New York Ranger defenseman Sergei Zubov, the...
New York Ranger defenseman Sergei Zubov, the team’s leading scorer last season, was injured Monday night when sprayed with Mace during a confrontation with a group of teen-agers in Brooklyn, police said. His injuries were not considered serious.
Miscellany
In a poll of Associated Press subscribers in more than 30 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania, Africa and South America, Brazil accounted for the top two sports stories of the year. Brazil’s World Cup soccer victory was voted the No. 1 story, followed by the death of Brazilian Formula One driver Ayrton Senna.
George Foreman’s heavyweight championship and Diego Maradona’s drug scandal were the other top vote-getters.
The top five teams in the Associated Press college basketball poll, including No. 2 UCLA, held their places from last week.
In the AP women’s poll, Tennessee is a unanimous pick for the top spot for the sixth consecutive week. USC is No. 21.
Peter Angelos, owner of the Baltimore Orioles, said his fellow baseball owners can’t force his team to use replacement players.
The union expects to begin its legal challenge against the salary cap today, filing unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board.
The former head of the soccer team of Bastia, Corsica, where temporary seating collapsed before a game two years ago killing 15 people and injuring more than 2,000, was shot and killed outside his home, police said.
Jean-Francois Filippi, 52, also mayor of the town of Luciana just south of Bastia, was to go on trial in nine days for involuntary homicide in connection with the stadium disaster.
Jockey Marco Castaneda suffered serious head injuries during a three-horse spill in the ninth race at Bay Meadows.
Castaneda was taken to Mills Hospital in San Mateo, where a brain scan revealed multiple skull fractures but no apparent brain damage. Castaneda’s condition was listed as guarded.
Horses Ballingarry Miss and Lovely Explosion were put to death.
Algan gave French trainer Francois Doumen a fourth victory in the $144,000 King George VI Chase at Kempton Park, England, after favored Barton Bank tumbled near the finish while eight lengths ahead.
Tony Rubello, the scout who signed catcher Johnny Bench to a Cincinnati Red contract, died Sunday at Fort Worth, Tex., after a long illness. He was 81.
China’s top track coach, Ma Junren, has kept most of the money and prizes won by his team’s women runners, the Liberation Daily said. It said Ma had three cars and had spent $825,000 on a training center in northeast China, out of total winnings of his athletes of $1.2 million. Ma and his athletes could not be reached for comment.