June 21, 2008
NFL: Lynch to plead guilty
Bills running back Marshawn Lynch will plead guilty next week in a hit-and-run accident involving his SUV, Erie County district attorney Frank Clark said yesterday.
Clark declined to give details of the charge but said the tentative plea agreement assumes Lynch was driving his 2008 Porsche Cayenne when it hit a woman crossing a Buffalo intersection early May 31.
* The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville has published a foreclosure sale involving the home of former Titan Adam "Pacman" Jones.
NHL: Thrashers hire coach
John Anderson has been hired as coach of the Thrashers after leading their top affiliate to the American Hockey League championship.
BASEBALL: Chipper hurt
Braves third baseman Chipper Jones said he expects to miss at least two games after aggravating his strained right quadriceps in last night's game against the Mariners. Jones said he aggravated the injury in the fourth inning. He remained in the game until defensive changes were made in the eighth. . . . An MRI exam revealed Cubs ace Carlos Zambrano has a minor strain in his right shoulder but no major structural damage, a team spokesman said last night.
* Tim Federowicz's grand slam in the top of the ninth inning last night sent North Carolina to a 7-3 victory over LSU in a College World Series elimination game disrupted twice by rain in two days.
Carolina (53-13) moved to the Bracket 1 final against Fresno State today. The Tar Heels must beat the Bulldogs twice to return to the best-of-three championship series for the third straight year.
GOLF: Lefty in Skins Game
Phil Mickelson has agreed to compete in the LG Skins Game, the first time in five years the three-time major champion will play in the oldest event of the Silly Season.
* In Cromwell, Conn., Stewart Cink moved to the top of the Travelers Championship leaderboard yesterday, making two long eagle putts in a 6-under 64 that left him a stroke ahead of defending champion Hunter Mahan and two others. . . . In Concord, Mass., Tom Kite shot a 9-under 63 to take the first-round lead in the Bank of America Championship. Morgan Pressel shot a 7-under 65 to take a one-stroke lead over Suzann Pettersen midway through the Wegmans LPGA.
ETC.: Gatlin allowed to run
A Florida federal judge says banned sprinter Justin Gatlin should be allowed to compete at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials. . . . Slova Konopka is facing a lifetime ban after the Slovak track and field federation said the shot putter tested positive for the steroid metandienon in an out-of-competition control.
* Sports broadcaster Pat Summerall was recovering yesterday from emergency surgery to stop internal bleeding. Doctors told his wife, Cheri, that a new medicine he had recently started taking caused a reaction that induced the bleeding.
