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Medical tests have found no cause for Dale Earnhardt’s health problems during the Southern 500, and the seven-time Winston Cup champion was waiting for NASCAR clearance Wednesday to resume racing. … Ernie Irvan, banished from the Robert Yates team at the end of the season, has landed a ride with the Nelson Bowers team next year. … Former tennis star Roscoe Tanner pleaded no contest in Hamilton County Criminal Court in Chattanooga, Tenn., to passing a worthless check for more than $10,000 and was given a one-year suspended sentence and ordered to pay court costs. … Miguel Angel Martin said he will go to court to save his place on Europe’s Ryder Cup team, blaming team captain Seve Ballesteros for being part of a plot to drop him from the team. Martin had refused to play 18 holes to prove his surgically repaired wrist had healed enough to allow him to compete. .. A judge in Omaha, Neb., rejected former Nebraska football player Scott Baldwin’s $1 million lawsuit against the city of Omaha, saying two police officers were negligent in a shooting that left Baldwin paralyzed. The judge said Baldwin was more to blame, a ruling Baldwin’s attorneys said they will appeal. … A new test on a urine sample from Diego Maradona, 36, confirmed the Argentine soccer star took drugs before a league game 10 days ago, which will likely bring a long suspension and could spell the end of his career. … Two of UNLV’s top basketball players, Kevin Simmons and Keon Clark were ruled ineligible for part of the season for taking extra benefits from an agent during a trip to Florida.