IN BRIEF
LOS ANGELES— Veteran outfielder Brian Giles has signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Dodgers said Sunday that Giles has been invited to big league camp.
A career .291 hitter, Giles batted just .191 in 61 games last season with the San Diego Padres. The 39-year-old Giles did not play after going on the disabled list June 19 with a bruised right knee.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State announced Sunday it will vacate 12 football victories and a 2007 men's track national championship in an academic cheating scandal, along with dozens more victories and placings across 10 men's and women's sports.The NCAA stripped the school of wins in which 61 athletes implicated in the scandal contributed. The college sports governing body upheld the decision last month after Florida State appealed the sanctions as "excessive."The men's basketball team lost all 22 wins from 2006-07, and women's basketball lost 16 victories that year, including two in the NCAA tournament.
LOS ANGELES — Ross McGowan of England might get the final spot in the 64-man Match Play Championship, but only if Tiger Woods doesn't return from his indefinite break.Sunday was the cutoff for players to qualify based on the world ranking.Kevin Na closed with a 5-under 66 at Riviera to secure his spot in the $8.5 million World Golf Championship, which starts Feb. 17 at Dove Mountain in Marana, Ariz. Scott Verplank and Chad Campbell also had good weekends to make sure they got in.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Convicted ex-Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee was reinstated Sunday as a full member of the International Olympic Committee, a boost for South Korea's bid to host the 2018 Winter Games.
