Sports briefs

Basketball

FIGHTERS SUSPENDED: Five players from the Kansas and Missouri women's basketball teams were suspended Wednesday by the Big 12 Conference for one game for fighting after the Jayhawks' victory Saturday in Columbia.

The conference suspended Kansas' Kandis Bonner for kicking a Missouri player and Tamara Ransburg for attempting to strike one of the Tigers. The Jayhawks' Larisha Graves was suspended for grabbing a player from behind and causing her to fall.

MyEsha Perkins and Christelle N'Garsanet of Missouri were punished for trying to hit Kansas players. Missouri officials added another one-game suspension to Perkins' penalty.

The conference reprimanded Lauren Ervin for taunting the Missouri team after Kansas won 55-52.

The Big 12 also criticized Kansas coach Marian Washington for making public comments contrary to conference policy.

"I don't see any reason to discipline anyone," Washington told The Kansas City Star, blaming the Tigers for the altercation.

Washington said after the game that some Missouri players made obscene gestures to the Jayhawks before Kansas players were spat on by the Missouri band.

Golf

NFL DEAL FOR CURTIS: British Open champion Ben Curtis signed an endorsement contract with Reebok to wear its NFL apparel at PGA Tour events, the first player to do that since the late Payne Stewart.

Curtis will debut the NFL apparel Thursday at the Sony Open.

His cap and clothing, which NFL coaches wear on the sideline, will feature the official logo of Super Bowl XXXVIII during the Sony Open at Waialae Country Club.

After that, Curtis will wear the logo of the NFL team associated with the city where the PGA Tour is playing.

His next event likely will be the Match Play Championship just north of San Diego.

Stewart, a three-time major winner who died in a plane crash in 1999, used to wear team colors of the city where he was playing.

Hockey

STARS LOWER PRICES: The Dallas Stars are drastically reducing the cost of more than 2,000 season tickets and lowering the price of other seats for next season, partly due to anticipated changes in the NHL's economic structure.