BASEBALL
Pedro Guerrero hospitalized
Former Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Pedro Guerrero has been hospitalized in the Dominican Republic with bleeding on the brain, but a friend says the 1981 World Series co-MVP appears to be in good spirits and is speaking with people in the hospital. Andres Vanerhorst, who visited Guerrero in hospital in Santo Domingo, spoke with reporters on Monday. The 58-year-old Guerrero was in the intensive care unit and is being treated by a neurosurgeon while undergoing further testing. He was hospitalized a day earlier, and tests detected the cranial bleeding. Guerrero spent 15 years in the major leagues with the Dodgers and St Louis Cardinals. He was MVP, along with Ron Cey and Steve Yeager, in Los Angeles’ World Series victory over the New York Yankees in 1981. A five-time All-Star, Guerrero had a .300 career batting average with 215 home runs and 898 RBIs.
SOCCER
Heart attack player wins suit
A former Tottenham player who suffered catastrophic brain damage when he had a cardiac arrest while representing the club’s youth team won his multimillion-pound High Court damages action on Monday. Radwan Hamed, now 26, had signed on as a professional with Tottenham just three days before his collapse, aged 17, during a youth team game in Belgium in August 2006. Hamed’s father, Raymon, argued his son’s injuries resulted from the negligence of physician Peter Mills, who screened Radwan, and of the club — through Charlotte Cowie and Mark Curtin, specialist sports physicians they employed. Ruling that the club was 70 percent liable and Mills 30 percent, and that compensation should now be assessed, the judge said that Cowie, who was head of the medical services department, made a serious error of judgement when she concluded that the teenager bore no risk of an adverse cardiac event. Damages, which could reach ￡7 million (US$10 million) according to the BBC, are to be decided next week. “The club wholeheartedly regrets that a former employee, as adjudged, was remiss in their duties to Radwan,” a Tottenham spokesman said. “This judgement will hopefully now secure the best possible treatment and care for him.”
ICE HOCKEY
Dmitry Kulikov suspended
The NHL has suspended Russian defenseman Dmitry Kulikov four games for clipping Dallas Stars forward Tyler Seguin. The incident occurred at 13:05 of the third period of the Stars’ 2-0 win over the Florida Panthers on Friday. Kulikov went low and hit Seguin on his right knee just after the Dallas forward entered the offensive zone. Kulikov was assessed a major penalty for clipping and a game misconduct. The Stars announced that the team’s leading scorer will miss between three and six weeks with a right knee injury. Kulikov will forfeit more than US$93,000 in salary.
SOCCER
Russia gets FIFA thumbs up
FIFA secretary-general Jerome Valcke on Monday expressed his satisfaction with Russia’s preparations for hosting the 2018 World Cup. “We’re working very well together,” Valcke told a news conference following his meeting with the 2018 World Cup organising committee management board in a Saint Petersburg suburb. “We’re on track for all the preparations, not only for the 2018 World Cup, but also for the 2017 Confederations Cup, which is a very important tournament. “For all of us the next milestone is the [World Cup qualification] draw in this palace [Konstantinovsky], which will host an amazing event with 1,500 people participating,” Valcke added.
SSC Napoli’s Italian Serie A title hopes suffered a late setback on Sunday when they were held to a 2-2 draw at home against Genoa, setting up a thrilling season finale with closest rivals Inter just one point behind. The hosts remain top with 78 points, holding a slim lead over Inter, who won 2-0 at Torino earlier on Sunday, with two rounds remaining. To make matters worse for Napoli, midfielder Stanislav Lobotka, struggling with an ankle injury, was forced off just minutes after the match began. Scott McTominay delivered a perfect pass into the box where Romelu Lukaku got
Harry Kane opened the scoring ahead of lifting his first career silverware as Bayern Munich beat Borussia Moenchengladbach 2-0, with veteran Thomas Mueller playing his last home game for the club. Bayern officially won the title on May 4 when defending champions Bayer Leverkusen were held to a 2-2 draw at Freiburg, but were presented with the Bundesliga shield in front of their home fans at full-time. Dripping wet after being showered with beer by teammates, Kane said the title win was “an incredible feeling,” and hoped it would be “the first of many.” “It’s been lot of hard work, a lot of
INTER AWAIT: Superb saves by PSG ’keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma inspired the victory, as Arsenal were punished for misses, including one by Bukayo Saka Arsenal on Wednesday fell short on the big stage again as their painful UEFA Champions League semi-final exit against Paris Saint-Germain left Mikel Arteta to rue his club’s failure to provide him with enough attacking options. Arteta’s side were unable to reach the Champions League final for the first time in 19 years as PSG clinched a tense 2-1 win at Parc des Princes. Trailing 1-0 from last week’s first leg in London, the Gunners made a blistering start to the second leg, but could not convert their chances as Gianluigi Donnarumma’s superb saves inspired PSG’s 3-1 aggregate victory. Arsenal were punished for
Taiwanese e-sports veteran Lin “ET” Chia-hung yesterday successfully defended his King of Fighters XV title at this year’s Evolution Championship Series: Japan (EVO Japan), securing his second consecutive championship. Lin claimed victory with a 3-1 win over Japanese pro gamer “mok” in the grand final, repeating his earlier 3-1 win against the same opponent in the winners’ final. The 40-year-old earned a ￥1 million (US$6,897) cash prize at the two-day tournament, which drew 294 competitors. Mok, Lin’s toughest rival in the bracket, took home ￥400,000 as runner-up. Lin remains undefeated in match sets against mok in King of Fighters XV, holding a 10-0 record,
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