Bengals' Henry arrested for 4th time

Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry was charged in Covington, Ky., with providing alcohol to three underage females, his fourth arrest in the last seven months. Henry, 23, surrendered to Kenton County authorities on three misdemeanor counts of unlawful transaction with a minor and posted $2,500 bond. Henry will be arraigned today, the prosecutor's office said. The Bengals declined comment . . . Ben Roethlisberger's broken jaw did not have to be wired shut, a factor that could hasten his recovery from his scary motorcycle accident, and the Steelers quarterback could be released from the hospital as early as today. Roethlisberger's doctors said a second round of tests again showed no brain injuries, although he has a concussion. The Steelers have not given a timetable for his return, but they are optimistic he will be ready for their Sept. 7 opener against Miami . . . Left tackle Brad Hopkins retired after 13 seasons, deciding to leave the game rather than play for a team other than the one that drafted him. The Tennessee Titans released Hopkins in March for salary-cap reasons. He talked with the New York Jets, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the Atlanta Falcons but chose to stay in Nashville with his wife and four children. Nobody started more games at left tackle in the NFL between 1993 and 2005 than Hopkins, who had 188.

Rick Ankiel's comeback has taken another turn for the worse. The pitcher-turned-outfielder will miss the rest of the season after having surgery on his left knee. Ankiel had the surgery May 26 in California. He injured the patellar tendon in a spring training scrimmage Feb. 27 in Jupiter, Fla., and never played a spring or regular-season game. The injury came just as the 26-year-old Ankiel was emerging as a legitimate contender to make the Cardinals' roster as an outfielder, a year after giving up pitching . . . Phillies reliever Julio Santana will miss the rest of the season because of a right elbow injury that will require ligament reconstruction surgery. Signed to a one-year contract last winter in the hopes that he would strengthen the bullpen, Santana was 0-0 with a 7.56 ERA in seven games . . . The Baltimore Orioles placed right fielder Jay Gibbons on the 15-day disabled list, only two days after he came off it. Gibbons left Tuesday night's game in the third inning after reinjuring his right knee during an at-bat . . . The Tampa Bay Devil Rays placed closer Tyler Walker on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right elbow . . . Hard-throwing Alabama high school lefthander Kasey Kiker, the Texas Rangers' first-round draft pick, signed a contract that included a $1.6 million signing bonus . . . Host Norfolk and the Pawtucket Red Sox were rained out. The game will be made up today as a doubleheader.

Roger Federer rebounded from his defeat in the French Open final to win his 37th straight match on grass, moving within four of Bjorn Borg's record. The top-ranked Federer defeated qualifier Rohan Bopanna, 7-6 (7-4), 6-2, in the first round of the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany. Asked about Borg's record, Federer said: ``Streaks are not important to me. Winning titles is." In other matches, Florian Meyer upset third-seeded Jarkko Nieminen, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4; and eighth-seeded Kristof Vliegen beat qualifier Marco Chiudinelli, 7-6 (7-4), 6-0 . . . Maria Sharapova defeated Ahsha Rolle, 6-4, 6-2, in the DFS Classic, a grass-court warmup for Wimbledon in Birmingham, England. Earlier, teenager Sania Mirza beat Shenay Perry, 7-5, 6-7, 6-3 . . . Paul Xanthos, who coached tennis at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif., for three decades and won 23 conference championships, died in Los Angeles at 85. Xanthos began coaching at Pierce in 1965 and retired in 1993. He came back in 1999 and returned again in 2005.

Indiana Pacers guard Sarunas Jasikevicius has elected not to join the Lithuanian national team for the world championships in August. The 30-year-old point guard has been the top player in his country for years. Jasikevicius's agent, Doug Neustadt, didn't give a reason for his client skipping the tournament Aug. 19-Sept. 3 in Japan . . . The Big East and CBS Sports agreed to a multiyear contract extension to broadcast conference basketball games through the 2012-13 season. Women's games also will be featured . . . College of Charleston basketball coach Tom Herrion is negotiating a buyout that would end his four years with the Southern Conference school, an official with the college said. Herrion, who played at Oxford (Mass.) High School and Merrimack College, before serving as an assistant at Merrimack, Providence, and Virginia, has four more years left on his contract, with a base salary of $163,893 . . . In the WNBA, Betty Lennox scored 15 points and the Seattle Storm broke open a close game in the fourth quarter to beat the Minnesota Lynx, 74-66, in Minneapolis . . . Tina Thompson scored 8 of her 26 points in overtime to help the host Houston Comets beat the Sacramento Monarchs, 73-66.

Bob Knight's insurance company was ruled not liable for damages resulting from the coach's 1999 confrontation with a former assistant at Indiana. Knight, the basketball coach at Texas Tech, settled with former assistant Ron Felling in 2002, after Felling contended the coach shoved him when he overheard Felling criticize him in a telephone conversation after a game in 1999. Judge David Dreyer ruled Knight's insurance policy excluded coverage for bodily harm that is ``expected or intended." . . . Casey Mears was hired to drive for Hendrick Motorsports, earning a seat with one of NASCAR's super-teams. The move had been expected since last week, when Mears told car owner Chip Ganassi he would not be coming back in 2007, the same day Brian Vickers asked to be released from his Hendrick contract.