October 29, 2008 02:12 am Bud Selig didn't stick around. The baseball commissioner returned to Milwaukee to wait out the weather and a chance to resume Game 5 of the World Series. A day after the Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays were stopped because of rain with the score 2-all after 51âÑ2 innings, Selig rescheduled the completion of the suspended game for 8:37 p.m. tonight. "Right now the forecast is somewhat problematic," Bob DuPuy, baseball's chief operating officer, said. "The rain is supposed to go through earlier in the day. It is supposed to be cold and windy, but not as cold and not as windy as today. The commissioner is going to monitor it on an hourly basis." Pro football: Krafts sign agreement with Israeli football league The Kraft family, owners of the New England Patriots, have completed a new agreement that makes them the title sponsor of the Israel Football League. The league, which will now be called the Kraft Family IFL, is a tackle league in its second season. The league is run by American Football in Israel and based in Jerusalem at Kraft Family Stadium. More pro football: Saints' Nesbit files suit against diet pill maker Saints offensive guard Jamar Nesbit filed suit against the maker of a weight-loss supplement, alleging it was improperly spiked with a diuretic that is banned by the NFL. The lawsuit against the makers of StarCaps, an over-the-counter product, was filed in federal district court in New Jersey, said Nesbit's attorney Brian Molloy. More pro football: Cottrell out as Chargers' defensive coordinator Norv Turner, of all people, came up with the San Diego Chargers' hardest hit in weeks when he fired defensive coordinator Ted Cottrell. Cottrell was sacked by the head coach in large part because his defense couldn't get to opposing quarterbacks, the most glaring shortcoming for a unit that has had little spark since losing star outside linebacker Shawne Merriman to season-ending knee surgery after the first game. ... Karl Kassulke, a former Pro Bowl safety with the Minnesota Vikings whose career ended when he was paralyzed in a motorcycle accident, has died from a heart attack. He was 67. ... Defensive end Bruce Smith, defensive back Rod Woodson and tight end Shannon Sharpe are among first-year candidates for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The list includes 110 players, seven coaches and 16 contributors, including former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and longtime team owners Bud Adams, Jerry Jones, Art Modell and Ralph Wilson. Pro baseball: Angels to exercise options on Guerrero, Lackey The Los Angeles Angels will exercise their 2009 options on outfielder Vladimir Guerrero and pitcher John Lackey, but will decline their option on outfielder Garret Anderson. The 32-year-old Guerrero, an eight-time All-Star who batted .303 with 27 homers and 91 RBIs this season, will earn $15 million next year. He had a $3 million buyout. Guerrero has hit at least .300 with 25 or more home runs in 11 straight seasons, joining Lou Gehrig as the only two players in major league history to accomplish that feat. More pro baseball: A's Barton, Smith have surgeries Oakland Athletics first baseman Daric Barton has undergone surgery on his right hip, while left-handed pitcher Greg Smith had an operation to removed loose bodies from the elbow on his throwing arm. Both procedures were performed Friday. Barton batted .226 with nine home runs and 47 RBIs in his first full major league season in 2008, playing in 140 games. The 24-year-old Smith went 7-16 with a 4.16 ERA over 32 starts and 190 2-3 innings in his first big league season. ... The Houston Astros are freezing 2009 ticket prices at 2008 levels. The ticket prices at Minute Maid Park will range from $7 for adults and $1 for children for upper deck tickets in the left and right field corners to $48 per ticket for dugout level seats. Pro basketball: New details of overdose episode at Thomas' home Officers who responded to Isiah Thomas' home after a 911 call reporting an overdose on sleeping pills found a man passed out on the floor and gave him oxygen until an ambulance arrived. Authorities have not publicly identified Thomas as the victim, but a person familiar with the case, speaking on condition of anonymity because the official police report has not been released, has confirmed it was the former NBA star and Knicks coach. Harrison Police Chief David Hall provided new details about last week's emergency in which officers were handed a bottle of prescription pills at Thomas' Westchester County home. College football: LSU backup QB Hatch has leg injury LSU backup quarterback Andrew Hatch is trying to recover from a leg injury and it is unclear how much action he may miss. Hatch, a redshirt sophomore, started LSU's first three games, but was sidelined by a concussion in the Tigers' third game at Auburn and redshirt freshman Jarrett Lee has started since. Still, Hatch has routinely played in a platoon system since his return from the concussion. More college football: Tennessee coach Fulmer defends career Phillip Fulmer spent a lot of time defending himself and dismissing speculation about his job security. Fulmer said at Tennessee's weekly media day that most of the talk about his job being on the line has been "misinformation," though he said he doesn't bother paying attention to much of it. "In the short term here, it's not where anybody wants it to be, starting with me," he said. "I'm just going to go to work and do the very, very best that I can for the Tennessee people, the Tennessee family, the administration and whoever." More college football: 15 UNT players fail Dodge-ordered drug tests Fifteen North Texas football players failed drug tests conducted this fall at the request of coach Todd Dodge. Eighty-six players were tested from Sept. 24-Oct. 15. They were chosen by the coaching staff and were considered regular contributors to the team. The results of the testing were first reported by the Denton Record-Chronicle. The school normally tests athletes at random, and the NCAA tested 20 players separately late last month. North Texas hasn't received results of the NCAA tests. College basketball: Former Arizona coach Olson had stroke Lute Olson's doctor said that the former Arizona basketball coach had a stroke within the last year and he advised him to retire. The comments by Dr. Steven Knope at a news conference called by Olson's family offer the first explanation for Olson's sudden retirement last week, two days after he appeared at the Wildcats' media day. Olson said at the time he was energized and looking forward to his 25th season with Arizona. More college basketball: Hamden police probe racism at Quinnipiac Hamden police say they are investigating several complaints of racism at Quinnipiac University, including slurs and harassing phone calls directed at black players on the school's basketball team. Police Capt. Ronald Smith says slurs were discovered Friday and Saturday on poster and cork boards outside the dorm rooms of three black players. He says players in the same building also reported receiving harassing phone calls Monday. Golf: Disney offers exemption to Compton Erik Compton, who advanced through the first stage of PGA Tour qualifying just five months after his second heart transplant, was given an exemption to play the final tour event of the year. Compton, 28, received one of four sponsor exemptions to the Children's Miracle Network Classic at Disney World on Nov. 6-9. It will be his first PGA Tour event in three years. Outdoors: Coroner says NYC triathlete died of natural causes An amateur athlete who died during the New York City Triathlon last summer was killed by a condition linked to high blood pressure, the medical examiner's office said. Esteban Neira, 32, died in the Hudson River during the swim portion of the triathlon on July 20. The cause was initially a mystery. An autopsy was inconclusive. A few of the 3,000 participants in the event speculatively blamed stinging jellyfish that had been in the river that day. Pro soccer: Twellman out with concussion symptoms New England Revolution forward Taylor Twellman is out indefinitely because of problems related to a concussion he sustained in August. The Revolution said that Twellman has been experiencing "ongoing issues" since Aug. 30 when he was hit in the head by Los Angeles Galaxy goalkeeper Steve Cronin. Twellman missed one game, but played in the Revolution's final eight regular-season matches. The announcement came two days before tomorrow's playoff opener against the Chicago Fire at Gillette Stadium, and after captain Steve Ralston broke his leg earlier this month. More pro soccer: Maradona offered job as Argentina coach Diego Maradona was offered a chance to coach Argentina's soccer team, but declined to say whether he accepted. Maradona and Carlos Bilardo were asked to lead the national team by Julio Grondona, head of the country's soccer association. Maradona would be the coach and Bilardo the general director, but the pair would not confirm whether they accepted the positions after leaving the meeting with Grondona.
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