Longley Quits After 10 Seasons

Luc Longley, a 10-season NBA veteran who won titles with the Chicago Bulls from 1996-98, retired Tuesday because of arthritis in his left ankle.

Longley, 32, played in 25 games for the New York Knicks last season, but sat out the final 23 games because of the condition.

A 7-foot-2 center who played on Australia’s Olympic team, Longley also played with Minnesota and Phoenix. He averaged 7.2 points and 4.9 rebounds in 567 career games.

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Allen Iverson and Aaron McKie had surgery and will not play with the Philadelphia 76ers for at least a month.

Iverson, the NBA’s most valuable player after leading the 76ers to the finals last season, is expected to be out four to six weeks because of arthroscopic surgery on his right elbow. McKie, the league’s top sixth man, had arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder and will be sidelined six to eight weeks.

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The Dallas Mavericks traded rookie guard Kenny Satterfield to the Denver Nuggets for a second-round draft pick or future considerations.

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Spencer Gloger did not attend the UCLA basketball team’s first meeting Tuesday, and sources said the sophomore guard has transferred back to Princeton.

Gloger, who attended Santa Margarita High, played at Princeton during the 1999-2000 season, starting 28 games and averaging 12.0 points.

Hockey

Colorado Avalanche forward Milan Hejduk pleaded guilty to careless driving in an alleged drunken-driving case. In a deal with prosecutors, a charge of driving with his ability impaired will be dismissed if Hejduk stays out of trouble for two years.

Hejduk, 25, was arrested May 10 after an Englewood, Colo., police officer stopped him on a street south of Denver. Police said Hejduk was driving 70 mph in a 45-mph zone.

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The Detroit Red Wings have left goaltender Chris Osgood, 28, unprotected for the NHL’s waiver draft after the team was unable to trade him.

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Gary Roberts of the Toronto Maple Leafs was suspended for three exhibition games and fined $1,000 for abusing an official at the end of a 5-4 victory over Ottawa on Sunday.

Golf

Despite pulling out of the Lancome Trophy in Paris, Tiger Woods still plans to play abroad at the end of the PGA Tour season.

Mark Steinberg, his agent at IMG, said Woods will play an exhibition Nov. 10-11 at Hong Kong before going to the World Cup in Japan, where he and David Duval are the defending champions.

Tennis

Andy Roddick sprained his right foot during the first round of the Salem Open at Hong Kong and quit in the third set, giving Brazil’s Andre Sa a 3-6, 6-4, 3-3 victory. ... Second-seeded Carlos Moya of Spain, ranked No. 20 in the world, was eliminated by Argentina’s David Nalbandian, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, in the first round of a $400,000 ATP tournament at Palermo, Sicily.

Miscellany

The NASCAR season is over for Mike Skinner, who will have surgery next week for a torn knee ligament. Skinner, who drives a Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing, will be replaced by Robby Gordon.

Skinner hurt the knee and had a concussion and a broken left ankle in a crash during a Winston Cup race July 15 at Chicagoland Speedway. He aggravated the knee in a crash Sept. 8 at Richmond, Va.

Although more than one-third of this year’s Tour de France riders failed drug tests, all but one cyclist had medical reasons to use the substances.

In a report published Monday, the French government said 44 of the 128 riders tested positive.

Four French teams and all 13 foreign teams, including Lance Armstrong’s U.S. Postal Service squad, had riders who tested positive. The names of riders were not disclosed.

Tyco led the Volvo Ocean round-the-world race, with eight yachts heading toward the equator after finally encountering wind.

Tyco, skippered by two-time round-the-world winner Kevin Shoebridge of New Zealand, led illbruck and Amer Sports One in the Bay of Biscay off France. The race began Sunday off the Isle of Wight.

Passings

A memorial service for drag racer Bobby Baldwin will be held today at the Pomona Fairplex.

Baldwin, 47, of Upland, died Sunday after apparently suffering a brain aneurysm. The 11 a.m. service will be at the Hines Pavilion at Gate 12 on White Avenue.

Survivors include his wife, Paula, daughter of top-fuel driver Chris Karamesines; daughter Krista; parents Joel and Carrie, and sister Nancy.