Briefly

Basketball

Karl Malone will not play Sunday against the Utah Jazz after being suspended for one game by the NBA for elbowing Dallas guard Steve Nash in the head. The penalty was announced Friday by NBA vice president Stu Jackson after he reviewed videotape of Malone's thrown elbow, which came in Thursday's game.

Colleges

The daughter of fired Nebraska coach Frank Solich said Friday that her father has not accepted the head coaching job at Army. The Omaha World-Herald, citing an anonymous source, reported that Solich turned down the job. But the Middleton (N.Y.) Times Herald-Record, citing anonymous sources, reported in its Friday editions that Solich would be named Army's football coach as early Friday afternoon. Army athletic director Rick Greenspan told the AP in an e-mail that he would not comment on any coaching candidates.

Oregon football coach Mike Bellotti agreed to a one-year contract extension that will keep him with the Ducks through the 2008 season.

Football

Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson pleaded innocent to charges of aggravated assault and battery that stemmed from an overnight incident in which he allegedly held a gun to the head of a former girlfriend. The Johnson County prosecutor's office said Johnson, the Chiefs' first-round draft pick out of Penn State, was involved in a domestic violence incident Friday morning in the Kansas City suburb of Leawood. A judge Friday afternoon set Johnson's bond at $5,000.

Golf

U.S. Open winner Jim Furyk opened with a 5-under-par 67 to take a five-stroke lead over Masters champion Mike Weir in the PGA Grand Slam of Golf at Poipu Beach, Hawaii. British Open champion Ben Curtis shot a 73 and PGA champion Shaun Micheel had a 75 in the 36-hole event for the winners of this year's four majors. It was the first event in the Grand Slam's 21-year history featuring all first-time major champions.

Motorsports

Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the fan vote for NASCAR's most popular driver. Hereceived more than 1.3 million of the more than 3 million votes cast.

-- From wire reports