Free-agent NHL forward Paul Kariya will not play next season after being diagnosed with postconcussion syndrome, it was announced Friday.
The 35-year-old spent the last three seasons with the St. Louis Blues. He had 18 goals and 25 assists last season. The two-time Lady Byng Trophy winner has 402 goals and 587 assists in a 15-year career with Anaheim, Colorado, Nashville and St. Louis.
• NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said the New Jersey Devils have submitted a new contract to the league for Ilya Kovalchuk.
The league has five days to approve or reject the deal, which media reports say amounts to $100 million over 15 years. A month ago, the NHL rejected a 17-year, $102 million contract for Kovalchuk, saying it violated the league salary cap.
• Edmonton Oilers goalie Nikolai Khabibulin has been found guilty on charges stemming from a DUI arrest in February. The four-time all-star could face up to six months in jail when he is sentenced Tuesday in Scottsdale, Ariz.
26-0 run propels Dream to victory
ATLANTA — Atlanta broke open a close game by scoring 26 consecutive points, and the Dream beat the Washington Mystics 101-77 to advance to the WNBA Eastern Conference finals.
NBA suspends three players
NEW YORK — Brandon Rush of the Indiana Pacers was suspended for five games by the NBA for violating the league’s drug agreement, while Tyreke Evans of the Sacramento Kings and Kenny Hasbrouck of the Miami Heat drew one- and two-game suspensions, respectively, for driving offenses.
• The New York Knicks signed forward Patrick Ewing Jr. to an undisclosed contract. Ewing, whose father played 15 seasons for the Knicks, was the 43rd pick of the 2008 draft by the Sacramento Kings, but wound up with New York through a series of moves.
Gay wins Diamond League trophy
BRUSSELS — American Tyson Gay earned the Diamond League trophy as the season’s top performer in the 100 meters, finishing in 9.79 seconds to beat Jamaican Nesta Carter.
Gay was slow out of the blocks and had to work to catch Carter, whose 9.85 was a personal best. Another Jamaican, Yohan Blake, was third.
Kenya’s Janeth Jepkosgei won the 800 Diamond League trophy, leaving South Africa’s Caster Semenya third in the race. Jepkosgei, the 2007 world champion, took the lead in the final straightaway and finished in 1:58.82.
Semenya ran in her first Diamond League race after she won in Berlin on Sunday, her first major 800 victory since gender tests kept the world champion off the track for 11 months.
Footnotes.
Kyle Busch withstood two late challenges for the lead from Todd Bodine and hung on to win the NASCAR Camping World truck series race at Chicagoland Speedway.
• The owner of Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore said it will offer $5.5 million in shared bonuses to the winning owner and trainer at the 2011 Preakness Stakes.
