INDIANAPOLIS — The Slippery Rock University women's tennis team will compete in the NCAA Division II tennis championships for the sixth consecutive year and 11th time in school history.

SRU is the No. 3 seed in the Atlantic Regional and will play in the four-team competition hosted by No. 2 seed Indiana (Pa.).

California (Pa.), the top seed, will host its own four-team tournament.

SRU (15-5), ranked 44th in the latest Intercollegiate Tennis Association national poll, will face WVIAC champion and 48th ranked Charleston (21-7), the No. 6 seed at 2 p.m. Saturday.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — The NBA responded to Metta World Peace's latest act of aggression with a seven-game suspension that will lighten the Los Angeles Lakers troublemaker's wallet and playoff schedule.World Peace was suspended Tuesday for throwing a vicious elbow at Oklahoma City's James Harden, keeping the Lakers' starting small forward sidelined for most of the first postseason round.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Thunder reserve James Harden has not yet been cleared to play after suffering a concussion when he took an elbow to the head from the Lakers' Metta World Peace.

NEW ORLEANS — While state police and the FBI start a wiretapping probe into the Saints and general manager Mickey Loomis, assistant head coach Joe Vitt is calling the allegations that Loomis' had his Superdome booth wired so he could listen to opposing coaches “ludicrous.”Vitt calls the suggestion that Loomis listened in to opposing coaches' radio communications “impossible,” adding that he's never heard of something like that before. Vitt says it sounds more to him like something out of “Star Wars,” and he adds that those who made the allegations are “irresponsible.”

METAIRIE, La. — Joe Vitt used his first public comments as the face of the Saints' coaching staff to accept some blame for the bounty scandal that has plagued the club's offseason. Then he sought to clear the names of his players.“At no time did any of our players ever cross the white line with the intention of hurting another player,” the assistant head coach said Tuesday afternoon. “That being said, I'm serving a six-game suspension for the spoken word, not the clenched fist.”Vitt said his problem was the words he used in his speeches.