BRIEFLY : HARDAWAY HARD TO STOP.

Miami Heat guard Tim Hardaway, stopped for racing his car in excess of 110 mph in a 40 mph zone, cursed police and told them he had friends in high places, Miami Beach police said.

Hardaway was driving a $200,000 1997 blue Ferrari when he was pulled over at 2 a.m. Friday.

Orlando Magic owner Richard DeVos, who underwent a heart transplant this month, has been released from a Grand Rapids, Mich., hospital.

OUTDOORS: During its yearly contest awards ceremony Monday evening in Haines City, Fla., the Outdoor Writers Association of America presented Daily News Outdoors Editor Brett Pauly with three writing honors.

Pauly accepted a first-place plaque for the nation's best newspaper feature on saltwater fishing, and placed second and third in newspaper coverage of freshwater fishing.

The winning articles profiled ocean fly-fishing for dorado near Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, sight-fishing for brook trout at Valentine Lake above Mammoth Lakes, and bait-fishing for sturgeon in the Sacramento River. Monday's program was part of the 70th annual OWAA Conference.

NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle Warren Sapp pleaded innocent to a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge in Tampa.

HOCKEY: Dave Peterson, who coached the U.S. ice hockey teams in the 1988 and 1992 Winter Olympics, had a heart attack at his home in Colorado Springs on Sunday, USA Hockey officials said.

Peterson was reported resting comfortably in the intensive-care unit of a Colorado Springs, Colo., hospital and is scheduled for bypass surgery on Wednesday, said Darryl Seibel of USA Hockey.

OLYMPICS: In Colorado Springs, Chris Campbell, a two-time Olympic wrestler who has become a vocal advocate of athletes' rights, has been picked to head USA Boxing. He will be the first African-American executive director of an American Olympic sport.