Admitted
That he was named in an affidavit released in connection with a June 6 federal
raid on the home of Diamondbacks
reliever Jason Grimsley
, former first baseman
David Segui
(above). The document alleges that Grimsley
received a shipment of
human growth hormone at home in April and that Grimsley
identified at least
half a dozen major leaguers--the names were redacted--as users of banned
performance enhancers (SI, June 19). Last Saturday, Segui, 39, who played for
seven teams between 1990 and 2004, told ESPN
that he was one of those players:
He said he used HGH obtained with a doctor's prescription while playing.
"It was perfectly legal," said Segui.
Signed
By Notre Dame receiver Jeff Samardzija
, a five-year contract with the Cubs
worth up to $7.25 million. Samardzija, who caught a school-record 15 touchdown
passes as a junior last season, was chosen by Chicago
in the fifth round of the
major league draft earlier this month. (He went 8--2 with a 4.33 ERA for the
Notre Dame baseball team this spring.) He will play for the rookie league Boise
Hawks this summer--then return to South Bend
to play football this fall. A
potential NFL
first-round pick next year, Samardzija says he wants to go pro in
both football and baseball.
Ended
The season of pitcher turned outfielder Rick Ankiel
, who underwent knee surgery
on May 26. The Cardinals
minor leaguer, 26, was a mound star as a rookie in
2000, but he gave up pitching last season after trying for four years to
control his chronic wildness. He was on track to make St. Louis
's roster--he
hit 21 home runs in 85 minor league games last year--but injured his knee in
spring training and never played a game this season. "You feel
terrible," Cardinals
manager Tony La Russa
said. "I just don't know how
much resilience he's got and if he feels it's worth it."
Died
At age 88, Bill Moffitt, a former scout for the Brewers and the father of
tennis trailblazer Billie Jean King
and former major league reliever Randy
Moffitt. A basketball player at Long Beach City College and a longtime
firefighter in Long Beach
, Calif.
, Bill was a far cry from the manipulative
stage fathers that are common in women's tennis. But he and his wife, Betty,
were always supportive of their children's athletic ambitions. "They didn't
push us; Randy and I pushed them," King told the Chicago Tribune
in
1990.
Undergone
By prized Ohio State
recruit Greg Oden
, 18, surgery to repair a torn wrist
ligament. The 7-foot center (above), the national high school player of the
year last season, was injured in an Indiana
state playoff game on Feb. 28. He
played six more postseason games, but when the wrist failed to heal he decided
to go under the knife. Oden
started summer school at Ohio State
on Monday, but
it was too soon to tell if he would be ready when practice starts in October.
Said coach Thad Matta
, "We look forward to getting ... him back as quickly
as possible."
Pleaded
Not guilty to providing alcohol to three underage women, Bengals
receiver Chris
Henry, 23. Henry
turned himself in to authorities in Kenton County, Ky., last
Thursday after an investigation into a claim by an 18-year-old woman that he
sexually assaulted her at a hotel. She recanted her story, but the probe led to
charges that could land Henry
in jail for three years. The case caps a troubled
off-season for Henry
, who has been arrested four times in seven months. In
March he pleaded guilty to marijuana possession (he avoided prison time by
completing drug rehab), and in August he will stand trial on a concealed weapon
charge stemming from a January arrest in Orlando
. He was also cited for drunken
driving in Clermont County, Ohio
, on June 4 and faces a court date for that
charge later this month.
Requested
By Lance Armstrong
, that Dick Pound
be removed or suspended as head of the
World Anti-Doping Agency
, in a letter to IOC president Jacques Rogge
. Last
month an independent Dutch investigator cleared Armstrong
(right) of
allegations printed in a French newspaper that he used the banned substance EPO
when he won his first Tour in 1999. Pound was dismissive of the Dutch
investigator's efforts, however, and a WADA statement labeled them
"farcical." In his letter Armstrong
said Pound's conduct was
"reprehensible" and urged that Rogge
remove him from office. An IOC
spokeswoman said the committee would probably discuss the matter at its
meetings in Lausanne
, Switzerland
, this week.
Bought
With debit cards that the Federal Emergency Management Agency
issued to Gulf
Coast residents displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita last year, Saints
season tickets. FEMA
issued debit cards to help storm victims pay for housing
and other necessities last September. Last week a congressional audit showed
that up to $1.4 billion was instead spent for such things as a sex-change
operation, a Caribbean
vacation and five season tickets for the Saints
, who
will return to the Superdome in September. Said Representative Michael McCaul,
chair of the House Homeland Security investigations subcommittee, "This is
an insult to the victims of Katrina."