■ Soccer
Fans attack clubhouse
Scores of fans of Greek soccer club Iraklis attacked the club's headquarters in Thessaloniki, Greece, on Monday, setting fires and damaging property. The fans started a fire with petrol bombs, damaging the building's entrance, before entering the building and ransacking several offices, police said. No one was injured during the incident and no arrests were made. Iraklis supporters' groups are angry at the failure by the club's management to attract new private investors to relieve debts. Iraklis finished in 13th place last season in the 16-team league. The bottom three teams were relegated.
■ Athletics
Powell coming to Rome
World record holder Asafa Powell, who is recovering from a groin injury, has entered the 100m race at Friday's Golden Gala meet in Rome. Powell has not run the 100m since getting injured while still winning at the Jamaican championships on June 23. He withdrew from the Golden League meet in Paris last week. Yesterday, Powell was expected to anchor Jamaica's 4x100m relay team in Lausanne, Switzerland. Despite his return, Powell won't be running against Tyson Gay. Amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius is also coming to Rome. He was invited to run a 400 "B" race before making his official international debut in Sheffield, England, two days later. Pistorius runs with carbon fiber blades below both knees.
■ Soccer
Pavel Nedved may retire
Pavel Nedved may retire after negotiations with Juventus to raise his salary didn't produce any results on Monday. "I'm a little disappointed," Nedved said as he walked out of Juve's offices. "I'm going to go home and think things over." Nedved has one more season remaining on his contract but he is seeking a higher salary. "Three years ago Pavel cut his salary in half," Nedved's agent Mino Raiola told the ANSA news agency without revealing financial details. "And now he finds himself lagging behind compared to other Juventus players. If the proposal remains what it was today, Nedved will quit."
■ Soccer
Victoria Beckham on the air
Victoria Beckham insisted that she's "just a normal girl from London" who happens to be "living quite a surreal life" with her soccer star husband David and their three young boys. Americans will get to judge for themselves when her one-hour network television show, Victoria Beckham: Coming to America, is broadcast on NBC network stations from July 16. It will follow Victoria Beckham as she prepares to move from Europe to the US for her husband's July 21 debut with the Los Angeles Galaxy. "It's funny. People really get to see what I'm really like."
■ Rugby League
Roosters coach quits
Sydney Roosters coach Chris Anderson has quit after the club's 56-0 thrashing by Manly at the weekend, citing stress, chief executive Brian Canavan said yesterday. Anderson will be replaced by assistant Brad Fittler in a caretaker role as the club languishes second last in the table after winning just five of their 16 games this year. "It was a shock, I got a phone call from Chris approximately 7.30pm last night," Canavan told a Sydney radio station. "Chris has always been very honest and very straightforward and he just said he was ringing to let me know he was stepping down from the job [saying] it's a job for a younger coach."
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