It’s one and done for Buckeyes’ Oden

Ohio State freshman Greg Oden will make himself available for the NBA draft today, a family friend said Thursday night.

“There will be a release in the morning from Ohio State. Greg Oden will be hiring an agent,” said Al Powell, who has been a party to meetings involving Oden and two other Buckeyes freshmen, Mike Conley Jr. and Daequan Cook.

If Conley and Cook don’t hire agents, they will retain the option of returning to the team in the fall.

Nevada junior guards Marcelus Kemp and Ramon Sessions will make themselves available for the NBA draft in June, but without agents so they will retain the option of returning to the team in the fall, Coach Mark Fox said.

TENNIS

Nadal and Federer

advance in Monaco

Rafael Nadal extended his winning streak on clay to 64 matches with a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Kristof Vliegen, and Roger Federer cruised to a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Lee Hyung-taik at the Monte Carlo Masters in Monaco.

The Pacific 10 Conference championship in men’s tennis will be decided today at the Los Angeles Tennis Center when No. 9 USC (20-1) meets No. 10 UCLA (18-3) starting at 1:30 p.m. Both teams are 6-0 in conference play. USC defeated UCLA, 6-1, on March 9 in a nonconference match.

GOLF

Rookie Reifers has

first-round lead

PGA Tour rookie Kyle Reifers shot a course-record eight-under par 64 at the TPC Louisiana in Avondale, La., giving him a two-shot lead over Mark Calcavecchia after the first round of the Zurich Classic.

Reifers’ round was one shot better than the 3-year-old course’s previous record, which had been set by Chris DiMarco and Arjun Atwal in 2005.

CYCLING

Landis will compete

in Colorado event

Tour de France champion Floyd Landis will compete in the Teva Mountain Games in Vail, Colo., despite an ongoing doping investigation and hip surgery last year. Landis is set to ride in road bike and mountain bike stages of the Ultimate Mountain Challenge on June 2-3.

Levi Leipheimer clinched a decisive time trial stage win and teammate Janez Brajkovic became the race leader at the Tour de Georgia.

SOCCER

U.S. women schedule

three exhibition games

The U.S. women’s team will play exhibition games against Japan, New Zealand and Finland before it heads to the World Cup. The Americans meet Japan on July 28 at San Jose, New Zealand on Aug. 12 at Chicago and Finland on Aug. 25 at the Home Depot Center in Carson.

Seven referees were suspended by the Italian referees association in Italy’s ongoing soccer scandal. The suspensions were made in response to an investigation by prosecutors in Naples that uncovered new match-fixing allegations.

The Houston Dynamo acquired All-Star midfielder Richard Mulrooney in a trade that sent defender Kevin Goldthwaite and a first-round draft pick to Toronto FC.

JURISPRUDENCE

Reid’s sons enter

pleas of not guilty

Two sons of Philadelphia Eagles Coach Andy Reid have pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from separate traffic incidents on the same day in late January. Britt Reid, 21, is accused of brandishing a handgun at another motorist. Garrett Reid, 24, faces assault, drug possession and other misdemeanor charges.

Former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier told his attorney to drop a lawsuit against his daughter after she pledged to help him locate missing business records.

MISCELLANY

Louisiana Lafayette

is put on probation

Louisiana Lafayette was put on probation for two years and will lose basketball scholarships under NCAA sanctions stemming from a basketball player’s correspondence course and the football program’s mandatory summer workouts. The infractions took place from 2002 to 2005.

Host West Indies, already eliminated from cricket’s World Cup, beat Bangladesh by 99 runs for its first victory of the Super Eight phase.

The start of the Louis Vuitton Cup challenger series in America’s Cup sailing was postponed for the fourth consecutive day because of lack of wind off the coast of Valencia, Spain. Team meteorologists are predicting Saturday will be the earliest sailing is likely to start.

The Louis Vuitton Cup, which runs through June 11, will determine which of the 11 challengers will sail against defending America’s Cup champion Alinghi of Switzerland in the final June 23-July 4.

The NCAA Division I management council has recommended a ban on text messages and other electronically transmitted correspondence between coaches and recruits.

Unlike restrictions on phone calls and in-person visits, there are no coach limits on text messaging. Limitations on e-mails and faxes would not change. If approved by the organization’s board of directors on April 26, the ban would take effect in August.

Four-time Olympic gold medalist Janica Kostelic retired from skiing.

PASSINGS

All-American football player Webster was 61

George Webster, 61, a former Michigan State All-American and NFL standout, died of heart failure.