Sports: In brief

College volleyball

UK will host first two rounds of NCAA Tournament

The UK volleyball team was selected to host the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday and Friday at Memorial Coliseum. Kentucky's first-round matchup is against Michigan at 7 p.m. Thursday. The winner of that match will go on to face the winner of St. Louis and Alabama A&M Friday at 7 p.m.

"We're excited to get to play in front of our fans again," Coach Craig Skinner said. "There will be some great matchups here in Lexington. Getting the chance to host really speaks of the respect our program and our fans have earned."

This marks the fourth straight season the Cats (26-5, 17-3) have been selected in the NCAA Tournament. Lexington was chosen as a host site for the first time since 1993.

Michigan (24-8, 12-8) finished fifth in the Big Ten.

Louisville and Western Kentucky also made the field of 64 teams. Louisville will play Purdue at West Lafayette, Ind., at 6:30 p.m. Friday. Western Kentucky will play Cincinnati at Illinois at 6 p.m. Friday.

Horse Racing

Court Vision rallies for Grade I win

Court Vision rallied to win the Hollywood Derby on Sunday, giving jockey Ramon Dominguez a sweep of $500,000, Grade I events on the final day of the Turf Festival at Hollywood Park. Dominguez also guided favorite Cocoa Beach to a come-from-behind victory two races earlier in The Matriarch. Court Vision looked beaten heading into the far turn of the 1¼-mile Derby, but edged away in the final yards while covering the distance in 2:01.43, finishing three-quarters of a length in front of Cowboy Cal.

■ Wanderin Boy, a 7-year-old gelding trained by Nick Zito, broke sesamoids in his left foreleg in Saturday's Cigar Mile at Aqueduct and was euthanized. Wanderin Boy had four graded stakes victories and earned $1,213,759.

Golf

Choi wins $415,000 in Skins Game

K.J. Choi holed an 11-foot birdie putt worth $270,000 on the 18th hole Sunday to win the 26th Skins Game with $415,000. Stephen Ames missed a nine-footer that would have tied the hole and forced the foursome including Phil Mickelson and Rocco Mediate into a playoff. Instead, Choi's putt gave him $340,000 for Sunday's nine holes and made him the fifth international player to win the title.

■ Robert Karlsson and Henrik Stenson gave Sweden its second World Cup title, shooting a 9-under 63 on Sunday in alternate-shot play to beat Spain's Miguel Angel Jimenez and Pablo Larrazabal by three strokes in China.

■ Christina Kim gave Annika Sorenstam a big victory in her second-to-last event before retiring, birdieing the par-5 18th Sunday for a halve and the deciding half-point for the International team in the Lexus Cup in Singapore. The halve gave the International team a 12½ -11½ victory over Asia.

Baseball

Red Sox get Japanese amateur

The Boston Red Sox have reached an agreement with Japanese pitcher Junichi Tazawa pending the outcome of a physical exam this week, according to a report in the Boston Globe. The 22-year-old Tazawa is due in Boston this week to undergo a physical that is seen largely as a formality. The hard-throwing Tazawa asked Japan's professional teams not to select him in last November's amateur draft so that he could pursue a career in the United States. No rule prevents American teams from pursuing Japanese amateurs, although several major-league teams have been reluctant to pursue Tazawa for fear of upsetting relations between Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball.

Cycling

Armstrong set to start training

Lance Armstrong is set to start training camp this week without having subjected himself to drug tests by the anti-doping expert he teamed with and with no deal in place to post results of those tests online. When the seven-time Tour de France winner announced his comeback earlier this year, he partnered with renowned anti-doping expert Don Catlin to set up a testing program. Catlin told The Associated Press this weekend that he has yet to test Armstrong and that a plan to document Armstrong's results online is not in place. "We're interested in getting it going," Catlin said. "We have been chatting and are in negotiations."

The last word

When asked about his decision to leave Tayshaun Prince on the bench in the fourth quarter of a 96-85 loss to Portland Sunday, Pistons Coach Michael Curry said: "Tay didn't play well tonight." That was news to Prince:

"Huh? Wow, I thought I was playing pretty good if you ask me. ... I don't know. It's up to them to see what's going on, and I guess their decision was to sit me down. I was playing well."