Police Arrest Pittman After Car Incident

Super Bowl star Michael Pittman of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was arrested after Phoenix police say he rammed a Mercedes carrying his wife, their son and the baby sitter. No one was hurt.

Pittman, who was driving a Hummer, has not been charged and was released from jail. The county attorney will determine whether charges will be filed.

The Buccaneers had no immediate comment, team spokesman Jeff Kamis said.

A message left for Pittman’s agent, Thomas Condon, was not immediately returned Sunday.

The 27-year-old running back was arguing with his wife Saturday about taking the 2-year-old boy to training camp, police Lt. Michael Cecchini said.

Pittman was arrested twice on domestic violence charges in the summer of 2001. He also was arrested in 1997, and sentenced to a batterers’ treatment program and two years’ probation.

Pittman rushed for a game-high 124 yards in 29 carries in Tampa Bay’s 48-21 victory over Oakland in the Super Bowl.

Brian Griese was once touted as a replacement for John Elway. Now Griese is about to become a victim of the salary cap.

The Broncos are expected to release Griese today, a move that will save the team $6.3 million in salary cap space over the next two years.

Despite his struggles the last two seasons -- 38 touchdowns and 34 interceptions -- several teams might take a chance on Griese, who was a Pro Bowl selection only three years ago.

Griese could end up in Dallas, where new Coach Bill Parcells might want to add a veteran quarterback, but Miami appears to be the best fit.

The Dolphins, who released Ray Lucas in April, want a backup for Jay Fiedler. Griese grew up in Miami, where his father, Bob, was a Hall of Fame quarterback for the Dolphins in the 1970s.

Track and Field

Kenyan Ondoro Osoro won the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon at San Diego, three years after he was shot in the back of the neck during a carjacking in his homeland.

Osoro outkicked countryman Peter Chebet to win in 2 hours 9 minutes 38 seconds on a cool, overcast morning.

“I didn’t even know if I’d ever run again,” Osoro said shortly after holding off Chebet by two seconds. “It is like a miracle to me.”

Kenyans swept the first seven places and took nine of the top 10 spots.

Osoro was running in his third marathon since being shot July 23, 2000, after refusing to hand over the keys to his Toyota Land Cruiser to gunmen. He had been named to the Kenyan Olympic team the day before, but missed the Sydney Games and wasn’t able to resume training for six months.

The top American finisher was Nazario Romero of San Marcos in northern San Diego County. He was 16th in 2:24:35.

Irina Bogacheva of Kyrgyzstan easily won the women’s race in 2:29:52, 34 seconds faster than Fatuma Roba of Ethiopia, the 1996 Olympic gold medalist and a three-time Boston Marathon winner.

Kenenisa Bekele beat Ethiopian countryman Haile Gebrselassie in the Dutch Thales FBK Games at Hengelo, Netherlands, posting the fastest 10,000 meters this year.

Bekele was timed in 26 minutes 53.70 seconds, well off the world record of 26:22.75 set by Gebrselassie five years ago in Hengelo’s FBK Stadium. Another Ethiopian, Sihine Sileshi, was third.

The three broke from the pack in the first 10 minutes, and Bekele won a final sprint in 81-degree heat.

Roman Sebrle of the Czech Republic won the decathlon at Goetzis, Austria with a score well below his world record.

Sebrle, the 2000 Olympic silver medalist, became the first to win the decathlon three times in a row at Goetzis. He finished with 8,807 points, short of the world record of 9,026 that he set two years ago at Goetzis.

Tom Pappas of the United States, the 2003 indoor world champion, had 8,585 points and was runner-up for the second consecutive year.

Jon Arnar Magnusson of Iceland (8,222) was third.

In the women’s heptathlon, Carolina Klueft of Sweden won with 6,602 points and Austra Skujyte of Lithuania was second at 6,213.

Miscellany

Seventeen finalists were announced for the U.S. men’s basketball team for the Pan American Games.

Twelve players will be selected after training camp July 15-29 in Orlando, Fla. The games are Aug. 2-6 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Among the finalists are Connecticut’s Emeka Okafor, Missouri’s Ricky Paulding, Stanford’s Josh Childress, Arizona State’s Ike Diogu, Oregon’s Luke Jackson and Gonzaga’s Blake Stepp.

The team will be coached by Tom Izzo of Michigan State.

The U.S. has not won the gold medal at the Pan Am Games since 1983.

Kelly Kulick upset 19-time champion Carolyn Dorin-Ballard, 261-195, to win the Professional Women’s Bowling Assn.’s U.S. Open at Sunnybrook Lanes in Sterling Heights, Mich.

Kulick received $30,000 for her first national championship win in three years as a touring pro. Kulick beat Leanne Barrette in a two-frame rolloff in the first match of the TV finals and defeated PWBA player of the year Michelle Feldman in the third round, 256-174, to advance to the final.

Penn State backup quarterback Gregory Hennigar was killed after his car hit a parked tractor-trailer over the weekend.

Hennigar, 18, was driving alone when he crashed early Saturday morning in northeast Philadelphia, police spokesman Sgt. Roland Lee said.

Hennigar was pronounced dead at Frankford-Torresdale Hospital, Lee said.

The cause of the crash is under investigation, Lee said.

Hennigar was a walk-on who redshirted last season, his first, at Penn State.