NHL

Canucks' Luongo faces

uncertain future

Roberto Luongo says he is open to a trade, no matter how long it takes the Vancouver Canucks to deal him.

The 33-year-old goaltender returned to the ice for an informal workout with Canucks teammates Friday while facing an uncertain future.

Luongo, a three-time All-Star, was displaced as Vancouver's No. 1 goalie by 26-year-old Cory Schneider in last year's playoffs. After the season, Luongo said he would waive his no-trade clause if asked, but general manager Mike Gillis couldn't swing a deal before the 113-day NHL lockout began in September.

"I told (Gillis) I was ready to go as long as it took," Luongo said. "Whether it's a couple days, next week, two weeks, at the end of the season, it's totally fine with me."

Luongo has long been rumored to be headed to the Toronto Maple Leafs. Trades are prohibited until players have ratified the proposed new collective-bargaining agreement, which is expected to happen Saturday. Training camps might open Sunday.

Luongo ($5.3 million) and Schneider ($4 million) count for $9.3 million on Vancouver's salary cap. The cap is to be reduced to $64.3 million next season, from a prorated $70.2 million this season.

College football

UCLA coach Mora

gets 1-year extension

UCLA coach Jim Mora, a former Seahawks coach, has agreed to a one-year contract extension with the Bruins through 2017 after going 9-5 in his first season as a college head coach. He agreed to a five-year, $11.235 million deal in December 2011.

Alabama trio intends

to enter NFL draft

Alabama tailback Eddie Lacy, cornerback Dee Milliner and right tackle D.J. Fluker, who helped the Crimson Tide win a second consecutive national title, are skipping their senior seasons to make themselves eligible for the NFL draft.

President Barack Obama called Alabama coach Nick Saban on Thursday to congratulate him.

Alabama has won three national titles during Obama's presidency. He said Saban and the team "are beginning to make this a habit."

Meanwhile, Texas defensive tackle Brandon Moore said he will forgo his senior season to enter the draft.

Cycling

Report: Armstrong

to admit to doping

Lance Armstrong, who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles last year, will admit to doping during his career in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, an unnamed source told USA Today Sports.

The interview is to air Thursday on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

The source also said Armstrong will not go into great detail.

Motor sports

Earnhardt starts wreck

Dale Earnhardt Jr. started a 12-car accident at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., that essentially shut down a three-day test session designed to hone NASCAR's redesigned cars.

"It was a big mess and tore up a lot of cars down here trying to work on their stuff," Earnhardt said.

Two of Earnhardt's Hendrick Motorsports teammates, Kasey Kahne of Enumclaw and Jeff Gordon, also were involved in the wreck. No injuries were reported.

Motorcyclist is killed

French motorcyclist Thomas Bourgin, 25, died in his first Dakar Rally when he collided with a Chilean police car. Race officials said Bourgin was traveling to the start of the seventh stage in Argentina.

Olivier Pain of France leads the motorcycle division, and countryman Stephane Peterhansel leads the car category.

Elsewhere

• Top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland claimed back-to-back WTA titles by dispatching Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia 6-0, 6-0 in the Sydney International tennis final in Australia. She won an event in New Zealand week earlier.

• Forward Pat Noonan, 32, has retired as a Los Angeles Galaxy player to join the Major League Soccer team's coaching staff.

• Noelle Pikus-Pace of Orem, Utah, posted her first World Cup victory since 2004, earning the gold medal in a skeleton race in Koenigssee, Germany.

Pikus-Pace, 30, announced her retirement after the 2010 Vancouver Olympics but returned to compete two months ago.

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