Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Matt Barnes was arrested Wednesday on domestic violence charges, authorities said.

The incident started at a home in the Sacramento area, the Sacramento County Sheriff's department said.

Authorities received a phone call from the home, but it was abruptly ended.

"When deputies arrived, they made contact with 30-year-old Matt Kelly Barnes and the adult female who he lived with and with whom he had a dating relationship," the sheriff's department said in a statement. "While both parties had visible injuries, Barnes was determined to be the primary aggressor and taken into custody."

He was booked on felony charges of domestic violence and maliciously obstructing the use of a telephone line.

He posted a $50,000 bond and was released from jail Wednesday evening, the sheriff's department said.

His arraignment is scheduled for Monday.

Barnes, who is a forward, played for the Orlando Magic last season.

The veteran player signed with the Lakers this year, according to NBA.com.

Former University of Southern California star running back Reggie Bush is expected to be stripped of the Heisman Trophy by the end of the month.

Two sources close to the Heisman trust, which oversees the award given to college football's top player, have been quoted as saying the group is finishing its investigation into allegations of wrongdoing at USC during the 2005 season. The sources told reporters the Heisman trust will eventually rule it agrees with the NCAA's assessment that Reggie Bush would have been ineligible to play during 2005 - and therefore ineligible for the award.

The decision would make Bush the first player in the 75 years of the Heisman to be stripped of the title.

Sources say the Heisman trust would strip Bush of the award and leave it vacant - instead of awarding it to another honoree like Texas quarterback Vince Young who finished second in the voting, but by a wide margin.

But on Tuesday, after the news began to spread online, ESPN's Chris Fowler said on SportsCenter that a decision had not yet been made, stoking even more speculation.

In June the NCAA ruled Bush had violated rules by accepting gifts, cash and other benefits while he played for the Trojans - violations that would have impacted his eligibility. The NCAA infractions committee also levied heavy penalties against the program as a whole - vacating its 13 wins, include their Orange Bowl victory against the Oklahoma Sooners, taking away 30 school scholarships and banning USC from bowl games for two years.

USC incoming and outgoing presidents involved in the matter have said they would be returning their recognitions associated with Bush's Heisman win - and that the now-New Orleans Saints running back would do so himself if and when he was asked.

News of the expected ruling has sent the Web into a tizzy, with Bush beginning to dominate Web and social media trends, and leaving fans to wonder several questions and debate the apparent decision.

Some wondered why Bush would be stripped of the award when O.J. Simpson was not, given his post-college run-ins with the law. Others questioned if Bush would have to publicly give back the trophy with the famous pose or how it might shake the star's confidence when he takes the field for the New Orleans Saints' opener Thursday against the Minnesota Vikings.

Tiger Woods has been included in the United States Ryder Cup team by captain Corey Pavin.

Woods, who held on to his world number one status at the Deutsche Bank Championship after an 11th placed finish, was handed one of four wildcard picks despite an indifferent year.

The 34-year-old struggled for form in the wake of revelations about his private life and last month he confirmed his divorce from Elin Nordegren.

Rickie Fowler, Zach Johnson and Stewart Cink were also included in the 12-strong team to defend the Ryder Cup against Europe at Celtic Manor in Wales at the start of October.

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The eight players who qualified automatically were Phil Mickelson, Hunter Mahan, Bubba Watson, Jim Furyk, Steve Stricker, Dustin Johnson, Jeff Overton and Matt Kuchar.

Woods told a news conference he was "honored" to be selected by Pavin: "It's great to be part of the team and I'm honored to be selected and represent the United States.

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"I've been to Wales before in the Walker Cup. I'm looking forward to going back and having a great time with the team and hopefully bring the cup back."

Woods has participated in five Ryder Cups and won 10 of the 25 matches he has played, losing 13 and halving two.

It's great to be part of the team and I'm honored to be selected and represent the United States

"I always love playing in Ryder Cup, being part of the team," Woods added. "It is an experience you will never forget.

"It is one of those things I have been looking forward to. It is nice my game is coming around. I feel my game is not very far away. It makes it a lot easier going into a pressure-packed environment."

Pavin added: "What I was trying to do was not form any opinions until this weekend. I didn't want to burden myself with over thinking this so I just waited.

"I was hoping he [Woods] would qualify on points. He didn't but then I was just waiting to see how he was going to play.

"I'm pleased to see Tiger playing better - he is one of 12 guys on the team and every one is just as important as the other players."

Cink has appeared in four Ryder Cups and won the 2009 Open Championship at Turnberry in Scotland. Johnson won the 2007 Masters and tied for third at the recent US PGA Championship. His only appearance in the Ryder Cup came back in 2007.

Fowler is a Ryder Cup rookie and only turned professional last year. He tied for 14th at this year's Open Championship at St Andrews.

European captain Colin Montgomerie named three-time major winner Padraig Harrington, Luke Donald and European Tour rookie Edoardo Molinari as his three wildcards picks last Sunday.

They join English trio Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter and Ross Fisher, Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell from Northern Ireland, Germany's Martin Kaymer, Spain's Miguel Angel Jimenez, Italian Francesco Molinari and Sweden's Peter Hanson on the team.

NFL star Chad Ochocinco treated dozens of fans to a fancy dinner in Indianapolis Wednesday, after posting the offer on Twitter. The news sent the fingers of football fans flying.

"He started posting about it this morning," Bengals fan Joe Trinosky said. "He's been throwing little hints out all day. I saw the post, so I headed out of work and showed up just in time."

Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco offered to spring for dinner downtown: A free feast at St. Elmo, he tweeted, for the first 64 fans in line Wednesday afternoon.

The idea even surprised St. Elmo general manager Chris Clifford.

"The first thing that goes through your head is, 'Is this for real?'" he said. "And then he called and we started communicating by phone."

A line quickly formed at St. Elmo, where 66 people ended up getting wristbands to secure a seat at the private dinner with the NFL star. The tweet went out just after 4 p.m., and Clifford said the wristbands were gone in 25 minutes.

"We were sitting in here watching people just running from blocks away, coming in pouring sweat and saying, 'Did I make it? Did I make it?'"

But not everyone had the fastest fingers or made the fastest time. Some who came to the restaurant Wednesday missed the chance at a dinner, but they stayed just hoping to catch a glimpse of number 85 as he arrived by taxi with teammate Terrell Owens. Both attended the downtown dinner with fans.

For Ochocinco, the tweet treat has become tradition for away games for the past two years. He said Twitter helped him gain control of his image and the dinners allow fans to see him as a person, not just a player.

"You look at TV, you watch TV. You see the stuff on the field, you think you have one perception, but this is just to give the perception of who the real me is," he said. "It's also a gesture of appreciation for them supporting me in all I do."

So with cameras and footballs waiting to be signed, fans shook his hand and sat with the star for a gourmet Indy feast. Ochocinco said he chose St. Elmo because of its national reputation.

"Someone said St. Elmo was the best place to eat in Indy and I heard they were damn near the best in the world," he said. "And they also said to try the shrimp cocktail."

Sixty-six people is not a cheap date. Clifford estimated that with dinner, drinks and tax, it likely cost Ochocinco about $7,000. The word is that he may do it again when the Bengals play the Colts during the regular season in November.

Another videotape of Brandon Spikes is making the rounds, and it's not good news for the former Florida Gator.

Spikes, you may recall, was caught on tape last year trying to gouge the eyes of Georgia tailback Washaun Ealey. Gators coach Urban Meyer suspended him for the first half of the Vanderbilt game, saying Spikes was retaliating after getting his eye poked earlier against the Bulldogs.

Now a sexually explicit tape of Spikes and a woman has surfaced. The NFL is investigating based on the league's personal conduct policy.

The agent for Spikes, a Patriots rookie, told ESPNBoston.com it's an embarrassing situation.

"It was something that occurred before he became an NFL draftee and a New England Patriot," agent Terry Watson said. "I think for anyone it would be an embarrassing situation. Brandon has shown to many people the kind of person he is before and after being drafted in the second round. He's hoping to put this behind him and looks forward to having a great football season."

Over three preseason games, Spikes ranks third on New England with 17 tackles.

A filing on behalf of basketball superstar LeBron James dismisses as "rank speculation" claims by a Washington lawyer that he is the athlete's biological father, saying the man has "delusions" about alleged family ties.

Lawyers for James and his mother filed papers in federal court Monday seeking to dismiss a pending lawsuit. Leicester Stovell alleges the NBA all-star and his family have been involved in a cover-up to deny paternity, by committing fraud and misrepresentation.

The 14-page document said Stovell had completely failed to prove any of the facts alleged in his June 23 complaint. And they said he was motivated only by fame and money, calling Stovell's actions a "fanciful hope for celebrity."

The lawsuit claims Stovell met James' mother, Gloria, in a Washington bar and restaurant in 1984, when she was visiting from Ohio. She was 15 or 16 at the time, and Stovell says they had sex only once, and was informed by Gloria James months later that she was pregnant. He claims she told him the child would be named LeBron, similar to Leicester Bryce, Stovell's first and middle names.

Stovell is asking for unspecified millions of dollars in damages, and says he has been trying for three years to establish paternity, which he hopes would lead to financial and commercial opportunities. He is a solo legal practitioner in the District of Columbia, and filed the lawsuit on his own behalf.

He alleges a DNA test that showed he was not James' father was falsified.

James' attorneys, Frederick Nance and John Burlingame, dismissed those suggestions in often mocking tones aimed at the plaintiff.

"Stovell's claims for millions of dollars from his putative son and Gloria James are based upon rank speculation," said the court filing, "that a man who claims that as a 29-year-old lawyer he got a 15-year-old girl pregnant during a one-night stand and who never contributed a penny in child support would earn millions in commercial endorsements by crawling out of the woodwork after the child he never gave a thought to became an NBA star."

James, a native of Akron, Ohio, recently left the Cleveland Cavaliers to sign with the Miami Heat for what is believed to be one of the richest sports contracts in history. He is the reigning most valuable player of the NBA, and has carefully cultivated a public image as one of the most popular and talented athletes.

The complaint filed June 23 by Stovell said, "I recently have concluded that a comprehensive, sophisticated and well-funded effort might well have been under way for quite some time, perhaps beginning in its present form as early as when defendant LeBron James was in high school, to frustrate identification of his real father, and that there is a likelihood that the father in question is me."

James' lawyers think otherwise. "Stovell may truly believe that he is the father of LeBron James, even though a DNA test has told him otherwise. But his delusions do not give rise to a cause of action against either Gloria or LeBron James."

Public records show Stovell is a former government attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission. He filed a lawsuit in 2002 against the agency, alleging racial discrimination. Federal court records show the case was settled when the SEC paid him $230,000, while not admitting fault.

Shaun Stegall, a star on Kennesaw State's basketball team from 2004-08, was shot and killed Saturday night following an argument at his father's Decatur residence.

Georgia's Dave Bliss, top, and Kennesaw State's Shaun Stegall, bottom, battle for a loose ball during a 2007 basketball game in Athens. Stegall was shot and killed Saturday night following an argument at his father's Decatur residence.

A "drug-related altercation" broke out between two unidentified gunmen and Gerald Stegall Sr., 57, in the 2400 block of Mellville Avenue, DeKalb police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said. Stegall, 25, intervened and was shot repeatedly. He was pronounced dead a few hours later at a local hospital, Parish told reporeters.

The elder Stegall, who faces no criminal charges, was pistol-whipped, but his injuries were not believed to be serious.

His son's shooting came as a shock to the Kennesaw State campus, where Stegall emerged as a star after transferring from the University of Nebraska. He was one of just 11 players in the program's history to surpass 1,000 points during his career and twice led the Owls in rebounds.

"This is a very devastating and emotional time for all of us in the Kennesaw State basketball family," Owls head basketball coach Tony Ingle said. "Everyone who recruited and coached Shaun loved him. His mother and father, Tamika and Gerald, are just wonderful people and all of our thoughts and prayers are with them."

After graduating from Kennesaw State, Stegall played professionally for teams in Britain and Syria. The Stone Mountain native played prep ball for Redan High School.

His final game at KSU was easily his best, school officials said. Stegall scored 21 points to go with 18 rebounds, six assists and three steals to lead the Owls to a 65-61 victory over rival Mercer.

"Shaun is one of the primary reasons we were able to win our second straight Peach Belt Conference championship in 2005," Ingle said. "I have a lot of fond memories of Shaun the player, but also of Shaun the person."

Stegall's funeral will be held Saturday at Covenant Ministries Cathedral in Decatur, KSU announced.

The ring awarded to Muhammad Ali when he became boxing's first three-time heavyweight champion has been returned to Ali's former wife six years after she loaned it to a friend who was dying of cancer, her lawyer said.

"It's been a long road," said Veronica Porsche, who was married to Ali for 10 years.

That road ended Monday when a federal judge ruled against the friend's widow, who claimed it was a gift, not a loan, attorney Darren Enenstein said.

Collector Keya Morgan, who is an Ali family friend, said the gold and diamond ring is the "holy grail" of boxing memorabilia. Ali got it after the September 1978 decision against Leon Spinks that made him a three-time champ, Morgan said.

Porsche, who is a clinical psychologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, loaned it to Dr. William Young in summer 2004 after she learned he was suffering from cancer.

Young had treated her husband, who had died from leukemia earlier that year, she said. "He had always been so supportive of us."

"It was a natural thing," she said, because Young was a fan of her former husband. Porsche thought the ring would give the doctor hope and inspiration in his battle with cancer, she said.

When Young died in November 2004, he still had the ring, she said.

"I didn't want to ask his widow immediately, so I waited a month or so and then I couldn't find her," Porsche said. "She had left town."

After six years of trying to find the ring, a private investigator located Phyllis Young in Phoenix, Arizona, and began a legal battle that ended this week, Enenstein said.

When Porsche filed a lawsuit against the widow seeking the ring, Young counter-sued claiming it was given to her husband by Ali as a gift.

"The ring was my husband's to keep and an assurance of the personal bond between them, my husband and Muhammad Ali," Young said in her suit.

While the doctor had treated the boxer once or twice, they were not close friends, Porsche said.

Muhammad Ali signed a sworn statement to help his former wife's legal battle for the return of the ring, Enenstein said.

It was handed over to Porsche in a Los Angeles courtroom on Monday after U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson threw out the widow's counterclaim, he said.

The ring will eventually go to Laila Ali, the 32-year-old daughter of Porsche from her marriage with Ali, she said. The couple's other daughter, Hana, already has the ring the boxer was given when he became a two-time heavyweight champ.

The divorce of golfer Tiger Woods and wife Elin Nordegren was finalized Monday, according to a joint statement issued by their attorneys.

The marriage's end comes nine months after allegations surfaced that Woods carried on several extramarital affairs.

"We are sad that our marriage is over and we wish each other the very best for the future," the statement said. "While we are no longer married, we are the parents of two wonderful children and their happiness has been, and will always be, of paramount importance to both of us."

The judgment, issued Monday in Bay County, Florida, Circuit Court, allows for "shared parenting of their two children," their attorneys said in a statement.

The estranged couple asked for privacy as they "adjust to a new family situation."

In the dissolution of marriage petition filed Monday, Nordegren cites the marriage as "irretrievably broken" as the reason for divorce.

According to the document, the couple reached a settlement agreement July 3 in which they agreed to a joint parenting plan.

Both Woods and Nordegren agreed to waive the 20-day delay period offered in Florida before a final judgment.

"The parties have been separated for a substantial period of time ... and the delay would generate unnecessary public attention," according to the waivers.

The couple were married October 5, 2004.

Allegations of infidelity first began to surface in November when Woods crashed his Cadillac Escalade into a fire hydrant and tree outside his family's home in Orlando.

The November 27 incident, which left him with a sore neck and a cut on his lip that required five stitches to close, also set in motion the crash of his storybook life.

A few days beforehand, the National Enquirer had reported he was having an affair with a New York nightclub hostess, who denied it. But that allegation was followed by others, and Woods' tightly controlled world and image soon began to crumble.

Just after Christmas he entered a rehabilitation center, where he stayed for 45 days getting treatment for undisclosed "issues."

"It was to take a hard look at myself, and I did, and I've come out better," he said in April when he made his return to the PGA tour.

Woods also has acknowledged that he engaged in multiple extramarital affairs over the course of his nearly six-year marriage.