RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP):

Former track coach Trevor Graham is suing the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) for $30 million, saying the agency ruined his name when he was accused of providing performance-enhancing drugs to athletes.

Graham filed the federal lawsuit yesterday in the eastern district of North Carolina. According to court documents, Graham says USADA "slandered my name for the whole world to see."

He received a lifetime coaching ban from the agency in July 2008 for his role in helping his athletes obtain performance-enhancing drugs. Graham has always denied providing performance-enhancers to his athletes, a list that once included Marion Jones, Tim Montgomery and Justin Gatlin.

In 2008, Graham was sentenced to a year of home confinement for lying to federal investigators during a doping investigation.