Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda charged with DUI
Baseball
Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda was arrested early Monday in Tampa on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol, Tampa police said. An arrest report said Pineda, 23, who is in Tampa rehabilitating from shoulder surgery, was pulled over at 2:35 a.m. Monday. He was released on $500 bond. Yankees general manager Brian Cashman declined comment . . . Athletics lefthander Brett Anderson is back from Tommy John elbow ligament replacement surgery, and set to make his season debut Tuesday night against the Twins. Anderson, activated from the 60-day disabled list Monday, is ready to pitch in the major leagues again for the first time since undergoing surgery 13 months ago . . . Baseball and its players’ union say urine samples in drug tests may be subject to additional analysis even if the ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone is under the level that typically is considered a positive. The joint statement Monday came five days after San Francisco outfielder Melky Cabrera, the All-Star Game MVP, was suspended 50 games for testosterone. Most drug-testing programs consider a T/E ratio of 4-to-1 or higher to be a positive. But for several years in baseball, the policy has been that samples are potentially subject to further scrutiny if the ratio is below 4-to-1. The usual ratio in adults is 1-to-1 . . . The Athletics acquired shortstop Stephen Drew from the Diamondbacks in exchange for minor league infielder Sean Jamieson. Drew recently returned after being sidelined for nearly a year with a fractured right ankle.
Lucas’s no-hitter helps Conn. advance
Will Lucas threw a no-hitter and Fairfield, Conn., eliminated New Castle, Ind., 4-0, in the Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pa. Lucas fanned 13, walked only one, and drove in a pair of runs in the win. Next up for Connecticut is Petaluma, Calif., which edged Parsippany, N.J., 5-4, on Danny Marzo’s walkoff homer in the eighth. Petaluma beat Fairfield, 6-4, in the opener for both teams. In other games, Mychellon Jansen’s solo homer provided the go-ahead run and Curacao scored three times in the fifth inning to rally for a 4-3 victory over Canada; and Mexico scored three runs in third inning and went on to a 4-3 victory over Taiwan.
Colleges
WAC football said to be in jeopardy
The commissioner of the Western Athletic Conference said it has become apparent the league is ‘‘unlikely’’ to have enough football members to compete in the 2013 season. Jeff Hurd told The Denver Post the conference is emphasizing simply having enough members to remain a Division 1 non-football league. The 50-year-old WAC would be the first Division 1 conference to give up football since the Southwest Conference dissolved in 1995, and it might go the way of the SWC, too, ceasing to exist altogether. New Mexico State and Idaho will have to play as FBS independents next season while the WAC’s five other football members — Louisiana Tech, San Jose State, Texas State, Utah State, and Texas-San Antonio — leave the league after this year. The WAC will have to add six FBS programs to continue.
Tennis
Wozniacki advances in New Haven
Caroline Wozniacki beat Ekaterina Makarova, 6-3, 6-3, in the first round of the New Haven Open, her 18th consecutive victory at the tournament. Wozniacki is the tournament’s four-time defending champion . . .
Andy Roddick battled to a 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (8-6) victory over James Blake at the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Open.
Miscellany
Judge tosses Armstrong’s lawsuit
A federal judge in Austin, Texas, threw out Lance Armstrong’s lawsuit against the US Anti-Doping Agency, a decision that allows the agency’s drug case against the seven-time Tour de France winner to move ahead . . . Scott Hartnell, coming off a season in which he scored a career-high 37 goals, signed a six-year contract extension worth $28.5 million with the Philadelphia Flyers . . . Mike Fisher agreed to a two-year, $8.4 million contract extension with the Nashville Predators
. . . Simon Gourdine, who became deputy commissioner of the NBA in 1974 and went on to work for and lead the players’ association in the 1990s, died in New York City. He was 72 . . . Philip E. Moriarty, who coached US divers at the 1960 Olympics and was Yale’s swimming and diving coach for 17 years, died of natural causes in Mystic, Conn. He was 98 . . . USA Gymnastics announced it will hold its 2013 national championships in Hartford in August, the second time the city has been picked to host the event in three years.
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