Tuesday's Sports In Brief
(AP) — Gambling regulators say Nevada casinos won almost $6.9 million on this year's Super Bowl as bettors wagered $82.7 million on the NFL title game.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board said the win was $179,000 more than sports books won last year, on $1.21 million more in bets.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The man who stalked ESPN reporter Erin Andrews and shot nude videos of her through a hotel room peephole videotaped 16 other women and ran background checks on 30 people, including female sports reporters and TV personalities, according to court documents.
A sentencing memo filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles says Michael Barrett uploaded videos of 16 other women to an online account.
Barrett also allegedly conducted 30 Internet background checks that can produce birthdays and home addresses, the document said. The filing did not name the other alleged victims or say what information he obtained or how he may have used it.
Barrett has pleaded guilty to interstate stalking and agreed to a 27-month prison sentence.
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Rutgers is suspending Hall of Fame women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer for one game for misusing practice players.
Stringer will miss the Scarlet Knights' game against Seton Hall. She is third among women's coaches on the all-time victories list with 838 wins and was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame last September.
Stringer violated an NCAA bylaw which states that managers may not participate as practice players with the institution's team if they are not eligible student-athletes.
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BOSTON (AP) — The family of Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan insisted that they do "not blame anyone" for her father's death and criticized a medical examiner's finding that Daniel Kerrigan died of a heart rhythm problem after a fight with his son.
Daniel Kerrigan's death was ruled a homicide by a state medical examiner.
The findings could prompt new charges against Nancy Kerrigan's brother, Mark, 45, who has pleaded not guilty to assault and battery on an elderly person and is undergoing a psychiatric evaluation.
Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone said that an autopsy determined the cause of death was "cardiac dysrhythmia" after a physical altercation with neck compression that damaged Kerrigan's windpipe.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Six NHL teams will open the 2010-11 season in Europe, the fourth straight year the league will begin play overseas.
The NHL said that the Boston Bruins, Carolina Hurricanes, Columbus Blue Jackets, Minnesota Wild, Phoenix Coyotes and San Jose Sharks will combine to play a total of six games in Europe at the start of next season.
The Hurricanes and Wild will meet in a pair of games in Helsinki on Oct. 7-8; Columbus plays San Jose in Stockholm on Oct. 8-9; and the Bruins and Coyotes face off in Prague on Oct. 9-10.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman says he is pleased the league is sending more teams to Europe to begin the season. The clubs involved feature several players from the countries they will visit.
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Belmont Stakes winner Summer Bird has a new trainer.
Tim Ice says he has been fired as the trainer of the 3-year-old champion along with 24 other horses owned by K.K. and Vilasini Jayaraman.
K.K. Jayaraman said from Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., that Summer Bird will now be trained by Tim Ritchey. Ritchey trained 2005 Preakness Stakes and Belmont winner Afleet Alex.
The 35-year-old Ice was in his first year of training in 2009. Summer Bird had a sensational summer, winning the Belmont — the final leg of the Triple Crown— the Travers and the Jockey Club Gold Cup.
Jayaraman cited a lack of communication as a reason for the change.
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PARIS (AP) — Melanie Oudin of the United States beat Sorana Cirstea of Romania 6-3, 6-0 to reach the Open GDF Suez's second round.
Oudin, a U.S. Open quarterfinalist last year, next plays Patty Schnyder of Switzerland, who beat seventh-seeded Virginie Razzano of France 6-3, 7-6(3) at Stade Pierre de Coubertin.
Fourth-seeded Francesca Schiavone of Italy also advanced after routing Vesna Manasieva 6-0, 6-0. She takes on Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic, who topped Tamira Paszek of Austria 6-0, 6-3.
Sixth-seeded Shahar Peer of Israel and Croatia's Karolina Sprem will meet in the second round after comfortable victories. Sprem beat Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland 7-5, 6-1, and Peer beat Alize Cornet 6-4, 6-1.
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