Baseball
REDS' RUFFIN FINED: Cincinnati Reds reliever Johnny Ruffin was fined $1,000 and given a six-month suspended jail sentence after pleading no contest to driving without a license. Ruffin, 25, was placed on a year's probation and had his driver's license suspended for 90 days.
Football
SHEPHERD SENTENCED: Washington Redskins receiver Leslie Shepherd was sentenced to one year probation and fined $1,500 for breaking a woman's nose last summer.
He received a 90-day suspended sentence, but will pay $1,840 restitution and perform 100 hours of community service for a misdemeanor charge of battery, in an incident the night the Frostburg State football team ended its 1995 training camp.
Hockey
NEELY RETIRING: Cam Neely, the Boston Bruins' hard-hitting, high-scoring forward, announced his retirement because of a degenerative hip condition.
Doctors determined that his hip problem cannot be corrected through rehabilitation or surgery. Neely missed the last 25 games of the 1995-96 season with the injury.
A first-round draft pick by the Vancouver Canucks in 1983, Neely was traded to Boston in 1986. He finished with 395 goals and 299 assists in 13 NHL seasons.
WORLD CUP: Wayne Gretzky, Brendan Shanahan, Trevor Linden and Rod Brind'Amour scored as Canada beat Germany 4-1 to reach the semifinals of the World Cup of Hockey in Montreal. Canada, which outshot Germany 43-16, will face Sweden on Saturday night in Philadelphia.
Boxing
SCOTT PLEADS GUILTY: In Albany, N.Y., undefeated heavyweight boxer Jo-el Scott, whose career faltered after several arrests, pleaded guilty to charges of attempted rape and leaving the scene of an accident.
Scott, 25, faces three to six years in prison when sentenced Oct. 17. He could have faced a minimum of 32 years in prison if convicted of all charges.
The plea came as a surprise, since Scott had vehemently denied his involvement in four rapes of young girls and an accident that left 4-year-old Rashan Poole critically injured.
MONEY TROUBLES: Julio Cesar Chavez will put up most of his purse for his fight with Joey Gamache next month to settle Mexican tax-fraud charges against him.
Promoter Bob Arum signed a letter of credit that gives much of the $1.5 million Chavez, 33, will make for the Oct. 12 fight to the Mexican government.
A judge in Chavez's home city of Culiacan issued an order Monday for Chavez's arrest, which had been sought by the Treasury Department.
TILLMAN FACES MURDER CHARGE: Henry Tillman, who won the heavyweight boxing gold medal in the 1984 Olympic Games, faces a murder charge in connection with the death of a man last January.
Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Don Cox said Tillman would be charged with murder today.
Cox said Tillman, 36, was identified as a suspect in the shooting of Kevin Anderson outside a nightclub in suburban Westchester.
College football
CLEMSON RECEIVER ARRESTED: Clemson receiver Tony Horne, suspended indefinitely by coach Tommy West, was arrested for punching a student in the face.
Horne, the team's second-leading receiver last year, was charged with assault for hitting Broderick R. Wilks in the face at 1:30 a.m. Sunday. He was released on bond.
Basketball
FOSTER TO RETIRE: Virginia Tech basketball coach Bill Foster announed his decision to retire after the upcoming season and let assistant Bobby Hussey take over.
Virginia Tech finished 23-6 last season and earned the school's first NCAA bid since 1986. Tech finished the season ranked No. 15 in The AP poll, the program's highest final ranking.
Foster, 60, is 517-309 during 29 years as head coach at Shorter College, North Carolina-Charlotte, Clemson, Miami and Virginia Tech.
Hussey, 55, starting his 26th year as a basketball coach, won 287 games as coach at Belmont Abbey and Davidson.