Witness Says Lewis Kicked Man

A witness testified in an Atlanta court Friday that he saw Ray Lewis kicking a man on the ground during a street brawl that led to two stabbing deaths.

Chester Anderson, in jail on identification fraud charges, told jurors he saw the Baltimore Raven linebacker kick a man on an Atlanta street as bars were closing the morning after the Super Bowl.

Anderson, who admitted to using about 30 different names and stealing the identification of about seven people, was using former pro football player Bam Morris’ NFL identification to get into Super Bowl parties free.

Anderson said he was walking from another bar on Jan. 31 when he came upon the fight. He is the first witness in the four-day trial to testify that Lewis was an active participant in the melee.

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A prosecutor in Waukesha, Wis., filed motions opposing defense requests to dismiss sex-related charges against Green Bay Packer tight end Mark Chmura, 31, and friend Robert Gessert, 43, who are scheduled for preliminary hearings Tuesday.

Chmura is accused of having sex with his drunk 17-year-old baby sitter during a post-prom party April 9, and Gessert is accused of fondling an 18-year-old woman in a hot tub at the same party, held at his Hartland home.

Defense lawyers contend the criminal complaint is so full of explicit details from the party that it violates the defendants’ rights to due process and makes it impossible to find an impartial jury.

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Green Bay Packers guard Marco Rivera’s blood alcohol content was almost twice the legal limit when he was pulled over on suspicion of drunken driving, police said. Rivera, 28, faces a fine of up to $736.50 on the drunken driving citation and $458 for the speeding ticket.

Pro Football

Hamp Pool, 85, who coached the Los Angeles Rams from 1952-54 and played for the Chicago Bears in the early 1940s, died in a hospital in Mariposa, Calif., of heart failure. Pool, a fullback and end, was one of nine Bears to score a touchdown in the team’s 73-0 victory over the Washington Redskins in the 1940 NFL championship game. Pool was the Rams’ backfield coach when they won the NFL championship in 1951 and succeeded Joe Stydahar as the team’s head coach the following year. Pool is survived by Olive, his wife of 63 years, three children, six grandchildren and two sisters.

The NFL has approved a $100-million loan to the Detroit Lions for construction of Ford Field, the team’s new 65,000-seat domed stadium that is set to open in 2002. . . . Defensive end Shante Carver, a former first-round pick of the Dallas Cowboys who started in the 1996 Super Bowl, will attempt to return to professional football this season with the B.C. Lions of the Canadian Football League. . . . Linebacker and special teams specialist Terry Killens has re-signed with the Tennessee Titans for two more years. . . . Anthony Becht, the last of the New York Jets’ four first-round draft picks, became only the second NFL first-rounder signed when he agreed to a five-year deal.

Tennis

Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Marat Safin scored singles victories to lead Russia to a 3-0 victory over defending champion Australia and into the final of the World Team Cup at Duesseldorf, Germany. In today’s final, Russia will meet Slovakia, a 2-1 winner over Germany. . . . Silvija Talaja of Croatia got a big lift for the French Open, beating fourth-seeded Nathalie Dechy of France. 6-1, 1-6, 6-3, to advance to the finals of $170,000 Strasbourg Open in France. In today’s final, the sixth-seeded Talaja plays Rita Kuti Kis of Hungary, who beat Israel’s Anna Smashnova, 7-6 (8), 6-4. . . . Colombia’s Fabiola Zuluaga beat Croatia’s Iva Majoli, 6-3, 6-4, to reach the finals of the $170,000 Madrid Open. Zuluaga will face Gala Leon of Spain in this clay-court tuneup for the French Open. Leon defeated Virginia Ruano of Spain, 6-2, 6-0, in the other semifinal.

Miscellany

Darrell Waltrip, who failed to qualify for Sunday’s NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 at Concord, N.C., was back in the race after Carl Long, 32, gave Waltrip his spot in the field. Long had turned the 35th-best lap in qualifying for the Coca-Cola 600, guaranteeing him a spot in the race. But the team had used an engine geared for qualifying, and didn’t have a suitable one to last for the entire 600 miles of the race.

Striker Raul Diaz Arce was reacquired by his original team, D.C. United, from the Tampa Bay Mutiny for midfielder John Maessner, two first-round picks in 2001 and a second-rounder in 2002. . . . Swimmer Inge de Bruijn of the Netherlands broke her own world record in the 50-meter butterfly with a time of 25.64 in a preliminary heat at the Sheffield Super Grand Prix in England. She also tied the 50-meter freestyle mark of 24.51 set by China’s Le Jingyi six years ago. . . . The University of Arizona shot a seven-under-par 281 to take a 28-stroke lead into the final round of the NCAA women’s golf championships at Sunriver, Ore. Individually, Arizona teammates Julie Kraschinski and Jenna Daniels are tied for the lead at six under. . . . Indiana basketball player Tom Coverdale, 20, was arrested on a charge of illegal consumption of alcohol after police responded to a report of a bar dispute.