Sports Update
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Sunday January 2, 2011
| | Baseball Orioles' Simon wanted in Dominican slaying SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (UPI) -- Dominican Republic authorities said Sunday Baltimore Orioles pitcher Alfredo Simon is wanted in connection with the shooting death of a 25-year-old man.
Dominican police released a statement indicating they are seeking to question Simon, 29, regarding the early Saturday shooting death of Michael Almonte Castillo, 25, and injuries suffered by the man's 17-year-old brother, Dominican newspaper Al Momento reported.
Police said the shooter immediately fled the incident at a park in Luperon, a small town in the province of Puerto Plata, about 190 miles north of Santo Domingo.
Authorities said they had made telephone contact with Simon and urged him to surrender.
The newspaper said Castillo died of a gunshot wound to the chest while his brother, Estarlin Hernandez Castillo, sustained an injury to his right arm.
Simon, a Dominican native, has played for the Orioles for three years. Last season he posted 17 saves, compiling a 4-2 record and a 4.93 earned run average in 49 games.
Copyright 2011 by United Press International
| | Basketball COL BKB: Memphis 91, Tennessee State 86 MEMPHIS (UPI) -- Antonio Barton and Tarik Black teamed up to score 46 points Sunday and No. 22 Memphis survived a late scare to turn back Tennessee State 91-86.
Barton scored 24 points, Black added 22 and Will Barton contributed 19 points and eight rebounds for the Tigers (11-2).
Kenny Moore's layup with 2 minutes left pulled Tennessee State to within a single point at 82-81, but Wesley Witherspoon answered with a 3-point play and Antonio Barton sank four foul shots down the stretch to preserve Tigers' win.
Moore ended with 22 points and Wil Peters chipped in with 17 and seven assists for Tennessee State (6-8).
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| | Football NFL: Atlanta 31, Carolina 10 ATLANTA (UPI) -- Matt Ryan's two touchdown passes helped the Atlanta Falcons clinch the NFC South and the top conference seed Sunday with an emphatic 31-10 win over Carolina.
Ryan went 22-of-32 through the air for 236 yards and improved his home record as a starter to 20-2 for the Falcons (13-3), who took their first NFC South title since 2004.
Atlanta also got 67 yards and a score from Michael Turner and Roddy White grabbed six passes for 62 yards, adding a touchdown for the Falcons, who finished with their best record since going 14-2 in 1998 -- the year the franchise made its only Super Bowl appearance.
Tony Gonzalez hauled down six passes for 53 yards and a score in the victory.
The Panthers (2-14), meanwhile, lost in their last game under fired head Coach John Fox.
Fox took Carolina to two NFC Championship games and one Super Bowl while compiling a 73-71 regular-season record.
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| | Hockey NHL: Calgary 2, Edmonton 1 EDMONTON, Alberta (UPI) -- Mark Giordano scored the go-ahead goal late in the second period Saturday and the Calgary Flames hung on for their fourth straight win, 2-1 over Edmonton.
Giordano took a long slap shot from near the Edmonton blue line and the puck scooted underneath Nikolai Khabibulin with 14:16 gone in the middle frame, giving the Flames a 2-1 lead and all the scoring they would need.
The tally came only 4 minutes after Ryan Jones had pulled the Oilers into a 1-1 tie with his ninth goal of the season. Dustin Penner got control along the boards and Tom Gilbert put the puck on Jones's stick for a one-timer past Mikka Kiprusoff on the play.
Tim Jackson also scored for the Flames and Kiprusoff turned aside 16 shots as Calgary reached the .500 mark for the first time in nearly two months.
Khabibulin stopped 28-of-30 shots in absorbing the loss, the Oilers' eighth in nine games.
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More in Hockey: NHL: Atlanta 4, Montreal 3 (OT)
| | Soccer Blatter vows FIFA anti-corruption body ZURICH, Switzerland (UPI) -- An anti-corruption committee will be established to police FIFA, the world soccer governing body, FIFA President Sepp Blatter said Sunday.
Blatter told the Swiss newspaper Sonntags Zeitung he will move personally to establish a committee whose task will be "to ensure there is no corruption at FIFA."
"This committee will strengthen our credibility and give us a new image in terms of transparency," Blatter said.
The soccer chief said its members will include seven to nine members "not only from sport but from politics, finance, business and culture."
Blatter confirmed he himself would not be on the committee in order to maintain its independence.
The move comes after Nigeria's Adamu was suspended for bribery last year -- the first FIFA executive committee member ever to be so disciplined. He was banished from the committee for three years and fined $10,700, but says he will appeal.
Copyright 2011 by United Press International
| | Tennis Istomin, Lopez open season with wins BRISBANE, Australia (UPI) -- Denis Istomin and Feliciano Lopez collected straight-set wins Sunday at the Brisbane International tennis tournament in Australia.
Istomin ousted Thiemo De Bakker 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 without dropping his serve. Istomin won a healthy 78 percent of the points on serve.
De Bakker didn't face a break point in the first set but dropped the tie-breaker and suffered the only service break of the match in the second set.
Lopez was a 6-4, 7-6 (13-11) winner over Philipp Petzschner behind an 11-ace attack. Nine of his aces came in the second set.
Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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