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From Staff and Wire Reports

Hockey

San Jose Shark center Dale Craigwell suffered a broken right ankle during a scrimmage and will be sidelined at least six weeks.

Baseball

Minnesota Twin General Manager Andy MacPhail was offered the chance to run the Chicago Cubs and was waiting for Twin owner Carl Pohlad’s permission to take the job.

Jurisprudence

Former major league outfielder Ivan Calderon, 32, surrendered to police in San Juan, Puerto Rico, after avoiding arrest for five days and was charged with hitting and choking his pregnant girlfriend, Elizabeth Figueroa Allende.

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Isaiah Rider of the Minnesota Timberwolves was sentenced to two years probation after being found guilty of fifth-degree assault and disorderly conduct stemming from a March altercation in a sports bar.

Steve Ehrhart, the Colorado Rockies’ first chief operating officer, filed a $15-million lawsuit in Denver claiming the owners broke promises made as conditions of his dismissal.

A former business partner of Pete Rose charged that the former baseball player cheated him out of promised royalties.

Lance Jones of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., filed a breach-of-contract suit in Palm Beach Circuit Court, claiming he is owed an unspecified amount of money on deals put together for Rose’s restaurant and sauce businesses.

A lawsuit against former Laker Michael Cooper and his wife was dropped by the company that filed it in Albuquerque after the Coopers made past-due payments on a real estate contract for their home in Corrales, N.M.

Michael Carbajal hired a criminal attorney in Tempe, Ariz. The attorney advised him not to make any statements to police who are investigating whether the boxer fired gunshots after being kicked out of a party.

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Miscellany

Benetton lost its appeal over Michael Schumacher’s disqualification from the Belgian Grand Prix, while the sport’s governing body in Paris cleared the Formula One team of equipment tampering in the German Grand Prix.

The International Automobile Federation’s World Council ruled against Schumacher for the second time in two weeks. He lost an appeal of a two-race suspension last week for ignoring a black flag in the British Grand Prix.

Olympic distance runner Fred Wilt died Monday at his home in Anderson, Ind. He was 73.

Troy Matthews of Southern Methodist, a sophomore guard who averaged 8.2 points a game last season, suffered a thumb injury during preseason basketball condition drills and is expected to be sidelined six to eight weeks.

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