Florida State to void victories

Florida State announced Sunday it will vacate 12 football victories and a 2007 men’s track national championship in an academic cheating scandal, along with dozens of more victories and placings across 10 men’s and women’s sports.

The NCAA stripped the school of wins in which 61 athletes implicated in the scandal contributed. The college sports governing body upheld the decision last month after Florida State appealed the sanctions as “excessive.”

The men’s basketball team lost all 22 wins from 2006-07, and women’s basketball lost 16 victories that season, including two in the NCAA tournament.

Bobby Bowden, who retired after last season as the second all-time winningest coach in major-college football behind Penn State’s Joe Paterno, now has fewer victories.

Bowden finished with 389 before subtracting five wins from the 2006 season, including the Emerald Bowl victory over UCLA, and seven regular-season victories in 2007.

BASEBALL

Dodgers sign Giles

Veteran outfielder Brian Giles has signed a minor league contract with the Dodgers.

The Dodgers said that Giles has been invited to big league camp.

A career .291 hitter, Giles batted only .191 in 61 games last season with the San Diego Padres. The 39-year-old Giles did not play after going on the disabled list June 19 because of a bruised right knee.

TENNIS

Cilic repeats at Zagreb

Top-seeded Marin Cilic successfully defended his Zagreb Indoors title in his native Croatia by beating Michael Berrer of Germany in three sets.

Cilic won, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-4, in 2 hours 38 minutes to claim his second title of the year and the fifth of his career.

Teenager Melanie Oudin won her two singles matches to lead the United States to a 4-1 victory over host France at Lievin and secure a spot in the Fed Cup semifinals.

Oudin beat Julie Coin, 7-6 (3), 6-4, to give the Americans a 3-0 lead.

The U.S. will next face Russia on April 24-25.

Third-seeded Feliciano Lopez of Spain won his second ATP Tour title by beating Stephane Robert of France, 7-5, 6-1, in the SA Open final at Johannesburg, South Africa.

OLYMPICS

IOC to investigate

The International Olympic Committee opened a formal investigation into a doping case that could lead to the stripping of gold medals from a U.S. women’s relay team at the 2004 Athens Olympics.

The IOC executive board set up a disciplinary commission in the case of Crystal Cox, who ran in the preliminaries of the winning 1,600-meter team.

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said late last month that Cox had admitted to using anabolic steroids and accepted a four-year suspension.

Convicted ex-Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee was reinstated as a full member of the IOC, a boost for South Korea’s bid to host the 2018 Winter Games.

Lee’s rights were restored by the IOC executive board following a recommendation of the ethics commission, several IOC officials told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the decision hadn’t been announced.

JURISPRUDENCE

Sapp released on bond

Former NFL star Warren Sapp was released from jail on $1,500 bond, a day after being arrested for allegedly choking a woman in his Miami Beach, Fla., hotel room.

Officials say Miami Dolphins defensive tackle Tony McDaniel is out of jail after being arrested and accused of domestic violence.

McDaniel was released on $3,500 bond. Authorities say he returned from a night out with friends and then got into a fight with his girlfriend early Saturday at his home in Davie, Fla., which is near Miami.

McDaniel says in a police affidavit that his girlfriend attacked him.