<table> </table> <strong><span class="subhead">Tiger unsure of his schedule</span></strong></p><p><strong>Tiger Woods </strong>was in Dubai, United Emirates, on Monday but said he was uncertain whether he will be ready to defend his title at the Dubai Desert Classic, which starts Jan. 27 next year.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s frustrating for me,&#8221; Woods said while in Dubai to promote a golf course he helped design as he talked about the possibility of not being able to defend his title.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">News around the NBA</span></strong></p><p><strong>Sun Yue</strong>, a second-round pick of the 2007 NBA draft, signed a multiyear deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, Sun, 23, is a 6-foot-9 guard. He averaged 6.8 points, 2.5 assists and 1.33 steals in six games for China at the Olympics.</p><p>&#8226;The Mavericks re-signed forward <strong>Devean George</strong>, nearly six months after he blocked a trade to the New Jersey Nets.</p><p>&#8226;Lakers coach <strong>Phil Jackson</strong> accepted an honorary doctorate from the University of North Dakota and asked the school to think hard about its Fighting Sioux nickname. Jackson said he had been asked by his Lakota friends to speak out against the nickname. He said the university has a chance to embrace change.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Too good to pitch</span></strong></p><p>All <strong>Jericho Scott </strong>wants to do is pitch in his Youth Baseball League in New Haven, Conn. But the 9-year-old boy throws so hard that league officials told his coach he couldn&#8217;t pitch anymore because they were concerned players on the other teams would be afraid. Last week an opposing team forfeited the game when Scott walked to the mound.</p><p>&#8220;He&#8217;s never hurt anyone,&#8221; said his coach, <strong>Wilfred Vidro</strong>. &#8220;He&#8217;s on target all the time. How can you punish a kid for being too good.&#8221;</p><p>As for Scott: &#8220;I feel sad. I feel like it&#8217;s all my fault nobody could play.&#8221; His parents say he is being targeted because he turned down an invitation to join the defending league champion, which is sponsored by an employer of one of the league&#8217;s administrators.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Making its secondary bid</span></strong></p><p>St. Louis was host of the Olympics in 1904 and apparently thinks it could have a role in another if Chicago gets the 2016 Summer Games. Chicago is asking surrounding cities to be host to satellite events, and the St. Louis Sports Commission appears ready to bid on holding soccer games.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Brits ride home in gold</span></strong></p><p>Great Britain&#8217;s athletes, who will have the home-country advantage in 2012, returned to London in a specially commissioned British Airways jet fitted with a gold nose. Extra champagne was ordered for the team that is bringing home 47 medals (19 golds) &#8212; the country&#8217;s biggest haul since 1908.</p><p>There is talk of knighthood or other honors. But for double gold medalist <strong>Rebecca Adlington</strong>, she may have already received the most distinctive honor. Her local pub in Mansfield, England, will be renamed &#8220;The Adlington Arms.&#8221; It&#8217;s owner said she could always eat there for free.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Elsewhere</span></strong></p><p>&#8226;<strong>Barry Bonds </strong>is asking a federal judge to throw out most of the government&#8217;s perjury case against him, saying the charges stem from ambiguous answers to ambiguous questions posed by the prosecutors.