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Daly set to return to PGA Tour

John Daly's suspension from the PGA Tour is over, and the two-time major champion plans to return for the St. Jude Championship on June 11-14 in Memphis near his home.

John Daly's suspension from the PGA Tour is over, and the two-time major champion plans to return for the St. Jude Championship on June 11-14 in Memphis near his home.

He said he received a sponsor's exemption for the tournament along with one for the Buick Open in July.

Daly, 43, was suspended for six months in November after a series of off-course incidents that brought negative publicity to the PGA. In October, he spent a night in jail to get sober in Winston-Salem, N.C., and a photo of him in an orange jail jumpsuit caused a stir on the Internet.

He has played eight times overseas during his suspension, including a month in Europe, where he tied for second in the Italian Open.

Colleges

The University of Texas was selected as the top seed for the 64-team Division I baseball tournament.

The Longhorns (41-13-1) will host one of 16 four-team, double-elimination regionals that begin Friday. This marks the second time that Texas, coached by Division I career victories leader Augie Garrido, has been the No. 1 overall seed.

Eight survivors of regional and super-regional competition will advance to the College World Series, which begins June 13 in Omaha, Neb.

West Chester's baseball team will play Cal-San Diego today in the NCAA Division II College World Series in Cary, N.C. The Golden Rams are 46-11 after a 7-3 loss Sunday to Lynn.

Florida State expects to hear from the NCAA as early as today on its appeal of sanctions resulting from an academic cheating scandal. The Seminoles are trying to prevent 14 victories from being removed from Bobby Bowden's coaching record.

Bowden, who turns 80 in November, now has 382 wins, one fewer than Penn State's 82-year-old Joe Paterno.

Mississippi's Devin Britton and Duke's Mallory Cecil won the men's and women's singles titles at the NCAA tennis tournament in College Station, Texas.

Horse racing

Preakness winner Rachel Alexandra worked a half-mile at Churchill Downs, but the filly's owner Jess Jackson said it may be another week before he decides whether to enter her in the Belmont Stakes on June 6.

Noteworthy

Kenya's Wesley Korir won the Los Angeles Marathon, setting a course record in 2 hours, 8 minutes, 24 seconds. Russia's Tatiana Petrova won the women's race.

Mike Tyson's 4-year-old daughter was on life support after an accident involving a treadmill at the former heavyweight boxing champion's Phoenix home, police said.

The girl's 7-year-old brother found her on a treadmill with her neck on a cable attached to the exercise machine, police Sgt. Andy Hill said, calling it a "tragic accident."

"Somehow she was playing on this treadmill, and there's a cord that hangs under the console - it's kind of a loop," Hill said. "Either she slipped or put her head in the loop, but it acted like a noose, and she was obviously unable to get herself off of it."

Police in Morristown, N.J., are investigating a woman's contention that she was raped by two men at the home of New York Jets safety Kerry Rhodes. The Morris County prosecutor said the player was not a suspect.

Shannon Boxx, Megan Rapinoe, Lindsay Tarpley and Lauren Cheney scored to lead the U.S. women's soccer team to a 4-0 win over Canada in a friendly match in Toronto.