Gooden Turns Himself In to Florida Police

Former baseball star Dwight Gooden turned himself in at a Tampa, Fla., county jail Thursday, three days after police said he fled a DUI traffic stop.

Gooden, 40, had been missing since early Monday, when an officer pulled over his 2004 BMW near downtown Tampa on suspicion of drunk driving.

He twice refused to get out of the car for a field sobriety test, then drove away suddenly, police said.

Gooden, who has a history of substance abuse and has a domestic violence charge pending in the court, was booked on a felony charge of fleeing police, and misdemeanor charges of driving under intoxication and resisting arrest without violence.

He was being held without bond. Police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said Gooden was scheduled to appear in court today for a hearing to revoke his bond on the March domestic violence charge.

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Hockey

Buffalo Sabre enforcer Andrew Peters briefly and legally used the steroid-like supplement androstenedione two years ago to help him make the team.

Peters did not break any laws or NHL rules at the time and has stopped using the performance enhancer since the Food and Drug Administration banned its sale in April 2004, said his agent, Steve Bartlett.

Peters, believed to be the first NHL player to acknowledge using a performance-enhancing supplement, said he used androstenedione from May to August 2003, the Buffalo News reported.

“No one said you can’t, so why not?” Peters told the newspaper. “We didn’t do anything illegal. It was a supplement. We weren’t hiding anything.”

The Mighty Ducks acquired right wing Kip Brennan from Atlanta in exchange for defenseman Mark Popovic and also came to terms with right wing Craig Adams on a one-year contract.

Brennan, who will turn 25 on Saturday, spent parts of three seasons with the Kings before being traded to the Thrashers during the 2003-04 season. He has logged 175 penalty minutes in 46 NHL games.

Adams spent four seasons with Carolina and played for Milan in the Italian League during the lockout.

The Tampa Bay Lightning signed unrestricted free agent Dave Andreychuk to a two-year contract. Andreychuk, 41, who has played for six teams, played 1,597 regular-season and 162 playoff games before finally earning a championship ring. He had one goal and 13 assists in 23 games during the Lightning’s title run.

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Tennis

Lindsay Davenport escaped with a 6-2, 7-6 (5) victory over Slovakia’s Daniela Hantuchova to reach the Pilot Pen semifinals in New Haven, Conn., putting Davenport within one win of regaining the No. 1 ranking from Maria Sharapova.

Davenport, seeded first and tuning up for next week’s U.S. Open, struggled to find her serve for the second consecutive match, delivering eight double faults. She will next play Anna Chakvetadze of Russia, who beat Jie Zheng of China, 6-4, 6-4.

Davenport lost the No. 1 ranking on Monday, but WTA officials said that if she made it to the final at New Haven, she’d go into the U.S. Open as the world’s top player.

Fourth-seeded Elena Dementieva of Russia lost to Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain, 6-4, 6-3. Second-seeded Amelie Mauresmo of France cruised past Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany, 6-3, 6-2.

Among the men, second-seeded Fernando Gonzalez of Chile lost to Fernando Verdasco of Spain, 6-7 (3), 7-5, 7-6 (3), and fifth-seeded Feliciano Lopez of Spain defeated Vincent Spadea, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4. Unseeded James Blake, a native of nearby Fairfield, defeated sixth-seeded Tommy Haas, 1-6, 6-3, 6-3.

Alexa Glatch, a 15-year-old wild card, upset Martina Sucha, 6-1, 6-4, to advance to the semifinals of the Forest Hills Women’s Classic in New York.

Glatch, a high school junior from Newport Beach, turned pro this year and has a wild card into the main draw of the U.S. Open, which starts Monday.

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Basketball

The Phoenix Suns completed a deal to acquire restricted free-agent swingman James Jones from the Indiana Pacers. The Pacers will get a second-round pick in the 2008 draft. The Suns also signed Coach Mike D’Antoni to a two-year extension.

Lynn Greer made three free throws with 1.2 seconds left to lead the United States to a 96-94 victory over Brazil in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, at the Americas World Championship qualifying tournament.

Brazil and the Americans traded the lead three times in the last minute. But Phoenix Sun guard Leandro Barbosa made a layup, drew a foul and made the free throw to put the Brazilians ahead with 6.4 seconds left.

After a timeout and with only seconds remaining, Greer brought the ball up, crossed over at the top of the arc, forced a shot and was fouled.

Emily Niemann, a key player in Baylor’s drive to the NCAA women’s basketball championship last spring, has completed her transfer to UC Santa Barbara.

The 6-foot-1 junior forward, who averaged 9.9 points in two seasons at Baylor, must sit out next season but will have two years of eligibility left beginning in the 2006-07 season.

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Jurisprudence

In court testimony, an 18-year-old woman identified former Brigham Young University football player B.J. Mathis as one of the men who sexually assaulted her at a Provo, Utah, apartment a year ago.

The woman from suburban Salt Lake City was the first witness in the trial of Mathis and Ibrahim Rashada, both 19, who are accused of raping the woman, then 17, in August 2004. They are charged with aggravated sexual assault, dealing harmful material to a minor, furnishing alcohol to a minor and obstructing justice.

The woman said she was attacked by three, possibly four, men after she passed out from drinking vodka and then went to a bedroom to lie down.

Two other players were charged with rape. One has taken a plea agreement, and the case of the other is in juvenile court. Two others were charged with lesser crimes in the case.

All the players were suspended or expelled for failure to comply with the school’s honor code. None is still with the team.

Tennessee defensive back Corey Campbell, accused of shoplifting, pleaded guilty in Knoxville to a reduced charge and was placed on judicial diversion.

Campbell was arrested in March 2004 when authorities said he stuffed 25 feet of coaxial cable into his sweatshirt pocket. The cable was worth $6.96.