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Briefs | NBA: Delonte West, Rainier Beach graduate C.J. Giles sign contracts
NBA West signs for two seasons, with team option for a third season: The Cleveland Cavaliers re-signed guard Delonte West, a restricted...
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West signs for two seasons, with team option for a third season: The Cleveland Cavaliers re-signed guard Delonte West, a restricted free agent, to a two-year contract Friday. The deal includes a third-year team option.
Financial terms were not immediately known. West, 25, and his representatives reportedly had been seeking a contract starting at about $5 million per season.
West began last season with the Sonics and played in 35 games before being traded to Cleveland in February. He started 26 games for the Cavaliers and averaged 10.3 points and 4.5 assists.
Lakers sign Giles: C.J. Giles, 22, a 6-foot-11 graduate of Rainier Beach High School in Seattle who played college ball at Kansas and Oregon State, signed a contract with the Los Angeles Lakers. Terms were not disclosed.
LaFrentz to have surgery: Portland center Raef LaFrentz, 32, will have surgery on his right shoulder Sept. 26.
College basketball
Northern State coach Meyer has cancer: Northern State's Don Meyer, tops on the NCAA victory list among active men's coaches, learned he has cancer after his release from intensive care. Meyer, 63, was in intensive care because of a car accident.
Laurie Nichols, interim president of the Division II school in Aberdeen, S.D., read a statement from Meyer at a news conference, saying doctors found a slow-growing cancer in his liver and bowels. Meyer has an 891-299 record.
Tennis
ATP conducted yearlong investigation: Russian player Nikolay Davydenko, 27, was cleared by the ATP after a yearlong investigation into suspicious betting patterns on a match he lost to a low-ranked opponent.
The governing body of men's tennis said it found no evidence of wrongdoing by Davydenko, opponent Martin Vassallo Arguello of Argentina or anyone else associated with their match in Sopot, Poland, on Aug. 2, 2007.
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"The ATP has now exhausted all avenues of inquiry open to it and the investigation is now concluded," the association said in a statement.
Davydenko, then ranked No. 5, pulled out of the match against his then-87th-ranked opponent in the third set, citing a foot injury.
Betfair, an online bookmaker, voided all bets on the match. It received about $7 million in wagers on the match, 10 times the usual amount for a similar-level match.
Most of the money was on Vassallo Arguello, even after he lost the first set.
Track and field
Bolt slowed down in 100-meter Olympic final: A physicist from Norway has done the math, and said gold medalist Usain Bolt of Jamaica could have run last month's 100-meter Olympic final in Beijing in 9.55 seconds if he had not taken time to showboat during the race.
"We estimate that he could have finished the race in a time between 9.55 and 9.61," said physicist Hans Eriksen of the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Oslo.
Bolt won in 9.69 seconds, shaving 0.03 seconds off the world record he set in May.
Cycling
Armstrong rides in fundraiser: For Lance Armstrong, the road back to the Tour de France began in the Laurentian Mountains in Quebec.
The seven-time winner of cycling's showcase race came to a resort north of Montreal and rode with about 40 cyclists over more than 60 miles of rain-soaked roads. To ride with Armstrong, each cyclist had to raise at least $25,000 for a cancer-care fund.
The 36-year-old Armstrong, who announced his retirement in 2005, told Vanity Fair this week he is certain he will compete in next summer's Tour.
Vande Velde keeps lead: American Christian Vande Velde of the Garmin-Chipotle team finished 19th in the fifth stage of the Tour of Missouri and retained his 18-second lead over Australian Michael Rogers of Team Columbia.
Rabobank rider Boy van Poppel of the Netherlands won the stage. The seven-stage event ends Sunday.
NHL
Montreal adds Lang: Forward Robert Lang, who scored 21 goals for Chicago last season, was traded to Montreal for a 2010 second-round draft choice.
Soccer
Ethiopia is thrown out of 2010 World Cup qualifying: Ethiopia was thrown out of the qualifying rounds for the 2010 World Cup by FIFA because of an unresolved dispute over its soccer-federation leadership.
Olympics
USA Taekwondo files a protest: USA Taekwondo filed a protest with the Court of Arbitration for Sport, seeking changes in the sport's judging protocols in the wake of American Steven Lopez's disputed quarterfinal loss to Mario Sarmiento of Italy in the Olympics.
The federation's chief executive officer, David Askinas, said the appeal was designed to shine a light on "the internal problems in our sport."
Paralympics
Skiba places fifth: Jeff Skiba, 24, of Sammamish placed fifth in the javelin final at the Beijing Paralympics.
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