Dotson Receives 35-Year Sentence

Former Baylor basketball player Carlton Dotson was led off to prison for 35 years Wednesday to shouts from the stepfather of his murdered best friend and teammate, who held up a framed picture of his son and yelled: “Remember him! Remember his face!”

“You, Carlton Dotson, are a killer, a sinner of the worst degree, and may you never forget what you did,” Brian Brabazon said during the sentencing in Waco, Texas, at times glaring and pointing at Dotson as his voice rose to a shout.

Dotson showed no emotion. Valorie Brabazon, the mother of victim Patrick Dennehy, sat in the front row sobbing as her teenage daughter tried to comfort her. She said afterward that the family would attend all parole board hearings and urge that Dotson “doesn’t walk the streets again.”

Dotson, 23, pleaded guilty last week to killing the 21-year-old Dennehy, whose body was found in 2003 in a field where the two friends had gone to shoot targets.

The case against Dotson shocked the Baptist school and led to a scandal in the basketball program.

Tennis

Andy Roddick jumped to the No. 2 seeding for Wimbledon, the first time only one American man was seeded in the top 16 at the event, and he could face No. 1 Roger Federer in a rematch of last year’s final.

Federer’s seeding matched his ATP Tour standing, but Roddick was pushed two spots higher than his ranking, ahead of 2002 Wimbledon champion Lleyton Hewitt and French Open champion Rafael Nadal.

Hewitt was seeded No. 3, with Nadal -- who has little experience on grass -- at No. 4.

The seedings matched the rankings for the top eight women, led by No. 1 Lindsay Davenport. She was followed by defending champion Maria Sharapova, Amelie Mauresmo and 2002-03 champion Serena Williams.

Top-seeded Ivan Ljubicic was upset by fellow Croatian Ivo Karlovic, 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (1), in the second round at Nottingham, England.

The 6-foot-10 Karlovic will next play 5-foot-5 Olivier Rochus, a 6-4, 6-3 winner over Karol Beck.

Second-seeded Thomas Johansson overcame Tomas Berdych, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (8), to advance to the quarterfinals against Taylor Dent, who defeated fellow American Travis Rettenmaier, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3.

Top-seeded Tommy Robredo and second-seeded Guillermo Coria lost at the Ordina Open in Den Bosch, Netherlands.

Lars Burgsmuller, who hadn’t won a match in his last eight tournaments, ousted Robredo, 6-2, 7-6 (5). Jan Hernych defeated Coria, 6-3, 6-4.

Top-seeded Mauresmo lost in her first grass-court match of the season, falling to qualifier Vera Douchevina, 6-4, 6-4, in the second round at Eastbourne, England.

Soccer

Former World Cup champions Argentina and Germany got off to winning starts on the opening day of the Confederations Cup at Frankfurt, Germany.

Argentina defeated Tunisia, 2-1, on goals by Juan Riquelme and Javier Saviola, and host Germany defeated Australia, 4-3, in the 12th game under Coach Juergen Klinsmann.

Colombia and the Netherlands advanced to the second round of the FIFA World Youth Championship, and defending champion Brazil earned its first win at the under-20 tournament by beating Switzerland, 1-0.

Colombia topped Canada, 2-0, in the other Group E match with two late goals, and the host Netherlands routed Australia, 3-0, in Group A.

Miscellany

Wayne Gretzky will resume his duties as executive director of hockey’s Team Canada for February’s Winter Games in Turin, Italy, hoping to select a team that will successfully defend the men’s Olympic title earned in Salt Lake City.

Safety Reggie Tongue was released by the New York Jets after starting every game last season. Tongue played only one season with the Jets.... Indianapolis Colt safety Mike Doss was suspended by the NFL for the first two regular-season games after pleading no contest to misdemeanor gun charges.... The Kansas City Chiefs have agreed to terms on a one-year deal with free-agent receiver Az-Zahir Hakim. Hakim was released by the Detroit Lions in April.

Softball pitcher Krystal Lewellan of Division II Northern Kentucky and distance runner Missy Buttry of Division III Wartburg College have been voted the top female athletes in their NCAA divisions by the Collegiate Women Sports Awards program.

Lewellan was 32-1 with a 0.36 earned-run average in helping Northern Kentucky reach the Division II World Series.

Buttry won the 1,500- and 5,000-meter runs at the Division III outdoor track and field championships.