Jarrett’s Sprint Beats Marlin in Second Half

Dale Jarrett outraced Sterling Marlin on Sunday to win the Busch Clash at Daytona International Speedway, heralding his expectations for next Sunday’s Daytona 500.

Jarrett ran well in both 10-lap segments of the unique sprint race for the previous season’s pole winners, racing from 12th to second--just behind Marlin--in the first half, then coming from the back row in the inverted second-half start to win the event.

Jarrett beat Marlin to the line by 0.19 of a second, about four car lengths. He averaged 184.995 mph over the 20 green-flag laps.

Football

Lindy Infante is the Colts’ first choice for coach and will probably be named to the position this week, Indianapolis director of football operations Bill Tobin said.

“Lindy is the only guy that I’ve talked to and the only guy that I intend to talk to at this time,” Tobin told WTHR-TV in Indianapolis.

Infante, former coach of the Green Bay Packers who was the Colts’ offensive coordinator last season, said he met with Tobin this weekend to discuss the vacancy created last week when team officials decided not to retain Ted Marchibroda.

Jim Fassel, quarterbacks coach for the Oakland Raiders last season, has been hired as the Arizona Cardinals’ offensive coordinator.

Michigan Coach Lloyd Carr has agreed to a four-year deal worth at least $250,000 a year. Athletic Director Joe Roberson said that if Carr is found to have broken rules he can be dismissed without compensation, the Detroit News reported.

San Diego Charger defensive tackle Shawn Lee was arrested early Sunday outside a New York nightclub after injuring a man he shoved into a wall during a dispute. Vadin Granin, 24, of Elwood, N.J., needed 31 stitches to close a gash on his head.

Winter Sports

Junichi Inoue won his second 1,000-meter race in 24 hours, and Manabu Horii took the 500-meter sprint to complete a Japanese sweep of the men’s events at a World Cup speedskating meet in Innsbruck, Austria. Svetlana Shurova of Russia won the 500 meters and American Christine Witty the 1,000. . . . Markus Prock of Austria, the recently crowned world champion, won his third World Cup luge event this season, at St. Moritz, Switzerland. . . . Manuela di Centa of Italy overcame extreme cold on a shortened, 10-kilometer course to win the 10th stage of the World Cup cross-country ski competition in Kavgolovskoye, Russia. . . . Jaroslav Otevrel of the Czech Republic, a top player in the Finnish championship ice hockey league, was seriously injured in a game in Helsinki and it was feared he could be paralyzed.

Soccer

The U.S. Olympic soccer team extended its unbeaten streak to six games, tying the South Korea Olympic team, 0-0, in an exhibition at East Los Angeles College.