Hartman’s time with Galaxy is over
The Galaxy made two moves Friday, trading longtime goalkeeper Kevin Hartman to the Kansas City Wizards, and acquiring forward Nate Jaqua from Toronto FC in exchange for a portion of an allocation.
Hartman, 32, had spent his entire professional career with the Galaxy, which took him in the third round of the 1997 Major League Soccer draft. He had been the team’s No. 1 goalkeeper since 1998, with the exception of the 2001 season.
The Galaxy received second-round draft picks next year and in 2008 for Hartman, who was the league’s goalkeeper of the year in 1999 and helped lead the team to MLS Cup championships in 2002 and 2005.
Hartman became expendable after the Galaxy acquired two-time goalkeeper of the year Joe Cannon from the Colorado Rapids two weeks ago.
Jaqua was the fifth player chosen in the MLS expansion draft last month, but was considering signing with a European team because his contract had expired. Teams are granted allocations allowing them to sign players from outside the league. Teams may trade all or a portion of the allocations.
WINTER SPORTS
Miller wins, then rips U.S. team rules
Bode Miller won a super-giant slalom in Val Gardena, Italy, racing to his 23rd World Cup victory and second in two weeks. Afterward, he again criticized U.S. team rules that don’t allow him to sleep in his motor home.
The U.S. team instituted a rule this season requiring skiers to sleep in the team hotel rather than personal RVs. The rule appears designed to rein in Miller, who left the Turin Olympics last winter with no medals but plenty of criticism for his late-night partying.
“My team is sabotaging me a little bit by not letting me sleep in my motor home,” Miller said.
He certainly appeared alert on the Saslong course, skiing an error-free run in his fluid and relaxed style. He won in 1 minute 32.35 seconds, with a 0.64-second advantage over Christoph Gruber.
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Marlies Schild led an Austrian sweep of the top four places in a World Cup super-combination race at Reiteralm, Austria, her third victory of the season.
Schild won in a combined time of 2:13.69.
The top American was Resi Stiegler, who was 11th in 2:16.00.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
DeBerry steps down as Air Force coach
Fisher DeBerry, 68, retired after 23 years as Air Force’s coach, finishing with three losing seasons and two big controversies in his final years.
DeBerry, whose 169-109-1 record made him the winningest coach in Air Force history, had the third-longest tenure at one school of any active college coach, after Joe Paterno (41 years at Penn State) and Bobby Bowden (31 years at Florida State).
DeBerry was criticized in 2005 after a 48-10 loss to Texas Christian when he said Air Force didn’t have enough “Afro-American” players, singling them out for being able to run well. DeBerry was reprimanded by the academy apologized publicly.
In 2004, academy officials asked him to remove a banner from the locker room that included the lines, “I am a Christian first and last
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Jerri Spurrier, the wife of South Carolina Coach Steve Spurrier, unknowingly violated NCAA rules by sending handwritten notes to families of players who had signed with the Gamecocks. The infraction, which the university classified as a “Level II” secondary violation, was among eight secondary violations the school reported.
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Four of Ohio State’s top underclassmen on offense are considering leaving the team early to enter the NFL draft.
Junior receivers Ted Ginn Jr. and Anthony Gonzalez, tailback Antonio Pittman and lineman Kirk Barton filed paperwork with the NFL.
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Wisconsin reinstated defensive back Jack Ikegwuonu pending developments in his burglary case. Ikegwuonu, an All-Big Ten Conference pick, is expected to play against Arkansas in the Capital One Bowl.
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Auburn linebackers Tray Blackmon and Kevin Sears and tailback Brad Lester were suspended indefinitely for violation of team rules, Coach Tommy Tuberville said. The players will miss the Tigers’ Cotton Bowl game against Nebraska.
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Appalachian State (14-1) won its second consecutive Division I-AA national championship with a 28-17 victory over Massachusetts (13-2) at Chattanooga, Tenn.
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Chadron State running back Danny Woodhead was named winner of the Harlon Hill Trophy as the nation’s top Division II player.
MISCELLANY
O’Neil is honored at White House ceremony
Former Negro League player Buck O’Neil was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a White House ceremony.
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A jury in Albuquerque has acquitted four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Al Unser Sr., 67, on misdemeanor charges of resisting and disobeying police from an incident last Aug. 9.
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The United States will play at the Czech Republic on an indoor clay court in the first round of the 2007 Davis Cup.
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Brian Joubert of France led the Grand Prix Final in St. Petersburg, Russia, taking the free skate with a James Bond-themed routine. Among the women, Mao Asada of Japan headed for her second consecutive Grand Prix Final gold medal.
PASSINGS
Regazzoni, hurt in 1980 Long Beach crash, dies
Former Formula One driver Clay Regazzoni was killed in a highway crash near Parma in northern Italy. He was 67. Regazzoni had been in a wheelchair since 1980, when he damaged his spine in a crash during the U.S. Grand Prix West in Long Beach.
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Hall of Fame trainer Flint “Scotty” Schulhofer, who saddled two Belmont Stakes winners during a 40-year career, died of cancer in New York. He was 80.
See section B.
