• Ex-Wolfpack star Charles killed in bus accident: A tour bus official says a former North Carolina State basketball star who scored the game-winning basket to give the Wolfpack the 1983 national championship was killed when a bus he was driving crashed in Raleigh, N.C. Lorenzo Charles was 47. Elite Coach general manager Brad Jackson said Monday that Charles was driving a company bus on Interstate 40. Raleigh police spokesman Jim Sughrue says the bus driver was killed and there were no passengers aboard. Charles grabbed an errant 30-foot shot by Dereck Whittenburg and dunked it for the winning basket in the Wolfpack’s 54-52 victory over the University of Houston in the NCAA title game in Albuquerque.

• Bobcats make qualifying offer to former Blazer Cunningham: The Charlotte Bobcats have made a one-year, $1 million qualifying offer to Dante Cunningham that makes the reserve forward a restricted free agent. Charlotte acquired the former Villanova player from Portland in a February trade that sent forward Gerald Wallace to the Trail Blazers.

• Revenue sharing still a dispute in NBA labor talks: NBA owners and players are still debating expanded revenue sharing among teams. Players contend a revenue sharing plan belongs in the new collective bargaining agreement. Commissioner David Stern says the plan is coming, but only after the CBA is settled. Union executive director Billy Hunter says players believe owners’ shortfalls “can be rectified through revenue sharing,” but they have “not disclosed to us an iota of what their proposed revenue sharing plan might look like.” Owners will be briefed on those plans today in Dallas. If that isn’t before the end of Thursday, there could be a lockout.

• NCAA’s First Four stays in Dayton for 2012-13: The NCAA tournament’s opening round will stay in Dayton, Ohio, for at least the next two years. The NCAA said Monday that the First Four will be played at the University of Dayton in 2012 and 2013. Gene Smith, the Ohio State athletics director and chair of the Division I Men’s Basketball Committee, said the panel decided Dayton should host the First Four at least through the tournament’s 75th anniversary in 2013.