There's no sugarcoating Louisiana Tech's season thus far — it's been frustrating.

Watch out Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak have been focusing on grassroots development and are now reaping the rewards.

An Italian gay-rights activist said she was detained by police at the Olympics after being stopped while carrying a rainbow flag that read in Russian: ''Gay is OK.'' Police on Monday denied this happened. Vladimir Luxuria, a former Communist lawmaker in the Italian parliament who has become a prominent transgender rights crusader and television personality, told The Associated Press she was held for several hours Sunday before she was released. A duty officer at the central police station in Sochi told The Associated Press they have never had an Italian national in custody. Luxuria's agent, Fabio Saccani, told the AP from Italy his client had been held for five to six hours in a station room, and she was unable to understand what was happening because only Russian was spoken.

SOCHI, Russia (AP) -- Defending Olympic champion Yuna Kim of South Korea will skate 17th in a field of 30 in the short program Wednesday at the Sochi Games.

Keighley Cougars 36 Whitehaven 14: Whitehaven got their Kingstone Press Championship campaign off to a poor start after they were convincingly beaten by Keighley at Cougar Park.