Ex-Cowboy Newton Is Arrested

Former Dallas Cowboy offensive lineman Nate Newton, 39, was arrested Wednesday at Dallas on charges of carrying at least 175 pounds of marijuana in his car, his second such arrest in six weeks.

Newton, facing a felony charge of possession with intent to deliver, was being held at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center, Dallas County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Don Peritz said. Newton was to be arraigned Wednesday night.

On Nov. 4, Newton was arrested in Louisiana after police said they found 213 pounds of marijuana in a van he was driving. He was released on $100,000 bond on charges of suspicion of possessing marijuana with intent to distribute.

Peritz said Drug Enforcement Administration agents flagged down Dallas County officers on a highway to seek help stopping two vehicles traveling together.

Newton and two men were arrested.

Newton was a six-time Pro Bowl selection who helped Dallas win three Super Bowls. He played 14 seasons, 13 with Dallas. He retired last year after playing with Carolina.

Soccer

Midfielder-forward Earnie Stewart was selected Honda player of the year after leading the U.S. team in scoring with five goals in 2001.

Stewart, 32, played in the 1994 and 1998 World Cups and is an 11-year veteran of the U.S. team.

He leads the U.S. in career scoring in qualifying games with 11 goals.

Stewart was selected by a vote of 251 American journalists. He beat out fellow midfielder and last year’s winner Claudio Reyna, who last week transferred from Rangers of Glasgow, Scotland, to Sunderland of the English Premier League, and San Jose Earthquake defender Jeff Agoos.

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A jury at Hull, England, wrapped up its third day of deliberation without a verdict in the retrial of Leeds United stars Lee Bowyer and Jonathan Woodgate, and two men accused of taking part in the beating of a student.

Bowyer and Woodgate, both candidates to be on England’s World Cup squad next summer, allegedly were among several men who attacked Sarfraz Najeib on a street in downtown Leeds in January 2000.

Najeib, then 19, suffered fractures on his nose, left leg and a cheekbone.

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A late goal by Markus Schopp gave Brescia a 1-0 upset victory over defending champion AS Roma in their first leg of the Italian Cup quarterfinals at Rome.

Juventus advanced to the quarterfinals by thrashing second-division Sampdoria, 5-2, in their third-round, second-leg game.

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Carsten Jancker and Mehmet Scholl’s second-half goals helped Bayern Munich past VfL Osnabrueck, 2-0, at Berlin in a second-round game of the German Cup.

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A late own-goal by defender Aitor Karanka left Real Madrid with a 1-0 defeat by Gimnastic de Tarragona at Madrid in a third-round game of the Copa del Rey.

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Karel Bruckner was appointed coach of the Czech Republic’s team, replacing Jozef Chovanec, who failed to lead the Czechs to the 2002 World Cup finals.

Bruckner, 62, was Chovanec’s assistant.

Jurisprudence

Former Tulane running back Toney Converse was sentenced in Gretna, La., to 18 years in prison on five drug convictions.

Converse, 23, was found guilty last month on four counts of distribution of cocaine and one count of possession with intent to distribute.

Miscellany

Olympic champion Silke Kraushaar won a World Cup luge event, edging teammate Sylke Otto by one-thousandth of a second to lead a 1-2-3 sweep for Germany at Igls, Austria.

It was the 30th consecutive World Cup victory for the German women’s team.

The top American finishers were Courtney Zablocki in fourth place and Becky Wilczak in sixth.

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World champion Magdalena Forsberg of Sweden scored her third consecutive victory by winning an individual biathlon World Cup event at Pokljuka, Slovenia.

Forsberg, who started in 41st position, finished the 15-kilometer course in 45 minutes 9.4 seconds, missing only one target.

Her closest rival was Uschi Disl of Germany, who was 25.3 seconds behind and also missed one target. Another German, Andrea Henkel, was third.

Last season, Forsberg had an unprecedented run of eight consecutive victories and finished with 13.

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Johann Muehlegg of Spain and World Cup champion Yulia Tchepalova of Russia won cross-country races at Brousson, Italy.

Muehlegg, who was born in Germany, captured the men’s 15-kilometer freestyle. Tchepalova edged Italy’s Stefania Belmondo by 0.8 seconds in the women’s 10-kilometer freestyle.

Austria’s Christian Hoffmann finished second and Sweden’s Per Elofsson was third.

Carl Swenson of Boulder, Colo., was the top North American, finishing 18th.

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Tony Rominger, Ivan Gotti, Axel Merckx, Abraham Olano and Claudio Chiappucci are among a dozen prominent cyclists called to testify at Bologna, Italy, in the drug trial of Dr. Michele Ferrari, who is accused of having provided banned substances to several riders.

Ferrari, who has worked with Lance Armstrong, has denied giving illegal substances to cyclists. Armstrong, the three-time Tour de France champion, was not called to testify. He has defended his ties to Ferrari, but has said he would re-evaluate the relationship if Ferrari is convicted.

The hearings are scheduled for Jan. 15 and Feb. 12-19.

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Austria’s Hermann Maier sees little chance of recovering in time from a broken right leg to ski at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in February.

Maier, injured in a motorcycle accident in August, said he would be satisfied with competing in a World Cup race before the season ends.

World rally champion Richard Burns will drive next season for Peugeot after being released from his contract with Subaru.

Subaru said it has signed four-time world champion Tommi Makinen of Finland for next season.

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The Ice Dogs’ three-game winning streak ended with a 2-0 loss to Colorado Gold Kings at Colorado Springs. Colin Chaulk and Martin Enga scored for Colorado, which ended a three-game losing streak.

Passings

Larry Costello, who won NBA titles as a player and coach and was one of the last to use the two-handed set shot, died of cancer Tuesday at Fort Myers, Fla. He was 70. Story, B14.

Josef Bican, the Czech Republic’s best-known soccer player, died of heart failure at a Prague hospital. He was 88. Between 1939 and 1947, Bican scored more than 500 goals in his career.