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Basketball

NBA suspends Artest, Jackson

Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson are in trouble with the NBA again.

The central figures in the brawl at the Palace of Auburn Hills were each suspended without pay by the league Saturday for the first seven games of next season because of their recent legal problems.

Artest was in Africa on a humanitarian mission at the time his penalty was announced. He is with union director Billy Hunter taking part in the players association’s “Feeding One Million” campaign in Kenya.

The Sacramento forward pleaded no contest in May to a misdemeanor domestic violence charge stemming from a March 5 dispute with his wife, the latest in a string of off-court problems.

Jackson, of the Golden State Warriors, pleaded guilty last month to a felony count of criminal recklessness for firing a gun outside an Indiana strip club last fall, when he was with the Pacers.

Baseball

Man survives Yankees game

A tourist who suffered a broken neck at Yankee Stadium when another fan fell on him is recovering well.

Paul Robinson, 53, of Kirkland, Wash., was sitting in the stadium’s steep upper deck when an unidentified fan standing above him took a violent tumble down several rows of seats. The man crashed into Robinson’s head, breaking his vertebrae, then came to rest in the next row.

“It felt like my head had been ripped off,” Robinson told the New York Daily News from his hospital bed.

Olympics

Chinese stage fake terrorism

Hundreds of police officers staged a mock terrorist attack on the Beijing Olympics’ sailing venue, “hijacking” an oil tanker and trying to break into the facility, state media reported.

The exercise, involving more than 800 police officers and 27 vessels, was part of the Chinese government’s security preparations for next year’s Olympics.