Basketball
WHO GETS COLLIER? Duke and North Carolina may soon be hearing from Jason Collier, a 7-footer who said this week he will transfer from Indiana.
Collier, a sophomore and former Mr. Basketball in Ohio, was averaging 10.7 points when he told coach Bobby Knight on Wednesday that he was leaving the team.
Collier's father, Jeff, told The Observer on Friday it was possible they would call Duke and North Carolina.
Luge
U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM: Cammy Myler, Wendel Suckow, Chris Thorpe and Gordy Sheer - with 13 Olympics among them - will lead the United States Olympic luge team at Nagano.
The 10-member team, announced Saturday, will attempt to achieve the first Olympic medal in U.S. history at the Feb. 7-22 games.
Myler, of Lake Placid, N.Y., will race in her fourth Olympics. The 1994 U.S. flagbearer posted a women's Olympic team best when she raced to fifth place at Albertville in 1992.
Baseball
MONTEFUSCO CHARGED: Former major league pitcher John Montefusco has been charged with sexually assaulting, kidnapping and terrorizing his ex-wife.
Montefusco, in custody since being arrested Oct. 25 in Pennsylvania, remains in Monmouth County Jail on $1 million bail.
TIGERS SIGN NO. 1 PICK: The Detroit Tigers agreed to contract terms with Rice University reliever Matt Anderson, the top pick in this year's Major League Baseball draft.
Anderson, a right-hander, was 10-1 with nine saves in 28 relief appearances as a junior at Rice University last season. He led the Western Athletic Conference with a 1.82 earned run average and struck out 97 in 741/3 innings.
CARDINAL MOVES: The St. Louis Cardinals made a few low-key transactions Saturday, signing two relief pitchers and two backup catchers to one-year contracts. Signed were left-hander Lance Painter, right-hander Mark Petkovsek and catchers Tom Lampkin and Danny Sheaffer.
Skating
CHAMPIONS SERIES: Tara Lipinski, figure skating's youngest world champion, has shed both the little girl image and a bad habit.
The result: A victory Saturday at the Champions Series Final at Munich, Germany, the kind of result the 15-year-old Lipinski would like to repeat in two months at the Winter Olympics.
Skating last, Lipinski followed flawless and elegant long programs by Russian Maria Butryskaya and Germany's Tanja Szewczenko. Butruskaya hit six clean triples. Szewczenko seven, a first for the German champion.
Like Szewczenko, Lipinski hit seven triples, but four were in difficult combinations, including her unique triple loop-triple loop.
In the men's competition, world champion Elvis Stojko of Canada fell on his quad, and was beaten by unflappable Ilia Kulik of Russia.
Russians Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze won the pairs title, beating world champions Mandy Woetzel and Ingo Steuer. Steuer's bruised right arm obviously gave him trouble throughout the program.
Football
PENN STATE PROBLEMS: Penn State said Saturday it will investigate a report that a sports agent improperly purchased a suit for All-American running back Curtis Enis.
If there was a violation, Enis could be ineligible for the Jan. 1 Citrus Bowl against Florida and the 1998 season. Enis, a junior, has 3,256 career rushing yards, the third-highest total in school history, including 1,363 this season.
The Nittany Lions, however, will be without their top receiver, Joe Jurevicius, for the Citrus Bowl.
Jurevicius did not accompany the 11th-ranked Nittany Lions on their trip to Florida because he did not perform well enough academically during the fall semester, coach Joe Paterno said.
Jurevicius, a second-team All-Big Ten receiver, was not declared academically ineligible, Paterno said.
VIKINGS EXTEND REED'S PACT: The Minnesota Vikings signed wide receiver Jake Reed to a four-year contract extension through 2001, the team said.
Wrestling
MICHIGAN BANS RUBBER SUITS: University of Michigan wrestlers will no longer be allowed to exercise in rubber suits or spend excessive amounts of time in the sauna,
Athletic director Tom Goss issued the directive in the aftermath of Michigan wrestler Jeff Reese's death Dec. 9.
Golf
LEXUS CHALLENGE: Actor William Devane and host Raymond Floyd shot a final round 12-under-par 60 to win the $1 Million Lexus Challenge at La Quinta, Calif., Saturday.
Devane sank a four-foot putt at the par-5, 17th hole for a net eagle and followed with a three-foot par at the final hole for a net birdie to give the duo a two-day total of 124, 20-under-par.
Jim Colbert and actor Kevin Costner finished in a tie with Gil Morgan and Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Roger Clemens for second place.
Hockey
WOMEN'S CUP: Gretchen Ulion scored twice and Sara DeCosta stopped 23 shots, lifting the United States to a 3-0 victory over Canada in the championship game of the Three Nations Cup Saturday at the Lake Placid Olympic Center.
Team USA had been second to Canada in seven previous international tournaments, including four times in the world championships.
Boxing
PATTERSON STOPS FOE: Former champion Tracy Harris Patterson stopped Manuel Chavez-Tellez in the eighth round of their scheduled 10-round super featherweight bout Saturday night at Reseda, Calif.
The 32-year-old Patterson, from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., is an adopted son of former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson. He improved his record to 60-5-1, with 42 knockouts.
MORRISON CONVICTED OF DUI: Former heavyweight boxer Tommy Morrison faces six months in jail after he was convicted Saturday of driving under the influence and two related charges.
The former heavyweight champion retired from the ring in February 1996 after learning he had tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS.