‘The Hawk’ inducted Sunday into National Baseball Hall of Fame

BY PHIL ROGERS
CHICAGO TRIBUNE/MCT

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – On the January day he would learn he had been elected to the Hall of Fame, Andre Dawson made a morning visit to a Miami cemetery.

Bryant and Wade of ’90s reflects on glory days and days after that

BY SHANNON J. OWENS
THE ORLANDO SENTINEL/MCT

ORLANDO - Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway was in Memphis, working out in a gym and calling into The Bottom Line Sports Show, an Internet radio program he co-hosts, announcing he wanted a chance to try out for the Miami Heat after their acquisition of all-stars LeBron James and Chris Bosh.

UF, NCAA probing gift from associate of agent in ’09

THE ORLANDO SENTINEL/MCT

GAINESVILLE – Former Gators star Maurkice Pouncey denied Wednesday that he received money from a representative of a sports agent.

FROM WIRE REPORTS

Four sprinters who were stripped of their 2000 Olympics relay medals because teammate Marion Jones was using performance enhancing drugs won an appeal last week to have them restored.

The University of Southerrn California (USC) decided this week to divorce itself from New Orleans Saints’ Reggie Bush, the former tailback who won a Heisman Trophy for the Trojans.

BY LUCAS L. JOHNSON II
ASSOCIATED PRESS