Off the wire

— FOOTBALL Dooley has hip surgery

Tennessee’s Derek Dooley is recovering from surgery on hisfractured right hip and will coach from the press box Saturday at No. 19 Mississippi State. The school announced Tuesday Dooley had experienced increasing pain in his right hip over the past two months. The coach underwent amagnetic resonance imaging Friday that showed he had a fracture. The Tuesday afternoon surgery was performed by Russell Betcher and Greg Mathien of the Knoxville Orthopedic Clinic at UT Medical Center. Dooley will coach from the press box Saturday, but will consult his doctors and the Tennessee sports medicine staff before deciding whether to return to the sideline next week.

Suspended TCU quarterback Casey Pachall is leaving school for the rest of the semester and enteringan inpatient rehabilitation facility. Coach Gary Patterson made the announcement Tuesday, five days after the junior starter was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in his second brush with the law in the past eight months.Patterson said most of the inpatient programs like the one Pachall will enter are 30 to 60 days. If Pachall completes the treatment, the door remains open for him to come back to school and the team. Pachall was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated after running a stop sign near the TCU campus last Thursday. That came eight months after Pachall admitted to police that he smoked marijuana and failed a team-administered drug test just two weeks before former linebacker Tanner Brock, his roommate and teammate then, was arrested in a drug sting with three other players and other TCU students. Pachall threw for 948 yards with 10 touchdowns and 1 interception in TCU’s first four games this season.

ATHLETICS Texas Southern banned

The NCAA banned the Texas Southern football and men’s basketball teams from the postseason Tuesday, saying it came close to levying the so-called “death penalty” against the school for repeated rules violations and for lying about imposing sanctions on its own. The Division I Infractions Committee said it found a lack of institutional control and outlined problems spanning 13 sports over a seven-year period, including booster-related recruiting violations, academic improprieties, the use of ineligible athletes and exceeding scholarship limits. The basketball team, currently coached by former Indiana coach Mike Davis, was banned from the 2012-13 postseason and the football team in 2013 and 2014. Other penalties include five years of probation, scholarship limitations in football and basketball, and the vacating of all team records from 2006-10 in all sports, as well as the 2010-11 records for football and women’s soccer. In 2010, Texas Southern won its firstSouthwestern Athletic Conference football championship since 1968. The NCAA said the university allowed a total of 129 student-athletes to compete and receive financial aid and travel expenses when they were ineligible. The majority of these student-athletes had not met progress toward degree or transfer requirements, the report said. The committee also deemed Texas Southern a “double repeat violator,” because the athletics program has either been on probation or had violations occurring on campus, or both, for 16 of the past 20 years. The school had said in the past that it was self-imposing sanctions, but the committee found that it had not - a factor in the severity of the new sanctions.

The Western Athletic Conference is adding Cal State-Bakersfield and Utah Valley next year as it punts away a half-century of football. The 50-year-old WAC is the first Division I conference to give up on football since the Southwest Conference dissolved in 1995, but the additions of Cal State-Bakersfield and Utah Valley assured at least for now that it won’t also go the way of the SWC, and cease to existaltogether. Interim commissioner Jeff Hurd said he will continue looking for other new members as the league makes the transition from a Football Bowl Subdivision conference to a nonfootball-playing Division I conference in 2013-14. The makeup as it stands now is: Denver, Seattle, New Mexico State and Idaho and the two new schools, although Idaho has been in discussions with the Big Sky about returning to that conference. If Idaho bolts, the WAC would have to scramble to add another institution or lose a two-year exemption that allows it to have an automatic qualifier for the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments and other team sports even though the league doesn’t have the requisite seven schools. Hurd said his goal is to return football to the WAC some day. He’ll need to attract at least four more programs. The only two schools that have football, Idaho and New Mexico State, have plans to play as FBS independents next season. The WAC’s five other football members - Louisiana Tech,San Jose State, Texas State, Utah State and Texas-San Antonio - are leaving the league after this year.

SOCCER

Donovan to miss qualifiers

Landon Donovan will not play for the U.S. team in two World Cup qualifying matches because of an injured left knee, adding to what will be a pressure-filled few daysfor the Americans. U.S. Soccer said Tuesday that Donovan - who has more goals than any other player - will likely not be replaced on what was a 24-man roster for the qualifiers, first on Friday on the road against Antigua and Barbuda, then in Kansas City, Mo., on Oct. 16 against Guatemala. Donovan was injured while playing Saturday for the Los Angeles Galaxy. He was selected by U.S. Coach Jurgen Klinsmann for these qualifiers anyway, and the team’s athletic trainers wanted him to be evaluated one more time before he started training. BrekShea also was also was ruled out of the qualifiers Tuesday because of an abdominal injury. Barring a change of plans, that means Klinsmann will take only 22 players to Antigua for what would seems to be a must-win match Friday night. The U.S., Guatemala and Jamaica all have seven points after the first four matches of play in this qualifying round, while Antigua and Barbuda has one point. For the U.S. to reach next year’s regional finals, four points - a victory and a draw - would seem to be the most probable requirement.

BOXING Chavez Jr. suspended

The Nevada State Athletic Commission has temporarily suspended Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. after the former middleweight champion failed a drug test. The commission made the standard procedural move Tuesday. Chavez tested positive for marijuana use last month. Commission executive Keith Kizer said Chavez will have a disciplinary hearing within the next two months.Chavez could receive a lengthy suspension or a significant fine on his $3 million purse. Chavez’s failed test was revealed shortly after his dramatic loss to Sergio Martinez on Sept. 15. Chavez already was fined $20,000 and suspended indefinitely by the WBC, whose belt he lost to Martinez. Chavez tested positive for another banned substance after his fight with Troy Rowland in Las Vegas in November 2009, receiving a seven-month suspension from the Nevada commission.

BASKETBALL

Donovan’s son joins team

Florida Coach Billy Donovan will have his oldest son on the bench this season - and maybe on the floor the following year. Donovan’s son, also named Billy Donovan, has transferred to Florida from Catholic University. The walk-on junior guard must sit out this season under NCAA transfer rulesand will be eligible to compete for the Gators next fall. Donovan averaged 4.0 points and 1.7 rebounds in two years at Catholic. He averaged 5.9 points and had 49 assists as a sophomore last season.

Sports, Pages 22 on 10/10/2012

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