Times staff, wires
Friday, March 25, 2011
NFL
Bucs receive 7th-round pick
The Bucs were awarded a seventh-round compensatory draft pick, No. 238 overall, by the NFL on Friday.
The team has eight selections in April's draft, one each in Rounds 1-6 and two in the seventh round.
The league awarded 32 compensatory picks to 23 teams. A team losing more or better compensatory free agents than it acquires the previous year is eligible to receive compensatory picks. In 2010, the Bucs lost S Will Allen to the Steelers and DE Jimmy Wilkerson to the Saints while signing S Sean Jones from the Eagles.
More NFL: Packers DL Johnny Jolly was charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute in Houston, police said. … Former Raiders C Barret Robbins was sentenced to five years in Florida prison for a drug-related probation violation. A Miami-Dade County judge imposed the sentence, more than a year after crack cocaine was found in Robbins' car. He had been on probation for a 2005 fracas in Miami Beach. He didn't play in the 2003 Super Bowl against the Bucs after disappearing for several days.
Tennis
No. 118 upsets Murray at Sony
Andy Murray, a three-time Grand Slam runnerup, lost in his opening match at the Sony Ericsson Open to American qualifier Alex Bogomolov Jr. — who is ranked 118th — 6-1, 7-5 in Key Biscayne.
"I was trying to get myself back into the match, trying to find ways," Murray said. "But I just didn't have that spark."
The fifth-ranked Scotsman hasn't won a set in three matches since being routed in the Australian Open final by Novak Djokovic.
Tampa residents Mardy Fish and James Blake reached the third round, but the last American in the women's draw was eliminated in the second round when Varvara Lepchenko lost to Petra Kvitova 6-1, 6-2.
Et cetera
SOccer: Bengals WR Chad Ochocinco will play right forward for Sporting Kansas City of MLS in a reserve team game Monday against the Kansas City Brass, a minor-league team. … The U.S. men will play World Cup champion Spain in a June 4 exhibition in Foxborough, Mass.
Rick Stroud, Times staff writer; Times wires