McLaren under fire after Monaco victory

Formula One team McLaren is being investigated for a possible rule breach at the Monaco Grand Prix after Fernando Alonso finished first ahead of teammate Lewis Hamilton.

World motorsport’s governing body, FIA, said in a statement Monday it was reviewing evidence from Sunday’s race. Alonso finished 4.095 seconds ahead of Hamilton, who was told by McLaren to slow down.

“He was obviously close to me, and I was told to take it easy,” Hamilton said Sunday. “At the end of the day, I am a rookie. I am in my first season in Formula One and I have finished second in only my first Monaco Grand Prix, so I really can’t complain.

“I’ve got No. 2 on my car. I am the No. 2 driver.”

The code states it will punish “any fraudulent conduct or any act prejudicial to the interests of any competition or to the interests of motor sport generally.”

McLaren team principal Ron Dennis said he asked Hamilton to slow down because of the tight street circuit of Monte Carlo.

“A lot of people in England will feel there is some favoritism or penalty that is given to Lewis, but we are scrupulously fair at all times in the grand prix team,” Dennis said in the Daily Telegraph’s Monday editions.

Hockey

Coyotes make move

The Phoenix Coyotes will hire former New York Rangers forward Don Maloney as their general manager, a person familiar with the decision said.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team had not made an announcement. The Coyotes have scheduled a news conference for today to announce the move.

•Veteran defenseman Andrei Markov is staying in Montreal after signing a $23 million, four-year deal with the Canadiens.

Markov was fourth in team scoring this season, second among the club’s defensemen with six goals and 43 assists in 77 games. The 29-year-old was due to become an unrestricted free agent July 1.

Miscellany

Doubles results in

Marco Born and Andreas Siljestrom earned Middle Tennessee its first NCAA men’s doubles tennis title on their coach’s final day before retiring.

North Carolina roommates Sara Anundsen and Jenna Long rallied to beat the top-seeded William & Mary duo to claim the women’s doubles title, the first in school history. Anundsen and Long, seeded second, beat Megan Moulton-Levy and Katarina Zoricic 1-6, 6-2, 6-2.

Born and Siljestrom defeated Illinois’ Kevin Anderson and Ryan Rowe 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4). Coach Dale Short is retiring after 20 years at Middle Tennessee.

•Spokane Bloomsday winner Edna Kiplagat turned the last half of the Bolder Boulder run into a victory lap.

The Kenyan won her third race this season, bolting out to a big lead halfway through the 10-kilometer race at Boulder, Colo., and finishing in 33 minutes, 42 seconds.

She beat Ethiopia’s Amane Gobena by 17 seconds.

In the men’s race, Ridouane Harroufi of Morocco beat Ethiopian Solomon Tsgie Asfaw by 12 seconds, winning in 29:52.