Sports briefs 5/20/06

Baseball

• Houston pitcher Russ Springer was suspended for four games Friday after throwing several times at Barry Bonds and eventually hitting the San Francisco star earlier this week. Astros manager Phil Garner was suspended for one game and fined an undisclosed amount by Major League Baseball.

College

• Two victories shy of his 800th win, Eddie Sutton decided it was time to leave college basketball and let his son coach Oklahoma State.

The 70-year-old coach retired Friday, ending a 36-year career in which he made three trips to the Final Four and became the first coach to take four schools to the NCAA tournament.

He had considered returning to Oklahoma State after a Feb. 10 car accident that led to no contest pleas to drunken driving and other charges.

"This decision is about simply what's best for me and what's best for the basketball program at Oklahoma State," Sutton said.

He will be succeeded by Sean Sutton, who was an assistant on his father's coaching staff and had taken the job on an interim basis.

--The Associated Press