■BASEBALL
Adenhart jury adjourns
A California jury considering murder charges against the man accused of killing Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart while driving drunk adjourned without reaching a verdict on Friday. As the jury deliberated, a judge on Friday found 23-year-old Andrew Gallo guilty of driving on a suspended license at the time of last year’s April crash in which Adenhart and two others died. In a separate jury trial Gallo pleaded not guilty to three counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of 22-year-old Adenhart, 20-year-old Courtney Stewart and 25-year-old Henry Pearson. Gallo is accused of running a red light and slamming into a sports car carrying four people. Police say Gallo’s blood-alcohol level was almost three times the legal limit at the time of the accident.
■BASKETBALL
NBA on respect drive
The NBA plans to crack down on complaining this season, giving the go-ahead to referees to issue fouls for “overt” gestures from players dissatisfied with calls. The league is expanding its “respect for the game” guidelines to include unsportsmanlike actions that it feels takes away from the product on the floor — and how it looks on television. Guidelines for issuing technical fouls now include gestures, such as raising a fist in the air in anger, incredulous arm waving and excessive questioning of the call even in moderate tones. “Complaining doesn’t have a part in our game and complaining has never changed a non-call to a call, or a call to a non-call,” NBA executive vice president of basketball operations Stu Jackson said.
■AUSSIE RULES
Grand Final ends in draw
Collingwood and St Kilda played out the first draw in an Australian Rules football Grand Final since 1977 to set up a rematch on Saturday to decide the Australian Football League title. Collingwood scored 9-14 (68) to St Kilda’s 10-8 (68) in front of 100,016 fans at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday. St Kilda’s Lenny Hayes kicked a behind, for one point, to level the scores with one and a half minutes remaining and neither side was able to break the deadlock in the game’s frenetic final moments. St Kilda kicked six goals to two in the second half after trailing at halftime to force a replay. Collingwood also played in the last drawn Grand Final against North Melbourne 33 years ago.
■DIVING
Kiwi sets distance record
New Zealand free diver David Mullins has set a world record after swimming 265m underwater on a single breath. Mullins, 29, stayed submerged for four minutes in an Olympic-sized swimming pool north of Wellington to break the dynamic apnea with fins record held by Frenchman Fred Sessa. His feat was ratified by two judges who flew to New Zealand from Australia specifically for the record attempt. Mullins is a champion free diver whose lungs can hold 15 liters of oxygen and he can hold his head underwater on a single breath for eight minutes.
■FOOTBALL
Broncos’ Moreno out
Denver Broncos running back Knowshon Moreno will miss the game versus the Indianapolis Colts today with a hamstring injury, the team said on Friday. Moreno “sustained a little something that we won’t be able to play through this week,” Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels told the team’s Web site. The injury occurred on Thursday. Moreno is Denver’s leading rusher this season with 111 yards in two games. He also has two touchdowns.
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