Originally published Friday, June 15, 2012 at 10:29 PM
Adam 'Pacman' Jones must pay $11 million in damages | NFL
Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones must pay $11 million in damages to two Las Vegas strip-club employees injured in 2007 when a lone gunman claiming he was doing Jones' bidding attacked.
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Cincinnati's Jones must pay
$11 million in damages
Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones must pay $11 million in damages to two Las Vegas strip-club employees injured in 2007 when a lone gunman claiming he was doing Jones' bidding attacked.
Tommy Urbanski, a club manager who was left paralyzed from the waist down, and Aaron Cudworth, a bouncer who was wounded, are entitled to collect after the Friday verdict.
Jones' lawyer, Lisa Rasmussen, said there is no evidence Jones was behind the shooting. She said the verdict would be appealed.
The shooter, Arvin Kenti Edwards, demanded $15,000 from Jones for "services rendered" after the shooting.
League turns over evidence
League officials turned over some evidence to the four players suspended for the New Orleans Saints' bounty program, but lawyers for the players said they are seeking more information.
Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma and defensive end Will Smith, Green Bay defensive end Anthony Hargrove and Cleveland linebacker Scott Fujita will have their appeals heard Monday by commissioner Roger Goodell.
Ex-Dolphin Powell dies
Jesse Powell, a linebacker for the Miami Dolphins' team that went through the 1972 season undefeated, died Thursday at a Lubbock, Texas, hospital. He was 65. No cause of death was given by the hospital.
College football
Sandusky motion is granted
Jerry Sandusky won a court ruling that will let him have an expert testify about a psychiatric condition his lawyer contends helps explain letters he wrote to his accusers and other actions being construed as him grooming victims.
Judge John Cleland granted a motion that sought to put evidence of "histrionic personality disorder" before jurors in Sandusky's child sexual abuse case in Bellefonte, Pa.
The American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual calls histrionic personality disorder "a pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking" and "often characterized by inappropriate sexually seductive or provocative behavior."
Sandusky, 68, faces 52 charges he abused 10 boys over 15 years. He has denied the allegations.
Hall of Famer Chappuis dies
Bob Chappuis, a multifaceted back at Michigan, died Thursday in Ann Arbor, Mich. The 89-year-old had been hospitalized after a fall earlier in the week.
Chappuis, a College Football Hall of Famer, was second to Notre Dame's John Lujack in 1947 voting for the Heisman Trophy.
College baseball
Pac-12 teams win at CWS
Both games on opening day of the eight-team College World Series in Omaha, Neb., were won by Pac-12 teams.
Arizona beat Florida State 4-3 in 12 innings as Johnny Field hit an RBI double in the top of the inning.
In the CWS opener, UCLA scored five runs in the first inning and routed Stony Brook of New York 9-1.
Pac-12 co-champions UCLA (48-14) and Arizona (44-17) meet Sunday.
Tennis
Nadal loses in Germany
Rafael Nadal lost in the quarterfinals of the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany, beaten by German Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-3, 6-4 in the Spaniard's first event since winning a record seventh French Open on Monday.
Elsewhere
• Dario Franchitti, who had a two-lap average of 168.737 mph, will start from the pole in Saturday's Milwaukee IndyFest in West Allis, Wis.
• Theo Walcott scored shortly after coming on as a substitute for England at the European Championship and set up Danny Welbeck for the winning goal as England rallied for a 3-2 victory over Sweden in Kiev, Ukraine. The loss ousted Sweden from Euro 2012.
In another Group D match, France beat Ukraine 2-0 in Donetsk, Ukraine.
• Long-jumper Dwight Phillips, 34, will miss the U.S. Olympic trials because of a recurring injury to his Achilles tendon that led to surgery. Phillips won the gold medal in the event at the 2004 Olympics.
• Johan Bruyneel, the manager behind Lance Armstrong's seven consecutive Tour de France victories, is denying accusations from U.S. officials he helped run a doping operation for the cyclist's teams.
Bruyneel, a Belgian, manages the RadioShack-Nissan-Trek team.
• The Connecticut Sun routed the visiting New York Liberty 97-55 in a WNBA game. The Sun led 61-27 at halftime to set a league record for the largest lead at the half, surpassing the Storm's 33-point margin (60-27) at the half against Tulsa on Aug. 7, 2010.
In other WNBA games, Angel McCoughtry scored 31 points as Atlanta beat Los Angeles 92-59; Washington beat visiting Indiana 67-66 to snap a four-game losing streak; and defending champion Minnesota downed host Phoenix 78-60.
• Boxer Manny Pacquiao, who lost a controversial split decision to Tim Bradley last Saturday in Las Vegas, returned to the Philippines to help flood victims. He cut short a U.S. vacation with his family to help thousands of victims of floods that hit Sarangani province, the area he represents in congress.
• A man has been sentenced to 55 years to life in prison for killing the 20-year-old daughter of Pro Football Hall of Famer Fred Biletnikoff in 1999.
Mohammed Haroon Ali was convicted of first-degree murder in March for killing his then-girlfriend Tracey Biletnikoff.
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