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PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns hired Alvin Gentry, Bill Cartwright, Dan Majerle and Igor Kokoskov as assistant coaches to Terry Porter.

Gentry, a 29-year coaching veteran, is the lone holdover from Mike D'Antoni's staff. Gentry will return for his fifth season with the Suns.

Majerle, a former Suns player who is in the team's Ring of Honor, hasn't coached before. He had been a Suns broadcast analyst for the past four seasons.

Cartwright spent 10 seasons as an assistant, including the last four with the New Jersey Nets. He also was the Chicago Bulls' head coach for parts of three seasons.

Kokoskov spent the last five seasons on the Detroit Pistons' staff and served with Porter the last two years.

● The New York Knicks added three assistants to coach D'Antoni's staff Friday, retaining Herb Williams from Isiah Thomas' crew and signing former Suns assistants Phil Weber and Dan D'Antoni.

● The NBA wants disgraced referee Tim Donaghy to pay the league $1.4 million, including his wages for games on which he bet or provided inside tips to gamblers.

The written demand, filed Thursday in federal court, asks a judge to force Donaghy to pay the sum as restitution in his gambling case.

The Donaghy scandal "has harmed the NBA and caused it to spend vast sums to undo that harm," league lawyers wrote.

NEW YORK — The professional debut of pitcher Pat Venditte included an unusual twist.

Less than two weeks after he was drafted by the Yankees in the 20th round, Venditte entered in the ninth inning of a game between Class A Staten Island Yankees and the Brooklyn Cyclones.

After Venditte retired two batters and allowed a single, he faced Brooklyn switch hitter Ralph Henriquez. Here's where it got interesting because Venditte is a switch pitcher.

Henriquez entered the batter's box from the right side so Venditte put his specially made glove (it has six fingers and fits on both hands) on his left hand, and got ready to pitch right-handed.

Henriquez then changed his mind and switched sides of the plate. So Venditte shifted his glove to the other hand. Then it happened again and again and again.

Umpires and both managers then huddled and the umps decided the batter and pitcher can both change sides one time per at-bat, and that the batter must declare first. The ruling favored the pitcher, since he gets to declare last.

About seven minutes after he first stepped in, Henriquez struck out on four pitches as a righty against a right-handed Venditte and slammed his bat in frustration. Staten Island won, 7-2.

PENSACOLA, Fla. — A Florida federal judge says banned sprinter Justin Gatlin should be allowed to compete at the U.S. Olympic trials.

U.S. District Judge Lacey A. Collier's temporary restraining order is only in effect for 10 days. The first two rounds of 100-meter qualifying at the trials are set for June 28. The semifinals and finals are the following day.

Gatlin's lawyer, Joe Zarzaur, says his client is "guardedly, cautiously optimistic."

Gatlin's complaint alleged that penalizing him for a 2001 doping violation, which involved medication he was taking for attention deficit disorder, violates the Americans with Disability Act.

Two weeks ago, the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld a four-year doping ban against the reigning Olympic 100-meter gold medalist. Gatlin asked CAS to rescind the 2001 doping violation — his first of two — which he had hoped would reduce his penalty to a two-year ban, allowing him to compete at trials.

PHOENIX — Diana Taurasi scored 33 points and Cappie Pondexter added 31 to lead the Phoenix Mercury to a 112-105 overtime victory over the Chicago Sky on Friday night.

Taurasi, who had 10 rebounds, five assists and four blocks, hit her fifth three-pointer of the game with 2:43 left in overtime to give Phoenix (4-6) the lead for good.

The defending WNBA champions have won two straight and four of their last six games.

● Sports broadcaster Pat Summerall was recovering Friday from emergency surgery to stop internal bleeding, his wife said. Cheri Summerall said her 78-year-old husband was resting comfortably Friday in a Dallas-area hospital.