SLIPPERY ROCK— Slippery Rock University's women's soccer team is ranked No. 5 in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Division IInational poll this week.

SRU (6-1) took a 2-1, double-overtime win from Lock Haven Wednesday.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Patricia Dugas reached out, touched Kevin Everett's arm Wednesday and asked her son if he could feel her hand. Everett — lying in a hospital bed, barely awake and hooked to life support systems — nodded yes.Doctors aren't calling it a miracle yet, but they expressed "cautious optimism" now that the Buffalo Bills reserve tight end is showing significant signs of improvement.Everett can wiggle his toes, bend his hip, move his ankles, elevate and kick his leg, as well as extend his elbows and slightly flex his biceps, said Dr. Kevin Gibbons, the supervisor of neurosurgery at Buffalo's Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital.

MADRID, Spain — Boston Celtics great Bill Russell and former North Carolina coach Dean Smith were among 20 former players, coaches and technicians inducted into FIBA's Hall of Fame Wednesday.Russell, winner of 11 NBA championships and an Olympic gold medal, led a list of 12 players from 10 different countries, while Smith headlined the four coaches.Smith led North Carolina to two titles and guided the United States to gold at the 1976 Montreal Games.

ATLANTA — Tiger Woods is skipping the PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Bermuda, saying Wednesday he wanted the longest break of his career to spend time with his new daughter.