When Tennessee would travel to play Louisiana Tech in the early days of the teams' rivalry, coach Sonja Hogg would bring Pat Summitt to her house after the game so she could wash the Lady Volunteers' dirty jerseys.

It's that kind of friendship that has made women's basketball so special, said Hogg, the longtime Lady Techsters coach who is among the six 2009 inductees to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Tenn.

"We would try to kill each other on the floor and in recruiting, but when we stepped off the floor we were friends, we were colleagues," said Hogg, who also coached at Baylor.

Hogg started the Louisiana Tech program while teaching physical education there and nicknamed the team the Lady Techsters because she didn't want her players to be known as "Bulldogs." Under Hogg, the Lady Techsters won the inaugural NCAA championship game in 1982 after winning the AIAW Championship the previous season.

An exhibit honoring Hogg, Jennifer Azzi, Cynthia Cooper-Dyke, Jennifer Gillom, Jill Hutchison and Ora Washington was unveiled yesterday. The ceremonial banquet is tonight.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

BCS BOWLS ON ESPN STARTING IN 2011

The Rose Bowl will be televised on ESPN beginning in January 2011, giving the network broadcast rights to all Bowl Championship Series games.

ESPN announced the agreement with the Rose Bowl yesterday.

The network had previously said it would air the Fiesta, Orange, Sugar and BCS national championship game as part of a multiyear agreement that also begins in January 2011.

The 2010 Rose Bowl and the 2010 BCS national title game from Pasadena, Calif., will remain on ABC.

CYCLING

EX-TOUR WINNER FIGNON HAS CANCER

Two-time Tour de France winner Laurent Fignon says he has advanced cancer in the digestive system and is undergoing chemotherapy.

Fignon says doctors told him the cancer probably wasn't caused by taking performance-enhancing drugs during his career.

Fignon, 48, has written a book, "We were Young and Carefree," in which he describes his use of amphetamines and cortisone. He won the Tour in 1983 and 1984.

SWIMMING

PHELPS CRUISES IN 200 BUTTERFLY

Michael Phelps easily won the 200-meter butterfly at the Santa Clara International Grand Prix.

The superstar from the Beijing Olympics touched first in 1 minute, 54.37 seconds in last night's final, beating the field by 5.61 seconds.

His time lowered the meet record of 1:55.93 set by Davis Tarwater last year, and earned Phelps a $100 reward. He owns the world record of 1:52.03 set in Beijing, where Phelps won a record eight gold medals.