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BYU Football
Peck commits to Cougars
Make it an even dozen.
BYU received an oral commitment from Bingham tight end/linebacker prospect Remington Peck late Friday night, according to Total Blue Sports. That gives the Cougars 12 commitments for the Class of 2009.
BYU has about 15 scholarships available.
Peck (6-foot-5, 220 pounds) intends to sign with the Cougars in February and will join the team in the fall of 2009. He also received interest from Utah, Washington, Colorado, Boise State, UNLV and Weber State.
NBA
Jazz exercise option on Millsap
SALT LAKE CITY -- The Utah Jazz exercised the team option on forward Paul Millsap and made a qualifying offer to shooting guard C.J. Miles on Saturday.
Millsap has been a surprise contributor to the Jazz since they got him with the 47th pick in the 2006 draft. He has played in all 164 regular-season games and the 29 playoff games Utah has played in the last two seasons.
Millsap averaged 8.1 points and 5.6 rebounds last season and led the Jazz in rebounding seven times.
The Jazz had until Monday to make an offer to Miles, who is a restricted free agent and can receive offers from other teams starting Tuesday. Terms of the offer were not released.
The Jazz will have the right to match any offers to Miles, a second-round draft pick out of high school in 2005.
Auto Racing
Pole-sitter Kanaan gets win at Richmond
RICHMOND, Va. -- One week removed from a crash while leading, Tony Kanaan didn't let himself believe he would win a race he dominated until he took the checkered flag Saturday night.
"I just said with about 10 laps to go, I said, 'What's going to happen now?"' the snake-bitten Andretti Green Racing star said after his 13th career victory. "I'm just like, 'OK, something's going to blow up, it's going to rain, ... maybe I'm going to spin in the rain.'
"That's how funny racing is. Sometimes it comes when you least expect it."
Kanaan made it happen by taking advantage of an out-of-sequence pit stop by front-running teammate Marco Andretti and ran away with the SunTrust Indy Challenge.
On a night when half of the 26 cars in the largest IndyCar Series field at Richmond International Raceway went home damaged, Kanaan got the good fortune he said he deserved for his first victory of the season. He got it by avoiding the near-constant mayhem caused by an event record-tying nine caution flags and beating Helio Castroneves by nearly 5 seconds.
The victory came a week after Kanaan led 71 laps at Iowa before crashing, absorbing what he said was one of the hardest hits of his life and his latest experience with bad luck.
He made up for it by beating the field out of the pits the only time he had to and paid homage to his crew. "They kept putting me in the lead and I kept letting them down," he said.
Castroneves, who started 18th, used a blistering early pit stop to get into contention and finished second, followed by Target Chip Ganassi Racing teammates Scott Dixon and Dan Wheldon. Oriol Servia was a career-best fifth, and Danica Patrick was sixth.
"I wasn't the fastest, but second is pretty darned good," said Castroneves, who gained five points on Dixon for the series lead and now trails by 43. Wheldon remained third, now 52 points back, and Kanaan trimmed 18 points off his deficit and now trails Dixon by 82.
Andretti, who was almost as dominant as his Andretti Green Racing teammate until he gave up the lead by pitting under green with 95 laps to go, never recovered and wound up ninth.
"I feel bad about Marco," Kanaan said. "I think he has as strong a car as I had."
Kanaan led twice for 166 laps, and Andretti led another 90.
WNBA
Silver Stars top Lynx
SAN ANTONIO -- Sophia Young scored 20 points Ann Wauters added 14 points and 10 rebounds, and the San Antonio Silver Stars capitalized on Seimone Augustus' absence to beat the Minnesota Lynx, 73-65 on Saturday night.
With Augustus missing a game for the first time as a pro after 82 consecutive starts, the Silver Stars (9-6) broke a second-place tie with the Lynx (8-7) in the Western Conference. Augustus sprained her right big toe Thursday against Sacramento.
Nicky Anosike scored 16 points for Minnesota, which had won two straight. Rookie guard Candice Wiggins missed her first eight shots and finished with 15 points. Wiggins and backcourt mate Anna DeForge combined to go 9-for-29.
In other WNBA action:
• Comets 75, Fever 61: At Houston, Matee Ajavon scored a season-high 24 points, tying a Houston rookie record, and the Comets pulled away in the fourth quarter for their fourth straight win.
Ajavon tied the Houston rookie record set by Tina Thompson against Cleveland on July 29, 1997, the WNBA's inaugural season. Thompson missed her second straight game with a fractured left ring finger.
Sancho Lyttle added 15 points and 10 rebounds for the Comets (7-8), and Michelle Snow had 12 points and six boards. Hamchetou Maiga-Ba scored 10 points for the Comets, who snapped a four-game losing streak to the Fever dating to 2006.
Tammy Sutton-Brown scored 13 points, and Tameka Catchings added 10 points on 3-of-9 shooting. Indiana (7-8) committed 26 turnovers, which Houston turned into 29 points.
• Sky 76, Shock 59: At Chicgao, Candice Dupree scored 18 points, Jia Perkins and Dominique Canty each had 14, and Chicago beat Detroit to snap a five-game losing streak.
Chasity Melvin added 10 points and eight rebounds as the Sky (4-9) beat the Shock for the first time in Chicago. It was their first victory since beating Atlanta 91-70 on June 7. Shay Murphy scored 13 points and Alexis Hornbuckle had 11 for the Shock.
(11-5), who dropped a game behind Connecticut for the Eastern Conference lead.
Detroit guard Katie Smith had seven points and three assists, moving past Andrea Stinson (810) for 10th on the WNBA's career assists list, but picked up back-to-back technical fouls and was ejected with 7:54 remaining after arguing a reach-in foul call. |
