SLIPPERY ROCK — The Slippery Rock University football team has moved up to No. 15 in this week's American Football Coaches Association Division II poll.

SRU was ranked No. 20 in last week's poll. The Rock is coming off a 35-24 win at Mercyhurst and hosts Indiana (Pa.) at 6 p.m. Saturday.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Left-hander Barry Zito is retiring just as he planned.The pitcher made the announcement in an article he wrote for “The Players' Tribune” posted Monday, saying, “I'm retiring today from baseball, but I'll never be too far away from the game that made me who I am.”The 37-year-old Zito said last month when called up to the Oakland Athletics following a season in Triple-A that he planned to retire and turn his attention to his other love, music, and spending more time with his family.

JOHANNESBURG — Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympic runner who fatally shot his girlfriend in 2013, was released from prison and placed under house arrest on Monday night, a South African official said.“Oscar Pistorius was placed under correctional supervision tonight,” Manelisi Wolela, a spokesman for South Africa's correctional services department, said in a cellphone text message sent to The Associated Press.

LAS VEGAS — A law firm hired by DraftKings to investigate claims an employee used valuable inside information to win a $350,000 second-place prize on a competing daily fantasy sports site contest confirms that didn't and couldn't have happened.The Boston-based daily fantasy sports company released a short two-page summary Monday saying it would have been impossible for the employee to use the information to win on FanDuel because he didn't receive the helpful data until 40 minutes after that site's contest closed.

BEREA, Ohio — Johnny Manziel's in-car argument with his girlfriend could lead to punishment from the NFL.Browns coach Mike Pettine said the league plans to investigate the high-profile backup quarterback's domestic dispute last week, an altercation which raised new concerns about Manziel and his future with the club.Manziel was questioned by police in Avon, Ohio, after his girlfriend claimed he was physical with her when the two had a heated disagreement while driving on an Interstate highway.

DETROIT — Tigers pitcher Daniel Norris says baseball kept him sane after a jarring medical diagnosis.The Detroit left-hander announced in a message on Twitter and Instagram on Monday that he kept playing last season after finding out he had a cancerous growth on his thyroid. Norris, 22, said the growth was deemed malignant but he was told by a doctor that he could wait until the end of the season to have it removed.