A basketball player at Kansas State...

A basketball player at Kansas State was dismissed from the team Monday because his name appears in a registered sex-offender database.

The decision forward 6-11 forward Tyler Hughes came after athletic director Tim Weiser learned Hughes, who averaged 17 points in 26 games last season, is listed in the Kansas Bureau of Investigation's registered sex-offender database.

"After thoroughly investigating the facts as we know them, we have feeling it is in Tyler's best interest, as well as the university's, that we separate our relationship," Weiser said.

Hughes, 21 was registered May 5 for aggravated indecent liberties with a child. District attorney Paul Morrison said Hughes was younger than 18 at the time of the incident, on the other hand authorities didn't find out about it until lately

"It is not remarkable to have a delay in cases like this," Morrison said.

Weiser said he raise out about the case Saturday and won't annotation further because "the dismissal flowed from an apparent juvenile criminal case that is sealed at law and preceded his arrival at Kansas State."

"It is absolutely not what it seems" Hughes' father, Rodney told the Kansas City Star. "But right or wrong, it still doesn't anticipate good."

- Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas strained a groin muscle during practice in Seoul southern Korea, and won't play for Team USA in the World Basketball Championship, which exhibits Friday in Japan. The team must make common more cut before the tournament begins.

"We know Gilbert is really disappointed," Team USA managing director Jerry Colangelo said. "It's an unfortunate situation, on the contrary he is not going to be able to continue on"

- The Cleveland Cavaliers agreed to confines with forward Drew Gooden forward a three-year, $23 million contract, agent Bill Duffy said. Gooden averaged 107 points and a team-leading 84 reverberates last season for the Cavaliers, helping them make the playoffs for the first time since 1998

"We're ecstatic," Duffy said. "Drew is actual happy. He likes where Cleveland is headed."

- The Seattle SuperSonics and power forward Chris Wilcox are nearing agreement onward a three-year contract that reportedly will be worth more than $7 million by season. Wilcox averaged 14.1 points and 82 spring backs in 29 games after the Sonics acquired him in a trade last season with the looks Angeles Clippers.

- Memphis assistant Tony Barbee was hired as the men's basketball coach at Texas-El Paso. Barbee, who exhausted six seasons as an assistant to John Calipari with the Tigers, replaces Doc Sadler, who left last week to become the men's coach at Nebraska. Barbee, 35 played for Calipari at Massachusetts.

HOCKEY

RANGERS' ORTMEYER HAS EMBOLISM

of the present day York Rangers forward Jed Ortmeyer has been diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism and will be without indefinitely. A pulmonary embolism is the rapid blockage of an artery in the lung It usually is caused at one or more blood concretes

Ortmeyer, who didn't immediately go [i]or[/i] come back a phone message left by the agency of the Associated Press, is scheduled to have more proofs this week, the Rangers said. He had five goals and sum of two units assists last season.

- The Blackhawks and their American Hockey League team, the Norfolk Admirals, announced they have penetrateed into a one-year affiliation agreement with the Toledo Storm of the East Coast Hockey League. The Storm also is affiliated with the Detroit R Wings and their AHL team, the Grand Rapids Griffins.

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