The Enquirer and wire reports

Dick Tarnstrom and Tom Kostopoulos scored power-play goals, and the Pittsburgh Penguins held off Philadelphia 2-1 Monday, extending the Flyers' winless streak to five games (0-4-1).

Mike Comrie scored for the Flyers, who had gone 127 minutes, 31 seconds without a goal. Philadelphia has been outscored 16-6 during its winless streak, but still leads the Atlantic Division by three points over New Jersey.

• Bruins 4, Sabres 3: Sergei Samsonov's tiebreaking goal with 7:12 left. Boston has won four straight and is 5-0-1 in its last six.

Cam Neely's No. 8 was returned in a pregame ceremony that made him the 10th B's player so honored.

• Predators 3, Wild 3: Sergei Zholtok scored on a slap shot with 13.9 seconds left in the third period to move Minnesota into a tie.

• Blues 7, Blackhawks 4: Chris Pronger scored twice and added an assist, and St. Louis prolonged Chicago's road woes - its winless in 14 straight on the road (0-13-0-1).

KINGS: Leading scorer Ziggy Palffy, 31, underwent reconstructive surgery on his right shoulder and won't play again this season.

SUSPENSIONS: NHL disciplinarian Colin Campbell handed out two-game suspensions to New York Rangers forward Chris Simon and Detroit defenseman Mathieu Schneider, and a one-game ban to Tampa Bay forward Vincent Lecavalier.

Golf

WIE VS. MEN: Michelle Wie, 14, through a sponsor exemption, will become only the fourth woman, and the youngest, to play in a PGA Tour event when she tees it up in the Sony Open in her hometown of Honolulu (ESPN, 6:30 p.m.-9 p.m. Thursday). Ernie Els is the defending champion.

Wie, a ninth-grader, adds her name to the list that includes Babe Didrikson Zaharias (four starts, the last in 1945), Annika Sorenstam (2003 Bank of America Colonial) and Suzy Whaley (2003 Greater Hartford Open).

College football

OHIO STATE: Maurice Clarett's lawyer will meet with a prosecutor Wednesday to try to resolve the suspended Ohio State tailback's misdemeanor case.

HOLTZ HIRES MINTER: Former Cincinnati coach Rick Minter was hired as South Carolina's defensive coordinator by coach Lou Holtz. Minter was fired Dec. 1 after compiling a 53-63-1 record in 10 seasons at UC.

How about a real title game?: Gateway took out a full-page ad in USA Today Monday asking the question: "USC vs. LSU. Why not?" The ad says Gateway offered $10 million to each school, plus another $10 million to the winner to see one more college football game played between the two national champions, Southern Cal and Louisiana State. "Why can't the national football champion be decided by a national football championship game?" The ad asks. "Because the NCAA says no." It asks readers to go to (www.gateway.com/whynot) to express support for one more game.

Tennis

AUSTRALIAN OPEN: Two-time Australian Open champion Jennifer Capriati withdrew from the Grand Slam tournament because of a back injury. Another former champion, Mary Pierce, also pulled out because she is not physically ready.

ADIDAS EVENT: Greg Rusedski won his first match since acknowledging a failed steroid test, beating Juan Ignacio Chela 7-6 (1), 7-6 (5) in the first round at Sydney, Australia. Rusedski tested positive for nandrolone in Indianapolis last July and faces a hearing next month in Montreal. He maintains that he's innocent and that the steroid must have been contained in supplements.

Boxing

ARUM FIX ALLEGED: Mitchell Rose, a former boxer, was offered $5,000 by members of promoter Bob Arum's Top Rank company to throw a fight in 1995, the New York Daily News reported. Rose said two men from Top Rank came to his Brooklyn home a few weeks before his Dec. 15, 1995, fight against Eric "Butterbean" Esch and said they'd give him $5,000 to lose.

Harness racing

CAMPBELL OUT: Driver John Campbell, 48, winner of six Hambletonians, is sidelined indefinitely by recurring problems with the elbow he fractured in a racing accident last March.