Jamie Donaldson Rutkoski of Littleton, Colo., a Freeport graduate, was named to the elite 2007 Montrail National Ultrarunning Team.

Donaldson, who finished second overall in the grueling four-mile Montrail Ultra Cup this year, is one of only 11 women in the country to be chosen for the Montrail Team.

Ultramarathons, or ultrarunning, is loosely defined as running beyond 26.2 miles and often is contested on mountainous terrain of distances ranging from 50 kilometers to 100 miles.

Montrail, at the leading edge of trail running shoe development since 1988, has sponsored the nation's top endurance runners since 1996.

In 2007, Donaldson will be competing in the Texas Bandera 100K, the Umstead 100-mile in North Carolina, the American River 50-mile in California, the Leadville Trail 100 in Colorado, and the Badwater 135-mile in California.

A former WPIAL champion who ran track and cross country for both Freeport and Penn State, Donaldson teaches math at a Denver-area middle school, where she is also a cross country coach.

KAPALUA, Maui. — Tiger Woods has decided to skip the season-opening Mercedes-Benz Championship.Woods, who was skiing with his family last week in Colorado, said Friday he did not have time to get his game ready and he wanted to spend more time with his family.He has won six consecutive PGA Tour events, a streak that will remain on hold until Jan. 25 at the Buick Invitational in San Diego, where Woods is the two-time defending champion.

MILWAUKEE — NL championship series MVP Jeff Suppan signed his $42 million, four-year contract with the Milwaukee Brewers Friday after he passed a physical.The 31-year-old right-hander went 12-7 with a 4.12 ERA for St. Louis last season this year — including a 6-2 mark with a 2.39 ERA in 15 starts after the All-Star break. He was 1-1 in four postseason starts, including a win in Game 3 and seven solid innings in Game 7 of the NLCS against the New York Mets.He is 44-26 with a 3.95 ERA over the last three regular seasons, tied for ninth in the major leagues in wins.

CHICAGO — Former NBA star Michael Jordan and his wife, Juanita, have divorced after 17 years of marriage.In court documents filed with the Lake County Circuit Court Friday, the couple said "irreconcilable differences have caused an irretrievable breakdown of the marriage." The couple said attempts to reconcile their marriage had failed and future ones "would be impractical and not in the best interests of the family."