Spain's Nadal claims Pacific Life Open title

Rafael Nadal won his first title since the French Open, beating Novak Djokovic 6-2, 7-5 in the Pacific Life Open tennis tournament final in Indians Wells, Calif.

Nadal, a five-time champion last year and an 11-time winner in 2005, had gone a stretch of 12 tournaments without winning, dating to the successful defense of his title at Roland Garros in June.

AINGE FINED The Boston Celtics have been fined $30,000 by the NBA for excessive contact with the family of University of Texas freshman Kevin Durant, a likely lottery draft pick.

Celtics general manager Danny Ainge sat next to Durant's mother during the Big 12 Conference tournament.

The league said Ainge violated rules demanding contact be kept to a minimum between team executives and potential NBA draft picks.

AMUNDSON RETAINED Monarch High School graduate Louis Amundson has signed a second 10-day contract with the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers.

WASHINGTON COACH FIRED Women's basketball coach June Daugherty was fired by the University of Washington after a 191-139 record at the school.

OSWEGO STATE WINS TITLE Garren Reisweber gave Oswego State (23-3-3) its first NCAA Division III men's hockey title, scoring in overtime in the Lakers' 4-3 victory against three-time defending champion Middlebury (20-8-2) in Superior, Wis.

TAKING A REST Indiana University football coach Terry Hoeppner, who has had brain surgery twice in the past 15 months, will skip spring practice for health reasons.

RUSH ROLLS Bobby Sippio caught five touchdown passes and the ArenaBowl champion Chicago Rush scored 34 straight points in the second half in a 61-40 victory against the Arena Football League's New York Dragons in Rosemont, Ill.

BLAZE LOSES Jeff Smoker threw for five touchdowns and Dan Alexander ran for five scores to help the AFL's Nashville Kats earn a 69-55 home win against the Utah Blaze.

VOODOO BEATS GLADIATORS Andy Kelly threw for four touchdowns to help the AFL's New Orleans VooDoo to a 59-31 road victory against the Las Vegas Gladiators.

DOLPHINS' ULTRAFAN DIES Denny Sym, aka "Dolfan Denny," who cheered on the Miami Dolphins for 34 years as a one-man sideline show, died Friday in Davie, Fla. He was 72.

MANNINEN ON TOP French skier Jason Lamy Chappuis won the final Nordic combined World Cup event, in Oslo, Norway, and Finnish competitor Hannu Manninen won his fourth overall title.

Chappuis beat Austrian Felix Gottwald by 12.6 seconds.

American Bill Demong, who won his first World Cup event in five years last week in Finland, was 24.3 seconds behind, in third place.

AMMANN'S FIRST Swiss jumper Simon Ammann won a large-hill ski-jumping competition in Oslo and Norwegian competitor Anders Jacobsen took the overall World Cup lead with a seventh-place finish.

CONTADOR MAKES IT COUNT Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador won the Paris-Nice race after winning the final stage.

The Discovery Channel rider completed the 80.3-mile route around the southern coastal city of Nice in 3 hours, 15 minutes, 47 seconds.

COACH DIES AT WORLD CUP Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer died during the World Cup tournament in Kingston, Jamaica, one day after his team suffered one of the biggest upsets in the sport's history. He was 58.

Ireland, playing in its first World Cup, downed 1992 champion Pakistan by three wickets Saturday to eliminate the English-born Woolmer's team from the 16-nation competition.