Football
POLICY SETTLES: Carmen Policy, former president and chief executive officer of the San Francisco 49ers, agreed to a settlement for alleged salary cap violations after refusing to assert his innocence under oath, according to a statement by New York Giants owner Wellington Mara.
Mara's statement, released before the Giants-Redskins game, gives some inside details on how the league handled the matter which led to last week's agreement. In it, Policy paid $400,000 and another former 49ers executive, Dwight Clark, paid $200,000.
OSU EXTENDS ERICKSON'S CONTRACT: Dennis Erickson, who coached Oregon State to its best record ever, signed a new seven-year contract Saturday that could earn him nearly $7 million.
Erickson's new deal supersedes the five-year contract he signed in January.
Erickson guided the No. 5 Beavers to a 10-1 record this season and a share of the Pac-10 Conference championship.
Tennis
MASTERS CUP: Gustavo Kuerten swept Andre Agassi in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4, to win the season-ending Masters Cup and finish the year as the world's No. 1 player.
This was the first time Kuerten won the Masters Cup, a tournament featuring the sport's top eight players.
Olympics
BALDWIN ELECTED USOC PRESIDENT: Sandra Baldwin became the first female president of the U.S. Olympic Committee when she was narrowly elected.
Baldwin, 61, a real estate executive from Phoenix, was chosen over Massachusetts attorney Paul George in balloting by the USOC's board of directors.
Golf
NEDBANK GOLF CHALLENGE: Ernie Els beat Lee Westwood on the second hole of a playoff to win the Nedbank Golf Challenge and the richest top prize in golf — $2 million.
Both players finished the four rounds at 20-under-par 268.
SENIOR SLAM: Hale Irwin shot his second straight bogey-free round to win the Senior Slam by two strokes over Tom Kite.
Irwin, who shot a 4-under-par 68 on Saturday, followed with a 5-under 67 on the Our Lucaya Reef Course to win the 36-hole event and the first prize check of $300,000.
First-round leader Kite finished at 7-under-par 137 and earned $150,000. Doug Tewell, the PGA Seniors' Championship winner, finished in third place and won $100,000, while Ray Floyd, the Ford Senior Players winner, was fourth and claimed $50,000.
AUSTRALIAN PGA: Australia's Robert Allenby shot a 2-under-par 70 for a one-stroke victory over countryman Steven Conran in the Australian PGA.
Allenby, a two-time winner this year on the PGA Tour, had a 13-under 275 total on the Royal Queensland course. He earned $94,535 for his sixth career victory on the Australasian tour.
Soccer
UNC WINS NCAA CROWN: UCLA defender Krista Boling scored an own goal in the 83rd minute as North Carolina stormed from behind with two late goals to beat UCLA 2-1 and claim its 16th national championship in 19 years.
Auto racing
LABONTE NAMED DRIVER OF THE YEAR: Bobby Labonte, who parlayed consistency and four wins into his first Winston Cup championship, has been named Driver of the Year by a 16-member panel of motorsports writers and broadcasters from all over the United States.
Skiing
WORLD CUP: Fredrik Nyberg of Sweden pulled off an early season upset, topping Hermann Maier for his first career World Cup super-G victory.
Maier, who had won seven of nine races at Beaver Creek, finished in sixth place, and missed a super-G podium for the first time since last Feb. 12.
Colleges
USU BASKETBALL: Utah State University will begin its weekly Big Blue basketball luncheons at the Juniper Inn in North Logan on Tuesday at 11:45 a.m. Single tickets can be purchased for $11 per meal, and season-tickets can be purchased for $130. Coach Stew Morrill will address the audience at each luncheon, along with an assistant coach.
BYU SWIMMING & DIVING: The 17th-ranked BYU men's swimming team finished in second place while the women finished seventh after the three day Speedo Cup competition in Long Beach, Calif.
The men were led by senior All-American Arunas Savickas, who dominated the pool all three days. Savickas won the 100, 200 and 500 free events, while also leading the 200 medley and the 400 free relay teams to first-place finishes.