By Dave van Dyck

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Instead of throwing an inning in the White Sox's Monday night game, closer Bobby Jenks threw two "innings" in an afternoon bullpen session, saying afterward, "I'm excited where I'm at physically."

Jenks has been bothered by a sore right calf that limited him at the end of last season, but to what degree has been the issue. He has a 37.80 ERA this spring.

"It's not bothering me (now)," he said. "It was getting tired because it was (strained) last year. What we're doing now is taking all precautions to make sure it doesn't become an issue.. . .We want to make sure everything is fine before we go out (in a game)."

Jenks is expected to throw on a back field again Wednesday and then pitch again in a spring game Friday or Saturday.

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An Illinois insurance executive who secretly shot nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews was sentenced Monday to 2 1/2 years in prison before giving a tearful apology that was harshly rebuked by his victim.

Michael David Barrett pleaded guilty in December to interstate stalking after prosecutors accused him of following the reporter to at least three cities and shooting the videos through hotel peepholes.

Barrett, 48, of  Westmont, agreed to a 27-month prison sentence after pleading guilty. Andrews urged the judge at the hearing for a harsher sentence and said she fears for her life every time she enters a hotel.

"You violated me and you violated all women," Andrews told Barrett. "You are a sexual predator, a sexual deviant and they should lock you up."

Photo: ESPN reporter Erin Andrews arrives at court Monday in Los Angeles. (Andrew Gombert/EPA)

Here's Thursday's local broadcast schedule for the opening round of the NCAA tournament. All games are on WBBM-Ch. 2 unless noted.

11:25 a.m. Old Dominion vs. Notre Dame
1:40 p.m. North Texas vs. Kansas State
3:45 p.m. UTEP vs. Butler--CBS College Sports
6:20 p.m. Washington vs. Marquette
8:30 p.m. Lehigh vs. Kansas

Friday's schedule will be available on Tuesday. So far just one game is set. 

3:45 p.m. Utah vs. Texas A&M--CBS College Sports

By Paul Sullivan

TUCSON -- In a strange quirk of fate, the Cubs' bus ride from Mesa to Tucson on Monday lasted longer than the actual game.

The Cubs lost 5-2 to Colorado in only two hours and four minutes, despite four solid innings from starter Carlos Zambrano, who also had an RBI double.

Zambrano called his performance "Brandon Webb style."

"Hopefully I can pitch like this the whole season," he said. "Like (Greg) Maddux used to say, it's better to have movement than velocity. Don't get me wrong, velocity is good."

Bulls guard Derrick Rose discusses the status of his sprained left wrist Monday at the Berto Center (video from WGN-Channel 9):

Good news for Blackhawks fans: Just weeks before the start of the Stanley Cup playoffs, Comcast and DirecTV have reached an agreement restoring Versus and its programming, including NHL games, to the satellite pay-service's lineup.

Terms of the deal, announced Monday, were not disclosed.

Versus will be restored to the same DirecTV programming packages that included it at the end of last August, when the Comcast-owned sports channel was dropped in a contract renewal dispute over per-subscriber fees DirecTV would be required to pay to carry it

Read more at Phil Rosenthal's Tower Ticker.

By Chris Kuc

Alex Ovechkin has been suspended for two games without pay by the NHL for his hit on Blackhawks defenseman Brian Campbell in Sunday's game, NHL.com reported Monday.

NHL senior executive vice president of hockey operations Colin Campbell ruled that it was a "reckless" hit by Ovechkin, who received a five-minute boarding major and a game misconduct on the play.

Campbell, who sustained a broken collarbone and will be sidelined at least through the end of the regular season, was scheduled to meet with team physician Michael Terry on Monday to further assess the defenseman's injury.

By Philip Hersh

By Paul Sullivan

TUCSON, Ariz. -- Ryan Theriot officially has won the battle with Kosuke Fukudome to be the leadoff man, and Mike Fontenot likely will be the regular second baseman.

That was the word from manager Lou Piniella on Monday afternoon at Hi Corbett Field before the Cubs' exhibition game against the Colorado Rockies.

"I would say it would be Theriot," Piniella said. "I like Fukudome in the No. 2 hole, and we'll go from there. And right now, as we speak, I think that Fontenot has probably jumped ahead a little in the second base slot. It hasn't been finalized, but that's the way I view it right now."

Photo: Ryan Theriot will bat leadoff against both right-handers and lefties, manager Lou Piniella said. (Phil Velasquez/Tribune)

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The Masters will be broadcast in 3-D -- although few Americans own the technology to take advantage.

Augusta National announced Monday that next month's tournament can be viewed on 3-D-capable television sets and computers. It will be the first 3-D sports event on TV in the United States; previous experiments used movie theaters.

Few Americans currently own the capable sets, but networks believe 3-D could be the next big thing and are starting to offer programming.