in the Olympic village. Under IOC rules, athletes can be disquali $ ed for doping violations at the games but should not face criminal penalties.

U. S. skeleton team picked, no Shea

Freddy Adu returned to training with his D. C. United teammates Monday, three days after the 16- year-old soccer prodigy was suspended for the club’s $ rst- leg playoff game against Chicago for publicly complaining about playing time. He’s eligible to play the second leg Sunday against Chicago. Adu declined to speak to the media Monday, team spokesman Doug Hicks said. “ It’s done as far as I’m concerned. Freddy maybe learned a lesson,” mid$ elder Ben Olsen said. “ He said some stuff, he got punished and now it’s done.”

uThe U.S. men’s soccer team will play an exhibition game at Scotland on Nov. 12, one of the last times before mid- May that the Americans will be able to gather most of their roster in preparation for the World Cup.

. . . Tennessee running back Riggs out for year Baseball’s top guns work on reinstatement WADA boss challenges skier’s comments Adu rejoins United teammates on training 2 eld Cover story

By Bill Haber, AP