SPORTS 6B | LAREDO MORNING TIMES SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2007 THIRD AND SHORT Club Olympia track registering today Club Olympia’s registration for the AAU summer track and field program is today at UISD’s Krueger Field on Del Mar Blvd, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The program is open to youth ages 8 to 18 for competition in track and field events. The AAU format for summer track provides for competition for girls and boys within their age group, with the top eight finishers in each event, in each age group, advancing to the next level of competition from the first meet, and the top four finishers in each event, in each age group advancing out of the second meet to the Junior Olympics. The first meet is in San Antonio June 29-30, and competition will culminate with the XLI Junior Olympic Games in Knoxville, Tenn. July 28 to Aug. 4. Club Olympia is entering its eleventh season, and in 2006 advanced 18 athletes to the Junior Olympics in Norfolk, Va. Coach Alex De Luna urges all interested athletes to register today. The club’s website is located at www.clubolympia.org. Giambi’s reported remarks to be investigated NEW YORK — The baseball commissioner’s office intends to investigate reported remarks by Jason Giambi that the sport should apologize for use of performanceenhancing drugs and the Yankees star’s comment that he was “wrong for doing that stuff.” Rob Manfred, executive vice president for labor relations in the commissioner’s office, spoke Friday with Yankees president Randy Levine about the matter, a baseball official with knowledge of the conversation said, speaking on condition of anonymity because baseball officials didn’t want the matter publicly discussed. “I was wrong for doing that stuff,” Giambi was quoted as saying in Friday’s editions of USA Today. “What we should have done a long time ago was stand up — players, ownership, everybody — and said: ‘We made a mistake.’ “We should have apologized back then and made sure we had a rule in place and gone forward. ... Steroids and all of that was a part of history. But it was a topic that everybody wanted to avoid. Nobody wanted to talk about it.” Luna Rossa beats Americans to take 3-1 lead in Vuitton VALENCIA, Spain — Italian syndicate Luna Rossa went ahead early and held on to defeat U.S. entry BMW Oracle Racing on Friday to take a 3-1 lead in their best-of-nine Louis Vuitton Cup semifinal. Emirates Team New Zealand beat Desafio Espanol in the other matchup, with the Kiwis sailing to a 42-second win over the local favorites for a 3-1 lead in the America’s Cup challengers series. The semifinal winners will meet in the June 1-11 Louis Vuitton Cup final, with the winner advancing to sail against defending champion Alinghi in the America’s Cup from June 23-July 4. The fifth flight of the semifinals is scheduled for today. NCAA to review policies on pregnant athletes MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The NCAA’s committee on women in sports will review its guidelines amid reports of female athletes being threatened with the loss of scholarships if they became pregnant. Janet Kittell, leader of the NCAA’s committee on women’s athletics, said her group will review the NCAA rules on pregnancy at a July meeting in Charlotte, N.C. “We want to act judiciously here,” Kittell said. “I don’t think it calls for emergency legislation, but I think it calls for a thorough discussion and thoughtful response.” Last week, Cassandra Harding, a member of the Memphis track team, told The Associated Press that she lost her scholarship after becoming pregnant, and a Clemson athlete told ESPN she had an abortion to stay in school. Harding, who also considered abortion, returned to school without a scholarship and rejoined the track team as a walk-on after having her daughter, Assiah, now 22 months old. Harding and other female students at the University of Memphis and Clemson contend they had to sign documents acknowledging scholarships could be lost because of pregnancy. “I would never approve of, sanction or defend that process,” said Kittell, an associate athletic director at Indiana University. Iditarod board suspends musher for dog abuse ANCHORAGE, Alaska — One of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race’s most popular mushers was handed a two-year suspension Friday and placed on three years’ probation for abusing his dogs during this year’s race. Ramy Brooks can next request entry to the 1,100-mile race in 2010. Brooks, twice an Iditarod runner-up, was disqualified from the race for striking his dogs with a quarter-inch wide wooden trail marker when they stopped in Golovin, less than 100 miles from the finish in Nome. Subscribe to LMT at 728-2555