NEW YORK - Roger Clemens picked up his latest Cy Young Award at the annual New York baseball dinner Sunday night.

Earlier this month, the 42-year-old pitcher agreed to an $18 million contract with his hometown Houston Astros, choosing to return for at least one more season. He said one factor was a long chat he had with friend and teammate Andy Pettitte, who told Clemens that his rehabilitation from elbow surgery was progressing nicely.

The Rocket ended a brief retirement last offseason to join Pettitte in Houston and went 18-4 with a 2.98 ERA and 218 strikeouts, earning his record seventh Cy Young Award - first in the National League.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Ashley McElhiney, the first female coach of a men's pro basketball team, was fired Saturday night after an on-court dispute with the co-owner of the Nashville Rhythm of the ABA.Co-owner and CEO Sally Anthony was unhappy that McElhiney was playing Matt Freije after Anthony instructed that he be benched.The argument over the former Vanderbilt star's playing time began during the third quarter and apparently escalated when Anthony attempted to remove McElhiney as coach during the team's 110-109 win over the Kansas City Knights. Anthony was eventually restrained by security guards and taken off the floor.

LA QUINTA, Calif. - Justin Leonard shot a 5-under 67 Sunday to overtake the faltering Joe Ogilvie and win the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.Leonard finished the 90-hole tournament at 28-under 332, three shots in front of Ogilvie and South Africa's Tim Clark. Ogilvie, winless in six years on the tour, closed with a 73. Clark shot a 69.Coming off his worst year since joining the tour full-time in 1995, Leonard rolled in six birdie putts and had just one bogey in the final round at PGA West's Palmer Course.The 1997 British Open champion began the day three shots behind the front-running Ogilvie, who had been tied for the lead or alone at the top since the opening round of the five-day event. Leonard earned $846,000 for his ninth PGA Tour title.

KAHUKU, Hawaii - Hale Irwin became the first player to win a men's professional tour event five straight times, easily holding off Dana Quigley by five strokes in the Champions Tour's Turtle Bay Championship.The 59-year-old Irwin closed with a 5-under 67 for a record 16-under 200 total.With his fourth straight win at Turtle Bay and sixth overall title in the event, Irwin pushed his tour-record victory total to 41.He had shared the mark of four straight victories in an event with Tiger Woods (Bay Hill Invitational, 2000-03), Gene Sarazen (Miami Open, 1926, 1928-30), Walter Hagen (PGA Championship, 1924-27) and Tom Morris Jr. (British Open, 1868-70, 1872).Irwin earned $225,000.

BERLIN - The first soccer player was implicated in Germany's widening game-fixing scandal Sunday, and prosecutors charged three men arrested in the case with fraud.A referee also was replaced for a first-division game Sunday after his name surfaced during the investigation. The German Soccer Federation called the move "purely precautionary" and said it did not suspect Juergen Jansen of fixing games.Michael Born, the business manager of third-division SC Paderborn, confirmed to The Associated Press his team had informed the federation that one of its players was involved with the Croatian betting group allegedly behind the fixing.