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COLLEGE BASKETBALL • The comings and goings continued this week for the Utah basketball team. The Utes received an oral commitment from 5-foot-9 point guard Brandon Taylor of Pacific Hills (Calif.) High School on Monday. On Tuesday, they announced that little-used freshman forward George Matthews had been released from his scholarship. Matthews became the fifth player to leave the Utah program since the season ended. Taylor is the sixth member of the 2012 recruiting class and will compete for minutes at point guard along with Eastern Washington transfer Glen Dean and freshman combo guard Justin Seymour.
Saints officials' hearing Thursday
NFL • New Orleans head coach Sean Payton, general manager Mickey Loomis and assistant head coach Joe Vitt are set to have their NFL appeals heard Thursday regarding the punishment they've received for their roles in New Orleans' bounty system. League spokesman Greg Aiello confirmed the hearing schedule Tuesday.
• Minnesota Vikings receiver Percy Harvin will have minor shoulder surgery soon to address a nagging injury he played with last season.
Battered Petrino back at practice
COLLEGE FOOTBALL • Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino returned to practice Tuesday, hours after being released from the hospital following a weekend motorcycle crash.
Petrino, speaking publicly for the first time since his Sunday night accident, arrived at Razorback Stadium wearing a neck brace and with multiple abrasions and red spots on his nose and face.
The 51-year-old says he was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, which occurred when he veered off the winding Arkansas Highway 16 about 20 miles southeast of Fayetteville. Petrino says the sun was in his eyes before the accident. He also says he broke four ribs and cracked a vertebra.
From wire reports