For The Record

Added
To the list of garments NBA players are now forbidden to wear, tights. Before the season commissioner David Stern instituted a dress code for players off the court; next he'll reportedly address their on-court looks. According to ESPN.com, Stern has decided that next season players will not be permitted to wear tights, even for medical reasons. Earlier this year LeBron James wore full-length hose (above) for eight games to keep his sore knee warm. "I don't see a reason [for the ban]," James told the Akron Beacon Journal. "Guys are not just wearing them just because they're trying to make a fashion statement, because they're not cute at all."

Won
The WBO heavyweight title, by Sergei Liakhovich of Belarus in an upset decision over Lamon Brewster. The 29-year-old Liakhovich (23-1) was considered a weaker puncher than Brewster, 32, but the challenger had the upper hand for most of a grueling fight, even though he was knocked down twice. "Lamon hit very hard," said Liakhovich, who won on all three judges' cards. "Then he felt my power." Brewster agreed with the decision, telling the Belarusian, "You earned it, baby. We both deserve to be at the top, but you won."

Lost
By former heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, his bid to become mayor of Kiev. The Ukrainian native, 34, who retired from boxing in November because of a knee injury, had never before run for public office, and he conceded the election to Leonid Chernovetskiy before the polls closed in Ukraine's capital city on March 27. "I tried to be the leader," said Klitschko, who won 22% of the vote. "But it is important to know how to win and how to lose."

Received
By at least two Phillies season-ticket holders who thought they were getting a team highlight DVD, a Spanish-language cockfighting video. ProAction Media of Phoenix, the DVD's manufacturer, said that the scenes of battling chickens were incorrectly labeled. The Phillies sent the highlight video to 4,000 fans as part of a promotional package designed to encourage season-ticket renewals.

Died
At age 89, former 49ers head coach Howard (Red) Hickey, the inventor of the shotgun formation. Hickey (above) played for the Cleveland Rams' 1945 NFL championship team and went 27-27-1 as San Francisco's coach from '59 to '63. But he made his mark on the NFL in a '60 game against the Colts: He spread his receivers and moved his quarterback a few yards behind center, calling the set the shotgun because it sprayed receivers all over the field. The 49ers dropped the formation after Hickey quit, but it became a staple of NFL game plans after Cowboys coach Tom Landry revived it in the '70s.

Sued
For defamation by former Austrian ski coach Walter Mayer, IOC president Jacques Rogge and World Anti-Doping Agency chief Dick Pound. Mayer was banned from the Olympics after he was accused of doping his athletes at the 2002 Games, but he was spotted in the Olympic Village in Turin; he fled when police raided the apartments of Austria's cross-country and biathlon teams, crashed his car into a police blockade and was apprehended. Pound later told reporters that doping equipment had been found in the raids, and Rogge added that Mayer "organized" Austria's doping efforts. Said Mayer's lawyer, Herwig Hasslacher, who filed the suits in Vienna, "It is not true."

Planned
By former pro wrestler Nikolai Volkoff, a run for a seat in the Maryland state legislature in September. A popular villain during the 1970 and '80s who wore Soviet-themed costumes and sang the U.S.S.R.'s national anthem before matches, the 6'3", 300-pound Volkoff (right) is actually a Yugoslavian native and became a U.S. citizen in '70. He has been a code inspector in Baltimore for 10 years and will seek a spot in the House of Delegates as a Republican in the state's Seventh District. Volkoff, 59, has not outlined his platform, though he's upset with taxes and the cost of living. He lamented to the Associated Press that he used to spend "Two dollars for 20 cans of sardines, and now five dollars will get you only six cans."

Arrested
And charged with taking part in a drug ring, Daniel Green, the father of North Carolina basketball player Danny Green. Last Thursday, New York state police seized 462 pounds of cocaine valued at $40 million; police say Green, 39, was allegedly "attempting to negotiate the delivery of a significant quantity of cocaine from Mexico." Green, who was one of three people arrested, was charged with conspiracy, possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana and criminal use of drug paraphernalia and is being held on $7.5 million bail. The younger Green was a 2005 McDonald's All-America at St. Mary's High School in Manhasset, N.Y. As a freshman with the Tar Heels this season, he averaged 7.5 points in 15.3 minutes per game.