Briefly 11/15/03

Basketball

Magic forward Pat Garrity will need a third surgery on his injured right knee and might not return this season. Garrity has not been placed on the injured list because the team's list is full. Garrity said he will seek another opinion from a doctor in North Carolina on Monday, but conceded he'll need another surgery.

North Carolina coach Sylvia Hatchell and three other active collegiate coaches are among the six people to be inducted next year into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. The names of the six inductees will be officially announced today at the State Farm Women's Tip-off Classic at Purdue. Hatchell is joined by North Dakota State coach Amy Ruley, Oregon coach Bev Smith, Kansas coach Marian Washington, eight-time AAU All-American Lurlyne Greer Rogers and William L. "Bill" Wall, the first executive director of USA Basketball.

Colleges

If the leaders of the Bowl Championship Series don't come to a resolution with the system's critics at a meeting today, Utah's attorney general might call for an antitrust investigation. Mark Shurtleff sent a letter Thursday to New York's attorney general, Elliott Spitzer, the chairman of the Antitrust Committee of the National Association of Attorneys General, criticizing the postseason system in major college football. Leaders from the six conferences that started the BCS in 1998 will meet today in New Orleans with representatives of the five Division I-A conferences that are trying to improve their access to the nation's most lucrative bowl games.

Golf

South Africa's Trevor Immelman and Rory Sabbatini birdied six of their first seven holes Saturday and finished with a 9-under-par 63 to take a seven-stroke lead heading into the final round of the World Cup.

Americans Jim Furyk and Justin Leonard were tied for second at 7-under with France's Thomas Levet and Raphael Jacquelin. Today's final round is an alternate-stroke format.

Dorothy Delasin shot a 4-under-par 68 and took a one-stroke lead after three rounds of the LPGA Tournament of Champions. Delasin had a 54-hole total of 5-under-par 211, one stroke better than Korea's Hee-Won Han on the 6,253-yard, par-72 Magnolia Grove's Crossings Course.

Motorsports

Brian Vickers became NASCAR's youngest champion ever, claiming the Busch Series title with an 11th place finish behind first-time winner Kasey Kahne at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The 20-year-old Vickers regained a lost lap to finish just out of the top 10 in the season-ending Ford 300, but that was enough to hold off 1995 series champion David Green.

-- From wire reports