Monday, November 18, 2002

Nov. 9-15, 2002 NBA Webber Asks Charges Be Thrown Out Chris Webber's lawyer filed a motion in federal court Wednesday asking a judge to throw out federal charges the player lied to a grand jury about his involvement with former Michigan booster Ed Martin. Williams Wants Indictment Tossed Defense lawyers described a distraught Jayson Williams calling for help and diving toward a limousine driver he accidentally shot to counter prosecutors' portrayal of the former basketball player cursing the other man and showing off with a shotgun.   Bulls' Fizer Pleads Innocent to Weapons Charge Samake Suspended for Steroids Violation 4:37:28 PM

	Thursday, October 24, 2002

LITIGATION: Sprewell v. New York Post NEW YORK -- Associated Press reports Latrell Sprewell is suing the New York Post for $40 million over stories concerning how the eccentric forward broke his hand. Two weeks ago, the Knicks fined Sprewell $250,000 for failing to inform the team that he broke his right pinky on September 20, two weeks before the start of training camp. The Post, citing two anonymous sources, reported October 4 that Sprewell was injured when he hit a wall with his hand while throwing a punch. The newspaper said the punch was thrown at a man on Sprewell's yacht after the man's girlfriend vomited. 3:23:53 PM

LITIGATION: MJ Sues Woman for Alleged Extortion CHICAGO -- Associated Press reports Michael Jordan filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a woman he contends is trying to extort $5 million from him to keep quiet about their relationship more than 10 years ago.  Jordan acknowledged in the lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court that he paid the woman $250,000 "under threat of publicly exposing that relationship." Jordan, who plays for the Washington Wizards but spent most of his career with the Chicago Bulls, never agreed to pay any amount above the original $250,000, the lawsuit says. The woman attempted to extort the additional money from Jordan through her attorneys, according to the lawsuit. Her lawyers were not named in the paperwork. 3:12:26 PM

	Tuesday, October 15, 2002

CONVICTION: Derrick Coleman, Philadelphia 76ers New York, NY -- Sports Network reports Philadelphia 76ers forward Derrick Coleman was suspended for one game without pay by the NBA for pleading no contest to driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. Coleman was stopped for speeding on July 27 in Farmington Hills and taken into custody after refusing a breathalyzer test. Later tests showed that he had a blood alcohol level of 0.13 percent. The legal limit in Michigan is 0.10. 4:12:10 PM

	Monday, October 14, 2002

SUSPENDED: Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Cleveland Cavaliers CLEVELAND -- Associated Press reports Cavaliers center Zydrunas Ilgauskas was suspended by the NBA for one game on Monday after being arrested last month for drunken driving. Ilgauskas will be suspended without pay and will miss the regular-season opener on Oct. 29 in Sacramento, the league said. Last week, the 7-foot-3 Ilgauskas pleaded no contest to drunken driving and was sentenced to one year's probation. A 30-day jail sentence was suspended and Ilgauskas was fined $1,000. The 27-year-old Ilgauskas, whose career has been slowed by foot injuries, was stopped in suburban Cleveland on Sept. 15 for erratic driving. He failed field sobriety tests, and his blood-alcohol level was 0.167 -- above Ohio's legal limit of 0.10. 5:21:08 PM

CHARGED: Marcus Fizer, Chicago Bulls CHICAGO -- Associated Press reports Chicago Bulls forward Marcus Fizer was charged with having a loaded gun in his car and driving with a suspended license early Sunday morning. Illinois State Police Sgt. Wayne Winterberg said Fizer was pulled over just after 2 a.m. for having tinted windows on his sport-utility vehicle.  Police then found Fizer was driving with a suspended license. While preparing to tow his car, police searched it and found a .40-caliber gun, Winterberg said. 5:10:22 PM

	Thursday, October 03, 2002

BISON DELE UPDATE: Dele Shot With Own Handgun NEW YORK -- ESPN reports Bison Dele's girlfriend, Serena Karlan, was knocked to the deck and killed instantly while breaking up a fight between Dele and his brother, Miles Dabord, as the three and a ship's captain sailed near Tahiti in early July. That's the story Erica Wiese, Dabord's former girlfriend, told ESPN The Magazine's Tim Keown and the Los Angeles Times, based on her conversations with Dabord. The stories are in the Oct. 14 issue of ESPN The Magazine and Thursday's Los Angeles Times. Dele then killed the captain, Bertrand Saldo, with a wrench, because Saldo wanted to report Karlan's death to authorities. As the fight continued, Dabord killed Dele in self-defense, using Dele's own handgun. And Dabord weighted the bodies and dumped them overboard from the Hakuna Matata, Dele's boat. 4:16:34 PM

KURT THOMAS UPDATE: Charges Don't Bother Him At All CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Associated Press reports New York Kincks Kurt Thomas says his arrest on domestic violence "doesn't bother me at all." On his way to the team's practice facility for media day Monday, Thomas received a call from Connecticut police asking him to return. He was arrested upon his arrival, posted $1,000 bail and then was arraigned on charges of third-degree assault and risking injury to a minor. After leaving court, Thomas caught a flight to Charleston in time to make it to Tuesday night's practice. Thomas is under court order to stay away from his wife, Amber, and the couple's home. Lawyers said they are getting a divorce after about two years of marriage. "The thing that is going to be tough for me is not being able to see my (2-year-old) kid. Other than that, it doesn't bother me at all," said Thomas, a self-described laid-back Texan. "No one wants to go through something like this, especially when it's in the public eye. But I have to take that with my profession and deal with it." 3:55:24 PM

	Monday, September 30, 2002

ARRESTED: Kurt Thomas, New York Knicks GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- Associated Press reports New York Knicks player Kurt Thomas  was arrested on charges of assaulting his wife, and he did not accompany the team to training camp Monday. Thomas was arrested at his home in Greenwich, Conn., for third-degree assault and risking injury to a minor. Bail was set at $1,000, police said. No other details were released. 5:30:13 PM

	Saturday, September 28, 2002

UPDATE: Bison Dele, Former NBA PAPEETE, Tahiti -- Associated Press reports police want to see documents left with a lawyer by Miles Dabord, the late brother of former NBA player Bison Dele and a key witness in Dele's disappearance. Dabord, 35, died Friday night in Chula Vista, Calif., where he was hospitalized Sept. 14. He was found in a coma after returning from the islands of French Polynesia, where he sailed with Dele and two others who have been missing since early July. The FBI has learned that Dabord left behind papers to be opened after his death, an official involved in the French investigation said. Authorities believe the documents contain an account of what happened to his brother, said the official, who asked that his name not be used. Authorities in French Polynesia believe that Dele, his girlfriend, Serena Karlan, and their boat's skipper, Bertrand Saldo, were killed July 7 off a tiny, remote island in the South Pacific. 11:05:33 PM

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