*COLLEGES: Army will play football games against Rutgers (in 2011), Air Force (2012) and Boston College (2014) at Yankee Stadium in addition to its 2010 matchup there against Notre Dame. … The Big East granted a medical hardship season to St.John’s basketball player Anthony Mason Jr., who played in only three games last season after tearing a tendon in his left foot.
*SOCCER: Daniel Marquez headed in the winning goal as Club America beat AC Milan 2-1 in Atlanta for its second straight victory in the World Football Challenge. … Ronaldo is set to play himself in an Iranian movie about a Palestinian girl who was killed before realizing her dream of meeting him. … FIFA fined Ivory Coast’s soccer federation $46,800 after 22 people died in a stampede at a World Cup qualifying match in March.
*COMBAT SPORTS: Former heavyweight champion Josh Barnett tested positive for steroids and was scrapped from the main event of the “Affliction: Trilogy” mixed martial arts show on Aug. 1 in Anaheim. … Mexican junior welterweight Marco Antonio Nazareth died at a hospital in Puerto Vallarta, four days after sustaining a brain hemorrhage in a loss to Omar Chavez.
*NHL: The Islanders agreed to terms on a one-year deal with goalie Martin Biron, who led the Flyers to the Eastern Conference finals last season. … Center Travis Zajac avoided salary arbitration and signed a multiyear contract with the Devils.
*TENNIS: Dinara Safina cruised into the quarterfinals of the Slovenia Open in Portoroz, her first tournament since losing to Venus Williams at Wimbledon, by routing Ksenia Pervak 6-1, 6-2. … Robin Soderling and Jeremy Chardy, who both won tournaments last week, extended their winning streaks on clay to advance to the third round of the German Open in Hamburg.
*ALSO: ESPN has banned New York Post staffers from appearing on any of its programming after the newspaper ran photos from the video showing sideline reporter Erin Andrews nude in a hotel room. … The son of former Yankees star Don Mattingly was arraigned on misdemeanor charges of shoving his mother and spitting in her face after she allegedly sent him a text message insulting him, his girlfriend and his father. Taylor Mattingly, 24, also acknowledged smashing a patio table, flipping over a second table and damaging a patio door and a window, police said. … Four-time U.S. Nordic combined Olympian Todd Lodwick sustained minor injuries when he rode a bike head-on into a moving vehicle after watching a stage of the Tour de France.
