Sports briefs: Bruins' Thomas to sit out season

HOCKEYBruins' Thomas to sit out season

Boston Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas said Sunday he'll sit out next season.

"At the age of 38, I believe it is time to put my time and energies into those areas and relationships that I have neglected," Thomas said on his Facebook page. "That is why at this time I feel the most important thing I can do in my life is to reconnect with the three F's: friends, family and faith."

A late bloomer who played in Finland before finally breaking into an NHL lineup at the age of 32, Thomas emerged as one of the league's top goalies when he won the Vezina Trophy in 2009. He won it again along with the playoff MVP in 2011 while leading Boston to the Stanley Cup championship.

GYMNASTICSJohnson ends comeback, retires

The knee injury that sparked Shawn Johnson's comeback put an end to it, too. The Olympic gold medalist announced her retirement from competitive gymnastics Sunday, four days before the start of the U.S. championships.

She has had repeated setbacks with her left knee, seriously damaged in a January 2010 ski accident, and she feared she was putting her long-term health at risk by continuing with her attempts to make a second Olympic team.

OBITUARY

St. John's standout LeRoy Ellis dies

LeRoy Ellis, who played 14 years in the NBA after a standout career at St. John's, has died of prostate cancer. He was 72. St. John's announced that Mr. Ellis died Saturday in Portland, Ore.

Mr. Ellis was a native New Yorker, born in Brooklyn, and played at St. John's from 1959 to 1962. He still holds the school season record for rebounding with an average of 16.5 in his junior year, and the record for most rebounds in a game with 30 against NYU on Dec. 30, 1961.

He was drafted sixth overall by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1962. Mr. Ellis appeared in 1,048 NBA games with the Lakers, Baltimore, Portland and Philadelphia. He posted career averages of 9.7 points and 8.3 rebounds, and was a member of Los Angeles' 1972 championship team.

NFLBlackmon arrested on DUI charge

Jacksonville Jaguars first-round draft pick receiver Justin Blackmon was arrested on an aggravated DUI charge after authorities in Stillwater, Okla., said he had three times the legal limit of alcohol in his system.

Blackmon agreed to take a Breathalyzer test and blew a .24 ? three times the legal limit of .08, Dickerson said.

The Jaguars chose Blackmon with the fifth pick in this year's NFL draft in the hopes that he could upgrade the league's worst offense.

HORSE RACINGIrish Mission wins Woodbine Oaks

Irish Mission came on down the stretch to win the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks in Toronto. Irish Mission, a 9-1 pick with Alex Solis aboard, finished the 11/8-mile event in 1:50.50 on Woodbine's polytrack to earn the $300,000 winner's share. Northern Passion was second, with Awesome Fire taking third in the nine-horse field.

• The horse with possibly the best chance to spoil I'll Have Another's bid for a Triple Crown posted a strong workout six days before the Belmont Stakes. Dullahan blazed 4 furlongs in 45.97 seconds Sunday morning at Belmont Park. Dullahan finished third in the Derby, 13/4 lengths behind I'll Have Another. He did not run in the Preakness.

ELSEWHERE

• Texas won its third NCAA men's golf championship defeating Alabama on a 20-foot birdie putt by senior Dylan Frittelli at Rivera in Los Angeles. With the match tied at 2, Frittelli, who is from South Africa, came to the 18th hole all square with Cory Whitsett. After Whitsett's birdie chip came up well short, Frittelli drained his birdie opportunity.

• Dartmouth repeated as national champions by beating Arizona 24-5 in the third annual USA Sevens Collegiate Rugby Championship in Chester, Pa. Dartmouth's Will Mueller led the Big Green with two tries and Kevin Clark and Will Lehmann had one each.

• In Toronto, the U.S. men's soccer team played a scoreless draw against Canada in its third friendly in eight days.

• Tina Charles had 30 points, nine rebounds and four assists, and the Connecticut Sun beat the visiting Washington Mystics 94-86 in a WNBA game. Crystal Langhorne had 25 points for the Mystics.

The Associated Press

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