Miscellany

The St. Louis Cardinals placed Ozzie Smith on the 15-day disabled list, three days after the 41-year-old shortstop aggravated a hamstring injury.

Former baseball star George Foster has been charged with failing to file a state income tax return in 1994, when he earned more than $500,000, Connecticut state tax officials said.

Utah basketball star Keith Van Horn ruled out forgoing his senior year to enter the NBA draft.

Reversing their stated position of last week, U.S. Olympic Committee officials said in San Diego, Calif., that no-notice testing provisions of a stiff new anti-doping program, expected to be adopted this week, will go into effect immediately.

The USOC had said the no-notice testing was all but certain to be postponed until after the Atlanta Games.