LSU dismisses QB Perrilloux from team
BATON ROUGE, La., May 2 (UPI) -- Quarterback Ryan Perrilloux, who started the SEC championship game, has been dismissed from the Louisiana State University football team.
LSU Coach Les Miles announced the decision Friday but didn't give details on why Perrilloux was taken off the team. The quarterback was suspended in February for allegedly failing to follow team rules.
"Ryan was given every opportunity to be a part of this football team," Miles said. "In the end, he didn't fulfill his obligation as an LSU student-athlete. We hope that a new beginning will benefit him.
"I wish Ryan and his family nothing but the best in any of his future endeavors."
Perrilloux, a junior, started the SEC championship game against Tennessee, helping the Tigers to a 21-14 victory that put LSU in the BCS championship game. He completed 20-of-30 passes for 243 yards and a touchdown in the game. He appeared in all 12 of LSU's games last season but generally as a backup to Matt Flynn.
Wizards' Songaila suspended for one game
NEW YORK, May 2 (UPI) -- Washington forward Darius Songaila was suspended by the NBA for Game 6 of the Wizards' playoff series with Cleveland for hitting the Cavaliers' LeBron James.
League officials handed down the suspension just hours before the Wizards were to play the Cavaliers in the sixth game of the best-of-seven series. Cleveland has a 3-2 lead in the series.
Songaila was disciplined for a play that occurred in the first quarter of Wednesday's game in Cleveland. His left forearm hit James on the chin while the Cleveland player was trying to move down the baseline.
Songaila was given a personal and technical foul for the incident.
He is averaging 5.8 points and 2.6 rebounds while coming off the bench for the Wizards in the playoffs. He averaged 6.2 points and 3.4 rebounds a game in the regular season.
Garrido has course record in Spain tourney
SEVILLE, Spain, May 2 (UPI) -- Ignacio Garrido shot a course-record 9-under-par 63 Friday and moved into the lead halfway through the European PGA Tour's Open de Espana in Seville, Spain.
Garrido, playing in his home country, is at 15-under 129 after 36 holes of the tournament and had a 4-stroke lead over first-round leader Martin Erlandsson, who shot 68 Friday and is at 11-under 133 for the tournament. Peter Fowler, David Lynn, Carlos Rodiles and Marco Ruiz are tied for third at 8-under 136.
Garrido, playing the back nine first Friday, opened with a birdie at No. 10 and ran off three straight birdies from 12-14. He went to 5-under on the day with a birdie at No. 16.
After a string of pars, Garrido had birdies at 2 and 3. He added a birdie at No. 6 with an iron shot from the rough that ended up 1 foot from the hole. He closed with a tap-in birdie at the par 5 ninth hole.
"It's a dream to play so well in front of my home fans at my national Open," said Garrido. "Other than the majors, this is the one tournament all Spaniards want to win."
Report: Broncos quarterback has diabetes
DENVER, May 2 (UPI) -- Denver Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler has been told he has a treatable form of diabetes.
The Rocky Mountain News reported Friday that the 25-year-old Vanderbilt graduate recently was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and unnamed sources told the newspaper that he is insulin dependent.
Type 1 diabetes means his body doesn't produce insulin, a hormone which is needed to convert sugar, starches and other food into energy.
"(It) definitely affected my game (last season) . . . but now we know, now we can deal with it," Cutler told the newspaper. "I'm not the first person to get it, I'm not the last person to get it (and) it's very treatable."
Denver television station KCNC reported Cutler began to lose weight in October and was 202 pounds at the end of the 2007 season, 32 pounds less than what he weighed when it began.
Last season, he passed for 3,497 yards and 20 touchdowns.
Zvonareva advanced to Prague semifinals
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, May 2 (UPI) -- Top-seeded Vera Zvonareva won but No. 2-seeded Shahar Peer was upset in quarterfinal play Friday at the $145,000 Prague Open.
Zvonareva routed Roberta Vinci 6-1, 6-2 to make the semifinals of the clay court tune-up ahead of the French Open. She will meet fourth-seeded Katarina Srebotnik in Saturday's semifinals. Srebotnik was pushed to a third set in a 7-5, 4-6, 6-2 victory over local favorite Iveta Benesova.
Zvonareva owns a 3-0 career record against Srebotnik but they haven't played since 2006.
Peer dropped a straight-set 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 decision to Klara Zakopalova, another Czech native receiving strong local support. The fourth quarterfinal saw third-seeded Victoria Azarenka having little trouble in a 6-2, 6-1 win over Karolina Pliskova.
Zakopalova and Azarenka, paired in the second semifinal, are meeting for the first time in WTA play.
Saturday's semifinals winners advance to a title match Sunday with $22,900 going to the 2008 Prague Open champion.
