Sports briefs 8/27/05

Baseball

• The Chicago Cubs placed slugger Aramis Ramirez on the 15-day disabled list Friday with a strained left quadriceps muscle and slotted Nomar Garciaparra to take his spot at third base against the Florida Marlins.

Ramirez, who is batting .302 with 31 homers and 92 RBIs, injured his leg running to first base in the first inning of Wednesday's game against Atlanta. The move was made retroactive to Thursday.

College

* A University of Kansas football player was suspended from the team Friday for his role in an altercation at a country music concert.

Coach Mark Mangino suspended backup fullback Bruce Ringwood indefinitely; the player had been arrested and charged with two counts of assault last weekend in Kansas City, Mo.

Ringwood is accused of repeatedly punching a man in the face, hitting the man's wife and pushing the woman down a flight of stairs.

* Andy Kennedy was hired as interim head coach at Cincinnati on Friday, two days after Bob Huggins was forced out as the Bearcats' basketball coach.

Kennedy had been Huggins' top assistant and served as recruiting coordinator the past four years. Before that, he spent five years as an assistant at UAB, where he is the school's No. 2 career scorer.

Track and field

* Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele set a world record in the 10,000 meters at the Van Damme Memorial on Friday, while American sprinter Justin Gatlin fought back from a slow start to win the 100.

Running on his own for almost half the race, Bekele finished the race in 26 minutes, 17.53 seconds, faster than his time in Ostrava in June 2004 by 2.78 seconds.

Gatlin rallied to take the 100 meters in 9.99 seconds, beating France's Ronald Pognon and Jamaica's Dwight Thomas. Maurice Greene finished last in 10.56.