Maryville, Tenn. – Tennessee’s Pat Summitt, the winningest basketball coach in NCAA history, filed for divorce after nearly 27 years of marriage.
Irreconcilable differences were cited in the petition filed Wednesday in the Knoxville suburb of Maryville. She and husband R.B. Summitt will have been married 27 years on Aug. 23. The couple has one child, Tyler, who will be 17 next month. The petition said there are no custody issues and the teenager is living with his mother.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Running back Moody leaving USC
Emmanuel Moody, the second-leading rusher for Southern California last season as a freshman who is caught in a glut of highly regarded tailbacks, has decided to transfer.
“We’ve talked about it for a couple days. It was not a snap decision,” Trojans coach Pete Carroll said. “He’s of the mind that he needs to move on.”
Moody gained 458 yards on 79 carries last season before missing the final four games because of a sprained ankle. He will have to sit out a season because of NCAA Division I-A transfer rules. Oklahoma State has already shown interest in Moody.
A cousin of late Minnesota Vikings tackle Korey Stringer was among two Connecticut players indefinitely suspended for an unspecified violation of team rules.
Freshman linebacker Corey Stringer and sophomore tailback Andre Dixon were suspended by coach Randy Edsall. The school called the matter strictly internal and said there was no police involvement.
Stringer also is the nephew of Rutgers women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer.
Duke reinstated linebacker Michael Tauiliili nearly two weeks after the Blue Devils’ top tackler was suspended for violating team rules and was arrested on gun and driving while impaired charges. Tauiliili will not play in the season opener against Connecticut on Sept. 1, and must adhere to several undisclosed team standards to remain with the program, the school said.
NBA
Pistons sign swingman Hayes
The Detroit Pistons signed free-agent guard/forward Jarvis Hayes, who appeared in 81 games last season for the Washington Wizards, averaging 7.2 points, 2.6 rebounds and 20.1 minutes.
The Wizards traded the rights to Spanish guard Juan Carlos Navarro to the Memphis Grizzlies for a future first-round draft pick. The Wizards drafted Navarro in the second round, 40th overall, in 2002. He never joined the team, though, instead playing for FC Barcelona in the Spanish league.
The Los Angeles Clippers signed guard Guillermo Diaz, the team’s second-round pick in 2006 who played in the Czech Republic and Greece last season.
The San Antonio Spurs signed free-agent swingman Ime Udoka, who averaged 8.4 points, 3.7 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 75 games with the Portland Trail Blazers last season.
FOOTNOTES
Devils re-sign defenseman Martin
The New Jersey Devils kept a major piece of their defense together, signing Paul Martin to a three-year, $11.5 million contract. Martin, 26, had three goals and 23 assists last season while playing in all 82 regular-season games.
Janel McCarville scored 18 points and Shameka Christon added 12, including the go-ahead free throws with 9.8 seconds remaining, to help visiting New York beat the Washington Mystics 73-72 and preserve the Liberty’s chance for the WNBA Eastern Conference’s final playoff berth.
Svetlana Abrosimova scored a season-high 25 points as the Minnesota Lynx beat the Detroit Shock 87-77 in Minneapolis. Abrosimova hit her fourth 3-pointer at the end of the first quarter to become the 51st player in WNBA history to score 2,000 points.
Stacey Dales scored 17 points to lead the Chicago Sky to an 81-70 win over the Comets in Houston.
City officials yanked hundreds of thousands of private cars off Beijing’s streets today to test whether a partial ban could clear health-threatening smog and ease gridlock during next year’s Olympic Games. An estimated 400,000 private cars were affected by the ban on the first day of the four-day trial, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Violators were to be fined $13 and ordered to return home, a Beijing police spokesman said.
