■ Football
Death ruled suicide
The death of the 18-year-old son of Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy in Lutz, Florida, was ruled a suicide, a medical examiner said on Friday. James Dungy hanged himself on Dec. 22 from a bedroom ceiling fan with a leather belt, Dr. Jacqueline Lee of the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner's Office wrote in her final autopsy report. Authorities ruled out foul play in December, and toxicology results were negative, except for caffeine and medication paramedics used in attempts to resuscitate the teen, Lee said.
■ Boxing
Corrales versus Castillo
A third fight in the lightweight championship series between Diego Corrales and Jose Luis Castillo is tentatively set for June 3. "The date's been reserved," Top Rank spokesman Lee Samuels said on Friday, adding that details were being worked out. "It looks good. We expect to have a formal announcement next week." Top Rank chief Bob Arum told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Thursday that the fight would be at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, co-sponsored by the Wynn Las Vegas resort and Harrah's Entertainment. Each fighter has won once in the series. The 28-year-old Corrales won a dramatic 10th-round knockout last May. The 32-year-old Castillo won a non-title rematch in October. Corrales is 40-3 with 33 knockouts, while Castillo is 54-7 with 47 knockouts. They were expected to meet on Feb. 4 in El Paso, Texas, but the fight was postponed when Corrales injured his ribs during training.
■ Racing
Roy Chapman dies
Roy Chapman, the owner and breeder of Smarty Jones, the 2004 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes champion, died Friday at his home in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. He was 79. Chapman died after a long battle with emphysema, according to his business associate Anthony Tigano, who announced his death. Chapman was a relative unknown in horse racing circles when Smarty Jones emerged as a serious Kentucky Derby candidate. A Philadelphia-area car dealer, Chapman became involved in the sport in the 1980s but enjoyed only modest success until Smarty Jones came along.
■ Soccer
Jorge Mendonca dies
Jorge Mendonca, who starred for Brazil in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, died of a heart attack on Friday, Brazilian media reported. He was 51. Mendonca died at the Mario Gatti hospital in Campinas, where he featured for years with Guarani and Ponte Preta, Pele's Web site said. Born in Silva Jardim near Rio de Janeiro, Mendonca was barely 18 when he turned professional in 1972 with Bangu.
■ Soccer
Eriksson on Rooney
England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson says striker Wayne Rooney has matured and could be a future leader of the national team. "Rooney, when he came [to the national team] he was 17 years and he barely said a word," Eriksson said Friday in an interview with Swedish Radio. "In the beginning, when he did say something I did not understand his dialect. But he has grown, not only on the football pitch, but also as a guy. I can almost see him in the future ... as a leader,'' Eriksson added. ``I think he has those qualities." Eriksson said.
Revelations of positive doping tests for nearly two dozen Chinese swimmers that went unpunished sparked an intense flurry of accusations and legal threats between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the head of the US drug-fighting organization, who has long been one of WADA’s fiercest critics. WADA on Saturday said it was turning to legal counsel to address a statement released by US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) CEO Travis Tygart, who said WADA and anti-doping authorities in China swept positive tests “under the carpet by failing to fairly and evenly follow the global rules that apply to everyone else in the world.” The
Taiwanese judoka Yang Yung-wei on Saturday won silver in the men’s under-60kg category at the Asian Judo Championships in Hong Kong. Nicknamed the “judo heartthrob” in Taiwan, the Olympic silver-medalist missed out on his first Asian Championships gold when he lost to Japanese judoka Taiki Nakamura in the finals. Yang defeated three opponents on Saturday to reach the final after receiving a bye through the round of 32. He first topped Laotian Soukphaxay Sithisane in the round of 16 with two seoi nage (over-the-shoulder throws), then ousted Indian Vijay Kumar Yadav in the quarter-finals with his signature ude hishigi sankaku gatame (triangular armlock). He
RALLY: It was only the second time the Taiwanese has partnered with Kudermetova, and the match seemed tight until they won seven points in a row to take the last set 10-2 Taiwan’s Chan Hao-ching and Russia’s Veronika Kudermetova on Sunday won the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix women’s doubles final in Stuttgart, Germany. The pair defeated Norway’s Ulrikke Eikeri and Estonia’s Ingrid Neel 4-6, 6-3, 10-2 in a tightly contested match at the WTA 500 tournament. Chan and Kudermetova fell 4-6 in the first set after having their serve broken three times, although they played increasingly well. They fought back in the second set and managed to break their opponents’ serve in the eighth game to triumph 6-3. In the tiebreaker, Chan and Kudermetova took a 3-0 lead before their opponents clawed back two points, but
Taiwanese gymnast Lee Chih-kai failed to secure an Olympic berth in the pommel horse following a second-place finish at the last qualifier in Doha on Friday, a performance that Lee and his coach called “unconvincing.” The Tokyo Olympics silver medalist finished runner-up in the final after scoring 6.6 for degree of difficulty and 8.800 for execution for a combined score of 15.400. That was just 0.100 short of Jordan’s Ahmad Abu Al Soud, who had qualified for the event in Paris before the Apparatus World Cup series in Qatar’s capital. After missing the final rounds in the first two of four qualifier