Strickland Sentenced

Washington Wizard point guard Rod Strickland was ordered to complete a driver’s alcohol-awareness program and perform 30 hours of community service after being convicted of driving while impaired last year at Washington.

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Chicago center Luc Longley, who returned to the lineup Sunday after sitting out 13 games because of a knee injury, may now be sidelined until the start of the playoffs because the injury, a bone bruise, still has not fully healed.

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Henry Clinger Armstrong, one of four NBA referees convicted in an airline ticket scam, was put on probation for three years at Norfolk, Va., for tax evasion.