Olympic gold medalist Dorothy Hamill is undergoing treatment for breast cancer.
Hamill said in a statement yesterday that she is being treated at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. The prognosis is favorable, but the 51-year-old figure skater said she will miss some of the “Broadway on Ice” tour while she is having treatment.
Olympic gold medalist Brian Boitano, one of Hamill's good friends, will fill in for her, beginning tonight in Sarasota, Fla. Hamill said she hopes to rejoin the tour in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where it has shows Jan. 16-17.
At 19, Hamill became a celebrity and a fashion icon with her trademark wedge haircut, when she won the gold medal at the 1976 Olympics.
SPORTS AND COURTS
The Tennessee Titans want a Nevada judge to quash a lawsuit seeking damages for a strip club employee, Tommy Urbanski, paralyzed in a triple shooting that followed a fracas involving suspended NFL player Adam “Pacman” Jones.
A judge is due Wednesday to hear arguments by an attorney for the team who contends the Titans had nothing to do with Jones going to the Minxx Gentleman's Club last Feb. 19, and that the team doesn't have enough ties to Nevada to establish jurisdiction for the lawsuit.
Kenneth Karas, the federal judge who will sentence former Olympic champion Marion Jones, is considering punishing her twice – once for lying about her steroid use and once for lying about her role in a check-fraud scheme.
Hearst Corp. wants the federal government to explain why it unsealed a sworn statement containing names of players implicated by former New York Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski after telling a court the information had to remain secret.
Former Montana State basketball player Brandon Miller pleaded guilty for his role in the shooting death of a cocaine dealer. Miller, 23, pleaded guilty to murder and tampering with evidence in connection with the June 2006 death of Jason Wright, whose body was found in a university agricultural field. Miller also pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon in a pistol-whipping at a downtown Bozeman bar two weeks before Wright was killed.
All charges were dropped against one of three people accused in a sexual offense case involving three North Carolina football players, The News & Observer in Raleigh reported. Judge Alonzo Coleman dismissed kidnapping, robbery and sexual offense charges against Tnikia Washington during a probable cause hearing.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Darxia Morris scored 20 points as host UCLA (7-7, 2-1 Pac-10) upset No. 2 Stanford 69-56 for the school's first women's basketball victory over a top 3 team. Candice Wiggins (La Jolla Country Day) had 29 points and 10 rebounds for the Cardinal (12-2, 2-1).
Eddie Sutton, who came out of retirement last week to be San Francisco's interim coach, has no intention of remaining on the job permanently, reported the San Francisco Chronicle. Sutton retired as Oklahoma State's coach after the 2005-06 season.
Sophomore forward Lamar Roberson is leaving the UNLV team.
TENNIS
Americans Serena Williams and Mardy Fish beat Serbia's Jelena Jankovic and Novak Djokovic 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 to give the United States its fifth title in the Hopman Cup mixed team tournament in Perth, Australia.
Lindsay Davenport won her third title in four events since returning to play following the birth of her first child, beating France's Aravane Rezai 6-2, 6-2 in the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand.
Top-seeded Rafael Nadal beat fellow Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-3, 6-2 in the Chennai Open in India to set up a semifinal match against two-time champion Carlos Moya, who beat Florent Serra 6-3, 6-4.
Andy Murray defeated top-seeded Nikolay Davydenko 6-4, 6-3 to reach his second straight Qatar Open final. He'll face Stanislas Wawrinka, who upset defending champion Ivan Ljubicic 7-6 (7-1), 6-4.
China's Li Na won the Australian women's hardcourt championship in Gold Coast, beating Victoria Azarenka 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the final.
Maria Sharapova defeated Anna Chakvetadze 6-4, 6-2 to advance to the final of the JB Group Classic exhibition in Hong Kong. She will take on Venus Williams, who beat Elena Dementieva 6-3, 6-3.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga ended Lleyton Hewitt's chances of winning his hometown Australian men's hardcourt championships for a third time, beating the top-seeded star 6-4, 6-2 in the quarterfinals in Adelaide.
HORSE RACING
Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense, Breeders' Cup Classic winner Curlin and Derby runner-up Hard Spun were among the Eclipse Award finalists announced yesterday.
The three rivals were nominated for 3-year-old male of the year honors.
Fly Dorcego overtook the two favorites in the stretch and edged Tontine Too by a neck in the $61,000 feature race at Santa Anita.
BOXING
Michele Rosales stopped Dairo Esales in the second round of their scheduled 12-rounder before a capacity crowd of 750 under a tent at the Alameda Swap Meet in Los Angeles.
The bout was scheduled to be a defense of Rosales' WBC Continental Americas title. However, Rosales forfeited the title by weighing in at 2¼ pounds over the 140-pound limit for super lightweights.
Bernard Hopkins expects to fight British world super-middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe in Las Vegas in April with the contract to be signed next week. Calzaghe challenged the American after adding the WBC and WBA belts to the WBO crown he already held with a unanimous decision over Mikkel Kessler in November.
WINTER SPORTS
Three-time defending champion Canada beat the United States 4-1 and will face Sweden in the final of the world junior hockey championships in Pardubice, Czech Republic.
Earlier, Mikael Backlund scored 6:18 into overtime to give Sweden a 2-1 win against Russia in the first semifinal. Canada (5-1) and Sweden (5-0) will meet today.
NHL
Corey Perry and Chris Kunitz scored in the first and last minutes of the opening period, leading the host Anaheim Ducks to a 2-1 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks.
Rookie Johan Hiller made 20 saves in his seventh NHL start.
The league decided that the new white pads New York Islanders goaltender Rick DiPietro wore in the first period of Thursday night's game against Florida were legal and that DiPietro would not be suspended. A violation of goalkeeping equipment rules would've landed DiPietro an automatic two-game suspension, but DiPietro said he thought the pads he wore Thursday already had been inspected.
DEATH
Gerry Staley, an All-Star pitcher who won 134 major league games, died Wednesday of natural causes at 87 in Vancouver, Wash.
The right-hander, who appeared in the 1959 World Series with the Chicago White Sox, pitched for six teams during a 15-year career that lasted from 1947-61.
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