Coach: Daly just wants to drink, not play golf

John Daly has been cut loose by swing coach Butch Harmon, who said Tuesday he was not going to waste his time with a two-time major champion who is more interested in drinking than working on his golf game.

“My whole goal for him was he’s got to show me golf is the most important thing in his life,” Harmon said. “And the most important thing in his life is getting drunk.”

Harmon said he has worked three times this year with Daly, but he said Daly’s behavior at the PODS Championship was enough to end the short-lived relationship.

Daly, playing on a sponsor’s exemption because he no longer has his full PGA Tour card, spent a 2 1/2 -hour rain delay during the first round in a Hooters corporate tent behind the 17th green at Innisbrook. He was three-over par, and when play resumed, he had Tampa Bay Buccaneers Coach Jon Gruden caddie for him the rest of the day. Daly ended up with a 77. He shot 80 in the second round and missed the cut.

Daly, who could not be reached for comment, spent Saturday at the Hooters “Owl’s Nest” at the tournament, drinking beer, mingling with fans and signing autographs, including one on the back of a woman’s pants.

PRO FOOTBALL

Cardinals restructure

Fitzgerald’s contract

Two-time Pro Bowl wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald signed a $40-million, four-year contract with the Arizona Cardinals.

The deal includes $30 million guaranteed and a no-trade clause, which means Fitzgerald would have to approve any move to another team.

The Cardinals wanted to restructure Fitzgerald’s incentive-laden rookie contract because he had reached many of the benchmarks and was to receive $14.6 million in 2008 and just under $17.4 million in 2009.

A woman who obtained a restraining order earlier this year in a domestic violence case against New England Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss wants the case dismissed, court records show.

Rachelle Washington, 35, filed papers March 3 with the Broward County Circuit Court clerk’s office requesting that the order be dissolved and the case closed. The restraining order had required Moss to stay at least 500 feet from Washington.

Carolina Panthers receiver Dwayne Jarrett was arrested in Charlotte, N.C., and charged with driving while impaired.

Jarrett, a former USC standout, was pulled over after an officer spotted Jarrett’s car cross the center line and run a red light. Jarrett later failed field sobriety tests before he was given a breath test.

NFL Films, the league’s documentary company, fired 7% of its workers last week, one month after Time Warner Inc.’s HBO cable network canceled the 31-year-old “Inside the NFL” television program, which used highlights from NFL Films.

Steve Sabol, NFL Films’ president, said most of the cuts came because of the show’s cancellation.

MISCELLANY

UCLA linebacker

to miss spring drills

UCLA linebacker Joshua Edwards will miss spring practice after suffering a fractured right cheekbone during voluntary seven-on-seven workouts last week. He will have surgery later this week.

Defensive tackle Jess Ward may also miss spring practice as he is slow to recover from knee surgery. Defensive end Kenneth Lombard has decided not to play football because of several injuries he has suffered during his career.

-- Chris Foster

Lance Mackey and Jeff King, two past winners of the Iditarod, were waging a tight contest to win this year’s race.

Mackey held a seven-minute lead over King at the last checkpoint, 77 miles from the finish line in Nome, Alaska.

Cuba held the U.S. to a 1-1 tie in the opening round of Olympic soccer qualifying games for North and Central America and the Caribbean at Tampa, Fla.

Freddy Adu, who had six shots, scored the goal for the U.S in the 14th minute.

Earlier, Honduras took over the lead in Group A after a 1-0 victory over Panama. Hendry Thomas scored from 10 yards in the 90th minute

Fernando Torres scored a second-half goal to give visiting Liverpool a 1-0 victory over 10-man Inter Milan and send the Reds to the European Champions League quarterfinals.

Liverpool, which won the tournament in 2005 and lost in the final last year, advanced with a 3-0 aggregate after winning, 2-0, at Anfield in the first leg three weeks ago.

Brigham Young was put on probation for three years by the NCAA for violations in men’s volleyball.

Violations found by the infractions committee included improper financial benefits and travel expenses given to international prospects who were not enrolled at the school.

Floyd Landis will make his final appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in New York next week in an effort to regain the 2006 Tour de France title he lost because of a positive doping test. The hearing that begins next Wednesday is expected to last six days.

Connecticut Sun forward Nykesha Sales plans to sit out this WNBA season because of assorted injuries.

The San Antonio Silver Stars gave Becky Hammon a contract extension through 2011 and re-signed Ruth Riley to a two-year deal.