Saturday, January 19, 2008

Michigan football coach Rich Rodriguez, who is being sued by West Virginia in an attempt to collect on a $4 million buyout clause in his old contract, received a $287,000 incentive payment from his former school yesterday for goals reached during the 2007 season.

Rodriguez's contract stipulated that WVU had 30 days from his resignation to make the payment. . . .

Georgia football great Herschel Walker has multiple personalities -- a revelation in an upcoming book that surprises the man who coached Walker when he won the Heisman Trophy in 1982.

"That's all news to me," former Georgia coach Vince Dooley said in yesterday's editions of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

"Breaking Free" will chronicle Walker's life with multiple-personality disorder.

¿ BASEBALL: Roger Clemens will give Congress a deposition or transcribed interview next Saturday in advance of the House hearing in which the pitcher and his former trainer, Brian McNamee, are to testify.

Letters were sent to Clemens, McNamee and three others by House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform chairman Henry Waxman and ranking Republican Tom Davis.

"The committee asks that you provide testimony about allegations in Senator George Mitchell's report . . . that you and other Major League Baseball players used performance enhancing drugs during your professional baseball career," Waxman and Davis wrote to Clemens.

¿ SOCCER: The New England Revolution acquired U.S. international defender Chris Albright from the Los Angeles Galaxy in exchange for allocation money. Albright, 29, is a 10-year MLS veteran. . . .

Chivas USA acquired Alecko Eskandarian from Real Salt Lake in exchange for allocation money.

¿ WINTER SPORTS: Zach Lund of the United States won the men's skeleton World Cup race in Cesana Pariol, Italy. "I love this track," said Lund, who won here last year. "It's very technical." . . .

Marco Buechel of Liechtenstein won a men's Super-G race in Kitzbuehel, Austria, to become the oldest winner of a World Cup event. Buechel is 36 years, 2 months and 14 days old. He won in 1 minute 15.44 seconds.

¿ COLLEGE LACROSSE: Navy junior Bruce Nechanicky, an expected starter on attack, will miss the season with a knee injury. Nechanicky initially injured his knee in the middle of last season, then re-injured it in the fall. He had surgery last week.

-- From News Services and Staff Reports