McDyess Fined $5K for Kicking Basketball
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NEW YORK - Detroit forward Antonio McDyess was fined $5,000 by the NBA on Wednesday, a day after being ejected for kicking a basketball into the stands during the Pistons&#39; season-opening 87-79 win over Houston.
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That was an expensive pair of red socks Clinton Portis wore last week. They&#39;re costing him $5,000. The NFL fined the Washington Redskins running back Friday for violating the league&#39;s uniform rules.
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Prosecutors issued assault and battery charges here against five National Basketball Association players and five spectators, with jail time possible for their actions in a November brawl.
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Detroit Pistons coach Larry Brown was fined 15,000 dollars by the National Basketball Association for verbal abuse of an official following an 89-82 loss Wednesday to Chicago.
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Sacramento guard Cuttino Mobley was fined &#36;10,000 by the NBA on Tuesday for his protest after referees did not call goaltending on his last-minute shot during a loss to Dallas.
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The fifth defendant in the Michael Vick dogfighting case was sentenced to three years probation and fined $500 on Friday.
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DETROIT -- The Detroit Pistons signed forward Antonio McDyess to a two-year contract extension on Monday, keeping the team's top reserve off the free-agent market next summer.
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Steve Gleason of the New Orleans Saints was fined &#36;5,000 by the NFL on Wednesday after being thrown out of last week's game with Carolina for punching the Panthers' Kemp Rasmussen at the end of a kickoff return.
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Jacksonville safety Donovin Darius was fined $75,000 by the NFL on Tuesday for a hit across the neck of Green Bay&#39;s Robert Ferguson that left the wide receiver temporarily paralyzed.
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Five Indiana Pacers players and five fans were charged Wednesday for fighting in the stands and on the court at the end of a game against the Detroit Pistons last month.
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Five Pacers and five Pistons fans were charged with assault and battery for their role in what authorities described as one of the worst brawls in US sports history.
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By Paul Tait MELBOURNE  - Juan Ignacio Chela was fined $2,000on Sunday for unsportsmanlike conduct after an ugly incidentwhen the Argentine spat toward Australian rival Lleyton Hewittduring an Australian Open third round match.
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LONDON  - A British court slapped a 1,000-pound (1,880-dollar) fine and a five-year football ground ban on a fan for hurling monkey chants at Birmingham City striker Dwight Yorke.
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LONDON - Fulham striker Andy Cole will miss six games and pay a 10,000 pound (US$17,800) fine for brawling with opponents and abusing a match official at last month&#39;s game against West Bromwich Albion.
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The Detroit Pistons signed forward Antonio McDyess to a two-year contract extension on Monday, keeping the team's top reserve off the free-agent market next summer.
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Portland, OR - The National Basketball Association has suspended Portland Trail Blazers forward, Qyntel Woods, without pay for five games.
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Basketball Phil Jackson was fined $25,000 by the NBA yesterday for criticizing referees after the Lakers' 114-108 loss to Utah Friday. Jackson was quoted in several newspapers about the way the officials -- Derrick Stafford , Derek Richardson and Leroy Richardson -- handled center Andrew Bynum . In the second quarter, Bynum was called for traveling and moments later he ...