Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf has been indicted by a Randall County grand jury on drug and burglary charges.

The indictment was handed down Wednesday in Canyon, Texas. It charged the 33-year-old former San Diego Chargers quarterback and former West Texas A&M quarterbacks coach with one count of burglary to a habitation, seven counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and delivery of a simulated controlled substance.

The indictment said Leaf presented an incomplete medical history to several physicians between January 2008 and September 2008 to get or try to obtain the painkiller Hydrocodone.

Canyon police Lt. Dale Davis said Leaf is suspected of breaking into a Canyon apartment Oct. 30 and stealing the painkiller Hydrocodone, which had been prescribed to an injured football player.

AUTO RACING

NEWMAN ON POLE

Ryan Newman turned a lap at 188.475 mph last night at Concord, N.C., to grab the top starting spot for the Coca-Cola 600.

It was Newman's eighth career pole at Lowe's Motor Speedway — the most of any active driver — and the Stewart-Haas Racing driver's 44th overall.

Kyle Busch will start second Sunday in NASCAR's longest race after a lap of 188.258. Points leader Jeff Gordon qualified third, followed by Hendrick Motorsports teammates Mark Martin and Jimmie Johnson.

ELSEWHERE

Tennis: Robin Soderling defeated Rainer Schuettler of Germany, 6-0, 6-0, yesterday at Duesseldorf, Germany to put Sweden one win away from the final of the World Team Championship. The winner of the three-match Red Group advances to tomorrow's final. In the Blue group, Argentina, Italy and Serbia are in a three-way fight for a place in the final.

• Maria Sharapova was defeated by Alona Bondarenko, 6-2, 6-2, in the quarterfinals of the Warsaw Open (Poland). Sharapova was playing in her first singles tournament since being sidelined for nearly 10 months after shoulder surgery. She won her first two matches before yesterday's loss.

Obituary: Hall of Fame player Clint Smith, a two-time winner of the Lady Byng Trophy while with the Chicago Blackhawks and New York Rangers, has died in Vancouver, B.C. He was 95. Smith died Tuesday, the Vancouver Canucks announced yesterday. He played 11 years in the NHL with New York (1936-43) and Chicago (1943-47) and was the lone surviving member of the Rangers' Stanley Cup-winning team in 1940.

College basketball: Illinois basketball coach Bruce Weber will get a 50 percent pay raise and his contract extended by three years, through April 2015. Weber's pay will increase immediately from $1 million to $1.25 million a year. Starting in January, Weber will be paid $1.5 million a year. The Illini were 24-10 and finished second in the Big Ten last season.

College football: Former Miami quarterback Robert Marve will transfer to Purdue instead of walking on at Tennessee. Marve completed 116 of 213 passes for 1,293 yards last season for Miami. He won't be eligible until the 2010 season.