Miscellany

When Fast Time Gal won the ninth race at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, N.J., meet-high payoffs were posted for win and the trifecta.

The 3-year-old filly returned $143.20 to win and keyed a 10-9-6 trifecta that paid $5,067.

A doctor has recommended that former New Mexico State basketball coach Neil McCarthy remain on sick leave indefinitely because of stress-related illness.

Two decades after Los Angeles launched a successful bid for the 1984 Summer Olympics, officials began a campaign to host the 2012 Games - as long as the effort doesn’t cost the city any money.

The Indy Racing League will offer provisional starting spots at each of its events except the Indianapolis 500 beginning in 1998.

Mo McHone and Rene Portland won USA Basketball’s coaching awards for 1997. McHone is the National Coach of the Year, after helping the U.S. qualify for next year’s men’s world championships, while Portland is Developmental Coach of the Year for leading the American women to their first gold medal at the Junior World Championships.

Alabama athletic director Bob Bockrath says he hasn’t been charged with any rules violation by the NCAA in its case against Texas Tech, where he was A.D. until June 1996, and he wants to make sure Alabama is not affected by his name being mentioned in the NCAA report.