• ESPN files public-records suit against Ohio State: ESPN has sued Ohio State University, alleging the school violated state public records law by denying requests for items related to an NCAA investigation that has led to the loss of football coach Jim Tressel and star quarterback Terrelle Pryor. The lawsuit filed Monday in the Ohio Supreme Court asks justices to order the university to release the records and pay attorney fees and court costs. Among records sought are correspondences referring to Ted Sarniak, reportedly a mentor of Pryor in his hometown Jeannette, Pa. Tressel forwarded e-mails to Sarniak regarding accusations that players had sold game memorabilia in violation of NCAA rules. Among its arguments, ESPN says the university cited an inapplicable federal student-records privacy law in denying records. Ohio State spokesman Jim Lynch says the university believes it has followed applicable law. He says ESPN has received a “voluminous amount” of information.

• Ex-NFL Bengal killed by California deputy in scuffle: A California deputy shot and killed a former running back for the Cincinnati Bengals in front of a convenience store after he allegedly hit an officer with a bag holding two cans of beer. David Lee “Deacon” Turner, 56, played with the Bengals from 1978 to 1980. Deputies who were investigating reports of teenagers asking adults to buy alcohol and cigarettes approached Turner on Sunday as he left the convenience store with his 19-year-old son and a 16-year-old juvenile. The deputies detained Turner while they investigated. The sheriff’s office said Turner initially complied but then decided to leave, and the scuffle occurred when deputies tried to stop the former NFL player. Deputy Aaron Nadal was hit on the back of the head with a bag holding two, 24-ounce cans of beer before Deputy Wesley Kraft drew his handgun and fired twice at Turner, authorities said. Friends and family told the The Bakersfield Californian they have trouble believing authorities’ account of the story. Kraft is on administrative leave while sheriff’s detectives investigate the shooting.

• Lawyers in NFL labor dispute meet: Less than two weeks before some training camps are scheduled to open, the NFL remains in labor limbo, with only the lawyers for both sides meeting. Attorneys met Monday in New York to clarify language from previous discussions, and will do so again today. Originally, owners and players were to get together for more negotiations today, but now won’t do so before Wednesday. Several issues are close to resolution, the most significant being the split of total revenues between owners and players. Should negotiations last beyond July 19 — or the owners’ meeting two days later — that could lead to even deeper cuts in the preseason.

• Police say Steelers’ Ward failed field sobriety test: Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward had glassy, bloodshot eyes and failed field sobriety tests during a traffic stop in Atlanta that landed him a drunken driving charge, according to a police report released Monday. A transit police officer pulled Ward over just before 2:30 a.m. Saturday after he left his lane and at one point hit a curb in his gray Aston Martin, the report says. The transit police officer called a DeKalb County police officer, who wrote in the report that the former Super Bowl MVP and reigning “Dancing With the Stars” champ smelled strongly of alcohol. The officer asked Ward to get out of the car and administered a series of field sobriety tests, including a hand-held breath test that registered positive for alcohol, the report said. Ward could not keep his balance and mixed up and omitted letters in the alphabet, the report says. Atlanta lawyer Andrew Ree on Saturday released a statement saying the 35-year-old Ward was not impaired by alcohol while driving and cooperated fully with police.

Auto Racing

• Kentucky Speedway offers ticket exchange to fans: Kentucky Speedway on Monday offered a ticket exchange to fans who were stuck in traffic and missed this weekend’s inaugural Sprint Cup Series race. Speedway Motorsports Inc. president Marcus Smith said fans can swap their unused Kentucky tickets for entry into events at any 2011 race at an SMI track. The tickets can also be swapped for entry into the 2012 race at Kentucky. Fans were stuck in traffic for hours as they tried to get into Saturday night’s race at the track in Sparta, Ky. Many fans said once they did get to the gate, they were turned away by police because the track had no more parking spaces. The track announced a week before the race that it had sold out all of its 107,000 seats for a Cup race the region had been hoping to host for at least a decade. SMI spent millions on capital improvement and updating the infrastructure to the speedway, which was acquired in 2008.

—The Associated Press