IN BRIEF
Grove City College basketball seniors Abby Moose and Ryan Eller were named President's Athletic Conference women's and men's players of the week, respectively.
Moose, a guard and former Portersville Christian School standout, averaged 24 points, 8.5 rebounds and 4.5 steals in wins over Geneva and Westminster.
Eller scored a career-high 41 points in a 110-102 overtime loss to Westminster and became the 21st 1,000-point scorer in school history.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A high school football coach who accepted $150,000 from an Alabama booster to steer his standout football player to the Crimson Tide was sentenced Tuesday to two years' supervised probation and 500 hours of community service.Lynn Lang was also fined $2,500 after pleading guilty to conspiring to get defensive lineman Albert Means to sign with the Crimson Tide in 2000.Lang, former head coach at Trezevant High in Memphis, said he took the money from wealthy businessman Logan Young to make sure Means went to Alabama.
NEW YORK - Dwyane Wade, Manu Ginobili, Gilbert Arenas and Rashard Lewis are NBA All-Stars. Jason Kidd and Steve Francis are not - nor are any members of the Sacramento Kings.The league's 30 coaches chose the reserves for the Feb. 20 game in Denver, rewarding several young players whose teams have exceeded expectations. The Phoenix Suns will be sending Steve Nash, Amare Stoudemire and Shawn Marion, while Cleveland, Washington and Seattle are sending two players apiece.Ray Allen of Seattle and forward Dirk Nowitzki of Dallas rounded out the Western Conference selections. The East's other reserves are centers Zydrunas Ilgauskas of Cleveland and Ben Wallace of Detroit, forward Jermaine O'Neal of Indiana, and guard Paul Pierce of Boston.The Kings had all their players left off the All-Star team for the first time since 1989.
CHICAGO- The WNBA awarded an expansion team to Chicago, returning women's professional basketball to the home of the Chicago Hustle.The Chicago team - its nickname will be announced later - is owned by Michael Alter, and will begin play in 2006. It will be the league's 14th team and first new franchise since 2002.
