Boxer dies after being struck by automobile
Kemal Kolenovic, a middleweight boxer who emigrated from Montenegro, was killed outside a Bronx bar when he was struck by a car that drove onto the sidewalk, New York police and witnesses said.
The 28-year-old fighter was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital, police said.
Kolenovic was at a restaurant around 4 a.m. EST Sunday when several other men got into an argument about their native Eastern Europe. Kolenovic followed the men outside. According to his uncle, Kolenovic was trying to placate the other men.
One of the men involved in the quarrel got into a sport-utility vehicle and drove it onto the sidewalk, hitting Kolenovic, witnesses and police said. The driver then fled.
Kolenovic had a 10-6-2 record, with five knockouts.
•Former world featherweight champion Naseem Hamed had a royal honor taken from him after serving a jail sentence in Sheffield, England, for reckless driving.
The former IBF and WBO champion had been given the Member of the Order of the British Empire, or MBE, for services to boxing by Queen Elizabeth II in December 1998.
Horse racing
Jazil returns to track
Belmont Stakes winner Jazil will return to racing Friday at Aqueduct, his first race since winning the Belmont Stakes.
He drew the outside post in a field of eight in a $48,000 race at 1 1/16 miles. Regular rider Fernando Jara will be aboard.
The 4-year-old was sidelined with a bruised canon bone that prevented him from running in the Breeders’ Cup Classic in November.
Miscellany
Ex-Olympian dies
Liese Prokop, a pentathlon silver medalist at the 1968 Olympics who became Austria’s first female interior minister, died Sunday in Vienna, Austria. She was 65.
Prokop died of a ruptured aorta.
After her runner-up finish at the Mexico City Games, she broke the world record in her event the following year.
•Miami Hurricanes tight end Greg Olsen plans to skip his senior football season and turn pro, his new agent, Drew Rosenhaus, said.
Olsen is projected by some as the top tight end in the NFL draft, and as a possible first- or second-round pick.
Olsen caught 38 passes for 444 yards and one touchdown during the regular season and added two catches for 45 yards in the bowl game.
•Spaniards Tommy Robredo and Anabel Medina Garrigues beat Croatia’s brother-sister combo of Mario and Sanja Ancic in Perth, Australia, to end a run of losses for the top seeded teams in the Hopman Cup mixed team tennis tournament.
In opening Group A matches, Australia beat the No. 1-seeded Russian team and France beat the defending champion United States.
•Switzerland’s Andreas Kuettel won the second event of the Four Hills ski jumping tournament in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, after rain and wind canceled the second run. Kuettel earned 135.9 points to beat Matti Hautamaki of Finland by 2.9 points.