AP - East Carolina is being fined $10,000 by Conference USA after football fans charged the field to celebrate the Pirates' upset of West Virginia last weekend. -- read full article
AFP - Sir Alex Ferguson has dismissed the threat posed to Manchester United by newly-wealthy Manchester City and ridiculed their ambitions to sign Cristiano Ronaldo as "absurd."
AP - Rich Harden worked six solid innings and Kerry Wood got Albert Pujols to pop up with two men on for the final out in a 3-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday night.
AP - A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to charges that he sold about 300 Oxycontin pills to New England Patriots lineman Nick Kaczur. -- read full article
AP - Natalie Du Toit of South Africa won her fourth gold medal in swimming at the Beijing Paralympics, taking the 400-meter freestyle on Friday in a world-record time for her disability group.
AP - Florida State officials say the NCAA has found no new allegations of academic cheating by school athletes. The university in February reported the results of its own investigation into the scandal involving 61 athletes, including about 30 football players. -- read full article
AP - Russian tennis star Nikolay Davydenko was cleared by the ATP on Friday after a yearlong investigation into suspicious betting patterns on a match he lost to a low-ranked opponent.
AP - The New York Giants and New York Jets ended naming-rights talks with a German insurance company that once had ties to the Nazis. -- read full article
AP - The first two games of this weekend's series between the Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros have been postponed because of the potential impact of Hurricane Ike.
AP - Joan Higgins went out Thursday morning looking for pars. She found enough to become the oldest winner in U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur history. -- read full article
AP - Thousands of people filled the Don Haskins Center on Thursday night to remember the basketball coach in a memorial service that took on the atmosphere of a college game.
AP - The Carolina Hurricanes signed Eric Staal to a seven-year contract extension Thursday. The deal worth $57.75 million will pay the center an average of $8.25 million starting in 2009-10 and will last through the 2015-16 season.
AFP - Struggling Everton will not rush influential Australian midfielder Tim Cahill back into action, the English Premier League club's manager David Moyes said.
AP - If the Philadelphia Phillies are going to make another remarkable run to swipe the NL East crown from the New York Mets, they're going to need 45-year-old Jamie Moyer to pitch like an ace.
