Driver’s Chief Is Fined

NASCAR fined Kasey Kahne’s crew chief $10,000 and put him on probation Tuesday for his role in a fight in Tony Stewart’s pit at Chicagoland Speedway.

Tommy Baldwin was fined $5,000 for violating a rule prohibiting fights in another team’s pit area and $5,000 for not controlling crew members. He also was put on probation until Dec. 31.

The fight in Stewart’s pit happened after the driver spun out race leader Kahne on a restart Sunday in Tropicana 400. Kahne crashed into the wall, and Stewart went on to win.

Baldwin and his crew went to Stewart’s pit, where a heated discussion turned into a shoving match, with crew members falling over tires until NASCAR officials intervened.

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Olympics

The head of the Iraqi Olympic committee said militants had ambushed his convoy with rocket-propelled grenades in the middle of Baghdad, damaging his bodyguards’ car and injuring one of them.

Ahmed Hijeya said he was traveling to a television interview Monday when his two-car convoy was ambushed on Baghdad’s Haifa Street, the scene of regular violence and occasional street battles between insurgents and U.S. and Iraqi forces.

UCLA junior Kate Richardson was selected by Gymnastics Canada as the fifth member of that country’s Olympic team for this summer’s competition.

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Tennis

Guillermo Canas rallied to beat Wimbledon quarterfinalist Florian Mayer, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (5), 6-4, in a second-round match in the Mercedes Cup at Stuttgart, Germany.

Sixth-seeded Amy Frazier rallied from a three-game deficit in the first set to beat Amber Liu, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3, in a first-round match in the Bank of the West Classic at Stanford.

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Pro Football

The Arizona Cardinals have ended their off-season workouts a week early after a group of players complained to the union that the team had violated league rules by working the players too hard.

Defensive tackle Darrell Russell was released by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, four months after he signed with the team.

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Miscellany

Miami Hurricane cornerback Antrel Rolle was suspended indefinitely by Coach Larry Coker after being charged with battery on a police officer.

Khelcey Barrs, a promising 6-foot-6 sophomore basketball player from Lawndale Leuzinger who collapsed in May after playing in a series of basketball games, died because of complications from an enlarged heart, the Los Angeles County coroner’s office ruled after conducting toxicological tests.

Barrs collapsed at L.A. Southwest College and was taken to Centinela Hospital Medical Center in Inglewood, where he was pronounced dead.

Defenseman Ric Jackman agreed to a multiyear contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins.