■FOOTBALL
‘Pacman’ enters treatment
Suspended Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones has entered an alcohol treatment center. The oft-troubled player has checked into a facility “in another part of the country,” Cowboys owner Jerry Jones told reporters in New York on Monday. “It’s totally done through and by the NFL,” Jerry Jones said. The league suspended Adam Jones for at least four games last Tuesday for again violating its personal conduct policy. Only six weeks after being reinstated from a 17-month suspension because of repeated legal problems, Jones was involved in an alcohol-related scuffle on Oct. 7 with one of his bodyguards at a private party in Dallas. Asked if he believed the treatment would help Adam Jones deal with his problems, Cowboys coach Wade Phillips stammered a bit before reiterating that he wasn’t going to discuss players not with the team. “Same as last week, he’s not with us,” Phillips said. “My concern is the guys that are with us, and try to get them to play well.”
■FOOTBALL
Johnson accused of spitting
Kansas City running back Larry Johnson is being investigated for spitting a drink in a woman’s face at a nightclub during the Chiefs’ bye week. It’s the fourth time in five years he’s been accused of assaulting a woman. Kansas City police are investigating a report of non-aggravated assault against Johnson for an incident at Club Blonde in Kansas City on Oct. 10. Ashley Stewart, 28, said Johnson told her he was going to kill her boyfriend, then took a drink and spit it in her face, according to the police report. Johnson was charged with simple assault last month for pushing the side of a woman’s face at a club in February.
■RUGBY UNION
MacLeod fails drugs test
Scotland international lock Scott MacLeod has failed a drugs test, bringing about the launching of an investigation by the Scottish Rugby Union (SRU), it was revealed on Monday. A urine sample given by the Scarlets forward was found to contain abnormally high levels of testosterone and he has been suspended. BBC Sport reported, however, the 29-year-old has pleaded his innocence and asked for a B sample to be tested. “As part of Scottish Rugby’s anti-doping regulations a process is now under way,” the SRU said in a statement. “Until that due process is complete it would be inappropriate for us to make any further comment.” MacLeod, capped 21 times by his country, cannot play for or train with Scotland or the Scarlets until the investigation is completed.
■BOXING
Calzaghe rejects rematch
Welshman Joe Calzaghe has turned down a return fight against Bernard Hopkins, whom he beat in a split decision in a light-heavyweight bout earlier this year in Las Vegas. Calzaghe, the reigning WBC, WBA and WBO super-middleweight champion, on Monday ruled out the rematch following Hopkins’ stunning victory over Kelly Pavlik at the weekend. Hopkins, 43, rolled back the years to hand the world middleweight champion his first ever defeat in a lopsided points victory in Atlantic City on Saturday. Calzaghe rejected any chance of him fighting Hopkins again. “He is thinking of the money,” Calzaghe said when told Hopkins was prepared to face him on British soil. “At the end of the day, I didn’t fight my best and he lost and I did that in Las Vegas. What chance has he got over here? That fight is not getting me excited. I won the first fight and it wasn’t a great fight to watch ... I don’t think a second fight would be more exciting. It would probably be more boring.”
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