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Sports Briefs: Las Vegas police make arrest in shooting case
By The Associated Press
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 | No comments posted.
LAS VEGAS — Adam “Pacman” Jones paid “extortion” money to a 29-year-old man arrested for a Las Vegas strip club shooting that left a club employee paralyzed, police said.
Arvin Kenti Edwards, of Renton, Wash., allegedly used go-betweens to reach Jones, who paid $15,000 in two installments after the shooting, according to a police report obtained Monday.
“He paid $15,000 to his friends, who advised him that if he didn’t pay the money then this guy would come after him,” said Robert Langford, Jones’ lawyer in Las Vegas.
Jones, 24, went to Seattle on Friday and picked Edwards from a police lineup, Langford said. He said Jones identified Edwards as the man who opened fire with a handgun a little before 5 a.m. Feb. 19, 2007, outside the strip club during the NBA’s All-Star Weekend.
Police have not provided details of the investigation that led to Edwards’ arrest Friday on three counts of attempted murder with a weapon and three counts of battery with substantial bodily harm, all felonies. He was not sought on an extortion charge.
NFLreinstates Odell Thurman
CINCINNATI — Linebacker Odell Thurman was reinstated from an NFL suspension after sitting out the past two seasons.
The Cincinnati Bengals said they were informed by commissioner Roger Goodell that Thurman is eligible to play. He was suspended the past two seasons because of violations of the NFL’s substance abuse policy.
He had been cleared in January by the NFL to resume working out with the Bengals pending word on his status.
BASKETBALL
Drake hires ASUassistant Phelps
DES MOINES, Iowa — Arizona State assistant Mark Phelps was hired as Drake’s men’s basketball coach Monday, replacing Keno Davis.
Phelps’ hiring came less than a week after Davis took the Providence job. School officials said Phelps was their top choice.
Phelps recalled hearing from Drake athletic director Sandy Hatfield Clubb.
“One day last week, Sandy called me ... and told me about Drake University, about the Drake experience and immediately I just got excited,” Phelps said after his introductory news conference.
“We had another conversation on the phone. I was up here the next day, and now I’m the coach. It was just a whirlwind,” he said.
The 42-year-old Phelps spent more than a decade as an assistant to Arizona State coach Herb Sendek, both in Tempe and during Sendek’s earlier tenure at North Carolina State. Previously, Phelps was a high school coach in Virginia, compiling a .736 winning percentage over six years at two schools.
He replaces Davis, the first-year coach who led the Bulldogs to one of the best years in school history. Drake compiled a 28-5 record, won the Missouri Valley Conference regular season and tournament titles, and earned the school’s first NCAA tournament berth since 1971 and first national ranking in 33 years.
OLYMPICS
Torch protests limited in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The Olympic flame was carried through blistering sun, torrential rain and isolated protests in Malaysia on Monday, completing another segment of its global relay that has become a magnet for demonstrations against China.
A Japanese man, his sister and her 5-year-old son were heckled and roughed up by Chinese nationals when they unfurled a Tibetan flag before the start of the heavily guarded relay in Kuala Lumpur.
Police detained the Japanese protestors but released them without charges after about six hours. The Chinese were not detained.
At one point in the relay, a Western man wearing a T-shirt reading “Beijing Torches Human Rights” rushed forward shouting “Shame, shame, shame.” He was hustled away by police but not arrested. A British woman wearing a “Free Tibet” T-shirt and a foreign Buddhist monk were also detained and later released.
Criticism of China’s human rights record has turned the Olympic torch run ahead of the Aug. 8-24 Beijing Olympics into one of the most contentious in recent history.
HOCKEY
Brodeur finalist for Vezina Trophy
NEW YORK — New Jersey’s Martin Brodeur, Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers and San Jose’s Evgeni Nabokov are finalists for the Vezina Trophy given to the NHL’s top goaltender.
Brodeur won the trophy for the third time last year. It is the eighth time he is a finalist.
Lundqvist and Nabokov never have won the award. Lundqvist is a finalist for the third straight season. He was third in 2006 and 2007.
General managers from all 30 teams submitted ballots for the award at the end of the regular season.
The winner will be selected at the league’s awards show on June 12 in Toronto.
Arvin Kenti Edwards, of Renton, Wash., allegedly used go-betweens to reach Jones, who paid $15,000 in two installments after the shooting, according to a police report obtained Monday.
“He paid $15,000 to his friends, who advised him that if he didn’t pay the money then this guy would come after him,” said Robert Langford, Jones’ lawyer in Las Vegas.
Jones, 24, went to Seattle on Friday and picked Edwards from a police lineup, Langford said. He said Jones identified Edwards as the man who opened fire with a handgun a little before 5 a.m. Feb. 19, 2007, outside the strip club during the NBA’s All-Star Weekend.
Police have not provided details of the investigation that led to Edwards’ arrest Friday on three counts of attempted murder with a weapon and three counts of battery with substantial bodily harm, all felonies. He was not sought on an extortion charge.
NFLreinstates Odell Thurman
CINCINNATI — Linebacker Odell Thurman was reinstated from an NFL suspension after sitting out the past two seasons.
The Cincinnati Bengals said they were informed by commissioner Roger Goodell that Thurman is eligible to play. He was suspended the past two seasons because of violations of the NFL’s substance abuse policy.
He had been cleared in January by the NFL to resume working out with the Bengals pending word on his status.
BASKETBALL
Drake hires ASUassistant Phelps
DES MOINES, Iowa — Arizona State assistant Mark Phelps was hired as Drake’s men’s basketball coach Monday, replacing Keno Davis.
Phelps’ hiring came less than a week after Davis took the Providence job. School officials said Phelps was their top choice.
Phelps recalled hearing from Drake athletic director Sandy Hatfield Clubb.
“One day last week, Sandy called me ... and told me about Drake University, about the Drake experience and immediately I just got excited,” Phelps said after his introductory news conference.
“We had another conversation on the phone. I was up here the next day, and now I’m the coach. It was just a whirlwind,” he said.
The 42-year-old Phelps spent more than a decade as an assistant to Arizona State coach Herb Sendek, both in Tempe and during Sendek’s earlier tenure at North Carolina State. Previously, Phelps was a high school coach in Virginia, compiling a .736 winning percentage over six years at two schools.
He replaces Davis, the first-year coach who led the Bulldogs to one of the best years in school history. Drake compiled a 28-5 record, won the Missouri Valley Conference regular season and tournament titles, and earned the school’s first NCAA tournament berth since 1971 and first national ranking in 33 years.
OLYMPICS
Torch protests limited in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The Olympic flame was carried through blistering sun, torrential rain and isolated protests in Malaysia on Monday, completing another segment of its global relay that has become a magnet for demonstrations against China.
A Japanese man, his sister and her 5-year-old son were heckled and roughed up by Chinese nationals when they unfurled a Tibetan flag before the start of the heavily guarded relay in Kuala Lumpur.
Police detained the Japanese protestors but released them without charges after about six hours. The Chinese were not detained.
At one point in the relay, a Western man wearing a T-shirt reading “Beijing Torches Human Rights” rushed forward shouting “Shame, shame, shame.” He was hustled away by police but not arrested. A British woman wearing a “Free Tibet” T-shirt and a foreign Buddhist monk were also detained and later released.
Criticism of China’s human rights record has turned the Olympic torch run ahead of the Aug. 8-24 Beijing Olympics into one of the most contentious in recent history.
HOCKEY
Brodeur finalist for Vezina Trophy
NEW YORK — New Jersey’s Martin Brodeur, Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers and San Jose’s Evgeni Nabokov are finalists for the Vezina Trophy given to the NHL’s top goaltender.
Brodeur won the trophy for the third time last year. It is the eighth time he is a finalist.
Lundqvist and Nabokov never have won the award. Lundqvist is a finalist for the third straight season. He was third in 2006 and 2007.
General managers from all 30 teams submitted ballots for the award at the end of the regular season.
The winner will be selected at the league’s awards show on June 12 in Toronto.
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