Luke Harangody, a 6-8 senior forward at Notre Dame, led the voting yesterday for The Associated Press' preseason All-America basketball team, receiving 57 votes from the 65-member national media panel.
Kansas teammates Cole Aldrich and Sherron Collins were next in the balloting, and junior forwards Patrick Patterson of Kentucky and Kyle Singler of Duke rounded out the team
Aldrich, a 6-11 junior, received 49 votes, and Collins, a senior point guard, received 39. They are the sixth set of teammates selected for the preseason team, which started in 1986-87, and the second from Kansas.
Patterson had 35 votes, and Singler had 30.
Other players receiving votes included:
Al-Farouq Aminu of Wake Forest, Ed Davis of North Carolina, Devan Downey of South Carolina, Derrick Favors of Georgia Tech, Greivis Vasquez of Maryland and John Wall of Kentucky, who played high-school basketball in Raleigh.
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■ Billy Gillispie, a former men's basketball coach at Kentucky, pleaded guilty yesterday to driving under the influence of alcohol and apologized for what he called a mistake. He accepted a plea bargain in Anderson County (Ky.) District Court that included fines, a 30-day suspension of his license and an agreement to complete an Alcohol Drivers Education Program.
Anderson County Attorney Bobbi Jo Lewis declined to comment after the hearing, but issued a statement in which she called the penalty "fair and equitable," saying, "Mr. Gillispie has been treated the same as any other person who appears before the Anderson District Court charged as he was...."
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■ The PGA Tour says it has suspended Doug Barron for one year for using a performance-enhancing drug. He is the first player to violate the doping policy since testing started in July 2008.
Barron, 40, has not played a full PGA Tour schedule since 2006 and played only four times on the Nationwide Tour this year. Barron apologized in a statement, saying he did not intend to gain an unfair advantage.
Under its policy, the tour announces only when a player tests positive and the length of suspension.
It does not say what drug was used.
■ Australian Cadel Evans, cycling's road-race world champion, signed a three-year contract with American team BMC with a victory in next year's Tour de France as his main goal, the team said yesterday. Evans, a two-time runner-up in the Tour who rode for Silence-Lotto this year, will join George Hincapie, a Tour de France veteran, and Alessandro Ballan, a former world champion. However, BMC does not have a Pro Tour license needed to guarantee participation in the Tour and instead will need an invitation from organizers.
■ The founder of the online gambling site BetOnSports.com has been sentenced to more than four years in prison.
Gary Kaplan was sentenced yesterday in federal court in St. Louis, ending a lengthy case involving the complex world of offshore sports gambling. He pleaded guilty in August to federal racketeering and other charges.
In a plea agreement, Kaplan must forfeit $43.6 million.
Kaplan founded the company in 1995, setting up entities in Aruba, Antigua and eventually Costa Rica. The firm solicited U.S. citizens to place sports wagers by phone and over the Internet. It became one of the world's largest online gambling firms.
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