Kings' new coach arrested for DUI

Basketball

Eric Musselman, in his first season as coach of the Sacramento Kings, was arrested on a drunken driving charge early yesterday about 1 1/2 miles from the State Capitol, hours after his team's exhibition victory over the Utah Jazz. He was released without bail from Sacramento County Main Jail at dawn, the Sheriff's Department said. He was cited for misdemeanor driving under the influence. Musselman was pulled over at 2:15 a.m. The 41-year-old coach failed three sobriety tests performed by the California Highway Patrol and had a blood-alcohol level of 0.11, the arrest report said. The legal limit is 0.08. Geoff Petrie, the Kings' president of basketball operations, said Musselman called him about 6 a.m. and told him of the arrest. "He was very apologetic and ashamed for the lack of discretion leading to this situation," Petrie said in a statement. "On behalf of the Kings organization, we are very disappointed in the poor personal behavior which precipitated this incident."

Football

Kansas City quarterback Trent Green, who was knocked unconscious in the Chiefs' season opener, has been cleared to practice. Green has missed nearly six weeks while recovering from a severe concussion he sustained Sept. 10 against Cincinnati. Green is expected to begin 7-on-7 and 9-on-7 team workouts Wednesday . . . Byron Leftwich's sore left ankle felt better, but the Jaguars quarterback remained questionable for Jacksonville's game at Houston. Leftwich missed practice Friday, wore a protective boot, and then had an MRI. Results showed "nothing serious," team spokesman Dan Edwards said . . . Former University of Michigan coach Bo Schembechler was watching the Wolverines play from the hospital and feeling OK, the school announced during its game against Iowa. The 77-year-old Schembechler felt ill Friday at the taping of a weekly television show, was hospitalized, and held for observation in the cardiac unit.

Tennis

Roger Federer moved a step closer to his 10th title of the year, routing David Nalbandian, 6-4, 6-0, in the semifinals of the Madrid Masters. He will face 10th-seeded Fernando Gonzalez, who beat Tomas Berdych, 6-3, 6-1 . . . Maria Sharapova kept alive her chance to finish the year ranked No. 1, beating Katarina Srebotnik, 7-6 (7-3), 6-2, despite an aching foot, to reach the Zurich Open final. The second seed will play Daniela Hantuchova, who upset third-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova, 6-4, 6-2.

Skating

Olympic champion Chad Hedrick won at 5,000 meters and Maria Lamb captured the 3,000 in the fall World Cup qualifier for the US speedskating team in West Allis, Wis. Hedrick won in 6 minutes 43.08 seconds, far slower than his gold medal time of 6:14.68 at the Turin Games. Lamb won the women's 3,000 in 4:22.49 . . . Olympic triple gold medalists Ahn Hyun-soo and Jin Sun-yu of South Korea captured men's and women's 1,500-meter races on the first stop in the 2006 short-track speedskating World Cup series in Changchun, China. China swept the women's 500. Wang Meng, a gold medalist in Turin, finished in 44.584 seconds, followed by Fu Tianya and Zhu Mile. In the 1,500, Ahn, a world record-holder, won in 2:20.432, just ahead of teammate Lee Ho-suk. In the women's event, Jin also led a South Korean sweep, winning in 2:20.995, with Jung Eun-ju and Byun Chun-sa behind . . . Maxi Baier, who at age 15 won the 1936 Olympic pairs figure skating title with her future husband, Ernst Baier, and was Germany's youngest Winter Olympics champion, died in a retirement home in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. She was 86.

Miscellany

Fernando Alonso, closing in on a Formula One championship, was fourth fastest during qualifying for the Brazilian Grand Prix in Sao Paulo. He finished ahead of Michael Schumacher, the seven-time Formula One champion who is retiring after the race. Schumacher enters the season finale trailing Alonso by 10 points and with only a remote shot at an eighth title. Felipe Massa won the third pole position of his career before a home crowd. He was timed in 1:10.680 on the 2.67-mile Interlagos circuit . . . Four members of the Toyota Formula One team were ambushed by gunmen near the Interlagos track, but no one was injured. Toyota spokeswoman Fernanda Villas-Boas said about 20 teenagers stopped her group and other cars as they left the circuit a day earlier. "Some people tried to escape and they started shooting," she said. "We lowered our heads and were able to flee. Thankfully, nothing more serious happened." . . . World of Outlaws sprint car series founder Ted Johnson died in Norman, Okla., after a long battle with cancer. He was 72 . . . Pascal Pelletier and Sean Curry scored, but the Providence Bruins fell to the visiting Manchester Monarchs, 3-2 in overtime . . . Three days after setting the Division 2 field hockey national record for career points, Bentley senior Mary Rogers broke the Falcons' career record for goals, scoring twice in her team's 4-1 victory over visiting Southern Connecticut State. Rogers's two goals, her 11th and 12th, gave the Watertown native 80 for her career.