Manchester City player Joey Barton, 22, has made a televised plea asking his brother, Michael Barton, 18, to turn himself into police who are investigating last Friday's racially motivated ax murder of 18-year-old student Anthony Walker in Liverpool. Police believe Michael Barton and another man sought in the investigation have gone abroad.
The Marlborough (Mass.) Youth Soccer Association has suspended for a year a 41-year-old coach who allegedly head-butted the 16-year-old coach of the other team during a U-10 game in June.
Nearly three years after Barcelona fans at the Camp Nou stadium abused Real Madrid's Luis Figo, a former Barcelona player, the Spanish federation has fined the Catalan club $4,840. Items tossed at Figo included a glass whisky bottle, cell phones, golf and billiard balls and a pig's head.