Baseball
Report: Slugger Sosa failed drug test in 2003
Former slugger Sammy Sosa tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug in 2003, The New York Times reported Tuesday on its Web site. The Times, citing lawyers familiar with the case, reported that Sosa is one of 104 players who tested positive in a 2003 baseball survey. The paper did not identify the drug. Sosa is sixth on baseball's career home run list with 609, most of them for the Chicago Cubs. He played for the Orioles in 2005 and has not played in the majors since 2007 with the Texas Rangers. Sosa's agent, Adam Katz, told the Associated Press he had no comment on the report. Commissioner's office spokesman Rich Levin also had no comment, saying Major League Baseball doesn't have a copy of the test results. Sosa testified before Congress in 2005 and denied any wrongdoing, saying, "To be clear, I have never taken illegal performance-enhancing drugs." In 2003, baseball did not have penalties for the first-time use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Jurisprudence: : Former major league outfielder Mel Hall, 48, was found guilty in Fort Worth, Texas, of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl he coached on an elite basketball team a decade ago. A Tarrant County jury took about 90 minutes to convict Hall on three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and two counts of indecency with a child. Hall faces up to life in prison.
Pro football
Stallworth pleads guilty, receives 30 days in jail
Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte' Stallworth began serving a 30-day jail sentence for killing a pedestrian while driving drunk in Florida, a punishment made possible by his cooperation with investigators and the wish by the victim's family to put the matter behind them. Stallworth, 28, received the sentence in Miami after pleading guilty to a DUI manslaughter charge for striking and killing Mario Reyes while driving drunk March 14 in his black 2005 Bentley. The athlete also reached a confidential financial settlement with the family of the 59-year-old construction worker. Without the plea deal, the DUI manslaughter conviction could have netted Stallworth 15 years in prison. After his release from jail, he must serve two years of house arrest and spend eight on probation. The house arrest provisions will allow him to resume his football career, his attorney said.
Obituary: : George Belotti, a center for the first AFL champions, the 1960 Houston Oilers, died Monday in Arcadia, Calif., from complications of a stroke. He was 74.
