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FOOTBALL Muschamp gets raise

Florida has given Coach Will Muschamp a raise after an 11-victory season. Florida President Bernie Machen and Athletic Director Jeremy Foley upped Muschamp’s salary $250,000 annually, making him the seventh-highest-paid coach in the SEC. Muschamp will make $2.928 million annually through the 2017 season, ranking behind Alabama’s Nick Saban ($5.47 million), LSU’s Les Miles ($3.8 million), South Carolina’s Steve Spurrier ($3.3 million), Georgia’s Mark Richt ($3.2 million), Arkansas’ Bret Bielema ($3.2 million) and Texas A&M’s Kevin Sumlin ($3.1 million). The Gators are 18-8 in two years under Muschamp.

Bail was set Friday at $500,000 cash for a so-called right-hand man of Aaron Hernandez who prosecutors say was with the former New England Patriots star on the night his friend was shot to death. Ernest Wallace appeared in Attleboro District Court on a charge of being an accessory after the fact to murder in the death of Odin Lloyd. Defense attorney David Meier had sought bail of $10,000, arguing Wallace wasn’t a flight risk and wanted to return to his family in Florida. Hernandez, 23, has pleaded not guilty to murder in the death of Lloyd, a 27-year-old Boston semi-professional football player whose body was found June 17 in an industrial park about a mile from Hernandez’s home. The two men were friends and Lloyd was dating the sister of Hernandez’s girlfriend. Prosecutors say Hernandez orchestrated Lloyd’s killing because he was upset at him for talking to people Hernandez had problems with at a nightclub days earlier.

Washington Redskins backup linebacker Keenan Robinson is expected to miss the season after tearing his left pectoral muscle during practice Thursday, the opening day of training camp. Robinson tore his right pectoral muscle last year against the Dallas Cowboys. Robinson was selected in the fourth round from Texas in last year’s draft. He played in 11 games as a rookie.

Washington Redskins defensive end Jarvis Jenkins has been suspended for four games without pay for violating the NFL’s policy on performance enhancing substances. Jenkins released a statement Friday saying he was “shocked and confused” to learn that he had tested positive for a banned substance. “It’s an obscure substance that I’ve never even heard of, and I still don’t know how it got into my body,” he said inthe statement.

The Dallas Cowboys and AT&T have reached an agreement to name the NFL team’s stadium after the U.S.’s largest phone company. The $1.2 billion stadium, home of the league’s most valuable franchise, will become AT&T Stadium, the team announced. Terms of the agreement weren’t disclosed. The agreement also provides AT&T with “substantial” advertising opportunities inside and outside the stadium, the release said. The company and team will work together to improve mobile technology in the building, including expanding its Wi-Fi network.

SOCCER U.S. coach suspended

The U.S. soccer team will be missing a key figure for the Gold Cup final against Panama on Sunday: their coach. Jurgen Klinsmann was suspended for one game Friday by CONCACAF’s disciplinary committee, the result of his ejection in the 87th minute of a 3-1 victory over Honduras in the semifinals Wednesday. Klinsmann was dismissed “for showing dissent towards the referee by throwing the ball in a violent manner,” the disciplinary committee found, and said FIFA rules require anyone ejected from a match to be suspended for the following game.The decision cannot be appealed. Klinsmann was irate Wednesday after the referee failed to issue cards on a series of hard fouls against the Americans. He could be seen yelling and gesturing angrily in the direction of the referee, and was told to leave the field after he slammed a ball into the ground. Klinsmann later apologized, saying he acted out of frustration. The Americans are seeking their fifth Gold Cup title.

MOTOR SPORTS

Dalziel wins Grand-Am race

Ryan Dalziel inherited the lead when Brazil’s Rubens Barrichello was forced to make a late pit stop and held off hard-charging Scott Pruett by 3.438 seconds Friday night in the Brickyard Grand Prix at Indianapolis. Alex Gurney, the son of former IndyCar and Formula One driver Dan Gurney, was third in the Grand-Am Daytona prototype race on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2.534-mile, 13-turn road circuit. Dalziel’s co-driver, Alex Popow, celebrated his second consecutive victory at Indy. Dalziel trailed Barrichello by about 24.5 seconds with 30 minutes left to go, but Barrichello was forced to slow down to conserve fuel. He didn’t save enough and was forced to pit with 10 minutes left. He wound up fifth. Pruett, 15th with an hour to go, moved into second with 7 minutes left but couldn’t catch Dalziel. Jeff Segal and Max Papis teamed to win the GT division. Robin Liddell and former Little Rock resident John Edwards were second.

BASKETBALL Delle Donne out

Elena Delle Donne will miss the WNBA All-Star game today while recovering from a concussion. The No. 2 pick in the draft was injured in the Chicago Sky’s loss to Washington on Wednesday when she was going for a loose ball with a minute left in the third quarter. Delle Donne, who is averaging 18.2 points a game, is the first rookie to lead the All-Star voting and will be replaced on the Eastern Conference roster by Atlanta’s Erika de Souza. Top draft pick Brittney Griner won’t play but will attend the league’s showcase game this weekend at Mohegan Sun Arena. Griner is still recovering from a sprained left knee and was replaced on the roster by veteran Tina Thompson on Thursday.

TENNIS Isner in semifinals

Top-seeded John Isner advanced to his fourth consecutive Atlanta Open semifinal Friday, beating James Blake 7-6 (1), 7-6 (5). Isner will face seventh-seeded Lleyton Hewitt, the Australian who overcame a disastrous start to beat third seed Ivan Dodig 1-6, 6-3, 6-0. In the night quarterfinals, second-seeded Kevin Anderson of South Africa faced Uzbekistan’s Denis Istomin, and American Ryan Harrison met Colombia’s Santiago Giraldo. The match between Blake and Isner was close in many statistical categories, but Isner extended his ATP Tour-leading tiebreaker record to 23-6 this season. Blake sank to 0-4.

A day after Roger Federer lost at the Swiss Open citing back pains, Stanislas Wawrinka retired from his quarterfinal match Friday with the same injury. The second-seeded Wawrinka stopped after a medical timeout more than 2 hours into his match with Feliciano Lopez, who was leading 6-4, 2-6, 4-3. The fifth-seeded Lopez will face Robin Haase of the Netherlands in the clay-court tournament today. The 57th-ranked Haase beat 2011 champion Marcel Granollers of Spain 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (5). Daniel Brands, who beat Federer, failed to build on that success in losing 6-3, 6-4 to Victor Hanescu. Mikhail Youzhny will face Hanescu after beating fourth-seeded Juan Monaco of Argentina 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (7).

HORSE RACING Super sire Unbridled’s Song dead

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Unbridled’s Song, the son of 1990 Kentucky Derby winner Unbridled who went on to capture a Breeders’ Cup race and become a prolific sire, died Friday. He was 20.

Taylor Made Stallions, where the horse stood his entire career, said in a statement that a large and inoperable mass was discovered in his sinus cavities and around the optic nerves. The horse began showing acute neurological symptoms Thursday and was euthanized.

“Unbridled’s Song was one of those great horses,” Taylor Made President and CEO Duncan Taylor said. “He had it all - looks, pedigree, speed, and presence. Our team loved him from the beginning.”

Unbridled’s Song sired 730 winners from more than 1,000 starters, the farm said.

As a 2-year-old, Unbridled’s Song won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. The next year, he wonthe Florida Derby and Wood Memorial. He was the 7-2 favorite in the 1996 Kentucky Derby but finished fifth while another Unbridled colt, Grindstone, was first.

Unbridled’s Song earned $1,311,800 before retiring to stud in 1997.

Taylor Made said Unbridled’s Song’s $298,118 lifetime yearling average is best among all North American sires and third all time in North America among sires by gross yearling sales with $198,844,653 in gross sales.

He sired 100 stakes winners, including 45 graded stakes winners and 15 Grade I winners, and at least one Grade I winner for 12 consecutive years.

Unbridled’s Song also has three Breeders’ Cup winners: 2010 Ladies’ Classic winner Unrivaled Belle, 2001 Distaff winner Unbridled Elaine and 2008 Juvenile winner Midshipman, the Eclipse champion 2-year-old colt that year.