Ottey tests positive for anabolic steroid
Sprint heroine Merlene Ottey became the latest big-name track and field star to fail a drug test when it was revealed yesterday she tested positive for the anabolic steroid Nandrolone after a meet in Switzerland.

Premiership match-fixing syndicate cracked
An Asian betting syndicate was behind an elaborate scam to fix the results of Premiership soccer matches by tampering with the floodlights, netting it hundreds of thousands of dollars, a British court was told yesterday.

ICC demand legal costs for Ranatunga probe
The International Cricket Council has asked the Sri Lankan board to pay legal costs running into thousands of dollars for its arbitration last year on a fracas involving the then Sri Lankan skipper Arjuna Ranatunga and Australian umpire Ross Emerson.

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