Sports in Brief: Tenn. coach apologizes for accusation

Lane Kiffin

, the new Tennessee football coach, was reprimanded by the Southeastern Conference and issued an apology yesterday for falsely accusing Florida's

Urban Meyer

of a recruiting violation.

Earlier in the day, Kiffin told fans at a breakfast celebrating UT's recruiting class that Meyer had violated rules by phoning Nu'Keese Richardson while the wide-receiver prospect was on an official visit at Tennessee.

NCAA and Southeastern Conference officials said it was not against recruiting rules to contact recruits while they are on an official visit to another school.

SEC commissioner Mike Slive reprimanded Kiffin for publicly criticizing Meyer, which is against the league's code of ethics. That led to Kiffin's apology.

New Mexico State freshman guard Terrance Joyner was arrested after authorities said they discovered 11/2 marijuana cigarettes in his luggage as the team departed on a two-game trip to Utah State and Nevada. He was charged with marijuana possession and released after posting $300 bond.

School officials said Joyner had been suspended indefinitely. He could not be reached for comment.

Former super-middleweight champion

Joe Calzaghe

retired from boxing with a 46-0 record.

The 36-year-old Welshman outpointed Roy Jones Jr. in November in his last fight of a 16-year pro career.

Calzaghe, who held the World Boxing Organization super-middleweight world title for more than 10 years, said he was tempted to fight three more times to try to match Rocky Marciano's 49-0 record, but he said he lacked the hunger.

U.S. Figure Skating selected the Philadelphia Skating Club & Humane Society as the site of the 2009 U.S. Collegiate Figure Skating Championships.

The event will take place July 30 to Aug. 1, 2009, at the Ardmore Ice Skating Rink.

Wings legend Jake Bergey announced his retirement.

Bergey, who played all 10 seasons in the National Lacrosse League with the Wings, finished his career with 256 goals and 301 assists. He is second on the Wings all-time in goals, assists and total points (557).

A federal judge in Miami rejected a handful of defense moves trying to undercut the U.S. government's tax-evasion case against two-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves, clearing the way for a March 2 trial. The Brazilian driver lives in Coral Gables, Fla.

Belgian cyclist Frederiek Nolf, 21, was found dead in his hotel room in Doha, hours before the start of the fifth stage of the Tour of Qatar. The cause of death was not immediately known.

Preakness officials said fans would not be allowed to take beverages of any kind into the public infield at Baltimore's famed Pimlico Race Course on race day, May 16. In the past, spectators were permitted to carry an unlimited number of coolers.

In the last six months, four sumo wrestlers have been kicked out of the ancient sport for allegedly smoking marijuana, creating the biggest drugs-in-sports scandal that Japan has ever seen.

Although three of the wrestlers expelled from the sport were from Russia, the marijuana-possession charge filed last week against a 25-year-old Japanese athlete who goes by the ring name of Wakakirin has raised concern that use of the drug may be more widespread than first thought.

Tokyo has secured $4 billion to pay for building venues for the 2016 Olympics despite the global economic downturn, a leader of the Japanese bid said. The Japanese government had secured the bid's $3.1 billion budget.