Champions Tour golfer Ken Green's lower right leg was amputated yesterday following a recreational vehicle accident last week in Mississippi in which his brother and girlfriend died.

He was under sedation and in good condition after the three-hour operation at University of Mississippi Medical Center, Green's agent and close friend Kevin Richardson said.

"He's safe and he tolerated it well," Richardson said. He added that Green hopes to play competitive golf again.

Richardson said Green, 50, will spend at least a week in the hospital before returning home to Indiantown, Fla. He will go through rehabilitation and be fitted for a prosthetic limb. Green will need surgery on a suborbital bone in his face. He also has about a 6-inch cut on the left side of his head.

His brother, William Green, and girlfriend, Jean Marie Hodgin, died in the June 8 accident in east Mississippi. Also killed was Ken Green's German shepherd.

Green openly discussed his mental problems that plagued the five-time winner's final years on the PGA Tour. He returned to competitive golf a year ago when he joined the Champions Tour for players over 50. He was 54th on the money list before the accident.

Green has spoken of hearing voices that made it nearly impossible to concentrate on the golf course, pushing him to the verge of suicide. Richardson said Green has met with a psychologist at the hospital.

The three were traveling east in an RV on Interstate 20 from Austin, Texas, where Green played in a tournament, when a tire blew out near Hickory, Miss. The RV went off the road, down an embankment and into an oak tree, destroying the front of the vehicle.

Point Park University will field men's and women's teams in the fall. Former basketball standout Gabe Bubon was named head coach. The Pioneers haven't had a men's team since 1970-71 and the women's team will be the school's first.

• Florida hired Jan Dowling as its women's coach. Dowling, who participated in the Golf Channel's reality TV series "Big Break" in 2005, replaces Jill Briles-Hinton, who resigned a month ago after the Gators finished 16th in the NCAA East regional played in Gainesville.

Bill Laimbeer resigned as coach of the WNBA champion Detroit Shock three games into the season in hopes of landing an NBA job. Assistant Rick Mahorn, a teammate of Laimbeer's from their Detroit Pistons days, was promoted to coach. Cheryl Reeve will remain an assistant and become the general manager. Laimbeer was hired as coach of the Shock in 2002 and led them to three titles in six years.

The Associated Press and other Florida news organizations sued the NCAA and Florida State University, charging they schemed to violate open government laws by not making correspondence public about an academic cheating scandal at the school. The dispute is over a response the NCAA gave Florida State on its appeal of sanctions resulting from an academic cheating scandal. The school could be stripped of wins in 10 sports, including football.

WTAE has named Guy Junker its weekday sports anchor. Junker has been filling in since the station parted company with Jon Burton in December. Junker has been the station's weekend sports anchor since 2006 and occupied the same position from 1984-1990.

Channel 4 also hired a new weekend sports anchor, John Meyer, who comes from KCCI, the Hearst Television-owned station in Des Moines, Iowa. (WTAE is also a Hearst station.)

Meyer, a Pittsburgh native who graduated from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., will begin work at WTAE July 6.

Brenda Weare, commissioner of the Northeast Conference which includes Robert Morris and Saint Francis, Pa., died Saturday after a battle with synovial cell sarcoma, a rare form of cancer. She was 51.

• Dennis Collins, executive director of the 10-school North Coast Athletic Conference which includes Allegheny College, died of a heart attack Sunday at his suburban Cleveland home. He was 63.