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LITTLE ROCK — FOOTBALL

Former coach Carlen dies

Jim Carlen, who coached South Carolina’s only Heisman Trophy winner and led West Virginia and Texas Tech to success, died Sunday. He was 79. Carlen died in Columbia, S.C., according Dunbar Funeral Home. The cause of death was not given. Carlen was 107-69-6 in his 16-year coaching career and had just three losing seasons. He led his teams to eight bowl games. Carlen was a punter and linebacker for Georgia Tech and was an assistant for the Yellow Jackets before he took his first head coaching job in West Virginia in 1966. He’s credited with bringing West Virginia football to the big stage, convincing the school’s leaders to leave the Southern Conference and become an independent. The Mountaineers went 25-13-3 in Carlen’s four years, including their second 10-victory season in the program’s history in 1969 that ended with a 14-3 victory over South Carolina in the Peach Bowl. “Jim was very instrumental in the overall growth of our football program, and even after he left, he still remained interested in the Mountaineers. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Carlen family and friends,” West Virginia Athletic Director Oliver Luck said in a statement. Carlen went on to Texas Tech, where he went 37-20-2 in five seasons, including an 11-victory season for the Red Raiders in 1973. He was named Southwest Conference Coach of the Year twice and led Texas Tech to four bowls. South Carolina hired Carlen to be both football coach and athletic director in 1975. He went 46-36-1 in seven seasons and ranked second in Gamecocks history in coaching victories until he was passed by Steve Spurrier last season.

Detroit Lions cornerback Aaron Berry was arrested Saturday in Pennsylvania for the second time this off season. Cpl. Kyle Gautsch of the Harrisburg Police Department said Berry was taken into custody early Saturday morning on three charges of simple assault. Gautsch said there “was a weapon allegedly brandished during the incident.” Berry also was arrested in that area June 23 on suspicion of DUI, failure to stop and render aid from an accident and other counts. He was set to enter a diversionary program in that case. Berry is entering his third NFL season. He started three games last season for the Lions and one the previous season.

GOLF

Stallings wins PGA event

Scott Stallings shot a 4-underpar 68 in the final round Sunday to win the True South Classic at Annandale Golf Club in Madison, Miss. The 27-year-old won his second career tournament and his first in 2012, shooting a 24-under 264, which is a tournament record at Annandale. Late birdies on Nos. 16 and 17 allowed him to pull away for the victory. He earned $540,000. Jason Bohn shot a 5-under 67 to finish second, two strokes back. Billy Horschel was alone in third at four strokes back. Ken Duke (Arkadelphia, Henderson State) shot 72 and Glen Day (Little Rock) shot 66 to finished tied for 31st at 11 under. They earned $16,650.

MOTOR SPORTS

Alonso wins German GP

Fernando Alonso won the German Grand Prix in his Ferrari on Sunday in Hockenheim, Germany, and extended his Formula One championship lead. Two-time defending champion Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull failed to win his home race but passed Jenson Button’s McLaren with one lap remaining in the 67-lap race to take second. Button struggled with his tires in last few laps, after challenging Alonso for the lead.

HORSE RACING

Bern Identity gets victory

Favored Bern Identity overtook Handsome Jack in the final sixteenth of a mile and moved on to a 1 1/4-length victory in the $200,000 Sanford Stakes for 2-year-olds Sunday at Saratoga. Rosie Napravnikrode the Kelly Breen-trained colt to his second victory in three starts. He ran six furlongs in 1:11.13 and earned $120,000. Bern Identity paid $5.60, $4, $3.40. Handsome Jack returned $4.50 and $3.50. Onetwentyeight, third of eight, paid $5.10 to show.

TENNIS

Roddick wins Atlanta Open

Andy Roddick beat Gilles Muller 1-6, 7-6 (2), 6-2 to win the Atlanta Open and earn his 32nd ATP World Tour title Sunday. “I’ve always appreciated it,” Roddick said of the victory. “I’ve won 32 times, and in every one of them I’ve never assumed I was going to win again.” Roddick, 29, ranks third among active players in career titles behind Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. A sore right shoulder caused Roddick to struggle with Muller’s serve in the first set.Before the changeover, he called a medical timeout to see a trainer. He said the shoulder felt pinched, and there was a dull pain. “I felt like I could hit it straight ahead OK,” he said. “I was just lacking movement and wasn’t able to snap the ball off too well. I don’t feel like I had my best serve today. It was just a little dead for whatever reason, but hopefully with a couple of days off it will be OK.” Muller, 29, was denied his first tour victory in three tries. His last appearance in a final was seven years ago when Andre Agassi beat him in Los Angeles. Despite winning all but six of his first-serve points, Muller double-faulted 10 times and lost 21 of 36 points on his second serve. The left-handed Muller had 20 aces to Roddick’s 18.

Second-seeded Dominique Cibulkova used her powerful ground strokes to defeat No. 1 seed Marion Bartoli 6-1, 7-5 and win the Mercury Insurance Open title Sunday in Carlsbad, Calif. Cibulkova won her second career title and first since October. Cibulkova had lost four of her five previous title matches. Bartoli had a tough time keeping up after spending more than eight hours on the court in winning her first three matches here. “I think I played well to get the lead in the second ... but from this point I start to feel a bit tired and not moving (as) quickly as I wanted to,” Bartoli said. “She played very fast and extremely well, so she made me feel uncomfortable.”

BASKETBALL

Durant leads U.S. men in exhibition

BARCELONA, Spain - The U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team wore the throwback uniforms of the 1992 Dream Team on Sunday, but the Americans’ play was much different.

Kevin Durant scored 27 points and the United States held on for a narrow 86-80 victory over Argentina in an exhibition game.

The Americans got off to a hot start, but their lead was down to four with 2:50 left after Manu Ginobili’s three point play. But Durant and Chris Paul hit three pointers as the U.S. team won after being pushed for the second time in its four exhibition games.

Kobe Bryant added 18 points and LeBron James had 15 for the U.S. team, which beat Brazil 80-69 last week.

Ginobili scored 23 points, Carlos Delfino had 15 and Luis Scola had 14 for Argentina.

“I love it. You hate to breeze through exhibition games and then you get into London, and then you start getting competitive,” James said. “We have a very good team. It doesn’t matter about how many points you win by, you just want to play well and get better that night, and I feel like we got better tonight.”

The U.S. team led 19-3 after a three from Bryant, and Durant and Deron Williams each hit one in the final minute as the Americans led 31-16. The Americans led by 20 early in the second but began fouling too much and let Argentina get back into it. Argentina cut it to 45-40 in the last minute of the half before going into the break trailing by seven.

“It’s tough. Argentina’s a very good team, very tough-minded,” Bryant said. “They continue to play hard, and for us it was a big challenge to try to put the game away. We could just never do it.”

The Americans play Spain on Tuesday, a rematch of the Americans’ 118-107 victory in the gold medal game four years ago.

“They’re immensely talented,” Scola said. “They’ve got a lot of players in every position. They’re too athletic, they’re too talented. I think they’re going to be OK.”