■ BASKETBALL
Police pull Anthony over
NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony was arrested on Monday on suspicion of driving under the influence, hours after his worst game of the season. Police said the Denver Nuggets forward was arrested on Interstate 25. He was pulled over for weaving and failing to dim his lights. Detective Sharon Hahn said Anthony failed a series of sobriety tests. He was charged with driving under the influence, then taken to police headquarters before being released to a “sober, responsible party,” Hahn said. Anthony is due in court on May 14. Anthony apologized through his attorney, Dan Recht. “Carmelo apologizes to his fans, the Denver community, his teammates and the Nuggets organization for the distraction this is causing them,” Recht said. In February, Anthony was ticketed in Arapahoe County for driving 40kph over the speed limit. A hearing is set for next month in that speeding case.
■ICE HOCKEY
Rules changed to foil Avery
The National Hockey League (NHL) amended its rule book on Monday to further protect goaltenders and try to prevent another incident like Sean Avery’s comical interference of Martin Brodeur. During a 5-on-3 power play in Sunday’s playoff game against the New Jersey Devils, New York forward Avery stood with his back to the play and waved his arms in front of New Jersey goaltender Brodeur in an attempt to distract him. The NHL said on Monday that in the future it would interpret such an action as goaltender interference and award an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty to the offending player. “An unsportsmanlike minor penalty will be interpreted and applied, effective immediately, to a situation when an offensive player positions himself facing the opposition goaltender and engages in actions such as waving his arms or stick in front of the goaltender’s face for the purpose of improperly interfering with and/or distracting the goaltender as opposed to positioning himself to try to make a play,” NHL vice president of operations Colin Campbell said.
■SOCCER
Fan shot in Serbian brawl
One person was shot dead and several were injured during a massive brawl between rival Serbian soccer fans, police said yesterday. The clash, set in advance between Partizan Belgrade and Vojvodina Novi Sad fans, happened late on Monday in a village near the northern Serbian town of Novi Sad. Police said that a Partizan fan fired a gun and shot dead a Vojvodina supporter. Several people were injured in the brawl, including one seriously. The clash followed violent street fights in Novi Sad before Sunday’s Vojvodina-Partizan first league match. One fan was seriously injured after being stabbed with a knife during the brawl, and dozens were arrested.
■ICE HOCKEY
Canucks fire manager Nonis
The Vancouver Canucks fired general manager Dave Nonis on Monday after missing the NHL playoffs for the second time in his three seasons in charge. Nonis had already been in the organization for six years as director of hockey operations when he took over the general manager duties from Brian Burke just before the NHL lockout in 2004. Vancouver also missed the playoffs in Nonis’ first season in 2005-2006, and he responded by firing coach Marc Crawford and changing half the roster. That included trading controversial forward Todd Bertuzzi to Florida in a six-player deal that brought back star goaltender Roberto Luongo.
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
HSIEH MAKES QUARTERS: Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei and Elise Mertens of Belgium won in the women’s doubles and face Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Sofia Kenin of the US Top-ranked Iga Swiatek and US Open champion Coco Gauff were knocked out of the women’s singles at the Miami Open on Monday, while Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei advanced in the women’s doubles. Swiatek lost to Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-4, 6-2, hours after third seed Gauff fell in three sets to No. 23 Caroline Garcia 6-3, 1-6, 6-2. Alexandrova beat a top-ranked player for the first time and advanced to face Jessica Pegula, a 7-6 (7/1), 6-3 winner over Emma Navarro, in the quarter-finals. Alexandrova recorded her second win over Swiatek, following a 2021 victory in Melbourne. Swiatek had won their three matches since. “We played quite