Hawks’ Locklear agrees to community service
Seattle Seahawks right tackle Sean Locklear has reached an agreement with prosecutors on a charge of assaulting his girlfriend last January.
Locklear will perform community service for the next two years.
Locklear was facing a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $5,000 fine for the gross misdemeanor.
The defending NFC champions begin training camp July 28 in Cheney.
Locklear was arrested Jan. 15, hours after his team’s 20-10 playoff win over the Washington Redskins.
Seattle police said three witnesses told officers Locklear grabbed his girlfriend on the sidewalk as they argued after he reportedly got upset with her for dancing with another man at a nearby nightspot.
Locklear made a public apology and started later that week against the Carolina Panthers in the NFC title game. He also started in the Seahawks’ Super Bowl loss to Pittsburgh.
•Duke quarterback Zack Asack was suspended for the season Wednesday for plagiarism while coach Ted Roof dismissed three other players for breaking team rules, the school said. Wide receiver Deon Adams, safety Andreas Platt and offensive lineman Joe Suder were dismissed from the program, though the school did not specify what rules they violated.
Soccer
Brazil’s coach quits
Carlos Alberto Parreira quit as coach of Brazil, three weeks after his team was eliminated by France in the quarterfinals of the World Cup.
•The Kansas City Wizards fired Bob Gansler, the longest-tenured coach in Major League Soccer history, and chose assistant Brian Bliss as interim coach. Gansler was hired in 1999.
•U.S. midfielder Shannon Boxx tore knee ligaments during practice and will miss six to eight months of preparation for the 2007 women’s World Cup.
Basketball
New Orleans has edge
A group of New Orleans-based investors is the front-runner for gaining a minority share of the Hornets, team owner George Shinn.
Shinn did not reveal how many other competing investors there are, but said there remain people in Oklahoma City who are interested in buying into the Hornets, even after another Oklahoma group led by Clay Bennett bought the Seattle SuperSonics on Tuesday.
Shinn said the Sonics’ sale had little impact on the Hornets’ plans since he always intended to return the team to New Orleans, barring another natural disaster here.
•Josh Boone, the second of the New Jersey Nets’ two first-round draft picks, had arthroscopic surgery for a tear in his left shoulder. He’s expected to make a full recovery.
•The San Jose Skyrockets of the Continental Basketball Association are moving to Minot (N.D.) for the 2007-08 season, team and league officials say.
Miscellany
Pond is no more
The home of the NHL’s Anaheim Ducks is getting a new name. Arrowhead Pond will become Honda Center in October, the first name change in the arena’s 13-year history.
•Former New Jersey Devils defenseman and Spokane Flyers player Ken Daneyko appeared in Sparta Township, N.J., municipal court Monday to face charges of driving while intoxicated, careless driving and failure to maintain lane.
He was arrested in May.
The 42-year-old Daneyko retired in 2003 after a 20-year NHL career, spent entirely with New Jersey.
•Andrew Sudduth, who rowed on eight national and Olympic teams in the 1980s and won four medals at the World Rowing Championships, died Saturday of pancreatic cancer in Marion, Mass. He was 44.
•Wesley Whitehouse, a 27-year-old South African ranked 512th in the world, upset former world No. 1 Marat Safin 6-1, 6-4 in the second round of the RCA Championships in Indianapolis.