Wednesday's sports briefs

David Pearson was selected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame. The Silver Fox was controversially left out of last year's inaugural class despite 105 career victories. There was an outcry among race fans at his exclusion in favor of longtime NASCAR chairman Bill France Jr.

Pearson received an immediate standing ovation from those gathered in the Great Hall of the Hall of Fame on Wednesday. Also selected was Bobby Allison, whose 84 wins are tied for third on the all-time victory list.

Lee Petty, the patriarch of Petty Enterprises was the third name announced. He was followed by Ned Jarrett and Bud Moore.

Not selected was Darrell Waltrip, the three-time champion who had actively campaigned.

Transgender woman sues LPGA A transgender woman is suing the LPGA over a requirement which states that all competitors must be "female at birth."

Fifty-seven-year-old Lana Lawless underwent gender reassignment surgery in 2005. She filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Tuesday claiming that the policy violates California civil rights laws.

Lawless won the women's world championship in long-drive golf in 2008, but was barred from competing this year because Long Drivers of America -- which oversees the event -- had changed its policy to mirror that of the LPGA.

Coach accused of sexual assault A renowned former New York City youth basketball coach has been indicted on charges he sexually assaulted a player during a team trip to western Massachusetts three decades ago.

Ernest Lorch was indicted by a grand jury Tuesday on charges of attempted rape and indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or over, said Northwestern Assistant District Attorney Jane Mulqueen.

Lorch, who is in his late 70s, is accused of abusing the player, then 17, during a trip to a tournament at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, said Mulqueen, chief of the office's child abuse division.

Lorch founded and coached in the Riverside Church basketball program in Manhattan, whose alumni include dozens of NBA players, including Chris Mullin, Mark Jackson and Stephon Marbury.

Lorch, an attorney, resigned from the Riverside basketball program in 2003 following allegations of sexual abuse by a former player.

Cycling: Results from tests that showed abnormally high levels of plastic residues in Alberto Contador's urine could be used as part of the doping case against the Tour de France winner -- even if the tests alone can't prove the entire case, anti-doping authorities say.

Olivier Rabin, the lead scientist at the World Anti-Doping Agency, said the validity of the plastics tests is ironclad but they have not been through enough lab work to be used as stand-alone evidence in a doping case.

Tennis: Andy Roddick retired at the Shanghai Masters because of a thigh injury. Roddick slipped while trying to change directions during his match against Guillermo Garcia-Lopez. Roddick was leading 6-3, 2-3 when he retired.

Track: An autopsy shows former Olympic sprinter and North Carolina assistant track and field coach Antonio Pettigrew died from an overdose of a drug common to sleeping pills and allergy medications.

College basketball: Michigan State's Tom Izzo will be honored with the Legends of Coaching award as part of the John R. Wooden Award ceremony in 2011.