Miscellany

At Seeley Lake, Mont., Wyomingmusher Maria Hayashida won the 500-mile Race to the Sky sled-dog race, edging hometown favorite Cindy Gallea by a scant 4 minutes.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers won a coin flip with the Seattle Seahawks to determine which team gets the seventh and eighth picks in the first round of the NFL’s April draft.

The city council approved an agreement to bring the CFL’s Sacramento Gold Miners - soon to be named the San Antonio Gold Miners - to San Antonio to play in the Alamodome starting next June.

FIFA president Joao Havelange angrily brushed aside criticism that soccer’s governing body is doing too little to combat the violence and scandal.

Havelange blamed Wednesday night’s rampage at the Ireland-England game in Dublin on local security and said the hooliganism should not stop England from being host to the 1996 European Championship.

National Football League owners and Commissioner Paul Tagliabue did a lot of talking about the Rams’ proposed move to St. Louis, but didn’t take any significant actions.

The owners put off voting on the matter until the league’s annual meetings, scheduled to begin March 12 in Phoenix.