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IN BRIEF
Grand jury to charge track coach Graham
UNION-TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICES
November 2, 2006
Track coach Trevor Graham was expected to be indicted as early as today on charges he obstructed the same federal probe he helped spark three years ago by mailing vials of a designer steroid to anti-doping authorities.
Graham will be charged with making false statements to investigators, two Justice Department officials with knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press yesterday.
Several of Graham's athletes have tested positive for banned substances, and the coach is being investigated for allegedly lying to investigators looking into doping among elite athletes connected to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, the now-defunct supplement company that served as a front for a steroids ring.
Justin Gatlin, who tested positive for testosterone and other steroids in April, is a member of Raleigh, N.C.-based Sprint Capitol USA, a team of about 10 athletes that Graham operates.
The coach also trained Marion Jones, who won five medals at the 2000 Sydney Games with him, and her former boyfriend Tim Montgomery, who was suspended from competition for two years, although he never tested positive for a banned substance.
Tennis
Marion Bartoli beat Laura Granville 6-4, 6-3 to set up a quarterfinal match with Shenay Perry for the second consecutive year in the Bell Challenge in Quebec City. Perry defeated 2004 finalist Abigail Spears, from Valley Center, 6-1, 7-5 . . . Kim Clijsters played her first match since August, coming back from a wrist injury by beating Anne Kremer 6-3, 6-2 in the first round of the Gaz de France Stars in Hasselt, Belgium.
NBA
The Boston Celtics saluted their late patriarch, Red Auerbach, in a 10-minute ceremony before their season opener against the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets. Among those representing the past were greats Bob Cousy, John Havlicek, Robert Parish, Tommy Heinsohn and JoJo White . . . Seattle announced that it has signed forward-center Nick Collison to a multiyear contract extension . . . Charlotte center Primoz Brezec will miss the first two weeks of the season because of exhaustion and dehydration.
Horse racing
Dennis Fisher, a horse trainer and owner, has sued the operators of two race tracks in Florida and Kentucky that he claims drugged and physically abused his thoroughbreds, and allowed other jockeys to maneuver their steeds into his horses during races. Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., and its management company, and Calder Race Course in Miami Gardens, also operated by Churchill Downs, are named as defendants . . . Dr. Dean Richardson, Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro's vet, says the cast on the right hind leg the thoroughbred shattered in the Preakness might come off next week.
Sports and courts
Two former Colorado State football players have been indicted on charges of defrauding banks of $90,000, bringing to at least five the number of current and former team members accused in the case. Former players Cleodis Enrique Floyd and Alphonso Ryan Williams were named in the latest indictment, handed up last week.
Volleyball
Defending champion Italy and the United States won at the women's world championships in Nagoya, Japan. The Italians beat Peru 25-15, 25-16, 25-14 and the Americans defeated the Netherlands 25-19, 25-22, 27-29, 20-25, 15-7.
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