FOOTBALL

Burfict’s seasonlong suspension upheld — Vontaze Burfict’s appeal of his suspension by the NFL was denied Wednesday by a neutral arbitrator, leaving the Oakland Raiders linebacker ineligible to play for the remainder of the season and postseason. Burfict’s appeal through the NFL Players Association for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Indianapolis Colts tight end Jack Doyle during a Sept. 29 game was heard Tuesday by Derrick Brooks, the Hall of Fame linebacker who is one of the two appeals officers for on-field discipline jointly appointed by the league and the NFLPA. The NFL announced Wednesday that Brooks had upheld the suspension, the longest ever imposed by the league for an on-field incident. The suspension will cost Burfict $879,411.76. His 2019 base salary is $1.15 million.

BASKETBALL

Calhoun accused of discrimination — Hall of Fame basketball coach Jim Calhoun has been accused of sexual discrimination by a former associate athletic director at the University of Saint Joseph, the NCAA Division III school where Calhoun now works. Jaclyn Piscitelli filed a lawsuit Wednesday in U.S. District Court against the Catholic school in West Hartford, Connecticut, which began admitting men in 2018. She alleges she was fired after complaining about the conduct of men in the athletic department, including the 77-year-old Calhoun. She alleges, among other things, that the former UConn coach once called her “hot.”

WOMEN’s college basketball

Beavers set to play Team USA — Oregon State gets a stern test prior to the opening of its 2019-20 women’s basketball season when the Beavers play an exhibition game against Team USA on Monday, Nov. 4, at 7 p.m. in Gill Coliseum. The Beavers, coming off a Sweet 16 appearance and a likely preseason national top-10 pick, face some of the world’s best when the national team comes to Corvallis. Team USA is playing four exhibition games against top college women’s teams, including three against Pac-12 schools. The national team plays at Stanford on Nov. 2, and at Oregon on Nov. 9.

HORSE RACING

3rd horse dies at Keeneland in 5 days — A colt was fatally injured at Keeneland in a crash that also left his jockey Adam Breschizza with an injured left clavicle. The death of Triggerman is the Lexington, Kentucky, track’s third since the fall meet opened on Friday. Keeneland says in a statement that Triggerman injured his front left leg in a 1-mile turf race on Wednesday. The race chart said the colt “went wrong late in the stretch” and was vanned off. Keeneland medical director Barry Schumer says Breschizza was stable upon being discharged from the track’s first-aid station.

— Bulletin wire reports