Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love has been suspended two games for stomping on Houston's Luis Scola. The incident occurred in the third quarter of the February 4 game when Love drove his foot into the upper body of Scola, who was lying on the floor. The league office also upgraded the foul to a Flagrant Two. Love will sit out Tuesday against Sacramento and Wednesday against Memphis. He leads the Wolves with averages of 25.0 points and 13.7 rebounds in 24 games this season.

Los Angeles Lakers head coach Mike Brown was suspended one game and fined $25,000 following his ejection from the February 4 game against Utah. Brown was tossed in the fourth quarter of the 96-87 loss, and was slapped with the penalties for making contact with a game official and failing to leave the court in a timely manner. The Lakers' first-year coach sat out Monday's 95-90 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers. During the setback, Kobe Bryant surpassed former teammate Shaquille O'Neal for fifth place on the NBA's all-time scoring list.

New York Knicks forward Amare Stoudemire missed Monday's win over Utah after the death of his brother. According to a New York newspaper, Hazell Stoudemire crashed into a tractor-trailer on a highway in Lake Wales, Florida early Monday and was killed instantly. He was 35 years old.

Carmelo Anthony suffered a strained right groin during the Knicks win, while one of the players he was traded for last year, Danilo Gallinari, exited Monday's game against the Houston Rockets after suffering a chip fracture in his left ankle. An x-ray revealed the injury and Gallinari will have a CT scan done on his ankle Tuesday.

In other injury news, Chauncey Billups, a veteran playmaker on the upstart Clippers, was helped off the court in the fourth quarter after suffering an injury to his lower left leg. A Los Angeles newspaper reported Billups injured his left Achilles and will be re-evaluated on Tuesday. Billups, 35, has played over 30 minutes per game this season, averaging 15.0 points and 4.0 assists.

Kentucky remained the top team in the latest Associated Press men's college basketball poll. The Wildcats, who first had a two-week stay at No. 1 starting in late November, are the top team in the nation for a third straight week. They received 63 first-place votes and a total of 1,623 points from a nationwide media panel for the second consecutive week. Syracuse, which preceded Kentucky at the top with a six-week run, held firm at No. 2 with the other two first-place votes. Ohio State, Missouri, North Carolina and Baylor also kept their places from third through sixth. Kansas, despite a 74-71 loss at Missouri on Saturday, moved up one spot to seventh and is followed by Florida, Murray State and Duke. Florida vaulted four spots from 12th, while Duke dipped three places from seventh after an overtime home loss on Sunday against Miami-Florida.

The Baltimore Orioles have traded pitcher Jeremy Guthrie to the Colorado Rockies in exchange for pitchers Jason Hammel and Matt Lindstrom. Guthrie was Baltimore's opening day starter in 2011 and posted a record of 9-17 with a 4.33 earned run average in 34 games, including 32 starts, last year. The 32- year-old right-hander spent five years with the Orioles after being claimed off waivers from Cleveland before the 2007 season and has a career mark of 47-65 with a 4.19 ERA in 177 games. Hammel was 7-13 with a 4.76 ERA in 32 games, 27 starts, in 2011 for Colorado and has also pitched for Tampa Bay in a six-year big league career, while Lindstrom was 2-2 with a 3.00 ERA in 63 appearances last season.

The Kansas City Chiefs hired Brian Daboll as their new offensive coordinator on Monday. Daboll joins Kansas City after serving as the Miami offensive coordinator in 2011. His team had a 1,000-yard rusher in Reggie Bush and a 1,000-yard receiver in Brandon Marshall. The Dolphins offense also had just 39 penalties on the season, tied for third- best in the NFL, but ranked just 20th in points with an average of 20.6 per game. Prior to going to Miami, Daboll spent two seasons as the OC for Cleveland. He was also the quarterbacks coach with the New York Jets (2007-08) and an assistant coach with New England (2000-06).

The Oakland Raiders have named Jason Tarver as their new defensive coordinator. Tarver served as co-defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach at Stanford in 2011. The Cardinal ranked either first or second in the Pac-12 Conference in six defensive categories. Prior to his time at Stanford, Tarver spent 10 seasons in various coaching capacities with the San Francisco 49ers. He was quality control coach (2001-03), assistant running backs/offensive assistant coach (2004) and outside linebackers coach (2005-10). Last week, the Raiders named veteran coach Greg Knapp as their offensive coordinator.

Cyclist Alberto Contador of Spain has been suspended for two years after the Court of Arbitration for Sport found the three-time Tour de France champ guilty of a doping offense. The last of those three titles in cycling's most prestigious event, the 2010 championship, will be stripped after the verdict and he will be ineligible to participate in this year's Tour de France and the London Olympics. Contador, also the 2007 and 2009 Tour champion, tested positive for the banned substance clenbuterol during a rest day of the 2010 Tour de France and the CAS panel that reviewed the case disagreed with his assertion of unknowingly consuming contaminated food.

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