Hornets’ West will miss rest of season

Hornets leading scorer David West has a torn left knee ligament and is out for the season, a development that dims New Orleans' playoff prospects. Hornets general manager Dell Demps announced the news after learning the results of an MRI yesterday. West was injured Thursday night in the Hornets' win at Utah. He scored 29 points before being taken off in a wheelchair grimacing in pain after going down hard after a dunk. The Hornets began play last night seventh in the Western Conference . . . Grizzlies forward Rudy Gay had season-ending surgery on his partially dislocated left shoulder, the team announced.

Colleges

UMass-HC to play under lights at Fitton The University of Massachusetts released its 2011 football schedule, highlighted by a Thursday opener against Holy Cross in the first night game at Fitton Field and a trip to Boston College Sept. 24. The Minutemen, 6-5 in 2010, will meet New Hampshire in the second Colonial Clash at Gillette Stadium Oct. 22 . . . Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel forwarded e-mails to Terrelle Pryor's mentor — Pennsylvania businessman Ted Sarniak — that accused the star quarterback of selling memorabilia to a man under federal investigation, the Columbus Dispatch reported. Tressel was suspended the first five games next season and was fined $250,000 by the university for failing to notify the school about e-mails he received last April involving the sale of memorabilia by two players . . . The University of Nebraska at Omaha is going to join Division 1, but will have to eliminate its 100-year-old football program and a wrestling program that has won six of the last eight Division 2 national titles to accommodate the switch to the Summit League . . . Williams junior Loga Todhunter defended her national title in the 200-yard butterfly, winning in 1 minute and 58.60 seconds at the NCAA Division 3 championships in Knoxville, Tenn.
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