North Carolina coach Davis undergoing chemotherapy

North Carolina football coach Butch Davis is undergoing chemotherapy after a dentist removed a cancerous growth from his mouth.

Davis, 55, said he wasn't aware he had a growth when he saw his dentist late last month in Cleveland for a routine cleaning. After the growth was removed, a biopsy diagnosed it as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Subsequent exams found no evidence that the cancer has spread, but Davis said he is undergoing chemotherapy as a precaution.

TEAM PLAYS ON Bluffton University will play baseball this season despite the deaths of five players who were killed when the Ohio team's bus toppled off an overpass near Atlanta.

PROBE CONTINUES The death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer at the World Cup tournament is being treated as "suspicious" by Jamaican police after a preliminary autopsy.

Asked if Jamaican police were pursuing a murder investigation, deputy police commissioner Mark Shields said: "No, we are not saying that."

Woolmer, 58, was found dead in his hotel room Sunday in Kingston, Jamaica, hours after Pakistan was upset by Ireland and eliminated from advancing in the tournament.

MUSHER TROUBLE Iditarod Trail Sled Dod Race officials will continue to look into a witness's account that musher Ramy Brooks hit his dogs with his fists, kicked some and struck some with a ski pole in a rant that lasted more than 15 minutes.

SUBPOENAS SOUGHT Professional athletes may be subpoenaed to testify against doctors and pharmacists involved in distributing illegal steroids via the Internet, said Albany County (N.Y.) district attorney P. David Soares, who is leading the probe.

EX-NFL PLAYER HEADED TO IRAQ A former NFL player who joined the Marines and was motivated by college roommate Pat Tillman, who died in Iraq, is heading for the war himself.

Lance Cpl. Jeremy Staat, a defensive lineman for the Steelers and Rams who had been playing Arena Football, was one of 300 Marines in the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment being deployed from Kaneohe Bay. The unit is expected to be in Iraq for seven months.

"The way I look at it, we're spreading freedom, and you have to support the troops and you have to support the war," Staat, 29, told KITV in Honolulu.

ARCHULETA TRADED Adam Archuleta's tumultuous time with the Washington Redskins ended when the veteran safety was traded to the Chicago Bears for a sixth-round draft pick.

TEXANS ADD LINEBACKER The Texans signed free-agent linebacker Shawn Barber, who played last season for the Eagles.

FRIEDMAN SIGNS The Browns signed offensive lineman Lennie Friedman, who previously played for the Broncos.

HURTING IN THE WATER Russia's Larisa Ilchenko picked up her second gold in open-water swimming at the FINA World Championships in Melbourne, Australia, winning the 10-kilometer race in jellyfish-infested waters. Everyone emerged from the water with ugly, red welts covering their bodies.

"I honestly can't speak right now. Let me go to my doctor, please. I'm hurting," Ilchenko said.

Russia won its third synchronized swimming event when the Anastasias - Davydova and Ermakova - won the technical duet.

KLOEDEN WINS German rider Andreas Kloeden won the Tirreno-Adriatico race at San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy, and Spanish rider Koldo Fernandez won the final stage for his first professional victory.

U.S. FALTERS Scotland skip Kelly Wood scored two in the eighth end and added two more in the ninth as Scotland defeated the United States 12-6 at the women's world curling championship in Aomori, Japan.