HIGH SCHOOLS

Portland hires Hart as boys’ hockey coach, Mosen selected as girls’ soccer coach

Portland High hired Chad Hart as its boys’ hockey coach and Arthur Mosen as its girls’ soccer coach.

Hart, an art teacher at Portland, has been an assistant hockey coach for the Bulldogs the past two years. He replaces Andy Gildart as head coach. Hart played hockey at Waterville High and won the Travis Roy Award in 1999. He also played hockey at Bowdoin College.

Mosen replaces Brittany Dupee, who coached the Bulldogs for one season. Mosen coached the Portland girls’ junior varsity team last year. Mosen was an assistant soccer coach at the University of Southern Maine in 2010.

The opening day for preseason practice for high school fall sports in Aug. 13.

BOXING

PORTLAND BOXING CLUB: Portland Boxing Club heavyweight Justin Kennie of Lewiston won a unanimous decision against Richard Locke of Berwick in the main event at the Christian Academy in Somersworth, N.H.

• Portland Boxing Club was awarded the bid to host the 126th Annual USA Boxing New England Championships, which will begin on Nov. 3.

BASKETBALL

NBA: Center Omer Asik is on his way to the Houston Rockets. A person with direct knowledge of the decision said the Chicago Bulls will not match Houston’s three-year, $25 million offer sheet on Asik.

Asik averaged 3.1 points, 5.3 rebounds and one block in 66 games last season.

• The Chicago Bulls signed five-year veteran guard Marco Belinelli. Belinelli averaged 11.8 points and played in all 66 games for the New Orleans Hornets last season.

• The New York Knicks signed Pablo Prigioni, the point guard for Argentina’s national team. The 35-year-old Prigioni has played professionally since 1995, most recently in the Spanish leagues. He was twice selected to the All-Euroleague second team.

• The Minnesota Timberwolves acquired forward Dante Cunningham from the Memphis Grizzlies in exchange for guard Wayne Ellington.

AUTO RACING

NASCAR: NASCAR suspended driver A.J. Allmendinger indefinitely after a test of his backup urine sample came back positive.

Allmendinger was originally suspended July 7 after failing a random drug test taken in late June. His backup “B” urine sample was tested Tuesday by Aegis Analytical Laboratories in Nashville, Tenn.

Officials did not announce the substance for which Allmendinger tested positive. Allmendinger has said he tested positive for a stimulant he has not revealed, but denied knowingly taking a banned substance.