Fast Break

Gymnastics

Miller will attend championships

Spokane Convention Center will be the site of the USA Gymnastics Level 9 Western Championships Friday through Sunday, and handing out the awards will be Shannon Miller, a seven-time Olympic medal winner. Also taking part in the festivities are Olympic silver-medal winner Brett McClure and Miller’s former teammate on the 1996 gold-medal team, Jaycie Phelps.

Miller will also take part in an “Athletes Village,” which will be located in the concourse area Friday and Saturday, 5-6:30 p.m. and is open to the public. During this time she will meet and sign autographs.

Level 9 is the second-highest level of Junior Olympic competition. The Level 9 Western Championships will be the final culminating event for 400 athletes from 172 programs in 23 western states.

Tickets for the event, hosted by the Spokane Regional Sports Commission and Funtastics Gymnastics, can be purchased through Ticketswest, or at the door.

More information and a schedule of events can be found at www.Funtastics.org.

Boxing

Boxer killed on motorcycle

Diego “Chico” Corrales, who won titles in two weight classes and won one of the most exciting boxing matches in recent years, died in a high-speed motorcycle crash in Las Vegas. He was 29.

Corrales was riding a new motorcycle Monday evening when he ran into the back of a car while trying to pass at high speed on a busy residential street about 7 miles west of the Las Vegas Strip, police said Tuesday.

Corrales was thrown from the motorcycle, which collided with an oncoming car, and pronounced dead at the scene of the 7:22 p.m. crash.

His promoter, Gary Shaw, said Corrales, whose career had faltered the past two years, recently bought a racing motorcycle and was riding it when he was killed.

“He fought recklessly and he lived recklessly,” Shaw said. “That was his style.”

Las Vegas police blamed speed and inexperience for the crash, saying it appeared Corrales did not have a valid Nevada driver’s or motorcycle license.