Newsmakers

Disagreed The person who collected Ryan Braun’s urine sample that tested positive for elevated levels of testosterone said he followed the collection program’s protocol. Dino Laurenzi Jr. issued a statement Tuesday confirming he handled the sample submitted following a playoff game on Oct. 1. He says he has been a collector for Comprehensive Drug Testing since 2005 and has taken more than 600 samples for Major League Baseball’s drug-testing program. “At no point did I tamper in any way with the samples,” Laurenzi said. He said he issued the statement “to set the record straight.” Last week, Braun said he was the “victim” of a “fatally flawed” system.

Filed Texas Tech football coach Tommy Tuberville has been sued in federal court, accused of defrauding investors out of more than $1.7 million in Alabama following his tenure at Auburn. A federal lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Montgomery, Ala., names Tuberville, John David Stroud and eight investment entities as defendants, claiming the two men “employed devices, schemes, and artifices to defraud” seven plaintiffs from Arkansas, Alabama and Tennessee.

Sidelined Trainer Todd Pletcher says Kentucky Derby hopeful is off the Triple Crown trail because of a leg injury that will require surgery. Algorithms was the morning-line favorite for the Fountain of Youth Stakes last weekend at Gulfstream Park. He was scratched before the race with a splint bone injury to his right front leg. The hope is he could return by late summer or early fall.

Condemned The German soccer federation condemned an anti-Semitic act involving Kaiser- slautern’s Israel striker Itay Shechter and says it will not tolerate such abuse. A small group of Kaiser- slautern fans directed Hitler salutes at Shechter during Sunday’s practice. The German soccer federation’s designated president Wolfgang Niersbach says such abuse has to be “nipped in the bud.”

Suspended The WBC suspended British boxer Dereck Chisora indefinitely following his brawl with former WBA champion David Haye after a title fight against Vitali Klitschko in Germany. Chisora slapped Klitschko in the face during the weigh-in for the WBC heavyweight bout, then spat water in his brother Wladimir’s face before the fight started.