Newsmakers

Ordered A Superior Court judge ordered two Connecticut men Tuesday with ties to former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez to appear before a Massachusetts grand jury. The judge issued a warrant to allow police to arrest Alexander Bradley of East Hartford and compel him to appear before a grand jury in Suffolk County, Mass. The judge also ordered 21-year-old John Alcorn of Bristol to appear Thursday before the same grand jury.

Delayed A trial has been delayed again for the man accused of shooting to death Washington Redskins star safety Sean Taylor. A Miami-Dade County courts spokeswoman said the trial of 23-year-old Eric Rivera Jr. will not begin Monday because of scheduling conflicts and availability of witnesses.

Announced FC Dallas has reached a long-term agreement with Toyota for the naming rights to the club’s suburban Dallas home stadium and extended soccer complex. Officials of the Major League Soccer franchise announced that their field in Frisco will be named Toyota Stadium while 17 other fields adjacent to the stadium will be called Toyota Soccer Center.

Elected German lawyer Thomas Bach was elected president of the International Olympic Committee, keeping the powerful sports body in European hands. Bach, 59, succeeds Jacques Rogge, the Belgian who is stepping down after 12 years as president. Bach had 49 votes. A former Olympic fencing gold medalist who heads Germany’s national Olympic committee, Bach becomes the ninth president in the 119-year history of the IOC. American Avery Brundage, who ran the committee from 1952-72, was the only non-European president.

• USOC President Larry Probst made it onto the International Olympic Committee with 71 votes in favor and 20 against. Probst, chairman of video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc., becomes the fourth U.S. member on the IOC, joining Anita DeFrantz, Jim Easton and Angela Ruggiero.

Apologized A Wisconsin golf course is apologizing following a backlash over its advertising of nine holes of golf for $9.11 on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Tumbledown Trails Golf Course near Madison advertised the special in the Wisconsin State Journal saying it was meant to commemorate the 12th anniversary of the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. News of the special spread on social media and the golf course’s Facebook page was overrun with negative comments. Club owner and general manager Marc Watts say he may close today out of safety concerns.