Tranghese retiring from Big East

Saying it was time to do something else, Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese announced his retirement yesterday, effective at the end of the 2008-09 academic year. Tranghese, who has been commissioner since 1990, guided the development of the basketball conference into a 16-team super league and oversaw creation of the football conference, which became a competitive eight-team league. The Big East took a hit five years ago when Boston College, Miami, and Virginia Tech jumped to the Atlantic Coast Conference, but it has managed to survive, if not thrive. "It was just the right time for me," said Tranghese, who has been with the Big East since it was formed in 1979 as a seven-team basketball league. Tranghese, 64, will stay on to give Big East officials sufficient time to find a replacement.

- MARK BLAUDSCHUN

For the past decade, Glen Wesley helped shepherd the Carolina Hurricanes from homeless vagabonds in North Carolina to Stanley Cup champions. Now, the last remaining original Hurricane is leaving. After 20 seasons in the NHL and 13 as one of the most popular faces of the Hurricanes' franchise, Wesley announced his retirement because of family reasons. The team then gave the defenseman a job in the front office and pledged to retire his No. 2 jersey. Wesley, 39, a Bruins first-round pick in 1987, is the only player to have played in each of the Hurricanes' 10 seasons since the team once known as the Hartford Whalers moved to North Carolina.

Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp was suspended for four games and Colorado catcher Yorvit Torrealba was penalized three games following their tussle earlier this week at Dodger Stadium. They also were fined undisclosed amounts by Major League Baseball disciplinarian Bob Watson. Players Association spokesman Greg Bouris said Kemp will appeal, allowing him to play until a hearing is held . . . Twins shortstop Nick Punto was sent back to the 15-day disabled list with a strained left hamstring, and Minnesota pulled rookie infielder Matt Macri off his flight back to Triple A to fill the spot.

Erie (N.Y.) County District Attorney Frank Clark calls Bills running back Marshawn Lynch the "principal suspect" in an alleged hit-and-run accident, saying the player was inside his vehicle when it struck and injured a pedestrian. What's unclear, Clark said, is whether Lynch was driving the 2008 Porsche SUV when it struck a woman crossing an intersection in downtown Buffalo before speeding off early Saturday. "There were other people in the car, too. [Lynch] wasn't the only person in the car," Clark said . . . Convicted steroids dealer David Jacobs, who recently met with NFL security officials and gave them names of players he said bought steroids from him, was found shot to death in his home in Plano, Texas. Jacobs, 35, and 30-year-old Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell were found dead by Plano police after relatives of Earhart-Savell expressed concern about her whereabouts . . . Former Texas Tech defensive tackle Stoney Garland, 33, who was paralyzed in a car accident in 1997, died at his home in Plains, Texas.

Former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield's $10 million estate in suburban Atlanta is under foreclosure. The mother of one of his nine children is suing for unpaid child support, and a Utah consulting company has gone to court claiming the boxer failed to pay back more than a half-million dollars for landscaping. A legal notice that ran in a small local newspaper said Holyfield's estate will be auctioned off "at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash" at the Fayette County courthouse July 1 . . . Boston College finished second in the B division, 31 points short of Georgetown's 238 points in the ICSA Gill Dinghy National Champions in New York . . . Harvard won its heat at the men's varsity pair on the first day of the three-day 106th Intercollegiate Rowing Association championship at Cooper River, N.J., in 7:20.455. Harvard also won its freshman eight and open four heats . . . Juan Pablo Angel scored on a header in the 75th minute and the New York Red Bulls beat Chivas USA, 1-0, in East Rutherford, N.J. . . . The IOC ratified a new rule to keep convicted doping cheats out of future Olympics. Athletes will be banned from the following Olympics if they received a drug suspension of at least six months in the previous four-year period. The rule goes into effect July 1.