Sports in Brief: Shakur signs with Hornets

September 09, 2010

The New Orleans Hornets signed free-agent point guard Mustafa Shakur, a former Friends' Central star, on Wednesday.

General manager Dell Demps said the 6-foot-4 Shakur has good size for a point guard and got the Hornets' attention by thriving in the NBA Development League last season.

Undrafted out of Arizona, the 26-year-old Shakur has been with several NBA teams since 2007 but has yet to play in a regular-season game. He played two seasons in Europe.

The Golden State Warriors signed former 76ers swingman Rodney Carney to an undisclosed contract. The 26-year-old free agent played in 68 games for the Sixers last season. He averaged 4.7 points and 2.0 rebounds in 12.6 minutes.

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Serbia knocked defending champion Spain out of the world championship when Milos Teodosic made a long three-pointer with 3.1 seconds remaining for a 92-89 quarterfinal victory in Istanbul.

Serbia advanced to face Turkey in a semifinal game Saturday. The hosts remained unbeaten with a 95-68 victory over Slovenia.

COLLEGES: The NCAA reprimanded and censured Princeton for a major violation in its women's tennis program.

The Division I committee on infractions said the case centered on a Princeton alumnus who paid $33,000 in impermissible educational expenses for a student-athlete to attend the school.

The NCAA suspended Georgia star receiver A.J. Green for four games for selling a bowl jersey for $1,000 to someone who qualifies as an agent. Green, a junior, sold his jersey from last season's Independence Bowl.

Notre Dame fifth-year senior center Dan Wenger suffered his second concussion since mid-August on Tuesday, and he is discussing with school officials whether he should return to football.

Rumeal Robinson, who led Michigan to the NCAA men's basketball championship in 1989 and later played in the NBA, was convicted in federal court in Des Moines, Iowa, of borrowing more than $700,000 for a sham business deal and then spending the money on a condominium, expensive furniture, and cars. A jury found Robinson guilty of 11 counts.

SOCCER: Longtime U.S. women's national team goalkeeper Briana Scurry is retiring.

Scurry spent this season on the roster of the Washington Freedom of Women's Professional Soccer, but she played in only one game because of lingering effects from a concussion.

The 39-year-old Scurry made 173 appearances for the U.S. team. She is most remembered the final save that clinched the penalty shootout against China in the 1999 World Cup final.

England coach Fabio Capello plans to retire after the 2012 European Championship when his contract expires. The 64-year-old Italian, who took charge of England in 2008, kept his job after the World Cup despite the team's being ousted in the second round.

HOCKEY: The Detroit Red Wings signed forward Kirk Maltby.

- Wire reports

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