■ Football
Bruschi suffers stroke
New England Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi suffered a mild stroke, but is walking, talking and in good spirits, the team said. Bruschi, 31, experienced temporary numbness, blurred vision and headaches Wednesday night and was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital. "It has been determined that these symptoms were the results of a mild stroke," team spokesman Stacey James said. "Tedy is in good condition and, as always, his spirits are high. He is walking and talking normally and stressed that he would like to thank everyone for keeping him and his family in their thoughts and prayers." The Boston Globe, citing an unidentified team source, reported on its Web site Thursday that Bruschi had a broken blood vessel in his head and suffered from partial paralysis that has since gone away.
■ Hockey
Court acquits Bob Probert
Former NHL player Bob Probert was acquitted of all charges stemming from a fight with police officers last year that led to him being shocked with stun guns. The 39-year-old Probert was found not guilty Thursday of three felony charges -- battery on a police officer, resisting an officer with violence and threatening an officer. He also was acquitted of a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge. Probert was arrested last June on Delray Beach street in West Palm Beach, Florida. After a struggle, three officers finally handcuffed Probert after one of them hit him once with a Taser gun, followed by two more shots from a "touch stun" gun. Probert's attorney, Michael O'Rourke, said he thought the jurors believed the use of the stun guns was unnecessary.
■ Sailing
Sausalito offers `deal'
Hey, sailor, got an extra US$13 million or so burning a hole in your pocket and want to be in the America's Cup? Sausalito Challenge, based across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, is offering one of its 17 crew positions to the most qualified person willing to pay a "participation fee" of at least 10 million euros. Sausalito Challenge has received a handful of inquiries about the "celebrity crew" position, as indicated on their site at www.sausalitochallenge2007.com.
■ Golf
Asian Tour on the rise
Indian sporting legend Kapil Dev, who became an ardent golf supporter after retiring from cricket, says increasing corporate support in the booming economies of China and India will make the Asian Tour a major player in world golf. Dev, a prolific all-rounder who captained India to its first cricket World Cup victory in 1983, recently joined the board of the Asian Tour which. "There is a lot of corporate interest in Asia and we have to make sure that corporate golf can complement the Asian Tour," Dev was quoted in an Asian Tour statement Friday, released during the ongoing Malaysian Open. "This is the place. The economy of the world is dependent on this part of the world, which is very important," he said. "The way China and India are growing economically, it is up to us to get big companies to be involved." Last season the Asian Tour staged and sanctioned 22 tournaments, offering a record total prize purse of US$12.3 million (9.5 million euros).
A sumo star was born in Japan on Sunday when 24-year-old Takerufuji became the first wrestler in 110 years to win a top-division tournament on his debut, triumphing at the 15-day Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka despite injuring his ankle on the penultimate day. Takerufuji, whose injury had left him in a wheelchair outside the ring, shoved out the higher-ranked Gonoyama at the Edion Arena Osaka to the delight of the crowd, giving him an unassailable record of 13 wins and two losses to claim the Emperor’s Cup. “I did it just through willpower. I didn’t really know what was going
The US’ Ilia Malinin on Saturday produced six scintillating quadruple jumps, including a quadruple Axel, in the men’s free skate to capture his first figure skating world title. The 19-year-old nicknamed the “Quad god,” who is the only skater to land a quadruple Axel in competition, dazzled with an array of breathtakingly executed jumps starting with his quad Axel and including a quadruple Lutz in combination with a triple flip and a quadruple toe loop in combination with a triple toe. He added an unexpected triple-triple combination at the end to earn a world-record 227.79 in the free program for a championship
Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter is being criminally investigated by the IRS, and the attorney for his alleged bookmaker said Thursday that the ex-Los Angeles Dodgers employee placed bets on international soccer — but not baseball. The IRS confirmed Thursday that interpreter Ippei Mizuhara and Mathew Bowyer, the alleged illegal bookmaker, are under criminal investigation through the agency’s Los Angeles Field Office. IRS Criminal Investigation spokesperson Scott Villiard said he could not provide additional details. Mizuhara, 39, was fired by the Dodgers on Wednesday following reports from the Los Angeles Times and ESPN about his alleged ties to an illegal bookmaker and debts well
MLB on Friday announced a formal investigation into the scandal swirling around Shohei Ohtani and his former interpreter amid charges that the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar was the victim of “massive theft.” The Dodgers on Wednesday fired Ippei Mizuhara, Ohtani’s long-time interpreter and close friend, after Ohtani’s representatives alleged that the Japanese two-way star had been the victim of theft, which was reported to involve millions of dollars and link Mizuhara to a suspected illegal bookmaker in California. “Major League Baseball has been gathering information since we learned about the allegations involving Shohei Ohtani and Ippei Mizuhara from the news media,” MLB