STATE COLLEGE — Penn State women's basketball coach Rene Portland resigned Thursday, ending a 27-year tenure in which she won 605 games but battled allegations that she discriminated against lesbian players.

Portland resigned Wednesday night, the university said in a statement Thursday morning.

"This was obviously a difficult decision," Portland said in the statement.

"I am very appreciative of the opportunity to coach at Penn State, which has become a special place for me and my family," she said.

JUPITER, Fla. — St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa was arrested on a drunken driving charge after police said they found him asleep inside his running sport utility vehicle at a stop light.La Russa gave two breath samples and had a blood-alcohol content of 0.093 percent, Jupiter police said in a statement. Florida's legal driving limit is 0.08 percent.

Butler Cubs boxer Joel Rehm won a unanimous decision over John Withium of South Park in the semifinals of the Golden Gloves tournament in McKeesport last Friday.Rehm will fight in the finals at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh in April.

MINNEAPOLIS — Kentucky's Tubby Smith will be the University of Minnesota's new men's basketball coach, a Minnesota school official said Thursday.The official spoke on condition of anonymity because Minnesota had not yet announced the hire. The Gophers fired coach Dan Monson in November.The Wildcats went 22-12 this season and made it to the NCAA tournament but lost to top-seeded Kansas in the second round, turning up the heat on the coach of college basketball's winningest program.

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Authorities said Thursday that Pakistan's cricket coach was strangled in his hotel room the day after his team suffered a humiliating World Cup loss — a murder that has shocked the proper world of cricket.Bob Woolmer, 58, was found unconscious in his blood- and vomit-splattered hotel room in Jamaica on Sunday after his team's defeat to Ireland on St. Patrick's Day sealed Pakistan's ouster from the tournament. He was later declared dead at a hospital.