In brief: Busch forced to sit out Texas races

Auto racing: Kyle Busch finally went too far for NASCAR, even in the era of “Boys, have at it.”

The often volatile Busch was barred from driving in the Sprint Cup and Nationwide races in Fort Worth, Texas, this weekend, a rare step taken by NASCAR after he deliberately wrecked championship contender Ron Hornaday Jr. during a caution in the Truck Series race there.

NASCAR President Mike Helton announced the decision Saturday after a meeting with Busch and Joe Gibbs, his Sprint Cup and Nationwide car owner.

Busch is the first driver since Robby Gordon in August 2007 to be taken out of a Cup race for actions in another NASCAR race the same weekend.

Michael McDowell will take over in today’s race for Busch, who was seventh in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship standings.

Helton didn’t rule out more penalties for Busch after the weekend, but said not letting him race shows how serious NASCAR felt about what happened Friday night.

• Bayne gets first Nationwide win: Trevor Bayne earned his first career NASCAR Nationwide victory after he passed dominating teammate Carl Edwards following a tremendous restart with seven laps remaining in Fort Worth, Texas.

Edwards, the Cup points leader, led 157 of 200 laps. He was still in front on the final restart, when Bayne was fourth.

Scandal rocks Penn State program

College football: A former defensive coach who was integral for decades to Penn State’s football success was accused of molesting eight boys, and two school administrators were charged with failing to tell police when a witness told them he saw a boy being sexually assaulted in the shower.

Former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, 67, was arrested and released on $100,000 bail after being arraigned on 40 criminal counts, according to the office of the state attorney general, Linda Kelly. She called Sandusky “a sexual predator who used his position within the university and community to repeatedly prey on young boys.”

Though reports surfaced months ago that Sandusky was being investigated, the case took on an added dimension Saturday when Penn State’s athletic director, Tim Curley, 57, and vice president for finance and business Gary Schultz, 62, were charged with perjury. Both were expected to turn themselves in on Monday in Harrisburg.

Longtime head coach Joe Paterno was not charged, authorities said, and the grand jury report did not appear to implicate him in wrongdoing.

Sandusky retired in 1999 but continued to work with at-risk children through the nonprofit Second Mile organization he founded in 1977, where authorities say all of the accusers first encountered him.

Jacobson takes lead in Shanghai

Golf: Starting the third round with the lead, Fredrik Jacobson kept his mistakes to a minimum, knocked in long birdie putts on consecutive holes and wound up with a 5-under 67 and a two-shot lead. It still wasn’t enough to shake a world-class leaderboard at the HSBC Champions in Shanghai.

Jacobson broke the 54-hole tournament record by two shots and was at 16-under 200.

Two shots behind was Louis Oosthuizen, who birdied his last hole for a 68.

• Blake on top by two strokes: Jay Don Blake shot a 5-under 66 to take a two-stroke lead at 8-under after the third round of the Champions Tour’s season-ending Charles Schwab Championship in San Francisco.

Jay Haas, Michael Allen and David Frost are at 6-under.

• Ueda surges to front: Japan’s Momoko Ueda had six birdies on the back nine in an 8-under 64 to take a three-stroke lead after the second round of the Mizuno Classic in Shima, Japan.

Book claims steroid use common in NHL

Hockey: Retired NHL enforcer Georges Laraque says in a new book that steroid use was commonplace for years in hockey dressing rooms.

And it wasn’t limited to just the league’s bruisers, Laraque wrote in “The Story of the NHL’s Unlikeliest Tough Guy.”

The NHL and the NHL Players’ Association haven’t responded to Laraque’s claims.

Laraque played in 695 NHL games over 12 seasons with Edmonton, Phoenix, Pittsburgh and Montreal.

Nishikori upsets top-ranked Djokovic

Tennis: Top-ranked Novak Djokovic was stunned in the Swiss Indoors semifinals in Basel, Switzerland, losing 2-6, 7-6 (4), 6-0 to Japan’s Kei Nishikori.

Nishikori will play Roger Federer in today’s final after the defending champion beat Stanislas Wawrinka 7-6 (5), 6-2 in the other semifinal.

• Ivanovic will face Garrigues: Defending champion Ana Ivanovic will play Anabel Medina Garrigues in today’s final of the WTA Tournament of Champions in Bali, Indonesia.

Ivanovic defeated Nadia Petrova of Russia 6-1, 7-5, while Garrigues defeated Sabine Lisicki 6-3, 4-6, 4-0.

• Russia, Czech Republic split: Russia and the Czech Republic split the opening singles in the Fed Cup final in Moscow after Grand Slam winners Petra Kvitova and Svetlana Kuznetsova won their matches in straight sets.

Jones stops Marrone to retain title

Miscellany: In Hollywood, Fla., Panama’s Guillermo Jones successfully defended his WBA cruiserweight boinxg title, stopping Mike Marrone in the sixth round.

• Burns wins WBO belt: Ricky Burns earned his second world boxing title, easily outpointing Michael Katsidis for the interim WBO lightweight belt at Wembley Arena in London.

• MLB stars defeat Taiwan: Washington Nationals first baseman Michael Morse hit a two-run single in the sixth inning to lead the MLB All-Star team to a 3-2 win over the Taiwan national team in Taipei, Taiwan. The MLB squad is 4-0 so far in the five-game series.

• American Abbott wins gold: Figure skater Jeremy Abbott of the U.S. edged Nobunari Oda of Japan for the title at the Cup of China in Shanghai.

Carolina Kostner of Italy held on to beat Mirai Nagasu of the U.S. for the women’s gold.