Sports in Brief: Eleby leaves St. Bonaventure

Franklin Learning Center graduate

Malcolm Eleby

, a starting point guard at St. Bonaventure, will not return to the basketball program for his senior season, coach

Mark Schmidt

said Tuesday.

Eleby is the second player to leave the school after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct in a March 21 stabbing on campus that injured two men. Guard Lewis Leonar left last month. Both were fined $250.

Eleby started 57 games for the Bonnies, averaging 5.2 points, 2.7 assists and 2.5 rebounds a game.

Florida football coach Urban Meyer said doctors have diagnosed the chest pain that bothered him the last three seasons: esophageal spasms. He said that he is taking medication and that his heart is fine.

The Rutgers women's basketball team will include a forward from Australia next season. Coach C. Vivian Stringer said that Juliana Paunovic has signed a letter of intent.

A judge in Lubbock, Texas, said former football coach Mike Leach's lawsuit over his firing from Texas Tech can proceed. The university fired Leach on Dec. 30, two days after it suspended him amid allegations he mistreated a player with a concussion. Leach has denied mistreating Adam James.

Oregon State fired women's basketball coach LaVonda Wagner after several losing seasons and a recent player exodus. Wagner went 68-85 in five seasons.

NHL: Nicklas Lidstrom will return to the Detroit Red Wings instead of retiring. The star defenseman signed a $6.2 million, one-year contract Tuesday instead of hanging up his skates at the age of 40.

Scott Mellanby was hired as an assistant coach by the St. Louis Blues.

Mellanby, 43, had been working as a pro scout for Vancouver. He played 21 seasons in the NHL, including stints with the Flyers, Edmonton, Florida, St. Louis, and Atlanta.

AUTO RACING: Richard Jackson, 74, who fielded cars in NASCAR's top two levels for 26 years, died Monday in Asheville, N.C.

Red Bull Racing swapped the crew chiefs and key team members for drivers Scott Speed and Casey Mears, a move designed to try new personnel pairings in Brian Vickers' absence.

Vickers will miss the rest of the season while undergoing treatment of blood clots in his lungs and legs. Mears has been filling in.

HORSE RACING: Rachel Alexandra may make her next start June 12 in the $150,000 Grade III Obeah Stakes at Delaware Park. Owner Jeff Jackson included the 11/8-mile race among four possibilities for the 2009 Horse of the Year, who has finished second in two starts this year.

NBA: Miami guard Dwyane Wade settled a breach-of-contract suit brought by two former partners in a failed restaurant deal. Terms were not disclosed.