■ SKING
Former champ in hospital
Former Olympic champion Stein Eriksen broke several bones when he collided with a nine-year-old boy while skiing in Park City, where hundreds celebrated his 80th birthday a day earlier. Eriksen, a gold and silver medalist at the 1952 Oslo Games, fractured a collar bone and needed wrist surgery, friend Mark Haroldsen told the Salt Lake Tribune. "He wasn't doing well. He was in and out of consciousness," Haroldsen said. Eriksen is at University of Utah Hospital, but his family requested that no other information be released, hospital spokesman Phil Sahm said on Friday. The accident happened on Sunday at Deer Valley resort, where Eriksen is the director of skiing.
■ Soccer
Becks eyes Gunners deal
David Beckham is close to finalizing a deal which will see him prepare for England's next game in February by training with Arsenal. "We will help him to get fit and prepare for the season," Gunners boss Arsene Wenger told BBC Radio 5 Live on Friday. "There's a good chance that he will come in January, but it's not decided," he said. During his new club Los Angeles Galaxy's close season Beckham will need to prove his fitness ahead of Fabio Capello's first game in charge of England against Switzerland on Feb. 6 at Wembley. Arsenal's training ground at London Colney is within an easy commute from Beckham's Hertfordshire home. Beckham needs one more international appearance to reach a landmark 100 caps.
■ Boxing
Nephew killed former champ
A nephew of Trevor Berbick has been convicted along with another man of killing the 54-year-old former heavyweight champion. A jury on Thursday found 21-year-old Harold Berbick guilty of murder and 19-year-old Kenton Gordon guilty of manslaughter in the death of the former boxer following a four-week trial. The judge ordered both men jailed pending their Jan. 11 sentencing. Authorities said the nephew and Gordon beat Berbick to death in October last year, leaving his body in a church courtyard in Portland. Harold Berbick had been involved in a land dispute with his uncle. Trevor Berbick was the last fighter to face Muhammad Ali in the ring and briefly held the WBC heavyweight title before losing it to Mike Tyson in 1986.
■ Soccer
Man U sign Angolan striker
Manchester United signed Angola striker Manucho Goncalves on a three-year contract from Petro Athletico on Friday. Manucho impressed Sir Alex Ferguson during a three-week trial after being discovered playing for his Angolan team by scouts working for United assistant manager Carlos Queiroz. The 24-year-old, whose full name is Mateus Alberto Contreiras Goncalves, will move to England next month subject to a work permit. Manucho has scored twice in 10 appearances for his country and was top goalscorer in the Angolan league for the last two seasons. "He is a tall, agile, quick forward and, through contacts that Carlos Queiroz has, he was brought to our attention around six months ago," Ferguson said of his new signing.
■ cricket
Windies lose by 10 wickets
Stand-in captain Dwayne Bravo saved the touring West Indians from total humiliation but could not prevent his side from suffering a ten-wicket defeat against South Africa A at Buffalo Park on Friday. South Africa A completed their win with a day to spare in the scheduled four-day match.
SS Lazio on Monday fired the far-right sympathizer who handles their eagle mascot after he posted online a series of videos and pictures of his erect penis. Falconer Juan Bernabe, who has been present at Lazio home matches with Olimpia the eagle since the 2010-2011 season, posted the footage on social media after having surgery on Saturday to implant a penile prosthesis to improve his sexual performance. Lazio said that they had “terminated, with immediate effect” their relationship with Bernabe “due to the seriousness of his conduct,” adding that they were “shocked” by the images. The Serie A club added that Bernabe’s dismissal
The NHL postponed the Los Angeles Kings’ home game against the Calgary Flames on Wednesday with several massive wildfires burning across the greater Los Angeles area. The Kings and Flames were scheduled to play on Wednesday night at the Kings’ downtown arena. The NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers were scheduled to host the Charlotte Hornets in the same arena last night. “Our hearts are with our entire Los Angeles community,” the Kings said in a statement. “We appreciate the hard working first responders who are diligently working to contain the fire and protect our community. We appreciate the league’s support in keeping our
Doping fears prevented former US Open champion Emma Raducanu from treating insect bites on the eve of the Australian Open, she said, with players increasingly wary about ingesting contaminated substances. The British player was speaking in the wake of high-profile doping cases involving Iga Swiatak and Jannik Sinner. “I would say all of us are probably quite sensitive to what we take on board, what we use,” the 22-year-old said, recalling an incident on Friday. “I got really badly bitten by, I don’t know what, like ants, mosquitoes, something. I’m allergic, I guess,” she added. The bites “flared up and swelled up really a
TWO IN A WEEK: Despite an undefeated start to the year playing alongside Jiang Xinyu of China, Wu Fang-hsien is to play the Australian Open with a Russian partner Taiwan’s Wu Fang-hsien yesterday triumphed at the Hobart International, winning the women’s doubles title at the US$275,094 outdoor hard-court tournament, while McCartney Kessler lifted the trophy in the women’s singles. Fourth-ranked Wu and partner Jiang Xinyu of China took 1 hour, 15 minutes to defeat Romania’s Monica Niculescu and Fanny Stollar of Hungary, 6-1, 7-6 (8/6) at the Hobart International Tennis Centre, their second title in a week. Wu and Jiang on Sunday won the women’s doubles title at the ASB Classic in Auckland, beating Serbia’s Aleksandra Krunic and Sabrina Santamaria of the US. Their winning ways continued in Australia as they stretched
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