FOOTBALL
Winston sued for groping
Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston on Tuesday was sued in federal court in Arizona by an Uber driver who alleges he groped her during a ride she gave him in March 2016, according to documents obtained by USA Today. Winston is the only defendant named as the driver — identified as Kate P — seeks punitive damages of more than US$75,000 and a trial. When the allegations became public last year, the NFL embarked on a long investigation and determined the story was “consistent and credible.” In June, the league suspended Winston for the first three games of this season. The NFL at the time said that Winston touched the driver “in an inappropriate and sexual manner without her consent.” She said she did not go public with the story until the #MeToo movement convinced her to come forward.
SOCCER
Row over poem ‘like’
Two Russian players have become embroiled in a dispute over a poem on Instagram. Spartak Moscow captain Denis Glushakov and defender Andrei Yeshchenko have been accused of pressing “liking” an Instagram post by Russian actor Dmitry Nazarov that mocks Spartak coach Massimo Carrera. Writing in verse, Nazarov said: “Carrera isn’t our happiness” and wonders “how many disgraces do we need before our gratefulness runs out?” Carrera won the Russian title with Spartak last year, but they are already five points behind league leaders Zenit St Petersburg this season. Several Russian media outlets on Tuesday said that Glushakov and Yeshchenko had been suspended from training ahead of Spartak’s Europa League game today against Rapid Vienna.
GOLF
Man charged in golfer killing
US police on Tuesday charged a homeless man with the murder of Celia Barquin Arozamena, a day after the Spanish amateur champion was found dead on a golf course in Iowa. Barquin, 22, won the European Ladies’ Amateur championship in July and was studying civil engineering at Iowa State University. Her unattended golf bag was discovered at the Coldwater Golf Links in Ames early on Monday, and police found her body in a pond a short distance away with stab wounds to the head, neck and upper torso. The suspect, Collin Daniel Richards, was charged with first-degree murder and appeared in court on Tuesday. “Officers located a subject who spoke of another individual living in the wooded area who had made statements of having an urge to rape and kill women,” an Ames Police Department spokesman told a news conference. A police dog tracked the scent from the victim’s body to a location in the wooded area, where police encountered Richards, who had “fresh scratches on his face consistent with a fight.”
MMA
Yamamoto dies of cancer
Tributes flowed yesterday for charismatic Japanese mixed martial artist (MMA) Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto, who died at 41, three weeks after announcing a battle with cancer. Born to a family of wrestlers and martial artists, the wiry, tattoo-covered Yamamoto took on larger opponents in a wide range of MMA events. He won fans with a beaming, confident smile — a rarity in Japan, where many fighters tend to display stoicism rather than showmanship.
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