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USC guard Jacki Gemelos injured her knee again and the highly touted prep star will miss her third straight season with the Trojans. Gemelos hurt her left knee during a workout Monday, suffering a torn anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus tear. Previously, she tore the ACL in her right knee twice.
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Minnesota Timberwolves point guard Sebastian Telfair was suspended for three games after pleading guilty to criminal possession of a weapon. He was sentenced last month to three years' probation.
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New York Rangers first-round draft pick Alexei Cherepanov had heart problems and probably should not have been allowed to play in a game in which he collapsed and died, a regional investigator suggested.
Yulia Zhukova said that the 19-year-old Cherepanov, who died Monday while playing for Avangard Omsk in a Continental Hockey League game outside of Moscow, apparently had chronic ischemia -- a medical condition when not enough blood gets to the heart or other organs.
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Paul Beeston returned to the Toronto Blue Jays as interim chief executive officer, and will work with outgoing President Paul Godfrey to hire a successor.
