Sports in Brief: Kyle Busch wins truck race

Kyle Busch

started his Texas weekend tripleheader with another NASCAR Trucks victory last night, capturing the WinStar World Casino 350 at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth.

Busch has won each of his last five truck races, extending the streak that began at Bristol in August, by beating Matt Crafton by 0.725 seconds at the 11/2-mile, high-banked Texas track last night. He also is competing in the Nationwide Series race today and Sprint Cup race tomorrow in Fort Worth.

Series points leader Ron Hornaday was third, nearly 10 seconds behind Crafton, his closest competitor for the season title.

Jeff Gordon captured his first pole of the season yesterday to take the top spot for tomorrow's Sprint Cup Series Dickies 500. He waited until the second-to-last race to extend his streak of 17 consecutive seasons with a pole.

Matt Kenseth will start on the pole for today's NASCAR Nationwide Series O'Reilly Challenge, five spots ahead of points leader Busch.

COLLEGES: A New Mexico soccer player has become an Internet celebrity for the wrong reasons.

Junior defender Elizabeth Lambert was suspended yesterday for her infractions the day before during a 1-0 loss to Brigham Young in a Mountain West Conference semifinal. Lambert is seen in video from the game throwing elbows, colliding with several players, then yanking the ponytail of a BYU player who went crashing to the ground.

Lambert's actions brought unprecedented - and very unwanted - attention to the Mountain West women's soccer tournament.

Video highlights have been shown nationally since Thursday night.

TENNIS: Richard Gasquet will go in front of the highest court in sports Tuesday for what he says was a cocaine-tainted kiss in a nightclub.

The World Anti-Doping Agency and International Tennis Federation have asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland to ban him for one to two years.

The Frenchman failed a drug test after pulling out injured from a tournament in Florida in March and was suspended. He says his positive test resulted from a kiss he gave a woman.

An independent tribunal called by the ITF ruled he was not to blame. He was cleared to play again after serving just 21/2 months. A verdict by the top sports court is expected before the end of the year.

Host Italy's Flavia Pennetta will meet American Alexa Glatch in the opening match of the best-of-five Fed Cup final today in Reggio Calabria at the Rocco Polimeni club.

Glatch routed Pennetta, 6-1, 6-1, in the first round of the French Open.

A ruling on Serena Williams' U.S. Open tirade is expected in the next two weeks, United States Tennis Association president Lucy Garvin said.

Williams was fined $10,000 after her profanity-laced outburst at a lineswoman during her semifinal loss to Kim Clijsters in September, and she could face a more severe penalty in the coming weeks.

BOXING: David Haye (22-1, 21 knockouts) of Britain will meet giant Russian Nikolai Valuev (50-1, 34 KOs), the defending champion, today in a WBC heavyweight championship in Nuremberg, Germany.

-Staff and wire reports