CHAPEL HILL, N.C. | T.J. Yates is expected to start at quarterback for North Carolina this week at Duke.

Coach Butch Davis said after Wednesday’s practice that Yates has worked out enough mechanical issues to keep his starting job.

Last week, he made his first start since breaking his ankle in September, but threw for just 116 yards with an interception in a 41-10 loss to North Carolina State.

Cameron Sexton won 4 of 6 starts in Yates’ absence, but his shaky play two weeks ago at Maryland prompted Davis to reopen the competition last week.

IN OTHER COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEWS

Florida State freshman wide receivers Bert Reed and Cameron Wade were arrested Wednesday on misdemeanor battery charges stemming from a fight in the student union two weeks ago. They were suspended for FSU’s Nov. 15 game against Boston College, a 27-17 loss, along with three other players who were in the Nov. 12 fight with members of a fraternity. Reed and Wade will be available for FSU’s regular-season finale Saturday against Florida, FSU coach Bobby Bowden said.

Yale coach Jack Siedlecki is retiring after 12 years and two Ivy League titles, but will become assistant athletic director at Yale.

Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton said he has not offered the Vols coaching job to anyone yet, denying a report that Tennessee had made an offer to former Oakland Raiders coach Lane Kiffin.

Baseball

Report: Charity drops Clemens

Roger Clemens has been asked to end his involvement with a charity golf tournament he has hosted for four years as the fallout from the Mitchell Report continues to haunt the seven-time Cy Young award winner, the New York Daily News reported.

The Giff Nielsen Day of Golf for Kids was held Nov. 11 at Houston’s Shadow Hawk Golf Club without Clemens.

“Roger Clemens is no longer affiliated with the tournament,” said Nielsen, a Houston broadcaster. “We decided we would go our separate ways until his off-field stuff is settled.”

IN OTHER Baseball NEWS

Francisco Rodriguez’s agent said he won’t start detailed discussions with teams until the winter meetings open in Las Vegas on Dec. 8. After saving a major league-record 62 games for the Los Angeles Angels , K-Rod is seeking a five-year contract averaging about $15 million per season.

Kameron Loe was put on unconditional release waivers by the Texas Rangers , freeing him to sign with the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks of Japan’s Pacific League. The righthander was 1-0 in 14 relief appearances with the Rangers this year.

Longtime front office executive Wayne Krivsky joined the Baltimore Orioles as special assistant to the president of Baseball operations.

tennis

Federer, Nadal to play at Qatar

DOHA, Qatar | Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer will open the 2009 ATP season by playing at the Qatar Open.

Qatar tennis federation president Nasser AL-Kholiafi says Andy Murray and Andy Roddick will also take part in the hard-court tournament, which begins Jan. 5.

IN OTHER TENNIS NEWS

Jimmy Connors has been charged with a misdemeanor for an altercation last week before a basketball game in Santa Barbara, Calif., between UC Santa Barbara and North Carolina.

nhl

Capitals’ Clark to miss 3 weeks

ARLINGTON | Washington Capitals forward Chris Clark will be sidelined at least three weeks with a stress fracture in his forearm, the latest injury setback for a team that had to recall four players from the minors for Wednesday night’s game against the Atlanta Thrashers.

Clark, who had a cast on his arm at the morning skatearound, won’t return until mid-December at the earliest.

Youngest to skate in an NHL game dies

BARRIE, Ontario | Armand “Bep” Guidolin, who at 16 became the youngest player to skate in an NHL game and later coached Hall of Famer Bobby Orr, has died of a stroke at 82, his family said.

Guidolin was 16 years, 11 months when he made his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins on Nov. 12, 1942. The Bruins needed help because of players serving in World War II. He went on to play nine seasons in the NHL, recording 107 goals and 171 assists in 519 games with Boston, Detroit and Chicago.

After his playing career ended in 1961, Guidolin turned to coaching and was behind the Oshawa Generals’ bench when Orr starred for the junior club. Guidolin then had NHL coaching stops in Boston, where he coached Orr again, and Colorado. Guidolin was also coach and general manager of the Edmonton Oilers in 1970s when they were still in the World Hockey Association.

IN OTHER NHL NEWS

Toronto left wing Jason Blake will miss the Maple Leafs’ game tonight in Ottawa because of a suspected concussion.

in other news

John Valdez, a former University of Illinois gymnastics coach who coached Justin Spring at the Beijing Olympics, has been charged with secretly videotaping a gymnast in a campus locker room. Valdez resigned from the university in October, citing personal issues.

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