The Nuggets were fined $200,000 by the NBA, which said the violation occurred from May 16-18 when Karl attended workouts at Marquette University involving a player not eligible for the draft.

Minnesota Timberwolves forward didn't have structural damage to his sprained left ankle, X-rays showed. Garnett sprained his ankle in practice Monday when he landed on 's foot.

will leave his job as NBA deputy commissioner after this year to become a senior adviser to . Granik will remain the league's main representative to USA Basketball and board chairman of the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Homestead-Miami Speedway in Florida, had some damage from the strong winds of Hurricane Wilma, but the season-ending NASCAR Ford 400 Nov. 20, will go on as scheduled, the track president said.

has withdrawn from the Cup of China, her last chance to skate in the Grand Prix series before the 2006 Olympics. She has been out for two weeks with a strained ligament in her right hip.

Defense lawyers for two former La Salle University basketball players charged with simultaneously raping a woman said she may have regretted the sex act, but they insisted she was not raped. , of Baltimore, and , of Paterson, N.J., went on trial on charges of raping a visiting University of New Haven player as she vomited in a sink after drinking eight shots of high-proof alcohol.

St. Bonaventure starting point guard is out indefinitely after having surgery to remove bone spurs in his left ankle. Tests also revealed that Relph has a stress fracture in his left foot.

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