Tennis great Jimmy Connors was arrested outside the campus arena where UC Santa Barbara and top-ranked North Carolina were playing a basketball game.
The eight-time Grand Slam champion was taken into custody Friday night after refusing to comply with an order to leave an area near the entrance of the Thunderdome following a confrontation, police Sgt. Dan Massey said in a statement. A police dispatcher said Connors was arrested at the beginning of the game.
A Santa Barbara County jail employee said Connors was booked and released but did not have details. Connors could not immediately be reached for comment early Saturday.
Connors lives in the Santa Barbara area and attends a handful of the Gauchos' games each season.
SPAIN WINS DOUBLES, TAKES 2-1 LEAD IN DAVIS CUP
Spain's Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco defeated Argentina's David Nalbandian and Agustin Calleri 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (5), 6-3 in Mardel Plata, Argentina.
Spain leads 2-1 heading into the last day of the best-of-five Davis Cup final.
Playing without top-ranked Rafael Nadal, who is sidelined with a knee injury, Spain can clinch the title today.
Dodgers PITCHER BILLINGSLEY HAS SURGERY AFTER FALL
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Chad Billingsley had surgery on Saturday after fracturing his leg in a fall at his Pennsylvania home.
Team spokesman Josh Rawitch said that the 24-year-old Billingsley slipped on ice outside his house in Reading, Pa., and suffered a spiral fracture of the fibula in his left leg on Friday.
He had surgery to put a plate in and will be in a cast for two weeks. Billingsley, a former Jacksonville Suns standout, should be ready to throw by spring training.
ELSEWHERE
Florida State's women's soccer team (17-2-3) beat visiting Boston College 1-0 to advance to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament for the fourth season in a row. ... North Florida's volleyball team (13-19) beat Winston-Salem State 3-0 (25-20, 25-14, 25-20) before losing to Central Arkansas 3-2 (23-25, 20-25, 25-13, 25-14, 15-9) and USC Upstate 3-1 (27-25, 25-22, 21-25, 25-19) at the Division I Provisional Invitational in Spartanburg, S.C. UNF's Bary Rasmussen was named to the all-tournament team.
