Sports in Brief: UConn's Calhoun to retire Thursday

A person familiar with the situation said that Connecticut men's basketball coach Jim Calhoun is retiring and plans to announce his decision Thursday.

The person spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the announcement had not been made public.

The Hall of Fame coach led the UConn program from obscurity to three national championships, but has struggled recently with health issues, including a fractured hip last month.

The 70-year-old Calhoun won 873 games in 40 years as a head coach, first at Northeastern and the last 26 years at UConn.

According to reports, assistant Kevin Ollie, a former UConn player, will be named coach.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Temple's third-string quarterback, Kevin Newsome, took snaps at wideout with the first-team offense during Wednesday's practice.

The Penn State transfer approached the coaching staff about moving to the wideout or safety positions earlier this week. The 6-foot-3, 215-pound junior is still listed at quarterback even though he is expected to see time at wideout.

When South Florida's Maikon Bonani steps on the field against Rutgers on Thursday night, it will be difficult for him to not be reminded of one of the most disappointing moments of his career. A year after booting a pair of field goals during a one-point victory over the Scarlet Knights, USF's career scoring leader missed a 27-yard attempt on the final play of regulation to contribute to an overtime loss that left him in tears last November.

SOCCER: British police and medics whose failures contributed to the deaths of 96 soccer fans in the country's worst sports disaster unfairly blamed the dead for the 1989 tragedy and sought to cover up their actions, newly disclosed documents revealed.

The documents vindicated efforts by the victims' families, who had spent 23 years demanding a full accounting of the events at Hillsborough stadium that killed fans of the Liverpool soccer team. Most of the victims were crushed and suffocated in a standing-only section after they were herded there by police.

Prime Minister David Cameron issued a full apology for the wrongdoing of authorities and the subsequent cover-up.

The tragedy took place during an FA Cup semifinal between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on April 15, 1989, at the stadium in Sheffield, northern England. A total of 94 supporters died that day - two more died later, one in 1993 - and almost 800 others were injured when police officers herded about 2,000 Liverpool fans into caged-in enclosures that were already full.

GOLF: The European Tour has canceled next month's Andalucia Masters, with local officials citing a lack of funding related to Spain's financial crisis. Three other tournaments scheduled for Spain this year already were canceled for similar reasons.

With heavy wind and rain affecting Wednesday's practice and more bad weather forecast for the next few days, the 36th staging of the Women's British Open, in Hoylake, England, could become a war of attrition.

NBA: New York Knicks point guard Jason Kidd intends to fight a charge that he was drunk when he crashed his SUV into a telephone pole in the Hamptons in July, his lawyer said after a procedural hearing. - Staff and wire reports