Sports in Brief: Wise Dan wins horse of the year at Eclipse Awards

Breeders' Cup Mile winner Wise Dan, a gelding, won a triple crown at the Eclipse Awards at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla., on Saturday night, taking honors as the horse of the year, best male turf horse, and top older male.

The top jockey award went to Ramon Dominguez, who is in a New York hospital with a fractured skull suffered in a spill Friday at Aqueduct. It's the third award for Dominguez, whose wife, Sharon, said doctors are optimistic he will fully recover.

Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I'll Have Another won the award as best 3-year-old colt. Dale Romans was named top trainer.

SOCCER: United States striker Jozy Altidore had a hat trick to lead host AZ Alkmaar to a 4-1 victory over Vitesse Arnhem in the Dutch Eredivisie.

Daniel Sturridge scored in his third straight English Premier League game, and Liverpool added goals from Luis Suarez, Jordan Henderson, and Steven Gerrard - plus an own goal - in a 5-0 rout of Norwich City. . . . David Silva scored twice to power second-place Manchester City's 2-0 win over visiting Fulham.

Barcelona got an early goal from Lionel Messi, but down to 10 men with defender Gerard Pique sent off in the 56th minute, the Spanish league-leaders lost their first match of the season, 3-2, to Real Sociedad in San Sebastián. Barcelona set a league record by going 19 games without a loss, winning 18 and tying one.

The Union signed American forward Aaron Wheeler from Finland's FC KooTeePee and Trinidad and Tobago under-20 defender Damani Richards.

WINTER SPORTS: American Shani Davis finished with a time of 1 minute, 7.49 seconds to win a 1,000-meter World Cup speedskating race in Calgary, Alberta. American Heather Richardson won the women's 1,000 in 1:13.09.

Lindsey Vonn of the United States earned her first victory in more than five weeks, coming back from illness to take a World Cup downhill race in 1:38.25 in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy. Current overall leader Tina Maze finished second and American Leanne Smith was third.

LACROSSE: Drew Westervelt scored with 11 seconds left to give the Wings an 8-7 comeback win over the host Toronto Rock.

CYCLING: The former chief of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Terry Madden, says a representative of Lance Armstrong offered the agency a donation in the range of $200,000 to $250,000 in 2004 and the organization immediately rejected it. In his interview with Oprah Winfrey on Friday, Armstrong said no one in his camp made such an offer.

COLLEGES: On the final day of the NCAA convention in Grapevine, Texas, the Division I board of directors approved 25 of 26 proposals on deregulation, eliminating about 25 pages from its 500-page rule book in an effort to simplify the organization's complex, and sometimes unenforceable, rules.

- Staff and wire reports