Two Winston Cup crew chiefs were fined...

Two Winston Cup crew chiefs were fined $2,000 apiece Sunday for rules violations found during technical inspection on Friday at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia.

Mike Hillman, crew chief for the car owned by Dean Meyers and driven by Dick Trickle, and Ken Glenn, crew chief for the car owned by Cale Yarborough and driven by rookie Jeremy Mayfield, were fined after NASCAR inspectors found the trailing arms--part of the drive system--on those two cars exceeded the allowable .120-inch thickness.

Miscellany

British javelin thrower Colin Mackenzie proclaimed his innocence after becoming the seventh British track and field athlete this year to fail a drug test. The British Athletic Federation confirmed that Mackenzie, 31, tested positive for the stimulant dextropropoxphene at a meet in Italy on July 24.

DePaul’s basketball team will learn today what penalty, if any, will be assessed for possible rule violations in which a booster allegedly bought players meals and allowed them to use his apartment.

Michael Doohan of Australia beat Doug Chandler of the United States by 9.242 seconds in the 500cc class of the Argentine Grand Prix in Buenos Aires. Doohan, who has clinched the series title, completed the 27-lap, 72.819-mile race in 48 minutes, 12.312 seconds on a Honda. Chandler, riding a Cagiva, followed in 48:21.554. Japan’s Kazuto Sakata finished ninth to clinch the overall title.