NEW ORLEANS — Slippery Rock University landed six cross country runners on the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic squad Thursday.

Stephanie Case, Abby Michaelian, Kara Styles, Angie Bagwell and Caitlin Hancox made it from the women's team with Michaelian picking up her third honor and case her second.

Travis Arrigoni was The Rock's lone male selection.

To be eligible, a student -athlete must maintain at least a 3.25 GPA and place in the top 30 percent of the NCAA regional championship or top 50 percent at the national championship.

MELBOURNE, Australia — U.S. Women's Open champion So Yeon Ryu shot a 4-under 69 on Friday to take a one-stroke lead over fellow South Korean player Hee Kyung Seo after the second round of the LPGA Tour's season-opening Women's Australian Open.Ryu, a playoff winner over Hee in July at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colo., had a 6-under 140 total on Royal Melbourne's Composite Course, the 2011 Presidents Cup venue that is hosting a women's professional event for the first time.Seo shot a 66, the best score in the first two days of the tournament also sanctioned by Australian Ladies Professional Golf and the Ladies European Tour.

BERLIN — Hours after receiving a two-year ban for blood doping, 1997 Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich admitted on his website that he had “contact” with the Spanish doctor who ran the doping program he was accused of participating in.Ullrich did not directly acknowledge doping but said he would not contest Thursday's ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.Ullrich said on his website that he accepted the ban — “not because I agree with every point in the reasoning for the ruling, but because I finally want to put an end to the issue.”

DURHAM, N.C. — Colts quarterback Peyton Manning and Rockies first baseman Todd Helton have been working out at Duke this week.An athletic department spokesman said both are there primarily to visit David Cutcliffe, who was Tennessee’s offensive coordinator when both were college quarterbacks.Manning has spent the past five months recovering from his third neck surgery.