Newsmakers

Sat., May 22, 2010

From Staff And Wire Reports

Ruled A Minnesota judge ruled Friday that he will keep the suspensions of two Minnesota Vikings on hold if they follow through on their plan to file an appeal in their fight against the NFL’s anti-drug policy. The NFL first tried to suspend defensive tackles Kevin Williams and Pat Williams in 2008 after they tested positive for a banned diuretic that was in the StarCaps weight-loss supplement they were taking.

•A court ruled in favor of American swimmer Jessica Hardy, rejecting the World Anti-Doping Agency’s appeal to extend her doping ban. The Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland dismissed WADA’s appeal to lengthen the ban from one to two years. Hardy tested positive for clenbuterol in July 2008.

•Green Bay Packers defensive end Johnny Jolly is facing tougher restrictions for being free on bond on a drug charge. A judge in Houston ordered Jolly, who was arrested in 2008 on suspicion of possessing cocaine, to stay out of nightclubs in addition to a drug and alcohol ban.

Charged Los Angeles Kings assistant coach Mark Hardy was charged with sexual abuse after a woman said he fondled her in a Washington, D.C., hotel room, according to charging documents.

Signed The San Antonio Silver Stars signed Chamique Holdsclaw after she said she could no longer play for the Atlanta Dream because of a falling out with the coach-general manager.

Departed Former Texas center Dexter Pittman left the NBA draft combine to be with his family a day after his half-brother was shot and killed in a Houston suburb.

Ineligible LSU point guard Bo Spencer is academically ineligible for the fall semester. Coach Trent Johnson said the Tigers will be without their leading returning scorer and lone returning senior when the season starts.

Testified Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade testified in Miami at the trial where two ex-partners are suing him for $25 million in a failed restaurant deal, primarily explaining his relationship with a friend who helped broker the arrangement.

Died Dorothy Kamenshek, a former star of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League who helped inspire the lead character in the movie “A League of their Own,” has died at 84 at Palm Desert, Calif.

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