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Adenhart trial may move
The man charged with killing Major League Baseball pitcher Nick Adenhart last year wants to move the murder trial outside of Orange County, California. The attorney for 23-year-old Andrew Thomas Gallo says the publicity surrounding the crash on April 9 last year will make it hard for Gallo to get a fair trial. Gallo has pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder and other felonies in the crash that killed Angels pitcher Adenhart and two friends. Police say Gallo had nearly triple the legal blood-alcohol level when his car ran a red light and crashed in Fullerton. Adenhart died hours after he made his season debut by pitching six scoreless innings.
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Hawes out for season
Sacramento Kings center Spencer Hawes will miss the remainder of the season because of a left knee injury, the team announced on their Web site on Thursday. Hawes, who was averaging 10 points and 6.1 rebounds on the season, had an MRI that revealed a bone contusion and will seek a second opinion, but miss the Kings’ final six games.
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Ex-NBA player convicted
Former NBA player Kirk Snyder was convicted on Thursday of breaking into a neighbor’s home in the middle of the night and beating him up in his bedroom. A Warren County, Ohio, jury found the 26-year-old Snyder guilty of aggravated burglary, felonious assault and assault. The jury had deliberated for less than a day following testimony in the trial, which began on Monday. He played for the Utah Jazz, New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets, Houston Rockets and Minnesota Timberwolves in the NBA between 2004 and 2008 and then played a season in China. Snyder broke into the home of dentists Brad and Eugenia Roberts in Deerfield Township, north of Cincinnati, on March 30 last year. He smashed their rear doors with a rock and charged through the house to the master bedroom, shoving Eugenia Roberts aside before pummeling Brad Roberts, prosecutors said. He could receive up to 18 years in prison at his sentencing next month. Snyder has been treated for mental illness and had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
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Wade’s wife raps petition
Dwyane Wade’s estranged wife has responded to the Miami Heat star’s petition for sole custody of the couple’s two children, saying the filings are retaliation to her asking for an order of protection last month. Siohvaughn Wade’s attorneys say “it is regrettable” that the 2006 NBA finals MVP is continuing to “battle and abuse the mother.” Dwyane Wade filed for custody of the boys, aged 8 and 2, this week. He also asked a Chicago court that his wife be psychologically evaluated.
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Feagles still a Giant
Jeff Feagles, considered one of the National Football League’s most accurate punters, will return for a 23rd season after the 44-year-old re-signed with the New York Giants on Thursday. Feagles, who holds every significant NFL career punting record, will have to battle former Australian Rules Football player Jy Bond, who signed for the team last month, for the starting job. “In my meeting with [head coach] Tom [Coughlin] it was very, very clear that I was going to compete for my job this year,” Feagles said on the team’s Web site. “And my answer to that was, ‘That’s fine.’ I have been competing for a long time.”
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
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
Dubbed a “motorway for cyclists” where avid amateurs can chase Tadej Pogacar up mountains teeming with the highest concentration of professional cyclists per square kilometer in the world, Spain’s Costa Blanca has forged a new reputation for itself in the past few years. Long known as the ideal summer destination for those in search of sun, sea and sand, the stretch of coast between Valencia and Alicante now has a winter vocation too. During the season break in December and January, the region experiences an invasion of cyclists. Star names such as three-time Tour de France winner Pogacar, Remco Evenepoel and Julian Alaphilippe
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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