Miscellany

Sixteen players from Ethiopia’s national soccer team dropped from sight during a stopover in Rome while on their way to a tournament in Morocco, Italian officials said.

Two players, the coach and four staff members of the team remained behind in a hotel in Ostia, near Rome’s international airport.

Bernard C. “Bert” Kuczynski, a Philadelphia native who in 1943 became the first to play major-league pro baseball and football during the same season, has died at 77.

In 1943, Kuczynski, a University of Pennsylvania graduate, pitched for the Philadelphia Athletics and played football for the Detroit Lions.

Tiger Woods, golf’s youngest million-dollar man, and his father Earl have started a foundation to promote minority participation in golf and related activities.

Oscar De La Hoya’s 12-round decision over Miguel Angel Gonzalez was purchased in 400,000 pay-per-view homes, generating more than $14 million, Time Warner’s TVKO announced.