NASCAR’s Waltrip cited for reckless driving

NASCAR driver Michael Waltrip has been charged with reckless driving and hit-and-run in Sherrill’s Ford, N.C., after hitting a telephone pole and rolling his car about a mile away from his home over the weekend.

Waltrip, who suffered scratches to his face and cuts on his finger, said he fell asleep at the wheel.

The vehicle, which was on its side, was abandoned and there was blood in it when police arrived. Witnesses reported seeing the driver crawl from the car and leave.

•Kurt Busch’s crew chief Roy McCauley has taken a leave of absence to be with his wife Amy as she battles cancer. Troy Raker was named interim crew chief.

Basketball

Beavers lose 5 players

Five Oregon State players will not return to the program next year, men’s coach Jay John announced.

Juniors Angelo Tsagarakis and Liam Hughes will graduate this spring and expect to transfer for their final year of eligibility. Sasa Cuic planned to declare himself eligible for the draft, while freshman Vojin Svilar was expected to return to his native Serbia. Junior Wesley Washington did not meet eligibility standards.

•Former UCLA coach John Wooden, 96, could be released by Thursday from a Los Angeles-area hospital where he has been treated for a reaction to medications.

•Mark Turgeon was introduced as Texas A&M’s men’s coach. Turgeon comes to Texas A&M from Wichita State.

•Kevin Willard was hired as the men’s coach at Iona, which hopes the former Louisville assistant can revive a team that began the season 0-22 and finished with the worst record in the program’s 62-year history.

•Mark Schmidt was introduced as the new men’s coach at St. Bonaventure. Schmidt spent the past six seasons as coach at Robert Morris.

•Michigan hired Kevin Borseth to turn around the women’s program that won only 10 Big Ten games over the past four seasons. Borseth coached at Wisconsin-Green Bay.

•Kevin Love was named the Gatorade National Boys Basketball Player of the Year. Love, who played at Lake Oswego (Ore.) High School, will attend UCLA next season.

Miscellany

Plushenko will return

Russian Evgeni Plushenko, the 2006 Olympic gold medalist in men’s figure skating, said he will skate next season after sitting out since the Turin games. He was disappointed by the Russian men’s showing in international events.

•New Englander Kristine Lilly and scoring leader Abby Wambach were among 18 players chosen for the U.S. women’s soccer roster that will face Mexico on Saturday at Gillette Stadium.

•Canada reclaimed the women’s world hockey championship with a 5-1 victory over the United States in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

•Former U.S. Davis Cup player Taylor Dent had back surgery for the second time in a year and hopes to return to the tennis tour by the end of the summer hard-court circuit.

•A total of 132 Hong Kong race horses were infected with equine herpes in the territory’s worst outbreak of the disease, a year before the city will host the equestrian event of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.