Beth Harris

LOS ANGELES -- Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said Wednesday the league will announce the future site of its conference basketball tournaments after a weekend meeting of university presidents and chancellors.

LOS ANGELES -- Garrett Jackson scored a career-high 16 points and Southern California led all the way in beating Utah 62-45 Saturday night to win its first Pac-12 game and snap a nine-game losing streak.

Maurice Jones added 16 points and Greg Allen and freshman Byron Wesley had nine points each for the Trojans (6-16, 1-8), whose skid was the school's longest since it dropped 13 in a row during the 1989 season. Wesley added seven assists.

Dijon Farr led the Utes (5-16, 2-7) with 12 points and eight rebounds. Chris Hines and Jason Washburn added 10 points each in the matchup of the league's two worst teams.

IRVINE, Calif. -- Decathlete Bryan Clay spends his days in spandex, while Ryan Lochte pulls on a swimsuit like he's been doing since he was 8 years old. They'll be looking a lot spiffier, along with the rest of the U.S. Olympic team, at next year's London Games.

Clay and Lochte, along with swimmer Rebecca Soni and gymnast Jonathan Horton, are among 12 Olympic and Paralympic athletes sponsored by Ralph Lauren, who has designed the official uniforms for the American team to wear in the opening and closing ceremonies in London.

At a recent photo shoot on the track at UC Irvine, Clay posed in a navy polo shirt that sported the word London on the back.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Uncle Mo was made the early 5-2 favorite Monday in a field of 13 for the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic, where the colt who beat a life-threatening liver disease will try to complete his comeback with a victory.

Uncle Mo and John Velazquez will break from the No. 12 post in Saturday's 1 1-4-mile race at Churchill Downs, where the colt was scratched on the eve of the Kentucky Derby in May because of a mystery ailment that was eventually diagnosed as liver disease.

"It gives Johnny some options going to the first turn," trainer Todd Pletcher said about Uncle Mo's post position. "It's perfect. He's a good horse getting away from the gate."

The Bruins received 421 points and 14 first-place votes in polling by media who cover the reconfigured conference. They won three consecutive league titles from 2006-08, repeating their run of three in a row from 1995-97.

UCLA narrowly edged California and Arizona in first-place votes. The Golden Bears were picked second with 405 points and 13 first-place votes, while defending league champion Arizona had 404 points and 11 first-place votes for third. All three teams were ranked in the AP Top 25 preseason poll on Friday. The Wildcats are No. 16, the Bruins No. 17 and Cal is No. 24.

Washington, the defending tournament champion, was picked fourth with 355 points, followed by Oregon, Stanford and Southern California. Oregon State was picked eighth and Arizona State ninth. Newcomer Colorado and Washington State tied for 10th.

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. -- There's no panic in Blake Griffin, whether it's holding out with his fellow NBA players for a better labor deal or posing nearly nude in a national magazine.

Griffin doesn't think the players will flinch even as the league's lockout threatens the start of the season next month. He didn't blink when given his choice of a white, black or leopard thong to don for the photo shoot.

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. -- Kevin Love won't be giving up his day job anytime soon. Idled by the NBA lockout, the Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star hit the sand to compete in his first pro beach volleyball tournament Thursday. He and his partner lost in straight sets, but Love called the action "addicting" and wants to keep honing his game.

As the lowest-seeded players in the Manhattan Beach Open, Love and pro partner Hans Stolfus drew the top-seeded team of Sean Scott and John Hyden, who won last week's tournament in Hermosa Beach and are undefeated this summer. Scott and Hyden took it easy on Love and Stolfus, handing them a 21-16, 21-15 defeat under blue skies next to the Manhattan Beach pier.