Ex-Giant Parker Is Indicted on Manslaughter Charges

Former New York Giant Jeremiah Parker and his girlfriend were indicted on manslaughter charges in the beating death of the woman’s 4-year-old son.

Parker and Tauleah Kelly each maintain the other was responsible for prolonged abuse that authorities said led to the death of Elijah Kelly.

They were indicted Tuesday in Paterson, N.J., on charges of aggravated manslaughter, child endangerment, and child cruelty and neglect. Kelly, 19, also faces two counts of aggravated assault.

Parker and Kelly were charged shortly after the boy’s death May 14, two days after he was found motionless on the floor at the couple’s condominium.

An autopsy showed Elijah died from blunt force injuries to the head sustained over time.

Parker, 23, appeared in four games for the Giants last season and was waived by the team June 1. He has been free on $300,000 bail, while Kelly remains in custody in lieu of $150,000 bail.

Former NFL lineman Ariel Solomon rear-ended a car while driving his 7-year-old son on a motorcycle in Louisville, Colo., killing the boy and leaving Solomon with broken bones.

Dakota Solomon died Monday at a hospital.

Solomon, who played with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Minnesota Vikings, was listed in fair condition at a Denver hospital.

Boxing

Las Vegas police searched Mike Tyson’s home after an allegation of sexual assault was made against the former heavyweight champion.

No charges have been filed against Tyson, but police searched his home for evidence related to a recent sexual assault in Nevada, police Lt. Tom Monahan said.

No details about the allegation or Tyson’s accuser were available, Monahan said, because the investigation is ongoing.

Carlos Madrigal, who has knocked out seven consecutive opponents since 1999, headlines at the Pond of Anaheim tonight in a scheduled 10-round bantamweight fight.

Madrigal (17-2, 12 knockouts), of Oxnard, meets Osvaldo Guerrero (27-10, 24 KOs), of Guerrero, Mexico.

Olympics

Robert Helmick, who resigned from two powerful Olympic posts a decade ago amid conflict-of-interest allegations, was appointed by USOC president Sandra Baldwin to the International Relations Committee, a panel that tries to protect American interests in Olympic sports.

Helmick resigned as president of the USOC and as a member of the International Olympic Committee in 1991.

Tennis

Venus Williams and Lindsay Davenport pulled out of the Kremlin Cup at Moscow because of the terrorist attacks in the United States.

The women begin play Monday. The field features 12 of the top 20 players, including defending champion and top-ranked Martina Hingis.

Also competing are Kim Clijsters, Amelie Mauresmo and Nathalie Tauziat. Justine Henin, runner-up to Williams at Wimbledon, is a wild card.

Anna Kournikova is expected to play after being sidelined most of the year because of a stress fracture of her left foot. The Russian is scheduled to play today in Leipzig, Germany.

The $1-million men’s and $1.05-million women’s tournaments will be held simultaneously for the second year.

Organizers expect only two top 10 players among the men--defending champion Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Roger Federer.

The defending champion United States was drawn in the same group with France, the Czech Republic and Argentina for the Fed Cup on Nov. 7-11 at Madrid.

Belgium, Spain, Russia and Australia were placed in the other group.

The U.S. was seeded No. 1, followed by Belgium, France and Spain.

Tauziat, second-seeded, rallied to defeat Angeles Montolio of Spain, 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-4, to reach the quarterfinals of the $565,000 Sparkassen Cup at Leipzig, Germany.

Seventh-seeded Elena Dementieva defeated fellow Russian Elena Likhovtseva, 5-7, 6-4, 7-5; fifth-seeded Silvia Farina-Elia of Italy ousted Kveta Hrdlickova of the Czech Republic, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (10), and sixth-seeded Magdalena Maleeva of Bulgaria eliminated Tatiana Panova of Russia, 6-2, 2-6, 6-3.

Second-seeded Tamarine Tanasugarn defeated Alexandra Fusai, 6-3, 6-2, to reach the quarterfinals of the $170,000 Wismilak International at Bali, Indonesia.

Jiri Vanek of the Czech Republic upset sixth-seeded Andreas Vinciguerra of Sweden, 7-6 (2), 6-2, advancing to the quarterfinals of the $400,000 ATP clay tournament at Palermo, Sicily.

Seventh-seeded Franco Squillari of Argentina outlasted Juan Balcells of Spain, 7-6 (6), 5-7, 6-2, and fourth-seeded Tommy Robredo of Spain defeated Hugo Armando of the U.S., 7-6 (3), 6-2.

Fifth-seeded Albert Costa of Spain eliminated Federico Luzzi of Italy, 6-2, 6-1, and Argentina’s David Nalbandian defeated Fernando Vicente of Spain, 6-4, 6-4.

Australia’s Mark Philippoussis, seeded fifth, returned after a six-month absence because of knee surgery and defeated Israel’s Harel Levy, 6-3, 7-5, in the first round of the $400,000 Salem Open at Hong Kong.

Top-seeded Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain defeated Paradorn Srichaphan of Thailand, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.

Motor Racing

After six months of sometimes contentious negotiation, the city of Denver reached an agreement to again stage CART street racing, beginning in 2002.

Unlike the previous race held in downtown Denver in 1990 and 1991 before going bankrupt, the Grand Prix of Denver will be privately funded.

The agreement is for seven years with a five-year option.

A season-ending Le Mans Series auto race scheduled for November at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was postponed until early next year because of the terrorist attacks in the U.S.

Miscellany

The Ice Dogs acquired the reserve rights to defenseman Karel Betik from the Bakersfield Condors for future considerations.

Sherry Carter, who earlier this year settled a gender-discrimination suit against Furman, will resign as women’s basketball coach at the end of the 2001-02 season.

Rookie Andrei Kirilenko of Russia signed with the Utah Jazz. He was the team’s first-round draft choice in 1999.

At Antwerp, Belgium, Arnaud Tournant of France won a record-tying fourth consecutive one-kilometer time trial world championship.

Lothar Thoms of Germany won the event from 1977-81.

Olympic sprint champion Marty Nothstein of the U.S., who was scheduled to compete in the time trial, did not participate because he is wary of traveling overseas.

Passings

Lowell “Alex” Francis, who coached track and cross country at Fort Hays State for 34 years and was a former U.S. Olympic coach, died Tuesday at Victoria, Kan. He was 91.

Francis’ teams won 25 conference titles in cross-country and track and field.

In one 14-year stretch, his track teams won 33 consecutive dual meets.

He coached the U.S. track team at the 1967 Pan American Games and coached the U.S. distance runners at the Mexico City Olympics in 1968.