Virginia Tech Running Back Lewis, Expected to Start, Out 4-6 Months

Kenny Lewis, counted on to be Virginia Tech's starting tailback this season after all-Atlantic Coast Conference tailback Branden Ore was dismissed from the team, will be sidelined four to six months with a shoulder injury.

Lewis, a 5-foot-10, 199-pound junior, will have arthroscopic surgery on his left shoulder Tuesday, Coach Frank Beamer's Web site reported last night.

If Lewis can return in four months, he might be ready for preseason practice. The injury moves redshirt junior Jahre Cheeseman to No. 1 on the depth chart.

· OLYMPICS: The cities bidding to host the 2016 Games will get an extra opportunity to make their case to the IOC a few months before next year's final vote.

The International Olympic Committee executive board approved the change in an effort to give the cities a greater chance to explain their bids to the members. Seven cities are currently in contention -- Chicago; Tokyo; Rio de Janeiro; Madrid; Doha, Qatar; Prague; and Baku, Azerbaijan.

· COLLEGE BASKETBALL: He already earned an armful, but Tyler Hansbrough took one last bit of brass when he won the John R. Wooden Award as college basketball's top player. It gave Hansbrough, a junior at North Carolina, essentially a sweep of the season's individual honors.

Tennessee's Candace Parker won the women's award for the second straight year. . . .

UMBC men's assistant Frankie Allen has been hired as coach at Maryland-Eastern Shore. Allen, 59, a former head coach at Virginia Tech, Tennessee State and Howard, takes over for Meredith Smith. The interim coach's contract expired last month. UMES went 4-28 in 2007-08. UMBC is coming off its best season in school history and an NCAA tournament bid.

· FOOTBALL: Browns wide receiver Joe Jurevicius contracted a staph infection following knee surgery; he is the sixth Cleveland player in four years to suffer from staph. . . .

Bryant Gumbel has given up his role as an NFL Network play-by-play announcer after two seasons.

· BASEBALL: Georgia Tech officials said a member of the school's baseball team has been found dead.

School officials say the player, 21-year-old pitcher Michael Hutts, was found dead yesterday morning in his off-campus apartment. Atlanta Police Department officials said they have not yet determined the cause of death.

· HOCKEY: Nashville Predators forward Scott Nichol broke his left thumb in Game 1 against the Detroit Red Wings and was scheduled to have surgery.

· COLLEGE HOCKEY: Michigan's Kevin Porter won the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, a day after his team was eliminated in the semifinals of the Frozen Four by Notre Dame. Porter is just the second Wolverine to win the award.

· COURTS: A woman must abide by a previous restraining order to avoid contact with former NBA star Michael Jordan and stop using litigation regarding the order to claim he fathered her child.

Crawford County (Pa.) Judge Gordon Miller issued the ruling Thursday in response to motions filed this month by Lisa Miceli, 35, of Meadville, Pa., who was acting as her own attorney.

-- From News Services