Prep-Football Roundup - Metro Edition: McGuinness rolls to victory

Duke senior Kyle Singler is recovering from knee surgery.

The school said Singler had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee yesterday afternoon at the Duke University Medical Center. He is expected to recover in time for the start of preseason practice Oct. 15.

Associate head coach Steve Wojciechowski says Singler was having some "discomfort" in his knee, so he decided to go ahead and have the surgery.

Singler averaged nearly 18 points and seven rebounds to help Duke win its fourth NCAA championship.

College sports

■ No. 1 North Carolina beat No. 6 Wake Forest 5-0 in field hockey yesterday at Kentner Stadium.

The Tar Heels scored 12 seconds into the match on a goal by Kelsey Kolojejchick.

Kaitlyn Ruhf, Sinead Loughran, Elizabeth Drazdowski and Jaclyn Radvany also scored for UNC (3-0).

The Deacons (2-1) were limited to three shots.

Wake Forest is home against Lafayette today at 1 p.m.

■ Wake Forest defeated Iowa 25-19, 25-18, 21-25, 25-22 in a volleyball match yesterday in St. Louis.

The Deacons (3-1) handed Iowa (3-1) its first loss of the season.

Kadija Fornah led Wake Forest with 17 kills and 11 digs and Kristen White had 12 kills and 13 digs.

■ Luca Gimenez scored his collegiate goal in the 87th minute to give No. 3 Wake Forest a 3-3 tie with Seton Hall last night in Greensboro. Anthony Arena scored the other goal for the Deacons.

■ Rachel Nuzzolese scored an unassisted goal and assisted on two others to lead Wake Forest (4-1) past LSU (1-3) in a women's soccer match last night at Spry Stadium.

Hockey

■ The NHL has signed off on Ilya Kovalchuk's latest contract with the New Jersey Devils.

Five weeks after rejecting his landmark 17-year, $102 million contract with the Devils, the league approved a revised 15-year, $100 million deal yesterday after reaching an agreement with the NHL Players Association on an amendment covering long-term contracts.

The NHL had rejected the Devils' initial offer because it violated the league's salary cap. An arbiter upheld that decision after the union filed a grievance.

With 338 goals and 304 assists in 642 career games, Kovalchuk was the biggest prize on the NHL free agent market this season.

Kovalchuk had 41 goals and 44 assists in 2009-10, a season he split between Atlanta and the Devils, who acquired him in a multi-player deal in February.

■ The Pittsburgh Penguins yesterday signed forward Mike Comrie to a $500,000, one-year contract, giving them a proven scorer who might be capable of playing on one of their top three lines. Comrie has scored 20 or more goals five times during nine NHL seasons with Edmonton, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Ottawa and the New York Islanders. He has not scored more than 13 goals since 2007-08. Comrie will join the Penguins several months after marrying actress Hilary Duff.

Cycling

■ Tour de France champion Alberto Contador will not race for Spain at the world cycling championships, scheduled Sept. 29-Oct. 3 in Australia. Contador injured his right knee in a crash during training Tuesday, an injury not expected to affect next season.

Jose Luis de Santos, Spain's coach, also said: "Alberto told me he prefers not to stretch out the season any more and will rest ahead of next season."

■ Floyd Landis has filed a federal whistle-blower lawsuit, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Landis is the cyclist who won the Tour de France in 2006 but had the title stripped because of positive drug test. This spring, he ended years of denials by admitting he took performance-enhancing drugs and accused Lance Armstrong and others of doping.

Citing anonymous sources, The Journal reported in a story posted on its website yesterday that Landis has filed a suit under the federal False Claims Act. The law allows Americans to sue on behalf of the government alleging the government has been defrauded.

The Journal says the lawsuit is sealed, so it's not known exactly what it claims. However, Armstrong won six of his seven Tour victories with the U.S. Postal Service team.

■ Alessandro Petacchi recorded his 20th Spanish Vuelta stage victory by taking yesterday's seventh leg, a 116.3-mile race from Murica to Orihuela. He finished ahead of Mark Cavendish of Britain and Juan Jose Haedo of Argentina, and Philippe Gilbert of Belgium maintained a 10-second lead on Spain's Joaquin Rodriguez and Igor Anton in the overall standings.

Miscellaneous

■ A search helicopter spotted the body of the son of boxing promoter Bob Arum on a Washington state mountainside, five days after he was reported missing, a national park spokeswoman said.

The body belonging to John Arum, an experienced mountain climber, was seen at about the 7,700-foot level of Storm King mountain, an 8,815-foot peak, North Cascades National Park Spokeswoman Kerry Olson said.

It wasn't immediately possible to retrieve the body but it was clear to searchers in the helicopter that John Arum, a 49-year-old Seattle environmental attorney, was dead, Olson said. Those involved in the search said Arum likely died in a fall, she said.

The search for Arum began Monday after he failed to return from a weekend trip to climb the mountain, which is about 85 miles northeast of Seattle.

■ Brian McBride, whose scoring touch and tenacity won him fans on both sides of the Atlantic, said yesterday that he'll end his pro soccer career at the end of the season, his third with his hometown Chicago Fire.

McBride, 38, has recorded 78 goals and 51 assists in 11 years with Chicago and Columbus, where he still shares the Crew record for goals scored.

He ranks third on the U.S. national team's all-time scoring list with 30 goals, trailing only Landon Donovan (45) and Eric Wynalda (34), and was so beloved at Fulham that the English Premier League team named a stadium bar after him.

■ Nationwide Insurance announced yesterday that it will end its title sponsorship of the PGA Tour's developmental circuit when the contract expires in two years but that it will stay in golf as the presenting sponsor of the Memorial Tournament, founded by Jack Nicklaus. The sponsorship of the Memorial will start in 2011.

"We've been very, very happy for the last eight years with the Nationwide Tour, but when we have the opportunity to step up and present the Memorial, it was too good of an opportunity to pass (up)," said Jim Lyski, Nationwide's executive vice president.