Fast Break

College basketball

Whitworth draws No. 22 DePauw

Whitworth College, the 2007 Northwest Conference champion, will play 22nd- ranked DePauw in the first round of the NCAA Division III men’s tournament Friday at 4 p.m. PST at Washington University in St. Louis.

The 16th-ranked Pirates (23-3), led by NWC Player of the Year Bryan Williams (pictured above), are making their second trip to the NCAA Division III tournament.

DePauw, from Greencastle, Ind., comes into the tournament with a record of 22-5. Washington (Mo.) (ranked 12th) will play unranked Fontbonne (Mo.) in the other half of the bracket in a match-up of St. Louis neighbors.

Friday’s game will be carried on KSBN (1230 AM) radio beginning at 3:45.

Hockey

Unusual game(s) tonight in WHL

Let’s play two? Well, sort of, but not really.

The Prince George Cougars and Everett Silvertips will have four points on the line when they meet tonight in a Western Hockey League game at Prince George, British Columbia.

The teams will first resume a game from Oct. 28 that had to be postponed due to ice conditions after the second period. The Cougars were leading 2-1. The teams will then play a regularly scheduled game immediately following the completed game.

The night will result in at least one oddity: Everett’s Kyle Beach will get an assist on a night where he won’t even be with his team. He assisted on Everett’s lone goal but is participating in the Canada Winter Games this week and not with the Silvertips. The individual statistics from the first game won’t be added to players’ totals until the game is completed tonight.

Cycling

Ullrich retires amidst scandal

Jan Ullrich ended his cycling career Monday, but won’t escape the doping suspicions that surrounded the former Tour de France champion.

The 33-year-old German, who won the Tour in 1997 and was runner-up five times, announced his retirement eight months after being implicated in a Spanish doping scandal.

Ullrich criticized the way he had been treated by cycling officials in Germany and Switzerland and by the German media.

“I feel like a serious criminal although I have nothing to reproach myself,” he said. “People have made a name for themselves at my cost. Some were 100 percent lies.”

Ullrich has been under investigation for several months in Spain’s “Operation Puerto” scandal, but has not been charged.