college football

USC, L.A. Coliseum sign 25-year lease

USC has signed a new 25-year lease that will keep the Trojans football team in the Los Angeles Coliseum and include improvements in the stadium.

USC has played in the 85-year-old facility since it was built in 1923.

Among other details, the agreement calls for the Coliseum Commission to replace all of the seats, upgrade the video and scoreboard on the peristyle end and add a video-scoreboard on the other end of the stadium.

The commission and the university also will try to get a naming rights sponsor for the facility.

Ex-LSU QB Perrilloux signs with Jacksonville State: Quarterback Ryan Perrilloux, kicked off LSU's national championship team after repeated off-the-field problems, signed with Jacksonville State.

Perrilloux will be able to transfer and start immediately for the Gamecocks. The MVP of last season's Southeastern Conference title game won't have to sit out a year because Jacksonville State plays in the lower Football Championship Subdivision.

track and field

American sprinter Collins reinstated

American sprinter Michelle Collins was reinstated by track and field's governing body, the IAAF, after serving three-plus years of a BALCO-related suspension.

Her ban for using performance-enhancing drugs was to expire in July, but it was reduced because Collins cooperated with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and federal investigators. The 37-year-old Collins is eligible to try to qualify for the U.S. Olympic trials, which start next month.

jurisprudence

Fifth person charged in Taylor's killing

Prosecutors in Miami say a fifth person has been charged in the slaying of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor.

Miami-Dade County State Attorney's Office spokesman Ed Griffith said 16-year-old Timothy Brown is charged with first-degree murder. He is also charged with armed burglary of an occupied dwelling.

Taylor died of massive blood loss after he was shot at his Miami-area home during a botched robbery in November. The 24-year-old safety had made the Pro Bowl in 2006 and 2007.

obituary

Former NFL center Whitley dead at 39

Former NFL center Curtis Whitley, who played for three teams in the 1990s and had a history of substance use, was found dead in his trailer home in West Texas.

The Pecos County sheriff said the 39-year-old Whitley was found Sunday night in Fort Stockton, about 220 miles east of El Paso.

A fifth-round draft pick out of Clemson in 1992, Whitley spent six tumultuous years in the NFL.

world hockey

U.S. falls to Finland, 3-2 in overtime

Sami Lepisto's goal at 3:59 of overtime led Finland to a 3-2 victory over the United States in the world hockey quarterfinals at Halifax, Nova Scotia.

running

Las Vegas Marathon owner runs up debt

The corporate owner of the Las Vegas Marathon acknowledged it owes thousands of dollars to southern Nevada businesses and organizations after suffering "significant" losses in staging the event last December.

Devine Racing chief executive Chris Devine issued a statement through a Las Vegas spokesman acknowledging "some outstanding payables" stemming from "a significant loss on the 2007 race," the third since his company bought the rights to the event in 2005.

Devine said his Chicago-based company was selling "two significant assets," and use the proceeds to pay its bills by June 15. The statement did not say what assets would be sold. The company also owns the Los Angeles and Salt Lake City marathons, the Chicago Half Marathon, and Devine has financial interest in several radio companies.