Sports in Brief: Turkish club wooing Kobe

Turkish club Besiktas is in talks with Kobe Bryant's representatives about the possibility of the Los Angeles Lakers star playing in Turkey during the NBA lockout.

"It is a fact that Kobe Bryant's managers have contacted us," coach Ergin Ataman said Thursday, a week after Besiktas signed New Jersey Nets point guard Deron Williams.

Ataman said Bryant was waiting for an offer from Besiktas. The club, however, said it would need a sponsor to be able to pay for Bryant's contract.

COLLEGES: Future NCAA's women's basketball tournaments may not have to go head-to-head against the men's tourney.

The governing body announced the Division I women's basketball committee will study the feasibility of moving the start of the tournament back one week from its typical mid-March start. No deadline has been set for a recommendation, and the study still needs to be approved by two additional NCAA committees. But the possibility of sliding the entire tournament back one week - and possibly changing game days - is real.

Mike Irwin has been named the head men's rowing coach at St. Joseph's University, the school announced.

Irwin's college coaching career has spanned 20 years, including seven seasons at the University of Pennsylvania as the men's lightweight head coach and director of boathouse operations.

HOCKEY: The Buffalo Sabres have agreed to a multiyear contract with goalie Jhonas Enroth, who is expected to take over as Ryan Miller's primary backup this season.

The brother of former Minnesota Wild and New York Rangers player Derek Boogaard, who died from a drug overdose in May, has been arrested on suspicion of possessing illegal prescription pills on the same night.

Online records showed 24-year-old Aaron Boogaard was arrested Wednesday on a narcotics charge. He was held without bail in the Hennepin County Jail in Minneapolis.

LACROSSE: Wings coach John Tucker, citing time constraints, stepped down as coach on Wednesday but will remain with the National Lacrosse League team as director of U.S. collegiate scouting. Tucker was head coach during the 2011 season after working as the team's offensive coordinator in 2010.

OLYMPICS: Olympic and world champion Cesar Cielo was cleared to compete at the world championships after the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld a decision by the Brazilian swimming federation.

Swimming governing body FINA challenged a Brazilian federation decision to give Cielo only a warning after he tested positive for furosemide, a banned diuretic and masking agent, at a meet in Rio de Janeiro in May.

NFL: A former Cincinnati Bengals linebacker has been indicted on sex-related charges involving the teenage daughter of a former Bengals assistant coach.

Prosecutors allege that Nathaniel Webster Jr. engaged in sexual conduct with the girl in 2009 when she was 15 and threatened to harm her and her family if she told anyone. Bond was set at $1 million.

- Staff and wire reports