Johannesburg ? No one was killed. Most of the injuries were minor. Yet a stampede at a supposedly low-key warm-up match set off alarms for World Cup organizers as they reassessed their plans for keeping fervent sellout crowds under control.

Hopes for a safe tournament remain high, officials said Monday. But the scary incident at a Nigeria-North Korea exhibition match was a stark reminder of past stadium disasters, in Africa and elsewhere, that have been one of soccer’s recurring and deadly legacies.

“This is like an alarm clock,” FIFA president Sepp Blatter said. “This will not happen in any match of the World Cup — you can be assured.”

FIFA stressed that it played no role in arranging Sunday’s match at a small stadium in Tembisa, a black township near Johannesburg. Crowds seeking some of the 10,000 free tickets on offer twice charged the gates; a policeman was seriously hurt and 15 fans also were injured.

“Please be sure that the level of organization we have at the World Cup is definitely higher than the one we have seen there,” FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke said. “We have to make sure that the police working around the World Cup stadiums will do better than what we have seen yesterday.”

College athletics

Mountain West won’t expand

The presidents of the Mountain West Conference decided Monday not to expand the nine-team league at this time.

Commissioner Craig Thompson said the decision to hold off on expansion is tied to the shake-ups and shifting landscape in some of the nation’s bigger conferences. Officials from the Big Ten, Pac-10 and Big 12 are considering adding schools or reorganizing.

Thompson said the decision is not final, and that the board may reconsider once the dust settles in the other conferences.

College basketball

A.D.: Cavs haven’t made offer to Izzo

Tom Izzo has another suitor.

Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis told The Associated Press on Monday the Cleveland Cavaliers are interested in replacing fired coach Mike Brown with Izzo

“There is not a contract offer on the table,” Hollis said in a telephone interview. “Last week, there was talk that Chicago and New Jersey were interested. If I was anywhere but at Michigan State, I would be interested in Tom, too, because he’s the best coach in college basketball.”

Recruit changes mind about Duke

Tempe, Ariz. — Standout junior college recruit Carrick Felix has signed a letter of intent at Arizona State after being released from his Duke scholarship at his request.

The 6-foot-6 Felix, from College of Southern Idaho, had been the first junior college recruit to sign with Duke in Mike Krzyzewski’s tenure as coach of the Blue Devils.

NBA

Hornets will name Williams coach

New Orleans — The Hornets have scheduled a news conference this afternoon to formally introduce Monty Williams as their new head coach.

Baseball

Brewers release RHP Suppan

Milwaukee — The Milwaukee Brewers released struggling pitcher Jeff Suppan on Monday during the final year of what was the richest contract in team history when he signed it.

Hall gets Galarraga’s spikes, base

The Hall of Fame has bagged the key evidence from Armando Galarraga’s stolen perfect game.

The Detroit Tigers have told the Hall they will donate the first-base bag, Galarraga’s spikes and a ball from last week’s near-miss at Comerica Park.

Selig: Change unlikely this year

Secaucus, N.J. — Bud Selig will continue to look at expanding the use of instant replay in baseball, but doesn’t think it will happen this year — if at all.

“I doubt it, but I wouldn’t ever say never,” the baseball commissioner said Monday night at the site of the draft at MLB Network studios. “It’s worked out well. Look, I am a traditionalist, but I also want to do what I think is best for the sport.”

Golf

Rose, Fowler come up short

Columbus, Ohio — Justin Rose now has plenty of time to celebrate his big win at the Memorial. One day after his first victory in America, he failed to qualify for the U.S. Open on Monday.

Major champions Tom Lehman, Davis Love III and Ben Curtis led 15 players who earned spots in the U.S. Open, while Rose and the youngster he beat at Muirfield Village — 21-year-old Rickie Fowler — did not.