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ATHLETICS: BUCHAREST: A local court has found Romania's top female athlete, Gabriela Szabo, guilty of insulting a coach and ordered her to pay about $ 10,000 in damages, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. The district Bucharest court ruled last week that Szabo had slandered athletics coach Carmen Hodos when she accused Hodos of doping athletes, daily Evenimentul Zilei reported. In an interview with the Romanian edition of Playboy last year, Szabo claimed that Hodos, a coach who has worked with various Romanian athletes, tried to dope her by tampering with her coffee. BOXING: TULSA, Oklahoma: Former heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Morrison was sentenced on Tuesday to one year in jail for violating his probation in a drunken-driving case, but won't serve any time. Tulsa County Special Judge Millie Otey gave Morrison, 33, credit for the time he previously served in Arkansas on other offences. Morrison didn't dispute allegations he violated the conditions of a suspended sentence granted in Tulsa County 2 1/2 years ago. Assistant District Attorney Caleb Raynolds said he requested incarceration, without specifying any length of time. CRICKET: COLOMBO: Six members of Sri Lanka's cricket squad for next month's three-Test England tour have never played in the host country, according to the list of 16 players released by the cricket board on Wednesday. Embarking on their maiden venture to the home of cricket are batsmen Kumar Sangakkara and Tilan Samaraweera and bowlers Nuwan Zoysa, Dilhara Fernando, Buddhika Fernando and Ruchira Perera. Recalled veteran Aravinda de Silva, 36 will be on his fifth tour of England and Hashan Tillakaratne, 34 will be on his fourth. The other batsmen are captain Sanath Jayasuriya, Marvan Atapattu, Mahela Jayawardene and Russel Arnold. Aside from off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan is the side is loaded with six fast-medium paced seamers, headed by Chaminda Vaas. The first Test begins on May 16. MELBOURNE: A three-match limited-overs cricket series between Australia and Pakistan will be staged at the Colonial Stadium in Melbourne and the Gabba in Brisbane in June, the Australian Cricket Board said on Wednesday. Called ``Super Challenge II,'' the series opens at Colonial with day-night games on June 12 and June 15 before finishing at the Gabba on June 19. As in 2000, when Australia faced South Africa a portable artificial grass wicket will be used at Colonial Stadium. FOOTBALL: LONDON: England captain David Beckham will have his left ankle X-rayed after a horror tackle deep into injury time of Manchester United's 2-0 Champions Cup quarterfinal victory over Deportivo de La Coruna. Deportivo striker Diego Tristan caught Beckham after the United midfielder had cleared the ball upfield. The England captain rolled over in pain with his hands covering his face and was eventually carried off. ``It was a terrible tackle on David,'' United manager Alex Ferguson told ITV Sport. Champions League results: Quarterfinals: Bayern Munich (Germany) 2, Real Madrid (Spain) 1; Deportivo de La Coruna (Spain) 0, Manchester United (England) 2. GOLF: RANCHO MIRAGE, California: Jack Nicklaus, the most dominant player at Augusta National with six green jackets won over 23 years, withdrew on Tuesday from the Masters because of lingering back problems. It will be only the second time since 1959 that Nicklaus has missed the Masters. He also skipped in 1999 when he was recovering from hip replacement surgery. While the 62-year-old Golden Bear has expressed concerns about competing against players half his age on an Augusta National course that has added nearly 300 yards (meters), it was a back injury that has plagued him for nearly a year that forced him to withdraw. SWIMMING: MOSCOW: Olympic and world champion Grant Hackett, laid low by a virus, pulled out of the 200 metres freestyle on the opening day of the world short-course swimming championships on Wednesday. ``Hackett is out of the 200. They'll see tomorrow morning how he'll be for the final of the 4 X 200 freestyle Relay,'' Australian team media director Ian Hanson said. Hackett, the finest 1500 metres freestyle swimmer in the world, showed the first signs of illness at the end of the team's pre-championship training camp in Sweden and felt bad when he flew into Moscow.
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