Barnes rewarded for Longhorns’ success
University of Texas regents approved a $200,000 raise for Rick Barnes on Monday, boosting his salary to $2 million per year.
Barnes has led the Longhorns to the NCAA tournament in each of his nine seasons, including a trip to the Final Four in 2003.
•George Washington junior Maureece Rice made himself available for the NBA draft, but he plans to retain his NCAA eligibility and could return to school.
Rice averaged 15.8 points per game.
Football
NFL Europa starts hot
NFL Europa set an attendance record on opening weekend with 89,367 fans attending the three games, up 54 percent from last season.
All three games this weekend were in Germany.
The largest crowd was in Frankfurt, where the Galaxy drew 38,125 fans at Commerzbank Arena and beat Amsterdam 30-14 in a rematch of last season’s World Bowl.
•In Denver, Colorado’s Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from former Denver Broncos linebacker John Mobley, who was sentenced to seven days in jail for a drunken driving conviction.
Mobley, who was released by the Broncos in late July 2004 because of a lingering neck injury, was arrested Dec. 28, 2002, in Parker, just south of Denver, after failing a roadside sobriety test. Police said he had been driving 69 mph in a 40 mph zone.
Mobley also was sentenced to two years of probation and 100 hours of public service and ordered to pay a $600 fine.
•Wide receiver Cortez Hankton signed with the Minnesota Vikings, leaving Jacksonville after four seasons.
Soccer
Maradona progressing
Diego Maradona showed signs of improvement, four days after being hospitalized in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for abdominal pains, though doctors said some lab tests came back with abnormal results.
•The U.S. women’s soccer team will play Norway on July 14 in East Hartford, Conn., as part of a six-game exhibition series before the Women’s World Cup.
Miscellany
Landis’ tests underway
France’s anti-doping laboratory began analyzing Tour de France champion Floyd Landis’ “B” urine sample in Paris.
If doping allegations against the 31-year-old American are upheld, he faces a two-year ban from competition. He also would be the first rider in the 104-year history of the Tour to be stripped of the title.
•The Tennis Channel will nearly double its reach under a multiyear distribution agreement announced with satellite provider DirecTV.
•IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko will defend his title against Lamon Brewster in a July 7 rematch in Germany.
•Officer Rocket’s Kentucky Derby hopes apparently ended with a disappointing seventh-place finish in the Arkansas Derby.
•Jairo Miguel, a 14-year-old matador who left Spain to escape his home country’s ban on young bullfighters, was nearly gored to death in a Mexican ring in Mexico City, his lung punctured by a 900-pound bull.
•Gaetan Duchesne, who played in the NHL for 14 seasons and helped the Minnesota North Stars reach the 1991 Stanley Cup final, died while training at a gym in Quebec. He was 44.
The cause of death was not immediately known.
•Maria Emma Hulda Lenk, the first South American woman to swim in the Olympics and a pioneer in the development of the butterfly stroke, died in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. She was 92.