COLLEGES

Indiana will give up 2 basketball scholarships Indiana University will give up two basketball scholarships for the upcoming season in anticipation of penalties related to the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate, assistant athletic director Frank Cuervo confirmed Wednesday.

The APR is a percentage score over a rolling four-year period that measures retention and eligibility of players. Teams can lose scholarships if their score is subpar, and new coach Tom Crean has said he "inherited a tremendous amount of dysfunction."

• Tennessee signed football coach Phillip Fulmer and basketball coach Bruce Pearl to new deals that will keep them with the Volunteers through 2014. Fulmer's deal is worth an average of nearly $3 million over the next seven seasons. Pearl's new deal increases his salary to an average $2.3 million a year.

• Georgia baseball coach David Perno earned a $2.5 million deal and a five-year contract after a runner-up finish in the College World Series.

WNBA

Catchings' 18 points leads Fever past Chicago Tamika Catchings scored a season-high 18 points as the Indiana Fever beat the Chicago Sky 74-67 in Indianapolis.

Katie Douglas had 12 points, and Tammy Sutton-Brown had 11 points and 12 rebounds for the Fever (8-8), which improved to 7-2 all-time against Chicago (5-10) and 4-1 at Conseco Fieldhouse.

Catchings also had six rebounds, three assists and two steals in her eighth game of the season after missing the team's first eight. She suffered a torn right Achilles' tendon in last year's Eastern Conference finals and underwent surgery in September.

AROUND THE HORN

Cycling: A Dutch judge in Utrecht ordered Michael Rasmussen's former cycling team, Rabobank, to pay the Dane cyclist $1 million for wrongful dismissal after it fired him during last year's Tour de France.

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