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Football

Giants DE Strahan retires

Seven-time Pro Bowl defensive end Michael Strahan retired Monday after a 15-year NFL career with the New York Giants that was capped by a Super Bowl title four months ago.

The 36-year-old Strahan, the NFL’s active leader in sacks, informed the front office in the morning without telling his coaches and teammates.

“I’m just finding out about it – let me get organized,” coach Tom Coughlin said after a team workout.

Strahan is walking away from a $4 million salary for the final year of his contract. He has long said he wants a job in television.

NBA

Pistons select Curry as coach

Michael Curry will be the next coach of the Detroit Pistons after having played for the team and worked as an assistant.

Detroit Pistons president of basketball operations Joe Dumars said that Curry will be introduced at a news conference today.

Curry agreed to a three-year deal worth $2.5 million a year, with the team holding the option for a fourth season. He replaces Flip Saunders, who was fired last week. Curry served as an assistant on Saunders’ staff.

Miscellany

Enquist, Miller among inductees

Former UCLA softball coach Sue Enquist and Olympic gymnast Shannon Miller are the newest members of the International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame.

They were inducted along with former Japanese golfer Hisako Higuchi and Algerian track star Hassiba Boulmerka on Monday night at the grand opening of the Billie Jean King Women’s Sports Center in the new Sports Museum of America.

King and Sheila C. Johnson co-hosted the ceremony.

Johnson recently donated $3 million to the Women’s Sports Foundation, and part of her gift went toward the Hall of Fame wing.

Wrestling

Oregon wrestlers sue to keep sport

University of Oregon wrestlers have gone to court to prevent the school from dropping the sport to make room for a baseball team.

The suit filed last Friday in Marion County Circuit Court in Salem claims the plan to eliminate wrestling would violate state law and the Oregon Constitution.

The complaint says the university was mistaken when it decided that federal requirements for gender equality in sports meant that it would have to drop wrestling if it wanted to add baseball, which is returning to the school after a 28-year absence.

The wrestlers are seeking a preliminary injunction to keep the team in place until hearings can be held.