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Calhoun won’t pursue NCAA matter:

Connecticut basketball coach Jim Calhoun said Wednesday that he will not “pursue any further action” concerning the NCAA’s sanctions against him and his program for recruiting violations. Calhoun, who apologized to the university and his current players in a statement in late February, made his comment about deciding against an appeal after the Huskies’ 79-62 victory over Georgetown in the second round of the Big East tournament at Madison Square Garden.

Three Southern Illinois players plead guilty:

Three members of the basketball team at Southern Illinois University have pleaded guilty to battery charges. The Southern Illinoisan newspaper in Carbondale reports that 20-year-old Troy Lee Long and 21-year-olds Mykel Antwain Cleveland and Eugene Teague entered the pleas Wednesday at the Jackson County Courthouse. It was their first appearance on the charges. Associate Judge Christy Solverson fined each player $150 plus court costs. Teague received 90 days of court supervision. Long and Cleveland each received six months’ court supervision.

Former OSU player sent Tressel e-mails:

The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that a former Ohio State football player is the lawyer who sent e-mails to football coach Jim Tressel last spring telling him that players were selling memorabilia. The newspaper, citing three unidentified sources, reports that Columbus attorney Christopher Cicero sent the e-mails.

Cicero lettered in football at Ohio State in 1983, when Tressel was an assistant coach, according to The Columbus Dispatch. In a statement released Wednesday Cicero says he voluntarily cooperated when an Ohio State attorney asked him to meet with university representatives and the NCAA about e-mails he exchanged with Tressel.

The university on Tuesday suspended Tressel for the first two games of the 2011 season and fined him $250,000 for failing to notify the school about the players’ involvement.

Etc.:

The Chicago Fire lost to D.C. United 1-0 in the second match of the Carolina Challenge Cup at Blackbaud Stadium in Charleston, S.C. For the second consecutive preseason match the Fire played down a man after Fire forward Diego Chaves was sent off for a challenge on D.C. United midfielder Fred.

— After needing to win two playoffs to reach the World Cup, the U.S. women’s soccer team can leave the Algarve Cup with some much-needed confidence. Lauren Cheney tied the score in first-half stoppage time with a 6-yard volley, Heather O’Reilly got the go-ahead goal in the 55th, and the Americans beat Iceland 4-2 at Fairo, Portugal, for their eighth Algarve Cup title. At the World Cup in Germany, the Americans will open against North Korea on June 28, then play Colombia on July 2 and Sweden on July 6.