Newsmakers

Selected Sprinter Carmelita Jeter and high jumper Jesse Williams captured the Jesse Owens Award on Tuesday as the outstanding U.S. track and field athletes of the year. Jeter won the 100 meters at the world championships in Daegu, South Korea, last summer. Williams took the world title in the high jump, becoming the first American to do so since Charles Austin in 1991.

• Sporting Kansas City forward C.J. Sapong was voted Major League Soccer’s Rookie of the Year. The 22-year-old, selected 10th in January’s draft, received 42 percent of media votes, 30 percent of player votes and 34 percent of club votes. D.C. United defender Perry Kitchen was second with a total of 34.6, followed by Philadelphia midfielder Michael Farfan (33.5), Portland midfielder Darlington Nagbe (29) and Houston forward Will Bruin (28).

Revoked Former NBA player Jose Ortiz is being held in federal prison in Puerto Rico after a judge revoked his bail, saying he had tested positive for cocaine. Ortiz pleaded guilty last week to drug charges after federal agents raided his home in June and seized 218 marijuana plants at his house along with 40 rounds of ammunition. Ortiz had been freed on bail while awaiting sentencing.

Returned St. John’s men’s basketball coach Steve Lavin attended the team’s practice, his first since undergoing prostate cancer surgery on Oct. 6. Lavin led the Red Storm to a 21-12 record last season and their first NCAA tournament bid since 2002.

Sentenced Former Juventus executive Luciano Moggi was sentenced to five years, four months in prison by a Naples court for his role in the 2006 Italian match-fixing scandal. Prosecutors were seeking a sentence of five years, eight months for Moggi on charges of criminal association aimed at committing sports fraud. The biggest corruption case in Italian soccer caused Juventus to be stripped of the 2005 and 2006 Serie A titles and relegated to Serie B by a sports court.

Announced Arizona Diamondbacks President and CEO Derrick Hall underwent successful surgery to remove his prostate and doctors found that his cancer had not spread to other areas. The team said that Hall is expected to recover fully and hopes to be back at work at Chase Field in the near future.