Cycling

Farrar finishes 2nd in Tour of Qatar

Belgian Tom Boonen won his fourth Tour of Qatar title Friday, beating runner-up Tyler Farrar of Wenatchee by 28 seconds in the six-stage race.

Boonen, who rides for the Omega Pharms-QuickStep team, led since the opening stage Sunday. He also won in 2006, 2008 and 2009.

Farrar competes for the Garmin-Barracuda team.

College basketball

NCAA denies UConn's request for waiver

The NCAA turned down the University of Connecticut's request for a waiver that would allow its team to play in the 2013 national-championship tournament.

UConn, the 2011 champion, doesn't qualify for the 2013 NCAA tournament because of below-standard academic results, but it requested a waiver last month.

Hockey

Accused coach is found dead in cell

Ivan Pravilov, former coach of the Ukrainian national team, was found dead in a federal jail cell in Philadelphia.

Pravilov, 49, was found by guards at the Federal Detention Center, said spokesman Darrin Howard. Pravilov was pronounced dead, a suspected suicide, 45 minutes later.

Pravilov was arrested in Philadelphia in January and charged in the sexual assaults of two young hockey players in a Philadelphia apartment.

College football

Sandusky has May 14 tentative trial date

The judge presiding over the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case set a tentative trial date of May 14 and said he would rule quickly on several pending issues raised in a pretrial hearing.

Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant coach accused of sexual contact with 10 boys over a 15-year period, spoke at the proceeding.

Sandusky, 68, declared people have turned against him.

Charges against Haywood dismissed

An Indiana judge dismissed domestic-battery charges against Michael Haywood, a former Notre Dame offensive coordinator who briefly was Pittsburgh's coach before the case led to his firing.

Haywood, 47, was charged with felony domestic battery and misdemeanor domestic violence after he allegedly attacked his son's 38-year-old mother at Haywood's Indiana home. Both counts were dismissed.

Haywood is working for an oil company in Texas.

Boxing

Ali attends funeral for ex-trainer Dundee

Hall of Fame trainer Angelo Dundee was remembered as a master motivator and a man who left a legacy of kindness that was as impressive as what he accomplished in the ring while molding 15 world champions, including Muhammad Ali.

Ali was among about 600 attending a funeral service in Clearwater, Fla. Dundee, 90, died Feb. 1.

Elsewhere

• The mother of late boxer Arturo Gatti's daughter can't sue his widow for wrongful death in New Jersey, a judge ruled in dismissing the lawsuit Friday.

Erika Rivera, a New Jersey resident, filed the suit last fall on behalf of then-5-year-old Sofia Bella Gatti. The suit blames Gatti's widow, Amanda Rodrigues Gatti, for the boxer's 2009 death in Brazil. Police initially held Rodrigues Gatti as a suspect but eventually released her and concluded Gatti hanged himself from a staircase railing using a handbag strap.

• Canadian Patrick Chan won the men's title at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Mao Asada of Japan won the women's short program, and U.S. champion Ashley Wagner was second.

• Canada's Kaillie Humphries and Jennifer Ciochetti won the World Cup bobsled finale in Calgary, Alberta, and Germans Cathleen Martini and Janine Tisher finished fifth to secure the season title.

Driver Bree Schaaf of Bremerton and Emily Azevedo of Chico, Calif., were seventh in the finale. Schaaf finished ninth in the Cup standings.

• Louis Rankin, a former Seahawks and Washington Huskies running back, and Demetrius Crawford, a former running back for the Tri-Cities Fever of the Indoor Football League, signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League.

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